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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 18, 1985
News Briefs General is consulted before court rules
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos yesterday summoned armed forces chief Gen. Fabian Ver to a conference on reorganization of the military only two days before a court rules on his role in the Benigno Aquino murder.
REDDING, Conn. - Stuart Chase, an economist and member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "brain trust" who coined the phrase "New Deal," died Saturday at his home. He was
It was the first public announcement of Ver's participation in any military conference since he was recommended for trial 13 months ago.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Vice President George Bush said the leak of a letter by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger urging a hard-line position on key arms control issues will have little effect on the summit because the Soviets are "sophisticated America-watchers."
Letter has little effect
The letter was written to President Reagan and published in yesterday's editions of the New York Times and Washington Post.
FDR adviser dies
Chase wrote 33 books, including "A New Deal," published in 1932, the year FED was elected.
Oman festivities set
MUSCAT, Oman -- Delegations from more than 50 countries are gathering in this picturesque seaside capital to help Oman celebrate what one diplomat called a "coming out party" for this hermit of the Arab world.
The five races of fireworks, camel races, parades, and laser shows scheduled to start today will officially mark 15 years in power for Sultan Qaboos bin Said, a British educated bachelor and one of the world's few absolute rulers.
From Kansan wire reports.
Soviets decrv U.S. discord
From Kansan wires
GENEVA — President Reagan, inspecting summit sites yesterday as he prepared to meet his Kremkin counterpart, sought to brush aside evidence of administration discord on arms policy, but the Soviets said the discord was an attempt "to torpedo the arms control process."
Reagan's spokesman, Larry Speakes, said, "We are not changing our views one whit' as a result of the leak of the "Weinberger letter."
In the letter, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who was excluded from the U.S. summit delegation, warned Reagan against agreeing to several arms positions when he meets tomorrow and Wednesday with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
The letter, which warned against limiting Star Wars research and against ignoring purported Soviet arms control violations, was leaked to discredit Weinberger, administration officials said yesterday.
Weinberger gave the three-page letter, "Part 1" of a report on the alleged violations and an executive summary to Reagan during a meeting in the Oval Office Wednesday. The letter appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post over the weekend.
Weinberger, described as "very unhappy," with the unauthorized disclosure of the document, called the White House Saturday and demanded an investigation into who may have leaked the letter to the two newspapers, Pentagon officials said.
Officials think the letter was
disclosed by someone in the State Department in an effort to discredit Weinberger and his tough stance against surrendering research on the Strategic Defense Initiative, as Star Wars is known officially. Weinberger has also opposed overlooking purported Soviet violations of the unratified SALT 2 accord and the 1972 ABM treaty.
A key member of the American delegation, insisting on anonymity, said he thought the summit would produce some U.S.-Soviet agreements. He said that chances of periodic summit meetings were "more than 50 percent." But he said it was "highly likely" that the summit would produce an agreement for the two superpowers to guard against proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries.
Last volcano victims rescued
From Kansan wires
ARMERO, Colombia — The government said the last three victims trapped in the river of volcanic mud that buried this Andean village were rescued yesterday and it called an end to its emergency operations.
"The last three survivors were rescued this morning in Armero and I believe they later died. There is now no one left to rescue," said Health Minister Rafael Zubiria. More than 20,000 people were killed in Colombia's worst disaster, the government said.
U. S. officials at the site all trapped victims had been evacuated and the injured were being treated.
A pregnant woman buried with her two dead children in waist-deep mud for almost three days gave birth minutes after volunteers pulled her free, rescues said yesterday.
"Name her Hope," cried one onlooker after the baby girl was born.
Doctors and volunteers worked for 60 hours to extricate Carmen Cecilia de Moreno, 25, from the mud and collapsed walls pinning her inside she wrecked home in Armero, 60 miles west of Bogota.
The town was covered by a 15-foot-deep river of mud that rushed down the slopes of the Navado del Ruiz early Thursday. The eruption melted the volcano's ice cap, causing a river to overflow.
Zubaria said Saturday night that Armero would be made into a cemetery, because it was not possible to recover the thousands of bodies.
Zubaria said that today civil defense workers would begin burning decomposing bodies recovered from the mud flats to prevent disease.
