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Thursday, Oct. 17, 198F
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Gulf oil rig capsizes; 2 killed,9 rescued
GALVESTON, Texas — An off shore drilling rig yesterday capsized about 12 miles off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico, killing two men and injuring at least two others, the Coast Guard said.
The resolution said Farrakhan had called Judaism a "gutter religion." It also said he had "joined hands with the Ku Klux Klan" and had received a $5 million loan from Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy.
Nine members of the 11-man crew were taken off the rig by a passing ship at about 9:30 a.m., shortly after the rig overturned. Divers began a search for the two missing members and their bodies were recovered from the submerged rig at 1:55 p.m. Names of the victims were withheld pending notification of relatives.
One of the injured crewmen had a cut arm and the other was suffering from severe shock.
WASHINGTON — Three members of Congress toued a resolution yesterday that asked Louis Farrakhan, Black Muslim minister, to cease his attacks against Jews "for the good of the nation."
Farrakhan criticized
'Rambo' terrifying
Rep. Mark Siljander, R-Mich., and a sponsor of the resolution, told a Capitol news conference Farrakhan's statements were morally repugnant.
MOSCOW — The two "Rambo" movies of Sylvester Stallone have taken the apple out of the American apple pie, the Literary Gazette said yesterday.
In a dispatch from New York, the Soviet weekly review said its correspondent attended one of the "Rambo" movies.
"Each time when Rambo killed another so-called red monster, the spectators jumped to their feet and raised the V for victory sign," he said. "The hall was roaring U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.' and I felt terrified."
From staff and wire reports
Pirates told not to hurt hostages
From Kansan wires
A man, who Israel said was PLO official Mohammed Abbas, told the Achille Lauro's hijackers to explain "our objective" to the cruise ship's passengers and not to harm them, according to tapes of radio conversations released yesterday.
Israel said the conversation occurred Oct. 9, the day after American passenger Leon Klinghoffer was shot twice and thrown overboard off the coast of Syria.
Abbas was with the four hijackers on the Egyptian airliner U.S. Navy jets forced down Oct. 11 at a NATO base in Sicily. The United States and Israel accused him of directing the piracy and the Reagan administration demanded he be held, but Italy let him go and its splintered coalition government might collapse as a result.
The body of Klinghoffer, 69, was identified by U.S. forensic experts in Damascus and shipped aboard a commercial flight to Rome, where it was taken to the Legal Institute for an autopsy.
The liner ended its voyage of terror yesterday,
steaming into its home port of Genoa, Italy.
Genoa prosecutors charged two more Palestinians in Kilinghoffer's death, bringing the number of defendants to seven.
Maj. Jem. Ehud Barak, chief of Israeli military intelligence, played a tape recording on Israel television of a conversation in Arabic, which he said was conducted Oct. 9 between Abbas and the pirates who had grabbed the Achille Lauro two days earlier off Port Said, Egypt.
A transcript, translated and released by the Israeli army, quoted Abbas as telling a hijacker called Majed: "Listen to me well. First of all, the
passengers should be treated very well. In addition, you must apologize to them and the ship's crew and to the captain, and tell them our objective was not to take control of the ship. Tell them what your main objective is."
The hijackers, Israeli officials and Abbas Palestine Liberation Front have said the initial plan was for a terror attack when the ship reached the Israeli port of Ashdod. Italian prosecution sources quoted the Palestinians, who say they are PLF members, as saying they decided to seize the ship after a waiter saw them with weapons.
Reports from the captain and others on the Achille Lauo said the Palestinian pirates shot Klinghoffer, who was confined to a wheelchair, when the ship was off Tartus Oct. 8, and threw him overboard.
Talks progress at Chrysler
The Associated Press
HIGLAND PARK, Mich. — A strike by 80,000 workers paralyzed Chrysler Corp. in the United States and Canada yesterday as bargainers worked to end walkouts that could cost the U.S. economy $65 million a day.
United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber, leader of the 70,000 striking U.S. workers, reported progress in the talks yesterday evening but said a number of important issues were unresolved.
"Job security is one of the very tough problems that's still here," Bieber said.
Separate Canadian talks were held in Toronto between the newly formed United Auto Workers of Canada and the company. There were 10,000 Canadian workers on strike
The strikes, called at 12:01 a.m. yesterday after a collapse of separate bargaining in the United States and Canada, stopped operations at most of Chrysler's 50 plants and warehouses on both sides of the border and could cost the automaker $15 million a day.
