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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
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Monday. Nov. 4, 1985
News Briefs Second victim found in debris from blast
MARION, S.D. — Rescuers sifting through tons of feed corn and debris yesterday recovered the body of a second man killed in a fiery explosion that ripped through a grain elevator and injured five others.
Whale follows tapes
Authorities said the blast shattered the grain elevator Saturday night and hurled tons of corn and concrete into a nearby office building.
This was a change in the charge from murder to the lesser charge.
PITTSBURG, Calif. — Humphrey the wrong-way whale, following taped sounds of other whales, picked up his pace yesterday and moved downstream.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used a radio transponder to play "whale sound" tapes under water.
Hal Alabaster of NOAA said Humphrey moved from Antioch to Pittsburgh and reached the "fartest downstream" since he entered the Sacramento River 23 days ago.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Two French secret agents pleaded guilty today to manslaughter in the July 10 sinking of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior.
Agents plead guiltv
Maj. Alain Mafart and Capt. Dominique Prieur pleaded guilty to the charges of manslaughter and wilful damage in the sinking of the ship in which a Greenpeace photographer, Fernando Pereira, was killed.
Invention given aid
WASHINGTON — A bill before Congress would grant a patent to Joseph Westley Newman for a "revolutionary energy machine" that the inventor from the Mississippi backwoods says will eliminate utility bills forever.
Newman contends the machine he has been working on for 20 years produces more energy than it consumes, a concept that for years has been rejected as impossible by the giants of science.
Guatemalan elections end military rule
GUATEMALA CITY — More than 70 percent of Guatemala's voters turned out yesterday for largely problem-free elections marking the end of military rule that began 31 years ago with a CIA-backed coup.
From Kansan wires.
United Press International
The centrist Union for a National Center and the Christian Democratic Party both charged that military officers in the countryside were pressuring voters to vote for the far-right Movement of National Liberation. The Union for a National Center also accused the Christian Democrats, their main rivals, of illegal election tactics in Guatemala City.
But Arturo Herbruger Asturias, president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, said voting
Between 70 and 80 percent of the 2.75 million registered voters cast ballots, Herbruger said. A festive atmosphere marked many polling places, with merchants running food stands and voters casting ballots for president, vice president, 100 Assembly members and mavors.
"took place in an absolutely calm manner without any major incidents."
Preliminary results were not expected until tonight.
Lugar, who was in Antigua with U.S. Ambassador Alberto Martinez Piedra, said the voting was "moving very smoothly. It appears to me it is working like clockwork."
Observation teams from 14 countries, the United Nations and the Organization of American States were on hand for the election. Among the groups was a U.S. delegation led by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Rep. Charles Roemer, D-La.
Later, in Guatemala, he suggested U.S. military aid be resumed promptly because of the apparent fair voting.
"Guatemala will come back into the picture (of military aid)," Lugar predicted after he returned to Guatemala City from observing the voting in the countryside.
Delegation member Sen. Mitch McConnell, RKy., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the United States had "a big stake in these elections" since Guatemala was the "linchpin of Central America."
"We hope they (the civilian government) will be more inclined in our direction . . . " McConnel said.
Guatemala has maintained a neutral position toward conflicts in Central America.
The leading candidate was Vinicio Cerezo or the center-left Christian Democratic party, a longtime critic of military rule.
Eight candidates were vying for the presidency. If no one wins a majority in yesterday's elections, a run off between the two top finishers is scheduled for Dec. 8.
Three other candidates were given a chance of winning, including Jorge Serrano Elias of the center-right Democratic Party of National Cooperation; Jorge Carpio Nicole, a newspaper publisher who founded the center-right Union of the National Center party, and Mario Sandoval Alarcon of the far-right National Liberation Movement party.
U.S. proposes ceiling on strategic weapons
The Associated Press
HELSINKI, Finland — The United States has proposed a ceiling on American and Soviet strategic bombers and a freeze on nuclear missiles in Europe as part of a new arms control accord with Moscow, a senior U.S. official said yesterday.
'Star Wars' system explained p. 8.
Other key elements of the package now before Soviet negotiators in Geneva include a ceiling of 3,000 on long-range nuclear warheads and no limits on submarine-launched cruise missiles.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was "compromise" in President Reagan's proposal to overcome what he described as "hookers" — snakes — in the plan Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbache submitted five weeks ago.
