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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 25, 1985
News Briefs
Big airports warned about Shiite 'gang'
LONDON — Large airports around the world have been alerted to watch for a "fanatical gang" of hundreds of Shiite Muslim hijackers carrying false passports and armed with suitcase bombs, the London Mail reported yesterday.
Police and the British airport authorities declined to comment on whether the alert was connected to the hijacking Saturday of an EgyptAir Boeing 737 with 96 people aboard.
Regan offers apologv
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Donald Regan, apologized yesterday for a remark about women not understanding the issues at last week's summit meeting in Geneva.
Regan, questioned on CBS's "Face the Nation" about a comment published in The Washington Post last week explained that he had not said what he really meant.
Shacks may increase
HANOVER, N.H. - Dartmouth college students protesting the school's South African-linked investments pressed their divestment demand yesterday and considered an expansion of their anti-apartheid shantytown.
The Dartmouth Community for Divestment, which has built four shanties on the college green, called on the school's administration to explain why it will not completely divest from companies linked to South Africa
AIDS spread limited
BRUSSELS, Belgium Boarding-school children with AIDS did not transmit the disease to any healthy classmates during up to three years of living, eating and studying together, new research shows.
The research, done in western France at a school for children with medical problems, shows that even close contact between children will not allow acquired immune deficiency syndrome to spread.
From Kansan wires.
Israel pledges investigation
From Kansan wires
JERUSALEM — The Israel government yesterday pledged a thorough investigation and possible dismissals over a spy scandal that threatened to damage its relations with the United States, its closest ally.
The Foreign Ministry statement was the first time Israel has conceded that it might be linked in some way to the Jonathan J. Pollard case, although high-ranking officials said the government had not been involved.
Previously, government officials have denied any knowledge or involvement with Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy analyst arrested Friday and accused of selling classified military documents to Israel and Pakistan in the past two years.
Pollard, 31, was arraigned Saturday on espionage charges. His wife, Anne L. Henderson-Pollard, 25, was ordered held without bail on charges
of possessing unauthorized classified documents. Officials said it was not known whether Pollard had a connection with Israel.
The FBI last Thursday arrested a U.S. naval counterterrorism specialist identified as Pollard on charges of spying on the United States for Israel and Pakistan.
Israeli television reported yesterday that neither Prime Minister Shimon Peres nor the head of Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, had been aware of or had been asked to authorize Pollard's activity. The report said Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin had also been kept in the dark.
The government-run network said it seemed Pollard had been spying on the United States for many years since a visit to Israel 11 years ago.
The Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying a thorough examination was under way to determine whether there had been any
deviation from Israel's policy to refrain from spying on the United States.
Cabinet spokesman Michael Nir said the incident was not discussed at the weekly Cabinet meeting, which was attended by army Chief of Staff Moshe Levy. The spokesman said the full Cabinet had not been briefed by intelligence officials on the affair.
Israeli radio quoted intelligence sources as saying there was no reason for Israel to spy on the U.S. Army, because both nations shared intelligence information.
Ma'ariv newspaper said Pollard's father was an internationally famous cancer researcher at Notre Dame University and had maintained close ties with Israel's Weizman Institute of Science.
The Jerusalem Post quoted officials as the saying the affair didn't make sense because the 1981 Strategic Cooperation Agreement between Israel and the United States provided for sharing of intelligence.
Frankfurt explosion injures 36
From Kansan wires
FRANKFURT, West Germany — A powerful car bomb exploded outside a busy U.S. military shopping center yesterday and injured 36 people, most of whom were Americans, authorities said.
The blast damaged 42 cars parked in the area, shattered windows within a radius of 100 yards, gouged a six-foot hole in the ground and battered a one-story office wind of a nearby building.
The bomb injured 34 Americans, including several children, and two Germans. Most were cut by glass splinters and all but seven Americans were released after treatment.
