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Monday, November 21,1988 The Battalion Page 7 d/ EES on .anadian campaign ads ush for U.S. trade plan TORONTO (AP) — Supporters d opponents of the U.S.-Canada [free trade agreement combined last- aunute electioneering Sunday with a final advertising blitz on the eve of itional elections. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, loyed by recent polls that showed his Progressive Conservative Party ick in the lead, toured his native [uebec while his leading rival, Lib- al Party leader John Turner, cam- iaigned in Vancouver, British Co- mbia. Both have focused on the trade leal — the major issue in Monday’s ice. Mulroney told a Saturday news conference in Quebec that he would Parliament back into session luickly to proceed with final passage fthe pact, which Turner has vowed to reject. * In an interview with this week’s Ihc/ean’s magazine, Mulroney was Suoted as saying he would try to pur ine the trade agreement even if his arty can only form a minority gov- rnment. “The trade deal is a must for Can- 1S U.S., allies start withdrawing as Persian Gulf peace grows 5aid. hinking i! ‘d Soviet i last, kt , he said hinkingn igh pert ador said id concep- et Union'! g include! ninatenit eaponsol i, and lo of spate ernatioiui iet Unioi take s by mat- mal force revent tie ign polio anges tal iety unde ted to tie r society. ada’s future,” he was quoted as say ing. “It’s a visionary instrument of job creation and new wealth and it is clearly something that is on the right side of history.” But Turner has revived his cam paign by saying the pact threatened to make Canada a U.S. colony. Speaking at a Saturday campaign rally, Turner repeated his call to “keep Canada Canadian for Canadi ans” and cancel the pact with a vote for his party. In this week’s Maclean’s, Turner was quoted as saying the pact “would radically change the direction of our country. It yields the economic le vers of sovereignty: our energy, our investment policy, our capital mar kets, supply-management of agricul ture.” The socialist New Democratic Party also opposes the agreement that President Reagan and Mulro ney signed in January, so only a ma jority Conservative government en sures that it will proceed as scheduled. The 10-year agreement would start phasing out all remaining tar iffs between Canada and the United States on Jan. 1. It has passed the U.S. Congress but still needs Ca nadian parliamentary approval. Mulroney spent the campaign’s last weekend in his native French- speaking Quebec, where he is count ing on support for the free trade agreement to come through with a solid showing for the province’s 75 seats. Turner hopes the Liberals will come through best in the 99 seats of predominantly English-speaking Ontario, where opposition to the agreement is strongest. The two provinces have the ma jority of Canada’s 26 million people. The House of Commons was newly expanded this year to 295 seats, so a party needs 148 seats to form a ma jority government. The Conservatives are hoping for a second successive majority, which has not happened in Canada since 1953. Mulroney led his party to an overwhelming victory four years ago, taking 210 of the then 282 seats in Commons. MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) —Gam- ling that peace will prevail despite a eadlock in Iraq-Iran peace talks, ie United States’ European allies e stepping up the postwar disman- jing of their military forces in the ersian Gulf. In recent days the mine sweeper rocus, the last of three Belgian arships deployed to the gulf a year sailed for home. The last Five Italian warships and one from the letherlands are preparing to leave lyDec. 31. Officials said those moves, like an arlier cutback in France’s regional leet from 11 to seven ships, came j ecause the Iraq-Iran cease-fire, ack by eim ree months old SurYday, had rought stability to the gulf. The European actidift Could add ressure on President-elect George lush to step up an American pull- mt, according to U.S. diplomats and et foreiji military officials, speaking on condi- on of anonymity. The United States has withdrawn wo ships and scaled back convoys ind other operations. But its 25 rarships represent about half the [oreign vessels in the region. Diplomats said defense budget [utters are likely to focus on the op- ration, whose monthly cost the Pen- agon estimated at $15 million-$20 trillion at its peak. U.S. officials, however, say the Imerican commitment to peace- eeping has led to the best-ever rela- ions with the Arab gulf states, and he Arab leaders remain nervous ^ | bout a hasty pullout. J “They have made it clear they vant us here and they aren’t push- [jfor us to leave too quickly,” said a enior diplomat. U.S. military sources say Arab ensitivity to a U.S. pullout rrompted Pentagon officials in Sep- ember to fudge reports on the de- rarture of the USS Vincennes, Usi ng the cruiser as still on duty nearly week after it left the area. The Pentagon says decisions on educing the U.S. Joint Task Force Middle East — 15 ships in the gulf ind a 10 in the Arabian Sea — de pend on the Iran-Iraq cease-fire holding. The Pentagon has given no timetable for cutbacks but says the gulf-based force eventually would revert to five or six ships, the level before last year’s buildup to protect shipping endangered by the gulfs “tanker war.” The U.N.