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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 26, 1985
News Briefs
Grand jury indicts N.C. Klan members
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A federal grand jury indicted nine Ku Klux Klan members yesterday on charges of intimidating black and white couples by shooting into homes and burning crosses in yards.
FBI agents arrested four of the suspects listed in the 20-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Asheville.
Those arrested included Jerry D. Suits, Titan of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Iredell Country, and his wife, Mary V. Suits, Queen Kleagle of the women's unit.
Bob Keyser, a spokesman at McDonald's headquarters in Oakbrook, Ill, said, "Everything we say in our ads is true and we stand by it."
LEON VALLEY, Texas — Three suspected car strippers yesterday jumped into the back of their getaway truck, unaware that Police Chief Bill Stannard was driving the confiscated vehicle.
McNuggets disputed
WASHINGTON — Although McDonald's says its Chicken McNuggets contain only chicken breasts and thighs, a consumer group charged yesterday that the fast-food items also had fatty skin and grease.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and made false and misleading advertising.
Police nab suspects
At 1:43 a.m. yesterday, a patrol officer spotted a gang of men stripping vehicles at a car parts lot, but the men scattered into nearby woods when they saw him, Stannard said.
"About a minute later, another officer spotted a pickup truck driving around in that area, and stopped him and saw a bunch of car parts in the back," Stannard said.
Stannard got into the truck and drove away in the direction of the police department in Leon Valley.
From staff and wire reports.
U.S.. Soviets hold frank' pre-summit meeting
NEW VORK — Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze met yesterday to prepare for the superpower summit, but Shultz said his counterpart offered no new proposals on arms control.
United Press International
And President Reagan, unmoved by a "Soviet propoganda blitz," yesterday rejected Moscow's bid to link "Star Peace" — its request for peaceful superpower ventures in space — to his "Star Wars" missile defense system.
Shultz and Shevardnadze emerged from the Soviet mission to the United Nations to speak to reporters after their meeting, which lasted four hours and 22 minutes. The meeting was held in preparation for the Nov. 19-20 summit between Reagan and Soviet leader Mihail Gorbachev.
There was speculation Shevardnadze might present a new Soviet arms control proposal either at yesterday's meeting or at a session with Reagan at the White House tomorrow.
But Shultz said, "There were no
Shevardnadze did not disagree with Shultz's assessment. He described the talk, his second with Shultz, as "interesting, frank and useful."
particular new proposals, but there is a thorough exchange of views.
He said, "Frankness is a necessary precondition for establishing the truth."
White House spokesman Larry Speakes responded to a U.N. speech by Shevardnadze Tuesday that put a new spin on the Kremlin's denunciation of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
"The United States has long been a major exponent of peaceful cooperation in space," Speakes said. "We see no linkage between the Soviets' proposals of peaceful cooperation and research and the possibility of effective strategic defense research, which both countries are conducting.
Shevardnadze said most of the business was in preparation for the Reagan-Gorbachev summit.
At the outset of the meeting, Shevardnadze was overheard by reporters apologizing to Shultz for missing the American's hard-line speech to the United Nations Monday
that denounced "communist colonialism."
Shewardnadze Tuesday made a strong pitch to stop President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, known informally as "Star Wars," and said the Soviets had put forward serious proposals to cut nuclear missiles at the Geneva talks.
The Soviets have told a variety of sources they would propose cuts of up to 40 percent in the nuclear arsenals of both sides on the condition that the United States limit its "Star Wars" research.
Prisoners get help in S.Africa
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A Supreme Court judge, acting on an urgent appeal, ordered police yesterday to stop beating or threaten prisoners who were being held without charge under South Africa's state of emergency.
The judge issued the order in Port Elizabeth following an appeal by Dr. Wendy Orr, a surgeon who examines prisoners in the Eastern Cape, and by 44 others, most of them parents of inmates. Orr is white and is employed by the government.
systematically assaulted and abused after their arrest."
An estimated 2,000 people — most of them blacks — are thought to be in jail under the sweeping arrest and seizure regulations that are part of President Pieter Botha's state of emergency decree.
