Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 12, 1989
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Ex-mayor killed in Colombia
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — Gunmen assassinated a former mayor of Medellin yesterday in that city, the cocaine center of Colombia and focus of violence in the country's drug war.
Near Medellin, invaders set fire to a farm owned by the head of the government oil company, Colombian television and radio reported. The arson followed a similar attack on a belonging to a government official who supports turning over drug traffickers' property to the poor.
Five or six attackers, firing 85m automatic pistols from two cars, killed Pablo Pelaez, the former mayor who crushed to oust drug
cartels from the city, as he was being driven to the local metal-products factory he operated, police said.
Pelaez's driver also was killed and a bodyguard was wounded, said a police spokesman who refused to be identified.
In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Richard Boucher called the killing "deplorable and reprehensible."
Pelaez, 45, a former police inspector, was elected mayor of Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city, in 1984 on the Liberal Party ticket, the
party of Colombian President Virgilio Barco. Palzeer left in office in 1986.
In related news, Martinez Romero was flown to Atlanta to face charges that he was involved in the laundering of millions of dollars of cocaine cash for the Medellin cartel. The cartel is believed responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine smuggled to the United States. He pleaded not guilty yesterday and was ordered jailed without bond.
Martinez was ordered held without bond during a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Joel M. Feldman, who agreed with prosecutors that Martininez fled the country no matter how high the bail. No trial date has been set.
Martinez, the first of Colombia's
"extraditables" brought to the United States, is accused of laundering at least $15 million in U.S. banks and of being the financial expert behind efforts to hide $1.2 billion in drug profits earned by the Medellin cartel.
Martinez was extradited from Colombia under heavy guard Thursday.
Also in Colombian news, Justice Minister Monica de Greiff, whose office handles extraditions, returned to Colombia and met yesterday with President Barco, her office said.
The U.S. Justice Department refused comment yesterday that it is planning to extradite three more to the drug traffickers to the United States.
East German refugees reach Bavaria
The Associated Press
PASSAU, West Germany — Crammed into sputtering sedans and cheering their new freedom, thousands of East Germans reached Bavaria yesterday in a historic exodus permitted by Hungary's Communist government.
More than 2,000 refugees had made the journey from Hungary to Austria and then to West Germany by midmorning, with hundreds more streaming in later in the day. News reports said
"I decided on escaping 27 years ago, and today it worked. It's a feeling that's just tops, just wild." said a 40-year-old Leizig man after crossing into West Germany at Passau.
Single people, couples and families with children and babies made the journey from Hungary to West Germany.
the total could reach 10.000.
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"We did not really plan to come here, but when we heard about the opening of the (Hungarian-Austrian) border, we decided this was a chance," said
20-year-old Volkmar Windt, who with his twin sister, Katrin, crossed into West Germany on a small, East German-made motorcycle.
Many refugees were cheering and shouting as they reached Bavaria under the blaze of television lights, and their children played with teddy bears handed out by relief workers.
It was the greatest flood of East German refugees since 1961, the year the Berlin Wall halted the flow to the East.
EARHART'S PLANE: A group of U.S. citizens left yesterday for a desert island where they think Amelia Earhart of thirst after crashing into the South Pacific 52 years ago.
"We wouldn't be going if we didn't think there was something there," said Richard Gillespie, president of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery in Wilmington. Del.
The expedition's archaeologist, Thomas King, said the group hoped to find traces of the fuselage of Earlhart The Lockkee Electra plane and its two steel engines.
The group thinks Earhart died on the island of Nikumaroro, about 1,000 miles northeast of Fiji. The island also is known as Gardner.
Gillespie said that in the three days after Earhart's last message was received, 24 radio communications were picked up at various locations. Gillespie said they were sent to a person in a female voice. When plotted, these radio communications crossed with Nikumaroro, he said.
NO GRADES INCENTIVES:
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Principals said yesterday.
NO GRADES INCENTIVES;
In an article he wrote for the association's October journal,
Executive Director Scott Thomson blames the job market and the television industry.
"Compared to their international counterparts, most American students not only have fewer incentives to achieve good grades, they also have more incentives to hold jobs during the school week," Thomson wrote.
A high demand for cheap mats and a premium on teen-age consumption lure students into the job market*, said Thomson, who uses broad categories that researchers say consistently affect learning.
Thomson examined the learning conditions in the United States and compared them with those in South Korea and West Germany, concluding that "American society doesn't measure up."
A "National Report Card" prepared by Thomson awarded South Korea an A-minus and West Germany a B-plus. The United States received a C-plus.
GABOR IN COURT: Actress zsa Zsa Gabor秒末 yesterday in court, watching jury selection for her trial on a charge of slapping a policeman, with more than 100 reporters hanging on her every word outside court.
"Hello, dahlinks," she said as she breezed into court accompanied by her dresser, daughter and eighth husband.
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