The injured included 19 U.S. military personnel, 11 American civilians, a West German civilian and a Filipino. Most were taken to the American military
hospital, but some were treated in a German hospital.
hospital, our some friends. No organization took responsibility for the attack, but a German police spokesman said he assumed it was carried out by terrorists who launched a similar attack in August against the U.S. Air Force headquarters for Europe outside Frankfurt.
The spokesman said yesterday's bomb went off at 3:20 p.m. in a BMW with West German plates that had been parked outside a one-story office building at the U.S. Army post exchange shopping center at the corner of two main streets in downtown Frankfurt.
Frankfurt police spokesman Kurt Kraus said the bomb was packed in a blue BMW sedan that was bought by a "Moroccan-looking man" Saturday at a used car dealership near Frankfurt.
Kraus said the BMW was bought at the same dealer ship that sold the car used in the August bombing.
Vatican council to assess reforms
The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II opened yesterday an extraordinary synod of bishops convened to assess the Second Vatican Council's far-reaching reforms and the divisions they spawned.
"We begin the synod with the same openness which filled the council fathers two years ago," he said during his homily, delivered in Italian to
about 10,000 people packed into St. Peter's Basilica.
The service followed a procession of more than 300 cardinals, bishops and priests, all clad in white and golden robes and white miters, through St. Peter's Square.
At the pope's request, the procession was fashioned to resemble the 1962 opening ceremonies of the Second Vatican Council, commonly known as Vatican II, that were
presided over by Pope John XXIII. The council ended in 1965.
Although the synod is an advisory body that can only make recommendations to the pope, the current meeting is considered crucial because it represents the first official Vatican forum for the bishops to air their views on the effects of the Vatican II reforms on local churches and to make suggestions.
Soviets may change Afghanistan policy
United Press International
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Soviet officials yesterday suggested that a political solution to the conflict in Afghanistan is possible and that there are indications the Kremlin may be ready to set a timable for a pullout.
President Reagan brought up the subject of the Soviet role in the Afghan civil war at his summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva last week.
The United Nations-sponsored negotiations between the Soviet-backed Afghan government and Pakistan will resume in early December in Geneva and the two sides are reported close to an agreement. The key element remains the withdrawal of the more
Secretary of State George Shultz, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," hinted that the Soviets appeared ready to discuss a timetable for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
than 100,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
The United States is providing aid to the rebels, who have used Pakistan as a sanctuary in their guerrilla war.
Stanislav Menshikov, adviser to the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, said yesterday on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley" that political action must be used to resolve the situation in Afghanistan.
"We do not fear Afghanistan," Menshikov said. "We are not fighting Afghanistan, what we are fighting is against people — people who come from Pakistan and from some other countries and help some people in Afghanistan and don't like their regime.
"This is a civil war in which the government is supported by us and the anti-government forces are supported by your side. If we back out at this moment leaving these people to themselves . . . there may be more bloodshed than there is now."
Reagan ponders endorsing tax bill of House committee
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, who has called tax reform the spark that will ignite a "second American Revolution," must decide whether to keep the movement alive by endorsing a House Ways and Means Committee tax bill that falls short of his demands.
Members of the committee from both parties say the voluminous bill has little chance of passing the House if Reagan criticizes it publicly. Several said they expected the president to hail the measure as a good first step toward overhauling the income tax and to count on the Republican-controlled Senate to change it.
But White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Ragan suggested yesterday that the administration might not endorse the panel's bill because "it changes the president's proposition quite a bit."
Regan, however, said the ad ministration would know more about its position after careful study this week.
Rep. Ray McGrath, R-N.Y., predicted, however, that the president would eventually support the bill even though administration leaders "won't say they love it."
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-III., the committee chairman and chief congressional backer of a tax overhaul, pleaded with Reagan not to make a snap judgment that could kill the bill which Rostenkowski called "a victory of cooperation over confrontation."
While members of Congress take a week's recess for the Thanksgiving holiday, Ways and Means aides will write the committee's proposal into legal language. The plan is most likely to be debated in the House the week of Dec. 8. The Senate will not consider it this year.