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• ? News Digest Saw*- j*gSs. Mulroney wins majority in House of Commons TORONTO — Prime Minister Brian M ulroney and his Conservative Party won the House of Commons majority needed to save ihc free trade agreement with the United States, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. pro jected Monday night. The projection at about 8:40 p.m. EST, before the polls closed in west ern Canada, had Conservatives lead ing for 107 of the 295 seats in the Commons. John Turner’s opposition Liberals, who fiercely attacked the trade pact, were leading for 71 scats, and the socialist New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent, which also opposed the accord, was ahead in 12 races. Conservatives were expected to do well in the Western districts, which were not included in the projections. They had a jittery start in the four Atlantic Maritime provinces, but did well enough in central Quebec and Ontario to get at least the 148 scats necessary for a majority, according to the CBC projection. President Reagan and Mulroney signed the free trade agreement last Jan. 2 and Mulroney needed a major ity in the Commons to keep it alive. The U.S. Congress has approved the pact, but Parliament has yet to do so. The plan is to take effect Jan. 1, 1989, and phase out remaining tariffs over the next 10 years between Can ada and the United States, whose two way trade is worth S150 bil lion a year. Mulroney was buoyed in the last days by polls that showed his parly back in the lead with a chance at a majority. He told reporters he would convene Parliament quickly tfctect on the trade deal. He led the Conservatives to a smashing victory in 1984 that gave them 210 of the 282 seals, but no party has won two successive majorities in Canada since 1953. Turner used a weekend rally to repeat his plea that voters “keep Canada Canadian for Canadians” and kill the agreement by voting lor his party. Mulroney spent the last campaign weekend in his native Quebec, the huge French-speaking province that has 75 of the 295 seats in the Com mons. Turner hoped for a big score in the 99 seats of Ontario, a predomi nantly English-speaking province where opposition to the agreement was strongest. Quebec and Ontario are home to the majority of Canada’s 26 million people, 17.5 million of whom arc eligible to vote. . Bush: no bargaining intended in Gorbachev meeting WASHINGTON — President elect George Bush said Monday he ^ docs not intend his meeting next month with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to turn into a bargaining session, but aides say they will go with open cars and minds. “It will be President Reagan’s meeting,” Bush said. “I’ll be there as vice president of the United States and I expect they’ll be aware they’re talking to the next president.” Bush said that “in terms of speci ficity, in terms of my committing a brand new administration to specifics in arms control or anything else, I’m not going to do that.” Since the second Rcagan-Gor bachev meeting, in Iceland in 1986, U.S. officials have been wary of an anything-goes bargaining session. In Iceland, Reagan and Gorbachev discussed eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons, upsetting U.S. al lies in Western Europe who rely on U.S. nuclear deterrence. Bush and his aides have told the Soviets they will not be open to hard bargaining at the meeting scheduled for Dec. 7, in New York, where Gor bachev pians to address the United Nations. Nevertheless, said one Bush aide, “we expect Gorbachev to try to ad vancc some of his ideas. And given his record, he may unveil some new ones, right at the meeting.” “We don’t want this to turn into a summit, hut we will he listening,” said the aide, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. The Bush team thinks Gorbachev might try to break new ground in efforts to cut conventional forces in Central Europe and sharply reduce strategic arms, two areas expected to remain at the center of U S.-Soviet talks. Gorbachev and other Soviets have been talking for more than a year about a new military doctrine of “reasonable sufficiency,” which could entail sharp cuts in Warsaw Pact tank and infantry forces. But so far there has been no change in the deployment of conventional Soviet forces, and Sovietchicf of staff Sergei Akhromcycv, during a visit to the United Stales last summer, said the Soviets would cut back only il the West did likewise. New talks to nego tiate such an arrangement arc under discussion. Other disagreements which Gor bachev might try to resolve cover mobile missiles, submarine-launched cruise missiles and limits to space tests of anti-missile defenses, issues which remained after the Moscow summit last summer. The dispute over Reagan’s Strate gic Defense Initiative is the most emotional obstacle to the proposed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). Gorbachev insists the United States agree to abide for another dec adeby the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which would bar space de fenses. On its part, the United Slates, which has been unable to deploy a mobile strategic missile, is insisting that such weapons be banned under the treaty. • Stealth bomber to appear today PALMDALE, Calif. — After a decade of mystery, the radar-elud ing B-2 stealth bomber goes on public display Tuesday - from a distance of 200 feet - as the Air Forte gingerly lifts the security veil on the $68.5 billion weapons system. The high-technology aircraft will be presented at a rollout cere mony at Air Force Plant 42, where it was developed by Northrop Coro. The ceremony for congres sional representatives, news media and aerospace industry insiders follows by three weeks the Pentagon’s release of a photo of another closely held project, Lock