-sponsored truce has held despite warnings from leaders in both Baghdad and Tehran that fighting could resume if no peace agreement is achieved. “The general feeling seems to be that the (war) momentum in the gulf is gone, and even if fighting started elsewhere it wouldn’t spread,” a U.S. diplomat said. No incidents have been reported since the Aug. 20 cease-fire. Gulf Arab states have appealed to Iraq and Iran to help in clearing mines that still pose a major threat to shipping. More than 500 commercial vessels were damaged and more than 300 sailors killed in attacks by both sides during the 8-year-old conflict. Since the cease-fire, the United States has withdrawn one ship and canceled deployment of another, re duced air patrols and removed a for tified barge from the northern gulf. Mideast violence kills 1, injures 3 JERUSALEM (AP) — Troops raided Palestinian settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sun day, shooting and killing a 22-year- old man and wounding three Arab youths in clashes, Arab hospital offi cials said. In addition, a 9-year-old boy suf fered head injuries during an army raid of the West Bank village of Ma- dama, Arab doctors said. They said five other Palestinians suffered beat ing injuries. Underground PLO leaders dis tributed leaflets praising declaration of an independent Palestinian state last week by the Palestine National Council, the PLO’s parliament-in exile. The leaflet said the Palestine Lib eration Organization had seized a historic opportunity to boost the 11- month-old uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The pro-PLO leaders also urged Moslem fundamentalist extremists to stop criticizing the dec laration publicly. “Whether you like it or not, that will serve the enemy,” said the leaf let, signed by the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising. Hamas, meaning “Zeal,” a Moslem funda mentalist group, has rejected the declaration. Egypt on Sunday became the lat est nation to recognize the Palestin ian state. A statement said it hoped the proclamation would serve the cause of peace and stability in the re gion. At least 31 other nations, mainly Moslem, have recognized the state. Sunday’s fatality occurred during an army raid of the West Bank vil lage of Baqa, near Nablus, said offi cials at Nablus’ A1 Ittihad Hospital. Troops encountered resistance from Palestinians and opened fire, wounding Yousef Mohammad Ab dallah in the head and shooting a 16- year-old in the shoulder. Abdallah died at the hospital, A1 Ittihad offi cials said. His death raised to 314 the num ber of Palestinians killed in the uprising. Eleven Israelis have been killed. One year after prison riot Cuban inmates await parole ^ ATLANTA (AP) — A year after Cubans from the Mariel boatlift ri- )ted at two prisons for a chance at reedom, thousands are out on pa- ole, but more are dribbling back nto what could be lifetime custody. Many of the thousands of Cubans leld by the Immigration and Natu- alization Service will be freed more juickly because of changes made in he review process as a result of the igreement that ended the riots, but tthers will have to await new laws or he whim of the Cuban government. The detainees are a minority imong the 125,000 Cubans who ar- ived during the five-month “Free- lom Flotilla” from the Cuban port >f Mariel in 1980. Many of those vho arrived were criminals or men- al patients freed from jails and hos- )itals. A few were arrested on arrival for rimes committed in Cuba. Others vere convicted of crimes here and urned over to the INS for deporta- ion after finishing their sentences, iut Cuba wouldn’t take them back, iothey remained in detention. Since the detainees never were of ficially admitted to the United States, they have existed in legal limbo as “excludable aliens.” Courts ruled that the Cubans did not have to be released and could be excluded without legal protections. Then rioting erupted at federal prisons in Oakdale, La., and Atlanta after the State Department’s Nov. 20, 1987, announcement that Cuba had agreed to take back more than 2,500 of the 3,800 Mariel refugees locked up nationwide at the time. The rioters took 145 hostages and burned several buildings. One in mate was killed in the 11-day upris ing in Atlanta. The uprisings ended Dec. 4, 1987, after the government agreed to a moratorium on deportations and a one-time-only Justice Department review of each INS decision. INS spokesman Duke Austin in Washington said the agreement also called for speedy reviews of inmates’ cases, which have resulted in the pa role of about 60 percent of the detai nees. Since the uprisings, INS in creased the number of review panels from four to 20. “The reviews conducted by these, panels go beyond anything that’s re quired by law or by court order,” Cary Copeland, a deputy associate attorney general, said Thursday. So far about 2,500 Cubans have been paroled. Parole has been denied to about 1,500 others who will continue to get annual INS reviews but could spend years, even their lives, in INS custody even through they have fin ished prison sentences for their crimes. About 115 are at a federal facility in Talladega, Ala., awaiting word on whether they will be sent back to Cuba. The Justice Department an nounced plans Thursday to deport 15 detainees. Leshaw sued to block that, claiming the cases are entitled to additional review. 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