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Friday, April 8, 1988/The Battalion/Page 15 hurch suspends attempts o mediate crisis in Panama 'H,H0T REDFRfi V / m.-l:30aD PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) m.-2:J)a.iii he Roman Catholic Church said hursday it was suspending its ef- to mediate Panama’s political as the first major split ap- yeQ[! red in the opposition to Gen. ' nuel Antonio Noriega. larcos G. McGrath, the Catholic (feried tibishop of Panama, said in a ement he was withdrawing his liation offer for three reasons: • Opposition groups refused to It to the government until it lowed it was willing to discuss the jarture of Noriega. me. Lambert Andrew • The archbishop had not re ceived Noriega’s “explicit and per sonal backing of the initiative” in writing. • T here were no assurances that the four international leaders who proposed the talks could be present. The breakdown came a day after Noriega ordered the arrests of seve ral leading opponents. The general has defied U.S. ef forts to force his resignation. In another development, banking and diplomatic sources said Pana ma’s banks would not reopen Friday, and possibly not next week. The government said last week it hoped to have banks functioning again Fri day. A major rift appeared Thursday in the anti-Noriega opposition, as two parties split from the opposition alliance to form their own anti-gov ernment movement. Their leaders argued that U.S. economic sanctions are hurting Pan ama’s people more than they are damaging Noriega and the civilian government he controls. 3 anel will investigate ERA’S plan o bulldoze contaminated soil Jii % ‘JVC /ASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional panel will investigate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Iposal for cleaning up an arsenic-contaminated site rystal City, U.S. Rep. Albert Bustamante’s office esman announced Wednesday. I S. Rep. Mike Synar, D-Okla., chairman of the lei, will conduct a hearing Monday in Crystal City on 1 A plans to bulldoze the contaminated soil into a pit and cover it with a plastic cap, Bustamante’s office spokesman said. | Environmentalists and residents of Crystal City, a community of 8,000 in South Texas, contend the EPA’s wans to clean up the Superfund site at the city^s airport are inadequate. National Briefs Jury finds white separatists innocent mu ORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — All 13 white supremacists on trial inffederal court were found inno- ceju Thursday of all charges Kinst them. ■Vine of the defendants were rged with seditious conspir- . The government contended it defendants wanted to over- )row the U.S. government and an all-white nation in the dnhwest. On Wednesday, the jury re turned a verdict in the case of five of the defendants charged with conspiracy to assassinate a federal judge and an FBI agent. U.S. District Judge Morris Ar nold refused then to make the verdict public and rebuffed the jury’s declaration that it could not reach a verdict on the other charges. lemocratic leaders admonish Gore 0-2:3! |AP) Albert Gore Jr. got a mes sage from two Democratic Party Heavyweights on Thursday to Be down his criticism of presi- lential front-runners Michael Jlpkakis and Jesse Jackson, while Sen. Paul Simon put his cam- ppign on hold but kept his dele gates in pocket. I INew York Gov. Mario Cuomo, one of the Gore critics, implied he ight withhold his sought-after endorsement and said, “Who cares what . . . Mario Cuomo says?” ■Cuomo said he told Gore that his negative campaigning “wasn’t ijelping him” in New York ahead (|that state’s April 19 primary. Democratic National Chair man Paul G. Kirk Jr. endorsed Cuomo’s appeal to the Tennessee senator. “The admonitions that have been addressed to Sen. Gore by Gov. Cuomo just help to make sure we can continue to talk about the issues in a positive way,” Kirk said in Washington, D.C. But Gore consultant David Garth, a sometime adviser to Cuomo, took exception to the governor’s comments. “Big chief, big blanket, sends up big signal — like make nice and roll over,” Garth said, adding that he assumed Cuomo was try ing to help Dukakis win New York. 'olice prepare for war on street gangs OS ANGELES (AP) — Police are preparing for a weekend war on violent, drug-dealing street gangs overwhelming sup port from political and commu nity leaders whose attention has luddenly focused on a long-fes- 'Jtering problem. ^^■The sweep by as many as 1,000 H^police officers will be the biggest in a series of mass patrols in gang- ridden neighborhoods. A 13- hour sweep which ended Thurs day morning resulted in the ar rest of 128 suspected gang mem bers. “We’re out there to let these gang-bangers know that we’re here, we’re not going to go away, and this city belongs to the good people,” said Detective Tony Celli, using the street slang for gang member. Such tough talk from the po lice is not new, but it has been adopted by elected officials who are backing words with financial support. “There have been a lot of protests from environmen talists, city and state government officials, different people in the federal government up here, who feel the EPA is trying to get away with a proposal that is less than adequate . . . because Crystal City is a small town in the middle of a rural area,” said Henry Chalmers, a spokesman for Bustamante, D-Texas. Chalmers called it “a pretty shoddy proposal.” But EPA spokesman Roger Meacham in Dallas said the agency believes the plan protects human health and the environment. Opponents of the EPA plan fear arsenic and other toxins will seep out of the pit and rain or wind will carry them to nearby homes and schools, Chalmers said. Israeli girl slain; troops vow revenge KARNEI SHOMRON, Occupied West Bank (AP) — Armed Jewish settlers vowed revenge Thursday and shouted “Expel the Arabs!” as they buried an Israeli girl stoned to death by Palestinians. Troops killed a man in the town where she was slain. An army announcement said the Palestinian fatally shot in Beita was a suspect in the attack on a group of Israeli teen-agers Wednesday in which 15-year-old Tirza Porat was killed. It said she did not obey an or der to halt. Two other Arabs were wounded in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, which have been swept by violence since Dec. 8. Soldiers arrested hundreds of Ar abs and blew up five homes in Beita. Israeli settlers attacked two nearby Arab villages, beating residents, breaking windows and firing shots in the air. Palestinians retreated to their homes, fearing further revenge raids by vigilante groups. An army investigation of Tirza’s death said she was killed by a stone thrown by the mother of one of the dead Arab youths, according to Is rael television and radio. The army inquest also showed that a bullet fired from the weapon of one of the Israeli guards was found in Tirza’s body, the media re ports said. Army investigators said they could not determine who fired the shot, but noted that the magazines of the two weapons were empty by the time villagers wrested them away from the Israeli guards, according to the media reports. “Tirza Porat’s only crime was tak ing a walk in her country,” Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told about 9,000 mourners who gathered un der heavy guard at Jewish cemetery for the region. 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