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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Sept. 6, 1985
News Briefs
Saudi Arabia grants base use to the U.S.
WASHINGTON - The administration said yesterday that it has an informal arrangement with Saudi Arabia to use its military bases in the event of a crisis.
Hughes estate settled
The State Department also announced that the administration is briefing members of the Senate in advance of formal notification to Congress of plans to sell modern arms to both Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
AUSTIN, Texas — Howard Hughes' estate has made a second $25 million tax payment to the state of Texas in the final chapter of an eight-year legal battle over his fortune.
Attorney General Jim Mattox said Wednesday that Texas had received more than $80 million, the amount agreed on in a settlement reached last year with the Hughes estate and the state of California.
Weather aids walker
NEW YORK — Rob Swegett strode across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday — one year, one tornado, several blizzards, six jails and 11,600 miles after he began a campaign to get people off their duffels and into walking shoes.
"The psychological was much tougher than the physical," said Sweetgall, 37, who walked most of the trip alone.
Bounty set for cat
HONOLULU — A long-haired gray cat named Odie is roaming illegally in Hawaii with a $100 bounty on her — and has spoiled the tourist life for other pets.
The 2-year-old feline broke free from her traveling kennel under a United Airlines passenger seat upon arrival at Honolulu International Airport Aug. 15, bolted from a passenger agent and vanished.
The state Department of Agriculture fined the airline an undisclosed amount and set traps for the cat because incoming animals must be quarantined for four months to guard against rabies.
From Kansan wire reports.
Communist leader held
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador The second in command of El Salvador's Communist Party was captured by Salvadoran authorities and is providing police with "ample information" on the group's terrorist activities, the National Police announced yesterday.
A police statement said Communist Party official Americo Mauro Araujo was "recently captured" but did not say when. Clandestine rebel Radio Venceremos confirmed Araujo's arrest, saying he was apprehended Aug. 9 in San Salvador. The police did not specify where or when he was arrested.
According to the police statement, Araujo told police that guerrilla groups fighting to overthrow the government of Jose Napoleon Duarte, which is backed by the U.S. government, drew lots among themselves to decide which organization
Thirteen people — four off-duty U.S. Marines, two American businessmen and seven Latin Americans — were gunned down June 19 by the guerrillas in a bar in the exclusive Zona Rosa section of the capital.
would carry out a massacre at a sidewalk cafe in June.
Unofficial reports have also said the rebels drew iots but three jailed rebels thought to have participated in the ambush have insisted they knew nothing about it.
The Radio Venceremos broadcast praised Araujo as "an exemplary revolutionary patriot, who is one of the leaders of the Communist Party" and asked the government to respect his human rights.
According to the police, Araujo was in charge of logistics and recruitment for the guerrillas' Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and was also in charge of planning the infiltration of student and labor movements.
Araujo is said to be second in command to Jorge Shafik Handal, head of the Communist Party. The police report said he provided "ample information on future terrorist plans" as well as past attacks.
The police statement said Araujo joined the rebels in 1960, studied in the Soviet Union from 1962 to 1967, and visited Cuba on two occasions. It said he was in close contact with the Nicaraguan government.
Last week, Duarte announced the capture of three men said to be linked to the Zona Rosa killings, including one of the triggerman.
He is now in the custody of a military court, the statement said.
In April, the military captured Nidia Diaz, the head of the Central American Workers Revolutionary Party, the group that carried out the Zona Rosa killings.
The army also claimed last month to have killed "Comandante Ar pulfo."
Work conditions may cause defects
United Press International
ATLANTA — Health officials said yesterday nearly 15 million American workers may be exposed to substances known or suspected to cause birth defects and called the problem widespread and serious.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said nine million of the workers are exposed to radio frequency-m微波 radiation used for heating and drying in automobile, textile, furniture, rubber and other industries.
The radiation "has been shown to cause embryonic death and impaired fertility in animals but ... has yet to be studied adequately in humans," the institute said.
Another, 2,606,470 workers potentially are exposed to ethylene glycols used in solvents, antifreeze, aviation fuels, brake fluids, paints and paint thinners. Several of the ethylene glycols "exhibit marked testicular toxicity in animals," according to a NIOSH report published by the national Centers for Disease Control.
