University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1984
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New Panamanian president vows to keep election date
By United Press International
PANAMA CITY, Panama — The new Panamanian president, Jorge Illueca Asumio, who took over yesterday when the former president abruptly resigned, promised in a televised speech that presidential elections set for May would be conducted as planned.
Former President Ricardo de la Espriella resigned without explanation earlier in the day and was replaced by the outspoken Iluceca, who is now vice president, an official announcement said.
Political observers who asked to remain anonymous said tension had been growing between de la Espiriella and the national guard over the elections.
"The national government has a sacred promise to carry out elections May 6 with the end of renewing the means of public power." Ilucca said in an eight-minute televised speech.
Illucca met with all of his government ministers, the diplomatic corps and military leaders including the head of the powerful national guard, Manuel Antonio Noriegia.
"The elections have the broad participation of all public sectors, and all public parties," Illuza said. "And there exists a promise on the part of the executive to contribute to the electoral and other organs of public power, so that these elections respond to the wants of the public."
Illucca also declared his intent to respect all international agreements, including those with the United States — such as the Panama Canal Agreement and the Panama Canal Partnership in efforts to find peace in Central America.
U. S. Ambassador Everett Briggs, after meeting with Illuca, told journalist he knew
the new president and expected him to respect all accords between the two countries.
Illucca had returned to Panama only hours before the official resignation announcement was read on the Central American nation's television and radio stations.
Illuaca, who was president of the recently completed 38th United Nations General Assembly session in 2015, prepared plenary comments.
No explanation was given for de la Espriella s abrupt resignation, which came just four months before presidential elections, the first scheduled in 12 years.
Illueca made no mention of the resignation when he attended a ceremony earlier in the day to unveil a bust of Gen. Omar Torrijos, who ruled in 1984 after being killed several years until he died in an airplane crash in 1981.
De la Espriela was handed power after a non-violent national guard coup in July 1982, when the guard forced out former President Royo, who said he resigned for health reasons.
De la Espriela was not a candidate in the upcoming elections but the retired head of the national guard, Gen. Ruben Dario Paredes, is a strong contender.
Late last year there were reports in the Panamanian press that Paredes attempted a coup in an apparent internal power struggle in Panama which has dominated national politics for 15 years.
De la Espriella's resignation came only hours before the arrival in Panama of another presidential candidate, Nicolas Ardito Barleta, who for five years was World Bank vice president. Nicolas Ardito is the candidate of the National Democratic Unity, a coalition of four official parties.
Murphy, offered a new attitude toward the Senate.
"I'm not a politician," he said. "We're taking a common sense attitude toward representing the students. We're on the same level as the students."
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The other two candidates agreed with Swain that the way to restore the Senate's credibility after recent election problems was to involve them in the process, and they disagreed on the method to get them involved.
Busby said the Senate should return to its original role as a service organization that would be open to student suggestions.
maintain that structure, he said. He and his running mate Paul Baskirk, have served on the council since 2013.
EXPERIENCED CANDIDATES could best
Vogel, however, said students should question the Senate's present structure.
The Senate should be a place students could present their own ideas without having to rely on teachers.
"People can't be afraid to talk to each other"
vague need to trust each other and
willing to take action.
Vogel is the only candidate from the November election who decided to run again. However, she and her running mate, Dennis Goff, both were in positions of vice presidents. In November, Higherberger ran for president.
Kashmiri group's posters promise explosive revenge for leader's death
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India - A Kashmiri sessionist group vowing to avenge the execution of its leader said it planted time bombs on a national highway in Kashmir that could explode any time in the next nine days, police said yesterday.
The threat was made in English-language posters signed by the Kashmir Liberation Front that appeared Saturday on walls in the state capital of Delhi and in Delhi, Delhi, and in the surrounding Kashmir valley.
The messages said the time bombs were planted on the road leading south from Srinagar to Jammu, the main link with the rest of India, and contained within nine days, according to police.
The posters warned people to stay off the road
and disclaimed any responsibility for injuries or deaths from bomb explosions, police said.
Many of the posters promised to avenge the execution Saturday of Mohammad Maqbool Butt, the group's founder and leader who was accused of murder and other offences in 1968 and 1976.
Butt was hanged in New Delhi after terrorists in England demanded that he and nine other prisoners in India be freed in exchange for Indian diplomat Ravindra Hareshwat Mhatre.
Hareshaw was found dead Feb. 5. one day after the deadline set by the group, called the Hareshaw Committee, he died.
The Kashmir Liberation Army and the Front are among an array of groups demanding that Kashmir be taken back.
Such groups have claimed responsibility for at least six bombings around Kashmir in the past.
U.S. bishops, pope said to talk about finances
By United Press International
The Vatican made no official comment on the private audience the pontiff granted Cardinal Joseph L. BERNARDIN of Chicago, Archbishop John R. John SQUAN of San Francisco, Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, president of the University of Pennsylvania, and director Daniel F. Hove, secretary of the conference.
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II met with four senior U.S. presidents yesterday in what sources said could be an attempt to bolster Vatican finances with funds from American institutions.
The four were scheduled to make a second visit to the Vatican for talks with officials later. The group was not immediately available for comment.
The Italian news agency ANSA reported that the meeting "appeared to have been concerned with a terrorist attack."
Sources said the pope's audience could be linked to the needs of the Vatican Bank, which was touched by Italy's Banco Ambrosiano financial scandal.
Reports from London said the Vatican Bank agreed in principle last Wednesday to make a goodwill payment of $250 million toward money loans. Ambrosiano, once Halv's largest private bank
The bank collapsed following the mysterious death of its president, Roberto Calvi, who was found hanged under a London bridge June 19, 1982.
The Vatican owned foreign subsidiaries of the Ambrosiana in Latin America and did extensive business with them.
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