University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Louisiana governor indicted
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edward was indicted yesterday with his brother and five others in a trial that ended with the allegedly netted him nearly $2 million.
A grand jury returned a 51-count indictment that charged Edwards with 50 counts of racketeering and with mail and phone calls, he could face up to 265 years in prison.
The 57-year-old Edwards — the first French Cajun governor elected in Louisiana — eschews drinking and smoking but still maintains his love of his love of gambling, women and fun.
Strike cripples ailing Pan Am
NEW YORK — Mechanics struck Pan American World Airways yesterday after contract talks collapsed, crippling the finance minister and stranding hundreds of passengers.
The transport Workers Union, representing 5,753 mechanics and ground workers, set up pickets in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles and
Pan Am's other four unions, representing 14,000 flight attendants, engineers, machinists and pilots, responded to the picket lines on Tuesday. The carrier's 400 daily flights worldwide.
TORONTO — A Toronto publisher was convicted yesterday of spreading fictitious news after a worldwide distribution of booklets that claimed the Holocaust never happened and the Nazis did not use gas chambers to kill people.
Ernst Zundel, 46, was found guilty on the charge relating to a booklet in which he said the Nazis had no plans to exterminate Jews during World War II.
Defense witness Dittieb Folderer, 42, of Sweden, testified that inmates at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp could dine, dance and watch live theater.
Beauty queen loses clothes
PLYMOUTH, N.H. — A teen-age beauty queen who won a $1,000 wardrobe was arrested just three days after her coronation last week. She disappeared from a fashion shop, police said yesterday.
Ihnonda Niles, 19, the New Hampshire representative to the Miss U.S.A. Pageant, was arrested in her dormitory room at Plymouth State College Tuesday night and charged with a misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property, said Police Chief Donald Young.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Shultz will discuss tensions with Nicaragua
By United Press International
Secretary of State George Shultz and Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said yesterday that they would be willing to meet at today's Uruguayan presidential inauguration to discuss reducing tensions between the United States and Nicaragua.
meanwainte, Vice President George Bush and White House spokesman Larry Speaks criticized Ortega's offer on Tuesday to send 100 Cuban military advisers by May 1.
Shultz, in Guayaguil, Ecuador en route to Uruguay, said Nicaguarua had not made a diplomatic approach to the State Department but he was ready to meet Ortega in Montevideo, Uruguay.
ORTEGA ARRIVED AT the military section of the Montevideo airport late yesterday and was met by interim President Rodrigo A. Peña, full military honors and a 21-cannon salute.
Thousands of pro-Sandinista demonstrators gathered at the airport and along the 13-mile highway into Montevideo and
Shultz acknowledged Ortega's offer to send home the Cuban advisers, saying, "One hundred compared to thousands of Cubans is a very small step."
shouted, "Nicaragua! Nicaragua!" and "Nicaragua will be liberated! El Salvador will be liberated! Liberation is coming to Latin America!"
He said Washington wanted Nicaragua to "stop trying to subvert neighboring countries, reduce the arsenal of weapons, (eliminate) the large presence of Soviet, Chinese forces, and keep its promise to form a democratic government as has been done in Ecuador."
IN A STATEMENT issued Wednesday in Managua, Nicaragua, Ortega said he hoped his decisions to bar imports of sophisticated weapons systems and to send home the Cuban military advisers would end Reagan administration efforts to increase aid to rebels trying to overthrow his leftist Sandinista government.
Ortega did not give any indication of how many Cubans are in the country, but U.S. officials have said there are 10,000 Cubans there /3,500 of them as military advisers.
In Washington, Speakers said Ortega's offer was a "drop in the bucket" but said it was evidence of the success of U.S. policies in Central America.
"I HAPPEN TO believe there is justification from time to time for covert action, somewhere between doing nothing and a declaration of war." Bush said.
Bush, in a speech to the Austin, Texas, Council on Foreign Affairs, said, "Worse than another Cuba, we run the risk of seeing another Libya develop — a warehouse of subversion and terrorism only two hours by air from the Texas border."
Ortega predicted his latest actions would prompt other Central American countries to accept a regional peace treaty proposed by the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama and Colombia.
He said yesterday the initiatives are difficult seeking peace for the people of Nicaragua.
