November 27,1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 2
The University Daily KANSAN
Citibank decreases prime; other banks follow lead
NEW YORK - Citibank yesterday led several large banks in cutting the prime rate to $11\%$ percent from $113\%$ percent, a move expected to spread slowly through the industry and move the rate still lower before year's end.
Citibank's prime rate decrease was immediately followed by five other banks.
The prime, the base rate for corporate loans, is now at the level it was in mid-March this year on its way up to 12 percent.
Other banks are expected cut their prime rate this week and many economists look for a prime as low as 11 percent in the near future.
China open to U.S. warships
RENING - China has decided to allow U.S. warships to dock at Chinese ports for the first time in more than three decades, an official newspaper said yesterday.
U. S. diplomatic sources confirmed that the two sides were discussing a possible port call as early as next year but said no specific date had been set.
Western diplomats said a U.S. port call would be symbol of the improvement in relations between the two countries.
Old flame of Hemingway dies
GULFPORT, Fla. — Agnes Von Kurosky Stanfield, whose brief romance with Ernest Hemingway in Italy in 1918 became the central element in his novel "A Farewell to Arms," died Sunday. She was 92.
Although she rejected being described as the model for Catherine Barkley, the heroine of the 1929 novel, Stanfield assisted Hemingway scholars in her later years and was interviewed by five authors researching the sources of his fiction.
She was an American Red Cross nurse when she met Heningay and later worked as a nurse in Romania and Haiti during the 1920s.
Phantom caller strikes again
ARLINGTON, Texas - Thephantom telephone caller has struck again, this time affecting a university sophomore who received a $33.533 telephone bill that suggested she reached out and touched people all over the United States and seven other countries, according to telephone company records.
But Carol Kuhler, 19, of the University of Texas-Arlington, denies she spent all semester on the telephone.
Kuhier speculated that a telephone calling card she had applied for was either stolen from her mailbox or mailed to the wrong person.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Somali hijackers extend deadline in Ethiopia
By United Press International
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Five Somali gunmen renewed their threat yesterday to blow up a hijacked airliner with 108 people aboard unless Somalia agreed to release 21 political prisoners.
The five, armed with machine guns, pistols and grenades, gave the Somali government until it a.m. today (11 p.m. Monday CST) to release the information from Ministry spokesman Tefere Gizaw said.
The deadline was the fifth set since three Somali army officers hijacked the Somali Airlines Boeing 707 to Ethiopia Saturday after it took off from the Somali capital of Mogadishu for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, en route to Caro.
TWO PASSENGERS IN civilian clothes joined the three hijackers after the jet touched down at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. It was not known whether they had helped plan the hijacking.
Lights inside the airline burned brightly as darkness fell and the hostages and hijackers prepared to spend a third night aboard. Among the passengers held captive are an American, two Italians, an Egyptian and a U.N. official.
Trucks were delivering food and drinks three times a day to the plane, as well as 'khat,' a mild form of stimulant that comes from the desert in the Sahara region in Somalia until it was banned last year.
A fourth deadline set by the hijackers for noon yesterday slipped by as the plane sat in the broiling sun on a remote strip of runway guarded by Ethiopian paratroopers and armored cars. The fifth deadline was announced seven hours later.
THE NEW DEADLINE doused optimism aroused earlier in the day when Western diplomats said the hijackers had agreed to postpone indefinitely their noon deadline to give Somalia more time to consider their demands.
That word came after Somalia announced
it had suspended, pending review, the death sentences of seven high school students who are among the 21 prisoners the hijackers want freed and flown to neighborboring Djibouti.
The hijackers said the seven youths, convicted of bombing government installations, were to have been executed Sunday. A denied any executions were scheduled
There was no mention of the 14 other political prisoners, who include a former vice president and five former Cabinet members.
All 21 prisoners were jailed for antigovernment activities and links with the Somali National Movement active in the northern part of the country.
"THE NEGOTIATIONS WHICH are being conducted to resolve this hijacking have reached a delicate and extremely difficult and acute stage." Gizaw said, without quotation.
Negotiations to end the stalemate were being conducted by Ethiopian officials with Italian diplomats representing Somalia,
which has no diplomatic relations with the Ethiopian government.
Ethiopia and Somalia have clashed sporadically over the disputed Ogaden border region since they went to war over the territory in 1977.
THE AIRPORT STANDOFF drew stiff criticism of Ethiopia from Somali President Mohammad Siad Barre, who made a national radio speech accusing Addis Ababa of deliberately prolonging the negotiations in an attempt to embarrass his government.
"The manner in which the Ethiopian government is conducting the negotiations is resulting in a prolongation of the crisis thus preventing the people from danger," a foreign ministry statement said.
The hijackers released 22 people in Addis Ababa, including a security guard shot when the plane was seized, the pilot, who was arrested by the investigators, the co-pilot and 19 women and children.
United Press International
MONTEVIDEUM, Uruguay — Volunteers carry away a man injured in rioting by about 3,000 youths upset by the victory of the centrist Colorado party in Uruguay's national elections. The results of Sunday's elections, the country's first in 13 years, were announced yesterday.
World Court will hear Nicaragua's grievance
By United Press International
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The World Court, dismissing U.S. arguments that it lacked jurisdiction, voted yesterday to hear Nicaragua's complaint that the mining of its harbors and support for anti-Sandinista rebels by the United States violates international law.
The International Court of Justice, commonly known as the World Court, voted 16-0 that it had the jurisdiction to decide a case against a defendant in making of the rebels violates international law.
Lawyers for the United States had argued that a question of armed hostilities between nations should be resolved in the United Nations Security Council. The court is also a U.N. body.
THE COURT ALSO ruled 15-1, with American judge Stephen Schwebel dissenting, against a U.S. claim that Nicaragua had no right to make a complaint because it had never signed an agreement to accept the court's jurisdiction.
"The decision is a great victory for Nicaragua because it will let the truth be known," said Ambassador Carlos Aguello lawmaker Nicaragua's team in lawyers in the case.
The Court has opened the doors for
Nicaragua to put the United States on the bench of the accused."
In Washington, State Department spokesman Alan Romberg said the United States would not accept the deal.
Paul Reichler, a Washington attorney representing Nicaragua in the case, said the World Court was the only way to end the war. The judge asked lawyers talks between the two countries had failed.
BOMBERG SAID HE did not know whether the United States would appeal the decision.
U. S. and Nicaraguan officials said they were uncertain when the court's final ruling on the case would come, but several said they expected it late next year.
Nicaragua presented the case April 9 amid revelations that CIA employees had directed the mining of Nicaraguan harbors by rebel commandos.
Just before the suit was brought, the Reagan administration suspended for two years U.S. recognition of the court's jurisdiction with regard to Central America.
The court rulied yesterday that although it apparently never received Nicaragua's signature on a document accepting its jurisdiction, the country had shown its acceptance of court decisions by signing the World Court's original charter and by agreeing to other court actions.
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