Park and Toronto. The U.S. talks continued into the evening, while Canadian bargainers recessed about 5 p.m. CDT and scheduled a session for today.
The halt to Chrysler's production of about 5,800 vehicles a day would cost the U.S. economy "somewhere between $63 million and $63 million per workday," said Michael Bryan, economist with the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland.
Wages were the main issue in the Canadian strike. U.S. workers wanted curbs on Chrysler's subcontracting of work to other companies, job security guarantees, and wage and benefit parity with workers at General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co.
Bargaining resumed yesterday morning in Highland
"Compared with the other autoworkers, no, I'm not satisfied," said Al Haygood, a 19-year Chrysler employee at the company's Twinsburg, Ohio, plant in suburban Cleveland. "It's good money, yeah. But the Big Three should be comparable."
U. S. Chrysler assemblers make an average $13.23 an hour, or 6 cents less than those at GM and Ford.
Nicaragua lashes out at U.S.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Opposition leaders said yesterday that the suspension of civil rights would intensify the war-like atmosphere in this leftist-ruled nation and might encourage support for U.S.-backed rebels.
White House officials responded by calling President Daniel Ortega's suspension of civil rights a step toward the imposition of a totalitarian regime.
From Kansan wires
Ortega announced Tuesday night that free expression, public assembly and the right to strike had been
suspended because of "brutal aggression" by the United States and "its internal allies" against the Sandinista regime.
The Foreign Ministry of Nicaragua *also accused the United States of delaying a visa that President Daniel Ortega needed to address the United Nations.
It was not known whether the suspension of civil rights would affect the issuance of the visa.
Ortega's decree subjects Nicaraguans to inspection of mail and search and seizure without warrant.
Amherst set for divesting
News media must submit their material to the Interior Ministry's director of communications before publication or broadcast. Similar rules have not affected foreign journalists in the past, but the scope of the current decree was not clear immediately.
Erick Ramirez, head of the Social Christian Party of Nicaragua, said yesterday that the government action "polarizes even more the situation in Nicaragua, ends the few guarantees the Nicaraguan people have, increases the tension and justifies the increase of the counter-revolution."
Amberst College will, however, keep its stock in companies that adhere to the Sullivan Principals, a set of guidelines on equal hiring practices in the white-rided nation, Kurt Hertzfeld, treasurer emeritus, said Tuesday.
United Press International
AMHERT, Mass. — Trustees of Amherst College have voted to rid the school of $10 million it has invested in companies doing businesses with South Africa.
In the plan, adopted over the Columbus Day weekend, Amherst College will immediately divest of stocks it has in "Category III" companies, ones which "need to make more progress" in dealing with South Africa's racial policy of apartheid, he said.
By March 31, it will witness funds from "Category II" companies that are "making progress" in the effort, Hertzfeld said. Amherst College will keep investments only in companies which agree to "exert pressure" on South Africa's government, school President Peter Pouncey said. The partial diversion plan will rid Amherst College of about 35 percent of its investments in businesses affiliated with the nation.
"It's a very important move," said Amherst College senior Peter Kliot. "There is no question this action is the beginning of divestment."
Americans win Nobel for studies
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two Americans whose work in determining molecular structure has been used to develop hundreds of modern drugs won the 1985 Nobel Prize for chemistry yesterday.
Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences yesterday also gave the 1965 Nobel Prize for physics to West Germany's Klaus von Klitzing, who made a discovery that is expected to lead to better quality electronic goods.
Americans Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle are both physicists, but Nobel officials took the exceptional step of awarding them the chemistry prize because their work in finding a method to determine crystal structure has become indispensable to chemists.
Three other Americans have won Nobel Prizes this year. Dr. Michael S. Brown and Dr. Joseph Goldstein received the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about cholesterol, and Franco Modigliani won the Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering theories of personal finance. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an anti-war organization, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which is led by U.S. and Soviet doctors.
Nobel officials credited Hauptman and Karle with working out equations and procedures for use by scientists trying to analyze crystal structure through radiation.
"Almost all we know about the structure of molecules is a result of this method," said Ingvar Lindqvist, a Nobel chemistry juror who said Hauptman and Karle had found an "ultimate" method, which would not be improved.
Karle, 67, is director of research at the Laboratory for Structure of Matter at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. Hauptman, 68, is director of research at the Medical Foundation of Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y.
Von Klitzing, a 42-year-old researcher at Stuttgart's Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, won the physics prize for his discovery in 1980 of the "quantized Hall effect."
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