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Wednesday, July 17,1991
Senate panel postpones hearings of CIA nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate Intelligence Committee
on Tuesday put off for two
months confirmation hearings
for Robert Gates, President
Bush's nominee to head the CIA,
while it seeks further answers to
questions about what Gates
knew of the Iran-Contra affair.
The panel, with the concur
rence of the White House, voted
unanimously to begin the hear
ings Sept. 16.
The committee also voted to
grant limited immunity from fur
ther prosecution to Alan Piers, a
former CIA official who has told
prosecutors that top agency offi
cials covered up their knowledge
of the affair and Oliver North's
secret network to supply guns to
Nicaraguan rebels.
Piers has pleaded guilty to two
counts of withholding informa
tion from Congress in the scan
dal in a plea bargain with pros
ecutors.
Committee Chairman David
Boren said the decision to delay
the hearings came after consulta
tions with Gates and senior
White House officials, who had
concluded that delaying the start
of hearings would be better than
Bush himself had delivered an emo
tional defense of Gates just four days
earlier, calling for immediate hearings
and accusing the Senate panel of pan
icking and running "like a covey of
quail" under public pressure to
scrutinze Gates further.
a start-and-stop process that
could drag on for months.
Bush himself had delivered an
emotional defense of Gates just
four days earlier, calling for im
mediate hearings and accusing
the Senate panel of panicking
and running "like a covey of qu
ail" under public pressure to
scruhnize Gates further.
Bush changed his mind be
cause of the legal and procedural
problems the committee faces,
said Boren, an Oklahoma Demo
crat.
Boren and senior committee
Republican Frank Murkowski,
R-Alaska, said they may also is
sue subpoenas later — but with
out any guarantees of immunity
— for Clair George, CIA director
of operations during the Iran-
Contra period, and for Jerry
Gruner, then chief of the agen
cy's Latin American division.
George retired from the CIA in
1987.
Gruner still works for the
agency as a station chief in a Eu
ropean capital. His name had
not been made public until Bo
ren did so Tuesday.
North's calendars show that
he was in contact with Gruner
during 1986 when Gruner was
chief of the CIA's Latin Ameri
can division. Gruner was Piers'
immediate superior.
Piers has told prosecutors that
he told George of the diversion
of arms sale proceeds to the re
bels late in the summer of 1986,
but that George already knew
about it when Piers told him.
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Soviets offered relief
Summit leaders grant Gorbachev economic aid
LONDON (AP) — Western
leaders hailed Mikhail S. Gorba
chev's efforts toward "an open
and democratic Soviet Union"
on Tuesday and searched for
agreement on how to translate
their good wishes into specific
economic help.
On the eve of the Soviet presi
dent's precedent-setting appear
ance at a free-world economic
summit. President Bush and Sec
retary of State James A. Baker III
promised Gorbachev would not
leave London "empty handed."
The seven largest industrial
democracies also endorsed a uni
versal register for arms transfers,
vowed to leave all sanctions on
Iraq until it complies with re
maining U.N. sanctions and en
dorsed Bush's new push for a
Middle East peace.
The Mideast effort, given new
life with apparent conciliatory
movement by Syria, may be the
best chance yet for direct peace
talks between Israel and her
Arab neighbors. Baker told re
porters. But he cautioned that
there remain "plenty of hurdles.
We're not there by a long shot."
In a political communique that
highlighted the second day of
the annual gathering, the leaders
of the United States, Britain, Ja
pan, Germany, Prance, Italy and
Canada said their support for
political and economic reforms
undertaken by Gorbachev was
as "strong as ever."
"The scale of this undertaking
is enormous: an open and demo
cratic Soviet Union able to play
its full part in building stability
and trust in the world,' the joint
statement said. It also credited
Gorbachev with "new thinking"
in foreign policy.
In private sessions, the sum
mit leaders thrashed over what
form Western assistance to Mos
cow should take.
"There's no chance that he will
leave here empty handed,"
Baker said. "There are any num
ber of things the countries here
will agree should be done."
As Gorbachev arrived for a
subdued welcome at Heathrow
Airport outside London, the
summit leaders and their wives
f athered for a royal banquet at
uckingham Palace, finishing off
the middle of their three-day
meeting with a reception by
Queen Elizabeth II.
All seven nations agree that
there should at least he some
technical assistance and asso
ciate memberships for Moscow
in the International Monetary
Fund.
In London, Bush was asked
whether Gorbachev would leave
the summit with nothing to take
back to Moscow. "No, no, abso
lutely not," he said.
Baker said Bush and Gorba
chev — who meet for lunch on
Wednesday before Gorbachev
pleads his case to all Group of
Seven leaders — were to discuss
a new strategic arms reduction
treaty, but no agreement was ex
pected to be announced.
