NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, May 3. 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
133 Hell's Angels charged
Charges of racketeering and drug trafficking were brought against 133 members of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang yesterday after an army of FBI agents conducted raids in 14 cities.
About 1,000 heavily armed law enforcement authorities took part in the raids from New York to San Francisco in "Operation Rough Rider."
N.Y. policemen face charges
One raid bagged Sandy Alexander, 43, the alleged member of the Hell's Angels' New York chapter and generally considered the head of the national organization, said Lee Laster, the FBI's assistant director in New York.
NEW YORK — Five police officers, including a lieutenant and a sergeant, surrendered yesterday to the Queens district attorney to face charges in an indictment accusing them of torturing drug suspects with stun guns.
Lt. Stephen Cheswick, Sgt. Richard Pike and officers Jeffrey Gilbert, Michael Aranda and Loren MacCary surrendered to detectives.
"If it is not open hunting season on police officers it seems something close to it," said Stephen Murphy, lawyer for MacCary.
Farrakhan loan called legal
WASHINGTON — Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy's reported $5 million interest-free loan to Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan apparently did not violate U.S. law, the State Department said yesterday.
arrakhan announced the loan Wednesday night before 3,000 people at the Kennedy Center. He pledged that the money would be used to bring about his solution to black unemployment, poverty and crime.
State Department spokesman Edward Dijerejian said, "It would not appear that this type of financial transaction is prohibited by U.S. law."
Elderly not peddler arrested
BANGOR, Maine — An elderly woman known to her neighbors as "Grandma" confessed to police she'd been selling marijuana to supplement her Social Security income, authorities said yesterday.
Thela Berube, who celebrated her 69th birthday Tuesday, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of marjuana trafficking after she challenged police to find the contraband in her home - which they did.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
World leaders seek trade talks
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — The leaders of the world's three largest economic powers agreed yesterday to seek world trade talks in early 1980 to ease import-export restrictions, but French President Francois Mitterrand withheld his approval.
Regan, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasane of Japan and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl agreed in bilateral talks before the start of the seven-power Western economic summit to seek a new round of world trade talks.
This was one of Reagan's key objectives at the summit, the 11th in an annual series aimed at coordinating policies in the industrialized democracies.
The spokesman predicted the export-aggressive, import-shy Japanese would be pressured to open up their markets, more so than at any previous summit.
welfare. The talks must be held under the auspices of the Geneva based General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which includes about 90 nations.
THE QUESTION OF trade protectionism was emerging as the central theme at the summit, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said.
In a 50-minute meeting with Reagan,
Thatcher agreed on the need for trade talks.
Mitterrand's spokesman, Michel Vauelle, quoted the French president telling Reagan that if the proposed talks meant "destroying what has been painstakingly built up by the European Community, like its Common Agricultural Policy, then we are not interested."
A key factor in the U.S. demand for trade talks is a desire for lower tariffs on agricultural exports. This could help hard-pressed U.S. farmers, but undermine the agricultural policy that is the bedrock of the 10-nation European Community.
MITTERRAND DENIED HE was withholding assent for the trade talks in the hope of getting Reagan to agree to a reform of the world monetary system — a long-standing objective of the French, who want to curb the power of the dollar by controlling its exchange rate with other major currencies.
The leaders of the summit nations - the United States, Japan, Canada, West Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy - begin formal sessions today.
Mitterrand also maintains that developing countries must agree to take part in the talks, which many have yet to do because of the lack of support against their textile and agricultural products.
Reagan is stressing the need for trade talks, not only to open markets for U.S. products, services and agricultural goods but also to protection protection pressure from the U.S. Congress.
U.S. protests treatment of diplomats
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The State Department made strong protests to the Polish government yesterday over the detainment of two American diplomats, and charged that Polish police kicked and struck one of the Americans.
A department spokesman denied "ludicous allegations" from the Polish foreign ministry that the two Americans had participated in anti-government demonstrations in southern Poland near the Czechoslovakian border.
The official Polish news agency PAP charged earlier that the two Americans — William Harwood and David Hopper — were among 15 people "shouting anti-state slogans carrying hostile businesses and in Nowa Huta, an industrial city near Krakow.
PAP said the two were detained briefly by
police after the illegal demonstration but were released.