Other toxic substances include formaldehyde, inorganic lead, chloroprene, cadmium, and dibromochloropropane.
NIOHSan said an estimated 560,000 infant deaths, spontaneous abortions and stillbirths occur each year and the March of Dimes estimates that 200,000 infants with some type of birth defect are born annually in the United States.
Boiling point inching near in S. Africa Riots touch white suburbs Reagan considers options
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Black rioters attacked white neighborhoods in Cape Town yesterday for the first time in South Africa's longearnd violence of racial violence.
Police and white homeowners answered with fire with shotguns and pistols. No one was reported killed.
Police firing shotguns, rubber bullets and tear gas also battled rioting mixed-race, or Colored, youths in segregated suburbs around Cape Town.
At least 34 people have died in nine days of riots — the worst violence ever in Cape Town.
Durban home of leading anti-apartheid cammanger Fatima Meer was firebombed.
Police said white homes were attacked yesterday for the first time in a year of nationwide violence that has claimed about 700 lives.
Two mixed-race men later told police they were hit by shotgun pellets, but no other injuries were reported.
Whites in the city's Kraaifontein district opened fire with revolvers and shotguns on about 100 black youths who hurled gasoline bombs and stones at their homes, police said.
As outbreaks escalated, Deputy Foreign Minister Louis Nel made a last-ditch appeal against possible U.S. economic sanctions to protest apartheid, the white-minority government's policy of racial segregation.
Two white houses in the town of Amalinda in eastern Cape Province were attacked by black youths hurling gasoline bombs, and the
There were also allegations yesterday of police brutality in moulling the violence.
Witnesses said police severely beat four foreign journalists in the mixed-race suburb of Athlone. The newsmen, working for Worldwide Television News and Agence France, were hit with clubs when they ignored an order to leave the area.
One of the newsmen, WTN cameraman Craig Matthew, suffered broken knuckles on one hand when a policeman smashed his camera.
Agence France Press photographer Murray Michell said police "were firing teargas and birdshot straight at us."
A statement signed by 90 mixed-race teachers in the Manenberg suburb said police chased children into classrooms and toilets and beat them with whips.
United Press International
Cape Town's white mayor, Leon Markowitz, said he would seek a meeting with local police chiefs today to protest "excessive police action."
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, under pressure from Congress and frustrated by South Africa's failure to hold talks with black leaders, met with top aides yesterday to review U.S. policy toward the white-ruled nation.
Reagan met with his national security advisers at the White House for $1½ hours after his return from a political speech in Raleigh, N.C., to determine strategy for next week's Senate vote on imposing sanctions against South Africa.
Afterward, presidential aides said there would be "no comment on the meeting." Earlier, White House spokesman Larry Speakes told reporters no decisions were expected to be reached at the meeting.
Speaks said exploration of U.S. options on South Africa did not reflect a basic change in the administration's policy of "constructive engagement."
Republican Senate leaders hold little hope that expected passage of a tough sanctions bill can withstand a presidential veto. Two-thirds of each House is necessary to override a veto, and White House advisers are concerned that the votes are in place to hand the president a significant foreign policy defeat.
In recent weeks, White House officials have said the president is all but certain to veto a bill, now awaiting only a Senate vote next week on a compromise version.
At lunch with student leaders at North Carolina State University, Reagan was asked whether he would veto the bill.
"How can I tell you when I don't know?" he replied.
Sen. Jese Helms, R-N.C., who accompanied Reagan to Raleigh, said that when the bill came before the Senate. "I think you'll see some enlightenment as time goes on" — an apparent threat of a filibuster.
Reagan has said repeatedly that economic sanctions would only hurt the country's 21 million blacks, who are virtually denied legal rights by the nation's 5 million whites under apartheid, a racial separatist system.
Violence in South Africa this year has killed almost 700 people, mostly black.
Speakes described the session with national security advisers as "an in-depth review of the situation."
Reagan's "constructive engagement" policy of persuading change in what he called South Africa's "repugnant" racial-system has been under blistering attack worldwide and in the United States, where demonstrations against apartheid have increased.
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