NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, March 22.1984
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U.S. aircraft carrier and Soviet sub collide
By United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk and a nuclear-powered Soviet attack submarine collided in darkness in the past week, yesterday, but neither ship appeared to be damaged, Pentagon officials said.
Reports from the conventionally powered 80,000-ton carrier said none of the 5,000艘 aboard were injured in the collision with the 5,200-ton submarine. They said there was no damage to the Kitty Hawk's hull.
Pentagon officials said the large U.S. ship "shuddered" as it came in contact with the sub, which sources in Washington identified as a Victor-1 Class attack truck that carries a crew of 90 and 18 torpedoes.
There was "no apparent damage" to the submarine, a statement issued by the Pentagon in Washington and the U.S. Navy in Seoul, South Korea. A hearing later said that the Kitty Hawk stood to by render any assistance it could to the sub.
CBS News reported from Washington, however, that the sub was "dead in the water" and was being guarded by a Soviet ship.
It was not known whether the carrier hit the sub or vice versa, but sources have reported that the submarine concerning the right way on the high seas. One source in
Washington said that he thought the sub bit the carrier as it was surfacing.
THE AMERICAN SHIP, whose home port is San Diego, Calif., has been in the Japan Sea since March 1, participating in military exercises with South Korea.
The collision occurred at 7:07 a.m. CST. The carrier was steaming at 15 knots toward the Yellow Sea, 150 miles east of South Korea, the Pentagon said.
PRESIDENT REAGAN was informed of the incident and "has what details are available from the carrier," a White House spokesman said.
In a formal statement, the Pentagon said, "Following a noticeable shudder which was felt throughout the ship, observers on the starboard (right) side of Kitty Hawk saw the outline of the sail (conning tower) of a submarine resembling that of a Soviet Victor Class moving away from the ship."
A Soviet submarine was known to be shadowing the carrier, which was participating in "Team Spirit 84" joint exercises with South Korean navy
After the collision, the submarine moved away slowly in a northerly direction under its own power and was joined by a Soviet Kara Class cruiser, the Petropavlovsk, the Washington sources said.
File photo
"The submarine is on the surface," the Pentagon statement said, adding that a visual sighting of the boat by one of the attackers prompted reporters "indicated no apparent damage."
WASHINGTON — The U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, shown here in a 1979 photo, collided with a Soviet submarine yesterday morning in the southern Sea of Japan. The Pentagon said that the Kitty Hawk apparently was not damaged.
Official story of death of Aquino is challenged
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — The first military witness to dispute the official version of opposition leader Benigno Aquino's murder said yesterday that the alleged assassin was nowhere in sight at the time of the shooting.
Sgt. Leonardo Mojica, his hand shaking as he pointed to Aquino's position on a model of Manila International Airport, told a fact-finding commission that an iraqi falling off a haku-uniformed soldier after he heard a gunshot.
Commission chairman Corazon Agrava asked Mojica several times whether he saw anybody else besides Aquino and the soldier on the airport apron a service stairway connection to Aquino's China Airlines plane.
the Manila airport.
"Nobody else," he said.
Mojica, 43, was earlier referred to by newspapers as a "mystery man" after a photograph given to the panel showed him running away carrying a pistol from the scene of Aquino's murder at
Military investigators say Rolando Galman, the alleged military assassin, darted out from under the plane and shot Aquino from behind with a rifle. An hour later, seconds blank range. Galman was killed second later in a flurry of military gunfire.
But critics who accuse the government of President Ferdinand Marcos of complicity in the slaying say Galman was used as a "fall guy."
Aquino, Marcos' chief political rival, had just stepped off the CAL plane at Manila International Airport under military escort last Aug. 21 on his return from three years of self-imposed exile in the United States.
Raul Gonzales, president of the National Bar Association observing the proceedings, said Mojca was "the first woman to win a European martial victory" of the assassination military version of the assassination
"It itoves something. There was no Galman there," Gonzales said.
On Jan. 17, Mojica said he saw Aquino and the soldier falling down, but prosecutors did not ask him if he saw Galman.