U.S., NATO denounced in Greece
United Press International
ATHENS - More than 100,000 leftwing demonstrators marched to the U.S. Embassy yesterday, calling for Greece to oust American military bases and leave NATO.
Some demonstrators tossed Molotov cocktails at a foreign airlines office and outside the Athens Hilton Hotel, breaking a few windows but causing no injuries, police said. There were no other reports of violence.
The marchers, mostly socialist ain't communist youths, chanted "Americans — murderers of the people," "the European Economic Community and NATO are the same syndicate" and "capitalism means
unemployment, inflation and austerity."
The group walked three miles to the embassy, starting at Athens Technical University, where a student rebellion, which led to a change of government, began 12 years ago this month.
The repression of their rebellion was used as an excuse for the imposition of martial law and the overthrow of Papadopoulos by his military police chief, Col. Demetrius loanides.
Before leaving the campus, the crowd listened to speeches by members the National Students Association of Greece and the Society of Imprisoned and Exiled Resistance Fighters, which organized the march.
The speakers called for Greece's withdrawal from NATO, the expulsion of U.S. bases from Greece and for nuclear disarmament, police said.
In November 1973, students at Athens Technical University occupied the downtown campus of their school and called for an end to the 6-year-long military dictatorship of George Papadopoulos.
Papadopoulos, loannides and their closest lieutenants are serving life sentences imposed after the restoration of democracy in 1974, after the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus.
Envoy says he met captors of hostages
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Terry Waite, the archbishop of Canterbury's envoy seeking to free American hostages in Lebanon, said yesterday that he had met the hostages' captors at a secret meeting in Beirut and that positive steps had been taken.
Before flying to London and Washington, he stressed at a news conference that the situation required very difficult and very dangerous.
Waite left Beirut to brief Archibishop Robert Runicue of Canterbury, primate of the Anglican Communion, on the results of his mission and to consult senior U.S. officials on his contacts.
Waite's meeting was seen as the first real breakthrough in the long-running hostage drama. It is thought to be the first contact between a Western intermediary and the kidnappers, thought to belong to Islamic Hijab organization Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War.
Four of the six Americans missing in Beirut appealed to the archbishop by letter nine days ago to help negotiate their release.
Waite said he was satisfied that the four who wrote to Runcie were alive and well, but when asked whether he had seen any of them, he had no comment.
Waite, 46, told reporters that his mission was not over and that he expected to return to Beirut to purge the sects that infiltrated mercy to free the captives.
"During the past days I have had lengthy contacts. There is absolutely no doubt at all that I have got through to the right people and that a measure of trust has been established." Waite said.
Waite would not say whom he met, what passed between them or where the meeting took place, and warned news media against speculating on any of these points.
The hostages' message to the archbishop was one of 12 letters from the four captive Americans that an unidentified man delivered to the Beirut bureau of The Associated Press.
Heavy security marks trial of ship hijackers
United Press International
GENOA, Italy — The four alleged Achille Lauro bjackers and a man accused of being an accomplice will go on trial on weapons charges today in a fortified courtroom guarded by 200 Italian paramilitary policemen and U.S. FBI agents.
The fifth man, Mohammed Kalaf, 25, was caught before he boarded the ship. Italian newspapers have said his real name is Mohamad Issa Abbas and identified him as a cousin of Palestine Liberation Front leader
The hijackers — Magied Al Molgi, 23, Ahmad Al Assadi, 23, Ibrahim Abdelatif, 20, and Bassam Al Ashker, 22 — are charged with smuggling into Italy four Kalashnikov submachine guns, eight hand grenades and nine detonators used in the Oct. 7 hijacking of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro.
Abu Abbas, the alleged mastermind of the blacking
Italian newspapers have also said Al Molqi was the leader of the four-man terrorist unit and the gunman who killed Leon Klinghoffer, an American Jewish passenger whose body was dumped overboard.
If convicted on the weapons charges, the defendants could each be sentenced by Judge Carlo Maria Napoli to between three and 12 years in prison.The defendants are expected to stand trial early next year on charges of murdering Klinghoffer, hijacking and kidnapping.
The defendants will appear in court inside three steel-barbed cages, flanked by FBI agents. About 200 Carabinieri paramilitary police will ring the "bunker" courtroom.
Police arrested the four alleged hijackers Oct. 10 when U.S. jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying them to land in Sicily.
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