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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 23, 1985
News Briefs
Ex-chief of agency arrested, detained
WASHINGTON - Former Environmental Protection Agency chief Ame M. Burford was charged with public drunkenness after police said she cursed and yelled at authorities booking her husband on a drunken driving charge.
Burford was arrested and detained four hours early Saturday at the Arlington County, Va., jail where her husband, Robert Burford, a top Interior Department official, was being booked, said Sheriff James A. Gondles.
Gondes, quoting reports by jail officials, said yesterday that Mrs. Burford was arrested after she allegedly yelled and cursed at a magistrate and desk clerk in the lobby.
Tax starts sales rush
Liquor stores nationwide are reporting "Christmas in September" as consumers rush to beat an Oct. 1 federal liquor tax expected to raise the price of a half-gallon of 80 proof liquor by up to several dollars.
Boasting "Beat the Tax" sales in huge signs designed to entice customers, liquor stores are reaping quick bonanza from customers stockpiling their favorite spirits before the price goes up.
The new tax increases the distilled spirits tax by $2 per proof gallon from $10.50 to $12.50. The last change was in 1951. It is estimated the tax can raise $149 million in 1985 and up to $535 million by 1989.
WWII vets reunite
FRANKFURT, West Germany — Former Nazi SS soldiers yesterday welcomed a group of U.S. World War II veterans to a controversial reunion and agreed to continue their decade-long friendship despite criticism from Jewish leaders.
As television cameras whirred, 25 veterans of the U.S. 70th Infantry Division and their wives hugged and shook hands at Frankfurt airport with three veterans of the 6th SS Mountain Division.
From Kansan wire reports
France takes blame for bombing of ship
PARIS — France acknowledged for the first time yesterday that French intelligence officers acting under orders bombed the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand and covered up their actions during an official inquiry.
From Kansan wires
But Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, who made the announcement in a news conference, said the agents who sabotaged the ship, killing a Greenpeace photographer, would not be punished. He did not say who issued the order.
"Those who simply carried out the attack must obviously be exonerated, as it would be unacceptable to expose soldiers who merely obeyed orders and who have carried out very dangerous missions for our country in the past," Fabius said.
The Rainbow Warrior was sunk July 10 while docked in Auckland, New Zealand, by two mines attached to its hull.
Fabius also said the government approved the setting up of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the attack.
A spokesman for Greenpeace said
the organization would take legal action seeking apologies and damages from France. Greenepeace had threatened to bring the mining of its flagship ship before the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
The Rainbow Warrior was in the Pacific to protest French nuclear tests at the Murura atoll.
Evidence that the intelligence service — the General Directorate for External Security, or DGSE — was linked to the bombing has undermined France's international
Charles Hermu, the defense minister and a longtime Mitterrand associate, resigned Friday over the scandal. DGSE chief Adm. Pierre Lacoste was dismissed because he refused to answer Hernu's written questions about the agency's role in New Zealand.
"Do You Remember Love," CBS' drama of a professor battling Alzheimer's disease, was best dramatic special, and Joanne Woodward won an Emmy for her performance.
position and caused a domestic political crisis.
Fabius said a new DGSE director would be named at the next Cabinet meeting Wednesday. He said the government favored the creation of a special parliamentary committee to investigate the incident.
Two French agents, Capt. Dominique Prieur and Maj. Alain Mafart, are in jail in New Zealand facing charges of murder, arson and conspiracy. They are to stand trial Nov. 4. Three other French spies, who fled to France, are named in international arrest warrants filed by New Zealand. There have been no reports that France has taken action against them.
CBS & NBC top winners in ceremony
NBC, the ratings leader for 16 of the past 17 weeks, won 12 of the 29 awards announced during yesterday's ABC telecast, a streamlined production that was enlivened by an impostor's prank and still stuck to its three-hour schedule.
"Cagney & Lacey" also took best direction and best writing, and Tyne Daly, as Det. Mary Beth Love, who must juggle her career with a family, won best dramatic actress for the third straight year.
Press reports said a third team of agents actually carried out the bombing, but Fabius, while acknowledging French responsibility, made no direct reference to such a team.
Each of those had to settle for one on-air award.
