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Mitterrand, Gorbachev sign pact to speed economic change in Soviet Union

RAMBOUILLET, France (AP) Presidents Francois Mitterrand and Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a cooperation agreement today pledging French assistance as the Soviet Union shifts to a market economy. The treaty also commits France to helping the Soviets arrange accords with the 12-nation European Community. THE TWO LEADERS signed the agreement at the chateau of Rambouillet, 35 mites southwest of Paris, following private talks on issues including the Persian Gulf crisis. Gorbachev arrived Sunday evening after a three-day visit to Spain, where he obtained $1.5 billion in guaranteed loans to help ease the Soviet Union’s move away from a centralized economy. The broad treaty signed by Mitterrand and Gorbachev followed the signing of five other, more specific accords by Cabinet ministers Sunday night ONE OF THESE provides for a $1 billion package of loans and credits from France. The other pacts address cooperation in industry and technology; between public enterprises; in work and social problems, and between scientific research institutes. In the main cooperation accord, France and the Soviet Union pledge to “reinforce

Joining EEC debated

Norwegien leaders quit over trade dispute

OSLO, Norway (AP) The country’s year-old coalition government resigned today after the uneasy center-right alliance split over how much Norway should open itself to trade with the European Economic Community. * Conservative Prime Minister Jan R Syse told Parliament that his government could not agree on the country’s position in talks between the EEC and the six-nation European Free Trade Association, of which Norway is a member. THE TALKS ARE TO center on the creation of a joint economic region. Syse had worked through the weekend, seeking common ground that would allow his coalition of the Conservative, Center and Christian Democratic parties to remain in power. But the anti-trade bloc Center Party, with strong support from the country’s subsidized farmers, rejected the idea of sweeping changings in Norwegian laws that protect domestic industry and resources. DURING TALKS ON the creation of the joint economic region, the European Community has pressed for changes in the Norwegian laws. The EEC claims the laws discriminate against foreigners. The Center Party, the governing coalition’s smallest member, wants continued border controls and some protection of domestic argriculture, fishing grounds and other resources. Syse’s government will remain in office until a new government is formed, which could take several days. NORWAY’S PARLIAMENT was divided into nearly equal blocs of socialist and non-socialist blocs after Sept 11, 1989 national elections, and news reports have said that the near deadlock has made both sides reluctant to govern. Anders Talleraas, the Conservative’s parliamentary leader, said the party has enouraged Syse to form a new single party government because of the small nonsocialist majority.

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European solidarity*’ and seek the creation of a European confederation. The agreement envisages regular political consultations between the two countries. It also provides for cooperation in energy, non-military nuclear science, transportation, highdefinition television and telecommunications. SOVIET FOREIGN Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who has accompanied Gorbachev on the trip, said on Sunday night that a visit to Baghdad by Moscow’s special Middle East envoy did not appear to have been fruitful.

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GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND Forming third government

“I am prepared to form a new government,” Syse said before delivering his government’s tormai resignation to Crown Prince Harald. Norway’s figurehead monarch, King Olav V, is recovering from a stroke. Syse would need backing from all four non-socialist parties. WITHOUT IT, HE will likely ask former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland to form her third Labor Party government since 1981. Her left-leaning party is the country’s largest. In addition to socialist allies, it would need backing from the Center Party to form a government. “It is still not clear how the new government will be made up,” Brundtland said in a television interview. She said Labor is “in a clear observer role, waiting to see what happens.” When the coalition agreed on a

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French diplomats will leave Kuwait; Soviets report no progess on peace

