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University Daily Kansan, February 10. 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Banks agree to give Mexico four years to repay debts
MEXICO CITY — Western banks have tentatively agreed to grant Mexico a four-year grace period on repayment of $20 billion of its estimated $2 billion foreign debt, the government announced yesterday.
yesterday. The government's El Nacional newspaper reported that debt restructuring had been accepted by nearly all of the 500 banks involved in the intense financial negotiations.
It said the restructuring of Mexico's debt — the world's second largest, behind only Brazil — allows a four-year grace period during which time Mexico would not make any payments on the $20 billion principal of overdue loans. It would have until 1990 to repay them.
But, according to El Nacional, Mexico still will have to make interest navalments, which will total $12 billion this year.
One Mexico City financial specialist said the banks probably would need at least two months to sign new agreements approving the restructuring.
ABA votes to limit insanity defense
NEW ORLEANS — The American Bar Association yesterday voted to press for changes in the criminal insanity defense to prevent acquittals such as that of John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Reagan but avoided a jail sentence.
The policy-making body of the nation's largest lawyers' group endorsed a legal test that would limit an accused criminal's claims for acquittal by reason of insanity to situations in which a mental disorder prevented him from understanding that his acts were wrong.
prevented him from understimulating Hineckley was acquitted by reason of insanity last year of charges he tried to assassinate Reagan on March 30,1981. He is in a federal mental hospital.
The House of Delegates also voted to require that when the new insanity rule was applied, the defense must establish beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant's state of mind.
34 more die in battle in Philippines
MANILA. Philippines — Twenty-seven guerrillas and seven government soldiers were killed in battles between the government and communist rebels in the past 24 hours, a Philippines military official said yesterday.
said yesterday.
The armed forces chief, Gen. Fabian Ver, said 16 guerrillas of the communist New Peoples Army were killed in the troubled Davao del Norte province 600 miles south of Manila.
Including the latest killings, 167 people have been slain in clashes throughout the Philippines since the new year.
Vi said 11 insurgents were gunned down in four incidents in the campaign against the Moslem separatist Moro National Liberation Front in the western section of Mindanao island and the Sulu archipelago.
Ver also reported seven soldiers were killed by New Peoples Army guerrillas in Lagum, 320 miles north of Manila.
Rebels strike Salvadoran highway
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Salvadoran army yesterday rushed 300 troop reinforcements to combat rebels who have struck at will along the only highway open into eastern El Salvador, military officers said.
officers said.
The 300 soldiers joined 400 other troop members who began a drive Tuesday against guerrilla strongholds on the slopes of Chicontepec Volcano about 35 miles east of San Salvador.
Guerrillas based on Chintepecan had been defying government patrols by staging daily raids against traffic on the Pan American border.
Military and civilian sources yesterday said the army has begun drafting 15-year-old boys to replenish its ranks.
A military officer in the eastern town of Jiquilisco, 62 miles east of San Salvador, said the army was "rounding up" youths between 15 and 18
The Defense Ministry has said that it did not use forced induction
Britons study tighter terrorist laws
LONDON Warring Middle East factions could turn London into a battleground as part of the growing international terrorist violence that has hit the British capital since 1978, according to an official report released yesterday.
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Lord Jellicoe, in a report on anti-terrorist laws, recommended that special laws to handle Irish terrorists be extended to cover "suspected international terrorists of any group or cause."
Before the late 1970s, "this was scarcely significant compared to the activity of graus connected with Northern Ireland," he said.
Since 1978, however, police on the British mainland — excluding Northern Ireland — have had to deal with as many acts of terrorism unrelated to Northern Ireland as those attributed to Irish terrorists, he said.
Anglican synod to vote on nuke ban
LONDON — In a debate that could have wide-ranging political reverberations, the Church of England today will vote on the morality of using and possessing nuclear weapons, considered vital to the defense of Western Europe.
The church's 550-member governing synod will vote to accept or reject a report called "The Church and the Bomb," which urges the British government to give up its independent nuclear deterrent and to deny bases for American nuclear weapons.
The symbol compiles 50炸弹s in the United States, where Roman Catholic bishops will meet in Chicago May 2-3 to issue a final policy statement on nuclear weapons.
The synod comprises 50 bishops, 250 priests and 250 laymen.
The nuclear debate is driving a wedge between the established church and the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Irish to boycott St. Pat's Day parade
NEW YORK - The Irish government will boycott New York's famous St. Patrick's Day parade this year because an Irish Republican Army supporter has been chosen parade grand marshal
It will be the first time in history that the Irish government has boycotted the parade.
Aiden Kirwin, a spokesman for the Irish embassy, said the government opposed Grand Marshal Michael Flannery's election because the Irish Northern Aid Committee, which Flannery founded, supported the outlawed IRA.
Crisis session to decide Sharon's future
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — With 2,000 supporters proclaiming Ariel Sharon a king, Israel's Cabinet failed again yesterday to get the defiant defense minister to resign, but planned a showdown session to decide whether to fire him for his role leading to the Beirut massacre.
