: torture Page 2, The Herald, Tuesday, May 22, 1964 dally herald: Published every day af 201d Kulu Stree Jerrace, Bo. paar dstiing Publishers te . Authorized #3 second Clase mall." Registration“ Number re ‘Peatope paid \n cash, return postene: qaranieed Terrace: Circulation: G+AF . 615.4000 Publither - Gavid Hamilton’ Editor: Adverilsing Sala: Brian Gregg “Nick Walton, _ Stal Writers-Protographer Sports: Ralph Reschke , . 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Without police investigations, the government’s claim that killings ‘were carried out by right-wing extremists or the left-wing op-, position couldn’t be verified, the report said. QUOTED D'AUBUISSON Amnesty said its report was based on information from government sources, newspaper stories. and testimony collected last July from survivors of death squad attacks, It _ ‘quoted former top army Intelligence ; officer Roberto d’Aubuisson to back. - * up its charge.’ SOR Bes Veg cer ae Pa ae PIE It said d'Aubuisson, the far-right ‘ candidate recently defeated in the Salvadoran presidential election, : had stated that squads of soldiers ‘ were ordered to carry out killings and that fringe groups were not involved. : Amnesty quoted a National Police . defector as saying secret killing ' missions were underlaken by specially trained police units who - often disguised themselves as ; students or government opponents. - A survivor of an attempted : execution told amnesty researchers : that he was arrested by men in ‘ plainclothes, interrogated under at security _ferces : headquarters, lined up with others _ and shot in the head at close range. - He was the only one to survive, The report said decapitated and. disfigured corpses were routinely dumped in heavily patrolied areas near police or military establish- . ments to intimidate the population. “The government's total failure to make any effort to apprehend those who dispose of corpses in this way ~ . even though foreign investigators have often seen uniformed troops . operating near these dumps — is a - further clear indicator’ of the government’s involvement, the : report said. LACKS RESOURCES It acknowledged El Salvador lacks resources to investigate killings, but said more significant is the government's lack of political will to investigate. - he report said police are not carrying out routine investigation, medical authorities are not filing accurate or complete autopsy reports, and lawyers refuse to ’ represent relatives of victims, . Lawhers, forensic scientists, judges, witnesses and members of human rights groups who attempted to investigate disappearances and killings often became victims, it said. -In numerous instances of “disappearances” of foreigners, . relatives and lawyers received no co-operation from authorities, the report siad. Amnesty said the family of U.S. . reporter John Sullivan, who disappeared from his San Salvador hotel Dec. 24, 1980, got their first clue to his fate five months later after placing ads in a _ locat newspaper asking for information, A reader told them where local officials supervised by security forces had buried the body of an American whose hands and head had been removed to conceal his identity. Six months later a body was exhumed at the spot. In February 1983 it was Identifled by U.S. pathologists as Sullivan's. They said his wounds were con- sistent with death by detonation of a stick of dynamite placed In the mouth. - - we,. * ideological ' totalitarianism and democracy, we are not neutral, we are on the sideof - “Costa Rica modernizes its. defence forces . SAN JOSE (AP) — forces with weapons from the United States because of increased tension with Nicaragua, but it-denies there is any move away from Costa Rica’ 8 traditional neutral stance. - “T know there are forces who want, . to see us involved in the conflicts that unfortunately are being. suf- fered by our Central American brothers,” President -Luis Alberto Monge said in a recent speech. “But proclaimed official neutrality in the conflicts of other nations.” But he also told reporters; ‘In an hattle between democracy.” The newspaper La Nacion of San Jose later quoted Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega as contending that the The govern- - : Tent is modernizing its’ defence « having no army, have | United States is trying to draw Costa ‘Rica into the Central | American conflict. “Within the plans of the: ‘United States to involve