heed Corp.’s stealth fighter, the F 117 A. The only previous public view of the B-2 bomber was a drawing released last April, showing what looked like two wings bolted to gether with no fuselage or tail. Sources said some details about the plane’s design, such as the place ment of the engine exhaust outlets atop the wings, were deliberately masked in that artist’s rendering. The plane’s public debut won’t . reveal much more detail; reporters ' and photographers were told they wouldn’t be allowed closer than 200 feet The lifting of secrecy on the exotic airplanes so soon after the presidential election raised charges from critics of the Defense LXparugient that the Air Force was embarffng on a public relations f ; __ *..'if.. blitz. For years, the stealth aircraft have been carried as “black pro grams” with the Pentagon refusing even to acknowledge ihcir exis tence. Rep. Patricia Schrocdcr, D Colo., said recently that the Air Force was attempting to manipu late the public’s fascination with high technology to build good w ill for additional military spending. “We don’t know what’s right with stealth; we don't know w hat’s wrong with stealth,’ she said ear lier this month. However, support for the bomber on Capitol Hill in military spending committees has been bi partisan, said Gen. Larry Welch, chief of stall of the Air Force. Both presidential candidates said they supported the bomber. Pentagon officials denied any political agenda in tuning the re lease of information about the fighter or the bomber. Welch said Tuesday’s scheduled rollout cere mony was timed because the B-2 was nearly ready for flight trials. “It’s difficult to keep a large bomber hidden away,” Air Force Maj Pat Mullancy, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a recent tele phone interview. “And revealing a limited amount of da la hasacertain deterrent value. It lets people know that if docs exist, that it is real. ’ However, security on the bomber program will remain tight, and no data has been revealed on specifics of the aircraft’scapabili ties. “We’re not going to give all that away,” Mullancy said. “It remains a classified program.” Stealth fighters reportedly have been flying for several years, but only at night. A photo of that plane was released because it is ready for daylight flights, officials said. The stealth bomber, so-called because it is intended to be ex treme ly dif ficult to delect on en emy radar, has been described as a sleek, dark, flying wing with no sharp angles to reflect radar and built of exotic composite materi als, some of which will absorb radar rather than reflect it Flight tests will be conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert. The Air Force said when the draw ing was released that the maiden flight would be the short hop from the plant at Palmdale to Edwards. The B-2 Is described as an all altitude peneuation bomber, as opposed to the 0-1 bombe, which is designed to penetrate enemy air defenses at low altitudes. U is 69 feet long, with a 172-foot wing span. ‘‘This is a bizarre-looking ma chine,” said Bill Swectman, an aviation writer and editor who wrote “Stealth Aircraft: The Se crets of Future Airpower.” ‘‘This is going to be a really unusual, sinis ter-looking aircraft.” Bush names three more for cabinet positions WASHINGTON — President elect George Bush reached again into the Reagan Cabinet Monday to retain Dick Thornburgh as attorney general and Lauro F. Cavazos as secretary of education. He also named former White House aide Richard G. Darman for “perhaps the most difficult job,” budget director. Thornburgh and Cavazos, like Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady, were late additions to the Reagan team. Bush told a news con ference that “in all likelihood” those three will be the only direct hold overs. They join James A. Baker III, the former treasury secretary whom Bush has chosen to be secretary of slate, as cornerstone members of Bush’s new Cabinet. The president-elect said Monday, “I will keep my commit ment to bring in lots of new' faces.” Bush swore in Cava/.os, 61, the first Hispanic-Amcrican to serve in a Cabinet, in September as successor to William Bennett at the Departmentof Education. Bush hail promised to appoint a Hispanic to his own Cabinet il elected. Thornburgh, 56, former governor of Pennsylvania and onetime head of the Department of Justice’s criminal division, replaced the embattled Edw in Meesc III in August. Bush said Thornburgh’s priority as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer will be “combatting the scourge of drugs.” “Drugs arc Public Enemy No. 1. A i major part of Dick’s miss ion will be to stop them from damaging our society and our country," said the president elect. Darman, 45, was deputy White House chief of staff and then deputy treasury secretary under Baker before taking a job with an investment firm last year. He has worked in six Cabi net agencies: Defense, Justice, Com merce, State, Treasury and Health, Education and Welfare. Bush also got some private advice Monday from former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, who headed a commission that has made recommendations for the next ad ministration. He later telephoned the man he defeated in the Nov. S election. Democratic Gov. Michael Dukakisof Massachusetts. Dukakis aides said the two men spoke briefly about gel ling together but no date was set. i don’t want to have a lot of show business. 1 want to hold out my hand and say, ‘Look, the campaign is be hind us,’” Bush said at a brief news conference following his appoint ment announcements. At the new s conference. Bush re jected a General Accounting Office report that dismissed his "flexible free/e" proposal lor culling the budget defic it. 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