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Soviet, Cuban leaders begin planned talks
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HAVANA -- Presidents Mikhail
S. Gorbachev and Fidel Castro went
behind closed doors Monday for
marathon talks expected to air their
ideological differences and highlight
the problems of Third World nations.
A Soviet spokesman, asked
whether Gorbachev would offer to
forgive Cuba’s massive debt to the
Soviet Union, said that subject was
not discussed specifically, although
the leaders did talk about the
“enormous debt plundering the
economies’’ of Latin American
countries.
The spokesman, Gennady I. Gera
simov, said Gorbachev’s initial dis
cussions with Castro and the Cuban
Communist Party’s Central Commit
tee were held in a “friendly atmos
phere.”
He also said Gorbachev reported
on the Soviet Union’s recent multi
candidate parliamentary elections,
which were seen as a popular victory
for the party’s reformers. Castro, who
has never allowed competitive elec
tions in his 30-year rule, has openly
criticized Gorbachev’s reforms for
borrowing too much from the capital
ist world.
After the ceremonial laying of a
wreath at the monument to Jose
Marti, the father of Cuban independ
ence, Castro escorted his guest to the
Palace of the Revolution to begin
their discussions, which were sched
uled to continue on and off through
the day and evening.
Gorbachev’s wife, Raisa, visited a
day care center, a Cuban-Soviet
friendship center and planned to tour
the home of the late American author
Ernest Hemingway, who uvea tor
many years on an estate outside
Havana that is now a museum. Both
Mrs. Gorbachev and her husband
have mentioned reading Heming
way, a writer whose works have been
translated into Russian and are popu
lar in the Soviet Union.
Gerasimov said Gorbachev and
Castro, in their opening talks, ex
changed views on the March 26 So
v iet elections and discussed problems
in Latin America, particularly those
of indebtedness and the drug trade.
iii^ uuscivea that
Latin American countries are in
creasingly becoming drug suppliers
to North America while at the same
time increasingly becoming drug
consumers. 6
The debt is only one aspect of the
economic ties between the Soviet
Union and Cuba. Soviet economic
aid to Cuba is estimated by Western
sources at between $4 billion and $7
billion annually, substantially more
per capita than U.S. assistance to any
Latin American country.
Hawaii clean-up to take three weeks
HONOLULU -- A cleanup crew
has finished scrubbing oil from a 10
mile stretch of Molokai Island’s
shoreline, but it will take at least three
more weeks to clean Lanai Island
beaches soiled by a mysterious spill,
authorities said.
Coast Guard spokesman Keith
Spangler said Sunday that a nine
member crew on Molokai would join
the effort on Lanai, where the bulk of
the bunker fuel oil has washed
ashore.
The Coast Guard has yet to deter
mine the exact size or source of the
spill, but it appeared to be at least
10.000 gallons, Spangler said.
Far more oil has washed onto
Lanai than soiled Oahu beaches when
the tanker Exxon Houston ran
aground March 2, according to Rusty
Nall, vice president and general
manager of Pacific Environmental
Corp., contracted by the Coast Guard
to perform the cleanup.
The spill has sullied 10 miles of
Lanai’s northern coast with tar balls
and small puddles, Nall said. The
grounded Exxon Houston spilled
30.000 gallons of oil that polluted
two miles of shoreline outside of
Honolulu.
The latest spill was first spotted
March 26 in the ocean between Lanai
and Molokai, two of Hawaii’s most
undeveloped islands.
Hoping to find the source of the
spill, the Coast Guard has taken oil
samples from five vessels in Hawaii,
including the Exxon Houston, Span
gler said. Lab tests are expected to be
done in 45 days.
Spangler said it was unlikely that
oil from the Exxon Houston could
reach Lanai and Molokai, about 60
miles southeast of Oahu.
Record number of Vietnamese leave for U.S.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A record
number of Vietnamese refugees and
immigrants left for the United States
last month under the Orderly Depar
ture Program, the U.S. Embassy in
Bangkok said Monday.
The embassy put the number of
refugees at 3,662 - 1,401 more than
January’s previous monthly high.
