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WORLD & NATION 10
Friday, April 20,1990
U.S. hostage’s release postponed
Kidnappers repeat demand, renew threats in lengthy communique
VOL
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Pro-
Iranian kidnappers said Thursday
they postponed indefinitely the re
lease of an American hostage be
cause the United States refused to
send a senior State Department offi
cial to Syria.
The Islamic Jihad for the Liber
ation of Palestine in a lengthy
statement repeated its demand that
John Kelly, U.S. assistant secretary
of state for Near Eastern affairs, fly
to Damascus.
It also renewed threats to attack
jetliners and airports used to trans
port thousands of Soviet Jewish emi
grants to Israel. Much of the 500-
word communique was devoted to
the rise in Jewish emigrants, who
Arab leaders say could strengthen
Israel and displace Palestinians from
the occupied territories.
In Damascus, Syrian Loreign Min
ister Earouk al-Sharaa said his gov
ernment has “been exerting a great
deal of influence” to secure the hos
tage release by Sunday. He would
not elaborate.
President Bush said the United
States has “been disappointed be
fore” by dashed hopes for the re
lease of American hostages and re
peated that he will not meet the
demands of kidnappers.
“The United States does not
knuckle under to demands,” said
Bush when asked why he did not dis
patch Kelly to Damascus.
The kidnappers’ statement was
accompanied by an instant photo
graph of Robert Polhill, one of three
U.S. educators held by the group
since Jan. 24, 1987. It was delivered
to the Beirut newspaper an-Nahar
and to a Western news agency.
In a communique Wednesday, the
group said Kelly should go to Dam
ascus “to coordinate some final steps
to guarantee success within 48
hours.” They said a hostage would
be freed within that time frame but
did not say which one.
The U.S. Ambassador to Syria,
Edward Djerjian, flew back to Dam
ascus on Thursday. He and Kelly
had been at a diplomatic meeting in
West Germany.
Djerjian held a series of meetings
at Syria’s Foreign Ministry. He did
not speak to reporters.
Informed sources in Damascus,
speaking on condition of anonymity,
confirmed the problem with the hos
tage-release centered on whether
Kelly, the former U.S. ambassador
to Lebanon, would go to Damascus.
The kidnappers had said Wednes
day that a captive would be freed
within 48 hours, or by Friday eve-
Bush emphasizes Soviet coercion tactics
push U.S. patience, reaction to limits
ning, in response to requests fttn
Iran and Syria. Their leaders tai
encouraged an end to the hostaj
crisis. The group implied that sot
sort of exchange was involved,
That communique was acconip;
nied by an instant photograph,
Jesse Turner of Boise, Idaho-th.
first photo of him alone since thre
months after his abduction. Hit
group also holds Alann Steen.
The new statement said: “Asfoi
the release of the American hostajt
arrangements had been undent*
on the basis that they would be con
eluded and finalized.
“But Kelly’s failure to respondfc
so far frustrated the release, whicl
made us postpone this operation on,
til the picture is cleared,” it added
near t he end of the statement.
Women
(Continued from page 1)
KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — President Bush said
Thursday “there are limits” to U.S. patience for Soviet
coercion of Lithuania but refused to say when or how
he might respond.
As Moscow imposed new pressure on the breakway
Baltic republic by curbing oil and natural gas supplies,
Bush said, “I am greatly concerned by this escalation in
terms of using energy to push the Lithuanians into
line.”
Bush, asked the extent of his patience, said, “Yes,
there are limits and, having said that, I am convinced
that Mr. Gorbachev knows there are limits.”
Bush made his comments at a news conference fol
lowing a day of talks with French President Francois
Mitterrand at a plush oceanside resort.
With palm trees and sparkling water as the backdrop
for an outdoor news conference, the two leaders met
with reporters for 78 minutes.
On various subjects:
—Bush, when asked about a report that Mideast ex
tremists had postponed a plan to release an America
hostage in Lebanon, said, “We’ve been disappointed be
fore, hopes raised only to have them dashed by exces
sive speculation.”
The Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine said
the release of a hostage was postponed because of U.S.
refusal to send John Kelly, assistant secretary of state
for Middle Eastern affairs, to Syria to take part.
