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Three-fifths of U.S. against proposal
Reagan pushes Contra aid
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan conceded Tuesday the
American people have serious
doubts about giving $100 million to
Nicaraguan guerrillas, but said he
would reject any effort to water
down the aid proposal by “temporiz
ing and quibbles.”
“To delay or reduce the aid we
have requested for the freedom
fighters could be to send too little
too late,” Re&gan told reporters in a
question-and-answer session at the
White House. “Those who would
compromise must not compromise
the freedom fighters’ lives nor their
immediate defensive needs.
“They must not compromise
Latin America’s democracies or our
own southern borders. They must
not compromise freedom.”
Asked whether the American
public had fallen in line behind his
program, Reagan said, “No, they
haven’t, and our own polls indicate
there is a great feeling of people say
ing, ‘What are we doing in that little
country?’ ”
An ABC News poll released last
Friday showed three-fifths of Amer
icans believe Congress should reject
Reagan’s request.
This is one of the reasons, the
president said, why he plans to make
a nationally broadcast speech on the
issue Sunday night, three days be
fore a vote by the House of Rep
resentatives is tentatively scheduled.
The president was asked specif
ically about a compromise plan, sug
gested by Sen. James Sasser, D-
Tenn., calling for Congress to ap
prove the aid but withhold any of it
for six months as an inducement to
Nicaragua’s Marxist-led government
to negotiate for peace.
“I will listen to any proposal that
anyone wants to make that is tied to
the idea of letting us come to the aid
of these Contras,” he said, “but the
only proposal of that kind that I
have heard was one that involved a
long period of time and then was not
a sure thing, but they would then
vote again to see whether we could
have the money and use it. I don’t
think that would be a compromise
that I could listen to at all.”
The Sasser proposal calls for the
president to report to Congress if he
considers the negotiations efforts
unsuccessful. Congress would have
to take a vote agreeing to his
statement before the funds could be
spent.
U.S. will investigate Tl’s claim of patent infringement
WASHINGTON — A year-long
investigation has begun at the U.S.
International Trade Commission to
determine whether companies in Ja
pan and South Korea have infringed
on electronic chips patents belong
ing to Texas Instruments, Inc.
Paula Stern, who heads the com
mission, issued a statement pointing
out that the body can ban imports,
not only of the computer chips
which are the subject of the com
plaint by Texas Instruments, but
also the computers, telecommunica
tions equipment and high-resolution
television sets that use the chips.
But this step would be taken only
if the commission concludes the pat
ents have been infringed.
The commission is a bipartisan
body appointed by the U.S. presi
dent. It voted 6-0 Monday to launch
the investigation.
“The complaint indicates that this
investigation could possibly involve
more trade by value than any pre
vious (unfair import practices) inves
tigation,” Stern said. But she did not
estimate the value of the trade.
According to the complaint,
Texas Instruments lost $118.7 mil
lion last year, due largely to low sales
and sharp declines in the prices of
chips. During the year, nearly 8,700
employees were laid off.
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Kremlin protests U.S. order to reduce Soviet staff at U.N.
Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Kremlin coun
tered a U.S. order to cut Soviet staff
at the United Nations with an official
protest Tuesday warning Washing
ton that its “illegitimate demand”
could jeopardize U.S.-Soviet rela
tions and the next summit.
The official news agency Tass dis
tributed a text of Moscow’s protest to
the United States. Parts of it were
read on Radio Moscow.
The protest accuses the United
States of violating international
agreements on the United Nations,
headquartered in New York, and
denies U.S. accusations that spies are
among the Soviets’ 275 U.N. em
ployees.
Foreign Ministry officials called
the U.S. Embassy Tuesday morning
and asked for a meeting, where the
oral protest was delivered to Charge
d’Affaires Richard Combs, accord
ing to embassy spokesman Mark
Smith.
Combs is the top-ranking U.S.
diplomat in Moscow while Ambassa
dor Arthur Hartman is on vacation.
The U.S. government on Friday
ordered the Soviet Union to cut its
U.N. staff to 170 over the next two
years, a 38 percent reduction. The
order termed the number of Soviet
staff unreasonably high and said it
poses a threat to U.S. national secu
rity.
The Soviet protest statement ap
peared to warn America such behav
ior threatens the next superpower
summit meeting.
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorba
chev and President Reagan met in
Geneva last November and agreed
to a second summit this year.
“The U.S. administration must be
aware that such actions increase dis
trust of its policy and by no means
create a favorable background for a
summit meeting,” the embassy was
told.
The U.S. side has proposed a
June meeting, but Gorbachev sug
gested last month in a speech at the
27th Communist Party Congress
that no date will be agreed unless
progress is made on a nuclear test
ban or an agreement to scrap me
dium-range missiles in Europe.
Soviet exchanges and an agreemai
to open a new Soviet consulate:
New York and a U.S. Consulate is
Kiev.
The ministry called “utterly fat
fetched and unfounded” U.S. claim
of espionage by Soviet U.N. worken.
The Foreign Ministry statement
said the order on U.N. staffing “is
hard to square” with U.S. conten
tions it supports expansion of U.S.-
It said U.N. staffing has increased
in recent years because U.N. wort
has grown and the number of com
mittees and agencies the Soviets pat
ticipate in has more than doubled.
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