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THE BANNERGRAPHIC June 28,1990
Latin American debt plan hailed as long overdue
WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush’s proposal to forgive billions of dollars in debt owed by Latin American countries is being hailed as a long-overdue initiative that will help struggling democracies and boost U.S. standing in the world. The president laid out a package of proposals Wednesday to forgive part of the sl2 billion owed to the U.S. government by Latin American and Caribbean countries. Bush said some of the debt could be swapped to buy environmentally endangered land. IN ADDITION, he called for work to begin on a “hemispherewide free trade zone” and said the United States would work with other developed countries to channel up to S3OO million annually to Latin America to spur foreign investment The proposals represented an about-face for the administration. It had been resisting congressional calls for debt forgiveness on the ground it could open the floodgates for domestic demands from groups ranging from farmers to people with old student loans. The administration predicted that the Latin American debt concessions would have little trouble winning congressional approval. The initial reaction both at home and abroad was favorable. BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT Fernando Collor de Mello told Bush in a phone call that his proposal was “comprehensive, bold and innovative,” a Brazilian spokesman said.
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PRESIDENT BUSH Trade debt for environment Honduran President Rafael Callejas termed Bush’s proposals “encouraging news,” while a spokesman said Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari viewed Bush’s speech as a “very important redefinition of the U.S. position regarding economic development in Latin America.” John Reed, head of Citicorp, a large U.S. bank with about $8 billion in loans in Latin America, said he welcomed the initiative as a way to bring economic growth and prosperity back to Latin America. “THE PRESIDENT acknowledged that in this changed world the United States cannot forget Latin America,” said Reed. He said the proposal would meet some objections by commercial banks to the administration’s Third
More than 300 homes lost to wildfires in California
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) Wind-whipped wildfires, some caused by arson, destroyed more than 300 homes Wednesday in Southern California, officials said. One blaze destroyed 280 homes in Santa Barbara and Goleta alone, said Jan Bullard, spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department. “THE FIRE IS incredible. It came down from the mountains. It spread everywhere. It burned everything in its path,” said another sheriff’s spokesman, Tim Grasey. The fire also closed southbound lanes of Highway 101, a principal north-south California route, and
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World debt plan outlined last year by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady. Brady’s plan did not address debt owed to the United States and other governments, but rather offered incentives for commercial banks to write off a portion of their $1.3 trillion in Third World debt. Commercial banks had argued that they were being forced to shoulder the entire burden. C. FRED BERGSTEN, head of the Institute for International Economics, a Washington-based research organization, said the administration was recognizing that bolder foreign economic initiatives were needed for America to retain its leadership role in a post-Cold War world. “The United States really had been a laggard in debt forgiveness to other countries,” Bergsten said. “A realization may be setting in that the United States may be shut out in world leadership unless it takes a more forthright stance.” BRADY TOLD REPORTERS that the new initiative for Latin America could set a precedent for countries in other parts of the world, particularly Poland. That nation has been pressing Western countries to forgive part of its $39 billion foreign debt, most of it owed to governments, to bolster Poland’s struggling economic reforms. An administration official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said the issue of Polish debt was certain to be discussed at the July 9-11 economic summit in Houston.
burned a train trestle, forcing a Santa Barbara-to-San Diego Amtrak train to be held in Oxnard. The fire burned in the region where former President Reagan maintains his ranch, but it was not immediately known if the flames threatened the property. “I’VE NEVER SEEN anything like it,” said Brenda Rein, who watched from a shopping mall as the fire marched down a mountain. “The whole sky was just orange. I looked up and saw the moon through the smoke, kind of a werewolf moon.” The fire hit an area ravaged by a four-year drought, with water reserves at their lowest in memory. Fire also destroyed or damaged 32 homes in the hilly Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, said Fire Battalion Chief Chris Gray. More than a dozen of the $300,000-$700,000 houses burned to their foundations. Peter Reyes, 29, was arrested for investigation of arson, said Maria Sabol, a spokeswoman for Orange County Fire Department. AND A FIRE NEAR El Cerrito in Riverside County, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, destroyed 15 homes, said California Department of Forestry spokeswoman Jeaneen Gardner. She said no more homes were believed threatened. That blaze began when a U.S. Forest Service “control bum” to clear brush went out of control, Ms. Gardner said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) The Hubble Space Telescope is crippled by a focusing flaw that may have been caused by an undetected “prescription” error during the manufacture of polished mirrors aboard the $1.5 billion craft. NASA’s announcement of the problem Wednesday sent a shudder of disappointment through an astronomy community that has waited years for what were expected to be unprecedented views of the universe from the orbiting telescope. THE SPACE AGENCY SAID the focusing problem in the Hubble mirrors cannot be fixed from the ground and at least two of the five instruments aboard the spacecraft will be virtually useless until a repair