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THE BANNERGRAPHIC May 9,1989

Baker to test Soviet ‘new thinking’ with Gorbachev

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 will ask Mikhail S. Gorbachev for help in forging peace in the Middle East if the Soviet leader proves to be sincere about global cooperation, a senior official says. En route Monday to Moscow to meet with the general secretary, Baker said his goal is “to make it clear to the Soviets that we are seeking an active, constructive, positive and expanding relationship.” “IF WE FIND THAT the Soviet Union is serious about new global behavior, then we will seek diplomatic engagement in an effort to reach mutually beneficial results,” Baker said. A senior official expanded on those remarks, telling reporters on Baker’s flight from Washington that the Bush administration would welcome Moscow’s help promoting Arab-Israeli negotiations and was not trying to exclude the Soviets from those peace efforts. “We ought not to somehow be worried about the Soviet Union being a participant in trying to enhance the prospects for peace in the Middle East,” the official said. “The problems there are extraordinarily intractable. We welcome all the help we can get” BUT THE OFFICIAL, who responded to questions only on condition of anonymity, ruled out U.S. concessions in Afghanistan or negotiations to remove short-range

Carter, other observers, denounce Panamanian election as fraudulent

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) Foreign observers accused Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega’s men of stealing the presidential election and more than 15,000 protesters took to the streets in a demonstration broken up by gunfire. “I hope there will be a worldwide outcry against this dictator stealing the election from his own people,” said former President Jimmy Carter, an invited observer. HE SAID VOTING records stolen Sunday night and early Monday by forces loyal to Noriega were substituted with ‘ bogus replacements not signed by opposition party members. Official results had yet to be released. Sunday’s vote was considered a referendum on Noriega, Panama’s de facto leader and chief of the 15,000-strong Defense Forces. The United States has been trying to oust him for more than a year. In Washington, President Bush and top advisors met Monday and discussed further steps. An adminstration official said options included more economic sanctions and sending additional troops to reinforce the 10,000 U.S. service personnel based in the Canal Zone. PANAMANIAN Defense Forces troops and armed men in civilian clothing broke up Monday’s op-

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JAMES A. BAKER 111 Seeking cooperation

nuclear missiles from Europe. He insisted the Soviets should suspend their military aid to the Marxist government of Nicaragua, estimated at SSOO million a year, and show interest in a peaceful solution in the Middle East by resuming diplomatic relations with Israel and exerting influence on Syria. The official said the United States would not stop aiding the Afghan rebels in their war with the Kabul government, which was supplied with Soviet arms and equipment before the Red Army left the country in February. BAKER, WHO HAS never

position march, which was called to protest the alleged fraud. Three people, including two journalists, were wounded, one seriously. The shootings occurred around the Atlapa convention center, where the votes were being counted and the marchers had been heading when they were dispersed. Those hit by gunfire were a Panamanian television cameraman, seriously wounded in the chest, a reporter for Paris newspaper Le Monde and a marcher. The circumstances surrounding the shootings were not immediately clear. CARTER HAD TO use a hotel lobby for a news conference because he had been denied the use of the government-run press center. He said Panamanian cooperation with his mission ended as soon as he raised the fraud issue. Carter met with opposition presidential candidate Guillermo Endara on Monday and said he congratulated Endara on his victory. Both Endara and Noriega’s handpicked candidate, Carlos Duque, had claimed victories by wide margins before any official results were released. Exit polls by the opposition and the Roman Catholic Church gave

been to the Soviet Union before, is due in Moscow on Wednesday morning for talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. They plan to meet again Thursday morning, and Baker will see Gorbachev for two hours in the afternoon. The U.S. entourage, including State Department, Pentagon and National Security Council officials, stopped first in Helsinki to rest, confer and meet with Finnish officials. Baker met with Shevardnadze in Vienna in March before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact opened negotiations to reduce non-nuclear armor and artillery in Europe. SINCE THEN, A U.S. dispute with West Germany over NATO’s short-range nuclear missiles has rattled the Western Alliance’s unity. The Germans are resisting U.S. efforts to more than triple the missiles’ range to 250 miles, and are demanding U.S. negotiations with the Soviets to reduce tactical nuclear weapons on both sides. The Bush administration has refused, arguing that would hurt NATO’s defenses. If Gorbachev tries to capitalize on the disagreement, Baker simply will refuse to discuss the missiles, the official said. Baker intends to give priority during his Moscow meetings to the proliferation of ballistic missiles and chemical weapons, which has alarmed the Bush administration.

