2The Daily Tar Heel Friday, March 3, 1989
World .and Natioii
Witaess: North led Comtra mmeetumg
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON A witness in
Oliver North's criminal trial testified
Thursday he heard North suggest at
a meeting of Nicaraguan rebels that
they open a new military front and
block a government supply route by
sinking a barge in a river.
"Basically," said Rafael Quintero,
"North ran the meeting."
North, who was an aide to then
President Reagan's National Security
Council, is on trial on 12 criminal
charges. One accusation is that he
drafted letters to Congress saying he
had no involvement in the Contra
jeffort to overthrow the leftist Nica
raguan government at a time when
U.S. law prohibited official aid to the
rebels.
; The meeting, in a Miami Airport
hotel room, was in June 1985,
Quintero testified. North is accused
of Ivine to Congress in 1985 and 1986
by denying involvement.
Quintero said participants at the
meeting in Miami discussed strategy
for countering 60,000 Sandinistas
who were blocking Contra infiltra
tions into Nicaragua. And the pos
sibility was raised of obstructing the
Rama River where, the witness said,
80 percent of the Sandinistas' supplies
crossed.
He used a map and pointer while
he spoke and North, who had never
before moved from the defense table
during testimony, crossed the room
so that he could follow the
demonstration.
"Who suggested obstructing the
river?" asked prosecution lawyer
Michael Bromwich.
"Mr. North did," said Quintero.
Also attending the meeting, he said,
were Contra leaders Adolfo Calero
and Enrique Bermudez as well as
retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard
Secord and Secord associate Thomas
Clines, an ex-CIA official, who were
both involved in obtaining arms and
shipping them to the Contras.
Quintero, testifying under immun
ity from prosecution, said he got
involved in the covert Contra activ
ities through a call from Secord.
He described himself as "a com
bination soldier and logistics expert"
who fought in the revolution that
overthrew Fulgencio Batista in Cuba.
He said he became disenchanted
when Fidel Castro allied himself with
the Soviet Union. Quintero said he
came to the United States, was
trained by the CIA and was back in
Cuba to work with the resistance in
the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion that
failed.
His mission in the North operation,
he said, "was to help the Contras stay
alive for the period of time until
Congress resumed aid to the Nica
raguan Contras." He was hired at
$4,000 a month, plus a bonus for each
shipment of arms he got to the
Contras. He made 16 trips to Central
America from January to June 1986
to oversee construction of an airstrip
to be used for the southern military
front.
Quintero also testified he once
heard North say that President
Reagan backed clandestine efforts to
resupply the Contras.
This was, Quintero said, at a 1986
meeting in El Salvador when a high
Salvadoran official declared he "was
not going to stick his neck out and
have it cut off."
"Mr. North pointed out the pres
ident was very much aware of the
efforts this high Salvadoran official
was doing, that the president wanted
these efforts to continue," he added.
75 fo&roer iref usees return to Voetoamm
From Associated Press reports
HONG KONG Seventy-five
Vietnamese returned by charter jet
Thursday to the communist home
land they fled, beginning the first
repatriation program for boat people
no longer willing to languish in
crowded detention centers.
The boat people were among about
11,000 Vietnamese who have sailed
into this British colony since it
adopted a tough new policy last year
that for most of them rules out
resettlement.
The 2-hour flight marked the first
large-scale repatriation of boat peo
ple, who have sailed by the tens of
thousands to seek asylum in non
communist southeast Asia.
Many of the returning 46 men, 19
women and 10 children boarded the
U.N.-chartered Boeing 737 jet smil
ing, waving and shaking hands with
local officials. Several wore new
clothes; a few carried cassette tape,
players.
When their plane touched down in
Hanoi on Thursday evening, they
were met by Vietnamese, British and
U.N. officials, Hong Kong radio
reported. Relief officials aboard the
airplane said there was no tension
during the flight, it said.
"I'm happy to be back," Lan Bun
See told reporters as he stepped off
the plane. "This is my homeland. I
feel . . . very happy." The group was
whisked to the passenger terminal by
coach, where they were rushed
through immigration, reports from
Hanoi said.
"This is an important start," said
Security Branch official Michael
Hanson, who watched the group
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leave Hong Kong. "We hope more
people will take this route back to
Vietnam" and relieve the crowded
camps that are home to about 26,000
boat people in Hong Kong. -
The repatriation was arranged
under an agreement reached by
Vietnam and the U.N. High Com
missioner for Refugees. Hanoi prom
ised not to prosecute its returning
citizens and to allow the international
organization to monitor their treat
ment back home.
The U.N. commission agreed to
provide assistance to the repatriated
Vietnamese. Returning adults
received $50 and their children $25,
according to U.N. officials, and the
commission will offer unspecified
assistance to others.
Two U.N. officials flew back with
the group and were expected to
accompany the Vietnamese to their
hometowns.
Hong Kong, about 500 miles north
of Vietnam, long classified all arriving
Vietnamese as refugees who could
stay in the colony until resettled
elsewhere. Fewer than two dozen of
the more than 120,000 Vietnamese
who have come to Hong Kong
returned home between 1979 and
1988.
But to stem a growing influx of
boat people, the colony adopted a
new policy in June under which
Vietnamese are considered refugees
only if they can prove they fled their
homeland because of persecution.
The vast majority of the 11,000
boat people who have arrived under
the new policy do not meet that
standard under a Hong Kong govern
ment screening program and are
classified as 'illegal immigrants who
fled their impoverished homeland for
economic reasons.
Hong Kong wants to send them
home forcibly, but Hanoi insists it
will only accept boat people who want
to return.