Costa Rica™in’ the Central ‘American drama “-is"the arrival of teoops' in the next “few : months, including: engineers “who supposedly will build public works," Ortega was quoted as éaying. *’ RESPECTS NEUTRALITY U.S. officials have said” ‘they respect Costa Rica’s decision to stay neutral In Central Ameri¢a.:.:.: A U.S. diplomat said in a recent interview:. ‘Neutrality does not necessarily mean Costa Rita. is ‘ distancing itself from the United ‘States. “Much of Costa Rica's friendship value lies in its independence and the things it stands for. It would cheapen the coin if the portrayal of Costa Rica as a client state (of the United. States) Jpocotiies credible.” ”: Costa Rica allows the Niecraguan, rebel Revolutionary Democratic Alliance to; keep its political volvement: in Central . _ American ‘hostilities, ares “There have been several: ‘border ‘dricidents “with Nicaragua, ' most _ recently an exchange of gunfiré May “3 ati the border crossing point of Penas, Blancas. Costa Rica” quickly ‘asked fora. a permanent step-up in security aid it had discussed with Washington earlier. The. equipment . sought .includes 4,000 M-16 rifles _plus _ mortars, grenade launchers; machine-guns and recoiltess rifles, usually used - against tanks. US. Ambassador Curtin Winsor, in an interview with The Associated Press, said the weapons will take at : Jesist 60: ddys::to -arrive,- ‘Congress . passes | a assistance supplement, - headquarters: i in the country, :but -it 1st. ‘LETHAL’ AID i “has been trying to avoid direct in- | “dethal"? military aid of any size .. supplied to Costa Rica by the United “The:weapons would be the first States): “Until now military aid bas been generally limited to uniforms, tents, radio equipmient;' vehicles and other field Bear, Costa Rica’s ‘éonstitution p prohibits. : standing army. Security Is provided by the rural and civil guard, civilian paramilitary organizations that sumber about 8,000 and double as a police force. The 4,000 M-1és would supplement about-1,500 Galil rifles, which use the samé ammunition, purchased recently from Israel and now issued | to Costa Rica’ 's border troops. assuming .- ver » Coates ‘Rica: ~ security. leclined to‘take part’ vin: --"U.8,-hacked « “milltary manoeuvres in the region: and has refused to. allow: “exercises , ‘in its waters. : It also rejected : an n Ametican olfer to let U.S. National Guard. troops build aroad along Costa Blea S-tense northern border... , Although the. immediate crisis at Penas Blancas has eased, relations between Nicar gua. and Cosia Rica remain tense: The two. “countries : signed ‘an agreement in Panama-on May: 15 to - appointa six-country commission to try to prevent: ‘and. ~arbitrate border » problems.’ Two days later, Nicaragua sent more troops to its side of the border at Penas ‘Blancas, saying it feared attack by U.S.-backed rebels in Costa Rica. PEKING (AP) — His em- and his wife ended up in a mental hospital under the strain. — -But shirt factory manager Bu Xinsheng persisted despite leftist hostility and has become a model reformer China's capitalism. experiment _ with ‘with Western reporters over the weekend to tell: of his fight against the egalitarian policy of “eating rice from the great bow! of socialism.” His story ‘showed : ” the ramifications of the Chinese leadership's drive to reverse Mao ’ Tse-tung’s policy of equal pay and benefits for all — industrious and lazy alike: . Bu’s no-work, no-pay reforms at his small factory in Zhejiang province’s Haiyan eastern China, has caused local resentment, national debate and the intervention of Communist '. ployees threatened to kill him ~ in Communist-ruled © The 52-year-old tailor’ 'sson met — county, - party General . "Secretary Hu Yaobang on his behalf. : “Without the support of people at the top, there would be terrible pressure on me and my factory,” said Bu, who claims to earn 103 yuan, or §51 U.S., a month, about “30 per cent_ above - ‘national average. A television play about him; an interview and editorial. backing from the: party newspaper People’s Daily have. made. Bu famous. His story has appeared - in 33 major newspapers ‘aince April 1983. : RAISE EFFICIENCY oe Although not a party member, Bu is a deputy to the National People's Congress, | Premier Zhao Ziyang last’ week loosened more ‘reins to--enable managers to raise efficiency... Dressed in one of his-factory's pin-striped shirts, Bu in 1979 shortly after a