By the Associated Press France said today its diplomats have been ordered to quit their besieged embassy in Kuwait and return home with 300 French hostages being freed by Iraq. Daniel Bernard, Foreign Ministry spokesman in Paris, said the half-dozen diplomats would leave Kuwait with about 70 French citizens aboard an Iraqi Airways 747. The plane was to fly to Baghdad and pick up the remaining French hostages today before heading for Paris, he said. FRANCE, THE United States and Britain have been the only Western countries to maintain their embassies in Kuwait since Iraq seized the emirate Aug. 2. In August, Iraq cut off water and electricity to all embassies that defied its orders to close. The French mission will remain technically open, Bernard said. He confirmed that France will honor Iraq’s demand to fill the plane with medicine for the return flight. Medicine is excluded from the U.N. embargo of Iraq and occupied Kuwait IRAQI PRESIDENT Saddam Hussein is holding hundreds of foreigners as “human shields’’ at strategic sites in Iraq to deter possible attack. Although he has allowed selected groups of the thousands of foreigners to leave, many others are being denied exit visas. European Community leaders meeting in Rome pledged not to send representatives to try to win freedom for hostages held in Iraq and occupied Kuwait reasoning

joint platform and toppled Brundtland last year, the sensitive European Economic Community issue was left vague. THE PRO-EEC Conservatives had said they would not allow discord within the coalition to hamper talks. The conflict may have been aggravated last week when neighboring Sweden strongly hinted that it would seek EEC membership, prompting calls in Norway for both countries to join the community. Anne Enger Lahnstein of the Center Party said the issue was no longer the joint economic region negotiations, but a battle over EEC membership. NEWS REPORTS speculate that a purely Conservative government would probably be shortlived. The next government will be the Norway’s sixth since 1980. Leaders have expressed fears the country could suffer frequent government changes, due to the nearly deadlocked Parliament and no provision for calling new elections. Public disenchantment has increased due to tough austerity programs, intended to pull Norway’s oil dependent economy out of a four-year slump that has brought record unemployment. LABOR CONTROLS 81 seats in the 165-seat Parliament, including 63 of its own, 17 from the Socialist Left and one independent. The Conservatives have 37 seats, the Christian Democrats’ 14 and the Center’s 11. For a majority, the non-socialists would have to depend on the the right-wing Party of Progress, which soared from two to 22 seats in the last national election.

that to do so would only support Saddam’s efforts to try to divide the alliance arrayed against him. The decision followed a trip to Baghdad last week by former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, who met with Saddam and helped secure the release of more than 30 British hostages. SOVIET MIDDLE East troubleshooter Yevgeny Primakov met with Saddam in Baghdad on Sunday and was said to have made little progress in resolving the Persian Gulf crisis. Primakov went to Saudi Arabia today to brief King Fahd. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze suggested Saturday that Iraq may have softened its stand. But after Sunday’s talks between Primakov and Saddam, Shevardnadze said: “For the moment, there are not many reasons for optimism.” He did not elaborate. GORBACHEV and President Francois Mitterrand of France met in Paris on Sunday and discussed the gulf crisis. Saddam fired his oil minister, Issam Chalabi, and canceled gasoline rationing on Sunday, the official Iraqi News Agency announced. It said Chalabi was replaced by Saddam’s son-in-law, Hussein Kamel. When Iraq announced rationing on Tuesday, it blamed the UJM.-or-dered embargo on trade with Iraq. Iraq was not short of oil it now controls 20 percent of the world’s supply but was incorrectly deemed to be short of the chemical additives needed for

The Center Party was reportedly more willing to support a new socialist government than allow the Progressives, which was viewed as too extremist to be invited into the Conservative-led coalition.

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gasoline refining, ENA said. THE AGENCY SAID the Oil Ministry had underestimated the amount of additives necessary to refine crude oil into gasoline and other products. However, The New York Times, quoting diplomats in Baghdad, reported Saddam may have canceled the rationing because of complaints by Iraqi citizens. It reported earlier that Kuwaiti oil officials believed the rationing was a ruse by Iraq to get the world to think the sanctions were working and forestall a military offensive by

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the U.S.-led multinational force. President Bush said on Sunday the United States was not looking for war, but would not walk away from confrontation. “NO AMERICAN will be kept in the gulf a single day longer than necessary, but we will not walk away until our mission is done,” he said in Honolulu. The United States has sent 220,000 troops to Saudi Arabia and the gulf region to deter possible further aggression by Iraq, which has 460,000 troops deployed in southern Iraq and Kuwait

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