world beat
Israel asks for
withdrawal aid
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel
said Xuesday that the
withdrawal of its troops from
Lebanon could provoke a wave
of violence, and appealed to the
United Nations and the Beirut
government to move into
vacated areas before fighting
starts.
“There is indeed a danger of
massacres in Lebanon,” Frime
Minister Shimon Peres told
high school students in the nor
thern town of Yoqnam. Peres
said that Israel wanted to avoid
bloodshed, but added, ‘‘I don’t
know if we will succeed.”
The Israeli Cabinet approved
a three-phase withdrawal plan
Monday. The withdrawal will
begin in five weeks.
Israeli troops have occupied
southern Lebanon since the
1982 invasion. Peres said Mon
day that the last Israeli troops
should leave “by the summer.”
But other sources said the
pullback may stretch into the
autumn.
Some Israeli officials said the
phased withdrawal could also
lead to a confrontation with
Damascus if Syrian forces in
eastern Lebanon move into
areas evacuated by Israel in the
second stage of the withdrawal.
Israeli troops will leave the
Mediterranean port city of
Sidon in the first stage of the
pullback, and Israelis feel Shiite
and Sunni Moslem militias as
well as Palestinians could fight
for control of the city.
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin met U.N. Undersecretary
General Brian Urquhart to
outline the withdrawal plan. He
also urged that U.N. peacekeep
ing forces and the Lebanese ar
my take control of areas Israel
evacuates.
The final phase of the plann
ed withdrawal will see Israel
retreat to its international
border, ending an occupation
that began with the June 6,
1982, invasion.
Report affirms
Hatfield probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
Senate Ethics Committee report,
released Tuesday, supports fin
dings released in October which
said “no credible information"
exists that Sen. Mark Hatfield of
Oregon was involved in a con
flict of interest over his wife’s
acceptance of $55,000 in real
estate fees from a Greek
businessman.
However, Justice Department
sources said a probe into Hat
field’s activities by the depart
ment’s criminal division is con
tinuing and has yet to reach
conclusions.
And the Ethics Committee
report discloses a conflict in
testimony over whether the
senator was offered the
presidency of a company pro
moting the building of a $10
billion oil pipeline across
Africa.
Reporting on the contents of
700 pages of private testimony
from 22 people, the report said
that “not one witness provided
evidence of any corrupt
behavior on the part of Sen.
Mark O. Hatfield.”
The report summarizes the
testimony of key witnesses, in
cluding four former associates
of Greek businessman Basil
Tsakos. The witnesses testified
they suspected that the
payments to Antoinette Hat
field. a Washington real estate
broker, were intended to in
fluence her husband and win
his support for a trans-African
oil pipeline — a pet Tsakos
project.
These witnesses also said
they knew of no work perform
ed by Hatfield for the Tsakoses
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that was worthy of $55,000 in
payments.
But the report also includes
testimony from associates of
Hatfield, who said she did con
siderable work for the Tsakoses
and deserved compensation.
The committee said that
testimony and documents show
that the relationship between
Antoinette Hatfield and the
Tsakoses began on a profes
sional plane and continued that
way, even though the two
women developed a personal
friendship.
“Documents and testimony
indicate that Mrs. Hatfield did,
in fact, perform real-estate
related services for Mr. and
Mrs. Tsakos in the period
1981-1984.” the report said.
Both Tsakos and Hatfield
were interviewed by Ethics
Committee staff, and their
statements provide at least one
conflict.
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report, said he never discussed
with Hatfield the prospect of the
senator’s becoming president of
the businessman’s Trans-Africa
Pipeline Co. (TAPCO).
The company was formed to
promote the building of a
pipeline to carry Middle Eastern
crude oil across sub-Saharan
Africa from the Red Sea to the
Atlantic Ocean, thus avoiding
the troubled Persian Gulf.
The committee report quoted
Tsakos as saying he would not
have initiated such a discussion
because it would have been
“unseemly” to offer a U.S.
Senator “a position of lesser
status.”
Other witnesses told the com
mittee that they had heard
Tsakos discuss such a
possibility.
And Hatfield said that in 1983
when there was public specula
tion over whether he would
seek re-election in 1984, Tsakos
did offer him the presidency of
the company.
“The senator testified that he
responded to the offer by reply
ing that if he decided not to run
for re-election, he would in
stead return to university life,”
the report said.
Hatfield told the committee
that his only interest in the
pipeline concept was his belief
that it would make a contribu
tion to regional peace — and
reduce U.S. military re
quirements — by reducing the
necessity to ship Middle
Eastern oil through the Persian
Gulf and the vulnerable Strait of
Hormuz.
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