|“ WORLD “Nicaragua's neighbors are coming concerned about being ‘farther drawn into the US. ag- “gession against the Sandinista Vjovernments,’ said Pastor ‘Galle-Gary, Nicaragua’s consul ‘yeneral in Toronto, when asked Yrout reports that the United é “gtates may be forced to train the 7 ontras on its own territory. Dt, addition’, he continued, ‘contra acts of banditry in coun- ies where they are based are “more and more being regarded as jhreats to their national security bs gnd safety.’ Valle-Garay said “pore and more documented cases r pfcontra violence against the local jeople are coming to light. In a news report neither con- ed nor denied by the WS: overnment, the Washington post said last week that Hon- . bases. MOSCOW — Scientists here Vyve expressed keen disappoint- ent at the refusal of the Reagan ministration to permit a team of viet seismic experts access to /S. territory under the terms of 4 ment negotiated with | ee can colleagues last May. {In an interview with Soviet re- prters recently, the acting direc- I gr of Moscow's Geophysical In- “tute, Mikhail Gokhberg, said hat Washington's denial of entry jsas to the Soviet group is in- Wynded “‘to prevent our experi- ment from being carried out on ‘S. territory”. The joint project was arranged 6 a private venture between the viet Academy of Sciences and American environmental pro- tion group, the Natural Re- rces Defence Council DC). It provided for an ex- ge of seismologists and the ng up of monitoring stations ‘the nuclear testing ranges in U.S. and USSR, with the pur- ose of demonstrating that a nu- ear test ban could be effectively fied by existing scientific ns. scientists’ project has been (EGUCIGA LPA — Hondurans last week de S. duras, El Salvador and Costa Rica have refused to permit contra training sites on their territory. The report quoted White House sources that the U.S. is examin- ing several training sites such as Fort Benning, Ga, Fort Bragg, N.C., Puerto Rico and Elgin Air Force base, but says that the ad- ministration prefers more remote locations where the presence of contras would not stir up public- ity. Last week, shortly after Puerto Rico was announced as a possible contra training site, bomb blasts hit several government installa- tions. Valle-Garay said the $100-million contra aid bill, passed by Congress and signed into law by Reagan on Oct. 23 is ‘‘both illegal and uncon- Us. may set up training | bases for contras at home stiutional’’. The training camp site controversy, according to press reports, arose directly from the new flow of U.S. government money to back the escalating war by the United States against Nic- aragua. He said the new reluctance being shown by Nicaragua’s neighbors to train contras on their territory is also due to the fact that U.S. mercenary Gary Hasenfus’ casea clearly shows the extent of U.S. involvement and who the real aggressor is. The Post story also indicated U.S. efforts to set up training bases in Central America are still going on in “‘private talks’’ with the Honduras government in which Washington is hoping for a change of heart. 4 ne a Yi : sa viewed with suspicion and hostil- ity by Washington which con- tinues to insist that a test ban would be “‘unverifiable’’. The agreement with the NRDC has been scrupulously observed on the Soviet side, Gokhberg said. Under its terms, he said, ‘‘American scientists have set up monitoring stations near Semi- palatinsk and Karkaralinsk (in eastern Kazakhstan). This was to have been followed by Soviet geophysicists leaving for the Nevada test site and selecting, jointly with their American col- leagues, places in which to set up stations similar to those already in operation here in the USSR.‘ U.S. scientists have been here for almost four months and have built sophisticated seismic monit- oring posts around the Soviet test- ing zone. When the time came for the Soviet group of four promi- nent scientists — all of whom have worked extensively on the project — to go to the United States to begin the second half of the experiment, they found their visa applications delayed and then effectively denied by the Reagan administration. monstrating against the use of their country by contra gangs and Nicaragua urges UN to help stop violations by U.S. UNITED NATIONS — Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escoto appealed to the Security Council Oct. 21 to use its power to compel the U.S. to stop its illegal war against his country, a war which violates the UN Charter and is in defiance of the World Court. D’Escoto said that if the UN body did not act, it would be a ; “victory for the law of the jungle.’’ Such inaction, he continued, ‘would open the door to unending low-intensity conflict:”’ D’Escoto spoke as the trial of Eugene Hasenfus before a People’s Tribunal entered its second day in Managua. Hasenfus, a hired-gunrunner, was captured Oct. 6 after Nicaragua shot down a plane ferrying ammunition and supplies to the Contras Prosecutors will present evidence linking the Reagan administra- tion to Hasenfus. D’Escoto reminded the Council that the International Court of Justice on June 27 determined that the U.S. must immediately cease all illegal actions against Nicaragua. In the four months since then, he said, “‘the list of atrocities committed by the CIA’s mercenaries against Nicaragua is far too long to detail here.’’ But less than 24 hours before he spoke, d’Escota said, the ClA-backed Contras blew up a bus in Nicaragua, killing three women and a child. “It was to finance these actions that President Reagan signed into law a bill providing $100 million to continue murdering women and children, $100 million for crime, $100 million to destroy the work built by the people, $100 million by a govern- ment which offends God and humanity,” he said. “It is clear that the U.S. is acting in defiance of the World Court, giving itself a power to defy the UN Charter that no.nation | possesses,”’ d’Escoto charged. ‘‘The Reagan administration is trying to get power over the weak and oppressed, the same power that led into the holocaust of the Second World War.” The Nicaraguan foreign minister emphasized: ‘‘The U.S. is a Permanent Member of the Council. This is a privilege, not a license to trample underfoot the small and weak nations. There are no sacred cows or untouchable members of the UN, members who can violate the UN Charter with impunity. “Nicaragua is not requesting sanctions against the U-S., al- though it would be justified in so doing,” d’Escoto continued. “We are simply asking the Council to remind. the U,S.. of its , obligations to respect the June 27 decision of the World Gourt ‘An act oftfaith brought us to the World Court,’ the Nica- raguan foreign minister said. ‘‘We went in the belief that small countries can still find justice. It is that belief that brings us here today.” —Peoples Daily World The Soviet team was given two options: First was they may visit the U.S. as private individuals for one week, allowed to meet with their U.S. colleagues and to visit companies which manufacture seismological equipment, but they may not see a nuclear site, much less select places. for monitoring equipment. The second option was the So- viet scientists could receive of- ficial invitations from the U.S. government then be permitted to visit a test site on condition they participate in a nuclear test. “Both options are in direct contradiction to the spirit of the scientists’ agreement,’ charged Gokhberg. *“‘The whole meaning of our experiment — and its uniqueness, if you like — consists in the fact that we are looking for ways of veryfying the non-testing of nuclear weapons, and do not intend to take part in testing new weapons for the Pentagon. This stand is shared by our colleagues in the NRDC whose members deem it inadmissable for seis- mologists to take part in nuclear tests.” ? No U.S. visas for Soviet scientists Nevertheless, one of the Soviet team told reporters, ‘The Soviet part of the experiment is going ahead.”’ Igor Neresov, a seismologist who has worked extensively with the U.S. scientists in Kazakhstan, and who was to have led the So- viet group to the USA, said ‘‘the USSR Academy of Sciences is not going to back down on its agreement with NRDC.” He added, “Regardless of Washing- ton’s stance, test ban verification work at the Soviet proving ground will continue.” Meanwhile, the Washington Post revealed the Catch-22 choice offered the Soviet scientists was the result of a complicated com- promise worked out between con- tending factions within the U.S. government. “‘The Defence De- partment argued vigorously against granting the Soviets visas on the grounds that their visit would produce more publicity fa- vorable to a nuclear test ban ... The State Department, in con- trast, argued that denying the visas would create even greater embarrassment. No one sug- gested that the Soviet visit would jeopardize national security.” — FRED WEIR various kinds of weaponry. Carter calls Star Wars a mistake Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter called Reagan’s Star Wars a big mistake that could cost the taxpayers up to $3-trillion and said that Reagan is misleading the public by saying it will be a successful substitute for arms control. Carter also said Reagan missed a “wonderful opportunity” in Iceland by sticking with SDI thus making an arms agreement impossible. Carter also charged Reagan with being poorly prepared for the summit and that he was not as ready as Gorbachev to discuss PACIFIC TRIBUNE, NOVEMBER 5, 1986 e 9 A nah itis,