Marshfield News-Herald from Marshfield, Wisconsin • 7

Page 7 Tuesday, February 7, 1989 Marshfield News-Herald Nominees News digest Talks under way in Poland WARSAW. Poland (AP) The eovernment and fKa nnndHn down at the same table to seek a common course for Polnd' fiita. but Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa cautioned that deep distrust hangs over the historic talks. Fifty-seven delegates of divergent views sat at a sivwinllv iiH circular table under the glare of television lights for Monday's remarkable opening session. Opposition activists faced officials who had interned tbem durinir the 1981 crackdown that suppressed Solidarity, dehatintr conditions for the free trade union movement's reinstatement and a possible opposition role in government.

It was the first time since the Communists consolidated rower after World War II with Soviet backing that a cross-section of the op- 1 i ii defended on ethics WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush said he expects members of his administration to "bend over backwards" to avoid any appearance of ethical conflicts after several of his top appointees faced questions on that very issue. Bush on Monday said that two of them, White House legal counsel Boyden Gray, who is also Bush's top ethics adviser, and Cabinet nominee Dr. Louis Sullivan, had gone beyond what was legally required by disentangling themselves from outside business arrangements. And Bush said he had seen nothing so far beyond rumor and innuendo regarding a third, Defense Secretary-designate John Tower, whose confirmation is on hold while a Senate committee checks new allegations of drinking and womanizing by the former senator. Bush launched his administration with a series of events in which he proclaimed his commitment to ethical government, but several of his nominees ran into questions on such issues almost immediately.

Last week, his choice as agriculture secretary, Clayton Yeutter, acknowledged letting" a tobacco company pay for a lavish inaugural-week reception. posiuun naa Degun iormai taiKs with authorities over how to run Poland and salvage an economy in crisis. Delegates representing the opposition, the Communist Party, the government and the influential Roman Catholic Church met for about three hours and agreed to break up into three working groups beginning Wednesday. Revelers get an early start NEW ORLEANS (AP) French Quarter bars were standintr- room-only early today as die-hard drinkers driven indoors by frigid weather got an early start on the nation's bawdiest and most raucous holiday, Mardi Gras. Eleven parades were scheduled in the New Orleans area, and ud to 1.8 million people were expected for the celebration of excess that -in(L ends Carnival's month of balls and two weeks of parades.

The festivities have been marred by the slaying of a tourist known as "Mr. Mardi Gras" to his friends. T. bmm.jF iiili liii.rnnwniillr.fa Mardi Gras ends midnight, when Ash Wednesday ushers in six Reunited weeks pf Lenten repentance to this predominantly Roman Catholic city. withdrawal from the country.

The pullout, under a agreement, should be complete by Feb. 1 5. (AP LaserPhoto) Flowers are given to a Soviet soldier back from Afghanistan and reunited with his family in Termez, U.S.SJL, on Monday. The Soviet military is making a Paraguay vote plan unsettling and therefore none of their ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) voter members are included on Opposition politicians who have for years pushed for free and fair elections say coup leader Gen. Andres Rodriguez' setting of Xast year we had about a million people on the streets during the day," said Ray Holman, chief of police field operations.

think that if the weather doesn't get totally unbearable well get at least that number again, maybe more." N-waste policy clarified LANSING, Mich. (AP) The governor of Washington has promised that his state will continue accepting low-level radioactive waste from Michigan, Gov. James Blanchard says. But Blanchard said Monday that if Michigan withdraws from a Midwest group that chose Michigan for a regional disposal site, Washington then will refuse to accept any more waste. Meanwhile, opponents of storing nuclear waste in Michigan announced a rally for tonight to precede Blanchard's State of the State address.

"We have organized this rally because we are concerned about the state of our state, about the state of our water, our air and the life this land supports said Ellen Beal, an Ingham County commissioner and co-chairwoman of Don't Waste Michigan. The seven-state Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission chose Michigan in July 1987 to provide a disposal site for radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, laboratories, industry and hospitals. Blanchard last week halted the process of finding a spot for the elections for May 1 will not give them time to organize cam wounded together did not exceed 50. Upon taking power Friday, Rodriguez promptly promised democratic reforms. But the opposition expressed skepticism about his hasty calling of elections.

"I personally can't even be a candidate for anything because I'm not registered" to vote, said Domingo Laino, a former political exile and leader of what is thought to be Paraguay's biggest opposition group, the Authentic Radical Liberal Party. "Our people are not registered" either, he said. Laino suggested the May 1 election date "could be interpreted as a trap" set by the ruling Colorado Party, which after 41 consecutive years in power is rich and well-organized. Stroessner, now in exile in Brazil, ruled Paraguay for nearly 35 years after seizing power in a 1954 coup and was the Colorado Party's candidate every five years in elections widely believed to be fraudulent. Rodriguez, who was Stroessner's second-in-command, was asked at the news conference whether he would be the next Colorado Party candidate.

"The Colorado Party, not selects the candidate," he said, though adding: "It is every Paraguayan's duty to serve his country. Being president is a great honor. If I am called to serve, I will." In setting the election date, Rodriguez cited a constitutional clause stating that in the event of a president's resignation, incapacitating illness or death, the provisional president must call for elections within three months. The government's position is that Stroessner resigned. Carmen de Lara Castro, a noted human rights activist and member of Laino's party, said May 1 "may be what the constitution calls for, but it is really too fast and will only favor the government party because the other parties are not prepared." The Colorado Party, with 1.4 million members, counts on an extensive political machine that extends to the smallest towns in the countryside.

Three of the four parties in the opposition umbrella group National Accord, including Laino's, were deemed illegal by Stroessner disposal facility and threatened to withdraw from the commission unless the federal law was changed. Michigan was within a few weeks of spelling out where a disposal facility was possible in registration lists. Laino said the little time that remains before May 1 is hardly sufficient to campaign, let alone register voters. Firearm waiting period proposed MADISON (AP) A Dane County Board member is proposing that handguns and assault rifles be banned in the county, and that it impose controls on other types of firearms. There would be a 30-day waiting period for rifle and shotgun sales and countywide gun registration under the plan by Supervisor Mary Ryan of Madison.

Cocaine seized PARIS (AP) Police tipped -off by U.S. and Italian investigators found 1,038 pounds of cocaine, France's largest seizure of the drug, in a yacht being towed across the country, the Interior Ministry said. Michigan when he acted. Airline gripes on increase WASHINGTON (AP) Late flights and baggage problems in paigns. Some say they believe Rodriguez set the early date precisely because the opposition cannot possibly be ready by then to mount a serious challenge to the long-entrenched ruling party.

Rodriguez, who ousted dictator Gen. Alfredo Stroessner in a bloody coup last week, dissolved parliament on Monday and set the May 1 date for presidential and congressional elections. He said only the Communist Party would be banned from fielding candidates. At the first presidential news conference Paraguayans can remember, the 65-year-old Rodriguez denied rumors of his involvement with the drug trade, saying they "were spread by people trying to defame me." He said Paraguay, reputedly a major transit point for cocaine, would crack down on narcotics trafficking and cooperate in international anti-drug campaigns, including those of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Rodriguez also denied reports that as many as 300 people died in the coup. He said the dead and creased among major U.S. airlines and consumer complaints rose by 50 percent in the latest monthly government report, but the industry is still doing better than it was a year ago. The nation's 13 largest domestic carriers reported that 76.1 percent of their flights were on time in December, compared with 77.7 percent a month earlier. The rate was still nearly 10 points better than December 1987 when one-third of all flights were late.

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