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Page 8 The Battalion Monday, February 24, Exiled Haitian leader negotiates Aristide meets with parliament, tries to pave way for return WASHINGTON (AP) - Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide began negotiations with Haitian parliament leaders Satur day, but prospects ap peared dim for a quick break in the five-month crisis that has followed his ouster. Aristide, forced out of the country in a Sept. 30 coup, met at Organization of American States headquarters with the man he is trying to install as prime minister and with lead ers of the Haitian National Assem bly. But the military-installed inter im government in Haiti dis avowed the talks, saying it would not allow the Roman Catholic priest's return to power or a pro posed OAS peacekeeping mission. Aristide Neither the interim govern ment nor the military was repre sented in the talks, although law makers attending the sessions have been cooperating with the current government. Both the lawmakers and Aris tide supporters from Haiti said be fore the meeting that they would urge the elected president to make more concessions. A key problem is Aristide's insistence upon a purge of the military to eliminate those who ousted him. "I am the only one who is mak ing concessions to put the country back on track," Aristide said be fore the meeting. Meeting with him were Rene Theodore, a moderate communist leader Aristide wants to install as prime minister to pave the way for his return. Chamber of Deputies leader Alexandre Medart and Sen ate President Dejean Belizaire. OAS Secretary General Joao Baena Soares and OAS negotiator Au gust© Ramirez Ocampo sat in on the meetings. Belizaire told a reporter as he entered the building that he had come "to discharge the mandate of the National Assembly" to ne gotiate and solve the crisis. As the officials met, nearly 200 Haitian-Americans and sympa thizers stood behind police barri cades outside the OAS headquar ters, chanting Aristide's name. One carried a sign reading "Free dom, Justice, Democracy for Haitians." Aristide, a 38-year-old activist Roman Catholic priest, was Haiti's first freely elected president. Lost presidential hopeful finds Secret Service TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Patrick Buchanan gains Secret Service protection this week, and his aides are hoping the escorts will at least keep the candidate from getting lost. Having agents map out routes and find exits might prevent a re currence of the confusion that hit the Buchanan campaign Saturday at the Greenville, S.C., airport. There, Buchanan stepped from his motorcade to an enthusiastic crowd of about 100 people who had come to see him off. After brief remarks and a lot of hand-shaking and autographs, the conservative commentator looked around anxiously. "We need an advance man to tell me where my plane is," Buchanan said. In fact, Buchanan's plane — an old, twin-engine, propeller-driven Convair aircraft that aides dub "Air Buchanan" — _ was parked in another part of the airport. It could be seen off in the dis tance behind a chain-link fence. The candidate's motorcade had already left, so he took a hike, leading his merry band of cheer ing, sign-waving supporters up and down curbs and through a parking lot to the distant fence and to a gate — that was locked. "Let me shake a few more hands," Buchanan improvised, cornered against the fence by the surging crowd, as aides scurried to find someone with a key. The candidate said a Secret Ser vice escort would have hurt him in New Hampshire, where he wanted to move among the people as unfettered as possible. But now that crowds have got ten bigger, and demonstrators more vocal, Buchanan told re porters he was opting for the pro tection, available to all major pres idential candidates. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Navy has removed short-range nuclear weapons from all but "a handful of ships" in line with President Bush's sweeping arms control initiative last fall. The Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Frank Kelso II, confirmed in a recent AP in terview that the service has moved more quickly than first thought and pulled the tactical nuclear weapons from its ves sels ahead of schedule. "We're moving right along," Kelso said. "We're getting pret ty close to having most of them off-loaded now. "I don't think every one of them is gone yet, but I think we are down to a handful of ships" that still have the weapons, said the four-star admiral. In September, Bush an nounced a package of sweeping arms control steps that