“The United States does not knuckle under to de
mands,” said Bush when asked why he did not dispatch
Kelly as demanded by the group.
The president said he was grateful to Syria “for try
ing to play a constructive role” regarding the hostages.
—Mitterrand, defending his country’s ties with Libya
and Iran, said he could not judge whether they were re
sponsible for hostage-taking. Bush noted that the
United States does not have ties with either country and
said, “We can’t have normal relations when hostages are
held.”
—Mitterrand said he had proposed a summit of the
16 NATO allies before the end of the year to discuss the
changing face of Europe and that Bush had concurred
with the idea.
On Lithuania, Bush and Mitterrand joined in calling
for dialogue to end the confrontation between Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and the leaders of the
breakaway Baltic republic.
Armies’ truce may end nine years of civil war
Contras concede to cease-fire
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) —
Nine years of civil war that took
30,000 lives appeared near an end
Thursday when Contra guerrillas,
leftist Sandinistas and the incoming
government agreed to a truce and a
deadline for the rebels to disarm.
“With this accord we conclude the
peace process that started with the
elections,” said Antonio Lacayo, se
nior negotiator for President-elect
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, after
the accords were read at a dawn
news conference.
The accord sets a cease-fire that
began at noon Thursday; the with
drawal of Sandinista military forces
at least 12 miles from the borders of
five security zones, to be completed
by Saturday; and the immediate
gathering of all Contra fighters
within the zones. About 9,000 Con
tra fighters are in Nicaragua.
An addendum said the Contras
will start turning in their weapons on
Wednesday afternoon, April 25, af
ter Chamorro takes office from
President Daniel Ortega, with the
Contra fighting force to be dis
banded completely by June 10.
Missions from the United Nations
and the Organization of American
States — as well as Roman Catholic
Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo —
were charged with supervising the
cease-fire and demobilization.
The accord, completed after 14
hours of negotiations, does not meet
“With this accord we
conclude the peace
process that started with
the elections.”
— Antonio Lacayo,
Senior negotiator for
President-elect
the Sandinista Front’s demand that
the Contras disband by April 25.
But it also makes no mention of
what had been a key Contra demand
-— that the Sandinista People’s Army
be neutralized as a condition for the
rebels to surrender their weapons.
Chamorro’s United National Op
position alliance clearly gained the
most from the agreement — the op
portunity to start its government in
peace, instead of in the middle of
civil war, bitter recriminations or
anti-government strikes, as had been
feared.
After nine years of civil war that
cost 30,000 people their lives in a
country of 3 million, each side was
suspicious of the other’s motives and
neither wanted to be the first to put
down its weapons.
The army is controlled by the
Sandinista party, and the Contras in
sisted that they wouldn’t disarm un
til they were sure Chamorro had full
control of the government and it was
safe for them to return home.
Under a protocol with Chamor
ro’s coalition, the Sandinistas agreed
to depoliticize the army and reduce
its size.
Some Sandinistas appeared disap
pointed the accord did not call for
the immediate disbanding of the
Contras, and a mob of youths chant
ing anti-Contra slogans surrounded
a senior U.S. official’s car hours after
the agreement was signed.
Citing the recent Supreme Coun
decision concerning abortion and
the restrictive laws being debated
and passed in state legislatures, sht
said “those votes don’t represent tte
society.
“And one of the reasons they get
away with it is because we are not
there in enough numbers to stop it,’
Smeal said.
Because of the underrepresenta
tion of women in Congress, issue
that af fect women are not given ad
equate priority, she said. Smeal
talked about her experience fightic;
for legislation to help battered
women.
"I can’t tell you what it’s liketobeg
for better legislation to protect
women who are victims of domestit
violence,” she said.
“Well I for one am sick ofbeg
ging,” she said. “And I think a loto(
the feminist movement is. We'refed
up, and we should be; and we should
have been fed up a long time ago.
“The biggest mistake the femim
movement has made, and 1 believt
women in general have made, is gift
and give and give because we re too
reasonable,” Smeal said. "They gift
us a ridiculous decision and we sat
‘OK, we’ll do it next time.’”