In his bid for aid, Gorbachev
depicted a Soviet Union on the
edge of economic collapse, citing
critical shortages of food ana
medicine. He said a worsening
of the situation could threaten
the democratic reform effort.
that the Soviets would b<
granted associate IMF status am
limited pledges of technical sup
port, but nothing dose to the $2!
Billion to $35 billion a year tha
Soviet supporters had hoped t(
get.
Still, the possibility of last-
minute surprises existed, given a
strong push by Germany, France
and Italy for a more concrete re
sponse to Gorbachev's pleas.
Gramm attacks EPA's emissions testing plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas
service station owners are riled
up over a government proposal
to centralize vehicle emissions
testing in El Paso and Houston,
which they claim would strip
them of substantial revenue and
cause long lines for motorists.
Sen. Phil Gramm calls the En
vironmental Protection Agency
proposal a "bureaucratic night
mare" and says it is "rigid, un
necessarily costly and remark
ably ineffident."
At issue are regulations the
EPA must write to enforce last
year's revisions to the Clean Air
Act, including enhanced vehicle
emissions inspections in cities
with the most severe pollution.
In Texas, only El Paso and Hous
ton would have to provide the
enhanced inspections.
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New Orleans disputes census,
count hurts federal funding
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Big Easy is having
a hard time swallowing the federal census count
that puts New Orleans below a half-million peo
ple, at a yet to be determined cost to the city's
pocketbook and pride.
"It makes you fall into the Little League of cit
ies," Councilman Lambert Bossiere said.
"You just don't hit that magic number. Every
body wants a city over 500,000. It hurts you in
business, regardless of what handout the govern
ment was going to give you. ... It hurts you in ev
erything you do."
The federal government on Monday rejected
demands by cities and states for a statistical ad
justment to add 5.3 million Americans to the 1990
census, including more than 18,000 in New Or
leans.
The government's count gave New Orleans a
population of 496,938. After extensive analysis,
the Census Bureau proposed adjusting the count
by 3.5 percent to 515,000.
New Orleans was among 32 cities, states, orga
nizations and individuals who asked a federal
court to order the census corrected. The court in
stead ordered Commerce Secretary Robert Mos-
bacher to decide.
Mosbacher's decision to stick with the actual
count will send the plaintiffs back to court next
week, a spokesman for New York state Attorney
General Robert Abrams said.
New Orleans officials predicted the city would
lose at least $1,000 in federal aid during the 1990s
for every uncounted resident, for a total of
$18,062,000.
"This is just another nail in the coffin of what's
happening to local governments, especially in
older cities like New Orleans," said Leonard Sim
mons, the city's chief administrative officer.
The Battalion
is looking for a
Columnist
to work the second
summer session.
Applications are available in 216 Reed
McDonald and are due by Thursday at 5 p.m.
All majors welcome. No experience necessary
Congratulations to
Raquel Jones and Peter Wamock
The Battalion’s new copy editors.
Thanks to all those who applied.
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Inspection team hunts for
nuclear arms in Iraqi desert
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — The
job description is less than
inspiring: 14-hour days spent in
desert dust up to the kneecaps,
130-degree heat laced at times
with radioactivity, the occasional
gunshot.
But for the team of nuclear in
spectors from 22 countries,
many of them scholarly types
better suited to laboratories than
deserts, the opportunity to seek
out and destroy Iraq's nuclear
capability is not to be missed.
"I feel like I'm part of history.
We're doing something the
agency's never done before,"
said Richard Hooper, 49, a
Seattle resident who has been a
statistician for the International
Atomic Energy Agency for 2V2
years.
Under the cease-fire terms im
posed on Iraq by the United Na
tions after the Persian Gulf War,
the Vienna-based IAEA has been
conducting surprise checks on
the Iraqis with an aggressiveness
unprecedented in its 35-year his
tory as a global watchdog over
nuclear development.
With just 200 full-time field in
spectors operating worldwide,
the agency normally makes only
limited inspections of uranium
stocks at a country's invitation.
And it doesn't oversee destruc
tion of facilities, as it is now as
signed to do.
What inspectors have found
by trekking through scorching
desert wilderness and once-se-
cret army bases has confirmed
U.N. suspicions that Iraq had
developed an elaborate clandes
tine program to manufacture
weapons-grade uranium.
Still, members of the 28-per
son team now in Baghdad say
they don't reflect much on the
publicity suddenly surrounding
them as the most unlikely front
line troops in the allied cam
paign to neutralize Saddam Hus
sein.
There's not much time to re
flect.