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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Coast Guard cutter
sprayed a Cuban-operated freighter with cannon and
machine-gun fire Wednesday when the vessel refused
to stop for a drug inspection, but the ship escaped into
Mexican waters, officials said.
The 250-foot Hermann, which is registered in Pan
ama, took several hits from the cutter Chincoteague as
they steamed across the open Gulf of Mexico, Coast
Guard spokesman Joe Gibson said.
When the ship reached Mexican waters, the cutter
held fire and asked the Mexican government to take
over to see if it was carrying drugs, he said.
“We were in international waters,” Gibson said. “We
cannot pursue vessels into other countries’ waters.”
Gibson said no Mexican vessels were nearby and the
ship steamed on toward the central Mexican coast.
Capt. Aristides Palma Palma, harbormaster in Tam
pico, said by telephone that the Hermann would dock
there later in the day.
The Cuban Embassy in Mexico City charged that the
Hermann was attacked in Mexican waters, but that was
denied by Mexico’s Foreign Ministry and the U.S. gov
ernment.
Cuba’s official news agency Prensa Latina said the
ship, carrying a 12-man crew, had a cargo of 10 tons of
chromium and was operated by the Guamar Shipping
Co. of Cuba. However, Gibson said the Coast Guard
talked to the ship’s master by radio and he claimed the
vessel had no cargo.
The master also knew that Panama had given per
mission for the Coast Guard to board, but he still didn’t
stop, Gibson said.
Gorbachev remains party head,
denies rumors of resignation
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MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail S.
Gorbachev on Wednesday denied a
report he might resign as head of
the Communist Party while remain
ing Soviet president, and a leading
newspaper called him too valuable to
risk losing.
Another newspaper, the party da
ily Pravda, urged authorities to
strengthen the powers of the presi
dency to protect Gorbachev from ef
forts to oust him.
Correspondents covering Gorba
chev’s meeting with Brazilian presi
dent-elect Fernando Collor de Mello
asked about a Western television re
port that he was considering quitting
the party leadership.
“All this is groundless,” Gorba
chev said in remarks that led the So
viet television news Wednesday
night. “It is in someone’s interest to
propagate such things.”
He added that similar rumors are
becoming common in the Soviet
Union, and “it demonstrates that we
are a different country, a different
society. Everything is discussed, and
discussed openly.”
Gorbachev has strengthened the
presidency and tried to shift power
from the ruling Communist Party to
the elected government. But it is far
from clear whether the reforms have
f pne far enough for him to dare re-
inquishing the top post in the party,
which has been the source of power
for all previous Soviet leaders.
The Pravda article, based on a de
bate among prominent figures, ap
peared to tell readers that party
power still is paramount and that the
presidency is not strong enough to
be the country’s main leadership
post.
The political turmoil comes while
the Soviet Union is torn by national
ist and ethnic violence in Azerbaijan,
drives for independence in several
republics and an economic crisis.
It also comes just five days before
what is expected to be a fiery meet
ing of the party’s Central Committee
— the one body with the official
power to remove Gorbachev as party
leader.
Progressives hope to present an
alternative party program at the
meeting.
McMoscow
gets first taste
of McDonald’
MOSCOW (AP) — Americal
fast food got off to a fast star!
here Wednesday, with thousancl
of people lining up beneath itt|
golden arches and hammer;
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Donald’s “gamhurger.”
They also eagerly tried “diiji
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bag packed with unfamiliartreatl
like cheeseburgers and fishsandf
wiches. “I’m taking it backfortht|
girls at the factory to try.”
Unlike nearly ail other Wesil
ern companies opening in Mos-I
cow, McDonald’s is selling forrul
hies, which are worthless outsidel
the Soviet Union and won’t evenl
buy much in their homeland[
w ith its chronic shortages. It tool!
McDonald’s of Canada 14 yeatsl
but thousands of Soviets
got a first-hand look at such alienl
concepts as efficiency and fasif
frienaly service.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man arrested for de
serting from the Army nearly 30 years ago knew
he might be picked up at the airport when he re
turned to the United States from East Germany.
But 30 relatives who came to greet him were
stunned.
“I think this must be what it was like in East
Germany before the wall came down,” Arnold
Kephart’s sister, Alice Smith, said. “We do live in
a free country, or so we thought.”
Kephart, 53, was being held at the Fort Riley,
Kan., Army base Wednesday on a warrant charg
ing him with desertion.
He was arrested Tuesday night at Eppley Air
field by military and civilian police as relatives
looked on. Kephart was allowed to talk to his 86-
year-old father and sister before being taken
away.
Some family members came from as far away
as Arkansas to greet Kephart, who was accompa
nied by his son, Frankie, and who, according to
his attorney, had tried to escape from East Ger
many several times.
Kephart believed he might be arrested at the
airport, Smith said.
“We thought it was a possibility, but we didn’t
think it would be handled in this manner,” said
Smith’s husband, Roy. “... Theyjust took him off
the plane.”
Kephart’s attorney, James Martin Davis, said
military police didn’t show him an arrest warrant
and wouldn’t allow him to speak to his client until
civilian police intervened.
“It was an absolute worst-case scenario for tit
image of the United States military,” Davis saicf
Kephart and his son “thought they’d left a totals
tartan country,” he said.
An Army spokesman said he wasn’t awareotj
all the circumstances surrounding the arrest,f
defended the Army’s action.
“How many ways can you arrest somebody:]
Lt. Col. Dick Bridges said in a telephone inteij
view from Washington.
Kephart will be transferred Thursday to Fori
Sill, Okla., Capt. Ed Garven, a Fort Riley spota]
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