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29, t; le Battalion WORLD & NATION 11 l/londay, January 29,1990 - Troops withdraw from Azerbaijan eace talks slated for Wednesday le gainei 11 ^eep| ' MOSCOW (AP) — Armenian and Azerbaijani ^fall." lighters began withdrawing from a key battlef- Ocal^Bont on Sunday, and the bitter enemies agreed to en clostliscuss extending the truce to other parts of the ; Volatile region, activists reported, ait and! f The Armenian National Movement agreed to to pla,flonditions demanded by the Azerbaijani People’s 1 car,Bront for peace talks that are to begin Wednes- Hopf.Bay in Riga, Latvia, according to the Latvian Peo- againsl l ie : s Front, which is sponsoring the talks. I Both sides now say they will discuss troop with- TanctHrawals, refugees and other humanitarian con- [vs’ off.Bents, but not the pivotal territorial dispute that Dudel S'igget'od t * ie hostilities, said Artis Erglis of the ilartino iTLtwan People’s Front. ith twop Armenians demand control of Nagorno-Kara- Rakh, an enclave of Azerbaijan populated largely By Armenians. Azerbaijan is predominantly Bhiite Moslem, while most Armenians are Chris- ^Bans. The two Soviet republics have feuded in- Bermittently over Nagorno-Karabakh for two ■Hears. I The conflict burst into anti-Armenian riots on Ban. 13 in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, and led to battles between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the countryside. President Mihail S. Gorbachev ordered Soviet troops to restore order, leading to more bloodshed as Kremlin forces encountered stiff resistance from Azerbaijani fighters. At least 197 people have been killed in the neighboring republics since Jan. 13. The nationalist movements in the Baltic re publics offered to mediate the conflict, a sign of how much clout the burgeoning movements have gained in the past year and their concern over unrest that requires Kremlin intervention to con trol. Yusif Samedugli, a board member of the Azer baijani People’s Front, confirmed in a telephone interview from Baku on Sunday that Azerbaijani representatives would attend talks in the Latvian capital. Samedugli said the People’s Front in Tbilisi, the capital of neighboring Georgia, also volun teered to mediate, and the Azerbaijanis will send a representative there as well. Georgia, the three Baltic republics, Armenia and Azerbaijan are among several of the 15 So viet republics that have sought greater indepen dence from Moscow. This feared unraveling of the Soviet Union’s 15 republics has presented President Mikhail S. Gorbachev with his greatest domestic challenge. Last week, activists agreed to a truce at the bor der between Armenia and Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani territory. The border is one of the most bitterly contested areas in the region. Militants began withdrawing without incident Sunday from the border between Armenia and Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani territory bounded by Armenia, Iran and Turkey, according to Sa medugli and Armenian activist Rafael Popoyan in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. The two sides agreed to patrol roads near the border with groups of no more than 10 unarmed men. The action will leave security along the bor der zone to Soviet troops, the Soviet news agency Tass said. « 1,1 s exacit h’ancijt one a; use, pai total tut wk nie Lot )oks vi ■ Elwai !1) passe he shot tnphret Is. ust M had Jf intei ittinguj to Rut i pick: ipondft It rnostit c it hi le ran chdoiv Fierce winds kill 62 people in N. Europe England hardest hit by devastating storm LONDON (AP) — A fierce storm with torrential rains driven by winds of up to 110 mph cut a trail of destruction across south ern England and into Europe over the weekend, killing at least 62 people in five countries. A reactor chimney was blown down at the Paluel nuclear power plant in France. State-owned Electricite de France said the plant was shut down immediately and any possible hazards would be monitored. The Dutch coast guard re ported a Soviet fishing vessel with 56 people aboard in trouble off the north coast. The Defense Ministry in the Netherlands said three navy helicopters and two lifeboats were in the area to offer help. The casualty figure was highest in Britain, where police said 39 people had been killed. Else where, authorities reported 1 1 killed in the Netherlands, six in France, five in Belgium and one in West Germany. Those killed in Belgium in cluded a woman and her child who died near Brussels when a tree crashed on their car. A bicy cle rider was killed after he was swept under a truck in Torhout, Belgium, in winds that peaked at 105 mph, authorities said. Elsewhere in Belgium, where sea, train and road traffic was ei ther halted or seriously ham pered by the storm, a 72-year-old man who climbed on his roof to estimate damage was blown to his death in Sint Niklaas. A 56-year- old man died from a heart attack after he also climbed to his roof in Horion-Hozemont. Winds caused severe damage in West Germany, particularly in