2The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, February 14, 1989
World and Nation
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From Associated Press reports
BONN, West Germany U.S.
Secretary of State James A. Baker
III said Monday that West Germany
still supports a project to upgrade
missiles, but he appeared to soften
U.S. demands that NATO endorse
the plan this spring.
Baker said he and Chancellor
Helmut Kohl agreed at a "very, very
friendly" talk Monday to negotiate
differences over the NATO plan to
develop, produce and deploy new
nuclear missiles to replace aging
shorter-range rockets.
Kohl suggested earlier Monday
that allies could give a green light to
producing the new rockets while
delaying a vote on whether to deploy
them.
" The chancellor also said publicly
for the first time that West Germany
wants a disarmament mandate built
into NATO strategy that would
scuttle deployment plans if progress
Japanese executives arrested for
From Associated Press reports
TOKYO Prosecutors on Mon
day made the first arrests directly
involving the stock transactions that
have scandalized the government of
Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.
Japanese citizens waited to see
what prosecutors would do next,
since dozens of politicians, business
men and journalists were among
those who bought bargain-priced
stock unavailable to the public, and
then profited handsomely when
public sales began and prices soared.
Among the four arrested was
Hiromasa Ezoe, founder and former
chairman of Recruit Co., the infor
mation conglomerate at the center of
the scandal.
Ezoe and Hiroshi Kobayashi, vice
president of First Finance, a Recruit
subsidiary that financed the stock
sales, were held on suspicion of
offering bribes in return for favors
related to Recruit's business activities.
Also arrested were Ei Shikiba and
Hisahiko Hasegawa, former directors
of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone,
Japan's largest company, for
allegedly receiving bribes from
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has been made on reducing the Soviet
advantage in conventional weapons.
Modernization was the main topic
of Monday's talks, and Baker said
he was assured that West Germany
has not changed its commitment to
the project.
"This was not a decision-taking
meeting," Baker said. "That is not
what we are here for. It did, I hope,
clear up some of the confusion." ;
The new U.S. secretary said his
meeting with Kohl and Foreign
Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher
also covered what steps West Ger
many has taken to tighten export
controls following U.S. complaints
that West German firms helped Libya
build a poison gas plant.
Baker said Kohl told him "in no
uncertain terms" that he plans to
work out through further negotia
tions the Bonn government's differ
ences with Washington over what is
referred to as modernization of aging,
Recruit in the form of bargain shares.
Both have said they did not provide
any favors for Recruit.
Recruit and NTT said in state
ments that they regretted the prosec
utors' actions.
Takeshita told reporters Monday
he hoped for a full investigation into
the scandal but refused to comment
further. A Takeshita aide and relative
have been linked to the stock
purchases.
The Japan Socialist Party credited
public disgust with the scandal for
its victory in a special parliamentary
election Sunday, and it demanded
that Takeshita resign or call new
general elections.
Replying in Parliament, Takeshita
dismissed the demands. He said he
"humbly accepted" the election
results and that his governing Liberal
Democratic Party will work for
reforms to restore public trust in
politics.
In making the arrests, prosecutors
said the Supreme Court ruled in July
that the sale of stock whose price was
sure to rise and which could not be
easily purchased by the general public
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U.S.-built Lance missiles.
The Lance system includes 88
launchers and about 700 missiles with
a range of 75 miles. It is scheduled ,
for replacement after 1995 with
rockets capable of reaching targets
320 miles away. Seventy-six
launchers are in West Germany, and
the remainder are deployed in Italy.
Before meeting Baker, Kohl re
stated to reporters his desire that the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
delay approving the missile replace
ment project until 1991 or 1992.
By then, he said, a Soviet reduction
of conventional arms could take place
that would allow negotiations on the
short-range missiles for eventual
removal of all nuclear weapons from
Europe.
"Before we lock ourselves in on this
issue at the NATO conference, we
and the Americans need to clear up
our positions," Kohl said.
In a statement issued after his talks
amounted to bribery.
Japanese law provides for up to
five years in prison for receivers of
bribes, and up to three years for those
who offer bribes.
The scandal surfaced last summer,
raising questions of ethics and money
links between business and
politicians.
The only previous arrest had been
of a Recruit official accused of trying
to bribe an opposition member of
Parliament to soft-pedal an investi
gation into the affair.