session of a regardless of output. Where told Teportershe became factory boss ~ the Lith Pariy Congress decided to further open China to- the outside world and adopt’ ‘free- enterprise style incentives to spur economic growth. His reforms - came thick and 7 fast: He introduced piece work, established. the factory's own Double Leaf brand of shirts and marketed them directly, « “If you don’t work, you don’t _ get paid,” was his maxim. Previously, workers were paid “He turned a‘collapsing factory with about 100 workers’ into .a ‘thriving : ‘co-operative: with 630 ‘employees: and: is. adding 300 _ More within the next month. ' Average’ montly- pay has doubled te about 70 yuan, or $35, and the factory plans to produce two million shirts -this year, exporting 20 per cent to the United States, Japan and elsewhere. ‘ The plant should hand over to i the. state the equivalent: of . _ $600,000 in profits and taxes for -.1994, Bu said. *: “INTRODUCED BONUS "To deal with malingerers ac- ‘- customed to free medical care — ‘and open-ended sick leave, Bu introduced a bonus to reward . » those with no medical bills and a 30-per-cent, employee, charge on large bilts. . He retired the middle-aged - work force in 1979 and hired a new one, average age 26. He dismissed eight “shirkers” and threatened to dock pay or sack anyone producing faulty goods. He banned eating, drinking, whistling, newspaper - reading, and idle chatting in the workshop. Three-year veteran employees - with high output receive free Pree housing. Others don’t. school ._ kindergarten-to-high ‘education is provided, as are wedding parties. Bu. chose a factory song ‘and wrote the lyrics “Do, ‘Chinese manager survives leftist hostility — . designing.” meticulous work and beaut For some employees’ and loca Communist. party: “cadres, . the efficiency drive, smacked - too much of capitalism ‘— and hard work, They rebelled starting in 1989. a “] met some resentment from people who had their wages-cut, were criticized or were efired, "Bu said. “Some said ifj you fire n mé or it you cut my wages, I’m going to kill you.”. Security guards: ac- companied him home. os, His wife, a packer i in the fac- tory, was lelt alone most nights. “She worried all the time about everything,” said Bu, especially when he was summoned to Peking: for a meeting and there were rumors he would be executed, as a capitalist. She broke down and is now in a Shanghai mental hospital, Bu said,: : Panda diplomacy replaces old pingpong games GLAND, Switzerland (AP) — The reclusive giant panda, the distinc- tive black and white symbol of the world conservation movement, has March to Peking, where he finalized agreements including a $2-billion "credit, he announced that Tokyo will donate $230,000... “BevoHie's pelifical animal fostering ; friendship among China, Japan, the United*statés and tithes coimilties. Panda diplomacy has replaced the pingpong diplomacy of the late’ 1970s, said public affairs director David Mitchell of the World Wildlife Fund. The endangered pandas have offered Japan and China a golden opportunity to symbolize a growing friendship that replaces their historical animosity and distrust. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has Jaunched a effort in his country to raise fooney for an international campaign to save the pandas. _ Shortly before Nakasone went. last "FE forset atta a ministeries ‘of ediciton, for aegis newspapers, TV stars, advertising agencies, bey scouts, girl guides and ‘industry joined in raising money for the panda, Toyota pregented the, | panda project in® China with 20 | trucks and a land cruiser, ° - RAISED $350,000 . ; Over $350,000 was raised by the beginning of May, when the Foreign Ministry also set an additional target of about $1 million. ; “The panda is ideologically and culturally neutral and proved: the sort of symbol Orientals like to deal in,” Mitchell sald récently in an interview at the World Wildlife Egypt fails making ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuter) — In the two years since Egypt regained Sinai from Israel, the government has built homes, roads, and elec- tricity lines -— but its goal of luring Egyptians to live there remains remote. Ali abu Zeid, director of the Sinai Development Authority, says the government has built 12,000 new homes, resurfaced more than 750 kilometres of roads, laid two water pipelines across the Suez Canal, and , extended electricity throughout