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Wednesday, November 19, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs South Korean Cabinet is asked to resign for false death reports
SEOUL, South Korea — Opposition leaders accused the government yesterday of damaging national prestige by relaying false reports that North Korean President Kim II-Sung had been assassinated, and demanded that the South Korean Cabinet resign.
Kim, appearing healthy, dispelled the rumors earlier in the day by greeting visiting Mongolian leader Jambyn Batmon at the airport outside Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
Leaders of the opposition New Korea Democratic Party said the Seoul government was to blame for the false reports of Kim's death because it hastily made official announcements based on "unconfirmed rumors."
"We demand that the entire Cabinet step down immediately," said Rep. Kim Hyun-kyu, floor leader of the New Korea Democratic Party. "The government can in no way evade responsibility for degrading national prestige and creating confusion for the people."
The South Korean Defense Ministry, quoting North Korean broadcasts on loudspeakers along the border's Demilitarized Zone, reported Monday that Kim had been assassinated.
But South Korean officials suggested a failed coup may have accounted for claims about the death of Kim, who took power with the support of the Soviet Union in 1945.
"Otherwise, the North Korean border broadcasts could be a super psychological plot to provoke hostility or check South Korea's intelligence gathering mechanism," South Korean Defense Minister Lee Kibak told the National Assembly yesterday.
North Korean diplomats abroad vehemently denied the reports of Kim's death Monday but Pyongyang authorities kept silent, leaving Kim's fate a mystery
until yesterday, when the 74-year-old communist leader showed up at the airport to greet Batmonh.
NEW YORK — Reports that inside trader Ivan F. Boesky secretly tapped conversations for a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation sent the stock market plunging yesterday as fears and rumors of subpoenae swept Wall Street.
Dow Jones falls as rumors start
The Dow Jones average lost more than 40 points as rumors circulated that subpoenas may be issued to "powerful investment banking houses" involved in mergers. Analysts said the market buckled from nervousness about effects of the biggest insider-trading scandal in Wall Street's history.
The events followed reports Monday that Boesky taped telephone and personal conversations for up to three months as part of his cooperation with an SEC investigation of insider trading in an attempt to lighten his penalties.
Boesky used inside information from Dennis Levine, a former managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert, who was hit with some $10 million in penalties. Boesky was barred from securities trading and must pay $100 million in fines and penalties.
Wall Streeters said yesterday traders at brokerage houses were fearful that Boesky, who has a law degree, may have led have them into saying things that could be misinterpreted.
However, Mora Johnson, author of the book "Takeover," a behind-the-scenes look at the merger mania that fed Boskey's insider network, said she does not believe that many more "big stars" will be caught.
War in Afghanistan continues
NEW DELHI, India — Muslim rebels have tightened their hold on Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, engaging Soviet and Afghan troops in fierce fighting that has killed hundreds, diploms said last month.
One diplomat also reported Soviet and Afghan
Sources in Washington said the United States recently supplied the rebels with Stinger missiles, fired from a U.S. drone.
The diplomats, who brief reporters on a regular basis on the condition that they not be identified, said the rebels gained control of a highway from the Afghan city of Kabul to the airport and tightened their hold on the southern city.
government aircraft were altering flight patterns around the capital of Kabul, apparently to avoid ground-to-air missile attacks.
The reports could not be confirmed independently because Western journalists have rarely been allowed into Afghanistan since the Soviets invaded in December 1979. According to Western estimates, Moscow has more than 110,000 troops in the country backing the communist government.
The diplomats reported fierce fighting in Kandahar and in areas west of the city and said hundreds of people, including civilians, had been killed.
The two sides have been battling for control of Kandahar for several months.
Cornell people protest drug tests
ITHACA, N.Y. — Students and faculty at Cornell University opposed to mandatory drug testing lined up in front of a portable toilet yesterday and donated urine samples to send as a protest to the White House.
Led by a man dressed as Uncle Sam, the protesters submitted 110 samples after eating foods and taking non-prescription cold medicine that organizers said would give false positive results on drug tests.
The toilet and a nearby "fixings bar," containing the foods and medicine for donors to take before giving their urine samples, were distributed at Willard Straight Hall.
Cornell gave the group, Patriotic Individuals Supporting Screening for Evil Drugs, necessary permits for the rally but the administration had no further involvement.
"It seemed like a fun thing to do, but besides the fact it is humorous, we think drug testing is unconstitutional and the wrong way to fight drug abuse," said PISSED organizer Jan Grygier, 29, a post-doctoral research associate in environmental engineering.
Renault official's killing claimed
PARIS — The leftist French terrorist group Direct Action claimed responsibility yesterday for assassinating the president of the state-owned Renault automobile company.
The leaflets called for a world struggle between the international proletariat and the imperialist bourgeoisie and urged a communist organization to emerge from factories and neighborhood.
Police said they received an anonymous call to go to the Haspail subway station on the Lett Bank, where passers-by found and turned over to officers two mud-manuscripts with the names of the soldiers for the killing of Renault President Georges Besse, 38.
Police said it was possible that the leaflets had been left at the station Monday night after the attack.
Besse was shot to death by two young women who ambushed him on the sidewalk near his apartment as he arrived home from work, police said.
Besse had been head of France's largest carmaker since January 1985 and led a financial turnaround of the company that included extensive layoffs.
Students protest CIA recruiting
AMHIERST, Mass. — Students from several schools marched at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst yesterday to protest CIA recruitment on campus.
About 125 students, including groups from Brandis, Harvard and Boston universities, staged a sit-in at an administration building and refused to leave until they were allowed to speak to Dennis Madson, the school's vice chancellor of student affairs.
The students threatened to "be back on Monday in force" unless the administration met several demands before 5 p.m. Friday, an organizer said.
From Kansan wires.
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