West German spy ring found
selling computer passwords
From Associated Press reports
BONN, West Germany
Investigators have cracked a major
spy ring in which West German
"hackers" allegedly acquired sen
sitive military computer pass
words and codes and sold them
to the Soviets, a government
official said Thursday.
A West German TV network
said the passwords and other
information came from key mil
itary and research . computers in
the United States, Western Europe
and Japan. .
Several West Germans have
been detained on suspicion of
"obtaining information about
access to databanks and (passing)
that on to Soviet intelligence
agents," said Roland Bachmeier,
spokesman for the federal Interior
Ministry.
He refused to confirm other
details of a report by the Nord
deutsche Rundfunk broadcasting
network.
Jews protest rights violations
MOSCOW Soviet Jews
staged their first protest in half a
year Thursday, gathering within
sight of the Kremlin to accuse their
government of violating interna
tional human rights agreements by
barring their emigration. -
A police major repeatedly told
about 20 protesters they were
News in Brief
breaking the law by holding a-.,
demonstration without a permit, ;
but uniformed and plainclothes
officers who swarmed around the .
steps of Lenin Library made no
move to halt the half-hour protest. .
"We're hearing many words .
about how we are observing the- -Vienna
human rights agreements,
but they are not being fulfilled in
deeds," said protest organizer Yuri
Semenovsky, who has sought for -,
three years to obtain a Soviet exit,
visa. "We have been deceived." .;
English amendment opposed
DENVER Four months after . .
voters passed "official English"-;
amendments in Colorado, Ari- ,
zona and Florida, the effect is far
from clear, with supporters and.
opponents remaining split over the
measures' legal meaning.
In Arizona, a state employee's"
lawsuit challenging the constitu
tionality of the amendment is ;
pending in U.S. District Court.
The author , of the Colorado,
amendment has criticized the.
governor and Denver's mayor for,
issuing executive orders directing
that bilingual government infor
mation still be provided.
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chose not to participate in the caucus.
Warner, who is chairman of the
House Higher Education Subcom
mittee, said he left the caucus because
he did not think the board should
be a political issue.
"I went to the caucus, and I chose
to leave," he said. "I don't see any
reason for slate selection."
House Majority Leader Dennis
Wicker, D-Lee, who called the
caucus, could not be reached for
comment.
Asa Spaulding Jr. of Durham
whom the House Democrats also
endorsed in the caucus got the
remaining seat when he was re-elected
to the seat reserved for a Republican.
He defeated Gastoma dentist Bill 1
Current.
"My top priority is to support the
(BOG) chairman," Spaulding said.
"We have to look at the needs of all
16 institutions." -
The Senate elected former educa
tor Wallace Hyde of Raleigh and re
elected Texas businessman Walter
Davis for the Senate's two at-large
seats on the board.
The two defeated former state
Democratic Party Chairman James
Van Hecke of Greensboro.
Davis could not be reached for
comment, but Hyde said he was
pleased to be on the board.
"Basically, 111 be a very active
member," he said.
For the minority seat the Senate
chose Maxine O'Kelley of Alamance
County,' and Lois - Britt ; of Duplin'
County was elected to the seat
reserved for a woman..
Representation
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are overrepresented.
Corrections, if they can be worked
out, will probably not go into effect
this year, but will be made by the
next general election in spring 1990,
Davis said.
"We have to review and study the
situation," Davis said. "The best way
to go about it is to look at all off
campus students' addresses, find
where they live and reapportion on
that basis."
It is possible that reapportioning
could establish between five and six
off-campus districts, compared to
four now, and create new off-campus
congress seats, Davis said.
Jurgen Buchenau (Dist. 3) said the
underrepresentation of off-campus
undergraduates was not evident in
last year's elections board study.
Buchenau said it was important for
congress to do something to fix the
situation.
"It doesnt affect our workings, but
it does affect our representativeness
as far as truly representing the
campus," he said.
Increasing the number of off
campus representatives is an alterna
tive to subtracting seats from on
campus and graduate students,
Buchenau said. There is sufficient
interest among graduate students to
maintain their present number of
seats, and redisricting is difficult
because of the possibility of having
to shift dorms from their present
district, he said.
Stephanie Ahlschwede (Dist. 12)
said the problem with off-campus
representation was that geographic
representation made no difference as
far as constituent needs, because the
needs were not based on where
students lived, but on their living
situation. Redisricting should take
into consideration what type of
residence a student occupies, she said.
But Buchenau said students' geo
graphic location presented different
concerns depending on their distance
from campus. Some off-campus
students are still able to walk to
campus whereas others must face
parking dilemmas, he said.
Jill Gilbert (Dist. 17) said adding
more representatives would allow
congress members to. reach more of
their constituents, enabling congress
to better serve student needs.
Lisa Madry (Dist. 18) said
although the situation was not
something that was intended, she did
not know how it could be fixed. Off
campus districts often go unopposed
or remain vacant, and people moving
creates another problem for redis
ricting, she said.
Congress Speaker Neil Riemann
said he did not feel that the underre
presentation had significantly
affected off-campus students, but he
said there were many more things that
could be done to reach off-campus
students and involve them in student
government.
The Elections Board is required to
study possible misrepresentation
every two years. Board Chairman
Wilborn Roberson said he had no
viable ideas about correcting the
situation.
"It's a difficult issue because you
have to determine where they live this
year compared to where they will live
next year," Roberson said. "It's hard
to determine who will live where." "
Most off-campus students asked
about the problem Thursday said
they either had no knowledge of the
situation or did not feel it significantly
affected them.
For the Record
Thursday's editorial, "Violations of graduate students. The Board
plague elections," incorrectly stated added graduate students last week,
that the Elections Board and deci- and so its makeup conforms with
sions it might make would be null regulations. The . Daily Tar Heel
following a Student Supreme Court regrets the error,
decision based on the Board's lack
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