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University Daily Kansan, March 8, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Pope indirectly condemns execution in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY — Speaking before one million worshippers, Pope John Paul II yesterday indirectly condemned the military execution of six men.
"When man's right to life is violated, a crime and a very grave offense to God is committed," he said.
The Pope's statement was directed at the military government for refusing to honor Vatican pleas to spare the lives of six men convicted of terrorism and kidnapping by military tribunals. The six were executed by firing squad in a cemetery at dawn Thursday.
In a later speech delivered in a city populated primarily by descendants of the pre-Colombian Mayan civilization, he warned Guatemala's Indians to reject leftist ideology.
Judge orders draft resister to register
WICHTA — A federal judge, charging draft registration law enforcement had taken on at least the appearance of being selective, yesterday put a Monnite student who failed to register for the draft on two years probation.
U. S. District Judge Sam Crow also ordered Kendall Warkentine to register for the draft. The unsupervised probation assigned Warkentine was a far less severe penalty than the monetary fine or five-year prison sentence Crow could have given.
Besides ordering Warkentine to register, Crow also ordered the office in charge of draft registration in Kansas to create a form that provides a description of the candidate.
Warkentine had originally pleaded innocent to the charge, but later pleaded guilty.
Iran rejects reduction of oil prices
LONDON — OPEC oil ministers yesterday resorted to backroom bargaining on a moderate oil price cut after Iran flatly rejected any reduction and scuttled an informal session of the cartel on measures to avert a price war.
Sources close to the new talks said the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries might be ready to lower prices and set new production limits without Iran. Iran has been a stumbling block in efforts to reduce the global oil surplus and to prevent oil prices from collapsing.
OPEC postponed yesterday's summit after Iranian Oil Minister Mohammed Gharazi said Iran would never lower its oil prices and would make "all kinds of sacrifices" to defend OPEC's current $34-a-barrel price.
Official seeks aid linked to support
WASHINGTON — U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick said yesterday that foreign aid should be linked to the kind of support — or lack of it — that countries give U.S. positions at the United Nations.
"We must communicate that it is not possible to denounce us on Monday, vote against us on important issues of principle today and Wednesday, and pick up assurances of our support on Thursday and Friday." she said.
Testifying before a Senate appropriations subcommittee, Kirkpatrick said she was not suggesting economic or military aid beturned for the war.
Unlike the United States, the Soviet Union and its allies regularly pressure other countries for support and votes, she said.
French rightists victorious in vote
PARIS — Socialist party leaders yesterday said President Francis Mitterrand would continue his policies despite the resounding rejection of his leftist supporters by French voters in the first round of local elections.
Final official results from Sunday's poll in towns and cities across France, but not its overseas possessions, gave more than 50 percent of the vote to rightists. The Socialist-Communists and their leftist allies took 39 percent. Centrists and ecologists polled only 9 percent.
The voting had no direct effect on the Mitterrand government, which includes several Communist ministers, but was viewed as the first real test of popular reaction to the Socialist-led government since it took power in 1981.
U.S. accused of assassination plans
NEW DELHI, India – Cuban President Fidel Castro told the opening session of a non-aligned summit yesterday that President Reagan had revived CIA attempts to assassinate him.
Castro, who headed the organization of non-aligned nations since 1979, made his accusation in a two-hour speech after handing the order.
He told the 101-nation conference that the United States was "the modern barbarian of our time" and blamed Washington for everything from world economic ills to tension on the Korean peninsula.
In Washington, State Department spokesman John Hughes described Castro's accusation as "obviously untrue."
Oil executive abducted in Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia — Gunmen kidnapped an American oil company executive on his way to work yesterday, ambushing his automobile and stealing its engine.
Kenneth S. Bishop, 56, an executive with Texas Petroleum Co., a Texaco subsidiary, was pulled from his car by unidentified men and shoved into one of two automobiles used in the abduction, national police reported.
A Texaco spokesman in Harrison, N.Y., confirmed the abduction of a Bishop, assistant division manager for exploration at Texas Petroleum.
Bishop, of Huntington Park, Calif., is the third American — and the second Texas Petroleum executive — to be kidnapped in the past 10 years.
Judge rules against FBI claim in suit
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A Freedom Rider beaten by Ku Klux Klansmen in Alabama 22 years ago won a major victory yesterday in federal court in his efforts to prove that the FBI allowed the attack.
U. S. District Judge Richard A. Enslen rued the FBI could not claim it was not responsible for the protection of Walter Bergman and his fellow Freedom Riders when they were attacked in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.
Enslen's decision came after FBI and Justice Department attorneys refused Saturday to obey his order to share secret documents with Bergman's lawyers, who had contended the documents would show that more than one informant had told the FBI the Klan was planning to attack the Freedom Riders.
Bergman, 84, is seeking $1 million from the federal government and FBI.
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Kohl urges new Soviet stance
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — A triumphant Chancellor Helmut Kohl warned the Soviet Union yesterday that he had a "clear mandate" from West German voters to deploy new NATO forces in Syria. He also said a disarmament pact with Washington.
