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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1985
News Briefs
Officials fail to reach kidnapping suspects
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Two high-ranking government officials returned home yesterday from a fruitless mission to Mexico seeking to negotiate the release of President Jose Napoleon Duarte's kidnapped daughter.
"We were not able to make any contact," Julio Adolfo Rey Pendes, minister of communications and culture, said of his attempt to talk with political leaders of leftist guerrillas thought to be holding the woman.
Coors increases gift
GOLDEN, Colo. — The Adolph Coors Coors said yesterday it would donate $10,000 to each of seven predominately black universities to augment the schools' educational programs.
Paula Pete, assistant national program manager for the brewing firm, said the schools are Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.; Florida A&M University, Tallahassee; Morehouse College, Atlanta; Grambling University, Grambling, La.; Morgan State University, Baltimore; Spelman College, Atlanta, and Texas Southern University, Houston.
Portraits defended
CHICAGO — The Art Institute of Chicago yesterday defended its decision to acquire portraits of convicted serial slayer John Wayne Gacy and two other killers as part of its 20th century painting and sculpture collection.
Gacy, 43, has been on death row since his 1890 conviction for the sex slayings of 53 young men and boys. He has also been convicted of more murders.
Copies of 'Bible' sold
AUSTIN, Texas — Despite opposition from church leaders, atheist leader Maladyn Murray O'Hair said yesterday, her publication, "The X-Rated Bible," sold out of its first printing.
O'Hair, who operates the American Atheist Center, said the 428-page book "sold out to the walls within two and a half weeks of its being issued".
From Kansan wire reports.
Battles continue in Lebanon
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rival militias battled with mortars and rockets in Lebanon's three largest cities yesterday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 75. Shells pelted President Amin Gemayel's palace but he was not hurt.
In southern Lebanon, a Lebanese suicide driver attacked an Israeli-backed militia checkpoint, but militia sources said guards opened fire and his explosives-filled car blew up before reaching its target.
Israel did not immediately confirm the attack
In Beirut, about 100 Palestinians, some weeping, placed flowers at a mass grave to mark the third anniversary of the massacre by Israeli militants hundreds of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
Police said no violence was reported.
At least 11 people were killed and 41 wounded in fighting between Christians and Muslims that began late Monday in a string of mountain villages but quickly spread to Beirut and the southern suburbs, police said. The dead included six army soldiers.
Another six people were killed and 34 wounded in a third day of street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian Muslim militias in the northern port of Tripoli, bringing the total Tripoli to 40 killed and 110 wounded since Sunday, police said.
At least two shells crashed into the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, causing only material damage, as Muslim and Israeli-backed militia gunners traded fire with rockets and artillery to the east, security sources said.
Beirut, Tripoli and Sidon are Lebanon's three largest cities. There appeared no direct relation between the extensive conflict that coincided with a Syrian push for a "national dialogue" on ways to end a decade of civil war.
East of the southern port city of Tyre, the military sources said the suicide bomber was killed, but reported no casualties in the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army. The Lebanese National Resistance Front, which groups Lebanese guerrilla forces, said more than 30 people were killed or wounded.
The militia sources in southern Lebanon said SLA guards opened fire on a suspicious car as it sped toward their checkpoint and an estimated 550 pounds of explosives in the vehicle detonated dozens of yards away.
It was unclear whether the gunfire
caused the explosives to explode prematurely, or whether the suicide driver triggered the blast, the sources said.
Ar Israel army spokesman said he knew nothing about the reported blast inside Israel's "security zone" — a 3-mile-to-11-mile wide strip in southern Lebanon maintained to head off attacks from guerrillas on settlements in northern Israel.
In Christian East Beirut, a dozen shells and Grad rockets smashed into Gemayel's palace in the suburb of Baadba and its gardens, causing damage but no casualties, witnesses said.
Worst hit was the main conference room, where the Cabinet usually meets, and the main entrance, said a Lebanese journalist at the palace during the barrage. It was the fourth time in four months the building was attacked.
Fugitives flushed out by bloodhound
From Kansan wires
SPRING CREEK, N.C. — Two fugitives, surrounded by a 300-member posse and unable to escape the relentless pursuit of a bloodhound named Brandy, surendered yesterday to face charges of killing a rookie state trooper.
