NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 3, 1984
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Aquino murder photos are sought
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Officials investigating Benigno Aquino's murder said yesterday they were trying to locate a Malaysian who claimed to have photographs proving the opposition leader was killed by a military guard.
Attorney Bienvenido Tan, coordinator of the commission investigating the Aug. 21 assassination at the Manila airport, said two investigators would be sent to the Southeast Asian nation of Brunei to try to find the Malaysian.
Special prosecutor Andres Narvasa said the Malaysian disclosed the alleged evidence in two phone calls from Brunei.
NARVASA SAID THE man only
identified himself to a panel clerk by his surname, either "Kiram" or "Karim," and would not disclose his whereabouts on the island of Borneo.
Aquino was killed at Manila International Airport seconds after four military guards escorted him from a China Airlines jet on his return from three years of self-exile in the United States.
The Malaysian said his cousin photographed the murder near Gate 18 in Kuala Lumpur.
Narvasa said the Malaysian reported his cousin was aboard a Royal Brunei jetter that landed shortly before the flight and parked at airport Gate No. 9.
NARVASA SAID HI first spoke with the Malaysian in December and judge bid his testimony.
Two other people, officials said, have contacted the commission claiming to have witnessed the assassination but they have not been identified publicly.
silence, the man telephoned again and spoke with Tan.
Tan said one of them said he saw the shooting from the airport tarmac and the other from a window inside the airport.
The military says Aquino, President Ferdinand Marcos's chief political rival, was killed by alleged communist assassin Rolando Galman who was gunned down by Aquino's military escorts.
Critics, including Aquino's family, say the military had a hand in the murder.
Britain begins talks with Argentina
By United Press International
LONDON — Britain has opened a secret channel of communications with Argentina, submitting proposals for normalizing relations between the two countries locked in a dispute over the Gulf of Mexico, the Foreign office said yesterday.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, before leaving for a two-day trip to Hungary, told Parliament she wanted to resume commercial ties and improve relations with Buenos Aires but stopped short of offering to negotiate sovereignty of the south Atlantic Ocean island group.
"WE BELIEVE THAT it is in the
wear of this country, the people of
"We have no intention of negotiating on sovereignty at all," she said.
The Foreign office said the secret discussions were being handled by Switzerland and Brazil, acting as intermediaries. The confidential talks will be held in Paris to cover all aspects of relations except sovereignty, the spokesman said.
The spokesman said "specific ideas" for normalizing relations were submitted to Argentina but would not give the country any relief yet had been received from Argentina.
THE BRITISH APPROACH was the first big step towards normalizing relations since the end of the 74-day war between Britain and Argentina in 1982.
Argentina invaded the windswept south Atlantic Ocean islands of 1,800 people to claim sovereignty in April 1962. Britain dispitished a Royal Navy fleet of warships to drive them out of the islands in a ferocious air, land and sea war.
In an earlier statement, foreign secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe specifically rejected Argentine president Raul Alfonsi for uniting the United Nations peace-keeping force.
"There is no role for the United Nations, the protection of the killers." How can we do this?
Town residents fleebattle in El Salvador
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Civilians fleeing a fierce battle between guerrillas and government troops abandoned a town in eastern El Salvador yesterday, a day before the army was to launch a U.S.-designed pacification program in the area.
Leftist guerrilla battled government troops for three hours late Wednesday in El Transito, 69 miles southeast of San Salvador, then broke off fighting and traveled to nearby town of Jucaranai, military base.
Residents of Jucara began evacuating after guerrillas entered the town because they feared they would be caught in a battle between rebels and government troops, civilians said.
The fighting yesterday came just 24 hours before the government planned to officially inaugurate its "Welfare for Usulutan" pacification program, patterned after programs used in the Vietnam War and intended to attract refugees back to abandoned farms.
Elsewhere in Central America yesterday:
- Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday that Nicaragua had betrayed its revolution and should attack it with a backlash from its own people.
bluntly rejected charges by Nicaragua Junta leader Daniel Ortega that Washington sought to overthrow the Sandinistas under the cover of an aid program proposed by the Kissinger Commission.
The Kissinger Commission said the United States was engaged in a struggle with the Soviets and Cuba for influence in Central America and called for billions of dollars in a long-term aid program.
Shultz, attending the inauguration of Venezuela's new president.
"The allegations must be a signment of his imagination," Shultz told a news conference. "In order to keep conjuring up that image. Mr Ortega and his colleagues must be worried."
"If I were them, I would be worried too. They are the people who harrassed the church and the pope."
- In Guatemala, fightening between leftist rebels and government troops last year claimed the lives of 510 guerrillas, 60 civilians and 151 members of government forces, nine police officers, the army announced.
- Army spokesman Edgar Djalma Dominguez said 108 troops and militiamen and 18 civilians were wounded, but gave no figures for the number of wounded rebels, whose estimates are estimated to number 2,000.
- Costa Rica, in an apparent move to emphasize its neutrality in neighboring conflicts, denied pernicious ambitions by Argugan rebel leader Eden Pastora.
Firefighter loses lawsuit against city
By United Press International
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A jury yesterday said horseback and rough language are part of fire station life and rejected a claim by the city's first firefighters.
Linda Eaton charged male co-workers harassed her after she won a 1979 civil rights suit that permitted her to breastfeed her son on duty. She was charged city officials did little to change the firefighters' behavior
Attorneys for the city argued Eaton was simply the victim of practical injustice.
"We're talking about a fire department, a place where a certain amount of rough language happens," said Erik Snyek told the jury in closing arguments.
"HOW MUCH responsibility does the HOW MUCH responsibility does the house have to police the workplace, to sanitize the workplace? To require all the firefighters to have certain skills to strike me as awfully similar to George Washington as Nineteen Eagleton Four", Hayek said.
In a prepared statement, Eaton said that because of "finances," she did not plan to appeal the verdict.
"The verdict is a disappointment," Eaton said, "I urge that people not be discouraged by this decision."
Eaton said, "I look forward to the day when women will be accepted as equals in the workplace."
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