mission is flown by the space shuttle. Plans call for such a mission in 1993, but the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it hopes to make the flight sooner. An official of the Danbury, Conn., company that made the mirrors said the flaw may have been caused by a human error in testing of the primary and secondary Hubble telescope mirrors as they were being ground and polished. “IT APPEARS THAT ONE of the elements may have been manufactured to a prescription that wouldn’t give you the desired result,” said Jack Rehnberg, chief of the space science office at the Hughes Danbury Optical Co. “It could have been a human error.” Rehnberg said the problem could be either in the primary or secondary mirror or the manner that the two work together. A NASA investigation, led by Lew Allen of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is expected to start this week. Hubble was placed in a 381-mile orbit on April 25 amid dazzling promises by NASA that the telescope could revolutionize the human concept of the universe. THE TELESCOPE, CIRCLING the Earth far above the obscuring effects of the atmosphere, was expected to be able to see objects such stars and
Drugs, sex, violence and Marion Barry
WASHINGTON (AP) Marion Barry slapped ex-model Rasheeda Moore to the floor after they smoked cocaine, and he appeared indifferent when she nearly passed out after a “big hit” of crack, she testified at the mayor’s drug and perjury trial. Moore said Wednesday that she and Barry used cocaine powder, crack and opium more than 100 times in 15 private homes, a restaurant and four hotels from 1986 to 1989. She said they were lovers during most of that time. MOORE DEPICTED Barry as a man whose life was so consumed by drugs that he had her deliver cocaine to him at the mayor’s office. They broke off their romance but continued to get together frequently to smoke crack, she said. Prosecutors were expected to use Moore’s testimony to introduce as evidence an FBI videotape made last Jan. 18 when Barry allegedly smoked crack cocaine while visiting Moore at a Washington hotel. She was cooperating in an undercover sting operation that led to his arrest that night. MOORE TESTIFIED Wednesday that at a home after one cracksmoking session, Barry “said he was addicted ... to cocaine.”
galaxies that are 25 times fainter than those seen by telescopes on the ground. For the first time, Hubble would permit humans to look up to 14 billion light years into space some 84 billion trillion miles. This could give a glimpse of objects as they were just a few billion years after the “big bang” that is thought to have started the universe. Instead, said NASA scientist Ed Weiler, images captured by the flawed Hubble now will be little better than what can be done by telescopes on Earth. “IT IS VERY DISAPPOINTING, extremely disappointing,” said Kim Leschly of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Many people were hoping to see new views of the universe. Now we’ll have to wait. That’s very, very disappointing,” said David Koo, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Hubble deputy project manager Jean Olivier said the misfocusing mirrors were discovered this week when engineers attempted to fine-tune the path of light between the primary and secondary mirrors. HE SAID THEY DISCOVERED “there was no single one point... with a crisp, clean image.” Additional testing showed that the problem was in the manufacture of the mirrors and that there was nothing that could be done from the ground to correct the flaw. Blaming the mirrors came as a surprise because NASA had touted Hubble’s 94-inch primary mirror as the smoothest large mirror ever made. BUT SOMEHOW, A MISTAKE was made, said Rehnberg of Hughes Danbury Optical. “We could have erred in the assembly of some of the test equipment and it didn’t get picked up even though we’ve had lots of reviews, and checks and rechecks,” he said. Weiler said the focusing problems means that a faint object camera, designed to detect objects not otherwise visible, will sec no better than instruments on the ground. And a wide field camera will be virtually useless, he said.
“He was tired, he wanted to quit” and had “started going to church,” she said. The mayor was “talking about getting his spiritual life together.” Barry, 54, has pleaded innocent to 10 misdemeanor cocaine-posses-sion charges, one misdemeanor cocaine conspiracy charge, and three felony charges of lying to a grand jury about his alleged drug use. One possession charge stems from the night of his arrest. THE THREE-TERM mayor stared intently Wednesday as the 39-year-old Moore described their relationship. Barry’s wife, Effi, sat in the front row of the spectator section, her face growing grim as the day wore on. Moore said that at Barry’s request one day in 1988, she bought S4O worth of crack and carried it in a bag to his office. At the mayor’s suggestion, the two smoked crack at Barry’s home, she said, and also smoked crack at her mother’s home on Mother’s Day. ON ANOTHER occasion, she said, Barry nearly passed out in the basement of her mother’s home after taking what he later described to her as “a really great hit.” During city budget briefings in 1988, Moore said, Barry passed her
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money to buy cocaine. She testified that she left, bought the drugs, returned to the municipal building and “waited for the mayor to finish his budget hearings” so that the two could “go out and use the crack.” She said Barry became violent after one session in a hotel room where they smoked crack through a homemade pipe. The mayor accused her of having a relationship with another man and “slapped me,” Moore said. SHE RETURNED THE slap, she said, but “ended up on the floor” when Barry slapped her again. Another time, Moore said she started to pass out after “I took a big hit” during a crack-smoking spree with the mayor in the bathroom of a church leader’s home. She said she cried out “Marion, Marion, (but) ... all of a sudden he turned the light off” and wandered out of the bathroom while she stood there in front of the mirror. She recovered her senses and followed Barry, who “was moving very slowly.” Moore said she asked him why he turned off the light, and he replied, “I couldn’t do anything, there was nothing I could do.”