NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 13, 1984 Page 10
Marcos evades election issues
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Opposition leaders said yesterday it would be "a miracle" if President Ferdinand Marcos accepted their demands that he move to power as a condition for their taking part in May's Parliament elections.
The elections are considered Marcos' first significant political test since the Aug. 21 assassination of opposition leader Benino Aquino, which set off the worst anti-government demonstrations since Marcos came to power in 1965.
Marcos appeared to rule out meeting the demands on Saturday, saying members of his ruling New Society had requested that he stop selling the store" before the May 14 halloting.
BUT IN AN INDICATION that the president might be willing to make
some concessions, state-run television said Marcos intends to appoint two people next week to fill vacant seats on the Senate and commission on Elections, or Comeloe.
The opposition has asked that the two seats on the commission be filled by candidates it found acceptable to help ensure honest elections.
Laurel said yesterday "the chance that he (Marcos) will give in to the demands are very slim. It would be a miracle if he did."
The 12-party United Nationalist Democratic Organization, headed by Salvador Laurel, has given Marcos until tomorrow to meet a list of six demands issued last month as a plan to participate in the May 14 elections.
THE ORGANIZATION HAS SAID it will order a boycott if Marcos refuses to meet the demands, which include a call that he surrender his powers to
legislate by decree and detain alleged subversives without charge.
"It seems to me he is still being bulldashed," said former Sen. Ernesto Maceda on his return from the United States to join the opposition campaign.
"If certain rules of the game are not changed, such as a revamping of the Comelec, I don't see any reason why we should participate." Maceda said.
Mrs. Marcos said Saturday she had no intention of running but under public pressure she could not "deny the will of the people."
"There are no ifs or buts," Mrs. Marcos said. "I am not seeking re-election to the Batasan (National Assembly) in May."
Marcos' powerful wife Imelda sought yesterday to retract earlier remarks indicating she might run for the National Assembly.
Critics say Mrs. Marcos is jockeying to take over the presidency.
3-year-old Gulf war escalates as Iran and Iraq continue artillery attacks across their frontier
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran and Iraq sent artillery shells and missiles streaking across their frontier yesterday, hitting cities on both sides in an ominous escalation of the 41-month-old Gulf war.
The exchange followed an Iraqi missile attack Saturday on residential areas of the Iranian city of Dezful that killed eight people and wounded more than 70.
The attack on Dezful coincided with the fifth anniversary of the Islamic revolution that topped U.S.-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and
extended the war to populated civilian areas...
NEITHER SIDE HAD ANY IMPEMIATE casualty figures from yesterday's fighting. It was not known if the company or commercial shipping in the oil-rich Gulf.
Iran opened yesterday's exchange by bombarding the Iraqi port of Basra, on the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, and Mandeli and Khanqein, both northeast of Baghdad, the Iranian news agency said in a dismatch from Tehran.
Iraq returned fire with a bombardment of the Iranian ports of Khorramshahr and Abadan, both just east across the waterway from Basra, the news agency said.
The news agency said the Iraqi attack against Abadan "completely devastated three school buildings, a hospital, some mosques" and dozens of houses and apartment buildings.
"THIS WILL CONTINUE TO BE our policy and the world public opinion would approve of this humanitarian line of the Islamic Republic of Iran," the news agency quoted Prime Minister Hussein Musavi as saying.
Before the Iraqi forces struck back, Baghdad's official news agency quoted a military official as warning that Iraq "will follow and crush completely" the Iranian enemy unless it stopped its "agression against Iraq."
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Changes in criminal law evoke 'steamroller' effect, senators say
WASHINGTON — Some senators are claiming that the fear of opposing law-and-order legislation in an election year has created "a steamroller" because of the drastic changes in criminal law that have passed through the Senate so swiftly during the past two weeks.
D-Maine. "For two weeks we we've been warned that a vote against any of the measures proposed by the Judiciary will be a vote for violent crime. It's nonsense."
By United Press International
"The people have become more fearful just in the past two years," he said. "We hope the sentiment in the country has crystallized to the point that there will be considerable pressure on the House to pass these bills."
"What we're doing here is largely posturing on the question of violent crime," said Sen. George Mitchell,
SEN. STROM THURMOND, R-S.C., chief force behind the crime bills as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said, "There's no steamroller here." Thurmond says public outrage over crime has grown to the point that Congress has been forced to act.
In the past, Rep. Peter Rodino,
D.N.J., has bottled up similar measures in his House Judiciary Committee. Thurmond said he would ask the U.S. government to raise the bills, to persuade Rodino to allow the legislation to come to a vote.
Nicaraguan elections doubted again
By United Press International
In Honduras, the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Democratic Force rebel organization announced a purge of its
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A top opposition leader warned left-wing Sandistas yesterday that "confusion between state, party and army" might block election next year, urging them to arm the army out of politics and ston censorship.
"Within this framework we believe it is impossible to have democratic control."
ranks that could set the stage for an alliance with Eden Pastora's anti-Sandista guerrillas fighting from Costa Rican havens.
show signs of being resolved.
PRESIDENT OF THE OPPOSITION Nicaragua Social Christian Party Agustin Jarquín said, "The confusion between state, party and army does not
The powerful Salvadoran National Association of Private Enterprise issued a communique calling former Salvadoran public enemy No. 13 "the White Salvadoran public enemy No. 13."
Yesterday's announcement appears to fulfill those requirements and clears the way for an official alliance.
"Former ambassador Robert White ... by his inappropriate and criminal conduct is public enemy No. 1 of El Salvador and for the foreign policy of Reagan," the businessman's communique issued in San Salvador said.
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