International The Prince George Citizen — Wednesday, September 10,1986 — 7 Gorbachev's new face perplexes West An analysis by BRIAN BUTTERS Southam News WASHINGTON - If it was Mikhail Gorbachev’s intention to thoroughly bewilder America’s Krem-lin-watchers, he has succeeded mightily through his handling of the Daniloff affair. Just when some Reagan administration officials were beginning to believe the Soviet leader was really what he first appeared to be — rational, even-handed, eager for rapprochement with the West — Gorbachev has painted an entirely new face for himself. That’s not to say the new visage cannot be altered by the prompt resolution of the matter in which American magazine correspondent Nicholas Daniloff awaits trial in Moscow on espionage charge's. But with each day that Daniloff lingers in a Soviet prison, the odds lengthen that Gorbachev can forge any kind of meaningful arms control or other summit agreement with an increasingly rancorous President Ronald Reagan. The most immediate casualty looks likely to be the second summit meeting Reagan and Gorbachev agreed last November to hold some time in 1986. More light will be shed on that matter when (and if) the two countries’ foreign ministers meet in Washington at the end of next week, ostensibly to set a framework for a future summit. But in the charged atmosphere surrounding Daniloffs imprisonment, which followed the U.S. arrest of a Soviet UN employee on espionage charges, even that meet- ing* between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze is in jeopardy. U.S. officials say if the meeting goes ahead as planned Sept. 19-20, it is certain to be dominated by discussion of the Daniloff matter. A parallel situation unfolded in 1983 after the Soviets shot down a Korean Air Lines passenger jet that strayed off course over the U.S.S.R. Shultz was scheduled to meet with then-foreign minister Andrei Gromyko in Madrid. Rather than cancel, Shultz showed up for the session, pounded the table in denouncing the Soviet behavior and watched as a grim Gromyko stalked out. Soviet-American relations stayed frigid for a year afterward. Recent comments by Gorbachev about there being “no guarantee” Throng mourns Turkish Jews ISTANBUL (AP) — Thousands of mourners jammed a bloodstained synagogue and. the narrow streets outside today for the funeral of 19 Turkish Jews killed when two gunmen stormed the house of prayer. “No act of violence or aggression could have been so inhuman, so insane, so cruel,” Jak Veissid, adviser to chief Rabbi David Asseo, said in his eulogy. • Relatives of the dead came to the Neve Shalom Synagogue weeping and wailing. Officials estimated 1,000 mourners packed the temple while thousands more stood outside, guarded by dozens of riot police. Two other Jews killed in the attack Saturday lived in Israel, and their bodies were flown there Tuesday and buried in Jerusalem. The attackers, believed to be Arabs, fired on the Sabbath worshippers with submachine-guns before blowing themselves up with hand grenades. During the 30-minute funeral, a local rabbi read the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, and a prayer of revenge' for the orphans and widows of the dead. Captain advised HAMBURG (CP-Reuter) - The West German lawyer representing Captain Wolfgang Bindel, who was charged by the RCMP in connection with transporting 155 Tamil refugees to Canada, said today he would advise his client to pay a $1,000 Cdn fine. Lawyer Felix Bohnhorst told Reuters news agency he has not spoken to Bindel but he would advise him to pay the fine to “buy some peace and quiet.” Bindel, along with two Sri Lankans living in Hamburg, was charged with conspiring to breach Canada’s immigration laws, RCMP Insp. Emerson Kaiser said today. Bindel is also charged with one criminal offence. Kaiser, who is heading the investigation, said the charges were lodged Friday in St. John’s, Nfld. Talks encouraging CAIRO (Reuter) — The chief Israeli negotiator reported prog-' ress late Tuesday after a marathon five-hour session between Israeli and Egyptian officials on a border dispute that has held up a summit between their two leaders. “A lot of progress has been made,” David Kimche, director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, told reporters after talks , with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Esmat Abdel-Maguid. ’ Abdel-Maguid said the two key issues which have delayed agreement on the Taba strip, a 700-me-tre Red Sea beach area held by Israel and claimed by Egypt, still existed. Asked if they could be resolved in one session, he said: “Yes. It can be wrapped up in one session. If it is wrapped up tomorrow (Wednesday) then the summit can take place.” Target: Kabul ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Moslem rebels are mounting their biggest assault in years on the Afghan capital of Kabul, and Soviet and government troops backed by jets and tanks are trying to push them back, reports said today. Afghan rebel groups based in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar said their units had been locked in heavy fighting last week in the Paghm’an district, about 19 kilometres north of the capital. There was also fighting in Qar-ahbagh to the south of the city, they said. Few detailed reports were coming out of Afghanistan because of the long trip on foot for rebel couriers, but the various rebel groups said it appeared that both sides were suffering considerable losses. Karachi hijackers 'had inside help' . KARACHI (AP) — Four Palestinians held in the hijack of a Pan Am jumbo jet had detailed knowledge of the security system at Karachi airport, indicating they were assisted by Pakistanis, security officials said. Meanwhile, the death toll in Friday’s hijacking rose to 20 today after 18-year-old Imram Ali Rizvi of Pakistan died of his injuries. Rizvi had been lying brain-dead at a Karachi hopital. More than 100 people were injured. Authorities are looking for Pakistanis who provided hijackers with weapons, uniforms and detailed information on Karachi airport and its security, said