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Sanctions linked to Nicaraguan-Soviet ties
WASHINGTON (AP) - The State
Department said Wednesday that the
economic sanctions imposed against
Nicaragua were the result of the
“cumulative effect” of recent
Nicaraguan steps to bolster its military
ties to the Soviet bloc and to export its
revolution.
And in Managua, Bayardo Arce, one of
the nine members of the ruling San
dinista directorate, said Reagan ad
ministration officials "want us to yield
Cost-of-living
increases saved
in Senate vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate voted 65-34 Wednesday
to restore full Social Security
cost-of-living increases to the
1986 budget.
In doing so, the body brushed
aside warnings that the move
was a "wrecker” that would
begin unraveling a multi-billion
dollar package of spending cuts
endorsed by President Ronald
Reagan.
"I think equity dictates we
find another way to cut
deficits,’’ said Sen. Alfonse
D’Amato. R-N.Y.
Both parties tried to take
credit for the cost-of-living vote.
"If we had truth in labeling in
the Senate, it would bear a
Democratic label,” said party
whip Alan Cranston of Califor
nia, who added that Reagan has
"broken his promise not to
touch Social Security.”
The vote stripped a GOP
package of spending cuts of its
single largest domestic savings
— $3 billion in 1986 and $22.7
billion over three years from
curtailing annual Social Securi
ty cost of living increases.
Accused Nazi
faces extradition
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An
ailing immigrant accused of be
ing a Nazi war criminal was
ordered extradited to his native
Yugoslavia on Wednesday on
up to 7,000 murder charges.
Andrija Artukovic, 85,
onetime interior minister for the
Nazi puppet state of Croatia,
originally had been ordered ex
tradited for just one murder. But
U.S. Magistrate Volney Brown
amended his order Wednesday
to include 6,000 to 7,000
murders after Yugoslavian of
ficials submitted additional
documents.
Brown said Artukovic may
stay in the United States pend
ing appeal. He ordered the
federal prison hospital in
Springfield, Mo., to allow
Artukovic’s wife Anna and son
Rad to visit him up to eight
times a month.
Artukovic, of Seal Beach, has
battled extradition for nearly 40
years. The Yugoslavian govern
ment has said he was responsi
ble for the deaths of some
700,000 Jews, Gypsies and
Serbs. Artukovic maintains he
is innocent.
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The main element of the sanctions,
ordered Wednesday by President Ronald
Reagan, was a total trade embargo
against Nicaragua.
Officials suggested privately that the
measure may not have much impact.
U.S. corporations with foreign-based
subsidiaries will not be affected by the
embargo. In addition, there was no in
diction that foreign countries which do
business with Nicaragua were prepared
to follow the U.S. lead and apply sanc
tions of their own.
An official U.S. statement said the
measures should be seen as “un
mistakable evidence that we take
seriously the obligation to protect our
security interests and those of our
friends.”
At a State Department briefing,
Langhome Motley, assistant secretary of
state for inter-American affairs, said the
administration acted because of what he
described as a disturbing pattern of
Nicaraguan behavior.
He cited new Nicaraguan ties with the
Soviet Union, reflected in the recent visit
to Moscow of President Daniel Ortega,
the apprehension of seven Nicaraguan
agents in Honduras, the shipment of ad
ditional Soviet helicopters to Nicaragua
and the delivery of East German military
trucks and motorcycles.
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