"They gave out. They looked like they had been run to death," state trooper Sgt. George Dowdle said of the elusive pair who had been chased through the rugged Blue Ridge Mountains since Saturday.
Law officers gave much of the
credit to Brandy, a rust-colored female bloodhound who had been baying on the fugitives' trail since yesterday morning, when they were sighted in a tobacco field near Doggget Mountain.
"Don't thank us. Thank Brandy," said U.S. Park Ranger Dwight McCarter, a member of the huge posse that surrounded the mountain.
The fugitives, Richard Bray and Jimmy Rios, both 23, who escaped 22 days ago from an Arkansas jail, had been chased through the mountains near the North Carolina Tennessee
border since allegedly killing a rookie state trooper last Saturday.
The two were among five prisoners who broke out of the Franklin County, Ark., jail in late August.
The fugitives were charged Monday with murder in the shooting death of the trooper. Robert Lee Coggins, 27, of Bryson City, who was shot twice in the head after he stopped a pickup truck reported stolen in Arkansas.
Madison County Sheriff E.Y. Ponder.
"They caught them at Charlotte Branch, a small creek between Price Mountain and Mike's Knob," said
The armed suspects, unshaven, dirty and exhausted after a day of running from Brandy, left a mountain stream where they had been resting, ran down the mountain and surrendered to lawmen without a fight at 3 p.m. CDT.
"I just didn't figure there was any man who could keep up in front of those dogs. They gave up. I saw them. They just came walking down," said Walter Honeycutt of the Madison County Sheriff's Department.
FDA says AIDS drug to be tested
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The government has approved a controversial anti-AIDS drug, which actor Rock Hudson flear to Paris to obtain, for experimental use in the United States, a spokeswoman confirmed yesterday.
AIDS benefit concert planned p. 12.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug, HPA2-35, for testing in humans last month, but has held off announcing it, according to spokeswoman Susan Cruzan. The manufacturer, Rhone-Poulenc Inc., is still working with the FDA on testing guidelines.
HPA-23, which bears the chemical name of antimony tungstate, was previously available only in France. Hospitals used it experimentally on acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients, some of whom came from the United States.
Hudson, an AIDS victim, flew to $^{\text{A}}$ France in lull to receive the drug.
HTA-23 appears to prevent the AIDS virus, HTLV-3, from reproducing, but does not eliminate it from the patient's body and does not eliminate the immune system suppression that causes AIDS victims to fall prey to a variety of infections and cancers.
CIA accused of hampering draft
In one study of 47 AIDS patients, six showed no signs of HTLV-3 after receiving the drug, but only as long as they continued to receive injections.
Loza said that the 11 were a small
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — State Security Minister Oscar Lolaa said yesterday the CIA was directing a plan to recruit youths for contra rebels before they could be drafted as government soldiers.
Loza spoke during a ceremony in which he turned over 11 youths to their parents. The youths reportedly fled from bases of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, or ARDE, just across the Nicaraguan border in Costa Rica.
representation of the scores of youths who had been recruited into the ranks of ARDE or the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, FDN, which operates in north and east Nicaragua.
"It is aimed at boycotting recruitment for patriotic military service, because they know that it is
"The plan to destabilize our patriotic military service," Losa said, "was outlined by the Central Intelligence Agency through forces of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance and the Nicaraguan Democratic Force.
these boys who are going to defeat the CIA-directed and -financed rebels."
"The four detained are linked with the CIA-directed counter-revolution." Loza said.
The minister added that security agents had arrested four people who were suspected in participating in the alleged plan.
Upon reaching 16 years of age, all Nicaraguan males are eligible to be drafted for military service. The government has said obligatory service is needed to combat growing numbers of rebels.
Border town hall burned as Mexican factions clash
United Press International
Rival political factions clashed during Monday's Independence Day celebration the time for inauguration ceremonies in many
AGUA PRIETA, Mexico — Authorities yesterday described as tense the situation in Agua Prieta, a Mexican-U.S. border town where roiters, angered by election results, burned down City Hall.
Mexican cities. One person reportedly suffered a broken arm.
The trouble ended around midnight when State Police and National Guardsmen arrived in the city, which is near Douglas, Ariz. Firemen said much of City Hall was gutted. The fire was started 12 hours after demonstrators occupied the building.
Government officials said the situation was calm but tense.
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