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Thursday, November 20, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Kodak joins other U.S. firms in withdrawing from S.Africa
ROCHESTER, N. Y. - Eastman Kodak Co., joining dozens of other U.S. firms, announced that it would withdraw from South Africa, fire 466 workers and completely pull its products from the country's marketplace.
Kodak, the world's largest photographic company, blamed South African racial policies and a slowdown in the country's economy for the withdrawal.
"We had hoped that by now the signs in South Africa concerning plans to dismantle statutory apartheid would be clear," said Colby Chandler, Kodak chairman. "Unfortunately, we cannot see with any certainty a time when South Africa will be free from apartheid."
Chandler said "no Kodak unit anywhere in the world will be permitted to supply products to South Africa," making it the first company to withdraw its products from the market.
The pullout will be complete in the next several months, said Henry Kaska, Kodak spokesman. All assets of the Kodak South Africa division will be sold.
The photographic company, which has marketing and film-processing operations in South Africa, said it would fire its 466 South African employees — 134 of them blacks — and pay them a "generous separation package."
Shultz shows no plans to quit
State Department spokesman Charles Redman said rumors that Shultz would quit were false and without foundation.
National Public Radio, citing administration sources, reported Tuesday that Shultz had told Reagan he planned to resign, but was asked to stay on until the furor over Iran died down.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Tuesday "night. it not. it is not. It was taken out of whole cloth."
Shultz conducted business as usual yesterday, including an afternoon meeting with Reagan at the White House.
Shultz, who publicly questioned Reagan's decision to ship arms to Iran, said 10 days ago that he had no plan to resign. Until the NPR report, the State Department had made little effort to quell rumors that Shultz might quit.
Bomb hurts 35 in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — A bomb hidden in a shopping bag blew up yesterday in a department store packed with Christmas shoppers and injured about 35 people. A few hours earlier, a prominent friend of Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile was shot to death in an ambush.
President Corazon Aquino said on television that the escalating violence was directed at her. She vowed to retaliate once she knew which forces were with her.
Police said that a homemade time bomb exploded at about 7:20 p.m. a ground-floor counter in the Shoemart Department Store. No group claimed responsibility, and police reported no arrests.
Hospital sources said about 35 people were treated for cuts and bruises, but no one was seriously injured.
Thirty minutes before the blast, an unknown assailant tossed a grenade into the crowded balcony of a movie theater two blocks from the department store, but the grenade didn't explode.
Earlier yesterday, David Puzon, 65, a right-wing businessman and friend of Enrile; his driver; and a factory manager were killed about 10 miles north-east.
Puzon's slaying came after last week's killing of Rolando Oalia, a leftist whose death was blamed by his supporters on "fascist elements" whom they said were allied with Enrile. Leftists planned a mass march through Manila today as part of Oalia's funeral.
of Manila, by a band of gunmen dressed as women. Two senior police officers were killed in separate ambushes.
Eight Mafia members convicted
NEW YORK — Eight people, including three Mafia bosses, were convicted yesterday of participating in a "commission" that has split territories, sanctioned rubouts and kept organized crime organized since the days of Prohibition.
With the verdict, the FBI said, all the mob's policy makers were either in the grave or on their way to jail. The case also proved for the first time the existence of a panel that oversees national operations of the Mafia.
When the racketeer indictment was handed up in February 1985, Justice Department officials described it as the most powerful blow ever directed at the Mafia's "symbol of power."
Convicted of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy were Genovese crime family boss Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerino, 75; Colombo boss Carmine "Junior" Persico, 53; and Lucchese boss Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, 73.
Also convicted on those charges were Colombo underboss Gennaro "Jerry Lang" Langelia, 47; Luchese underboss Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santorio, 72; Luchese counselor Christopher "Christy Tick" Furnari, 62; Ralph Scopa, 58, a former leader and Colombo soldier; and Bonanno soldier Anthony "Bruno" Indicello, 38.
Salerno, Persico, Langella, Furnari and Scopo face maximum sentences of 306 years. Corallo and Santoro face 326 years and Indelicato faces 40 years.
War displaces many Hondurans
CIFUENTES, Honduras — About 5.000 Hondurans have abandoned 28 villages along the Nicaraguan border because of fighting between U.S.-backed rebels and the Nicaraguan army, residents said yesterday.
Reporters were not allowed past Cifuentes. 50 miles east of the capital and 12 miles west of the reported fighting. Cifuentes is less than a mile from the Nicaraguan border.
"Twenty-eight communities have been completely evacuated, there isn't anyone there," said Cristobal Canda, a coffee grower and president of the zone's displaced persons committee.
The non-government committee was organized to protect the interests of border area residents forced to abandon their lands because of increased tension, blamed on operations of the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels, popularly known as contras, fighting to overthrow Managua's leftist regime.
Canda said many of the 5,000 villagers who fled were in Las Trojes, where journalists are permitted. Troops at the roadblock she ordered the order not to admit the press Cifuentes came from the office of the president.
Men kill 3 Jamaican policemen
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A group of men with high-powered rifles sneaked into a police station early yesterday, hurled firebombs and began shooting at officers, authorities said. Three officers were killed, and one escaped.
Police said the men used a ladder about 5 a.m. to scale the wall outside the Olympic Gardens police station in a ghetto in western Kingston.
Once inside the compound, the men hurled Molotov cocktails and shot three of four police officers trying to escape. Police said the attackers stole three submachine guns, two M-16s, two other guns and some ammunition. There was no definite report on the number of attackers, but estimates put it at six.
From Kansan wires.
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