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Iran accuses Iraq of stalling talks
iMcA
GENEVA (AP) — Iran accused
Iraq Sunday of stalling peace talks
and said the negotiations to end
their eight-year war “could drag on
for years.”
The two countries resumed talks
after a one-day break “for reflec
tion,” but both sides remained far
apart over the disputed Shatt-al-
Arab waterway and other key points.
Iraq accused Iran of blocking the
peace process by “making ground
less accusations” against Baghdad.
Sunday’s talks began with sepa
rate consultations between U.N. Sec
retary General Javier Perez de Cuel
lar and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali
Akbar Velayati and his Iraqi coun
terpart Tariq Aziz, U.N. officials
said.
“It is not a deadlock and it is mov
ing,” Francois Giuliani, spokesman
for Perez de Cuellar, told reporters.
“The secretary-general would like
the talks to move faster but there is
no sense of frustration, dismay or
despondency.”
Iran’s official Islamic Republic
News Agency said Perez de Cuellar
suggested setting up an impartial
committee to identify the aggressor
in the Iran-Iraq war and to release its
Bentsen’s voting
at odds with party
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-
seven times this year Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen has voted against the major
ity of his Democratic colleagues in
the Senate on a variety of issues, in
cluding Star Wars, abortion and im
migration policy, and some of his
votes put him at odds with his run
ning mate, Michael Dukakis.
When 77 percent of Senate Dem
ocrats voted on Feb. 4 against grant
ing $60 million to rebels fighting the
Nicaraguan government, Bentsen
was on the opposite side. On July 13,
75 percent of Democrats voted
against allowing oil drilling in parts
of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, but
Bentsen voted for it.
Those votes were an exception for
the Texas senator, who now is his
party’s nominee for vice president.
During 17V2 years in the Senate
he has usually been found in the
middle of the pack. Of 212 substan
tive votes Bentsen has cast this year,
185, or 87 percent, sided with the
majority of Democrats.
In 1987, Bentsen voted on 408
roll calls, and 90 percent of the time
— on 365 votes — he sided with
most other Democrats.
Averaging his annual ratings by
the Americans for Democratic Ac
tion and the American Conservative
Union would produce a lifetime
score that pleased liberals 38 percent
of the time and conservatives 41 per
cent of the time.
Bentsen’s record is under question
now because on certain issues the
Democratic vice-presidential nomi
nee is at odds with the head of the
ticket.
The most current: aid to the re
bels in Nicaragua. Dukakis has re
peatedly called U.S. government
support for the rebels “a failed and
illegal policy.” Most of Bentsen’s
votes have been for financial aid.
“We have to keep the pressure on
the Sandinistas,” Bentsen has said,
referring to the leftist government
in Nicaragua.
Dukakis favors federal financing
of abortions. Bentsen calls the issue
one of the toughest for him but gen
erally supports federal money only
in the case of rape or incest or when
the mother’s life would be endan
gered by carrying a baby to term.
On the basic question of abortion,
Bentsen says, “It’s a woman’s right to
make that decision after consulting
her physician, and hopefully her
pastor or priest.”
Dukakis apparently is unequivo
cally opposed to capital punishment.
Bentsen has voted for it, most re
cently on May 16, when the Senate
approved the death penalty for cer
tain drug-related murders. More
than half the Democrats opposed
that bill.
1987, Bentsen opposed an amend
ment prohibiting firearms that can
not be detected by airport security
devices. Seventy-four percent of
Democratic senators voted for the
amendment.
Dukakis and Bentsen appear un
concerned about their differences.
“I didn’t pick Lloyd Bentsen to be a
clone of Michael Dukakis,” the presi
dential nominee explained. “We
agree on most things but we disagree
on some.
Bentsen was in the minority on
April 20 when the Senate, on a 61-35
vote, killed an amendment that
would have required a balanced fed
eral budget before any financial rep
arations could be paid to Japanese-
Americans interned during World
War II. Only eight other Democrats
were with Bentsen on that vote.
Bentsen gives
Quayle praise
during show
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen said Sunday
that Sen. Dan Quayle probably could
grow into the job of being president
if it became necessary.
It was the faintesjt of praise from a
67-year-old Texas Democrat seeking
to contrast his experience with that
of a 41-year-old Indiana Republican
— and to make the difference a ma
jor issue in their campaign for vice
president.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet The
Press,” Bentsen was asked whether
Quayle was qualified to be president.
“Frankly, he would not have been
on my short list as I look over my
Senate colleagues,” said Bentsen.
“He obviously was on the short list of
the hard right.”
“Now, I wouldn’t say that he
couldn’t grow into the job; he proba
bly could. But if a tragedy befell a
president, you’d have to be able to
move in immediately and take over
and do what has to be done in facing
whatever issues that confront you at
that time.”
Among the four candidates, Bent
sen dominated the public political
stage Sunday.
