Show r Standard-Examine- nBDDBBDBBBfln For To It World MOSCOW (AP) — Lithuanian officials say they’re encouraged after a breakthrough meeting with a key adviser to Mikhail S iJGorbachev but that they’ll not Labide by a new law that would make secession lengthy and cost- iy President Gorbachev who refused to- meet with the Lithuanian delegation decreed Saturday that the repub--Jirepeal its March 11 declara-tio- n - three-memb- er C of independence before negotiations can begin - Tuesday’s talks were thus considered preliminary though they constituted the first “contact between Lithuania and Moscow since the declaration “If there are people who at least want to listen to us it’s very good” the Baltic republic’s representative in Moscow Egidius Bickauskas told a news confer- ence after the meeting with Alex-- ander N Yakovlev Yakovlev a Politburo member close to Gorbachev is considered the architect of glasnost and is a member of the new Presidential Cabinet No details were released about the content of the meeting In Washington Soviet Foreign high-lev- el ‘ GENEVA (AP) — Negotiators for El Salvador and the leftist rebels opened peace talks today and signed a declaration saying a truce in the civil war is 'nation’s their “initial objective” The accord said the parties would try to end “the armed coniflict through political means as speedily as possible” The declaration also said the negotiators hoped to promote moves toward dembcracy and re-- ! sped for human rights in El Sal- vador and toward integrating the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front into UN-mediat- ed ! “non-secessi- bill" a “This is good only for the republics that joined the Soviet Union” said Bickauskas “but we were annexed” The three Baltic states — Lithuania Latvia and Estonia — were forcibly annexed in 1940 Lithuanians are seeking negotiations without having to re- their independence declaration and their Parliament was expected to respond today to Gorbachev’s Saturday decree “But if somebody expects Lithuania to renounce its indepen number of communication ! society The document also was signed Javier by UN Secretary-GenerPerez de Cuellar Today’s session the first peace talks on El Salvador since October was the first I al time the United Nations has sponsored such negotiations The civil war has killed 72000 people since 1980 I Cocaine bosses kill at least 12 officers WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION FIRST PRESBYTERIAN APPLIANCES CHURCH JJ 1977 HOT LUNCH mnraimiiiwiiiiininiiiTiiilBn SOFT CONTACTS EYEGLASSES De Klerk’s meetings with a wide range of leaders represent a major drive by the government to resolve the issues TINTED SOFT EXAM' DIN Rice Crispy Many Other Uses ONLY M0LDS- LfflSL OFFEHtNEW PATIENTS ONL AMERICA’S BEST CONTACTS AND EYEGLASSES ' Turtles Bunnies S1 I 99 MnWMIUMHM ea Stale Clearfield 0JEM OCKHMSMlit 1313 Serf! 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393-861- 8 9-- 2 GOOD RUMMAGE GOOD Sponsored by ibbbbbb4 BOGOTA Colombia (AP) — Cocaine bosses bent on halting the extradition of drug suspects to the United States have stepped up their terror campaign killing at least 12 police officers in and Castro will continue rbund Medellin officials say jThe killings Monday and Tuesto jam TV day in the traffickers’ home base HAVANA (AP) — President came in attacks by gunmen in Fidel Castro of Cuba told the their employ at least nine of States on Tuesday not to United Auslain were whom reported thorities said at least 12 police of- interfere with his jamming of Voice of America television ficers were wounded week the government broadcasts because it could lead Last hiatus with to war a $r)tfed The hard-lin- e Communist leadthe extradition to the United was er referring to States of a drug suspect and the traffickers threatened to set off a Voice of America programs bomb in Bogota for every beamed from Miami to Cuba The island’s government has been hew extradition Battles between authorities and jamming them since they started March 27 the cocaine barons since have in“If the US undertakes a surgitensified and the chief of the nacal operation against the systems tional police Gen Miguel Gomez n of interference of its Padilla told reporters late Tuestelevision we will try and make day that police reinforcements the surgeon come out of it as ivifuld be sent to Medellin today kidAlso Tuesday gunmen badly as possible” the Cuban in northa the senator government news agency Prensa napped western city and a leading Bogota Latina reported Castro as saying newspaper left its editorial colAt a news conference “he umn blank after threats from the warned that Cuba can also carry fraffickers out surgical operations and remarked that such a US action De Klerk plans could end in war” Prensa Latina - ! channels “But first we have to hold negotiations about negotia- ’ ’ OGDEN Serring Utah Since 28th and Quincy Ave 9-April 6 & 7 - Friday 5 Saturday i MORTGAGE CO 8 BUILDING FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH I FIXED RATE OLD WEST 5A ds World briefs Salvador rebels begin peace talks 95 m -- El (Conventional Loans) dence act there will be no such nadze arrived for talks with Pres- answer" said Bickauskas ident Bush and Secretary of State Tuesday's meeting came amid James A Baker III and said the increasing conciliatory signals Kremlin intended to hold “honfrom the two sides following a est dialogue” with the Lithua- strong-arcampaign by Moscow nians and Lithuanian recalcitrance Moscow’s intimidation tactics Also Tuesday the Soviet Parliament passed a bill setting pro- have included orders to Lithuacedures for secession from the nians to hand over firearms the Soviet Union The law requires arrest of Lithuanian deserters by of a re- Soviet troops and the military approval by public’s voters in a referendum seizure of several buildings by and a waiting period of up to five Vilnius the Lithuanian capital Medvedev said he expected years Nikolai Medvedev a member complex negotiations on secesof the Lithuanian Parliament sion that “would be separated incalled the measure a to details and then discussed” via nounce EDUCATION ORIGINATION FEE Minister Eduard A Shevard- two-thir- 2 1 April 4 1990 RUMMAGE SALE Shop Pays A Real Estate Loan Lithuanian officials meet with Gorbachev adviser Wednesday r (HR th US-fund- ed ' anti-Cuba- talks with Mandela others JOHANNESBURG South Africa (AP) — President FW de Klerk will meet Nelson Mandela and other top leaders Thursday for talks on stopping widespread uJirest and reviving negotiations y rule Jji ending white-minorit- jofficials said Government and opposition officials anonymity said today that de will meet in Cape Town with Mandela and hold separate talks with a wide range of political leaders Expected to attend the talks are Zulu leader Mango-suth- u Buthclezi heads of tribal homelands leaders of various political parties and top government ministers Mandela and several other African National Congress leaders will meet dc Klerk privately for talks on efforts to end political tterk J who spoke on condition said The dispatch monitored in Mexico City only paraphrased Castro’s words It gave no direct quotes MERiDLL fighter crashes near Kunsan Air Base F-1- 6 ism SEOUL South Korea (AP) — US Air Force 6 fighter jet crashed Tuesday afternoon near Kunsan Air Base 10 miles south of Seoul according to an Air Force press release A F-1- 1 The pilot Capt Stephen R Howell 34 was reported in good condition after ejecting from the jet SEE© The Yonhap News Agency said the plane crashed into a rice paddy and was destroyed Cause of the accident has not been determined - -- — - - MJ tem© o (5333) - H f-- 4 t t I f — " r ‘ --1 r X t 4I I |