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University Daily Kansan, February 20, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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Spanish protesters march against NATO, U.S. bases
MADRID, Spain — About 30,000 people chanting, "Bases out, no to NATO," marched eight miles toward a U.S. Air Base yesterday and demanded that the base be dismantled and that Spain withdraw from NATO.
Under a treaty first signed in 1953, the United States maintains three air bases and a naval base in Spain. The agreement was renewed for five years.
The fourth annual protest march against the Torrejon Air Base east of Madrid was organized by the "Anti-NATO Committee" and received support from the Spanish Communist Party and a variety of peace and leftist groups.
Police sources estimated yesterday's crowd at 30,000. The marchers marched eight miles from Madrid to the town of Torrejon, about two
Organizers demanded that the Socialist government fulfill its campaign promise to hold a referendum on Spain's 21-month-old membership in NATO.
MIAMI — Eastern Airlines' pilots ignored union leaders yesterday and approved a salary-for-stock swap plan that to key to a $367 million contract.
Eastern pilots approve pay cut plan
A preliminary count showed pilots voted 1,784 to 696 to back the proposal, which already has won the approval of Eastern's union government.
The plan, worked out after lengthy negotiations between Eastern Chairman Frank Borman and union leaders, provides about $292 million in wage cutbacks and another $75 million in productivity increases.
In exchange, employees will get 25 percent of Eastern's common stock and additional seats on the airline's board of directors.
Group visits Hanoi to discuss MIAs.
BANGKOK, Thailand — A high-level U.S. military and civilian delegation flew to Hanoi yesterday to try to determine the fate of thousands of American servicemen missing since the Vietnam War.
The delegation was led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armilitre, the highest-ranking U.S. Defense official to visit Vietnam since 1975. Armilitre visited Hanoi in February 1982 as a deputy assistant secretary.
In the last two years, Vietnam has turned over the remains of 13 Americans and material evidence, such as identification cards, of six others.
A U.S. official said that, although many of the missing servicemen were presumed dead, refugees from Vietnam and Laos have reported sightings of living Americans.
Escaped convict captured by police
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities yesterday captured one of five convicts who made a daring escape from the Fort Pillow Prison, and police with dogs and a helicopter tracked two others near the Hatchie River.
Police Chief Jerry Wyatt said that Randolph Oliver, 32, who was serving a life term and 35 to 40 years for rape and other crimes, was taken into custody yesterday afternoon while hitching a ride on U.S. 70 in Brownsville.
Police are still looking for a man serving a 40-year sentence for armed robbery, a man serving 198 years for two first-degree murders, a man serving 25 years for second-degree murder and a habitual criminal serving a life sentence.
Son files suit against father's fund
The five convicts disarmed two guards and commandered a passing car while on work detail Saturday morning.
CHICAGO — J. Roderick MacArthur, the son of the billionaire who founded the MacArthur Foundation, says that the foundation is squandering millions of dollars, but some members of the foundation's directors say that MacArthur is merely trying to gain control of the fund.
The foundation — one of the world's most generous — made its $4.8 million no-strings-attached giveaway to 22 elite scholars and researchers Tuesday. The same day MacArthur filed suit against his fellow directors.
Second climber reaches base camp
TALKEETNA, Alaska — American climber Jim Wickwire arrived yesterday at the windsweep base camp of missing Japanese adventurer Naomi Uemura, who is thought to be trapped by storms after his historic solo climb of the highest peak in North America.
Uemura, who began climbing Alaska's Mount McKinley on Feb. 1, was due Feb. 15 at his base camp at the 7,200-foot level. He is thought to be held up in a snow cave waiting out the fierce winds and whiteout conditions that have sacked in the mountain for five days.
Uemura, last spotted at about 16,000 feet on Friday, is thought to be in a snow cave between 9,800 and 14,000 feet. He had reached the summit of the 20,300-foot peak on Sunday, Feb. 12.
Missing girls may be devoted fans
PITTSBURGH — The mysterious disappearance of two suburban Pittsburgh high school girls apparently has been solved — they're just spirited soccer fans who are probably following the Pittsburgh Spirit soccer team on its road trips.
Suzanne Duggan and Laurie LeDonne, both 17, were reported missing Feb. 12. They were last seen at a Pittsburgh Spirit soccer game at the Civic Arena.
The Spirit fans finally telephoned Spirit coch John Kowalski Saturday in Wichita where the team had played a game O'Hara Township Police Chief Ray Shaffer said..
"Kowalski said the girls told him they were all right but were getting a little lonely," Shaffer said. "But they refused to tell him where they
"We have alerted Wichita police and also St. Louis police because the soccer team plays their next game there," said Shaffer.