Dukakis favors handgun control;
Bentsen is on the other side. On the
most recent vote on the issue, in
Quayle attended church in Sacra
mento, Calif., and then made the
cross-country flight home to Wash
ington for a couple of days of rest
and planning for this week’s swing
through Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis
sissippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia
and South Carolina.
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findings by the end of November.
The report, monitored in Nicosia,
was confirmed by Western diplo
mats. Iran has insisted that Iraq be
branded the aggressor. Iraq invaded
Iran in September 1980 after border
skirmishes.
IRNA said the three-man commit
tee would be headed by a member of
the International Court of Justice in
the Hague, the Netherlands. Iran
and Iraq each would send a liason of
ficer, it said.
Perez de Cuellar called for a “day
of reflection” Saturday after both
sides set out their divergent posi
tions Friday. He said he hoped “flex
ibility will start on Sunday.”
The talks between Velayati and
Aziz are the first official contact be
tween the two sides since war broke
out in September 1980.
Sources close to the negotiations
said the talks were delayed Sunday
morning because some members of
the Iraqi delegation Hew to Baghdad
for consultations.
In Tehran Sunday, Iran’s deputy
foreign minister, Javad Mansouri,
accused Iraq of undermining nego
tiations by claiming sovereignty over
the disputed Shatt al-Arab
way.
He also repeated Iran’s der,
for formation of an impartial#
to determine which side starteil
war. Iran says Iraq must be bn
the aggressor before there cai|
lasting peace.
“Iraq continues to havedesin
Iran’s territorial integrity,’’
souri was quoted as saying by IlJ
The pace of negotiations
slow, he said, “that they maydtj|
for years.”
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prehensive pace.”
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The key problem in negotiaul imes
has been the question of sovertiJ andc
over the Shatt-al-Arab waterway,
boundary between the twonatio#
Baghdad demands sovelaj
over the entire channel, whichis
tually its only outlet to the sea.
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‘Killer bees’ heading for United States
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP)
—Africanized “killer bees” are
spreading north and will arrive in
the United States in less than two
years despite efforts to stop them
or alter their behavior, officials
make less
crops less e§
say.
The bees killed one resident of
Tapachula, a town near the Gua
temalan border, when a man
tripped on an unseen hive. They
also have harassed herds of cattle
and made grazing difficult.
The Africanized bees are de
scendants of African bees that es
caped during an experiment in
Brazil. They mate with local bees,
spawning new generations that
are more aggressive and danger
ous to handle,
and pollinate
ciently.
“M exico will be ‘Africans:
without a doubt. It is a facut
cannot change,” said Dr. Marik
Noemi Zapata, president of tk
Tapachula Agricultural Associi
tion, in a recent interview. Sb
said the bees will continue nonl
“as far as the cold allows.”
“Hundreds of hives migrate!)
the north, but we don’t knowta
many,” beekeeper Gil Tobia!
said.
Since honey is Mexico's second
biggest agricultural export, tht
invasion has researchers search
ing for ways to protect the indus
try.
Law limits time banks can freeze funds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Start
ing this week, a new federal law
will put limits on the number of
days that banks and other finan
cial instutions can place holds on
checks which customers deposit
in their accounts.
The law has been hailed by
consumer groups, who charged
that Americans were losing mil
lions of dollars annually because
banks were freezing funds for
undue amounts of time.
Banks, however, complain that
the new guidelines are confusing,
proving costly to implement and
will subject them to greater risks
of fraud.
The controversy is being
up by the Expedited
Availability Act, which
stirred
Funds
goes into effect Stmt
Under the la\< batiks, saving
and loans and cre&t unions mid
give customers access to def
ited funds within one, three
seven days, depending on
type of check.
While many banks have lx
operating voluntarily undersutl
deadlines, consumer groups ar
gued that a law was needed be
cause too many banks were free!
ing funds for periods as'
two weeks even though 99 pei-
cent of the time they were geitinf
credit for the money within tw
days.
Graffiti artists join Denver program
Hoping
curb the spread of graffiti, the
city of Denver has brought 60 to
70 graffiti artists into a program
that gives them artistic tips and a
sanctioned place to display their
spray-painting skills.
The construction walkway at
the new Denver convention cen
ter will be the canvas for partici
pating “taggers,” known for their
stylized signatures, and “writers,”
who specialize in flashy murals.
“Graffiti started in prehistoric
days (with cave writings) . . . but it
didn’t really become vandalism
until someone owned the walls,”
says Amy Lingg, communications
director lot die Denver Depan
merit of Public Works.
Lingg, who got her artisii
training at the Colorado limit*
of Art, is supervising the cit) 1 ’
anti-graffiti program.
Taggers and writers bar
emerged from underground t
work on “pieces” (short for im
terpieces) in a makeshift studioat
a Public Works facility.
Working on boards donated^
convention center contract®
Hensel-Phelps and using donated
spray paints (Krylon is thegrf
artist’s favorite), taggers and writ
ers are coached by artists fn
the Denver Art Museum’s nei|
borhood artists program.
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