Among those leaving in March
were 2,071 Amerasians, those chil
dren fathered by American soldiers
during the Vietnam War, and their
relatives, the embassy said.
Since the program was established
in 1979, 84,483 Vietnamese have
resettled in the United States, the
embassy said.
The U.N.-sponsored program is
intended to provide an alternative to
the exodus by boat. Thousands of
Vietnamese “boat people” have
drowned or been attacked by pirates
en route to neighboring Asian coun
tries.
Michigan wins NCAA title 80-79
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SEATTLE - Rumeal Robinson
made two free throws with three sec
onds left in overtime to give Michi
gan its first national championship
and cap the improbable ride of in
terim head coach Steve Fisher with
an 80-79 victory over Seton Hall
Monday night
Fisher had taken over the Michi
gan team just two days before the
NCAA tournament began and
coached them to the six victories
needed for the national champion
ship.
The championship game was the
fifth to go into overtime and the first
since Loyola, 111., beat Cincinnati 60
58 in 1963.
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Glen Rice was the player who car
ried Fisher and the Wolverines to the
title with 31 points in the final, giving
him an NCAA tournament record of
184, breaking the 24-year-old mark
of 177 set by Bill Bradley of Prince
ton.
Robinson, who finished with 21
points and 11 assists, got his chance
to be the hero when he was fouled by
Gerald Greene, who had missed the
front end of a one-and-one with 1:17
remaining and Seton Hall leading 79
76.
Terry Mills hit a turnaround
jumper with 56 seconds left to bring
the Wolverines within one with 56
seconds remaining. Seton Hall
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worked the 45-second shot clock
down and John Morton, who finished
with 35 points, tossed up an airball
with 11 seconds left.
Michigan brought the ball
downcourt and Robinson began a
drive to the basket when he was
fouled before shooting. Robinson
nailed the free throws and, after two
Pirate timeouts, a final desperation 3
pomter banged off the glass and rim
and Michigan had its first national
championship in three title-game
appearances.
Michigan had a chance for victory
in regulation, but Rice missed a long
jumper with two seconds to play.
Town dons black arm bands
CORDOVA, Alaska -- After a massive oil spill fouled Prince
William Sound, Linden ColourO’Toole searched the town’s few stores
for dye to make hundreds of black armbands.
“We wore the armbands because we wanted the world to know that
for this town, the spill is a death in the family,” said O’Toole, who
fishes the sound with her husband.
Unable to find enough dye, she ripped up old black clothes she found
in her church basement.
She did her part to help this town on the edge of Prince William
Sound prepare for an invasion of network TV crews that began al ter an
Exxon Corp. oil tanker ran aground 25 miles from Valdez, the southern
end of the Alaskan pipeline.
Job turned down at threat
ROME - A man approached the judge outside his house in Sicily
and quickly made his message clear.
“Judge, you have a lovely family, so united,” he told Gianfranco
Riggio. “Why go and work with Sica in Rome? .. . Your wife goes
every morning to school, she stops at the same traffic light.”
The encounter, reported in the Corriere della Sera newspaper,
convinced Riggio his wife and two daughters would be in danger if he
took the job as a special assistant to High Commissioner Domenico
Sica, who leads a team of anti-Mafia investigators.
Riggio said he felt he could risk his own life - but not the lives of his
family.
The reported threat came amid widespread concerns the state has
lost momentum in its fight against the Mafia. Despite convictions of
hundreds of Mafia bosses, including some top figures, investigators say
the mob has reorganized and begun to develop more sophisticated
schemes to launder drug profits.
Congress returns from break
WASHINGTON - Congress returns from its Easter recess poised to
weigh legislation that would yank the government into the middle of the
month-old Eastern Airlines strike.
Legislators also plan to consider boosting the minimum wage and a
bill that would require stales to close their polls at the same moment
nationwide in presidential elections. Meanwhile, the ethics investiga
tion of House Speaker Jim Wright resumes behind closed doors on
Tuesday.
The Senate on Tuesday will resume debating the Eastern legislation,
a measure labor leaders have fought hard for since shortly after the
March 4 start of the walkout. The bill would force President Bush to
name an emergency board, which would have up to 26 days to suggest
a way to end the strike
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