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Officials imply U.S. had PLO talks
By United Press International
The officials, commenting on a New York Times report of nine months of third-party talks with PLO leader Yasser Arafat, said there had been no contact with the 1973 policy linking contact with the PLO to its recognition of Israel.
WASHINGTON — The United States has had indirect contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization but continues to rule out direct dialogue unless the PLO first recognizes Israel, administration officials indicated yes.
Another administration official said indirect discussions with Arafat should not be interpreted as "evidence that we have, in any way, changed our attitude
SPOKEWSOMAN KATHLEEN Lange said the State Department would not comment on the possibility of leaked information.
Lange said, "In all of our statements — in private and in public — we have made it clear that we will not recognize or negotiate with the PLO unless it accepts U.N. Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 and Israel's right to exist. If we do these things, we will talk with them."
Since 1975, the United States has refused to deal directly with the PLO unless the group agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist and accepted certain U.N. Security Council resolutions.
toward the PLO or backed away from Israel."
THE TIMES, quoting participants in the process, said the talks were carried out between Arafat and John Edwin Mroz, a specialist in Middle East affairs who was serving as an intermediary for the U.S. government.
Mroz, president of the Institute for East-West Security Studies in New York, could not be reached for comment.
Robert McFarlane, national security adviser, said he did not know about the meetings described in the Times in an interview with UCBC's "This Week with David Brinkley."
"NEITHER DOES the president." McFarlane said, "and I took time to check with him before coming on today. So it's very much an enigma to me."
The Times said the discussions were consistent with efforts undertaken during the Carter administration to persuade PLO leaders to acknowledge Israel's right to exist in exchange for U.S. recognition of their organization. The efforts broke off after the June 1982 agreement, which PLO later paper said, when the PLO reneged on a promise to respond to a U.S. proposal for mutual recognition.
Yehuda Blum, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, said yesterday that the Israeli "are far from being gratified at learning of these meetings" but said it would not have been the first time such contacts were made.
"THE FACT that this was a repeat performance doesn't make it any more palpable." Blum said in an interview on Cable News Network.
The Times said Saudi Arabia was the only other nation informed of the behind-the-scenes contacts that took place in more than 50 meetings between Mroq and Arafat from August 1981 until May 1982. The state-run Saudi Press Agency said yesterday that was "completely untrue."
The U.S. administration reaffirmed its policy toward the PLO last week after President Reagan came under public pressure from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to open a "direct dialogue" with the PLO as a pivotal step toward reviving the long-stalled peace process.
THE CALL followed a round of talks at the White House involving Reagan, Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein. Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar Sadat, made a similar appeal to Reagan in August 1981.
Hijack of Ethiopian plane results in 26 dead
By United Press International
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A hijacker was shot moments after he pulled the pin on a hand grenade, which then exploded and killed 26 passengers guarded an Ethiopian military flight last week, diplomatic sources said yesterday.
The sources said the hijacker, an Ethiopian military officer, pulled the pin after apparently realizing the military aircraft was preparing to land
at Ethiopia's main military air base at Debre Zeit Thursday.
A crew member then shot the hijacker and a few seconds later the grenade exploded. The aircraft plunged to the ground, severely damaged, the sources said, but it was not clear whether it was at or near the air base.
THE 28 DEAD included several air force officers and wives and children of military personnel on the flight, which carried 38 passengers, the sources said.
Debre Zeit is about 32 miles south of Addis Ababa. The unidentified army
lieutenant had demanded to be taken to
neighboring Somalia, the sources said.
There was no official comment from the Ethiopian government and the hijacking was not reported in the Ethiopian news media.
The sources said they did not know the type of aircraft, its flight path or how many people were injured in the explosion, adding that the Ethiopian government was "very sensitive" about such incidents.
SOMALIA, WHOSE government is pro-Western, is a favorite destination for many travelers.
The two countries have been fighting intermittently over the disputed Ogaden desert border region since Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 1977.
The Ethiopian armed forces, estimated at 250,000 troops, face opposition from both secessionist and anti-government guerrillas.
Ethiopian authorities have promised severe punishment for people attempting to evade compulsory military service, which was introduced last year. The case now moves between 18 and 30 in an attempt to bolster the hard-pressed military.
Pravda says that Soviets are willing to negotiate
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday it was prepared to start improving relations with the United States if the Reagan administration would negotiate on the basis of "equality and equal security."
The message, carried by the Communist Party newspaper Pravda in an anarchist column, was:
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THE EDITORIAL said the Soviet position was outlined by Chernenko during a meeting last Tuesday with Vice President George Bush, who was
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