University Daily Kansan, January 21, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Gunman fails to surrender
CHICAGO — A publicity-shy man who shot to death a knife-wielding teenager during a robbery attempt failed to surrender yesterday, and police think he may have been deterred by reporters camping on his doorstep.
"We've talked to him through a third party and he wants assurances that he won't be harassed by the media." Sgt. Joseph Fitzpatrick said. "We're hoping he comes in later."
Chicago police have played down any similarity between the Thursday night shooting and the case of Bernhard Goetz, who wounded four teenagers after one of them asked him for money on a New York subway train.
Fighting forces refugees away
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand — Vietnamese troops and Cambodia rebels battled on three fronts yesterday as 20,000 refugees evacuated temporary border shelters and crossed into Thailand to escape a possible snailover of the fighting
Thai military officials said two guerrillas had been killed and five wounded in a bombing.
Guerrillas of the anti-communist Khmer Peoplees National Liberation Front said 1,000 rebels had attacked the former stronghold of the KPNLF.
Gay rights measure defeated
HOUSTON — Voters crushed a referendum proposal, that would have prohibited discrimination against homosexuals in city employment, but Mayor Kathy Wimblett said yesterday her administration would continue to protect gays' job rights.
Homosexuals lost 18 percent to 82 percent in the referendum, which drew 30 percent of the registered voters. The usual vote in a non-political election is about 10 percent.
Daredevil dies in barrel stunt
HOUSTON — A Canadian daredevil died yesterday from massive injuries suffered when he plummeted 180 feet in a barrel that cracked on a water tank before nearly 45,000 spectators in the Astrodrome. The stunt came only minutes after Evel Knievel tried to talk his fellow stuntman out of doing the dive.
Karel Soucek, 37, of Hamilton, Ontario, billed as the "last of the Niagara waterbirds" atop a top of about 12 Astrodome into a tank of water at 12 feet in diameter and 9 feet deep.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Anti-apartheid group 'blacklists' entertainers
By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Center Against Apartheid has reissued what it calls a register — but what everybody else says is a blacklist — of entertainers, actors and writers who perform in South Africa.
Published annually since 1981 in support of a U.N. General Assembly campaign for a cultural boycott to punish South Africa for its policy of racial separation, the list this year has more than 400 names of individuals and groups.
World renowned entertainers such as
Frank Sinatra, Helen Reddy and Elton John
are listed alongside such little known as
theater stars Glipin and Swedish actress Mary Stalin.
Some are anonymous, appearing only under a group title, such as the Vienna Boys Choir, which the center said toured South Africa in August 1981.
The center was miffed, too. by a Welsh
choir that traveled to South Africa in October 1981 and again in February 1983.
THE MALE VOICE Choir of Wales, specifically organized for a South African tour following a successful campaign by the Welsh Anti-Apartheid movement to stop such visits by two individual choirs, played a Welsh joke on the protesters.
*All (89) members of the Welsh school resisted South African hotels as Jona's husband.*
Some entertainers maintain they appeared only in Bophutthatswana, an African state created in December 1977 by South Africa and Burundi, and therefore broke no cultural bans.
Bophuthatswana, recognized only by South Africa and whose leaders claim is independent, has an entertainment complex known as that is popular with South African tourists.
The Center Against Apartheid has a long memory. Once on the list, a name stays until
"NAMES OF PERSONS who undertake not to engage in further cultural contacts with South Africa will be deleted from future lists," it said.
there is a promise to refuse South African blandishness of big money to perform.
That section is short. American jazz musician Brook Benton and actor Howard Hesseman are the only recognizable names in a list of only 13 personalities.
The center claims that "hundreds of prominent actors, entertainers and musicians have joined the campaign against it" as a result of publication of the register.
American and British personalities are the particular target of the list because they constitute the majority of those who travel to South Africa to work, the center said.
Among the more than 100 personalities and groups from the United States are singers Liz Mimmiello, Dolly Parton, Lily Ronstadt, and Johnny Mathis. Cher, Paul Anka and the Johnny Mathis, Cher, Paul Anka and the
Beach Boys.
Actors Ernest Borgine and Telly Savalas, comedian Shelley Berman, actress Goldie Hawn, pianist Liberace, the Village People, "Glide" and "Wavey Legs" of the breakdancing group Dynamic Rockers were others.
There were more than 120 British entertainers, including singers Shririe Bassey, David Essex and Cliff Richard, comedians Michael Bentine and Dickie Henderson, actors Kenneth Griffith and Emily Williams, pianist Donald Swann. The list included novelists Frederick Forsyth and Pamela Haines.