Smeal also talked about the world
population explosion and said she
disagrees with the United States’ef
forts to curb it.
She said the United States, “inthe
name of morality," should not
threaten to cut foreign aid to coun
tries that will not acquiesce to US
demands. “Poor nations ” cannot af
ford birth control and often resortlo
abortion, usually illegal, she said.
“We have created an atmosphere
of terror,” she said. “We havesoter
rorized health care workers that they
are af raid to treat botched abortion!
in some areas.”
The United States makes people
believe that its 25 percent induced
abortion rate is a "holocaust," she
said. But that figure is meaningless
unless compared to the abortion rate
for the world, which is 30 percent
she said.
“We can’t look at just what hap
pens to 250 million Americans,” she
said, “but what happens to five bil
lion plus inhabitants of the Earth.
She said those who are in power
and those who will be in power have
a duty to the future generations.
“We of this generation must leave
a better world than we found,"she
said.
Lithuania maintains stance despite
Kremlin’s tight economic sanctions
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. (AP) — The Kremlin
tightened its economic squeeze Thursday on
Lithuania by shutting off more than 80 percent
of the Baltic republic’s gas supply following a
complete cutoff of oil the previous night.
The independence-minded republic promptly
ordered that the first to lose their energy sup
plies will be Soviet military bases and factories
run by Moscow, according to the parliament’s
press office.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev started
his most drastic attempt to force Lithuania to re
treat from its March 11 declaration of indepen
dence late Wednesday when a pipeline to Lithua
nia’s only oil refinery was shut off.
Lithuanian Energy Minister Leonas Asmantas
ordered immediate gasoline rationing of 30 liters
per month for private cars, according to Daina
Kalendra of the parliamentary press office. A
liter is slightly more than one quart.
“Where we can give up the use of gas, gasoline,
any heating or lighting, let us do this, and then
we will be able to survive longer and, maybe, we
will not be intimidated by these sanctions,” gov
ernment spokesman Ceslovas Jursenas said on
Lithuanian radio.
Lithuania, forcibly incorporated into the So
viet Union in 1940, is entirely dependent on
Moscow for its oil and gas, which it receives at be-
low-market prices.
Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Vadim
Perfiliev told reporters Thursday that Moscow
“might have some other restrictions” to impose
on Lithuania, but he refused to elaborate.
In Key Largo, Fla., President Bush and visiting
French President Francois Mitterrand said they
were both “deeply disturbed” by the Kremlin’s
recent steps regarding Lithuania. Bush told re
porters he was “considering appropriate mea
sures to be taken in light of Soviet actions.”
Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Pru-
nskiene was in Norway to see about contracting
for expensive Western oil and seeking foreign
aid to pay for it.
Officials told a news conference Thursday
night other supplies were being cut as well, but
refused to tell reporters what they were, Kalen
dra said.
Lithuania normally produces its own electric
ity at a nuclear power plant at Ignalina, but it is
shut for repairs. Kalendra said the republic has
experienced no electricity shortage, and other
plants are operating, including a hydroelectric
plant near Kaunas.
Lithuania has virtually no foreign current'
Asmantas said the republic needs about 500,OW
tons of oil a month — about $55 million worthal
world prices.
Prunskiene acknowledged the Soviet na"
could easily blockade Lithuania’s harbors, bit
said that would be “unthinkable.”
Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis
said Thursday that Lithuania will survive on its
reserves while waiting for Western help.
“We have no other way. We are waiting fro®
the East for direct negotiations and from th(
West for more ... support,” he said in aTVintet
view with Cable News Network, broadcast fro®
Vilnius.
Landsbergis again urged major Western dt
mocracies to come to Lithuania’s aid, addin!
Lithuania already received expressions anil
E romises of support from Czechoslovakia, Iff
md, France, Italy, some Scandinavian countrif
and its fellow Baltic states Estonia and Latvia.
Dainis Ivans, president of the Latvian People'
Front, said he views the fuel crunch on Lithuania
as political pressure on Latvia as well. Bothlatvt
and Estonia are following Lithuania’s footsteps®
pushing for independence.
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