University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 6, 1989
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Salvadoran rebels seize Costa Rica's embassy
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Thirty Salvadors stormed the Costa Rican Embassy and seized 40 hostages yesterday to protest what they called the repressive policies of Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani's rightist government.
"We are here to denounce human rights violations and so that the Costa Rican government pressures Cristiani to end the repression against the people," a spokesman for the activists said in an interview.
Special National Police units quickly surrounded the Central American Building, but no violence was reported.
Costa Rican Ambassador Jesus Manuel Fernandez, Consul General Humberto Murillo and First Secretary Rene Aldama were among the hostages. Most of the others held were people visiting the embassy on business.
Reports conflicted on whether the
The spokesman said they had no weapons. Embassy officials said they were armed, and initial police reports said some were heavily armed.
activists were armed.
"It is very - sad that there are people who believe that violence can be the good instrument to get what they want," said President Oscar Arias when informed of the embassy takeover in El Salvador.
The activists went past security guards pretending they wanted to apply for visas to go to Costa Rica, said Dino Starcevic, foreign ministry spokesman, in a telephone interview.
The activist's spokesman, who refused to give her name, said they belonged to The Federation of Committees of Mothers and Relatives of Political Prisoners, Disappeared and Assassinated People of El Salvador.
She said the group planned to stay at the embassy until its demands were met.
World Briefs
MORE REFUGEES LEAVE Thousands of East German refugees in Communist-owned trains, which were locked up to bar compatriots from joining the exodus, arrived in Hof, West Germany, early day after a delay-plunged journey through Czecholovakia and their homeland.
Thousands of East Germans chanting "We want out!" had flocked to train stations and lined tracks in their homeland in hopes of boarding what could be the last freedom trains to the West.
East Germans seeking to board the trains jammed Western embassies, swam rivers and lined railroad tracks in at least four Eastern bloc nations Wednesday.
On Tuesday, East Germany's hard-line leaders had for the second time in less than a week agreed to allow safe passage to the city where the war was ending; emigrants who had massed at the West German Embassy in Prang.
The first of eight trains that left Prague late Wednesday arrived in Hof at 5:50 a.m. It was believed to be carrying at least 1,000 people.
O early trying to reach 100 people
East Berlin said on Tuesday it
would allow one more exodus of distillationed citizens, then suspended visa-free travel to Czechoslovakia, the only country to which East Germans could go without first obtaining government permission.
The agreement covered an estimated 11,000 refugees who had converged on West Germany's embassy in the Czechoslovakia's capital, but there were reports that thousands of others throughout the East bloc were hoping to take part.
AID FOR POOR: The House yesterday rejected a White House-backed plan for increased tax breaks for child care, and moved toward a vote on a far costlier program of tax benefits for poor families, including an expansion of Head Start and billions of dollars in new direct aid.
Tn measure, by Rep. Mickey Edwards, R-Okla., mirrored Bush's proposal last March to expand child care aid soley through tax credits, but was overwhelmingly rejected on a 228-140 largely party-line vote.
The legislation would provide $22 billion in new child care aid during the next five years, two-thirds of it in the form of expanded earned income tax credits for poor families with children.
FLAG BURNING BAN: The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved a statutory ban on defacing the U.S. flag after defeating a proposed revision that sponsors said could prove fatal in a future court test.
President Bush said he respected the intention but would continue to push for a constitutional amendment instead.
The 91-9 final vote came after maneuvering by Senate Republicans, who agreed with Bush that amending the Constitution rather than passing a simple statute is the only effective way to counter last year's Supreme Court decision throwing out a Texas flag-burning law.
The bill, which already passed the House but now returns there for consideration of Senate changes, calls for up to a $1,000 fine and a jail in inail for burning
or otherwise defacing the flag. Both houses are to consider a proposed amendment to the Constitution iter this month.
SENSITIVE INFORMATION TRADED: Despite strong U.S. protests, the French government plans to trade to Brazil sensitive rocket technology that could be used by U.S. enemies to make ballistic missiles, government and industry officials said yesterday.
France has promised to give Brazil the technology of a liquid fuel motor called Vikong, which powers the Ariane space launch vehicle, the officials said. In return, the French company Arianespace would be awarded a $60 million contract for the launch of two Brazilian communications satellites, they said.
The U.S. officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said French President Francois Mitterrand made the decision to give the technology to Brazil, promising that safeguards would be placed to prevent use of the motor for lethal purposes.
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