PASADENA, Calif. — "Cagney and Lacey," CBS' once-cancelled police-woman show, and "The Cosby Show," a warm, gentle comedy about a black family that has sparked NBC's ratings comeback, dominated the series awards at the 37th annual Emmys yesterday.
The Associated Press
"Cagney & Lacey," which came back on the air in 1983 because of critics' support and an avalanche of letters, upset two NBC favorites as best dramatic series: The neon-and-pastel "Miami Vice," which had the most nominations with 15, and "Hill Street Blues," which had captured the award the past four years.
South Africa leaves Angola
From Kansan wires
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — About 500 South African soldiers completed their withdrawal from Angola yesterday — six days after driving across the border in pursuit of guerrillas in an invasion that drew international condemnation.
The troops crossed back into South African-controlled Namibia, also known as South West Africa, yesterday morning, said Gen. George Meiring, commander of the South West Africa Territory Force.
The strike achieved "large-scale disruption" of the command structure and supply lines of rebels fighting South African rule in South-West Africa, Meiring said.
The Angolan raid provoked widespread condemnation from Western governments. South Africa also was criticized after admitting it had aided anti-Marxist rebels in Mozambique, the region's other former Portuguese colony, in violation of a peace treaty with that country.
Meiring said the army unit, operating in 12 "reaction units" of about 40 men, killed 15 rebels of the South West Africa People's Organization, or SWAPO, and captured
at least 54 others as a result of the invasion, which began last Monday.
No South African casualties were reported in the raid, which was supported by air force jets and helicopters. The South Africans fought nine gun battles with guerrilla forces near Nehone and Evale, about 60 miles inside Angola.
"As a result of information obtained in the course of the operation, 32 locally trained agents were captured with explosive devices in their possession," he said, adding another 17, "part of an information-gathering network . . . under orders to transport explosives" were also taken captive.
In a statement, Meiring said troops captured four ammunition dumps containing about 560 pounds of explosives and weapons including land mines, grenades, rifles, pistols and ammunition.
Information gathered in Angola led to another five arrests inside Namibia. Meiring said.
SWAPO has waged a 19-year war against South African control of Namibia, a mineral-rich desert land on Africa's west coast. SWAPO operates from bases in Angola.
China renews Communist Party
United Press International
body Another 56 new members were
elected to the Central Advisory Commission and 31 to the Discipline Inspection Commission, which is in charge of ensuring party policies are followed, the news agency said.
The official Xinhua News Agency said delegates to a special Communist Party National Conference under way in Peking elected 91 new members to the 210-member Central Committee and its 133-seat alternate body.
PEKING — The Communist Party, rejuvenating its ranks with youthful leaders, elected 178 new members to the powerful Central Committee and two other panels yesterday in the smoothest transfer of power in 36 years of communist rule.
Peking television last night showed senior leader Deng Xiaoping and other delegates to the conference -- the second in communist China's history -- casting their secret ballots.
Of the 91 new Central Committee members, 64 were people whose relative youth, educational background and performances at lower levels won the attention of Deng and his allies, who were seeking to
rejuvenate the 40-million-member party.
Xinhua said the 29 full members and 35 alternates were an average 50 years old and 76 percent have college educations. The remaining 27 full members were promoted from alternate status, Xinhua said.
The Central Committee newcomers replaced 64 veteran revolutionaries who submitted their resignations Sept. 16 to begin what Western diplomats described as the smoothest transition of power since 1949, when the communists took power in China.
Ministers give news on finance
United Press International
NEW YORK - Top monetary officials of the world's five largest industrial nations agreed yesterday to take measures to lower the value of the dollar and stated their "absolute determination" to resist protectionism
The finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Five—from the United States, Japan, West Germany, Britain and France—also agreed that a reduction in the U.S. budget deficit is essential if the world monetary balance is to be restored.
In a joint statement issued after a five-hour meeting, the ministers agreed to specific measures to "provide a sound basis for continued and a more balanced expansion with low inflation."
The ministers said there "are large imbalances in external positions which pose potential problems" including the U.S. trade deficit, the large impact of austerity measures taken by developing countries on the U.S. current account, and "in particular the large and growing (U.S.) current account deficit."
Treasury Secretary James Baker said the ministers agreed that foreign exchange rates "should better reflect fundamental economic conditions than has been the case."
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