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Indian militants suspend violence against Bengalis
NEW DELHI, India — Militants in Assam state declared a truce yesterday in their campaign against Bengali immigrants but pledged to continue.
Riots and massacres since Feb. 1 in India's easternmost state have left at least 4,100 people dead, according to a compilation of official reports.
The campaign of anti-immigrant agitation will be suspended for two weeks beginning Friday to allow time for relief efforts, a spokesman for the militants quoted by the Press Trust of India said in Gauhati, Assam's main city.
But militants will refuse to cooperate with what they see as an illegally elected government in Assam, the spokesman said.
House kills bank-ownership bill
With 63 votes needed to take action in the House, the vote on the amendment to remove the multi-bank provision from a minor banking bill was 68-52. Final action on the bill is scheduled for today.
TOPEKA - The Kansas House yesterday killed a provision that would have allowed multi-bank holding companies to operate in the state.
Opponents argued that if multi-bank holding companies were allowed in the state, the personal services of small banks would be damaged. Supporters said individuals, partnerships and corporations currently could buy banks, but banks could not buy banks
Rep David Miller, R-Eudora, who introduced the amendment, said both agriculture and banking interests were opposed to the measure.
Massive strike paralyzes Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — More than 9 million workers walked off their jobs across Argentina yesterday to demand a massive wage hike in the face of a 400 percent annual inflation rate.
The strike, which began at midnight Sunday, paralyzed most activities in Argentina. Banks, shops and restaurants closed and automobiles choked city streets as bus, subway and train drivers abandoned their jobs.
The Interior Ministry estimated that 96 percent of Argentina's industrial workers in key manufacturing centers in Buenos Aires and interior provinces joined the strike, the second in the past four months.
In nonindustrial areas, 85 percent of the workers stayed off their jobs, the ministry said.
Jurv convicts 3 New Orleans officers
DALLAS—An all-white federal court jury yesterday convicted three white New Orleans policemen of violating the civil rights of four men during an investigation of a slain officer. Four other white officers were exonerated.
All the defendants, including the four who were acquitted, appeared shaken and grim. They would not speak with reporters after the verdict. Defense attorneys said the convictions would be appealed. The officers will remain on active duty pending these appeals.
Homicide sergeant John McKenzie, 40, and homicide detectives Dale Bonura, 34, and Stephen Farrar, 31, face up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine each at their May 19 sentencing.
Origin of equine herpes not known
VIENNA, Austria — Officials said yesterday that the origin of an incurable herpes virus that has killed 33 of the famed Lippizaner horses and threatens more than half the remaining mares, still was a mystery. But they denied it was the result of a U.S. tour earlier this year.
Erwin Rothensteiner, a government veterinarian, said at least 26 of the remaining 40 marts were believed contaminated.
"But this does not mean the that the Lippipazzer horses in Austria are about to become extinct." Rothensteiner said.
The strain of herpes — equine rhinopneumonitis — is specific to horses and not directly related to the human herpes strain that is becoming widespread in the United States.
Tale too tall for Venezuelan police
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela — Police yesterday contradicted an 11-year old boy's story that he was held 34 days by kidnappers and escaped by cutting through chains. They said that ransom money may have been paid for the release of the boy, who has an American mother.
"We have unconfirmed reports that a ransom payment of $687,000 dollars was made, possibly last Friday afternoon," said Fermin Marmol Leon, a Venezuelan police detective.
The boy, Alex L. Pellizzari, son of a Saginaw, Mich., woman and a Venezuelan pilot, told the Saginaw News in a telephone interview that he escaped by cutting the chains that kept him prisoner for 34 days.
Pellizzari was seized on his way to school in San Cristobal Feb. 21 by four gunmen who demanded a ransom of $1.6 million.
Bigamist gets 34-vear prison term
PHOENIX, Ariz. — A Superior Court judge yesterday sentenced Giovanni Vigliotto, who admitted he married more than 100 women, to 34 years in prison and fixed him $336,000 for bigamy and fraud.
Before sentence was passed, the pudgy bigamist berated Judge Rufus Coulter in a 20-minute diatribe, calling the judge an inept alcoholic and swearing he would be vindicated of the fraud charge, which he said was unsubstantiated.
The judge, who calmly listened to Vigliotto's statement, told the convict, "You must have listened to a different set of facts than I did."
Vigliotto said he always admitted to the bigamy charge, but that "not one shred of evidence" was offered for the fraud charge.
