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University Daily Kansan, April 26.1994
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
U.S. ships stage exercises intended to stop arms flow
The maneuvers, which were set to begin yesterday and formally scheduled to run through May 5, will involve smaller ships of the tiny Honduran and Salvadoran navies from bases in the Gulf of Fonseca, the officials said.
WASHINGTON — Two U.S. Navy destroyers sailed close to Central America Tuesday for "coastal surveillance" exercises aimed at helping El Salvador and Honduras cut off Nicaraguan arms supplies to leftright insurgents. Pentagon officials said.
The Pentagon withheld official comment, saying that it does not discuss military exercises before they are formally announced. An announcement is expected today.
The gulf laps the shores of Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The Reagan administration has said that Nicaragua is running supplies to insurgents in small boats that cross the waterway.
Britain may ask for changes in law
LONDON — Britain charged Libya with "gross abuse" of diplomatic immunity Tuesday and said it might seek changes in international laws that it could let a policewoman's killer go free from the besieged Libyan Embassy.
In a statement to Parliament, Home Secretary Leon Brittan said Britain would "observe scrupulously" its obligations under the Vienna Convention regulating diplomatic immunity, but he attacked as a "barbaric outrage" the slaying of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher outside the embassy.
"The attitude of Libyan authorities has made it impossible for normal relations to continue," he said.
brazil vetoes election amendment
BRASILIA, Brazil — The Brazilian congress yesterday voted down an opposition-sponsored constitutional amendment calling for presidential elections this year that would end two decades of military rule.
Despite the vote, legislators said a compromise amendment was likely to be negotiated since the government did not have enough votes to pass its own amendment.
The opposition won a majority in the vote but fell short of winning a two-thirds majority of the 479-member chamber of deputies needed to pass a constitutional amendment.
Census releases pregnancy figures
WASHINGTON — Almost one-quarter of the women under 30 who married for the first time between 1965 and 1979 were unwed mothers or were pregnant before they exchanged vows, the Census Bureau said yesterday.
In addition, the bureau said in a study on spacing of children, there is a "very high percentage" of births out of wedlock to women who have a child before age 20.
About 19 percent of the white women born between 1955 and 1959 had a baby by age 20 and one-quarter of them gave birth before they married. Forty-one percent of the black women in the same age group had a baby by age 20 and 73 percent were out of wedlock.
5 more die in Santo Domingo riots
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Five more people died yesterday in the third day of rioting over higher food prices and the government closed a television station for showing footage of police shooting at demonstrators.
Police sources said that the latest deaths brought the total confirmed dead in the riots to 47. Nearly 200 people have been injured and more than 1,000 arrested in the violence.
Despite continued protests by mobs, the army appeared to be gaining the upper hand in the capital. Some stores reopened and public transportation was available in scattered areas.
Sisters accused of hiring a hit man
GARLAND, Texas — Two sisters were charged with solicitation of capital murder yesterday for giving $1,100 to an undercover officer as a down payment to kill their husbands so they could divide $225,000 in insurance, police said.
Dorothy Scrivano, 53, and LaWayne Banker, 45, who work together and share a house with Scrivano's husband in suburban Dallas, were formally charged yesterday and held in the Dallas County jail in lieu of $25,000 bond each.
Police said they were arrested Tuesday in an east Dallas parking lot after paying $1,100 to an officer who posed as a hit man.
Serviano offered $5,000 to have her husband killed, police said, and Bancker offered $10,000.
Break-dancing gvrates into Hungary
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Break-dancing — syncopated acrobatic gyrations that started on the streets of New York and grew into a U.S. craze — has twirled into the communist world.
Four teenagers won a joint first prize this week in Hungary's first break-dance competition, the state news agency MTI said yesterday.
MTI said about 1,500 spectators crowded into the Budapest University of Horticulture club, the city's largest youth club, to watch the 30 competitors.
Break-dancing was introduced into Hungary by local pop star Miklos Fenyo, whose latest record includes some hits in break-dance rhythm.
WEATHER FACTS
Today snow is predicted for the Rockies and rain for the northern plains.
Locally, today will be mostly cloudy and windy with a 50 percent chance for thunderstorms and a high in the 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms with a low ground 50.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the 60s.
CORRECTION
Because of incorrect information given to a reporter, Tuesday's Kansan incorrectly reported the charges to which Robert Swain, 20, a Topeka sophomore, pleaded guilty in Douglas County District Court. He pleaded guilty to temporary deprivation of property in connection with the theft of a KU mail truck from behind Strong Hall.
Gemayel meets with Muslim leader
The move to name a new prime minister followed Gemayel's trip last week to Damascus, where he and Syrian President Hafez Assad discussed how to unite Lebanon's Muslim countryside and stop nine years of civil strife.
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — With bulletstill flying in Beirut, President AminGemayel met pro-Syrian Muslimleader Rashid Karami yesterday inan apparent prelude to naming himthe leader of a Lebanese governmentof national unity.
Beirut radio quoted government sources saying it appeared that Gemayel would formally appoint Karami, prime minister nine times in the past 30 years, today. Karami said he had an "historic chance to salvage our country."
"We have had enough of destruction, chaos and killing and the time is ripe to put a final end to these useless conflicts," Karami, 62, a pro-Syrian Sunni Muslim, said after his three-hour meeting with Gamelav, a Christian.
GEMAVEL HAD AGREED in his talks with Assad to form a new Cabinet and a unified government giving the Muslim majority equal power with
The Gemayel-Karamir meeting came as scattered fighting hit Beirut after the deployment of a 1,200-man neutral security force in a buffer zone set up to disengage warring Christian and Muslim militiamen.
Christians, who have dominated the government since Lebanon's 1943 independence from France.
Rival militiamen battled with machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades across the buffer zone on the Green Line, the no-man's land dividing Christian east and Muslim west Beirut.
"We say frankly that it is a rather historic chance for us to salvage our country," said Karami, a lawyer who heads the youngest prime minister in 1955.
AT LEAST THREE Christians were reported wounded by shelling, which
Voice of Lebanon radio said Karami later held "extremely optimistic" talks in west Beirut on forming a new Cabinet.
Phalangist radio blamed on the "Hezbollah," or Party of God, a radical Shiite Muslim militia backed by Iran.
In Paris, Walid Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druse Militim militia, said in a television interview that he was being forced to state in a government of national unity.
Mondale stops delegate-committee aid
Walter Mondale yesterday ordered an end to the 124 independent delegate committees that his rivals have accrued over the past two years, the $24 million primary spending limit.
Mondale said nothing illegal was being done by the committees, but that he was asking them to stop functioning because they were diverting attention
By United Press International
The former vice president acted after the Washington Post reported "a striking pattern of apparent coordination" between the supposedly independent delegate committees and the national Mondale campaign.
Independent delegate committees are legal under the election law, but they are not allowed to coordinate activities with the candidate's campaign. The Federal Election Commission, however, never has ruled what constitutes coordinated activities, so committee activity is uncertain such committee activity is uncertain
from the crucial issues of the campaign.
actually is useless.
Gary Hart has filed a complaint with the FEC, but it is not known when a ruling will be made.
The independent delegate committees have been set up in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and California mainly the major states that have late
primaries.
They have received money from special-interest political action committees although Mondale has said his national campaign would not accept
Mondale is in a financial bind because he spent much of his legal limit of $24 million on the early primaries and caucuses when most of his supporters thought he would have no serious challenge for the nomination.
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