World View International 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 T ILLUSIONS— 1311 Lincoln. 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Applications at site or call 1 ■800-950-0885 Add S22 monthly lot parking intlde the building. RESERVE YOUR ROOM NOW! © @ 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.