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Leaders propose peace talks between Koreas
CHEJU-DO, South Korea — Presi
dent Clinton and South Korean Presi
dent Kim Young-sam proposed peace
talks between North and South Korea
“without preconditions” and with the
United States and China as direct par
ticipants.
The unexpected proposal for four
way talks, made Tuesday morning in
Korea, is a departure from the
longstanding U.S. goal of resolving
long-simmering tensions on the pen
insula through direct North-South talks
without outside participation.
Clinton and Kim were expected to
give more details at a joint news con
ference at this resort island 60 miles
south of the Korean mainland. Clinton
was here for a 10-hour visit on his way
to meetings in Japan and Russia.
During a picture-taking session
with Clinton, Kim was asked if he sees
a possibility of a breakthrough with
North Korea. “I think there is a possi
bility,” he said.
The new proposal was an effort to
put in motion a process to replace with
a formal peace agreement the 1953
armistice that halted the Korean War
but which North Korea says it no
longer considers binding.
However, in a joint statement, both
presidents said “die present armistice
agreement should be maintained until
succeeded by a permanent peace
agreement.” It was that agreement that
divided the two Koreas along the 38th
parallel.
The joint statement said a meeting
among the four countries should be
convened “as soon as possible and
without preconditions. The purpose
would be to initiate a process aimed at
achieving a permanent peace settle
ment.”
U.S. officials said the idea for four
way talks was advanced first by South
Korea, about two months ago.
White House spokesman Mike
McCurry would not say whether China
or North Korea agreed to such a pro
cess but made it clear they had not re
jected it. “There seems to be under
standing” on China’s part for the U.S.
desire to establish a more permanent
peace, he said.
McCurry said China’s participation
“would be extremely helpful” to forg
ing a permanent peace.
Clinton’s and Kim’s statement said
the “peace process also should address
a wide range of tension-eduction mea
sures.” Officials said that could include
proposals for drawing troops back
from both sides of the Demilitarized
Zone, the 2.5-mile-wide border that
separates the two Korcas.
Clinton also “reaffirmed the stead
fast U.S. commitment to security in the
Republic of Korea” and his commit
ment to the agreement pledging U.S.
defense of South Korea should it be
attacked by the North, the statement
said.
Tensions have been on the increase
following penetrations of the DMZ by
North Korea troops earlier this month,
in violation of the 43-year-old armi
stice.
The unexpected initiative has been
in the works quietly for about two
months after being raised by South
Korea, the officials said.
North Korea has tried to force the
United States into direct negotiations,
which would put South Korea into a
secondary role. Clinton’s initiative is
a new diplomatic formula for a peace
process.
A decade ago. South Korea pro
posed a six-way peace negotiation in
volving the United States, Japan, the
Soviet Union, China and the two
Koreas. The Reagan administration
rejected the notion, holding out for
North-South dialogue.
Marines court-martialed for sample refusal
HONOLULU — A court-martial
opened Monday for two Marines who
refused to give blood samples for a
DNA registry designed to help the
Pentagon identify servicemen’s re
mains.
Cpl. John C. Mayfield III, 21, and
Cpl. Joseph Vlacovsky, 25, fear the
“genetic dogtags” could be used
against them in the future, and say the
order is unconstitutional.
Marine Capt. Scott Peterson, the
prosecutor, said Monday that the or
der only related to military duty and
any constitutional questions could be
addressed separately.
“It is not our burden to prove
whether the order is lawful,” he said,
just whether the men disobeyed a di
rect order.
The prosecution rested Monday
after two witnesses, Lt. Col. Richard
Monreal, the two men’s commanding
officer, and Chief Hospitalman Marie
Crippen, an enlisted superior, both tes
tified that the men had several oppor
tunities to obey the order. Both said
they never thought to question the
constitutionality of the DNA program.
Monreal said he had offered to
handle the problem through a
nonjudicial process but both Marines
told him they preferred to go through
a full court-martial.
The defendants plan to call as an
expert witness the co-author of a study
that found that many people with
genes linked to certain diseases have
been discriminated against by insur-.
ance companies, employers and oth
ers.
Defense attorney Eric Seitz has
said the order to submit blood samples
was unlawful, and the American Civil
Liberties Union of Hawaii has agreed,
citing the Fourth Amendment protec
tion against unreasonable searches.
The law is clear that mandatory
“taking of blood and bodily fluid con
stitutes a search, and is therefore sub
ject to scrutiny,” said Vanessa Chong,
executive director of the ACLU.
The Marines face six months in jail
and a dishonorable discharge if con
victed of willfully disobeying an or
der. The non-jury trial got under way
before a military judge at Kaneohe
Marine Base.
They have also filed a class-action
lawsuit to stop the program.That case
is pending before a federal appeals
court.
The Pentagon has been collecting
DNA samples from service members
for three years and has stored more
than 1 million specimens in
Gaithersburg, Md.
The plan was to save the samples
for 75 years for use in identifying re
mains. But because of the legal chal
lenge and congressional pressure, the
Pentagon announced last week it will
keep the samples for only 50 years,
strictly limit the circumstances under
which they can be released, and allow
personnel to have their specimens de
stroyed when they leave the service.
Dr. Paul Billings of the Stanford
University School of Medicine, who
will testify for the defense at the court
martial, said that the Pentagon pro
gram still lacks safeguards to protect
people’s privacy.
“This is the very first case of any
body in the United States being threat
ened with jail time and potentially a
fine for not contributing to a DNA
bank,” Billings said.
Agents find
execs’ names
in cabin
HELENA, Mont. — FBI
agents searching Unabomber
suspect Theodore Kaczynski’s
cabin found addresses of corpo
rate executives, maps of San
Francisco, bus schedules, guns
and a bottle of anti-depressant
medicine, according to an inven
tory released Monday.
In a filing released in federal
court, the FBI also confirmed
published reports of three type
writers found in the cabin, as
well as several unspecified docu
ments and notes.
However, none of the docu
ments was identified as the origi
nal text of the Unabomber mani
festo, the 35,000-word tract pub
lished in The Washington Post
last year.
Kaczynski, 53, was arrested
at the cabin near Lincoln two
weeks ago and is being held on
charges of possessing bomb
components. He has not been
charged with any of the
Unabomber attacks, which
killed three people and injured
23.
In its list, the FBI did not spe
cifically link any of the more
than 600 items to the
Unabomber or his crimes and
did not even use the word
“Unabomber.”
The references to San Fran
cisco and to corporate executives
were cryptic. The item was listed
as: “One 'Aldrich’ box contain
ing misc. papers, newspaper
clippings, bus schedule, ad
dresses of corporate officials and
maps of San Francisco.”
However, the references may
be significant because the
Unabomber, who raged against
modern technology, targeted
executives.
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