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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 11, 1985
News Briefs
Fire guts frat house; no injuries reported
BOULDER, Colo. — A suspicious fire yesterday gutted the Chi Psi fraternity house at the University of Colorado, the second fire at the fraternity house this fall and fourth in the area in three months.
Firefighters said they did not know what started the fire, but the first three fires, including one at the Chi Pi house Sept. 24, were thought to have been set by arsonists.
SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon apostles met in the Salt Lake Temple yesterday in a 140-year-old rite almost certain to result in Era Taft Benson, 86, president of the Council of Twelve Apostles, being the new spiritual leader of 5.8 million church members worldwide.
Visit stirs response
Residents of the Psi Chi house moved out after the earlier blaze and no one was injured in yesterday's fire.
LONDON — British newspapers treated with smugness the excitement sweeping Washington over the visit of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
Mormon rite begins
The official announcement of a new Mormon president to replace Spencer Kimball was expected to be made at a news conference today, a church spokesman said.
"There is a certain smug satisfaction in watching a country that fought so hard over 200 years ago to rid itself of King George III, now falling at the feet of the young rovers," the Sunday Times said.
Thai leader punched
BANGKOK, Thailand — A university student punched Prime Minister Prem Tsim sulanlanda yesterday at a sports stadium, giving the Thai leader a bloody nose, police said.
Prem had presided over the closing ceremony of Thailand's 13th University Games at Ramkhamhaeng University and was walking to his car when he was attacked.
From Kansan wires.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat, responding to criticism that he favored peace with Israel, said in an interview broadcast yesterday that the Palestinian people would "never let the gun fall from their hands."
Arafat pledges to continue fighting Israel
The Associated Press
And in Jordan, King Hussein told a military graduating class that "the Arab flag" soon would fly over Jerusalem.
Arafat's statement on Abu Dhabi television followed a declaration he made only last week in which he denounced violence against unarmed civilians anywhere and pledged to punish
violators of a PLO commitment against terrorism outside Israeli-occupied territory. The interview with Abu Dhabi television was conducted Friday in Cairo, Egypt.
Arafat said in the interview that his earlier Cairo declaration was "a diplomatic riposte to the fierce U.S. and Zionist campaign against the PLO."
The declaration was criticized by some Arabs who contended he had dropped the Palestinian armed struggle in favor of peaceful accommodation with Israel.
Arafat said the contents of the declaration represented "truthful respect for international legitimacy, which distinguishes between resistance against an enemy and terrorist
operations against innocent civilians outside the occupied land."
But, he said, Palestinian resistance remained committed to "escalating armed struggle inside the occupied territories."
In Amman, Hussein said in a speech that Arabs soon would rule Jerusalem, a city with a population of 400,000. Israel captured the Old City of eastern Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and later annexed it.
"It will not be long before the day that the Arab flag will fly over Jerusalem and the voices (from the mosques) will cry 'God is great' and the bells will ring from the churches there." Hussein said yesterday at the Royal Military Academy in the Jordanian capital.
The king, in alliance with the PLO, has proposed peace with Israel in exchange for Israel's withdrawal from all lands occupied since the 1967 war.
Peace the king said, should be based on "right and justice" and should restore "the occupied territories to their legitimate owners."
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has expressed willingness to negotiate with Hussein and with Palestinians who renounce violence. But Israel says it will never give up Jerusalem, which is a holy city for Jews, Christians and Moslems alike.
Israel also opposes Hussein's call for a United Nations-sponsored peace conference.
Gunman seizes plane out of Entebbe airport
From Kansan wires
KAMPALA, Uganda — A gunman suspected of having ties to an insurgent rebel group yesterday hijacked a Uganda Airlines domestic flight with 49 people aboard and forced it to fly to rebel-controlled territory, officials said.
A man saying he represented the National Resistance Army telephoned the British Broadcasting Corp. offices in Nairobi, Kenya, and said the plane was seized by rebels.
The caller said the plane was diverted to Kasese in southwestern Uganda, 200 miles from Kampala, because the military government had been using that flight to bring troops to Kampala. The caller said the crew and non-military people would be released unharmed but did not say what *would happen to military men who might be aboard
Four West Germans were among the passengers and crew aboard the Fokker Friendship, said Guenter Held, West German ambassador to Uganda. He identified the four as medical personnel working in northwestern Uganda and said he had no other details on the hijacking.
