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College Skaggs Center World and Nation Officials: Plan to request rebel aid may prompt U.S. policy quarrels WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Reagan plans to ask for a wa tered-down military aid package for Nicaragua’s Contras, but congressio nal Democrats said Thursday that even the scaled-back request will provoke a confrontation over U.S. policy when it votes in two weeks. A senior administration official said Thursday that the aid request which Reagan will argue for in his State of the Union speech Monday will be close to $50 million, with the bulk of that amount earmarked for non-le- thal items for Contra rebels. But White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said no final deci sion has been made on the amount to be sought, and he cautioned re- TRAIN WITH THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY’S LEADER, AND YOU COULD END UP LEADING THE INDUSTRY. I Over half the nuclear reactors in America are operated by one organization. The United I States Navy. The technology is the most advanced | in the world. 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The issue of whether to support the Contras is one of the most closely divided matters Con gress has dealt with in recent years. “We want to tailor our request to the situation we find ourself in in Ni caragua,” Fitzwater said, “so we would be tailoring ourself to keep the (Contra) resistance as a viable force and would seek to do that with as much humanitarian aid as possi ble and as little lethal aid as possi ble.” In a speech to backers at the White House on Wednesday, Rea gan said: “The majority of the aid that I will be requesting from Con gress is for non-lethal assistance to keep the freedom fighters a viable force until democracy is irreversible in Nicaragua.” Both Republicans and Democrats are focusing lobbying efforts on a “swing” group of about 30 to 50 members of the House and about half a dozen senators, who would vote the following day if the House approves the package. Rep. Tony Coelho, D-Calif., third ranking member of the house lead ership, said the administration aid request is “a moving target. As they count their votes and they’re short, I assume they’ll change their request.” But he said no matter how much aid is requested, it will still precip itate a showdown on U.S. policy in the region. In a related development, U.S. in telligence sources said Soviet arms shipments to Nicaragua"m 1987 pro vided that government with weap onry valued at over $450 million. Date set for cease-fire talks with Contras, Sandinistas SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) —- Contra leaders met with peace me diator Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo on Thursday and announced they will open direct cease-fire talks on Jan. 28 with Nicaragua’s Sandi- nista government. They assailed as a publicity stunt the unexpected arrival in San Jose Wednesday of a negotiating team from the Sandinistas. The Sandinista group, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco, said it came to Costa Rica to begin negotiations with the Contras, although the talks were set for next Thursday. Adolfo Calero, a director of the rebel group known as the Nicara guan Resistance, told a news confer ence following the Contras’ two- hour meeting with Obando y Bra- vo:“The cardinal had no knowledge that the Sandinista commission would be here. We do not know and the cardinal did not know how this confusion occurred.” The Sandinistas may want to hold the talks early in an effort to reach an agreement in time to head off ap proval of more U.S. aid for the Con tras. Alfredo Cesar, another Resistance director, said Thursday of the early arrival, “They (the Sandinistas) are simply playing games around a se rious subject — the gaining of peace in Nicaragua.” Tinoco said earlier Thursday the Sandinistas wanted to take advan tage of the presence of both Obando y Bravo and the Contra leadership to get the cease-fire talks under way. “After trying for five months to have a meeting with Cardinal Obando, we had it today,” Calero said. Millions of Soviets to lose jobs MOSCOW (AP) — About 16 mil lion Soviets will be laid off by the year 2000 under Mikhail S. Gorba chev’s reform drive, and some peo ple are already worrying about a re turn of mass unemployment, Pravda said Thursday. The Account in the Communist Party d^ily gave more hints of the widespread concerns raised by Gor bachev’s drive for “perestroika,” or the wholesale revamping of the So viet economy and society. Along with a more effective use of the labor force, the Soviet Commu nist Party general secretary said an increase in retail prices is needed to pay the real cost of producing milk, bread and other food staples and re duce the $97 billion the government pays in annual subsidies. Pravda was the first official publi cation to publish the number of workers authorities believe will lose their jobs as a result of the Kremlin’s drive for greater labor efficiency and discipline. Joblessness officially ended in the Soviet Union in the 1930s under Jo sef V. Stalin with the inauguration of centralized economic planning, and the 1977 constitution proclaims that each citizen has a right to a job. However, a new law went into ef fect Jan. 1 that forces many state-run factories and economic organiza tions to pay their own way, and that empowers local managers to trim employment rolls. All civilian pro duction is to be functioning under the new rules by 1991. The anxiety with which some So viets regard the possible loss of their jobs, in a society where unemploy ment was officially eradicated more than a half-century ago, was indi cated by one reader’s letter to Pra vda. “It’s like long-forgotten times are repeating themselves,” wrote S. So kolov of Moscow. Potato farmer finds diamond while digging FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A potato farmer dug up one of the largest diamonds ever found in this mineral-rich coun try, but it was broken into three pieces in a dispute over whether it was real, a government official said Wednesday. The unidentified farmer found the 307-carat gem Friday while digging up what he thought was a stone in his potato patch in the eastern Kono district. The man and a friend broke the stone into three pieces follow ing an argument over whether it was really a diamond or not. Officials of the National Di amond Mining Corporation con firmed it was a diamond. 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