Children flee Nicaragua by canoe
The children, whose ages range from nine to 12 years, were reportedly staying with the Costa Rican Red Cross. The children themselves did not appear in public and their statements were reported by Red Cross spokesmen.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Nine children fled from Nicaragua to Costa Rica by canoe to avoid induction into Nicaraguan government militias battling exile rebels, the Costa Rican Red Cross said yesterday.
"We decided to flee because the Sandinista army wants to force us to join the militia," the children were said to have told a rural guard about
Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government toppled dictator Anastasio Somoza in a 1979 revolution. The government requires all citizens to join militias.
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Vietnam vet regrets limited U.S. effort
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NEW YORK — The last U.S. troops left NYK in 10 years ago today, but a former Green Beret twice wounded in the war and later fired as an air traffic controller says his only regret is that America lacked the commitment to
"If the United States had just gone and done what they had to do, it would have been perceived in a different light," said Bill Deacy, who won two Purple Hearts during his one-year tour in Vietnam in 1989-70.
FIRED BY PRESIDENT Reagan from his job as an air traffic controller in the August 1981 strike, Deacy had to leave the company because he lacked a college degree.
Although he had suffered from back problems related to his war wounds for years, he worked on construction crews and helped rescue a prison and shoulders, forced him to quit.
He has been unemployed for more than a year and is now waiting for the Veterans Administration to rule on his last fall for vocation retraining.
Married and the father of two daughters, his family lives off the salary his wife makes at a local restaurant in Liverpool, N V. outside Syracuse.
Yet Decay, 35, said in a recent telephone interview that he considered his time in Vietnam "one of the best years of my life."
"People will ask, 'what is wrong with you?' he said, but during a war," you
He does not agree with those who wanted to bomb North Vietnam "back to the Stone Age," but believes there should have been heavier attacks on North Vietnam's military targets and blocking its supply lines running through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam.
DEACY SAID HE remained "discontented that there never was a commitment by the United States" to win the war.
get closer to the core of the human being. You know there is more to life than what we live day-to-day."
By not winning, "you've scratched off the lives of 57,000 (U.S. soldiers killed)" and the dead Vietnamese, Laoicians and Cambodians, he said.
In Vietnam, Deacy ran intelligence missions with fellow Green Berets in the Central Highlands region against suspected enemy positions.
During one mission, he suffered a fractured skull, burns and a shoulder injury when a helicopter carrying him flew over a battle zone was shot down by enemy fire.
A FEW MONTHS LATER, back in combat, an enemy bullet hit his rifle, filling the right side of his face with metal fragments.
Deacy discovered in 1980 that he was suffering from spinal arthritis brought on by his wounds. During one particu-
lar fall, Deaty had a pinched nerve kept him up every night.
Deacy said he would like to go back to school, but his first request for help came from the faculty in January and his reapplication may not be ruled on for several months.
Library readies for Magna Charta
Gov. John Carlin signed a proclamation yesterday declaring April 3-9 Magna Charita in Kansas Week, to recognize the opening of the document's display this Sunday at the Spencer Research Library.
Alexandra Mason, head of special collections at Spencer, and cochairman of the committee bringing the document to the University, said the committee was making final preparations for the exhibit.
The document will be displayed in its own case under bulletproof plastic. The document will remain in a bank vault after its arrival Friday until Sunday. The document will be returned to the vault immediately after viewing periods during its stay.
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The Magna Charta coming to KU is one of four remaining copies of the original 20 that were sent around England in 1215 proclaiming a government by law and denouncing taxation without representation.
The University is getting the document through the Magna Charta in America Foundation of Luling, Texas, at a fee of $7,000. The University is being funded by the KU Endowment Association and Friends of the Library.
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Protest stalls K-State talk
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Some of the protesters were dragged from the 2,500-sent auditorium by the crowd.
MANHATTAN — Four protesters were arrested and a dozen others ejected from a Kansas State University auditorium yesterday for disrupting a lecture by Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Kaji Yamani.
The audience gave a standing ovation when the protesters were ejected. Campus security then cleared the building and readmitted people holding student or media identification or lecture tickets.
"What you have seen an hour ago is a reflection of bitterness," Yamani said. "They are young, they are misled, they feel so frustrated."
THE FOUR PROTESTERS, who gave Denver addresses, were booked, on disorderly conduct charges and being arrested. They are Stone, chief of the university police.
In his 20-minute speech, Yamiani said oil price instability was caused by the failure of producing countries to interpret market signals.
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