University Daily Kansan, March 28, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Red Brigade kills labor leader
ROME — Two Red Brigade terrorists, one armed with a submachine gun and the other with a pistol, shot and killed one of Italy's top labor experts yesterday in what politicians said was a bid to poison strained union relations.
The victim was identified as Ezio Tarantelli, 43, president of the Institute of Economic Studies, lecturer in political economy at Rome University and the main author of the Italian Confederation of Labor Syndicates. Italy's principal Catholic labor union.
Briton, 60, released in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A British mineral expert, one of 13 Westerners held by kidnappers in Lebanon, was released yesterday in good shape almost two weeks after he was seized by Muslim guerrillas and held in solitary confinement.
Briton Geoffrey Nash, 60, was taken to predominantly Christian East Beirut and underwent a medical checkup before going to Britain, his daughter Nadia said.
Western sources said Nash was freed on condition that he deliver a communique from his captors to the French consul.
Three Mile accident recalled
HARRIBURG, Pa. — Today marks the sixth anniversary of the nation's worst commercial nuclear power accident and the beginning of what may be the most pivotal year at Three Mile Island since the near-melted March 28, 1979.
GPU Nuclear Corp., operator of the plant, is scheduled to begin in July the removal of 100 tons of highly radioactive uranium from a dump unit 2 reactor and shimming it for burial
To mark the anniversary, anti-nuclear activists sponsored a 24-hour demonstration at 4 a.m. today on the lawn of the state Capitol.
Marriage begins sentence
HOUSTON — The groom wore white coveralls to the marriage ceremony, argued with his bride and then was led in handcuffs to serve a life prison term.
Arthur Woodfork, dressed in jail coveralls, was married Tuesday to Karen Jones. The couple argued briefly after the army and before guards led Woodfork away.
"It was just that he hadn't called me in about two days," the bride said. "He was trying to expain it to me, and I just told him to sit up right there at the bench."
Woolford, 32, was convicted two weeks ago as a felon in possession of a weapon.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Goetz indicted on attempted murder, assault
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Bernhard Goetz, once portrayed as a hero of crime-weary New Yorkers, was indicted on daytime on charges of shoplining four teenagers on a subway train.
The indictment was handed down one day after Goetz balked at testifying before a second grand jury about the Dec. 22 shooting. An initial grand jury declined to indict Goetz, a 37-year-old electronics technician, on charges of stifter than illegal weapons possession.
interview. "Hopefully this will bring an end to the controversy."
"HE WAS A victim on Dec. 22, and unfortunately today he was a victim again," defense lawyer Barry Slotnick said. "I've talked to him and he's understandably distressed and saddened. He has become a natural football. But he is strong; he has faith."
Goetz had insisted that he wanted to tell the new grand jury his version of the shooting but refused to waive immunity from prosecution for other possible crimes.
"It is probably best this is coming to trial anway," Goetz said in a WNBIC-TV
Robert Morgenthal, Manhattan district attorney, said, "It has been established that you don't have the right to kill somebody because you don't like what they are doing. This is not the Soviet, Union, not Nazi Germany. We don't have summary justice."
"I am pleased that this case will now go to
law." It has been done. Now it will be up to the people.
Goetz was indicted on four counts of
attempted murder. four counts of assault
one count of reckless endangerment and one count of criminal possession of weapons.
ATTEMPTED MURDER IS punishable by $8_{1/2}$ to 25 years in prison for each count. Goetz will be arraigned today in state court.
William Kunstler, a lawyer for the teen-ager most seriously wounded in the shootings, said he was "personally gratified. Now I am happy and it will be up to a趴 to decide the facts."
Gov. Mario Cuomo said, "My attitude to the same now as it was when the grand jury failed to indict for these crimes originally: I did not see or hear the evidence presented in my trial and came to comment on the jury's decision. We knew, the law when we agree and when we don't."
teen-agers had surrounded him and demanded $5.
The shootings occurred during the Christmas shopping season as Goetz was on his way downtown in the subway. He said the four
Goetz became a virtual folk hero nationally. New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato offered to testify on his behalf and hundreds of applicants offered financial support for his defense.
The gunman had been mugged previously and said he decided it would not happen again. He pulled a 38-caliber revolver and fired five shots at the teen-agers, leaving one of them hospitalized in a coma with serious brain damage.
In a videotaped statement to police, the slender, blond-haired Goetz said he was sorry he had run out of bullets on the subway and wished that he had used his car keys to gouge out one of his victim's eyes. He also admitted firing a fifth shot after looking at one of the victims and seeing that he wasn't bleeding.
Loan defaults may cost U.S.$3 billion
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — An insurance fund for federal medical and dental student loans is being drained by growing numbers of defaults, and the government could be liable for up to $3 billion by 1990, a federal audit said yesterday.
Altered by auditors of the Health and Human Services Department, the government increased premiums to prevent the fear. Education Assistance Loan program's implementation in 1985. However, there were insufficient funds to cover expected defaults, the audit said.