Takeshita formed a new Cabinet
last December to put the scandal
behind him, but two ministers soon
were forced to resign after it was
disclosed they had continued receiv
ing political donations from Recruit.
In all, three Cabinet ministers and
Soviet troops withdrawf romm Afghanistan
From Associated Press reports
KABUL, Afghanistan The Red
Army said farewell to Kabul in a
ceremony at the frigid airport Mon
day, then paratroopers in fur hats and
padded uniforms decorated with
Afghan medals climbed into a jet
transport and were flown away.
Some Soviet soldiers remained, but
officials said they would be gone by
Wednesday, the deadline for the
Kremlin to have all its forces out of
a civil war it entered more than nine
years ago.
In Islamabad, Afghan guerrillas
briefly resumed a Moslem council
Monday that was called originally to
choose an interim government, but
two important leaders did not attend
and spokesmen said factional quar
rels about power sharing continued.
The guerrillas, who began fighting
after a Communist coup in April
1978, predict the Marxist government
in Kabul will fall soon after the Red
Army completes its withdrawal under
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with Baker, Kohl said he reaffirmed
Bonn's willingness to define general
defense policies at the next NATO
summit, but he did not make clear
whether that would include support
for modernization.
Baker, asked if Kohl agreed to go
along with a NATO endorsement of
the missile project at this spring's
alliance summit, said the timeframe
was among subjects open to
negotiation.
"It is preferable, in our view, if a
decision could be made at the next
summit," Baker said.
U.S. officials who attended a
NATO defense strategy session last
month demanded that West Germany
fall in with the rest of the alliance
on the modernization plan.
Baker's six-day, 15-nation tour of
alliance countries produced some
signs of reluctance among other
member states.
stock sales
more than a dozen politicians and
businessmen have resigned because of
trie scandal.
In Sunday's special election, the
Japan Socialist Party won the upper
house seat of a Liberal Democrat who
died in December. The election in
Fukuoka in southern Japan was the
first for a national office since the
scandal surfaced.
Takako Doi, the Socialists' chair
woman, said in Parliament Monday
that Takeshita should resign.
"Either the entire Cabinet must
resign, or the prime minister must
dissolve Parliament so the people can
express their will," Doi said.
A dissolution of Parliament would
force elections in the powerful lower
house, where the Liberal Democrats
have more than 300 of the 512 seats.
a U.N.-mediated agreement.
Soviet soldiers entered the country
in December 1979 and totaled an
estimated 115,000 when the withdra
wal began May 15.
At an airport ceremony Monday
to which 150 foreign journalists were
invited, Lt. Col. Pytor Sardarchuk
praised 15 young paratroopers who
stood in front of their Antonov-12
transport plane.
"We have helped Afghanistan
create order and provided economic
supplies and other goods," he said.
"Now you are leaving Afghan soil,
and I want to say thank you very
much for your service and to wish
you all the best, happiness and health
and a safe return home."
At least one departing soldier, a
20-year-old, s questioned the
accomplishments.
"I think it could have been done
peacefully," he said in answer to a
question as he boarded the plane,
Library
decline in purchasing power, said
University Bibliographer John
Shipman.
According to ttje annual report of
the Administrative Board of the
Library, which will be presented at
the Feb. 24 Faculty Council meeting,
the library lost about $800,000 in
purchasing power between 1986 and
1988. The library will lose more
purchasing power this year, the report
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Moslems wounded in protest
over banned religious book
From Associated Press reports
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Moslem students marched in
several cities Monday against a
book fundamentalists say blas
phemes Islam. Their rallies
occurred the day after police fired
on protesters in Islamabad, killing
five and wounding 83.
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
said the protest Sunday may have
been the work of politicians using
Moslem objections to Salman
Rushdie's novel "The Satanic
Verses" as an excuse to press their
opposition to her government and
democracy.
In India on Monday, police
fired into a crowd protesting the
book in Srinagar, summer capital
of northern Jammu-Kashmir
state, killing one person and
wounding more , than 60, news
reports said.
Farmers riot in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea Thou
sands of militant farmers burned
cars and hurled firebombs at riot
police in Seoul on Monday, pro
testing what- they called the
government's disastrous agricultu
ral policy.
Police fired tear gas to end the
two-hour protest by an estimated
15,000 farmers who gathered in
front of the National Assembly,
which opened a special 20-day
session Monday.
The South Korean news agency,
Yonhap, said at least 15 farmers
and seven riot police were injured.
