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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1985
News Briefs
Israel frees Shiites; 3 may stay in prison
JERUSALEM — Israel said yesterday it would free today all but three of the remaining Lebanese Shiite Muslim prisoners whose detention triggered the hijacking of a TWA airliner in June.
An Israeli army spokesman said that 119 Lebanese prisoners were released, but warned that three may continue to be detained.
The Shiite hijackers of a TWA jetliner on June 14 demanded that Israel release all of its 766 Lebanese prisoners in exchange for 39 American hostages.
Blood spots guilty
CHICAGO — The FBI is using a new technique that can separate the innocent from the guilty with a single drop of blood, an FBI chemist said yesterday.
Bruce Budowle, a research chemist at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va., said the technique is called isoelectric focusing.
"We can make five to 10 analyses on a single drop of blood and find at least three genetically-determined markers that absolve the innocent and point to the guilty." Budwole said in a paper delivered at the American Chemical Society's 190th national meeting.
Belushi trial persists
LOS ANGELES — Four days before comedian John Belushi died of a drug overdose in March 1982, Cathy Evelyn Smith injected him twice with a combination of cocaine and heroin in between snorts of coke and glasses of wine, a friend of Belushi testified yesterday.
Leslie Marks-Moritz, a film production assistant who met Belushi in February 1982, said she watched Smith inject the "Saturday Night Live" with two "speeches" on March 1, 1982.
Smith, 38, was charged in March 1983 with one count of second-degree murder and 13 counts of supplying and administering cocaine and heroin to the actor.
From Kansan wire reports
Attempted coup leaves 4 dead
2 journalists killed in Thailand
From Kansan wires
BANGKOK, Thailand — NBC journalist Neil Davis, one of the most respected war correspondents in Southeast Asia, was killed by gunfire yesterday along with his soundman, Bill Latch, while covering an attempted coup against the Thai government.
In all, four people were killed and 59 wounded in the fierce street fighting.
Davis, 52, a native of Australia, and Latch, 35, a native of Abilene, Texas, were both based in Bangkok and had worked together as a team for many years.
The two were walking and filming in an open area between rebel tanks and government troops, which were defending a loyalist radio station, during a lull when shooting suddenly erupted from the insurgent side.
Davis and Latch were caught in the open and had no time to seek cover. Davis was hit from behind by
machine-gun fire and died instantly. Latch, in the chest, was rushed to a hospital, where he died about six hours later.
The attempted coup, the second against Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanda in four years, failed within 12 hours after the government declared a state of emergency, demanded the rebels 'surrender or die' and rushed commando units into Bangkok.
The coup leaders were identified as former Prime Minister Kriangsak Chomanan, forced out of office in 1979 when he lost a parliamentary confidence vote; ex-Supreme Commander Gen. Serm Na Nakorn, and former Army Col. Manoon Roopachorn, a leader of an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1981.
Kriangsak turned himself over to authorities, Serm was placed under house arrest and Manoon was "still at large," the government said.
Thai officials said 500 troops and 18 tanks from the 4th Army Division in
Davis' death came as a shock to fellow correspondents who had seen him survive far more dangerous assignments during the Vietnam War and in Cambodia.
Bangkok were involved in the uprising.
Davis was born in Tasmania and worked for the independent newsfilm agency Visense from 1963 to 1973 in Southeast Asia. He went to NBC in November 1975 after working as a freelance reporter, said Mary Lou O'Callaghan, a spokeswoman for NBC.
Davis spent 11 years covering the war in Vietnam and Cambodia.
He was the only U.S. network reporter to continue filming in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, when the North Vietnamese seized it in April 1975. His coverage included dramatic footage of North Vietnamese tanks smashing through the gates of the U.S. Embassy. A documentary on his years covering the war was made several years ago.
Davis was known and liked by military commanders, politicians, soldiers and civilians throughout Southeast Asia. His peers considered him the top war correspondent in the region.
Davis also covered the guerrilla war in Angola for NBC and was in Vietnam last spring to cover the 10th anniversary of the end of the war.
Latch, who was based in Bangkok, joined NBC News as a radio reporter in April 1979.
In June 1980, he became a soundman for NBC News while still maintaining his radio responsibilities. Before joining NBC, he was a free-lance photographer and an English teacher.