included the elimination of all ground- launched, short-range nuclear weapons from posts around the world, amounting to about 2,100 warheads. The easing of tensions cicj between the United States the former Soviet Union moved the reasons to the short-range weapons, wl were first developed in 1950s to offset a possible sion by the overwhelming ber of Warsaw Pact tioi against the West. The president also remove nuclear cruise mis and bombs from the 1 submarines, battleships, ers, aircraft carriers and lac; based aircraft. The Navy's short-rangec, clear arsenal was composed about 500 nuclear bombs Tomahawk cruise missiles well as some 900 nuclear di bombs that could be delivei by aircraft. The service maintains a sive nuclear punch with the tercontinental ballistic carried by its submarines. But the removal of the si range weapons amounts revolutionary step for these;| vice, affecting its war-fighl doctrine as well as its tions at sea. Israeli, Arab arbitrators prepare to recommence peace talks WASHINGTON (AP) - Putting aside several explosive distractions, Israeli and Arab negotiators were poised Sunday to resume Mideast peace talks under the su pervision of an increasingly restless Bush administration. The fact that Israel, Syria, Palestinian Arabs, Lebanon and Jordan all agreed to send their delegations here indicated a joint commitment to keep negotiating even though their talks until now have been inconclusive. Officials of Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, said the Israeli delegation left for Washington on a char tered air force jet Sunday. Even this infor- □ Fighting between Israelis, Arabs ceases/Page 1 mation was given on the condition of anonymity. The parties also decided not to be side tracked by a flare-up of fighting in south ern Lebanon, a squabble over Israel's de tention of two Palestinian negotiators and Israel's difficult negotiations with the Bush administration over its request for help in borrowing $10 billion to absorb refugees. Shiite Muslim guerrillas withdrew about 200 of their fighters from the tense Israeli border area after halting rocket at tacks against Israel and its security zone in South Lebanon. An estimated 800 guer rillas remain in border villages that have been the scene of several days of fighting. On Sunday, a small pipe bomb explod ed at a bus stop in a Jewish area of Jerusalem, injuring one person. Fifteen Arabs were rounded up for questioning, police spokeswoman Anat Granit said. And the Israeli army said soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in separate confrontations Saturday in the occupied lands. Secretary of State James A. Baker III, a low-key monitor until now, may be ready to play a more assertive role in the round that opens here Monday provided the Palestinians flesh out their proposal for local self-rule and the Israelis provide a detailed response. Baker, in a recent message to Faisal Husseini, a senior Palestinian adviser, said he would like to bridge the two sides' positions. But Martin Indyk, executive director of The Washington Institute, a private re search group, suggested Friday that "the time is not right." Indyk predicted Baker would step in only after "everybody has a sense of what is the bottom line of all the parties." While holding talks with a joints tinian-Jordanian delegation, Israel will sume simultaneous discussions withSif and with Lebanon. These fronts have been less promis:; While Israel is willing, in principlfl extend limited self-rule to Palestinian! the West Bank and in Gaza, its disag:f ments with Syria and Lebanon ares er. Syria wants to recover the ( Heights, which it lost to Israel inthelf Six-Day War. Lebanon seeks Israel's ouster fro: security zone on Lebanese territon shields Israeli villages from guerrill, tacks. TEXAS ASM UN/VERS/TY Monday, February M f 1992 A Service of rm Department of Recreational Sports* ft******- iiiiiiiiiiiii |\|T7»Ynp YJk/ Event Open Close Trip Date Fee •Backpacking Trip NOW! TODAY! Feb. 28-Mar. 1 $40/45* •Rock Climbing Trip NOW! March 2 March 6-8 $42/48* •Kayak Workshop March 2 March 23 March 28-29 $40/45* Place •Canoe Trip March 2 March 30 April 3-5 $35/40* 1st SPRING BREAK TRIPS •River Trip- Big Bend Canyons NOW! Mar. 2 Mar. 14-22 $235/250* •Sea Kayaking-Matagorda 2nd Island Wildlife Refuge MAY BREAK TRIP •Backpacking the NOW! Mar. 2 Mar. 19-21 $193/205* Grand Canyon NOW! May 4 May 24-31 $248/260* 3rd Name Jermi McDermott Scott Southerland Total Time 27:50.00 :02.88 Amy Longmire Patrick Fitzgerald Total Time * This price is for non A&M affiliates. 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