The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 28, 1993 - 7 Russian leader remains tough on rebel lawmakers RAIN RAIN GO AWAY... Bush pushes NAFTA in Michigan address MOSCOW (AP) - President Boris Yeltsin ruled out any compro- mise yesterday with hard-line law- makers who remained barricaded in parliament with dwindling supportand no electricity, hot water or telephones. Yeltsin's tough stand and constant pressure from hundreds of flak-jack- eted riot police appeared to be eroding the will of his opponents, who were weakened by defections and miser- able conditions inside the Russian White House, or parliament building. Speaking confidently on national TV, Yeltsin rejected proposals for si- multaneous presidential and parlia- mentary elections as a way to end the stand-off that began when he dissolved parliament last week. He insisted on sticking to his plan for a parliamentary election in De- cember, with presidential balloting six months later. He said compromise was "doubly dangerous" and could lead to conflict. "No. I am not making such com- promises with any organs any more. I am categorically against it," Yeltsin said. The lawmakers appealed to Russia's armed forces to revolt and oust Yeltsin, but the army stood firmly with the president. The crowd of anti- Yeltsin demonstrators staffing the bar- ricades outside parliament dwindled early yesterday to about 200 people, but grew to about 2,000 by day's end. Police kept a tight cordon around the demonstrators, first restricting and then easing access to the parliament's grounds. The police pressure took its toll on the jittery lawmakers. Although Yeltsin repeatedly has said the building wouldnotbe stormed, parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. claimed the building's defenders had prevented an attack early Monday. "It is possible that another attempt will be made tonight," he told the lawmakers. Some legislators bolted the hard- line cause and accepted job offers from Yeltsin. Seventy-six lawmakers accepted transfers'to positions in the Yeltsin administration, and 114 more were prepared to negotiate their political futures, said Vyacheslav Volkov, Yeltsin's deputy chief of staff. Former KGB chief Viktor Barannikov denied reports that he would switch sides and leave the par- liament, which has named him secu- rity minister in its shadow govern- ment. Guards inside the building piled up chairs and tables in the corridors after rumors of an imminent govern- ment attack swept the building. BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Former President Bush lobbied hard for NAFTA at a meeting last night of the Economic Club of South- western Michigan, but said he has serious doubts about President Clinton's health care reform plan. Bush also criticized the media, blaming his loss in November partly to unfair campaign coverage and for his own failure to get his message across. "I wish I'd had been more like my friend and predecessor, Ronald Reagan, in convincing people of the truth," Bush told an audience of about 1,600 in the conservative southwestern corner of the state. "When I said, 'I know there are problems but (the economy is) doing better,' the press - joined by the Clinton campaign - did a very good job of making me look out of touch." However, Bush said he has "some satisfaction, now that I'm unem- ployed' knowing thathe "handed over to the new administration" an economy that had grown by almost 6 percent in the fourth quarter of 1992. "I.don't think that slugging taxes on everybody is the way you're going to getthe economyback," Bush added: On NAFTA, Bush said the United States and its trading partner would benefit immediately, and the pact would not result in U.S. jobs heading south of the border. "We must not let the dema- gogues, the fear mongers, scare the workers of America that jobs will go South," Bush said. He predicted that if NAFTA is defeated, the United States "is going tobe seen as anti-Hispanic, anti-South America." Responding to a question about Clinton's health care plan, Bush said he feared that "the devil is in the details" and that it would over- burden small businesses. Bush said among his most sig- nificant accomplishments in of-. fice were the elimination of.inter- continental ballistic missiles, Desert Storm; and ending starva- tion in Somalia. I ATE HAs No BORDERS PETER MATHEWS/Daily LSA senior Soojin Lee and LSA junior Kyeongah Hong call for a ride home to escape from the pouring rain yesterday. .Report: U.S. POWs secretly taken to Soviet Union WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. report on American troops missing in the Korean War sketches a chilling picture of American airmen being hunted by Soviet intelligence teams and shipped off to labor camps. The report, which was provided to Russian officials at a recent meeting in Moscow, alleges that several hun- dred American POWs were secretly taken into the Soviet Union in the 1950s and never returned. Moscow has always denied this, although it has said that some U.S. aviators on non-Korean War missions were captured. The United States has not indi- cated it has conclusive evidence of specific American POWs having been held at specific sites in the former Soviet Union. Rather, it cites a range of evidence that a Soviet POW-grabbing opera- tion was carried out. The charge, based on a 77-page report titled "The Transfer of U.S. Korean War POWs to the Soviet Union," was made by the Ameri- can side of the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on POWs-MIAs at a recent commission meeting in Moscow. U.S. researchers concluded from newly available Russian documents, interviews with former Soviet mili- tary and intelligence officers, and U.S. records that the Soviets used a well- practiced system for transferring the Americans, the report said. The Soviet operation appeared to have two main objectives: grab- bing U.S. aviators who could pro- vide useful information about U.S. fighter planes and Air Force opera- tions, and taking some who would be useful in the Gulag forced labor system. In many cases, the report said, cap- tured American aviators were interro- gated by Soviet military intelligence officers at Pos'yet, just across the North Korean border in Russia, and taken north to Khabarovsk, described as a transit point for POWs -Ameri- cans as well as South Koreans and possibly others. From Khabarovsk some POWs were moved west to transshipment points at Chita and Irkutsk, Russian cities justnorth of the Mongolian bor- der, and then to numerous Gulag camps, including one identified as Vorkuta, in the Komi region, the re- port said. PREJUDICE. Blood is shed and lives are lost because of it. It refuses to die-from slavery in the U.S., to the Holocaust, Bosnia, and the Rodney King trial. This ground-breaking anthology, edited by American Book Award-winning author Daniela Gioseffi, exposes what lies behind the hate. In essays, poems, memoirs, and short stories, internationally acclaimed writers examine the nature of prejudice and point the way to a more tolerant future. Available wherever paperbacks are sold . ANCHOR BOOKS 195 3-1993 A d~iion ojf Bantam, Doubleday Deli PublisingGroup, Inc. 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