security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Without Pakistani help there was no question of carrying out this operation,” said one official. “There had to be a Pakistani connection who guided them through everything.” The officials said they had little CHILEAN KILLINGS information on whether the hijackers were linked to a political group, but added there were signs they had Shiite Moslem connections. However, western diplomats in Islamabad, speaking on condition of anonymity, said all evidence so far points to the gunmen being linked to a Palestinian group. The gunmen were disguised as members of Pakistan’s Airport Security Force. They evaded security at the airport by driving onto the tarmac in a van disguised as an airport security vehicle. Five security officials who guarded the gate through which the van passed have been suspended on suspicion of negligence. The hijackers held the plane for 17 hours. They fired submachine-guns and hurled grenades at passengers shortly after the lights failed inside the plane. Security officials were in control of the plane half an hour after the shooting began. Death squad blamed SANTIAGO (AP) - Three men linked to the Marxist left were abducted and killed in what a civil rights activist called apparent death squad vengeance for an assassination attempt against Chile’s President Augusto Pinochet. The fatal shootings of a well-known journalist, a schoolteacher and a machinist were reported Tuesday as tens of thousands of marchers roared their approval for the 70-year-old Gen. Pinochet and for his vow of tougher laws against terrorism. Relatives said gunmen dragged all three victims from their homes within hours of the Sunday evening grenade and rocket ambush that killed five bodyguards in Pinochet’s motorcade. None was considered a suspect in the attack. “These seem to be revenge killings, except there is no apparent logic in the selection of the targets,” said Luis Hermosillo, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic rights agency Solidarity. “They are leftists who seem to have been chosen indiscriminately. “What is frightening is that we have not seen this kind of random death squad violence since the first few years after the coup.” Pinochet seized power from elected President Salvador Allende, who was a Marxist, in a coup 13 years ago Thursday. Allende died in the revolt. Hermosillo spoke in an interview during a wake for Jose Carrasco, the foreign news editor of Analisis magazine, who was dragged from his home and shot 13 times in the back of the head. The other victims were identified as Gaston Vidarrauguzaga, a schoolteacher who was shot 16 times, and Felipe Segundo Rivera, a government-employed machinist shot eight times. Meanwhile, the military government’s chief spokesman, Francisco Cuadra, said at least 40 members of the Communist-backed Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front were involved in the assassination attempt Sunday in the Maipo Canyon near Santiago. No suspects have been found. SAVE ON CARPETS SAVE ON CARPETS THE CARPET PEOPLE PRICE SALE Sale Ends September 13/86 ★ On selected rubber back Sculptured Saxony and commercial carpets ★ On selected Armstrong floor for your kitchen and bath. ★ Free Estimates ★ Professional Installation ★ 30 Years Experience ★ Free Storage . L/ hs •Gaxf (2dt ^pEojlta 1550 Ogilvie Street 562-6277 that he’ll meet Reagan this year or any time soon lend credence to a theory making the Washington rounds. According to some senior administration officials, the U.S. has already begun to sense that the Soviets are growing lukewarm to the idea of a second summit now. Less-than-enthusiastic American responses to a series of arms control proposals put forward by Gorbachev have apparently convinced the Soviets that there is little hope of making any significant breakthrough in nuclear arms reductions at this stage. For Gorbachev to come to the United States for a summit and have to depart without a praiseworthy deal would cause him more problems in the Soviet Union than Reagan would likely face in the U.S., American officials feel. From the point of view of many Americans, the most puzzling aspect of the Daniloff case is the abrupt change it appears to signal in Gorbachev’s attitude toward the West. “The snatching of Mr. Daniloff is the style of the era of Josef Stalin, not the style of a media conscious, p.r., razzle dazzle, new-look Muscovite leadership,” said West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, the Senate’s ranking Democrat. “Is this Mr. Gorbachev’s way of wooing and dazzling the Western press? Is this the way his honeymoon ends?” After investing more than a year in building a strong media image of candor, vigor and flexibility in his dealings with the West, Gorba- chev risks losing it all in one fell swoop. One of the unknown factors is how heavily he is being influenced by the Soviet KGB. It seems clear the KGB seized Daniloff in order to gain some leverage in freeing Gennadi Zakharov, charged late in August with attempting to buy secrets from an FBI agent. Nothing very surprising there, fitting as it does previous patterns of Soviet behavior. But in allowing official charges to be pressed against Daniloff, dragging out what might otherwise have been a quickly forgotten little bit of nastiness, Gorbachev has put his own mark on the incident. Unless quick action is taken to reverse it, it’s a mark Westerners in general and the United States in particular won’t soon forget. good health starts with your spine. check it "■Wr*" regularly l/ie fyi'awe c(oaJ!e Trendy, Innovative, F resh 3544 Opie Cres. • 562 0403 ASSOCIATED CANADIAN TRAVELLERS presents Scottish Song & Comedy Show Civic Centre September 10th 2 Shows: 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Tickets available at the door. Adults $8.00; Students $6.00; Seniors $5.00 Direct from Scotland the world famous "Alexander Bros." (Tom & Jack) SAVE ON CARPETS SAVE ON CARPETS Hunting for Your New Fall Sport Jacket or Suit? We’re Game at Sport Jackets A great selection of fall fabrics. 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