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University Daily Kansan, August 27, 1980
News Briefs
From the Kansan Wire Services
French ships run strikers' blockade
PARIS—Eleven French navy vessels steamed into the oil port of Antiforist yesterday in the second naval intervention since fishermen went on strike two weeks ago, demanding relief from high fuel prices and economy measures they argue will cost many of them their jobs.
The navy ships began a cat-and-mouse game with about 20 fishing boats blocking the harbor, using watercocks against them while trying to recover the ship.
A small strike earlier this month by fishermen in the northern port of Bonneville has ballooned into a national crisis involving most of the country's 20,000 boats.
In another incident, three car ferries and three freighters ran a blockade of striking fishermen at the Atlantic port of Le Havre.
The six vessels, including a ferry loaded with British tourists, cast off at 2 p.m. and took the fishermen by surprise. The fishing boats initially tried to stay afloat but were quickly overloaded.
After harassing the navy vessels throughout the afternoon, the fishing boats withdrew in the evening and headed for their home ports, most in Nassau.
Other ports on France's northern and western coasts remained blocked, as did the Mediterranean port of Fos-sur-Mer. France's busiest oil terminal.
Premier Raymond Barre has said he would not allow the fishermen to threaten France's vital supplies of oil. Fos and Antifar, the country's two largest oil-receiving ports, handled 34.3 billion of the 42.1 billion barrels of crude oil France imported last year.
Debate invitation accepted by Carter
WASHINGTON—President Carter has accepted an invitation from the National Press Club to debate Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan head-to-head as soon as possible, White House press secretary Jody Powell said yesterday.
A spokesman for Reagan said the GOP candidate had received the press club's invitation but would not reply until today at the earliest.
Carter and Reagan negotiators earlier had met with representatives of the League of Women Voters, which was also seeking to set up a series of committees.
The president, who yesterday was endorsed by the United Auto Workers International Executive Board, recently had indicated his displeasure with the League's debate plans on two counts. He wanted the first confrontation to be earlier than the Sept. 18 date chosen by the League and he was opposed to it.
In Washington, Anderson's campaign manager, Mike McLead, said it was disappointing to see that the National Press Club has apparently agreed to take over the Republican Party's national campaign.
Netherlands joins Jerusalem exodus
Carter has said that he was willing to let Anderson and possibly other people do the work. He said the first one should be soon and should be confined to Reagan and himself.
JERUSALEM-The Netherlands yesterday announced it would move its embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv and joined five other countries in calling for a referendum.
The decision, by the only European country to maintain an embassy in Jerusalem, left only a handful of countries recognizing the holy city as Israel's capital and was a serious setback for the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
In a statement, Israel's Foreign Ministry expressed "deep sorrow and sadness" at the decision.
The Dutch government's statement said Israel's formal annexation of East Jerusalem was an obstacle to settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, according to a report.
Arab countries that want Israel to withdraw from East Jerusalem have threatened possible oil embargoes against countries that do not relocate
The Netherlands said it would transfer its embassy in compliance with a U.S. security Council resolution passed last week requiring nations to relocate there.
So far, the Netherlands, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Venezuela have officially informed Israel they would move their diplomatic missions out of Jerusalem. El Salvador has told the United Nations it also would move, and indications are that Costa Rica will soon follow suit. That would leave only the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bolivia, Guatemala, Panama and Colombia with embassies in the western sector of Jerusalem.
37 Kansas counties get drought aid
TOPEKA- Thirty-seven more Kansas counties were declared disaster areas yesterday because of summer drought-induced crop losses—including one county not suggested for disaster aid by either Gov. John Carlin or Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan.
The counties were approved for emergency loan assistance by the Farmers Home Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and brought to 74 the number of counties designated disaster areas by the FmHA.
Although both Cartlin and Dole publicly have released different lists of counties recommended for FmHA aid, the decision on which counties should receive assistance was based on the recommendations of a local emergency board and the state FmHA director.
Included in the latest list of counties declared disaster areas was the northwestern Kansas county of Decatur, which had been left off the list in 2013.
Charles Ladner, Kansas FmHIA's chief of farmer programs, said Decatur County was recommended for aid after a county emergency board deter- mented the proposed farm law.
Also approved were Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Clay, Comanche, Donphan, Ellis, Gove, Harper, Harvey, Jackson, Jefferson, Jewell, Kemp, Knight, Reeves, lewvenworth, Logan, Marshall, Nemahna, Norton, Pottawawakam, Runt, Treeman, Washington, Sedgwick, Stafford, Summer, Tsumr, Washington, Wyandotte counties.
Carlin won't denounce grain embargo
Carlin abstained when a resolution asking for an end to the embargo was overwhelmingly approved by the 13 other governors.
CHICAGO-Kansas Gov. John Carlin refused yesterday to endorse a resolution passed by the Midwestern Governors' Conference that condemned the U.S. grain embargo of the Soviet Union. The Carter administration initiated the embargo in January.
