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University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from UPI
Army denies a 'massacre' of 23 Salvadoran peasants
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The U.S.-backed Salvadoran army denied charges by rebels yesterday that government troops "massacred" 23 peasants in a guerrilla-dominated zone north of the capital.
The clandestine rebel Radio Farabundo Marti said that forces of the Atacalat Battalion, trained in 1981 by J.I.S. Green Berets, killed 23 peasants in the village of El Roble and one in Corazal, about 30 miles north of San Salvador.
"Twenty-three humble Salvadoran peasants have been murdered by the Atlacal battalion. Twenty-three peasants have been massacred," the rebel broadcast said.
The robbers said that some of the victims, including women, children and old people, were beaten and tortured before they were killed.
Soviets accuse CIA of 'filthy' tactics
BANGKOK, Thailand — The Soviet Union accused the CIA yesterday of using "the rudest and filthiest methods" in efforts to entice Russian diplomats into defecting or into leaking information to the West.
"We possess irreaffable evidence that the American spy agency, in close cooperation with secret services of Japan, Australia and other countries conducts manifold subversive activity in Thailand," said Soviet Embassy Minister-Counselor Oleg A. Yershov.
1989, the second-ranking official at the embassy, said the CIA last week used Australian and Japanese intermediaries to get two Soviet officials to cooperate with the agency.
Brazilians rally to end military rule
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — About 1 million demonstrators demanding an end to 20 years of military rule waved colorful banners and chanted to the sound of samba drums yesterday in the largest political rally ever held in Brazil.
"There are 1 million people here. This is without doubt the biggest political demonstration in the history of Brazil," said Osmar Santos, master of ceremonies for the downtown rally.
Demonstrators were demanding nationwide elections to choose a successor to President Gen. Joao Figueiredo, who will step down in March. Top military officers say he can be replaced by a civilian chosen by a 686-man electoral college.
Dominican leader arrives for talks
WASHINGTON — Contrasting the Dominican Republic's recent experience under democracy to the communist "tyranny" imposed on Cuba, President Reagan welcomed Dominican Republic President Salvador Jorge Blanco to the White House yesterday.
Jorge Blanco is visiting Washington for a round of talks with Reagan on economic concerns and turmoil in Central America.
Reagan praised the course of democracy in the Dominican Republic since the mid-1960s, when Jorge Blanco was among the leaders of a leftist rebellion.
Rail line near U.S. base sabotaged
FRANKFURT, West Germany — Anti-missile protesters sabotaged railway lines leading to the U.S. Army's Rieh-Rain-Main air base yesterday by cutting through the tracks and covering the lines with concrete, police said.
A police spokesman said that the early discovery of the sabotage by a police patrol had prevented an accident, and that workers had repaired the lines within "a matter of hours."
The spokesman said a banner reading "No U.S. airbase" was discovered hanging from a rail bridge near the sabotage site. The banner carried the initials MLA, and a red star emblem. The initials stand for "Moenchbruck Liberation Army."
Suspect admits he killed 360 people
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Henry Lee Lucas told a sheriff he had committed 360 murders, including some in which he had "filed" the victims like fish, a tapered confession played yesterday at his capital murder trial revealed.
On a portion of the tape, which will not be played for the jury, Lucas told Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutoul that he and traveling companion, Ottis Toole, killed people in every way except through poisoning.
The unedited tape was played outside the presence of jurors because attorneys disagreed about wording on an edited version.
Lucas is on trial for the strangulation of an unidentified woman hitchhiker, whose body was found along Interstate 35 near Georgetown in central Texas. Oct. 31, 1979.
Iacocca absent from Mustang's 20th
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. celebrated the 20th birthday of the Mustang yesterday with a party for 15,000. But the car's father, Lee lacocca, wasn't on the guest list.
The actual birthday of the Mustang is April 17, 1964, but the company decided to celebrate the birthday at the Renaissance Center a week
Invited were 15,000 Mustang owners, all Ford employees in the greater Detroit area.
Missing was Iacocca, who found fame as head of the Ford division by directing the Mustang project but was later fired by Ford Chairman Henry Ford II. Iacocca is now chairman of the Chrysler Corp.
WEATHER FACTS
A cold front is about to move through the state. The front left rain throughout the Eastern Rockies yesterday and is expected to leave rain on the Great Plains today.
Locally, today will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of thundershowers. The high will be around 60. Tonight will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light rain or drizzle. The low will be in the 40s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with the high in the low 60s.
CORRECTION
Because of a reporter's error, yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported the date that the movie "Gay Proud and Sober" would be shown. The movie will begin at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. A discussion will follow.
Day-old Beirut accord threatened by fighting
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Artillery fire and machine-gun battles sweep across the capital yesterday, killing one man and threatening a day-old accord that called for a buffer zone between Israel and Christian Muslim militias.
Twenty-three of those wounded were injured when dozens of 155mm and 120mm shells and mortars crashed into Muslim west Beirut, while six people were shot in similar burrages on the eastern half of the capital, security sources said.
The violence raised casualty figures to 83 killed and 503 wounded since Lebanon peace talks failed March 21 in Beirut, Switzerland three weeks ago.
Ambulances sped wailing through Beirut as thick smoke billowed into the sky from scattered explosions. Thousands of people flew to basement shelters for safety.
An army soldier stationed in east Beirut was killed and 29 people were wounded in the sporadic fighting in residential areas. Gunfire lashed the night stage as a heavy fight began increasing in the afternoon and finally tapering off early today.
Artillery, mortar, machine-gun and sniper fire the救援 the commercial part of the capital and ramshackle southern side. Mountains southwest of Shauf Mountains southeast of Beirut.
The fighting erupted first along the Green Line dividing Christian east and Muslim west Beirut, less than a day after representatives from both sides formally endorsed a plan to set up a zone between the warring factions.
The fighting came as President Amin Gemayel met with two top officials of the anti-government Progressive Socialist Party, headed by Drusen Muslim Fahd Jumblatt. Details of the four-hour battles were not immediately available.
A panel representing Lebanon's factions also met for talks on how to separate the warring militiamen.
Astronauts to attempt to fix broken satellite
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. — Terry Hart snaked out Challenger's robot arm yesterday and hauled in a stricken solar satellite, reviving NASA's dream that two spacewalkers can fix the satellite today in history's first extraterrestrial tuneup.
Hart needed only one try with the 50-foot arm to wipe out the frustration of the mission's earlier failures to capture Solar Max and put the astronauts back on course in their unprecedented satellite serv-
George "Pinky" Nelson and James "Ox" van Hotten, who will be the mechanics in Challenger's first check out of their pressure suits.
The other astronauts joked they were "having a hard time keeping Pinky and Ox in here."
President Reagan congratulated Hart for his "one long reach for
man" that put Challenger's crew halfway toward its goal of ushering in a new age in space retrieval and repair.
"You are all a team that has made all Americans very proud of what you're doing up there and what the future bodies for all of us with regard to this opening of that great frontier have been created. You telephone call radioped up to Hart, Robert Crippen, van Hotten, Nelson and Dick Scobee.
The 5,000-pound satellite, the most advanced sun-gazing observatory ever built, was tucked into its cradle in the shuttle's cargo bay where Nelson and van Hotten will try to repair it.
Armed with a space wrench and screwdriver, Nelson and van Hotten will attempt to replace the satellite's attitude control box so instruments can again be precisely aimed at the Earth's orbit. Fasting Solar Max's attitude control is the key part of the orbital overhaul.
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