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News Journal, Mansfield, O. Friday, August 7,1987 8-b NationWorld Nancy Reagan's part in peace plan disputed on sat. aric i Reagan had assured him he was sincere. Wright also said Reagan's top advisers White House chief of staff Howard Baker, Secretary of State George Shultz and national security adviser Frank Carlucci collaborated with him on the plan. Shultz was at first unwilling to change the administration's policy, insisting that the current approach of aiding the Contras to force the Sandinistas into negotiations was the only one that would work.

Wright said Shultz later relented. Wright added that he thought Baker was behind many of the attitude changes, noting that he seemed to be in charge of the policy. At his briefing for news reporters Thursday, Wright tried to convince skeptics that the peace plan is not a ploy to elicit additional aid from Congress to the rebels. And he provided details of how he, Reagan, Baker, Shultz, Carlucci and Loeffler drafted the plan during the last two weeks. Wright said the process began two weeks ago when Loeffler, a longtime friend, fellow Texan and ex-legislative colleague, told him that because Reagan appeared to have "no credibility" on Contra aid since the Iran-Contra scandal erupted, he was ready to compromise and forge a bipartisan policy with the Democrats.

Recounting his conversation with Loeffler, Wright said he told the White House aide, "If the administration is really sincere and the president really, honest to God does want to make peace I want to be involved, and I'll do anything, everything, to make it work. "But if you're talking about a situation where the game is simply to go through the motions, offering a peace initiative and the purpose is for it to be rejected so that this can provide an excuse or justification for a renewed call for more money for the Contras, then count me out." Wright said Loeffler assured him the president was sincere. Recalling Loeffler's remarks, Wright quoted him as saying, 'The president is sincere and he told me also that Nancy Reagan had talked to the president insisting, urging that the president needs to be remembered as the president of peace down there." Knlght-Rlddar Newspaper WASHINGTON First lady Nancy Reagan is partly responsible for the White House's new Nicaraguan peace proposal because she convinced her husband that he needed to leave office "remembered as the president who made peace," House Speaker Jim Wright said Thursday. "I was told that the president is sincere, and I was told that Nancy Reagan had talked to he president insisting, urging that the president should be remembered as the president who made peace," the Texas Democrat said Thursday. The first lady's press secretary, Elaine Crispen, however, said Reagan was not responsible for the Nicaragua initiative.

"I know, for a fact, that in the case of the Nicaragua initiative, Mrs. Reagan learned of it after her husband briefed her on it," the press secretary said. "And, of course, she is 150 percent supportive of it. But the initiative belongs to the president." But Wright said he learned of Mrs. Reagan's role in the Nicaragua peace plan from Thomas Loeffler, the recently appointed White House Contra-aid lobbyist who got in touch with Wright two weeks ago about forging a bipartisan policy toward Nicaragua.

That set in motion the process that ultimately led to the Nicaragua initiative Reagan unveiled Wednesday. The plan sets a 60-day deadline for negotiating a cease-fire and a timetable for restoring free elections and other democratic changes. Once a cease-fire is in place, U.S. military aid to the Contras would be halted. The proposal also drops a previous U.S.

demand that the Sandinistas negotiate directly with the Contras something the Sandinistas have refused to do. The White House press office had no comment on Wright's remarks about Nancy Reagan's involvement, but a White House official familiar with the peace plan said Reagan originally had been reluctant to accept anything that suggested ending aid to the Contras, which the new plan does. For his part, Wright said he was confident the administration was serious about the Nicaragua plan because A 1 i DELEGATES LIMIT POWERS OF NATIONAL LEGISLATURE. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7, 1787 it '-4 of iu legislature, raise armies and call forth the militia to execute laws, enforce treaties, suppress insurrection and repel invasions.

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Qnncinallv Uov. Edmund Summit fails to get peace agreement GUATEMALA CITY (AP) The presidents of five Central American nations adjourned 10 hours of talks early today without approving any part of a 10-point plan aimed at bringing peace to the region. "We hope more will come out of this (summit) than was expected," Foreign Minister Mario Quinones of Guatemala said during a break in the talks Thursday night. But he acknowledged, "There are some points of difference." Quinones said the presidents hadn't formally approved any part of the multifaceted regional peace plan offered by Costa Rica. Another diplomat said the presidents were especially divided over timing of proposed cease-fires in the region's domestic insurgencies.

Presidents Vinicio Cerezo of Guatemala, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador and Jose Azcona Hoyo of Honduras went into a closed-door meeting at about 3 p.m. Thursday and did not adjourn until 1 a.m. today. They were scheduled to meet again today to discuss competing proposals from Costa Rica and Honduras for bringing peace to the region. The presidents agreed before the summit not to formally consider a proposal by President Reagan for ending Nicaragua's civil war, although Cerezo said he and his colleagues would discuss the plan.

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Your actual signature must be within the designated box in the coupon. Kuwait. "We don't need any more hastily contrived solutions to what has happened over there," added Rep. Robert Thomas, D-Georgia. "It seems to me that if we need to land helicopters in Kuwait, the first step we ought to take is to make that request," argued Rep.

James Saxton, R-New Jersey. "It seems like we are going through the back door here when we ought to be knocking on the front door." Traficant dismissed as "political rhetoric" the arguments that the U.S. has not requested helicopter bases in Kuwait. If the U.S. has not made such a request, he added, "we are bigger fools than we are now." Traficant was not without supporters on the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee during Thursday's hearing.

His bill has drawn 79 co-sponsors, including committee chairman Walter Jones, D-North Carolina, who said that in addition to demanding helicopter bases the U.S. should charge Kuwait a fee for the protection of its vessels. Other co-sponsors of Traficant's legislation include Reps. Dennis Eckart, D-Mentor, Mary Rose Oakar, D-Cleveland, and Douglas Applegate, D-Steubenville. WASHINGTON Ohio Congressman James Traficant, D-Youngstown, walked into an ambush Thursday before a House committee debating his bill ending U.S.

protection of Kuwaiti oil tankers unless Kuwait allows U.S. minesweeping helicopters to operate from its soil. A State Department official told the panel the U.S. has not asked Kuwait to allow use of its territory, and that Kuwait has cooperated with the Navy's Persian Gulf efforts. "Reports that Kuwait has refused such bases are simply not true," said Marion Creekmore, deputy assistant Secretary of State.

That prompted Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pennsylvania, to accuse Traficant of "an effort to grandstand something without doing the proper research." Rep. Claudine Schneider, R-Rhode Island, charged Traficant with promoting a "machismo approach" to foreign policy. Rep. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, joined the fray, criticizing Traficant for offering his legislation without asking the Navy if it wants to operate helicopters from BHB9B8BBGBBBBBB 1 i i News Journal HtnaCaaw! Owi 'mm Wr-faw i.

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