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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1985
News Briefs
FarmAid gifts low
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — At $9 million so far, proceeds from the all-star FarmAid benefit concert appeared to be running short of its goal yesterday, but organizers said they would be happy if the event triggered new interest in farmers' problems.
The FarmAid money will be used for cash grants to needy farmers, legal aid, counseling and job training, a nationwide information hotline and a campaign to increase awareness of farm problems.
The $50 million was far short of singer Willie Nelson's prediction that the concert would raise $50 million.
ludge rejects tape
LOS ANGELES — A taped interview in which Cathy Evelyn Smith allegedly confessed that she killed comedian John Belushi was made in a party-like atmosphere and is "unreliable," a judge at the defendant's preliminary hearing said yesterday.
Municipal Court Judge James Nelson ruled he would not admit as evidence a widely publicized statement in which Smith said she administered the "coup de grace" that killed Belushi.
Shultz talks to U.N.
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary of State George Shultz, setting a tough tone prior to top level U.S.-Soviet talks, told the United Nations yesterday that democratic revolutions would reverse "communist colonialism" in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Cambodia and Angola.
Mexico mourns its dead
From Kansan wire reports.
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — City workers dug up old graves yesterday to make way for earthquake victims as Mexico City struggled to return to the business of living. The government said nearly 3,000 people were confirmed dead and 2,000 others were trapped — some still alive — in the rubble.
First lady Nancy Reagan made a 3 $ \frac{1}{2} $ hour motor tour of devastated sections of the city and visited a Red Cross Hospital. She presented Mexico's first lady, Paloma Cordero de la Madrid, with a check for $ 1 million for Mexico's relief effort.
Her chief of staff, James Rosebush, said her message to the Mexicans, sensitive in the past to receiving U.S. aid, was "just a down payment on our further help and assistance."
Rosebush said Mrs. Reagan considered the possibility of another earthquake or other hazard but "she felt it was a risk she wanted to take."
At San Lorenzo Tezonco cemetery 12 miles southeast of downtown, more than 200 men dug three rows of individual graves, as many as 100 to those that had been identified by relatives and would be buried with a marker.
Grave diggers said they had been working non-stop for the past 24 hours with very little sleep. Some 500 bodies, most of them unidentified, were buried in a separate 15-foot-deep pit late Sunday. There were few mourners.
Because the San Lorenzo cemetery, in the Iztapalapa borough, was the final destination of the city's unclaimed dead over the past decade, the workers often opened up old graves.
"We saw skulls and broken bones and pieces of old caskets," said taxi driver Jose Luis Carranzas as he watched the workers. "They are digging up the dead to make way for the dead."
State Department spokesman Charles Redman said 4,500 Americans had notified the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City that they were safe and in almost all cases word had been passed on to relatives in the United States.
The State Department in Washington said five Americans have been confirmed dead and seven injured, two seriously.
Thousands of people in the capital tried to return to work in spite of condemned buildings, the ongoing search for survivors and more bodies and fears that another tremor might jolt the area.
French documents missing
United Press International
PARIS - The political storm over French secret service involvement in the sinking of the Greenpeace ship in New Zealand widened yesterday with allegations that key documents were destroyed in a Watergate-style cover-up.
Paul Quiles, the new defense minister, discovered that "essential documents" relating to the July 10 bombing were missing from the files of the French intelligence agency, government sources said.
A photographer died in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior at Auckland harbor. The Greenpeace flagship was in the Pacific to lead a protest flotilla against French nuclear testing at the Mururoa atoll.
rectorate for External Security, or DGSE, the French secret service, to "completely restore" the evidence, the sources said.
Charles Hernu, a close adviser to President Francois Mitterrand, resigned as defense minister Friday over the scandal. Quilles, formerly urban and transport minister, was ordered to continue an investigation of the DGSE.
In his resignation letter, Hernu said officers in his ministry lied to him about the attack and hid their activities from an official inquiry conducted last month by Bernard Tricot, former adviser to Gen. Charles de Gaulle. Tricot's report absolved the French government of involvement in the attack.
Quiles ordered the General Di-
DGSE head Adm. Pierre Lacoste was fired Friday after he refused to
answer Hernu's written questions about the agency's activities in New Zealand.
The revelation of missing evidence came less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Laurent Fabius interrupted France's nightly newscast on Sunday to admit for the first time that French intelligence officers bombed the boat.
The prime minister said the agents would be protected because they were acting under orders.
Fabius left unanswered the key questions of who actually gave the orders, and at what level in the government the mission was approved, provoking a storm of criticism of the socialist government in the French press and by opposition parties.
Protectionist plan spurs Reagan's ire
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan declared yesterday that he "will not stand by and watch" as American businesses and workers are crushed by imports.
Detailing a repackaged strategy on trade in a speech at the White House. Reagan asked Congress for expanded authority to negotiate lower trade barriers abroad and announced creation of a government strike force to ferret out and promptly counter and eliminate cases of unfair trade practices.
A centerpiece of Reagan's Trade Policy Action Plan is the proposed creation of a $300 million fund for loans to help foreign buyers purchase U.S. goods.
Congressional leaders applauded the tone of the speech, but emphasized Reagan will be judged
not by what he says but by whether his proposals succeed.
Reagan, facing a congressional stampede toward protectionism to save American jobs, vowed aggressive efforts to see that other nations abide by the rules laid down by the principle of free and fair trade, while renewing his threat to veto protectionist legislation.
The dollar plunged by more than 5 percent in frantic trading yesterday because of another move seen as an effort to head off the protectionist measures.
On Sunday, the Reagan administration reversed its stand and agreed with financial ministers from Japan, West Germany, France and Britain on measures to bring down the value of the dollar, including active intervention in foreign exchange markets.
Kidnappers set talks
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The kidnappers of President Jose Napoleon Duarte's daughter have dropped their preconditions and are willing to begin negotiations for the woman's release in return for jailed comrades, sources said yesterday.
The sources, who would not be identified, said radio communication between the government and the kidnappers was scheduled for last night and could mark the beginning of talks for the release of Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, and a companion, seized Sept. 10 by gunmen who killed
a bodyguard and seriously wounded another during the abduction.
"The guerrillas have now dropped all preconditions given to the government last week and are only asking for the freedom of the captured combatants," a source said.
The government, through the International Red Cross, gave the adductors two fixed frequency radios equipped with scramblers so communications could not be intercepted.
Sources said the specific number of detainees the kidnappers would ask for was not yet known.
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Covering: Time Management
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Tuesday, Sept.24
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Elizabeth Sibeko
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