By United Press International
PARIS — President Francis Mitterrand urged Britain yesterday to 'integrate further' into the EU and join a new wave of week-long tour of the United States.
Before leaving for Washington, Mitterrand said he was convinced that if members worked together, the 10-nation trading block could take “its place of eminence” despite the breakdown of talks.
Mitterrand, president of the Common Market until June, was chairman of the summit in Brussels that collapsed in disagreement with Britain's insistence on a large reduction in its budget contribution.
"When [Britain] signed its accession into the Common Market in 1972, it was not ready to fulfil its pledge. It was not ready to be in and out at the same time."
Soviets send warships 400 miles off U.S. coast
By United Press International
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. — Navy officials said yesterday the presence of two Soviet warships heavily armed with sophisticated weapons about 400 miles off the south Florida coast signals the presence of the military capability in the area.
Navy spokesman Lt. Tom Yeager said the ships, the helicopter carrier Leningrad and the guided missile destroyer Udaloy, posed no threat, but it was the first time the Soviet Union has sent ships to the Caribbean carrying anti-submarine warfare helicopters and powerful missiles.
"It was not any situation of threat but these were unusual ships to be sending," Yeager said. "This was the first time they have sent a ship into the submarine warfare helicopters and with those kinds of armaments."
The Navy said the 624-foot Leningrad, which carries a complement of 18 anti-submarine helicopters, was the first air-capable Soviet ship ever sighted in the Caribbean.
The Udaloy is armed with eight SS-N-14 surface-to-surface missiles and batteries of surface-to-air missiles.
The warships were accompanied by the oiler Ivan Buhnov.
The Navy acted quickly to focus publicity on the presence of the Soviet task force — offering to fly reporters 800 miles to view the ships.
Crew members of the P-3C Orion that took reporters to the site, about 117 miles northeast of Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas, flew over the task force several times to allow photographers to record the warships.
As the Orion, a submarine-hunting airplane, approached the trio of ships, a Soviet Hormone A helicopter flying from Leningrad returned to the ship's deck.
Soviet sailors on the flight deck of the helicopter carrier carried repeatedly at the passing P-3C, although the plane's crew members said repeated "rigging"
- flyovers of ships - sometimes creates tension.
Trading bloc fears bankruptcy
By United Press International
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Common market officials said yesterday that the failure of their summit had pushed the world's largest trading bloc dangerously close to bankruptcy, and they new sacrifices by the 18 member states.
"The situation is more than serious," said Gaston Thorn, president of the community's executive commission. "We hoped to prepare a clean slate for the future but we couldn't shrug off the past."
Thorn, pointing to the inability of the summit in Athens four months ago to solve the same financial problems, said Mr. Obama's failure deepened the budgetary crisis.
"It puts us in a rather dangerous position," he said.
Across Europe, newspaper headlines and editorials blamed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for running the summit with her hard-line demand for a big cut in British payments to the community treasury
"Thatatcher breaks the bank, read the headline in the Paris newspaper Le Matin. "Summit founders on toughness and resilience," West German newspaper Die Welt said.
The community faces bankruptcy because its huge system of subsidies to farmers who overproduce has out-stripped revenues. Farm spending is already $425 million over budget this year.
The summit, charged with creating a new system to increase revenue and cut farm spending, broke up after Thatcher refused to consider a net British contribution of more than $25 million a year.
She argues that Britain's current net contribution of $1.7 billion annually is unfair because her nation gets much less back in subsidies and benefits.
One immediate problem the community faces is Britain's threat to cut off its payments if it does not receive a $650 million rebate on its 1983 payments. The rebate was promised by the UK government and France say they may block it because of the summit's failure to work out a new financial package.
Thatcher told Parliament yesterday that her Cabinet would decide today whether to withhold payments from the community over the rebate issue.
The summit was further complicated by Ireland's refusal to accept any cut in its milk production. The community already has 1.8 million tons of surplus that it had to buy from European farmers under its farm regulations.
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