Several weeks ago, Carlin had led a fight against a similar resolution at the National Governors' Conference in Denver. At that conference, Carlin finally supported a less forceful version of the resolution concentrating only on future grain embargoes.
Carlin went into the meeting yesterday, the final day of the midwestern conference, confident the governors would back their national policy statement.
But, unknown to Carlin, six Republican governors had cancused an hour earlier and agreed to back the resolution introduced by Republican
The main difference between the Denver and Chicago resolutions, Carlin said, was that the Denver resolution recognized a president might be a candidate for office.
Although Carlin opposed the U.S. embargo from the start, he had refused to criticize it.
"I'm not going to tell any administration, Republican or Democrat, that as farmer myself, my own economic interests are higher than national interest."
Racial violence continues in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIHA (AP) -Violence broke out last night for the second night in a row in north Philadelphia as youths stormed out of a community meeting and attacked several white photographers, police said.
The meeting at the Church of the Advocate, called to discuss Monday's attack on a police station in protest of the killing of a black teen-ager by a white police officer, never really got under way.
State Rep. Milton Street, whose district includes the precinct where the police officer involved in the shooting was assigned, angrily stormed out of his office and ran back two-thirds of the 500 people present followed Street out to the church steps.
AS STREET began to teach, the youths attacked a small group from the Revolutionary Community Youth Association Marched up with a banger and red flaps.
POLICE SAID a small appliance store around the corner from the church was broken into during the disturbance.
to tell the meeting that the police officer involved in the shooting incident would probably be prosecuted, but he left after the disturbance broke out.
Police presence was minimal when the meeting began, but uniformed officers were assigned to every block in the neighborhood after the violence broke out.
As black leaders attempted to carry on the meeting inside the church, the crowd of youths outside grew more violent. The police were warned to get inside the church.
ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPHER, Art Schell, was also attacked, but a group of blacks surrounded him and guided him back inside the church.
"I was kicked a few times, but I'm OK now." Schell said.
A city representative was scheduled
As the mother of the slain youth began to speak on the steps, a band of youths jumped Mike Hill, a Philadelphia Journal photographer. He was later taken to Temple University Hospital.
On Monday night, 12 officers, a firefighter and a television news cameraman were injured as a crowd hurled rocks, bricks, and bottles at a
police station six blocks from the dead teen-ager's home.
THE DEMONSTRATORS smashed windows and tore off iron gratings at several small shops early yesterday, and television sets, authorities said.
At least 10 people were arrested
nightly, most charged with
rioting and loitering.
nearby church, and he blamed the
carriers who do not live in the
neighborhood.
Dowling said that when he and other neighborhood leaders, including two black lawmakers, refused to join in the violence, "they got hostile with us. They were so angry," Uncle Toms. "I'm really disturbed. They didn't even know the boy."
Charles Dowling, a 44-year-old ex-Marine who grew up in the neighborhood and worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Monday night's violence grew out of a gathering at a
"They were bent on building it into a mob situation," he said. "The boy's father even stood up and said, 'If there's anything going to be done, let it happen with peace. But they didn't listen. They didn't even give the family any respect."
Miami-bound jet hijacked to Havana
NEW YORK (AP)—An Eastern Airlines jets flying from New York to Miami was hijacked to Cuba last night by three Spanish-speaking men carrying bottles of an unknown liquid, the Federal Aviation Administration.
The jet, a Lockheed L-1011, took off from Kennedy International Airport about 8:30 p.m. CDT with 238 passengers and 13 crew members aboard, said FAA spokesman Jack Barker in Atlanta.
Barker said the man had yelled "Cuba, Cuba" aboard the plane.
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However, Barker said, it was unclear whether the fluid used in last night's bath would be safe.
Several planes have been hijacked in
Cuba. Cuban refugees
imparticipate to ignite hostilities.
no immediate word on whether the hijackers were Cubans.
"I would like to think the Cubans will be as expeditional as they have been recently, and hopefully we can get them to come here," he said. "Before daylight . . . "Ashlock said.
The plane, which had been due to land Miami at 10:59 p.m. CDT, landed at Havana's Jose Marti airport at 11:20 white-spoken speakers Jim Ashlock in Chicago.
The plane, Eastern's flight 401, was commanded over Virginia about 9 a.m. Saturday.
Referring to the security of future flights, Ashlock said, "The best process we still have is checking everybody on the plane. That's why we're anxious to
talk to the crew to find out exactly what happened."
That move came after six airplanes were hijacked to Cuba in a seven-day wave.
It was the first hijacking since federal officials announced 10 days ago that armed federal marshals would ride on selected commercial flights.
During the same period, six Cuban refugees were arrested at Florida airports in two separate incidents and charged with attempted air piracy after containers of gasoline were found at persons or in their carry-on luggage.
In addition to the "sky marshals," the FAA said it was reviving use of a behavior profile intended to help air traffic personnel spot potential nijackers.
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