Monday, November 16, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 7
World Briefs
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Ortega visits Mexico
in unexpected stop
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicara
gua’s President Daniel Ortega made
a surprise stop here on his way home
from the United States and said he
would brief President Miguel de la
Madrid on a new Nicaraguan propo
sal for a truce in the Contra war.
“Now is a good time to exchange
views with President Miguel de la
Madrid, so he knows directly the
steps my country is taking to com
ply” with a Central American peace
plan, he told reporters when he ar
rived at Mexico City airport Satur
day.
The arrival of the Ortegas came as
a complete surprise to Mexican offi
cials.
“We know nothing about his activ
ities,” Mario Enciso, the Foreign
Ministry spokesman on duty, said
Sunday. “We didn’t know he was
going to come.”
Unidentified officials reported
that Ortega and his family spent the
day in a park.
A presidential press office official,
who spoke on condition of anonym
ity, said Ortega will meet with de la
Madrid on Monday.
During his four days in Washing
ton, Ortega proposed an 11-point
plan for a cease-fire.
A peace plan which Ortega and
the four other Central American
presidents signed last Aug. 7 calls
for cease-fires in Nicaragua’s Contra
war and the war waged by leftist
guerrillas in El Salvador, along with
national conciliation talks between
governments and opposition
groups.
Contra peace talks
create heat for Wright
WASHINGTON (AP) — House
H Republican Leader Robert H.
B Michel on Sunday sharply criticized
I House Speaker Jim Wright for his
E involvement in the negotiations be-
E tween Nicaragua and the U.S.-
| backed Contra rebels, charging that
I the Democrat is “absolutely wrong”
1 to step into the peace process.
The House speaker, D-Texas,
I who has been deeply involved in the
1 process since he and President Rea-
| gan put forth their own peace plan
I in August, participated in a meeting
E Friday in which Nicaraguan Presi
dent Daniel Ortega proposed a plan
for reaching a cease-fire in three
weeks with the Nicaraguan rebels.
Wright’s involvement immedi
ately came under fire from Reagan
administration officials.
Michel, an Illinois Republican, on
Sunday continued the attack on
Wright’s involvement in the process.
“I think it’s absolutely wrong,”
Michel said.
Wright said he was not pretend
ing to be a diplomat and had partici
pated only at the invitation of the
principals in the talks.
Abortion groups split
over justice choice
WASHINGTON (AP) — An
thony M. Kennedy’s Supreme Court
nomination has split the anti-abor
tion community, even though he has
never ruled on an abortion case dur
ing 12 years on the bench.
One anti-abortion organization
offered positive, but guarded praise
for the nomination, a second
strongly criticized it, and two other
groups took no position.
The abortion question is crucial to
these groups and to pro-choice orga
nizations because the court is consid
ered split 4-4 on the issue. The next
nominee could tip the balance for
years to come.
The Sacramento, Calif., jurist,
who is on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals, has not spoken out on
any issue since his nomination was
announced Wednesday by President
Reagan. None of the organizations
researching his abortion record has
found any previous comment on the
subject.
Another anti-abortion group,
March For Life, said it also had no
position yet on the nomination.
Soviet’s image toughens
with removal of party chief
MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s dramatic
break with one of his top lieutenants
toughens his image in the weeks be-
F fore a superpower summit, but casts
doubt on how far his drive for re
form can and will go.
The firing of Boris N. Yeltsin, the
outspoken Moscow party boss, seems
I certain to temper the approach to
i “perestroika,” Gorbachev’s cam
paign for social and economic
I change that Yeltsin vocally had ad-
I vocated.
By presiding over Yeltsin’s down-
^ fall Wednesday, Gorbachev put his
stamp on the ouster of his former
protege. It remains a question
whether he did so to remove a vola
tile renegade or under pressure
from the party’s more conservative
officials, reportedly led by Politburo
member Yegor K. Ligachev.
Whatever Gorbachev’s motives,
the removal of the outspoken Yeltsin
from the Moscow leadership post
and two city government positions
will bolster the course of “revolu
tionary restraint” espoused by Gor
bachev in a Kremlin speech this
month.
Budget negotiators call
reduction talks promising
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Deficit
reduction talks between the White
House and Congress are into their
deadline week with participants con
fident of success — because they
can’t permit a failure.
“The whole country views it as a
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Wisconsin program to cut
aid for families with dropouts
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wiscon
sin is launching a first-of-its-kind
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benefits if a teen-ager skips school in
an effort to keep one generation of
welfare recipients from raising an
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State officials hope the program,
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