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Monday, November 17, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs Supporters of murdered leader start general strike in Manila
MANILA, Philippines — Soldiers took over buses, and schools were closed today as supporters of murdered leftist leader Rolando Oliaia started a general strike.
Radio stations monitoring the strike said public utilities and commercial and government establishments were operating normally, and there were no reports of trouble.
In some cases, soldiers took over bus companies where drivers heeded the strike call, and Metropolitan Manila Gov. Joey Lina sent trucks into areas needing public transportation.
point of a surprise.
Olalia's murder last week sparked one of the greatest crises for President Corazon Aquino since she was swept to power last February. New promises of Japanese economic aid also may be jeopardized by the kidnapping of a Japanese executive.
Yesterday about 2,000 Filipinos rallied at a downtown Manila square demanding government action on Oialia's murder.
Aquino spokesman Teodoro Benigno said the president met for two hours yesterday with 21 close aides and security officials to discuss how to handle the growing crisis, which has prompted leftist leaders who had supported Aquino to question her government's sincerity in upholding human rights.
Armed forces chief Gen. Fidel Ramos vowed yesterday to secure public utilities and commercial centers before the strike, and he urged Filipinos to remain calm.
Svria denies any terrorist acts
DAMASCUS, Syria — President Hafez Assad denied yesterday that Syria was involved in terrorism and said President Reagan and Britain's Prime Minister
"We are against terrorism, we don't practice it and do not allow anyone to hatch terrorist plots from our territory." Assad told about 7,000 people at a Damascus stadium on the 16th anniversary of the coup that brought him to power.
Margaret Thatcher were the "real terroriste "
that brought him to power. Assad said, however, Syria backed "resistance against occupation and all national liberation movement."
Britain cut ties with Syria last month after a Jordanian, Nezar Hindawi, was convicted of working with Syrian diplomats in trying to plant a bomb on an Israeli airliner in London.
The United States announced Friday that it would impose diplomatic and economic measures against Syria for its alleged support of terrorist groups.
Syria for its alleged Reagan and Thatcher were "the real terrorists who practice state terrorism against the freedom of the people."
He cited as examples the U.S. invasion of Grenada, U.S.support for Nicaragua guerrillas and "British army practices" in Egypt and the rest of the Arab world during the 1950s.
Hasenfus case may not be closed
ATLANTA — Nicaraguan Vice President Sergio Ramirez said yesterday the case of American flier Eugene Hasenfus was not closed, hiding the government may be lenient despite a 39-year sentence imposed for supplying weapons to the contras.
"We have had many victims in Nicaragua because of the kind of actions in which Mr. Hasenfus was involved," Ramirez said. "He was not dropping from his plane toys for our children or food for the poor people of Nicaragua but lethal arms to assassinate and destroy."
Ramirez said Hasenfus' lawyers had appealed the conviction. He added the Nicaraguan government, led by Daniel Ortega, was not considering a prisoner exchange and would not intervene in Hasenfus' case until all court actions were completed.
Hasentus, whose weapons-bearing plane was shot down by Nicaraguan soldiers, said he thought his mis
WASHINGTON — Former President Richard Nixon said in a post-election memo to friends that people who said the White House and the Democrat-dominated Congress would get along suffer from drug-induced delusions.
sion was backed by the U.S. government. The Reagan administration denied any connection.
Nixon discusses Senate in memo
The memo, the latest in a series of essays Nixon sent to associates and friends on foreign and domestic affairs, also said the Republicans lost control of the Senate on Nov. 4 because the Democrats had better candidates and the GOP candidates had "too much money."
The Washington Post reported the memo, which the newspaper said it received from a source who got one, yesterday. Nixon's earlier memos discussed the 1985 superpower summit in Geneva and President Reagan's controversial visit to the German cemetery in Bittburg, where Nazi soldiers are buried.
In the new memo, Nixon said "political pundits who are predicting renewed cooperation between Reagan and the 100th Congress "are smoking crack."
Nixon, who left the presidency in disgrace in 1974, said congressional Democrats would deal with the president only when they believed it politically popular to do so, and they would exploit any cracks in Reagan's "almost invincible armor of public support."
Klan faction marches in Georgia
AUGUSTA, Ga. — An out-of-state Ku Klux Klan faction trying to recruit Georgia members marched in Augusta yesterday. The 300 residents who watched broke their silence just once to sing the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome."
Saturday the NAACP tried to stop the march, but U.S. District Judge Dudley Bowen upheld the Klan's First Amendment right to demonstrate, although he said he agreed the white supremacist group was abhorrent.
"I appreciate the people of Augusta staying away
from the march," said Freddie Lotte, City Police Chief, adding he had been afraid the demonstration would turn violent.
About 75 Klan members, dressed in robes and carrying Confederate flags, marched, flanked along their route by about 50 Augusta police officers, Richmond County sherrif's deputy, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents and two agents from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Department of a survey Lott said none of the marchers was a local resident. The crowd — about a third black — sang "We Shall Overcome" when the marchers gathered to make speeches about white supremacy at the end of the demonstration.
Blind man lands plane for pilot
UPLAND, Calif. — A legally blind man safely landed a small plane after the 80-year-old pilot apparently suffered a heart attack.
Charles Law, 70, of Rancho Cucamonga, who was a licensed pilot before losing most of his vision last year, took the controls of the Cessna 150 and managed to somehow "feel" his way to down Friday afternoon to Cable Airport in Upland, police Sgt. John Cannon said Saturday.
sad day.
"He's legally blind and can barely see in front of his face, but (he) did what seems impossible and landed that thing without crashing." Cannon said.
Law and the pilot, Harry "Buck" Stiteller, 80, of San Juan Capistrano, took off from Cable Airport earlier in the day on a flight above Southern California, Cannon said.
said. The plane was on final approach to Cable Airport when Stiteler suddenly fell unconscious, the apparent victim of a heart attack, police said.
The retired machinist said he never gave a second thought to taking control of the plane.
"I could see enough to see the airport thresholds (white markings) and I just aimed for that," he said.
Emergency crews rushed to the plane and Stetler was taken to San Antonio Community Hospital. He died shortly after arrival, a hospital spokesman said.
From Kansan wires.
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