By The
Associated Press
Edited by Kristine Long
NEWS DIGEST
Net^raskan
Thursday, March 31,1994
China permits Korean inspections
WASHINGTON — China will
permit the U.N. Security Council to
approve a resolution urging North
Korea to open its suspect nuclear sites
to international inspectors, South
Korea’s foreign minister said Wednes
day.
The minister, Han Seung-joo, said
the resolution would impose “mini
mum requirements,” and the State
Department spokesman said it may be
a month before another, tougher, reso
lution is presented to the council.
The International Atomic Energy
Agency in the meantime will evaluate
data collected during inspections in
March to determine whether North
Korea has an active program to de
velop nuclear weapons, department
spokesman Michael McCurry said.
Such a finding would have “grave
consequences,” he said.
Han, talking to reporters after a 50
m inutc meeting wi th Sec rctaryofS tale
Warren Christopher, said “the Chi
nese arc on board in the sense of
discussing the form and contents of a
Security Council resolution.”
Though this means “there will be
minimum requirements” in the reso
lution, “I think it is unlikely the Chi
nese will veto the kind of resolution
we arc working on right now,” Han
said.
China has urged a go-slow ap
proach toward North Korea. Christo
pher has decided to stagger the resolu
tions in a way that would give North
Korea more time to accept interna
tional inspectors before risking U.N.
economic sanctions.
“I think we’re very much in a uni
fied position with respect to the United
Nations Security Council,” Christo
pher said.
“We arc going to be urging a reso
lution there. One thing 1 would stress
is that we’re consulting very closely
with all the parties, including the
Chinese, about the best way to encour
age the North Koreans to lake the
steps that the international commu
nity wants them to take.”
Han lined up his government with
the United States in trying to pry open
suspect North Korean nuclear sites.
He said there were “some differences
in emphasis” with China.
Reporting to Christopher on talks
in Japan and China, he said “the
Chinese have been emphasizing the
importance of dialogue.” The goal, he
said, should be adoption of an “effec
tive and realistic” resolution by the
Security Council.
Anthony Lake, national security
assistant, briefed President Clinton
on the situation en route to a golf club
outside San Diego.
Lake said U.N. Ambassador
Madeleine Albright was meeting w ith
Chinese, British, French and Russian
diplomats in New York “to work
through a resolution that can take care
of some of the Chinese concerns and
still come up with a very firm interna
tional position.”
Lake said that could lead to “broad
talks” with North Korea about its
future and the nuclear issue.
“Korea is a very serious issue, but
it is very important that we not over
react to North Korean rhetoric,” the
White House official said.
Government lifts limits on com planting
CHAMPAIGN, 111. —The United
States corn crop could yield record
setting proportions this year.
W ith supplies low after last year’s
flood-ravaged harvest, the federal
government has lifted limits on how
much corn farmers can plant this
spring.
Last year’s M idwest flood and other
weather-related woes cut the fall har
vest by 33 percent, prompting the
government to encourage farmers to
plant more corn.
Weak land idled in previous years
wil 1 be seeded and sprayed wi th chemi
cals, increasing the risk for erosion
and runofT into streams and rivers.
Farm suppliers are competing to tap
into the larger demand for seed, fertil
izer and herbicides.
Taxpayers have a stake, too. If the
weather is favorable and corn yields
climb, prices will plunge, triggering
billions ofdollars in government pay
ments to farmers.
This kind of corn won’t end up
salted and buttered on the cob. This
crop, worth $16.5 billion in 1993, is
turned into livestock feed, alcohol fuel,
sweeteners, food ingredients — even
packing material.
On Sept. 1, the surplus from last
year’s crop is expected to be only 802
million bushels, or61 percent ofwhat
Illinois alone produced in 1993.
To replenish stocks, nearly 7 mil
lion additional acres could be planted
in the United States, pushing total
acreage to 80 million in dozens of
stales around the country, the highest
since the mid-1980s. The Agriculture
Department will make its first esti
mate of spring planting on Thursday.
Farmers would not be planting
more com without a nudge from Wash
ington. The government usually re
quires farmers not to plant a crop on a
portion of their corn acreage, a mea
sure intended to balance supply with
expected demand. In exchange, they
qual ify for cash payments if prices fall
below $2.75 per bushel.
The land that is set aside can go as
high as 1 0 percent,as in 1993,orzero,
which is the 1994 policy announced
last fall.
Rain during the planting season or
no rain in early July, a critical growth
period, could trigger fears of another
bad year and send corn prices above
$3 a bushel. The 5 1 /2-year high was
$3.11 3/4 at the Chicago Board of
Trade on Jan. 13.