One day after his sweeping victory at the polls, Kohl urged Moscow to make a "sober assessment" of Western arms policy.
Kohl also called on the West to stick together in support of the U.S. negotiating stance at disarmment talks on medium-range nuclear missiles.
KOHL'S COALITION of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats won an overwhelming victory in the election Sunday, defeating Social Democratic candidate Hans-Jochen Vogel, whose candidate had been supported by Moscow.
"Only Western unity can bring success," he said.
"We received a clear mandate for our policy of peace in freedom, in the Western alliance and in partnership with the United States," Kohl said.
The Christian Democrats and their allied party in Bavaria won 244 seats in the Bundestag, or Parliament, and the Christian Social Democrats trailed with 183 seats.
If the Geneva talks are still deadlocked at the end of this year, "we will deploy," he said. "Our goal is no new U.S. missiles and no Soviet missiles. But we do not have a take-it-or-leave-it policy."
Kohl said the election result was "a vote for continuation of the center coalition," implying that he would continue to govern with the help of the Free Democratic party led by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
BUT KOIL, despite his victory, faced a stepped-up campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience from the Greens, a small, anti-nuclear party that for the first time won seats in the Bundestag — a total of 27.
Greens leader Petra Kelly, the stepdaughter of a U.S. army colonel who worked in the late Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential election campaign, said the Greens would stage sit-ins, marches and hunger strikes in Parliament to stop the deployment of the NATO missiles.
West Germany- is scheduled to receive 108 ballistic Pershing.2 missiles and 96 cruise missiles under the NATO plan to begin deploying S72 medium-range missiles in Western Europe. End of this end if arm calls fail
At the Geneva talks, President Reagan has put forward a "zero option" proposal whereby NATO would call off the deployment of the missiles if United Nations scrapped about 800 medium range missiles armed at Europe.
BUT MONCOW has rejected
the proposal and the talks are
deadlocked.
Political and defense analysts said the election of Kohl meant the American hand at Geneva had been considerably strengthened. They said the Soviet Union had been stalling at Geneva in the hope of a Vogel victory.
The Novosti news agency in Moscow acknowledged the election result would "lend vigor and energy to the Reagan administration."
Business welcomed the victory of Kohl, who promised sound money policies. The mark and the stock market bounded upwards.
A. Lawrence woman was sexually abused and kidnapped yesterday morning after a man armed with a knife forced her into a car at 13th and Ohio streets, a Lawrence police official said.
Mai. Ron Oln, assistant police chief,
said police had no suspects in the case.
Area woman kidnapped police report
Sgt. Larry Loveland, the official, said the woman had not been raped. He said the assailant stopped the 29-year-old woman as she was walking to work.
said police had no suspects in the case. OLIN SAID THE assailant got out of his car and forced the victim to get in the passenger's side. The assailant told the victim he would kill her if she did not do what he told her. Olin said
Fugitive admits shootings in letter
Loveland said the police department had drawn a composite sketch of the suspect.
The assailant then drove the victim around Lawrence for about 30 minutes and released her in an alley in the 1000 block of Tennessee Street.
By United Press International
SWAHOAN, Wis. — Gordon Kohl, a militant anti-federalist, admitted in a letter released yesterday that he shot two policemen in self defense after they shot his son
Shawano County Sheriff Jack Knope received the 16-page letter from James Wickstrom during a one-hour meeting at Wickstrom's home in Tigerton Dells. Wickstrom heads an anti-tax group called Possie Cosmophorus near Shawano.
In the letter, Kahl confessed to the shootings. Wickstrom said.
He described the assailant as a black male, about 30 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing about 165 pounds.
But Knope indicated Wickstrom said he did not know where Kahl was, and in a news release, the sheriff said he felt that was "a true statement." There had been an arrest in a fugitive since the Feb. 13 shooting near Medina, N.D., might be in the area.
KNOPE, WHO turned the letter over to a U.S. marshal, said he questioned Wickstrom extensively about the whereabouts of Kahl, 63, who wrote Wickstrom last Tuesday from Texarkana, Tex.
violating his tax evasion parole and in the shootout, U.S. Marshal Kenneth Muir, 53, and Deputy Marshal Robert Cheshire, 32, were killed.
IN THE LETTER, Kahl said he began shooting at the marshals after his son was shot twice. Wickstrom said. The complete contents of the letter will be disclosed Wednesday at a news conference, he said.
Kahl is the only one of the five suspects still at large. His son, Vorie Van Kahl, 23, was wounded in the abdomen and has since recovered.
Authorities said Kahl was stopped for
A THEIF STOLE a ring, worth an estimated $287, from a KU student's room in Corbin Hall last weekend, police said.
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A THIEF STOLE another ring, worth an estimated $250, from a KU student's room in Corbin Hall last weekend, police said.
A VANDAL SMASHED a window, valued at $50, from a door at Learned Hall last weekend.
A VANDAL BROKE a window in a door on the north side of the Kansas Union last week, police said. The window was worth an estimated $85.
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