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Troop cuts promised
BEIJING JAP) — Soviet Presi
dent Mikhail Gorbachev on
Wednesday promised Soviet
troop reductions in the Far East
and urged that the tense Chi
nese-Soviet frontier be turned
into a "border of peace."
Gorbachev, in a speech to
Chinese academics in the Great
Hall of the People, also called
for a collective security net
work in Asia, saying an
“allAsia process" was needed
for solving regional conflicts.
The Soviet leader, in Belling
for the first Chinese-Soviet
summit in 30 years, stressed
the importance of detente tie
tween the Soviet Union and
China and said Moscow was
taking unilateral actions to re
duce tensions on the inirder.
He said Soviet troops de
ployed in Asia would be re
duced by 200.000 in 1989 and
1990. figures he announced last
December as part of Moscow's
overall troop cutbacks.
He also specified the troop
reductions would include
120.000 in the Soviet Far East
bordering China, and that
ground forces are to l>e cut by
12 divisions
He said 11 air force regi
ments will be disbanded and 16
battleships will be removed
from the Pacific Fleet
On Tuesday, the leaders of
the world's biggest Communist
countries agreed to resume
friendly ties after three decades
of hostility, and they indicated
they would work to dismantle
the central controls over their
economies.
Deaths probed
COLOMBO. Sri Lanka (API
— Sri (.ankan and Indian secu
rity forces are responsible for
the disappoaranees of scores of
opponents, some of whom were
tortured to death. Amnesty In
ternational said.
Indian and Sri I .ankan offi
cials in Colombo declined com
ment Tuesday on the report,
dated May 1989. In New Delhi.
Indian Foreign Ministry offi
cials said they were waiting to
sec a copy of the 45-page report
before commenting
In the report, the Lon
donbased human rights organi
zation expresses concern about
arbitrary arrests and detentions
without charge or trial, torture
of suspected rebels, deaths in
custody and disappearances of
suspects.
Amnesty issued a similar re
port a year ago.
The report says 7HO people
have disappeared in Sri lanka
since emergency regulations
were imposed in 1983. when
militants from the Tamil minor
ity began fighting for a separate
homeland. Eighty-three of them
vanished after India and Sri
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lanka signed a 1<»B7 peace
agreement to end the insurgen
cy, it says
Amnesty International says
both Indian and Sri l-ankan se
curity forces deny knowledge
of the arTests of those who dis
appeared In some cases, it
says, security forces claim they
released missing suspects.
"Several people have died in
custody both in the north and
the south. Amnesty Interna
tional believes as a result of tor
ture." says the report
Peace plan signed
LISBON. Portugal (AP)
The leaders of eight African na
tions on Tuesday signed an An
golan government pence plan
aimed at ending the country's
14-year civil war. the news
agency Lusa reported.
After a one-day summit in
Luanda. Angola's capital, the
leaders supported the peace
plan by President lose Eduardo
dos Santos, the Portuguese
agency said
Dos Santos did not disclose
details of the plan other than to
say it includes a "peace zone"
along the Benguela railroad,
Lusa reported.
The railroad running through
central Angola is an important
route to the Atlantic Ocean for
landlocked Zaire, Zambia and
Zimbabwe, but reliel attacks
have paralyzed much of the
track.
ANGOP. the Angolan news
agency, said most of the Afri
can leaders support an "Afri
can solution" proposed by the
Angolan government that
would allow rebels to integrate
into society through a govern
ment amnesty.
Dos Santos has refused to ne
gotiate with |onas Savimbi's re
iiel National Union for the To
tal Independence of Angola
and savs any solution must ac
cept one-party rule by his Pop
ular Movement for the Libera
tion of Angola, a Marxist party
The rebels have rejected the
amnesty and demand negoti
ations leading to power-sharing
in the former Portuguese colo
ny.
National
Evacuations offered
WASHINGTON (API The
United States stepped up ef
forts Tuesday to safeguard rela
tives of U.S. military personnel
in Panama, offering immediate
evacuations for any of the
14,0(H) military dependents
who may want to leave that
troubled country.
The Defense Department de
scribed the escalated effort as a
cautionary move in light of re
cent election-related violence
and sought to avoid creating
the impression that there was
any need for panic.
Hut Pentagon officials said
that while the program is vol
untary. some relatives ultimate
ly might Im> ordered home de
spite their wishes.
The first group of 270 Ameri
can evacuees, including State
Department and military fami
lies, arrived 10:45 p.m. Tues
day in Charleston. S.C., on a
chartered commercial airliner
Others will lx* transported on
the military cargo planes that
have been ferrying extra tnxips
to Panama.
