CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 16, 1984
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Workers refuse rebuke for CIA manual
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — At least two of the CIA employees ordered disciplined by President Reagan over a guerrilla warfare manual for Nicaraguan rebels are refusing to accept their punishment, sources said yesterday.
At the same time, Capitol Hill critics of the controversial issue prepared for an early December hearing into the manual, and congressional sources said the House Judiciary committee viewed three of the six mid-level CIA workers called on the carpet by their agency.
Five employees were given letters of reprimand or suspended, and sources said at least two of those employees agreed to the disciplinary measures.
SOURCES REQUESTING ANONYMITY said in the weeks before the hearings that three employees will be questioned or will testify before committee members or the panel's staff.
The sixth individual is believed to be a CIA contract employee who wrote the booklet and went by the pseudonym John Kirkpatrick. He was said to have been allowed to resign from his agreement with the
It was not known whether the panel would demand that CIA Director
Casey wrote members of both the House and Senate committees last month to say the manual was intended to make guerrillas effective in "face-to-face" communication and that its "emphasis is on education, avoiding combat when necessary."
William Casey testify at its oversight hearings.
A senior intelligence official was quoted earlier this week by the New York Times as saying CIA investigators had found that agency workers were busy with other matters when the manual was reviewed last year and did not pay close attention to it.
THE DISCIPLINARY ACTION was taken after a CIA inspector
general's report was approved Saturday by Reagan. No senior-level CIA officials were punished.
The manual, titled "Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare" and patterned after a U.S. Army course on communist guerrilla tactics during the Vietnam War, suggests the "selective use of violence" to "neutralize" local government leaders supportive of Nicaragua's Sandinista regime.
Earlier this week, Daniel Moynihan of New York, the top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee, said, "If anybody's to be reprimanded, it should not be in the field."
Miss Venezuela wins title of Miss World 1984
By United Press International
LONDON — Astrid Carolina Herrera Irazabal, a 21-year-old psychology student from Venezuela scorned by animal rights groups for being the official pin-up of her country's bullfighting sport, yesterday was crowned Miss World 1984.
Miss Canada, Connie Fitzpatrick,
21, placed second and Miss Australia,
Lou-Anne Caroline Ronchi, also 21,
came in third.
The pageant, in London's orate
Royal Albert Hall, was watched by an estimated 500 million television viewers in almost 29 nations.
Miss Venezuela was chosen from among seven finalists from a field of 22 contestants. In addition to her crown, she won a $75,500 first prize. As part of her 12-month reign, she received money for under-privilèged children.
THE 5-FOOT-8 BLACK-HAIRED beauty with chestnut eyes is also expected to be offered lucrative
promotional and modeling contracts worth several times the amount of capital invested.
In addition to the top three winners, the finalists included Miss Ireland, 24-year-old Olivia Tracey, a language teacher and model; Miss Brazil, television announcer Adriana Oliviera, 22; Miss United Kingdom Vivienda Rooke, 22; and Miss USA, Kelly Lee Anderson, 23.
the nine-member panel of judges
Miss Kenya, Khadifa Adam Ismail,
24, a language student, was chosen
Miss Africa; Iris Louk, an
18-year-old Israeli soldier, became
Miss Asia; Miss United Kingdom was
Miss Europe
Before capturing the overall title, Miss Venezuela was selected as reigning beauty of The Americas by
EARLIER IN THE evening, Herrera Irabazal, a 7-1 shot in London betting before the contest, told the audience through a Spanish interpreter that her hobby was parachute jumping.
Black violence plans are subject of rumors
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police yesterday discounted a flood of rumors about planned black violence aimed at whites today, but said they were taking "whatever precautions we can."
The Johannesburg Star reported the rumors on its front page under the headline: "Rumors fly in the city."
POLICE SAID "SOMEONE or some persons are spreading what appear to be willful rumors claiming that whites, or in particular white children, are to be killed tomorrow.
"Whatever their source, they are so prevalent and so specific about tomorrow (Friday) being the day that we believe it necessary to record these extraordinarily widespread rumors — and that no evidence can be found to support them." The Star said.
Police. The Star and other newspapers said the rumors had gained wide currency in the city, but could not be substantiated.
"The South African Police have thoroughly tapped all their sources to establish the origin of the rumors, but can find no evidence.
or even a shred, that these rumors might be true."
Reports said police had warned schools not to let white children walk home unscouted and police Lt. Tom Jefferson said "obviously we are taking whatever precautions we can."
He declined to specify the police response to the rumors.
A least one white Johannesburg school asked parents to fetch their children after classes and others said police had warned them to take security precautions.
The rumors follow 10 weeks of race violence in which at least 160 blacks and one white have died.
LINKED TO BLACK political, educational and economic demands, the violence has been confined mainly to black townships, where police backed by army units have used rubber bullets, birdshot and teargas to quell rioting.
At least 14 black and white political activists have been detained in the past week in connection with the violence.
They are being held under political security laws providing for indefinite detention without trial.
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