Because the insurance fund is not growing as fast as expected defaults, the government could be liable for $3 billion in loans by 1990, the audit said.
The government had guaranteed $560 million in loans as of Sept. 30, 1984. As of last month, $8.6 million in insurance claims had been paid.
THE AUDIT RECOMMENDED that the government impose stricter requirements on borrowers, try harder to collect from them and take action against more. Some steps already have been taken.
The audit said one student was allowed to borrow $1,550 for a trip to Europe for "personal development." Another student
borrowed thousands of dollars for expenses of divorce and counseling
The HEAL program, which began in 1978, insures loans by private lenders to students in medical and dental schools. Students may borrow up to $20,000 annually for four years at market rates. The maximum is based on the student budget, as determined by the school.
If the borrower defaults, dies, is disabled or goes bankrupt, the insurance fund repays the loan, but the federal government itself would be liable if the fund runs out of money.
The audit estimated 8 percent of loans were in default last year but predicted that would rise to 10 percent or 15 percent.
Authorities arrest neo-Nazi in Georgia
By United Press International
ATLANTA — The leader of a violent neo-Nazi group who allegedly gunned down a Jewish talk-show host in Denver was arrested with an arsenal of weapons by three SWAT teams in north Georgia and brought to Atlanta yesterday under heavy guard.
Bruce Carroll Fierce, 30, armed with three handguns and a van full of grenades, bombs, automatic rifles and other exotic weapons, was arrested without incident Tuesday night at a telephone answering service in Rossville, Ga.
"He was not given a chance to resist," said
agent in charge of the FBI's
Alabama office.
He said Pierce was considered the most-wanted man in the West after he took
command of The Order, an offshoot of the Church of the Aryan Nation, whose members are accused of staging armored car robberies. Coast to finance revolutionary activities.
"HE'S PROBABLY ONE OF the most dangerous fugitives in the country," Burke said.
Pierce, Metaline Falls, Wash, was held on charges of failure to appear for sentencing on a Secret Service counterfeiting charge, violation of the federal Firearms Act and robbery of an armored car in Washington state.
answering service in the tiny community of Roville, just south of Chattanooga, Tenn., and apprehended Pierce as he arrived to pick up a letter.
About 40 agents armed with shoguns and M-16 rifles staked out the offices of AAA
"We had reliable information that he was going to show up at that address," said FBI spokesman Charles Matthews.
At a 15-minute hearing yesterday, U.S. Magistrate William Harper ordered Pierce to be held for 10 days until authorities arrived to take him into custody
DENVER POLICE SAID Pierce led a four-man hit squad that used automatic weapons to kill Alan Berg, an acerbic radio talk-show host who frequently argued with neo-Nazi members, in the driveway of his home June 18.
Also linked to the Berg slaying were Robert Matthews, founder of The Order, Denver neo-Nazi leader David Lane and Richard Scutari. Lane and Scutari remain at large. Robert Matthews died in a shootout with federal agents near Seattle in December.
Twenty people killed in raid in Philippines
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — The military was placed on its highest state of alert yesterday when communist rebels killed 20 villagers in a raid and prepared to mark the 16th anniversary of the founding of their New People's Army.
Fidel Ramos, acting armed forces chief lieutenant general, issued the red alert and ordered maximum security for the hospital public installations and other vital areas.
All military leaves were canceled and soldiers were confined to camps, it said.
All military leaves were canceled and soldiers were confined to camps, it said. The order came two days before the NPA celebrates its 16th anniversary.
The NPA, the armed wing of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines, was formed by several dozen intellectuals on March 29, 1968, in Tarlac province in the central Luzon plain, just north of Manila.
It has grown to include about 12,000 armed troops scattered throughout most of the country.
The rebel army's strength prompted U.S. Defense Department officials this month to urge a congressional subcommittee to increase military aid to the Philippines, warning that the NPA expects to be capable of attaining a strategic stalemate with government forces in three to four years.
Do You Know...
- LOUIS FARRAKHAN said in regard to Black Muslims in America, "We will come to power right inside this country one day soon. And the White man is not going to stop us from executing the Law of God on all of you who fall under our jurisdiction."
—Washington Post
- At a press Conference, Farrakhan said, "I don't think you would be talking about Adolph Hitler 40 years after the fact if he was some miniscule crackpot that jumped up on the European continent. He was indeed a great man, but also wicked—wickedly great."
-April 11, 1984, Washington
- Although Louis Farrakhan is being brought to this campus on the basis of free speech, the students who are paying for his visit will not be allowed to openly ask questions of his extremist views.
SARA
"Students Against Racism and Anti-Semitism"
. is a group of concerned students who are appalled at the blatant bigotry displayed by Louis Farrakhan. They wish to alert the campus community to the potential dangers of allowing the ideology of Farrakhan to spread.
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