German-born actress Elke Sommer is listed, as is Greek singer Nana Mouskouri, Portuguese fado singer Amalia Rodriguez, Australian singer Andy Gibb and Spanish opera star Monsterrat Caballe, who has sung at U.N. concerts in the General Assembly.
Though the Center Against Apartheid boasts considerable success, the register has limited circulation and little publicity.
Israel begins to withdraw from Lebanon
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Israeli military vehicles yesterday began moving out of the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, marking the start of a three-phase plan to bring home some 10,000 Israel troops after $2 \frac{1}{2}$ years of occupying Lebanon.
A convoy of 60 to 70 trucks and armored personnel carriers left the port at dawn and moved seven miles south toward the Zahrani River, Beirut radio reported.
Israeli radio reported that soldiers, pleased to be pulling up stakes in Lebanon after the lengthy occupation, were dismantling facilities and piling them up to be bailed south.
One soldier, interviewed as he used an acetylene torch to cut down a corrugated metal fence, told the Israeli Armed Forces radio he was elated.
"I built this fence with my own hands," he
what "Can you tell I say?" its excellent
feeling.
ISRAEL INVADED Lebanon in June 1982 to drive out the Palestinian Liberation Organization and, since then, has maintained some 10,000 troops in the south.
of current troop lines and 20 miles from the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Israel's Cabinet, struggling to ease an economy burdened by the heavy cost of occupation, unilaterally approved a plan last week to withdraw the troops in three stages.
In the first stage of the pullout plan, which Israel hopes to complete by Feb. 18, troops will withdraw from the Sidon area along the coast to the Litani River, about 20 miles south
Israel will be giving up less than one-fifth of the 1,120 square miles it controls in Lebanon. A source in Tel Aviv said combat would not be pulled out until the last moment.
In the second stage, Israeli troops will leave the Bekka area east of Sidon, where they now face Syrian troops. In the third and final stage, tentatively to be completed by late summer or fall, they will pull back to the border
LEBANESE OFFICIALS the pullout will create a vacuum in the Sidon area that could trigger factional fighting over control of what is in effect the capital of the south.
Lebanese authorities yesterday appealed for calm in southern Lebanon and warned they would blame Israel for any problems resulting from the withdrawal.
"The decision was taken unilaterally and Israel must assume entire responsibility for such a move and for the repercussions that may follow," Maj. Gen. Mohammed Al Hajj, head of the Lebanese delegation to Naqura, said on Christian Voice of Lebanon radio.
Israel had proposed last week that the 5,700-meter UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) move north from the Litani to help maintain order but the Lebanese said they wanted their army to take over the primary security role.
A high Israeli official in Jerusalem warned
last week that "Sifon" could be hell, worse
than God.
steps to keep order in the wake of the first stage of the Israeli pullout.
MANY RESIDENTS of northern Israel fear that Israel's military withdrawal from southern Lebanon may mean a return of the landing rocket attacks they endured for years.
After Israeli troops invaded Lebanon in 1982, the residents of Kirayat Shmona, Metulla, Safad and Shlomi and a string of smaller settlements along the border emerged from their bunkers.
But their fears resurfaced with Israel's decision last week to leave Lebanon. They were not comforted by army generals who visited the region and pledged that Israel would react swiftly to any rockets fired at the Galilee region.
Representatives of the Upper Galilee Regional Council and leaders of the area's communal settlements say they accept the rocky ushers rockets would fall from time to time.
Katyusha are Soviet-made rockets, used since attests began in 1968.
Israel and Lebanon had been holding talks on security arrangements after an Israeli pullout but could not agree and Israel decided to act unliterally.
A U.N. official in Jerusalem said Lebanon and Israel will resume talks in the southern Lebanese town of Naqarba on Tuesday, adding there was "a strong possibility" Lebanon will ask the United Nations to its forces in the territory Israel will vacate
Man admits to rape spree since prison
By United Press International
MIAMI — A man who felt "rejected" by society told police he had raped 200 to 300 women since his release from prison in 1969 after serving five years of a 15-year sentence for rape.
Ralph Nathaniel Miller, 45, was arrested Saturday as he attacked the sister of a woman he is accused of raping nearly four months ago, police said. Fingerprint data linked Miller to at least eight other sex attacks in the Miami area, officers said.
"He felt rejected," Rape Squad Detective Linda Ares said. "Society turned him on."
Miller told police in a statement that he raped between 200 and 300 women since his release in 1969 after serving five years of a 15-year sentence on a rape conviction.
Miller, a maintenance man at several apartment buildings, provided several addresses where he said he had raped a woman. He also said the men had been committed at the addresses.
Police said they had arrested Miller Saturday after he had attacked the sister of a woman he raped last Sept. 30.