"THE PEOPLE OF Nicaragua desire peace, demand peace," he said. "They don't
want to shed more blood or make more sacrifice, but they are ready to fight as long as peace does not come."
Meanwhile, an attack on U.S. Central American policies appeared in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda shortly before Tass, the official Soviet news agency, carried Ortega's statement announcing the halt in imports of advanced Soviet weapons systems and the plan to send 100 Cuban military advisers home.
Earlier, Pravda delivered a scoring rebukal to a recent speech made by Shultz in San Francisco. Shultz said the United States had a moral duty to assist the rebels trying to overthrow Ortega's government.
"That speech was pervaded from beginning to end with hatred for the socialist countries, for the all people who are not going to bow to U.S. imperialism." Pravda
"The true meaning of the course which Washington is now planning is to frustrate by all means a political settlement in the region and to unleash a gory war against the people of Nicaragua." Pravda said.
Party conservatives form Democrat splinter group
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A group of Southern and Western conservative Democratic officeholders yesterday formed a splinter group to develop policy outside the party structure, but the only woman on their roster said she wants no part of it.
Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, D-Ohio, said she was not consulted before her name was listed among the 40 members of the splinter group. She said she attended one organization meeting some weeks ago but never agreed to be part of it.
Another congressman on the list, Rep. Tony Coetho of California, chairman of the party's Congressional Campaign Committee, also reported was angered that his name was on the list. He could not be reached immediately for comment.
The conservative Democrats from the South and West defied new party chairman Paul Kirk, who had lobbed strongly against the organization because it would operate independently of party structure.
Several hours after the new organization was announced, Oakar said she was surprised to be listed as the only woman among the 40 members, who otherwise are all white males except for two black House members — Reps. Alan Wheat of Missouri and William Gray of Pennsylvania. Gray is chairman of the budget committee.
THE CONSERVATIVE Democrats want a stronger voice in party policy after the defeat of Walter Mondale. They resent the success of liberals like Jesse Jackson in dominating Democratic party policy arguments.
"I don't like my name being manipulated," she said. "All along I've worked as part of the Democratic National Committee — I'm a party person."
Oakar said she had thought the group would work within the party structure.
"We are to make to go any comment," a spokesman for Kirk said of the new organization. "The party will proceed with doing so, do, and what others may do, may others do."
Despite the feud with Kirk over forming
the committee members claimed it
would not divide the pamphlet.
"I regret this has been perceived as antagonistic," said Gov. Charles Robb of Virginia. "We have told Kirk from the outset we want to be cooperative, but independent."
Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri was selected chairman of the new council, and Gov. Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Sen. Lawton Chiles of Florida and Rep. Jim Jones of Oklahoma will serve as co-chairman.
Reagan defends position on cuts in student loans
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan defended his move to limit student loans yesterday, saying that some families were too poor to afford them and aid to the wealthy defied common sense.
Meanwhile, Education Secretary William Bennett said many college students falsely claimed to be independent of their parents and believed more federal aid than they deserved.
"Government has no right to force the least affluent to subsidize the sons and daughters of the wealthy," Reagan told members of the National Association of Independent Schools. "And under our proposal, this will change."
"Yes, our proposal may cause some families to make difficult adjustments. But by bringing the budget under control, we will avoid the far more painful adjustment of living in a wrecked economy."
THE EDUCATORS LISTENED in silence as Reagan charged that some federal aid was now going to some families whose annual income exceeded $100,000.
The remarks aligned Reagan with Bennett, who suggested Feb. 11 that the
proposed cubbacks in student aid might require "student divestitures of certain sorts — stereo divestitures, automobile divestitures, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestitures."
Reagan, who has proposed a reduction of more than 25 percent in the budget for student aid next year, said that under his proposal every qualified student who wanted to go to college would be able to do so.
Bennett told Congress yesterday that there had been an increase in students declaring themselves independent, and he helped them to do so. He simply trying to get additional federal aid.
Bennett was immediately challenged by Rep. William Ford, D-Mich., who questioned the legitimacy of the concern.
The issue arose at a hearing by the House Education and Labor Committee on the administration's embattled proposal to cut student aid.
Bernett bolt Ford that his department, as part of a continuing crackdown, Wednesday submitted 15,000 cases of unauthorized loans to the Justice Department.
Ford said, however, that those cases did not involve criminal fraud, but simply late or non-payment.
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