the sparsely populated peninsula. “We cannot ‘ask people to go and build a factory or a home there if | they are not sure of finding water and adequate roads,”’ said abu Zeid, Thus, the government as already spent more than $100 million on infrastructure. Few Egyptians, however, - have been tempted to give up the crowded Nile Delta: the current population of Sinai is 200,000. For strategic and economic | reasons, the government hopes to raise that figure to between three million and five million. Egyptian defence planners believe a more "densely populated Sinai would be a natural defence line against ex- ternal attack. A. campaign to attract settlers from the rest of Egypt will begin in : earnest in 1996, said abu Zeid. Meanwhile, the groundwork iis Libertarians want PETERBOROUGH, Ont, (CP) — The Libertarian Party of Canada wants the federal government to sell assets such as real estate to pay off what: the party says is a national debt of $150 billion, says its newly . elected leader. Victor Levis, 25, a comptroller for a Montreal import company, said in an interview Monday a Libertarian study found the federal govern- ment’s largest expenditure in the 1983-84 fiscal year was $20 billion in interest payments on the debt. “What we found was that the. government can’t even afford to pay forthe interest on the debt, and the debt keeps getting. larger,” said Levis, elected leader at the party's four-day convention at Trent University during the weekend. Af the national debt were reduced, Canadians would be taxed less, he sald, adding the isaue will be part of the party’s platform during the next federal election. . - Although it’s difficult to determine . the total value of government assets, ‘easier Levis said it’s between. $50 billion and $100 billion. “The federal government owns a great deal of commercial property, including Petro-Canada gasoline statlons’ and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in, Montreal, Levis said. “Why does the government: need a hotel?” he asked. | The party, whose. slogan for the election is Equal .Laws for All Canadians, has five planks in its Venezuela seeks easier terms! CARACAS (Reuter) — Venezuela * supported a call Monday by four other Latin American countries for forelgn debt repaymcut terms but said debtor countries should be cautious about adopting’ joint action. Venezuela broadly agreed with the ideas expressed ina document issued over the weekend by Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, the presidency said In a statement, a bot Wo wate hotel at Ras el Sudr on the Gi Fund's headquarters in Switzerland. - “And in this ‘situation, the WWF was ideally suited to play the role of House contacted the World Wildlife - Fund in America and a “pennies for — pandas” collection among children was organized. Reagan’wife, Nancy, was duly photographed handing over a pandas at Peking ‘zoo. . Top government circles in Bonn are reported to be debating what exactly Chancellor Helmut Kohl should contribute on his forthcoming. China trip. This sudden rash of concern for the cuddly herbivores among world leaders has been prompted partly by .- cheque for $15,000 on a visit to the . a shortage of ‘bamboo, the .pandas’ principal food, in the remote rain forests of the Wolong reserve in | etre Vie AM Sichuan province: be “FACE STARVATION | ... About 20 per cent of the ‘panda’ ~ population faces death from star- vation and the World Wildlife Fund | needs to raise $2 million to carry out’ a joint project with the Chinese to save them. Only an estimated 1,000 pandas are left in the world. ; . At the fund's inception 23 years ago, the panda was adapted as its symbol although to western «scientist had been allowed to visit them since the People’s Republic was established in 1549. Under Mao Tse-tung, China refused to have anything to do with the World Wildlife Fund. ; Only after Mao's death in 1976 did Sinai attractive to heing laid. A 1.5-kllometre two-lane tunnel under the Suez Canal near Suez opened in 1992. Ferries cross from [smailia and El Qantara, and a third ferry service at Serapeum, ~ southof Ismailia will be inaugurated this year. In the past, cars had to wait six hours to get across by ferry. Now it. takes only 30 to 45 minutes, abu Zeid said. : Feasibility studies are examining job-creation projects in four sectors — — tourism, agriculture, fishing, and ‘industry, Tourism holds the most im- mediate promise, The - Egyptian private sector is buildng a 150-1 f of ‘Suez and a health spa nearby at the site of ancient. Pharaonie . baths; Another hotel at Ras Muhammad, Sinai’s southern tip, is under study, ~The tourist town built around St. Catherine ’s monastery, a 1,500-year- old church near (the site where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments, now is served by an airport: ‘and a new road. A. motel is planned at nearby Wadi ‘Raha, where the late president Anwar Sadat had‘a vacation home. The government has settle about ’ 80,000 Sinai bedouins since April 1982, encouraging them to take up . bgriculture and . fish farming, abu Zeid said. The Geological Survey of Egypt the fund, after some persevering, manage to establish contact’ and in 1979 this led to an invitation for a Hist by'a delegatit from the group. “VAR agrebiient was later signéd that enabled ai TiS. igetént “ate George Schaller; to set up a World ‘Wildlize Fund panda research project) Pandas had already been used in China’s forepgn ‘policy, ‘but dif- ferently. “The Chinese know thé ‘affection with which pandas are ‘held the world over so they would present a pair to a foreign country as a mark of their highest esteem," Mitchell said, ‘The last country to be awarded | this honor was West Germany three years ago. The choice of West Berlin's zoo suggested to some that this was also a snub to the Soviet Union. residents expects to invite tenders next year for construction of a 600,000 tonne- per-year coal mine. at: Maghara, which would be the peninsula’s first mining venture. oo Oil isalready an important in-. dustry in Sinai, where 2.7 million tonnes of crude were .produced in 1982, about eight per cent of Egypt's total production. But while the’ government has succeeded so far in meeting in- frastructure development goals, the real test, developing productive sectors, lies ahead. “The only problem is that the meney needed ‘for agricultural, industrial and other projects is too much for our ir budget, ” said abu Zeid. government to sell assets” free trade, balanced budgets, lower taxes, personal freedom ‘and government ac- countability. NOT ABOVE LAW. ‘ The slogan means ‘‘the law ap- platform : ' plies to everyone,” Levis said. “‘The government should not be above the law.” The party will also campaign on the issue of greater government ‘accountabilily, especially in relation But Venezuela did not sign - -the declaration because of refusal by the other countries to include a clause making any joint action by Latin American debtors conditional on _ response by the creditor states to their appeal, it added, "The four-country document calléd for a meeting of Latin American foreign and economic ministers to discuss joint action for achleving a better deal on debt service ~- ; payments. to the national debt, he sald, adding Libertarians want’ the federal government to be more open about why it’s running a debt and how long it will take to pay it off, Personal freedom is a key Issue for Libertarians, who believe in-. - dividual rights ‘should. ‘not’ be. sacrificed to the rights of others, ° The convention's theme — Toward -the Rule of Law — is described in a pamphlet as that which requires all >> - Venezuela said it would iantgle taking part in such a meeting and regretted that Mexioo, ¢ Brazil), Argentina and Colombia had not given more consideration to the moderating clause proposed by Venezuela before . _ issuing’ their declaration. Venezuela's $a4-billion forelgn debt is the fourth largest in Latin ‘AmeétiCn. citizens and government to share equally the benefits and liabilities of all l:ws, Levis said governments don’t always respect & person's right to live as he wishes. For example, the federal ‘government regulates gambling and the use of marijuana, Levis said. Although the Libertarian party arnt ‘condone either activity, bav'we-are saying is that people ith yi ihinaton to choose. Woveriment exists to serve ae The "us, not’ ‘7 tule té;To govern Is not to rule. ‘In a democracy, ihe govern- ment Is supposed to be the-servant, and the people are master.” Levis, who was elected deputy leader two years ago, became in- terim leader last summer wher! former leader Neil Reynolds returned to his job as an editor at the Kingston Whig-Standard. The convention, attended by about 100 delegates from across Canada, wrapped up Monday. The party: expects to fleld about 60 candidates in the réxt federal election.