Israel television said the Cabinet would hold its third and final crisis session today to adopt a report of the judicial inquiry. The report recommended Sharon quit or be forced for personal loss, and the Sept. 19 miscarriage by Israel-backed Christian militiamen of Palestinians in two refugee camps.
SHARON HAS made no public announcement on his plans and a senior Israeli official said Prime Minister Begin did not want to fire his controversial defense chief.
Begin to consider dismissing the defense minister," the official said. "The prime minister indicated, he would not consider it favorably."
"All the commission asked was for
The Cabinet put off a decision to adopt the panel's recommendations yesterday after LT Gen. Rafael Eitan, chief of staff, said two army generals who were also criticized for their roles, answered to plead for their careers.
During a three-hour emergency meeting, a majority of Cabinet ministers wanted to accept the recommendations that Sharon either resign or be fired.
CABINET SECRETARY Dan Merider said the two officers were Maj. Gen. Yehosha Saguy, military intelligence chief who the commission said should resign, and Brig. Gen. Amos Yaron, former Beirut commander who the commission said should be barred from senior posts for three years.
Meanwhile, world leaders yesterday offered their reactions to the commission's report.
Arab officials and newspapers said that the probe was insufficient and Moscow compared Begin to Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie.
"It is important to realize that the (Israel) Cabinet responsibility is in its entirety and cannot be separated into individuals," said Clovis Maksoud, the Arab League envoy to the United States.
Maksoud, summing up the Arab reaction to the Israeli investigation; called the findings a step in the right direction, but inadequate.
IN ISRAEL, several newspapers called on the government to accept the recommendations of the commission and said failure to do so would hurt Israel's credibility abroad.
"What the government must do is accept the strictures of the Kahan commission's entire report, in all their gravity, whatever the price," according to an editorial in the Jerusalem Post titled: "Democracy's Day."
In Moscow, the official Soviet news agency Tass claimed the inquiry proved Begin had sanctioned the massacre. Tass compared Begin to Barbie, who was returned to France this week from Bolivia to stand trial.
"The They (Begin and Barbie) have a common master militant U.S. imperialism impelts lawyers paying for the professional preface in national criminals and bandits."
THE RESPECTED Israeli daily newspaper ha'ret called the findings of the commission "just and correct" and said the government must carry out its plan to make the only newspaper to call explicitly for the resignation of Sharon.
But the mass-circulation Israeli newspaper Yedioti Aharonoth came out firmly against the commission's findings, saying the officials "did everything possible to insult respected people and to needlessly blacken their names before the world."
Independent truck leader says strike to continue
By United Press International
Truck drivers braved scattered gunfire and vandalism to return to the nation's highways yesterday, but strike leader Mike Parkhuk warranted that the shudders not over or denied them would keep the attackers were responsible for the violence.
"There are a bunch of wackos out there shooting at people," Parkhurst said. "The shutdown doesn't have anything to do with it."
The 10-day strike to protest hikes in fuel taxes and highway user fees continued to reap a crop of violence, including charges charged by Parkhurst with a sellout.
VANDALS STAGED hit-and-run raids in Pennsylvania and West Vir-
gina early yesterday. Five people were arrested on charges of smashing radiators and windows and slashing tires.
Rigs were hit by bullets in North and South Carolina, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Washington, Maine, Alabama and Illinois.
More than 643 shootings, and almost 1,946 other acts of vandalism have been reported with one driver killed since the storm. The least 96 people who have been injured
BUT BILL Hill, national president of the Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers, blamed Parkhurst for the reports of an end to the strike.
"In fact, the shutdown is not over. There have been a lot of whacky stories planted in the press by people who do not represent independent truckers," said Parkhurst, who worked into the early hours yesterday trying to find allies in Congress to help roll back the new truck laws.
George Sullivan, national organizer for the independent steel haulers, said there were meetings yesterday in youngtown and Fremont, Ohio; St. Louis; Gary Ind., and Kalamazoo. George Sullivan truckers uped by Parkhurst's policies
"I heard a little of the opposite." Hill said in Pittsburgh "Most of the truckers are upset from statements coming from Parkhurst camp. We calling it the sultant of the century. This might refuel the shutdown."
"They are being told Parkhurst wants to end the strike. But they all want to stay on strike," he said.
charging that Parkhurst was quitting in the middle of the strike.
Jack Morris, a trucker from Pevely. Mo. said, "If we go back to work now, all we've done is spin our wheel to stick together and stay off the roads.
SEN. ROBERT Dole, R-Kan., said the strike was a failure.
Dole was asked about efforts by Parkhurst and congressmen to find a face-saving way out of the strike.
"I think that's what Parkhurst is looking for," he said. "I think the strike is over but he wants to be sure he announces it.
Officials around the nation reported highway traffic was increasing, with "combat pay" dropping for drivers making perishable produce runs.
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