For instance, the ceiling of 3,000 on intercontinental ballistic missile warheads is 500 higher than the initial U.S. position in the Geneva negotiations. It would allow the Soviets to retain more of their land-based missile arsenal, the heart of Soviet nuclear strength.
Gorbachev called for a 3,600-wardhead limit on strategic ground missiles, bombers and nuclear submarines.
The U.S. official said that if the Soviets accepted the American package deal, there would be no
mobile Soviet strategic missiles or any new heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles added to the superpowers' arsenals.
But the outlook for an early agreement appears dim. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who is expected to discuss prospects for an accord during two days of talks in Moscow beginning Monday, told reporters the two sides remained "quite a distance apart."
The main stumbling block is a Soviet demand for a "total ban" on all arms in space. The senior official said Moscow's definition encompassed all U.S. attempts "to counter objects in space." It is aimed at stopping Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, which envisages using futuristic technology in space to intercept and destroy attacking missiles.
The ceiling on heavy bombers proposed by Reagan is 350, the official said. They could carry up to 1,500 air-launched cruise missiles. By U.S. count, the Soviets now have 375 Backfires, Bisons and Bears. The United States has 263 B-52s.
American and Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Europe, meanwhile, would be frozen at 140 under the U.S. proposal. This would require a reduction of 103 Soviet SS-20 missiles and no reductions by the United States in the Pershing 2 and cruise missiles deployed among NATO allies.
Agents look for ambushers
From Kansan wires
MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of federal narcotics agents and army troops swept through southern Veracruz state yesterday, searching for more than 50 drug traffickers who ambushed and killed 21 policemen raiding a marihuana ranch.
Friday's ambush marked the biggest attack by narcotics traffickers since federal agents stepped up antidrug operations in recent years.
Among the slain officers was Alfredo Malaga Vazquez, chief of the Veracruz State Police.
Authorities said they were investigating possible links between the ambush and the escape from prison of Jose Contreras Zubias, a top Mexican drug trafficker. Contreras Zubias was being held along with several other narcotics dealers in connection with the February kidnap-murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in Mexico.
Two policemen managed to escape the ambush and made their way by 9 a.m. Saturday to Acayucan, about 24 miles from the shooting site, where they told their story to authorities, said Veracruz state spokesman Arturo Reyes Isidoro.
Conterras Zubias escaped from prison guards in the border city of Tijuana a week ago, authorities said.
The Mexico City newspaper Excelsior identified the survivors as Isidore Chontal and Moises Gonzalez, and said 20 of those killed were Federal Judicial Police agents.
The state government said the agents discovered the marijuana sometime earlier and were ambushed when they returned in the pre-dawn hours Friday to cart it away.
PLO pressured to drop terror
From Kansan wires
Hussein said he expected some answers soon from Arafat about whether the PLO would abandon terrorist tactics to ensure progress toward Middle East peace.
WASHINGTON — Jordan's King Hussein, calling recent Middle East violence a terrible backset for the Palestine Liberation Organization, said yesterday he told Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, that the peace process was in danger unless they put their act together.
Also concerning the peace effort, a senior U.S. official said yesterday that intense, discreet contacts were going on with Israel, Jordan and Egypt to remove the last obstacles to Arab-Iraeli peace talks.
Hussein, who has taken the lead in trying to keep the faltering peace process alive, also said he expected the PLO to acknowledge Israel's right to exist if an international Middle East peace conference became a reality.
Hussein, a guest on NBC's "Meet the Press," said he was hitick by the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in proposed peace talks with Israel. But during their meeting last week in Amman, Jordan's capital, Hussein said he demanded steps by Arafat to improve his organization's image.
Under discussion were ways to involve the Palestinians in talks, and the type of international forum for direct negotiations between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians, said the official, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified.
Hussein reacted bitterly to a recent Senate decision barring the sale of $1.9 billion in sophisticated armaments to Jordan until Hussein begins direct and meaningful peace negotiations with Israel.
"We will be looking to the Soviet Union and others for a way to determine in our own minds where we go from here if Washington, after 28 years of a relationship with our military, has decided to put an end to it," the Jordanian ruler said.
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