coastal Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony states. A 53-year- old man was swept off his bicycle near Aurich in Lower Saxony and run over by a car, police said. The man was rushed to a hospital but died from his injuries. Bush offers aid package to help Panama build sound democracy WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Bush on Thursday announced he will offer an aid package of more than $1 billion to help Panama re cover from the U.S. military invasion and achieve “as close to instant relief as we can expect. “The economic challenges that Panama faces are great, but we will work with the people to build a pros perous, democratic nation,” Bush said in a news conference. His package, much of which needs congressional approval, in cludes: • $42 million in humanitarian as sistance for housing, emergency public works, small business rehabili tation for looting victims and techni cal assistance to the government. • $400 million in Export Import Bank guarantees to finance sales of American products to Panama. • $15 million in Agency for In ternational Development lending to private sector borrowers. • $50 million in Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs to support U.S. private investment in Panama. • $30 million in Agriculture De partment programs. • $28 million to restore Panama’s suspended sugar quota for 1989 and 1990. Another $500 million would go to balance of payment support, public investment, economic restructuring and development needed in the wake of the invasion and two years of economic starvation due to U.S. economic sanctions against the re gime of Gen. Manuel Antonio No riega. That sum will include $150 mil lion toward helping Panama pay its foreign debt of more than $500 mil lion, officials said. That $150 million needs congres sional approval as a supplemental appropriation, while the other mon ies will come from reprogramming existing funds, they said. Bush said foreign aid would have to be cut from other countries, but did not specify which ones. Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagle- burger told reporters Bush had not made that decision yet. The package will go toward re pairing damages estimated at up to $2 billion stemming from the Dec. 20 invasion. “These programs will give as close to instant relief as we can expect here,” Bush told reporters. Decrease in super collider spending disappoints congressional officials WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush will ask Congress to spend $318 million on the super collider next year, substantially less than the amount the Energy Department had said would be needed in the second year of building the giant particle accelerator. Some congressional officials said they were dismayed with the president’s decision, which falls $75 million short of an anticipated request of $393 million for the fiscal year that begins Oct. I. Others, however, fear an expected increase in the overall cost of the project will be far more damaging when the superconducting super collider’s budget comes before Congress. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said Thursday that Bush’s budget request, to be submitted to Congress on Monday, would include $318 million for the SSC, in cluding $169 million for second-year construction funds. Gramm said Deputy Energy Secretary W. Henson Moore assured him that $318 million represents as much as the DOE believes it could actually spend in 1991 on the collider, which is to be built south of Dallas in Ellis County. Moore also told him that the lower figure would not have any impact on the project, which if completed would be the largest, most complicated scientific instru ment ever built. Scientists hope to use it to test theories about the building blocks of the universe. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said he had hoped for a higher starting point, however, “since I have no doubt, with our budget deficit situation, that Congress will whittle away at it. “Only a few days ago, a White House spokesman was warning that Congress might make cuts in the presi dent’s budget for the SSC,” Bentsen said. “What he didn’t warn us was that we’d see substantial cuts before Congress even gets its turn.” President Bush last year requested $250 million for the SSC; Congress gave it $225 million. Gramm said the collider would be in greater danger in Congress from the “sticker shock” of a higher price ur\ Verily a few days ago, a White House spokesman was warning that Congress might make cuts in the president’s budget for the SSC. What he didn’t warn us was that we’d see substantial cuts before Congress even gets its turn.” — Lloyd Bentsen, senator tag should the Energy Department recommend the cost exceed $5.9 billion. Scientists now say it would cost some $7 billion to build the collider as originally planned, and that keep ing spending at $5.9 billion would reduce the collider’s energy by 25 percent. ‘WarCon 90 JJu < Te?(as' OCcCest 'Wargaming Convention febuary 2-4, 1990 Registration begins Friday, Feb. 2 at 3:00pm on MSC 2 nd floor. 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