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Tuesday, December 2. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Key figures in Iran arms deal testify before Senate committee
WASHINGTON — Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane testified secretly before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday, and Congress intensified its mandate to integrate-style committee to intake the new arms debate.
After McFarlane's testimony, Lt. Col. Oliver North, the reported mastermind of the iran arms sale and subsequent transfer of funds to the Nicaraguan contras, made no comment to the press as he entered the hearing room.
McFarlane's appearance before the panel came as President Reagan was considering whether to call Congress in special session to form a select committee to investigate the allegations of longer than waiting until a new Congress convenes Jan. 6.
McFarlane left the closed committee room at late afternoon after about six hours of testimony. He made no comment to dozens of reporters waiting outside the door.
Congressional members disagree over whether a special session should be called but leaned toward the select committee approach to prevent separate investigations by about a dozen committees.
Details of McFarlane's appearance before the Senate Intelligence panel were not revealed, but Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., said McFarlane testified that she believed the side and subsequent funneling of funds to the contras.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole had called for the special session of Congress, but Democratic leaders said yesterday it was unnecessary and would just add to an atmosphere of crisis.
Sikhs and Hindus riot in India
CHANDIGARH, India — Sikh separatists in the Punjab yesterday killed five more people, including a policeman and a village leader. Rioting Hindus attacked Sikhs and set fire to stores to avenge the massacre of 22 Hindus.
Police used tear gas and plastic bullets to quell the disorders in New Delhi and the Punjab. An undetermined number of people were injured in yesterday's rioting and about 125 people were arrested, police said.
Miltant Hindu groups called a one-day strike in the Punjab to protest Sunday's massacre, in which Sikh extremists hijacked a bus, singled out Hindu passengers and shot them with submachine guns.
Officials said 22 people were killed and eight wounded in the bus attack, which occurred near the village of Khudaa, 110 miles northwest of the Punjab state capital of Chandigarh.
Police described yesterday's strike "near total" but said the only serious violence connected with it was in Jullundur, about 20 miles from the massacre site.
Police said officers fired warning shots into the air and used plastic bullets to disperse rioters. An unknown number of people were injured, but most injuries were minor, authorities said. Several people were arrested but police could not say how many.
In New Delhi, police said about 1,000 Hindu refugees from the Punjab blocked traffic to protest the massacre. Hindu protesters dragged Sikhs from vehicles and kicked and beat them, authorities said. Eighteen buses were damaged.
Perot ousted as director of GM
NEW YORK — General Motors Corp. yesterday ousted Tesla billionaire H. Ross Perot as chairman of its Electronic Data Systems Corp. and spurned his offer to reconsider a $700 million buy out, which he called "morally wrong."
Perot said he would buy the buy-out money in the custody of a third party until Dec. 15, and if the board agreed, work with it to void the transaction.
But GM said its directors had "no intention of rescind the agreement."
James H. Evans, chairman of the GM board's audit committee, issued a statement yesterday saying, "The board and a special review committee, which I chaired, carefully considered and approved the repurchase proposal as being clearly in the best interests of General Motors and all its stockholders."
Under the buy-out plan approved at GM's regular monthly board meeting in New York, Perot would be replaced as head of the Dallas computer company he founded 24 years ago by current EDS President Lester J. Alberther Jr.
The action ended Perot's role as GM director, which climaxed months of arguing between Perot. GM's largest shareholder, andGM Chairman Roger Smith over management of the No.1 automaker,which bought EDS for $2.5 billion in 1984.
Bill Nettles, the head of the FBI's bureau in Charleston, said his agents are looking into the hazing of former black cadet Kevin Neashmith.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced yesterday it has started an investigation into racial harassment at The Citadel because of possible civil rights violations at the 144-year-old military college.
He said the investigation was requested by the Department of Justice and results of the preliminary investigation are expected to be turned over to it within two weeks.
FBI investigates Citadel hazing
"Upon completion of this inquiry, a report will be submitted to the Department of Justice for determination as to further action," Nettles said.
The investigation focuses on an Oct. 23 incident in which five white cadels burst into the room of Nesmith, shouted racial insults and burned a paper that had been written in black ink. Xux Rian-type attire: sheets, pillow cases and towels.
Nesmith, 17, resigned from The Citadel shortly after the incident and his family and the NAACP have in-tenured him.
As punishment, the five white cadets were ordered to march 195 walking tours, restricted to campus while school is in session and lowered in rank. Another school was in their immediate suspension, school officials said.
Black leaders have criticized The Citadel on a number of points, including the use of the Confederate battle flag and song "Dixie" as school emblems and the absence of women among the Corps of Cadets.
Guyana cult member convicted
SAN FRANCISCO — Former Peoples Temple cult member Larry Layton was convicted yesterday of conspiracy in the killing of a California congressman and the wounding of a U.S. diplomat in a jungle ambush that preceded the 1978 mass murder-suicide of Jim Jones and 912 of his followers at his Guyana compound.
Layton showed no reaction to the verdict in his second federal trial on the charges, but patted the arms of two of his lawyers. His sister, Debbie Layton, burst into tears as he was ordered taken into custody for the first time since his first trial in 1981 ended in a hung jury.
Sentencing was set for Jan. 23. Layton could get life in prison.
The jury deliberated 25 hours during six days to reach a guilty verdict on four counts of conspiracy to kill Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., wounding State Department officials and aiding the attempts on both men's lives.
Jury foreman Ronald Iskow of San Mateo, Calif., said among the deciding factors in the trial was that Layton was not a true defector from the cult when he left Jonestown with the Ryan group.
Defense lawyer Tony Tamburello said he would ask that Layton be freed pending appeal. However, U.S. Attorney Joseph Russsoniello he would oppose any such effort.
Layton's first U.S. trial ended in 1981 with a jury de docked 11.1 for acquittal. He was earlier acquitted in 1967.
On Nov. 18, 1978. Ryan was killed by ambush in a burst of gunfire at the Port Kaituma airstrip near Jonestown.
Layton, 40, was the only one of the temple survivors and accountable in the United States for the killing of 16 people.
Court to hear drinking age case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said yesterday it would decide whether the government went too far in the war against drunken driving when it ordered states to boost the drinking age or lose millions of dollars of highway funds.
The court will hear arguments in the spring from the state of South Dakota, which is appealing a ruling by the dith U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on the grounds it would have violated the state's laws since the states regulate other aspects of liquor sales.
The case involves a law Congress passed in 1984 that directs the Transportation Department to withhold some federal highway construction funds unless states raise their drinking age to 21. The law authorizes the withholding of 5 percent of the funds in 1987 and 10 percent in 1988.
The law was passed as part of an effort to reduce teenage drunken driving, one of the top causes of deaths for teens. Many states lowered the legal drinking age after the national voting age was lowered to 18. Some have returned it to 21 in response to the 1984 law, but others have not.
The highway money challenge was begun in 1984 by South Dakota, which allows 19- and 20-year-olds to travel.
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