News Digest
USS Iowa shipmate says
Hartwis didn't cause blast
WASHINGTON - Gunner’s
mate Kendall Truitt told Congress
Wednesday former USS Iowa
crew mate Clayton Hartwig was no
“suicidal Creak” and didn’t cause
the explosion that killed Hartwig
and 46 other sailors.
Truiu accused the Navy of us
ing “a big coverup” to thwart
theories that the shipboard explo
sion was accidental rather than
caused intentionally, “most
likely” by Hartwig, as the Navy
has concluded.
The sailor said Hartwig wasn’t
told until the morning of April 19
that he was going to be positioned
at center gun in the No. 2 gun
turret, “so there would have been
no time for planning” a suicide
explosion. He said Hartwig had
once talked of suicide, but Truitt
said he did not take him seriously.
Truiu said his own theory is that
the blast was caused by a defective
hydraulic rammer - the piece of
equipment used to shove the pow
der tegs up against the projectile in
the huge gun.
He said he had had a problem
with a rammer on the left gun in
No. 2 gun turret about a year ear
lier, describing it as behaving like
a transmission stuck between neu
tral and drive. He theorized that the
rammer might have “suddenly
taken off,” putting too much pres
sure on the propellant.
He also maintained that gun
powder on die Iowa had been
stored in high heat, that the cans
were not airtight, and that “you
could smell ether.”
Questioned about his personal
relationship with Hartwig, Truitt
said they had a basically strong
friendship, with occasional quar
rels.
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I Bulgarians strip Zhivkov’s powers |
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The parly that
took Todor Zhivkov’s orders for 35
years expelled him Wednesday, and
his replacement as leader exhorted
Communists to prepare for “a na
tionwide exam” in free elections
promised for May.
The policy-making Central Com
mittee also agreed to join other War
saw Pact parties in surrendering its
constitutional guarantee of supreme
power. Members made the decisions
in a threc-day discussion of reform,
while tens of thousands of people
stood outside to remind them prom
ises must be kept.
Petar Mladcnov, who became
party chief when Zhivkov was forced
out Nov. 10, said Monday that free
elections should be held in May. On
Tuesday, he told the Communist
leadership:
”We have to . . . conquer -- this
time in the real sense of the word --
the hearts and minds of the millions
of Bulgarians.
“Soon we will face a nationwide
exam: free and democratic elections.
.. and it is there we must show that we
are not only worthy of, but also prac
tically capable of, leading’’ the coun
try.
The news agency said the Central
Committee would propose to Parlia
ment today that it remove two
constitutional clauses in which the
party is given sole power.
One defines the party as “the lead
ing force” in society and the state,
and the other says the party 4 4 heads
the construction of an advanced so
cialist society.”
As the Central Committee meet
ing drew to a close, a crowd estimated
by Western reporters at 60.000 gath
ered in the plaza outside to show
support in a rally sponsored by the
party.
Mandela, de Klerk discuss end
to racial conflict in S. Africa
i
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— Black leader Nelson Mandela,
expected to be released within weeks
after 27 years in jail, visited President
F.W. de Klerk on Wednesday to dis
cuss prospects for negotiating an end
to South Africa’s racial conflict.
The main far-right party de
nounced the meeting, the first ever
between Mandela and de Klerk, as a
step toward white capitulation.
Liberal leaders, however, hailed
the event as evidence the government
accepts the central role of Mandela’s
outlawed guerrilla movement, the
African National Congress, in any
political settlement.
The Justice Ministry said Mandela
requested the meeting at Tuynhuis,
the presidential office in Cape Town,
and that de Klerk “welcomed the
opportunity.”
Mandela, the country's best
known black leader, has been impris
oned since 1962 and is serving a life
sentence for plotting an anti-govem
ment sabotage campaign.
The two discussed “ways and
means to address current obstacles in
the way of meaningful dialogue,’ ’ the
ministry said. “Follow-up talks in the
new year are envisaged.”
Signs hoisted above the throng
said “A Bulgarian Communist Party
of Untainted People,” and ‘‘To
gether with the Bulgarian Commu
nist Party for New Democratic Com
munist Socialism.”
Nearby, outside the Alexander
Nevski Orthodox Cathedral, about
2,000 people applauded a speaker
from the Agrarian Union party who
declared: “Today we end this semi
existence/^_
January election
for Czech leader
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia -
The opposition and Communists
resolved their last major dispute by
agreeing Wednesday that the
president should be elected by
Parliament before the end of Janu
ary, negotiators reported.
They told The Associated Press
there was no agreement on who
would become president, only that
the person chosen would be a
Czech not affiliated to any politi
cal party.
That seems to pave the way for
opposition leader Vaclav Havel, a
jailed playwright and symbol of
Czechoslovakia’s peaceful revo
lution, and dash the hopes of Alex
ander Dubcek, the 68-ycar-old
Slovak who led the “Prague
Spring” reforms of 1968.
While the presidential negotia
tions were being held, the govern
ment said Wednesday it was draft
ing laws to ensure freedom of reli
gion, assembly and association
and provide more protection to
people who are arrested.
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