The twin-engine turboprop was hijacked shortly after 10 a.m. on a flight from Entebbe airway, 25 miles south of Kampala, to Arua, 200 miles northwest of the capital near the Zaire border, said Paul Ssemogere, Uganda's internal affairs minister.
Entebbe airport was the scene of the 1978 rescue by Israeli commandos of an Air France jetliner hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas.
The number of hijackers in yesterday's incident was unknown, Sensemegerre said. He said the pilot reported "an armed man" in the cockpit of the aircraft but was unsure whether there were any accomplices in the cabin. There was no further communication with the aircraft after the pilot's brief message and the possibility of more than one hijacker could not be ruled out, he said.
The government, he said, suspects that National Resistance Army guerrillas have infiltrated the base.
"Obviously, it is a very strong suspicion that it is the work of the NRA. It is just speculation but one cannot rule out that theory," he said in remarks from Nairobio, where peace talks are under way between the rebels and the military government. The government seized power in a July 27 coup that toppled President Milton Obote. The guerrillas refused to lay down their arms after the coup.
An NRA spokesman in Narroon samie he had no knowledge of the hijacking. He noted, however, that telephone links to rebel-controlled areas were cut off one week ago.
"We have not been able to get in touch with our people inside and have no information on the incident," the spokesman said.
A senior government official said the hijackers apparently seized the aircraft thinking two senior military officers were on board.
32 S. Africans start fasting
From Kansan wires
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — About 32 political prisoners began a hunger strike in Cape Town's maximum-security Pollsmoor Prison yesterday as police said four people died in the worst antigovernment violence in a week.
In another development, education officials said President Pieter Bloetha had agreed to meet university officials today to discuss school boycotts called to protest. South Africa's system of racial segregation
The delegation will explain demands by black and mixed-race students for the withdrawal of police and soldiers from segregated townships and for the abolition of segregated education, the officials said.
Family and friends told reporters in Cape Town the hunger strikers refused breakfast yesterday to start their campaign. Supporters said the strikers would hold a series of 24-hour fasts.
Two white clergymen, the Rev. Robert Petersen and the Rev. Godfrey Kraatz, and about 30 black women
were involved in the hunger strike, said spokeswoman Heather Petersen.
The hunger strikers are among about 450 people being held without charge under emergency rule provisions invoked in Cape Town last month.
The strikers are demanding the release of all emergency-rule detainees, access to lawyers and the release of white trade unionist Shirley Gunn, who is being held under different political laws.
In the confrontation between the government and journalists, The Sunday Star said a letter alleging wrongdoing by journalists was "bogus."
"Louis Nel, deputy minister of information, waved the letter before a national television audience Wednesday, saying its author had seen a television crew stage a riot.
Nel used the contents of the letter to justify the government's Nov. 2 decision to outlaw television crews, still photographers and radio reporters from riot areas. Print journalists must report to police as soon as trouble simmers.
Debt limit again haunts Congress
rowing limit from $1,823 billion to $2 trillion.
For the first time in its history, the government may default on its financial obligations, bouncing millions of federal checks.
WASHINGTON — Congress' usual frenzy threatens to become absolute chaos late this week with the simultaneous expiration of the federal debt limit, a stopgap money bill, the 16-cent-a-pack cigarette tax and numerous other laws.
Treasury Secretary James Baker warned late last week of "swift and severe repercussions," including higher interest rates, if the United States defaulted on its obligations after Thursday because Congress had failed to raise the national bor-
In addition, much of the federal government could be shut down, sending a half-million or more "nonessential" workers home on an unscheduled holiday and closing government offices from Washington to Anchorage.
The two problems — a government shutdown and a default — will require separate congressional solutions.
The shutdown can be averted if Congress passes a stopgap appropriations bill to finance government agencies past the expiration of the current temporary spending bill, which is midnight Thursday.
An appropriations bill gives the government the legal power to spend money, but it needs an increase in the borrowing limit to raise the money to spend since it will have exhausted its financial reserves by Friday.
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