The State Department spokesman said the two men were "performing normal diplomatic functions . . . as observers of events following a mass at a church."
"They were not in any way participating in these events, nor were they part of any group present at the demonstration," the spokesman said. "When asked to identify themselves, by a uniformed policeman, they produced diplomatic ID cards issued by the Polish government. They were then ordered to enter an unmarked vehicle.
"When they protested, Hopper was pushed, struck, kicked and forced into an unmarked police vehicle. En route to the police station, policemen holding their documents denied they were diplomatic and said they would be accused of throwing stones at police vehicles."
U. S. officials in Poland said the men only watched the May Day demonstration.
Harwood was identified in Poland as first secretary to the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, and Hopner as U.S. consul in Krakow.
The spokesman said the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw had "vigorously protested this incident" to the foreign ministry and "categorically rejected the ludicrous allegations of the Polish Foreign Ministry that the two American diplomats participated in anti-government demonstrations."
The spokesman said the Polish government was making the allegations "to cover up abuse of diplomatic personnel, as was the case in February with our defense attache in Poland."
On Feb. 25, Poland ordered the expulsion of U.S. military attache Frederick Myer and his wife Barbara for allegedly taking photographs in a restricted area about 65 miles north of Warsaw. The State Department accused the Polish authorities of mistreating the couple.
Witness says soldier murdered Aquino
By United Press International
MANILA. Philippines — A businesswoman testified yesterday that she saw a soldier shoot popular opposition leader Benigno Aquino in the head as he stepped off a plane in August of 1983.
"I saw the Metromoc (Philippine Constabulary Metropolitan Command) soldier behind Aquino holding a gun to the back of his head and then I heard a shot," Rebecca
Quijano, a passenger on the China Air plane, testified at the trial of suspended Armed Forces Chief Fabian Ver and 25 others charged in the murder.
Quagano was the first witness to contradict the official military version that Aquino, returning from three years of self-imposed exile in the United States, was assassinated by alleged communist hitman Rolando Galman.
Galman was shot and killed moments later by soldiers on the tarmac of the Manila
airport. The 28 defendants also are charged in Galman's murder.
Quijano, 32, a businesswoman who failed to appear before a civilian inquiry into the murder, said Aquino was escorted by two air force soldiers as he descended the plane's stairway.
She said the gunman wore the tan khaki uniform of the Metrocro, an elite air force military police organization, and the air force soldiers wore light gray uniforms.
Senate ties arms costs to inflation
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday gave provisional approval to freezing military spending at the rate of inflation next year, dealing a second major blow to President Reagan's budget, which calls for a 3 percent hike for the Pentagon.
Agreement to allow military spending to increase only with inflation carne on a voice vote, despite a vigorous administration lobbying effort, both by Itegan on the telephone from West Germany and by the Military Caspar Weinberger on Capitol Hill.
Wednesday, the Senate turned back Reagan's plan to limit Social Security cost-of-living payments to 2 percent and agreed to fully finance the payments.
Rejection of the two key elements of Reagan's budget left the door open to alternative Democratic proposals, several of which would raise corporate taxes to pay for federal programs as well as reduce the deficit.
Hoping to head to head the tax proposals,
Sen Bob Packwood, R-Ore., succeeded on a 79-17 vote in getting the Senate on record favoring a minimum tax for corporations and individuals that would be used only to fund the federal red ink. But the resolution is non-binding.
Approval of the Pentagon spending freeze followed refusal of the Senate. 51-48, to kill the freeze idea Twelve Republicans joined 39 Democrats in voting to keep the issue alive, but eight Democrats joined 40 Republicans in trying to kill it.
Senate Republican leader Robert Dole huddled with leaders following that vote, hoping to turn some members to his side. But he admitted on the floor he had failed and noted it was getting late in West Germany, where Reagan was attending the Economic Summit.
"Based on that vote we've been visiting with a number of people without success." Dole said.
The defense freeze, proposed by Sen. Charles Grassley, R.Iowa, and Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., would allow military spending to rise only to cover inflation in fiscal 1986 and by 3 percent in the next two fiscal years. The proposal would save $1 billion in fiscal 1986 and nearly $18 billion over three years off the budget worked out between the White House and Senate leaders.
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