The first group of tired-look
ing passengers, several of them
:arrying infants and small chit*
Iren. entered the terminal in
charleston about 10 minutes la
er to begin clearance through
:ustoms
There are about 14.000 mili
ary dependents in Panama,
nost of them already on U S.
nilitary bases The primary ob
ect* of the evacuation effort are
he roughlv 3.KM) Americans
vho have been living in Pana
nanian neighborhoods outside
J.S. military bases, but any of
he dependents may leave if
hey wish
Gang identified
ROCHESTER. N Y (AP) A
loose-knit gang of teen-agers
From affluent families may have
seen responsible for as many as
wo dozen "sav bashing" st
acks in a city park since last
iummer. police said Tuesday.
The youths, calling them
ielves the Buffalo Rochester
\ryan Skinheads. or
B.R.A.S.H., live with their par
mts in expensive suburbs or
wealthy sections of the city, au
horitles said.
They're also apparently
aroud of their group. Deputy
Police Chief Terrence Rickard
said Tuesday.
"We didn't even know this
4 roup existed until we arrested
hem and they told us who they
were." Rickard said "The oth
ers who made the arrests were
tmazed and disgusted at what
hey were saying.”
He said he knew that skin
read groups had l>een causing
rouble on the West Coast, but
,vas very surprised to find one
n Rochester.
Police discovered the group
when undercover officers inter
•upteil an attack Friday night at
highland Park. Eight toen
igers. ranging in age from Hi to
19. were arrested and charged
with beating Kenneth Bailey.
JO, of Rochester
The alleged attackers were
ailed over the weekend. Seven
were released on $250 bail
Vtonday. and the other was re
eased on his own recogni
sance.
Each was charged with three
Felonies — second-degree rob
>ery. second-degree assault and
fourth-degree grand larceny —
tnd could face up to five to 15
years in jail if convicted.
Funding restored
WASHINGTON (AP) - HUD
secretary Jack Kemp said Tues
day he would restore funding
x'ginning |une 1 to a subsi
tized low-income housing pro
gram he canceled last month.
Testifying for the second day
jefore the Senate Appropria
ting subcommittee on HUD
ind independent agencies,
Kemp also said the Department
>f Housing and Urban Develop
ment would issue new guide
iines to ensure competitiveness
ind more equitable distribution
>f funds in the scandal-plagued
moderate rehabilitation pro
gram.
"I’ve asked my general coun
sel to prepare for the Federal
Register by |une 1 the notifica
ion of fund availability,” said
kemp. "We want to make sure
hat the good guys ... are not
squeezed out of the system by
political influence.”
kemp suspended the Section
■i Moderate Rehabilitation pro
gram on April 2Vi after an audit
:>y the HUD inspector general
revealed several former HUD
and other government officials
were consultants to public
housing authorities obtaining
grants to renovate and repair
subsidized housing for low-in
come families
The consultants charged the
housing authority or developer
between $500 and $1,500 per
unit, in many cases for doing
little more than placing phone
calls or writing to former gov
ernment colleagues
The inspector general's audit
also showed many states re
ceived more than their allotted
"fair share" of the grants while
those most in need were short
changed
Regional
Senate OKs land bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Senate Selec t Committee on In
dian Affairs on Tuesday unani
mously approved the Puyallup
Indian land settlement bill.
The bill now has cleared pre
liminary legislative hurdles in
both the House and the Senate.
It still must be considered by
the full House and Senate.
The federal government is
being asked to approve a $77
million contribution to the
$lf>2 million settlement pack
age.
The settlement, approved by
the Puyallup Tribe last sum
mer. provides the tribe with a
range of payments in cash and
land including $20.()()() to
each of the 1.400 tribal mem
bers. ll also provides for the
possibility of significant eco
nomic development that prom
ises the tribe a more prosperous
future. In return, the tribe relin
quishes its moral and legal
claims to thousands of acres of
land in Tacoma and Pierce
County. Wash . including
prime waterfront owned by the
Port of Tacoma.
The other jurisdictions in
volved — Tacoma, Fife and
Pierce County — have already
agreed to pay their combined
$52 million share of the settle
ment. Additional money is
coming from the Port of Taco
ma. and Gov. Booth Gardner
has signed a bill that authorizes
the state to fund its $21 million
share.
Gas tax progresses
SACRAMENTO (AF) — A
proposal to double California's
9-cents-per gallon gasoline tax
over the next five years
squeaked through its first legis
lative hearing Tuesday.
The measure, a constitutional
amendment by Sen. William
Campbell. R-City of Industry, is
generally patterned after a plan
which Gov. George Deukmejian
unveiled, but refused to per
sonally endorse.
The Republican governor de
scribed the proposal as the con
sensus of a blue ribbon panel
which he convened to recom
mend solutions to California's
rapidly increasing highway
congestion and said it should
be submitted to voters.
Campbell’s amendment,
SCA7. would also increase
truck weight fees by 30 percent
and exclude all of the new rev
enue — estimated at $15 billion
over the next decade — from
the state's constitutional spend
ing limit.