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Troops withdraw from Azerbaijan
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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.
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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.
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