Judge Johannes Eksteen immediately issued an order "interdicting the South African police from assaulting or threatening assault upon any person who is at present being detained in terms of the (emergency) regulations at St. Albans or North End prisons, Port Elizabeth."
Orr said in her appeal that detainees were "being taken out of my care for the purpose of interrogation and, during the course of this interrogation, brutally assaulted."
In her appeal to the judge, Orr said she had "overwhelming evidence that detainees were being
She said the police thought they "enjoyed immunity" because they were acting under terms of the emergency regulations that were imposed by the white-minority government to combat escalating black violence.
Sixth American dies after quake
United Press International
MEXICO CITY / U.S. Ambassador John Gavin Wednesday announced the death of a sixth American and said 28 Americans were still missing after the quakes that devastated Mexico. Scientists upgraded Thursday's earthquake to 8.1 on the Richter scale, calling it the first "great" quake in five years.
Gavin said the sixth American fatality was Bruce Sloan of New Market. N.H. who died in a hospital
The ambassador also announced during a news conference at the U.S. Embassy that 28 Americans "believed to have been in the hotels that collapsed" were still missing.
"Time is running out, but we are still trying to find people alive."
Gavin said. "By Thursday we will have very slim hopes of rescuing anyone alive."
Many of the Americans were thought to have been staying in the Hotel Regis, which collapsed Thursday night with dozens of guests and employees inside.
Gavin said the United States shipped $3.5 million in emergency equipment and materials to Mexico and another $2.5 million was "on the way."
Asked about his statement this past weekend that at least 10,000 people were killed in the quake, Gavin said, "I'm afraid I still have to think that figure is relatively correct."
In Golden, Colo., the U.S. Geological Survey upgraded the Sept. 19 earthquake to 8.1 on the Richter scale
of magnitude from 7.8, as had been reported the day of the quake.
The 8.1 earthquake in Mexico is one of the strongest earthquakes in the world since the magnitude 8.5 shock that devastated Anchorage and other parts of Alaska more than 21 years ago on March 28, 1964.
Since then, there have been eight other earthquakes with magnitudes 8.0 or 8.1 in the world before last Thursday's earthquake in Mexico.
The big aftershock that occurred last Friday also was upgraded by the U.S.G.S. from a magnitude of 7.3 to 7.5.
In the capital, Mexican demolition crews wired explosives to shaky buildings damaged by last week's quakes, and the official death toll climbed to 4,396.
Adviser, economist differ on expansion
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's top economic adviser said yesterday that the nation's economy would experience strong growth by the end of 1986, but a leading expert disagreed, saying there were too many uncertainties to predict expansion.
Testifying to a Joint Economic subcommittee, Beryl Spinkel, head of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, reasserted the administration's position that despite slow growth this year, the economy would jump 4 percent in 1986.
"Over the last year," he said, "fundamental improvements have occurred that leave the U.S. economy
well-placed for a resumption of strong growth.
"A number of positive developments are in place or under way that indicate growth in the 4 percent range is sustainable for sometime to come."
But Sprinkel's rosy outlook was not matched by economist Alan Greenspan, who argued that "growth prospects at present depend critically on rebound in investment has been significantly retarded in recent quarters."
Greenspan agreed that the nation could expect a jump in the gross national product of about 4 percent both in the fourth quarter and in the first half of 1886.
Airline office bombed
United Press International
ROME (UPI) — A Palestinian teenager hurried a bomb into a British Airways office yesterday, injuring 14 people in Rome's second terrorist attack in 10 days, police said, and a second assailant was being sought.
The blast severely damaged the office, sent shards of heavy plate glass flying at passers-by and shattered windows in nearby buildings. Police said a 16-year-old suspect, Hasan Atab, was caught fleeing the scene and quickly admitted the bombing.
area said statements from witnesses indicated there was probably a second assailant, a man wearing a pink shirt, who eluded police.
Aatab identified himself as a member of the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Moslems, which later took responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to a Western news agency in Paris.
Rome police chief Marcello Mon-
The call from an Arab speaker said the group would "continue to hit British interests and take forward the holy struggle until the liberation of all militants of the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Moslems in British jails."
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