University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
FBI agents arrest neo-Nazi
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — FBI agents arrested neo-Nazi David Lane in a supermarket parking lot Saturday, four days after capturing another member of the group suspected in the Denver murder of a Jewish talk show host, the FBI said yesterday.
yesterday.
Lane has not been formally charged in the Alan Berg slaying, but police believe he was a member of a hit squad that gunned Berg down in his driveway last June.
The suspected trigrammer, Bruce Carroll Pierce, was seized last Tuesday by FBI agents in Rossville, Ga.
Berg frequently argued with neo-Nazi members on his call-in show, and Denver police said Lane frequently called the talk show to air his anti-Semitic views.
Widow elected to House seat
NEW ORLEANS — Cathy Long, who was elected to her deceased husband's House seat Saturday, will become Capitol Governor after a swearing in ceremony Tuesday.
Democrat Long won a five-way special election to succeed her husband. Rep. Gillis Long, collecting nearly 52 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff. She spent $600,000 on the race and appeared on the ballot as "Gillis 'Cathy' Long."
Soviets might draft women
MOSCOW — Soviet women could be called up for military training under a new amendment to the country's military draft laws published Friday.
laws prohibit. A Soviet expert said the amendment would enable women to serve in non-combat occupations to help maintain the size of the armed forces in an era of declining birth rates.
A Western diplomat said he believed it would be the first time Soviet women had to register for the draft in peace time. Men are required to complete two years service in the armed forces.
Irked students bare backsides
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J. — About 350 students of geopolitics Friday bared their backsides in the general direction of the Soviet Union to express their displeasure with the Soviets' killing of an American serviceman in East Germany.
Ian Case, a disc jockey from Long Beach, N.J., organized the protest at the suggestion of one of his listeners, a senior at Bed Bank Catholic High School.
"We were really pleased by the turnout." Case said. "This ought to show the Russians something."
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Jackson fights for family farms in Minnesota
By United Press International
MINNEPAPOLIS — Jesse Jackson flew to Minnesota yesterday to take up the cause of farmers who say they will lose their land in the worst farm crisis since the Great Depression unless they get higher prices and a freeze on foreclosures.
Jackson scheduled a meeting last night with Gov. Rudy Perpich at the airport in Minneapolis and a speech before hundreds of farmers at a rally today in Glenwood, a town of 2,500 people 140 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
Glenwood where an all-night rally was to begin at 9 p.m.
minibappets who wants Periph to issue a morrison on foreclosures, said he would issue a statement after the meeting and before he travels by car to a farm near
oeger. " (Perpich) has the power by executive order, " Jackson said in a telephone interview Saturday. "The governor could see that Minnesota takes the lead in a nationwide direction to save the farm farmer."
THE RALLY INITIALY was to coincide with a third attempt to foreclose on the 480-acre farm of Jim Langman 10 miles west of Glenwood. But the mortgage holder, Travelers Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn., postponed the sale Saturday after receiving receipts.
Paul Tsicha, commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, said Travelers had received numerous threatening phone calls, one of them from a man who identified
himself as a member of the Posse Comitatus, a militant tax protest group.
That changed today's gathering into a "victory rally," but neither Langman nor Jackson is satisfied.
"It's kind of a victory," Jackson said, "but a moratorium is imperative."
Jackson and Langman are asking for a federal guarantee of higher commodity prices.
The former Democratic presidential candidate said city dwellers need to get behind the farmers, because they will be affected by the farm crisis more than they realize.
"The struggle to save the family farm must be an urban issue because farmers feed city dwellers," he said. "It's as important to the hungry poor, urban blacks and other
minorities and consumers everywhere, as it is to the farmer.
"It is to everyone's interest and benefit to keep the small farmer afloat."
Even if Perpich does declare a foreclosure moratorium, it will be too late for many farmers facing a crisis described as the worst since the Great Depression, Langman
Four or five of his neighbors have committed suicide this winter, including Harlan Johnson, 54, who stuck a sheatmum to his mouth and pulled the trigger Thursday.
"It doesn't make any difference how many acres you have," he said. "It's like 1929, when they were jumping out windows at the stock market. Now the farmers are jumping."
Muslim guerrillas free French hostage
Rv United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muslim gunnen yesterday released a kidnapped French Embassy employee, the second Westerner freed in two days, as Christian and Muslim militiamen poured each other in southern Lebanon.
At least five people died in the fighting. Danielle Perez, 34, a secretary at the French Embassy in Beirut, was tired but unharmed when she was released. French Ambassador Fernald Wibaux said. Perez was kidnapped March 22 with her father, French chief of protocol Marcel Carton, 62, as they drove to work at the embassy.
as they arrive to school. Kidnappers are still holding her father, two other Frenchmen, five Americans, one Briton and one Dutchman.
and the Duchars.
The pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad (Holy War)
originally claimed responsibility for the abduction of Perez, Carton, another Frenchmen and two Britons, Geoffrey Nash and Brian Levick.
BUT A PREVIOSLY unknown Muslim guerrilla group calling itself the "Khaibir Brigades" said last week it was holding the five and would free the two Britons and the secretary because it no longer believes they are spies.
Opens
Nash, a metal expert, was released Wednesday and Levick, an oil executive, was freed Saturday. Both were unharmed.
