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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 20,1990

Noriega’s legal counsel told to get case moving

MIAMI (AP) Manuel Noriega’s defense team must be ready to bring his drug-trafficking case to trial soon or the ousted Panamanian leader could be looking for new lawyers, a federal judge said. “I’m going to have to set a date, and say you’re in or you’re out,” U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler warned lead defense attorney Frank Rubino on Friday. Noriega’s trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 28, but wrangling over legal fees, the threat of a new indictment, a pending civil lawsuit and the fate of Noriega’s 15 codefendants have bogged it down. Hoeveler acknowledged he may have to delay the proceedings. MEANWHILE, the New York newspaper Newsday reported

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Friday that Noriega has made coded telephone calls through Rubino’s office to contacts in Panama attempting to organize the overthrow of President Guillermo Endara. Quoting sources it did not identify, Newsday said U.S. investigators have broken the code used in the phone calls and turned the transcripts over to Panamanian authorities. RUBINO SAID HE does not know the content of Noriega’s telephone conversations, which are monitored by the government as are the calls of other prisoners. The lawyer said lack of money has kept him from beginning the investigative phase of Noriega’s defense.

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Quake jolts Iran’s south NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) A moderate earthquake shook Iran’s southeastern Kerman province early today, but caused no damage or injuries, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The quake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale, according to the report, monitored in Nicosia. The temblor’s epicenter was 500 miles southeast of Tehran. Iran is still cleaning up from a severe earthquake in northwest Iran in June that killed 40,000 people. That temblor measured 7.3 on the Richter scale.

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22,000 hot meals a day for U.S. Marines in the desert. Presently, the number of U.S. troops deployed to the Mideast has topped the 200,000 mark. (AP Wirephoto).

Canada pulls out Kuwait embassy

By The Associated Press Iraq’s nearly two-month-old effort to starve diplomats out of Kuwait has claimed another embassy, leaving only the U.S., British and French compounds as the last Western holdouts besieged by Iraqi troops. Canada Friday pulled out the remaining personnel from its embassy in Kuwait, where diplomats have resorted to burning furniture for cooking stockpiled food and boiling swimming pool water for drinking. ALSO FRIDAY U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney arrived in France, whose troops have joined American Gls in the Saudi desert. Cheney scheduled a news conference at midday Saturday with his French counterpart, Jean-Pierre Chevenement Despite polls showing Americans overwhelmingly support the U.S. deployment of more than 200,000 soldiers in the gulf region, opponents of the buildup planned protests today in at least 15 major U.S. cities. Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath was to fly to Baghdad to appeal for the release of some 70 sick and elderly Britons held in Iraq since it invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2. OIL PRICES SLID Friday to less than $34 a barrel down $3 in part due to hints that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein may be willing to negotiate an end to the 12-week-old occupation of Kuwait. Prices have topped S4O, double since the crisis began, posing inflationary and recessionary pressures on the U.S. and other economies. \

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Iraq’s deputy prime minister, Taha Yassin Ramadan, said Thursday in Amman, Jordan, that peace talks could be in the offing. But in Washington, President Bush said he saw no chance for compromise in the Persian Gulf. BUSH MET WITH a Soviet envoy, Yevgeny Primakov, who said he agreed that the world should not relax its insistence on an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. An estimated 430,000 Iraqi troops are deployed in Kuwait and southern Iraq. A U.N. embargo has forced Iraq to ration food, and Baghdad says it will begin rationing gasoline Tuesday to save on imported refinery chemicals that arc in short supply. MEANWHILE, in other developments: —Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will travel to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to consult with U.S. and Saudi officials. —The Pentagon said Friday it is shipping several hundred of its best tanks the Ml-Al from Europe to Saudi Arabia. The announcement did not give a specific number, but it appeared the total was 300 to 400 and would bring total U.S. tank strength to nearly 1,000. That compares with the 3,500 Iraqi tanks the Pentagon says are deployed in Kuwait and southern Iraq. —U.S. military officials in Saudi Arabia said there had been 2,500 interceptions, 240 boardings and 11 “diversions” of commercial ships since the embargo against Baghdad was imposed.

Battle due over bill’s tax focus WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats are unsure whether they . can force President Bush to accept higher tax rates on the richest Americans, but gasoline levies seem certain to rise as lawmakers fashion a compromise budget. For Democrats, the start of House-Senate bargaining Friday over the final shape of a $250 billion deficit-reduction bill meant a chance to foist more of its burden . onto the wealthy. For Republicans, the goal was to prevent higher in-come-tax rates and ensure cuts in spending. Bush has threatened repeatedly to veto Democratic attempts to boost the 28 percent tax rate the richest Americans pay to 33 percent He visited Capitol Hill Friday and urged congressional leaders to send him a compromise quickly. “I DON’T KNOW WHY we have to go through a process of producing a bill that will not be signed,” said Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, ranking Republican on the Budget Committee. Democrats said it was only fair to spread the pain of deficit-reduc-tion according to taxpayers’ ability, to pay. But they seemed willing to compromise. “I hope it’s possible to assemble a revenue package that gives a just - share of that burden to the wealthiest among us, but does so without violating the president’s; principles,” said Senate Budget Chairman James Sasser, D-Tenn. ' THE APPROACH of Election Day barely two weeks off was clearly raising pressure on the lawmakers to come up with a compromise. But another source of strain was : eased when Bush signed an emer-' gency bill keeping the government in business through Wednesday. The president had earlier threatened to shut the government down this morning when its financing would have expired unless Congress’ budget work was finished. With that distraction aside, lawmakers began seeking middle ground between the Senate’s' moderate budget and the more liberal version the House adopted earlier last week. “THIS IS GOING to have to be carefully drawn,” said Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan. Their daunting job was sym-; bolized by the legislation itself: a half-foot stack of paper weighing 13 pounds. Republicans rallied around the Senate plan, which doubles the 9-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax, limits deductions for people earning more than SIOO,OOO annually and boosts out-of-pocket costs for Medicare recipients. “This is a balanced bill,” said Domenici. “It is progressive.” BUT HOUSE Speaker Thomas Foley said Democrats wanted the Senate to moderate its gasoline tax increase and its steeper increases in out-of-pocket Medicare costs for beneficiaries. He also noted that Democrats remain behind the House bill’s higher taxes on the rich. Besides the higher income-tax rate for wealthy Americans, it puts a 10 percent surtax on people earning $1 million annually. Republicans strongly oppose a House provision that would, in effect, cause slight income-tax increases on most Americans. It would delay for one year the inflation adjustment made in tax brackets and the personal exemption. Democrats have said that provi-. sion is likely to be altered or. eliminated. BOTH THE HOUSE and Senate bills would increase taxes, on tobacco, alcohol, airline tickets and luxury items such as private planes.

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