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University Daily Kansan, February 2, 1983
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Government officers said the army had tried to send two reinforcement columns of an undetermined size into Berlin, but rebels had driven them off in ambushes at Mercedes Umana, about 6 miles north of Berlin on the Pan American highway.
The guerrillas' Radio Vencemeros said the ambushes had caused "numerous casualties."
DEFENSE MINISTER Jose Guillermo García called a news conference to declare that the army was "preparing" unspecified actions in Berlin.
Bod relief officials estimated 5,000 refugees had
fled Berlin since Sunday when the guerrilla
stopped fighting.
A column of black smoke that could be seen for several miles billowed from the city during the height of the battle, but it was not clear if the fire was started by air force bombs or rebels.
Last week guerrillas bombed two bridges that closed off the Pacific Coast Highway to San Jose.
As the rebels tightened their grip on Berlin, a right-wing "death squad" staged a submachine gun attack late yesterday on a meeting of moderate politicians who played a key role in stripping the assembly's rightist president of power.
THE ATTACK was made on the headquarters of the Democratic Action Party, a conservative group that holds four seats in the assembly, during a meeting of its leadership.
The rightist "General Maximiliano Hernandez Death Squadr" took responsibility for the attack
At least 25 bullets strafed the front of the party headquarters, but no one was reported injured. Witnesses said two gunmen had fired on the building from a speeding pickup truck
A spokesman for the party said the attack was linked to a debate in the assembly earlier that day during which assembly President Robert d'Aubuisson threatened to resign unless the 66-member body overturned its vote to strip him of most of his power.
The debate was halted after Democratic Action assemblyman Luis Nelson Segovia suffered a stroke and was rushed to a local hospital. The debate was to resume today, officials said.
"IM NOT GOING to permit, while president of the assembly, that the dignity of this august body be trampied," d'Aubusson said during a meeting that also is drafting a new constitution.
D'Aubuisson was stripped of power in a 39-1
vote last Thursday after he leased assemblymen of
his ultra-rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as Arena, out of Congress to protest a motion ratifying a new health minister.
The vote, supported by a coalition led by the moderate Christian Democrats, opened the way for any of the assembly administrators to run the assembly in d'Aubison's absence.
The cashiered national guard major had opposed President Alvaro Magana's nomination of Napoleon Cardenas of the Democratic Action Party. He also forced Fernando Berios, forced to resign in December.
D'Aubusson announced in yesterday's session that he had considered the assembly meeting last Thursday an "illegal session" because he had declared there was no quorum. There were 40 assembly present Thursday, and rules specify 31 are needed for a quorum.
D'Aubusson said he and three other Arena members of the assembly's nine-member directorate would resign if the assembly did not vote to "remove power" from d'Aubusson.
D'Aubuisson also demanded the assembly rescind two motions passed after he left Thursday — one that ratified Cardenas' nomination and another that allowed a moderate Christian Democratic assembly to remain as sports minister.
Judiciary Committee member Arthur Douville, R-Overland Park, said he supported the bill, but opposed the amendment.
Those who had testified about eliminating the exemption had said that very few cases of snoqual rane would so to court, he said.
"BUT YOU DON'T ever count the votes until they're cast," she said.
"But it could be used as a weapon in divorce proceedings," he said. "It's not going to help
Rape
A woman is entitled to protection from any
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physical contact or harassment, he said. But existing laws against assault and battery allow a woman to sue or to file charges against any man who threatens her with bodily harm.
Douville said he did not know why some women wanted crimes against particular parts of their bodies to be treated differently from other crimes of assault and battery.
STATE REP. Clifford Campbell, R-Beloit, said that he supported the bill, but that the penalty for spousal rape should be less severe than the penalty for other rapes.
"It's something they will have to decide for themselves," she said.
Fuller said constituents had been applying
little or no pressure on legislators on this issue.
Charlton said, "Some of the male members, after talking to their wives, have changed their pants."
The women also discussed nother amendment to the bill that would make penalties for prostitutes and their patrons the same, she said.
Wagnon said she planned to introduce the amendment, but that the women did not want to jeopardize passage of the bill by insisting on either amendment.
Truckers' violence escalates in strike
By United Press International
A nationwide count by United Press International showed that the violence had spread to 27 states. Police across the nation reported three deaths in vandalism or vandalism in two days aimed at truckers.
A Teamster Union driver has been killed and nine other people have been injured, two of them seriously, since the bitter hit-and-run warfare began early Monday.
Trucks on Pennsylvania and Ohio highways, the main corridors between the East and Midwest, were the hardest hit. Trucks were hit most frequently as streets strewn in parking lots and along highways.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE police reported more than 64 incidents of violence yesterday, including rock and brick throwing and more than a dozen shootings.
Ambushers attacked truck drivers along the nation's highways yesterday with bullets, rocks and bricks in attempts to enforce the independent trucks' strike.
"I'm afraid of violence," said independent trucker Claudie Dalton, of Fairfield, Calif., who pulled his rig off the road. "I got shot a lot in man and I don't need any more of that here."
Some truck stops reported business had dropped off as much as 50 percent, and law enforcement officials said truck traffic was down in some places by as much as one-half.
The Independent Truckers Association, which claims to represent 100,000 drivers who own their rigs and haul loads for a fee, called the strike to halt the company's national program to hike taxes on fuel and road use.
HOWEVER, THE majority of the nation's truck drivers are members of the Teamsters
rifle fire Monday night while driving between Smithfield and Newton Grove, N.C.
Teamsters President Roy L. Williams said in a statement yesterday, "We must condemn this sort of horrible violence. We are deeply saddened and troubled by this action."
Williams called for government protection for Teamster drivers, and said, "We are also developing programs to minimize the exposure to violence in such situations."
VIOLEENCE WAS reported in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
He did not explain what the programs might be, but some Teamster members were already running patrols to check highways and truck stops for trouble spots.
Teamster trucker George Cams was killed by
In Brigham City, Utah, Howard W. Adams, 45, of Pomona, Calif., was in serious condition yesterday after he was shot in the chest and critically wounded while unloading his truck.
MELISSA J. SARSFIELD, 14, of Coropalus, Pa., was in critical condition yesterday after she was struck by a brick thrown from an overpass through the windshield of the car she was riding in.
The independents carry about 90 percent of the nation's fresh food, but stores around the country reported few shortages yesterday.
Mike Parkhurst, who is the organization's president and is coordinating the strike from Washington, D.C., said 50,000 to 60,000 of the 100,000 independent truckers had joined the strike.
A Department of Transportation spokesman, however, said the department estimated that fewer than 20,000 independent truckers had joined the strike.
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