Near the port of Sidon, 24 miles south of Beirut, Christian militias and Palestinian-backed Muslim forces bombarded each other with artillery shells and rocket-propelled grenades.
At least five people were killed and five others were injured in the shelling, officials at Sidon's Hammoud Hospital said. Forty
people were reported killed and 75 injured in similar fighting Saturday.
Official Beirut Radio said gunners from the Lebanese Forces Christian militia resumed bombardment of the Miyeh-Miyeh and Ain outskirts of Sidon in camps on the eastern outskirts of Sidon.
IN RETURN, Muslim militiamen backed by
ISALMAN fighters pounded the Christian
forces, dug in near villages futher east, with
artillery fire and rocket-propelled grenades
The area has been tense following a series of Israeli raids on nearby villages and a decision by Christian Lebanese Forces' militia leaders not to support the Syrian-backed policies of Lebanese President Amin Gemavel.
Some Palestinian fighters expelled during the 1982 Israeli invasion are believed to have slipped back into the area after Israeli troops withdrew from Sidon last month.
Spring snowstorm hits upper Midwest
By United Press International
A spring snowstorm covered the Midwest with more than a foot of snow, blustery winds and near-blizzard conditions yesterday. Flooding caused by driving rain and high winds chased hundreds of people from their homes along the Great Lakes.
A blizzard warning was posted for southeast Minnesota, where gusty winds and up to a foot of snow was forecast. Winds up to 45 mph cut visibility, while cars and iacknifed trucks littered the highways.
"I'm looking out the window and I can hardly see across the street," said Barb Reiland, a Minnesota State Patrol radio operator in Rochester.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was shut down for almost two hours yesterday afternoon. By nightfall, more than 14 inches of snow had fallen on the Twin Cities.
ELEVEN INCHES of snow buried Iowa and Nebraska, and travelers were warned of near-blizzard conditions. Winter storm warnings stretched from Nebraska and Iowa to Wisconsin and Michigan.
Up to a foot of snow blanketed northeast Wisconsin. In some places the snow was accompanied by thunder and lightning.
In Amery, Wis., a 3-year-old boy wearing only blue jeans and a shirt was found in good condition after being out in the snow for several hours. Authorityts said the boy had
wandered out of an apartment and had hidden under a bush.
The bad weather led to one traffic death in Iowa and another in Nebraska.
tow and are flooded. Flood or flash flood watches were posted for western and southern New York, western Pennsylvania and southwest Ohio. Heavy rains flooded streets in Indianapolis. Six inches of rain that fell since Wednesday flooded creeks and closed southern Indiana roads.
HIGH WATER and northeast winds caused the worst flooding in more than a decade on islands in the Detroit River. A Coast Guard spokesman said the water level at the river's mouth was 59 inches above normal and 8 inches above the level predicted.
Teamsters get new contract beat deadline
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Teamsters union and the trucking industry reached a tentative settlement yesterday on a new three-year contract that makes "the biggest firms yet" in curbing job losses to non-union firms, a union official said.
The settlement was announced hours before the Teamsmts' current three-year contract with the nation's largest trucking firm expired at midnight.
Teamsters President Jackie Presser, who was negotiating his first nationwide trucking contract, said in a statement that the proposed contract provided wage increases and expanded health and safety benefits for the union's workers. The union would not disclose how much of an increase the contract proposal called for.
Arthur H. Bunte, chief negotiator for the trucking companies, declined comment on the tentative agreement "pending the ratification process."
PRESSER SAID the contract provides "the biggest strides yet by a union in stopping double-breasting or diversion of freight."
Double-breasting is the practice of setting up a non-union firm to take away Teamsters' work. The job losses caused by double-breasting was one of the most troublesome issues in the negotiations that started Jan. 15 between the union and the trucking firms.
MONDAY GLADNESS
"Why be MAD when you can be GLAD"
LAND DAY
To appreciate the significance of this struggle for the protection of Palestinian land, three salient facts about it must be pointed out. One, that the Zionists throughout their history met with their greatest failure when they sought to acquire Palestinian land by nonviolent means. The Palestinian people, mostly a peasant society, resisted the alienation of their land, and when the state of Israel was established in 1948, Jewish-owned land in Palestine was less than 6 percent of the area of the country. The Zionists acquired land in Palestine through armed aggression rather than by other means.
Two, Zionist usurpation of Palestinian land never ceased. After it became a state in 1948, Israel continued to confiscate Arab property. It not only seized the lands of the Palestinians who became refugees, but it also confiscated most of the land which belonged to Palestinians who remained and became "Israeli-Arabs". The clash which gave birth to Land Day in 1976 resulted from efforts to confiscate Arab land in the Galilee, not in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.
Land Day is observed annually on March 31st to remember the struggle of homeless Palestinians whose homes were demolished and lands were confiscated by Israeli Army.
Third, Palestinian land seized or confiscated by Israel becomes available to Jews only. In that sense, Palestinian resistance to Zionist usurpation of Palestinian land is not only in defense of Palestinian rights, but it is also in defense of contemporary human values. It is a struggle against aggression and against apartheid. For that reason, it is a struggle which should interest not only Palestinians but all those who object to discrimination.
(Sponsored by the Arab Student Organization and the General Union for Palestinian Students)
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