Six cars were set ablaze and two
others were smashed with sticks,
it said.
Police said 25 protesters were
arrested.
Fighting erupted when thou-
which took off for Tashkent. He said
he thought Soviet intervention "was
all a big mistake."
Paratroopers waved through the
windows as the plane taxied down
the runway and took off. It climbed
in a tight spiral because of the
surrounding mountains and spouted
BSM
thought being recognized by the
University meant the group was
already recognized by congress.
"If they (the appeals committee)
say, 'Tell us where the congress went
wrong,' well, I'm not sure congress
was wrong," she said
I just didn't
think it was very clear
If an appeal is denied, a group's
most likely move would be to wait
until the fall and try to get subsequent
funding from the congress.
The appeals committee consists of
the speaker, the rules and judiciary
committee chairman, the student
says. Shipman said he would not be
able to determine the added loss until
later in the spring. '
The average yearly increase in the
price of serials the library subscribes
to is 9 percent to 10 percent, he said.
A random survey of library acqui
sition files done in December 1988
showed that 47 percent of the serials
the library subscribes to and 48
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sands of farmers tried to march
into the Assembly compound after
a rally, during which they accused
the government of pushing . an
"impoverished" agricultural
policy.
North lawyers map defense
WASHINGTON Former
President Reagan "participated
personally and directly" in giving
favored treatment to countries
that supported the Contras in
Nicaragua, lawyers for Oliver
North said in a court filing aimed
at having charges against their
client dropped.
North attorney Brendan Sulli
van, opposing a compromise
between the independent counsel
and the Justice Department, said
in court papers released Monday
that the proposed deal on keeping
certain secrets out of the trial
would prevent him from introduc
ing this evidence which he said was
central to North's defense.
He also criticized Attorney
General Richard Thornburgh for
declining "to take the political
heat" and make a separate secrets
protecting move that could lead
to charges being thrown out.
Sullivan said, "At the heart of
this case are the quid pro quo and
other third-country arrangements
with which the Reagan adminis
tration obtained military support
for the resistance during the so
called Boland Amendments, and
the policy that those third-country
arrangements would not be dis
closed outside a limited group of
executive branch officials."
flares to deflect any heat-seeking-missiles
guerrillas in the mountains -might
fire.
Sardarchuk would not say how r
many soldiers remained in Kabul -after
Monday's ceremony, which had
been billed as the departure of the .
last Red Army troopers.
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affairs committee chairwoman, the
ethics chairman and a congress,
member selected by the speaker pro
tern.
The appeals are supposed to be
heard after the finance committee
meetings and before the meeting of
the whole congress, but Riemann said
he would hear appeals before the
finance meetings if the groups
requested it.
The finance committee budget
hearings will begin Feb. 23 and the
full congress budget hearings will be
held March 4.
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percent of the books it buys come
from overseas, Shipman said.
According to the board's report,,
the increase in the percentage of the.;
budget taken up by serials, from 29.4
percent in 1985-86 to 43 percent in
1988-89, is also caused by high prices; ;
charged by some publishers.
This year, the library is paying
$7,055 for a subscription to the.
Journal of Physics, which cost $2,450 ;
a year in 1980, the report says.
The library is asking all depart-;-,
ments to look at possible serial
cancellations if there is not enough ,
money to cover the costs of subscrip
tion increases, Shipman said. Each
department should submit by May 1
a list of subscriptions it could cut,
which should total to 10 percent of -its
subscription budget.
If departments cut subscriptions .
before May 1, they can get back half
of the subscription cost and put it.,
toward subscriptions next fall, Ship-;,
man said. If the lists submitted need .
to be cut, "anything cancelled after.
May 1 would get nothing back," he .
said. "There will be no return for the
cancelled lists. We're encouraging
people to move to cancel now before
more drastic moves have to be taken.".
Shipman could not say whether the
library would order any new period
icals. "That's totally dependent on the
legislature," he said., "The most
important concern at the moment is
to cover the costs of existing serials."
As for new subscriptions, "that's
way at the end of the tunnel," he said. .
For the Record
In Monday's story, "Campus can
didates plagued by vandalism of .
posters," the DTH incorrectly
reported that campaign posters must
be stamped by area directors before
they can be posted in residence halls.
Area directors do not have to approve
campaign posters, which can only be
posted on residence hall public use
boards.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the:-;
error. '