Endara about 70 percent of the vote. A similar poll by pro-govern-ment parties gave their candidate the victory PANAMANIAN law requires election results to be made public within 24 hours after polls close. In 1984, in results widely believed to be fraudulent, the government waited three days before declaring itself the winner. As of Monday night elections officials said they had received tallies from three of Panama’s 40 regional vote collection Centers. Carter branded the results from all three as bogus. “This election was a terrible fraud on the Panamanian people,” said Rep. Larry Smith, R-Fla., a member of an uninvited observer delegation sent by Bush. “Polls opened late, peoples’ names were not on lists, dead peoples’ names were on lists after years of not appearing on lists.” THERE WERE widespread reports of soldiers entering regional vote-counting centers and taking official vote tabulations from area precincts. Tallies left behind indicated massive margins in favor of Endara. Duque denounced what he said was “obvious American intervention in affairs that concern only Panama and said the claims of stolen tallies were the stuff of a soap opera plot.” U.S.-Panama relations have been poor since February 1988, when Noriega orchestrated the ouster of President Eric Arturo Delvalle, and the CIA reportedly contributed $lO million to the opposition campaign.

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Exxon estimates oil spill will cost $95 million to clean up

':*» • ; ‘i L* Vis 'i * v'liftp ><tl rs VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) Exxon says it has spent more than $95 million to clean up the Alaska oil spill and could have contained much of the crude if authorities hadn’t blocked the early use of chemical dispersants. A top state official, however, accused Exxon of spreading a “fabrication,” and said the oil giant had not sought to employ dispersants. ALSO MONDAY, Gov. Steve Cowper signed a bill raising state taxes on the nation’s two largest oil fields, both on Alaska’s North Slope. He said the spill had helped make the hike possible. Exxon executives disclosed their cleanup costs at the end of a stormy two-day congressional subcommittee hearing in Valdez. The $95 million figure doesn’t include the cost of government operations or fishermen’s losses. The executives told the fivemember subcommittee of the House Interior Committee that they could have contained perhaps half of the spill had they been allowed to use powerful chemical disper-

sants soon after the accident. THEY SAID THE Coast Guard and the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation rejected their requests to use the chemicals widely. “We came to Alaska to use dispersants,” Exxon Shipping Co. President Frank larossi said. “I was pleading on my part to begin dispersal use ... we were very aggressive.” “We’re confident that had we obtained prompt permission to use the dispersant, the environmental damage would have been mitigated,” Exxon USA President Bill Stevens said. DENNIS KELSO, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, called Exxon’s account a “fabrication.” He said the state had pre-ap-proved the use of dispersants in parts of Prince William Sound before the March 24 spill. “Dispersants were not used extensively in the three days following the tanker accident because the winds and seas were too calm to provide the turbulence necessary to mix them with oil,” Kelso said in a statement. The day before, Kelso told the subcommittee that Exxon and Alyeska, which operates the transAlaska pipeline, spread “disinformation” by contending they sought to use dispersants. Kelso testified that Exxon did not request permission to use the chemicals. VICE ADM. Clyde Robbins, the Coast Guard’s No. 2 man in the

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spill zone, said Exxon and Alyeska did not urge the use of dispersants. Small-scale tests of the chemicals proved inconclusive. “Neither of them had the equipment on site to deal with it, either through mechanical means or chemical means,” he added. He also said a contingency plan at Alyeska was inadequate to deal with a major spill, but Stevens said the state earlier had endorsed the plan. The former captain of the vessel, Joseph Hazelwood, 42, is accused of operating the ship while intoxicated and faces trial June 20 in Valdez. COWPER SIGNED the new tax bill after the Senate approved it by 11-9. The bill will bring in $235 million in revenue next year and more than $2 billion during the next two decades based on current oil prices. Oil industry officials had argued that changing the tax formula ultimately will cost the state jobs and oil revenue. The cleanup continued in Prince William Sound, where the Exxon Valdez ran aground and spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude. Exxon said the worst of the oil will be cleaned off five islands in the sound by Wednesday, with 364 miles of beach to be cleaned by Sept. 15. The plan must be approved by Coast Guard Commandant Paul A. Yost Jr. The slick’s leading edge has reached Wide Bay, about 450 miles southwest of Valdez.

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