If the weather is good, prices could
tumble to $2.20 and kernels would be
piled in glittery mounds like 1992
when farmers posted a record harvest
of 9.4 billion bushels.
Consumers probably won ’ t feel the
effect of volatile prices at the grocery
store. The cost of corn as a food ingre
dient is outweighed by processing,
transportation and promotion ex
penses, Good said.
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Israel, PLO agree
on Hebron protection
CAIRO, Egypt—The PLO and
Israel reached an agreement early
Thursday for protection of Pales
tinians in the West Bank town of
Hebron, opening the way for re
sumption of overall peace talks.
Israeli negotiatorUri Savir said
two days of talks produced a com
promise on sending an interna
tional observer force to Hebron,
site of the Feb. 25 mosque massa
cre.
Up to 100 Palestinian police
also would be assigned to keep the
peace.
Savir declined to give details
about the foreign observers, saying
they would be announced at a news
conference later in the day.
“There is an agreement on all
issues relating to the security for
Hebron and the resumptionoftalks
on Gaza and Jericho,” he told The
Associated Press.
The PLO has demanded protec
tion for Hebron’s 80,000 residents
before returning to overall peace
talks on Palestinian self-rule in the
Gaza Strip and West Bank town of
Jericho.
The broader talks have been
halted since a Jewish settler killed
30 Palestinians in the Hebron
mosque attack. The Israeli army’s
slaying Monday of six PLO activ
ists in the occupied Gaza Strip
threatened to again disrupt the ne
gotiations.
On Wednesday, sources at PLO
headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia,
said the two sides agreed that up to
100 Palestinian police officers
would join Israeli forces on their
patrols in Hebron.
Disagreements remained on the
number and nationalities of for
eign observers lobe sent to Hebron.
The PLO was demanding
American and Russian observers
as part of the force, arguing that a
U.N. Security Council resolution
urged an “international” presence.
Israel wanted only observers
from Norway, which was deeply
involved in the secret talks that led
to the Isracl-PLO accord in Sep
tember. Israel also was insisting
the observers be under Israeli con
trol.
The arguments have as much to
do with politics as protection of
Hebron’s Palestinians. The PLO
wants an international force to
undermine the idea of continued
Israeli rule. Israel has always re
sisted any foreign interference dur
ing its 26-ycar occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza.
American woman beaten
amid baby snatching uproar
GUATEMALACITY—An Alas
kan woman, suspected of stealing
Guatemalan children for their organs,
was severely beaten by a mob armed
with machetes, sticks and stones.
Guatemala has been rife with ru
mors that Americans arc abducting
children and selling their body parts
for transplant purposes.
Earlier in March a tourist from
New Mexico was chased by a mob
who suspected she was trafficking in
organs. Police rescued her, but the
mob burned down their station.
Officials identified the woman
beaten Tuesday as Diane Wemtock
Jung, 52, of Alaska. She was in seri
ous condition at a hospital in Coban,
about 75 miles north of the capital.
Coban Fire Chief Mauro Rene Ac
Chun said Jung had been stabbed eight
times and had a broken arm, a prob
able skull fracture and other injuries.
Witnesses said a mob gathered in
the main plaza in San Cristobal
Vcrapaz after an Indian woman
screamed that Jung had tried to steal
her 8-year-old boy. The boy, who had
been missing, turned up later at an
Easter Week celebration.
Jung look refuge in a judge’s office
in a municipal building, but the mob
overpowered police, said Roberto
Alvarado, a reporter for RadioCoban
who witnessed the attack.
Witnesses said the mob set the
building on fire, ignoring pleas from
local officials and a local Catholic
r
bishop. Jung was rescued by
firefighters and rushed to Coban, a
town 18 miles away.
An American man who arrived
the scene to offer translation assi
tance also was beaten, but less
vercly. The army sent troops a f<
hours later to restore order and a
rested 15 people, according to Edua
Sam Aldana, another radio rcportcij
Reports of the sale of organs o
kidnapped Third Worldchildrcnhav
been around for years, first surfacinj
in Honduras in early 1987. U.S. ofTi
cials said the allegations became a
integral part of Soviet and Cuba
anti-American propaganda. The is
sue had been dormant in Guatcmal
for some time but reemerged late la*
year.
Adoptions by Americans inGuatc
mala average about 10 a week, anti
suspicions about the practice are fc<
by child stealing and baby tralTickin
in the country.
The U.S. Embassy said a senio
Public Health Ministry official
Guillermo Carranza Targena, ha
inflamed the situation by suggesting!
that some unscrupulous traffickers arej
Americans.
Three weeks ago outside Guate
mala City the presence of an Ameri
can provoked large demonstrations
and violence over two days. The
woman, Melissa Carol Larson, of
Taos, N.M., was taken to safety by
police.
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