Latch's wife, Sonunong Popipat,
was with him in the hospital at
the time of his death. He was also
survived by a daughter, $7 \frac{1}{2}$, and a
son, 2, as well as his parents.
Krugerrand ban proposed
Meese favors bill to block illegal aliens
United Press International
MADRID — Basque guerrillas detonated a bomb packed with screws, nails and bolts yesterday as a van carrying paramilitary guards passed near the Soviet Embassy. Seventeen people were injured, including an American jogging in the area.
"It certainly is our desire to have an immigration bill this year," Attorney General Edwin Meele told a House subcommittee hearing on embattled legislation that would mandate such action.
WASHINGTON — The administration urged Congress yesterday to grant amnesty to illegal aliens now working in the United States and to impose tough penalties against those who hire any more of them.
Meese, along with Alan Nelson, head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, favored permitting only those who entered the country before 1980 to qualify for the amnesty.
The 1980 date is called for in a Senate bill introduced by Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo. A 1982 cutoff is proposed in the House bill offered by Rep. Peter Rodino Jr., D-N.J., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
From Kansan wires
But Reagan's critics immediately charged that his krugerrand directive was a phony one and that the president failed to take direct action to ban U.S. sales of krugerrands, the largest selling gold coin in the world.
Faced with congressional action on sanctions against South Africa, Reagan announced a series of economic sanctions against the Pretoria government.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's move yesterday toward banning imports of South Africa's gold krugerrand is likely to spur congressional approval for minting U.S. gold coins,
"I am directing the secretary of state and the U.S. trade representative to consult with our major trading partners regarding banning the importation of krugerands." Reagan told a news conference.
The bomb went off before dawn inside a Peugeot sedan parked beside the van, which carried paramilitary Civil Guards who had been relieved from overnight duty at the Soviet mission and were changing shifts at embassies near the Republica Argentina square.
United Press International
"I am also instructing the secretary of the treasury to report to me within 60 days on the feasibility of minting an American gold coin, which could provide an alternative to the krugerrand for our coin collectors."
toward south Africa, said, "In terms of the krugerrand sanctions, this one is really setting new limits.
Reagan also said he would ban loans to the South African government except those to help blacks, ban all computer exports that could be used to enforce aparheid, and prohibit the sale of nuclear technology except that used for international safeguards.
"Since when did we start doing a Gallup Poll on approval? Obviously, this is not a sanction, it's a delaying technique."
Explosion in Madrid injures 17 Basque guerrillas detonate bomb close to embassy
Rep. William Gray, D-Pa, chairman of the House Budget Committee and a vocal critic of U.S. policy
Congress has been considering a number of bills to mint U.S. gold coins as a way to seize the market from the krugerrand without an outright ban.
Reagan's proposal to ban the importation of the krugerrand will not prevent trading of existing coins in this country. Currently the one-once krugerrand is selling for $27.50, but gold dealers say it is losing its hold on the market because of the unrest in South Africa.
The sanctions bill, already passed by the House, calls for the U.S. Treasury to mint four gold coins in one ounce, half ounce, quarter ounce and tenth of an ounce sizes — carrying face values of $50, $25, $10 and $5.
Senate Republican leader Robert Dole of Kansas and Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., last spring introduced a bill to mint U.S. gold coins, and a proposal for U.S. gold coins is included in the current South African sanctions bill now before the Senate.
"We are strong advocates of having a competitive gold coin." Dole's spokesman said. "In light of the president's decision to get a report back from the Treasury in 60 days, we'll probably wait for that. Obviously we'll be watching this closely."
As the van stopped in the square, the bomb was detonated by remote control by Basque guerrillas waiting nearby, police said.
Ken Brown, 40, an American engineer at Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J., was jogging in the area when the explosion occurred and was seriously injured along with 15 paramilitary guards and one other civilian.
Doctors at the Red Cross Hospital said Brown underwent four hours of emergency surgery. They described his condition as "very grave."
"We do not know if he will pull out, of it," said Johnson & Johnson's, president in Spain, Antonio De, Reguero.
The explosion destroyed traffic lights in the street, damaged several, parked cars, shattered windows and, blew off tree branches in the square.
Spanish news agencies reported that ETA claimed responsibility for the attack in telephone calls to the news media in the Basque country.
ETA, a Basque-language acronym for Basque Homeland and Liberty, has killed 28 people since the start of the year in its armed campaign for independence of the northern Basque country but has not previously planted car bombs in the capital.
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