CALLS FOR BENEFICIARIES OF GULF ESCORTS TO DEFRAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89G00643R001100200039-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: September 8, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
;.Calls for Beneficiaries of Gulf Escorts to Defra
over whether to
on the U.S. tank-
Persian Gulf, yes-
inistratan
that benefit
'by Sen. John
oilliroducing and
would be expected
fortheir pro
of'escorting Ku-
I1I* per
treaties in the late 1970s. Symms' proposal
urged President Reagan to void the treaties
if Panama does not act within six months to
accept reservations that assert U.S. rights
to defend the canal after it is transferred to
Panama in the year 2000.
The proposal also would have put the
Senate on record fie saying it made a mis-
take in approving the treaties.
^ Approved by voice vote a proposal by
Sen. John S. McCain III (R-Art'~.) to exempt
independent news organiaafions, labor
unions and other democratic institutions in
Nicaragua from an embargo that was put on
trade with the leftist-led country in 1985.
^ Approved, 66 to 33, a proposal by Sen.
Mark 0. Hatfield (R-Ore.) to commit the
United States to a three-year program pro-
viding for annual resettlement in this coun-
try,of no fewer than 36,500 Indochinese
refugees, a move aimed at encouraging oth-
er countries to keep providing temporary
asylum and at preventing a cutback in ad- saic
mission of refugees to the United States. pie
In backing a cost-sharing plan for the por
Persian Gulf, the Senate called on Reagan t
to begin negotiations on a reimbursement was
agreement with Kuwait, other oil-producing puti
states in the gulf and countries that pur- app
chase oil from the gulf region. esc,
It did not specify how costs would be ap- te portioned, but asked the president to report ers
to Congress on the apportionment formula A
and progress of the negotiations. The Unit- mai
ed States has been escorting Kuwaiti tank- Der
ers that now fly the U.S. flag. bre~
Meicher and other backers of the propos- piar
al noted Japan is-taking steps to compensate T
the United States for protecting oil it re- gesi
ceives from the gulf and said it was "just nita
good common sense," as Meicher put it, for urgi
other countries to do the same. N.Y
Sen. Jesse Helms (N.C.), ranking Repub- tom
lican on the Foreign Relations Committee, fore
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the most fine
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In other votes on the bill yesterday, the
Senate:
? Approved a proposal by Sen. William V.
Roth Jr. (R-Del.) to impose on Eastern Eu-
ropean and Cuban diplomats the same trav-
el restrictions that are applied to '$oviet
officials in the United States.
The proposal was approved by e
after the Senate, voting 59 to 37ted
objections from Foreign Relations Commit-
tee Chairman Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) that
the move could lead to?, taliation against
U.S. diplomats stationed in Soviet=loloc
countries.
The restrictions, which could be waived
by the president, are aimed at curtailing
`
espionage done for the Soviets by. their al-
lies.
? Voted 59 to 39 to shelve a proposal by
Sen. Steve Symms (R-Idaho) that *WM
have reopened the intense controverq that
surrounded ratification of the Panama: