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Wednesday, October 22, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
U.S. expels 55 Soviet diplomats, hopes it won't hurt arms talks
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration yesterday ordered 55 Soviet diplomats to leave the country within nine days, but said it hoped the action would not hurt prospects for arms control.
Five of the diplomats were ordered out in retaliation for the earlier expulsion of five U.S. diplomats from Moscow. The additional 50 were sent away to bring the Soviet embassy staff in Washington and consulate staff in San Francisco to parity with the size of the U.S. contingent in Moscow and Leningrad.
State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman announced the massive retaliation with regret, but said it was forced on the administration by the Soviet Union.
Redman also sought to assure Moscow that the United States did not want to lose the momentum achieved at President Reagan's summit meeting in Iceland with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Under the new ceiling, required by Congress last year, the Soviets will be permitted to have no more than 225 people at their embassy in Washington and no more than 26 at the consulate in San Francisco.
This amounts to a reduction of 54 positions in Washington and 15 in San Francisco. With but of the posts currently unfilled, 38 people will be required to leave the capital and 12 must quit San Francisco.
in Moscow, Gennady Gerasimov, a spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, said, "If the United States will insist on continuing this game of tit-for-tat, then this can continue indefinitely. We consider it is time to stop."
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An underground group said yesterday that it had kidnapped a U.S. writer of children's books, saying the long-time resident of Beirut was a spy for the United States and Israel.
U.S. writer kidnapped in Beirut
The Revolutionary Justice Organization said, in a handwritten statement in Arabic, that it had abducted Edward Austin Tracy. 55, Rutland, Vt., one of few U.S. citizens who stayed in Muslim west Beirut despite the kidnapping of 60 foreigners there since January 1984.
Seven U.S. citizens are among the 20 kidnapped foreigners who still are missing in Lebanon. The Revolutionary Justice Organization, which is believed to be made up of Shite Muslims loyal to Iran, earlier claimed to have kidnapped another of the seven U.S. citizens and three Frenchmen.
Yesterday's brief statement was delivered to a Western news agency in west Beirut. It did not say where or when Tracy was kidnapped.
State-run Beirut radio quoted police sources it did not identify as saying he disappeared Friday.
Accompanying the Revolutionary Justice Organization's statement was a color photograph of Tracy from the waist up, which showed him with a rough beard, wearing a blue shirt. A photocopy of the first page of his U.S. passport, also sent with the statement, gave his birth date as Nov. 20, 1930.
Hasenfus maintains he's guilty
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The attorney for Eugene Hasenstus said yesterday that he needed more time with his U.S. client to prepare an adequate defense against charges of terrorism and violating public order.
But in an interview yesterday with Hasenius at a maximum security prison outside Managua, the captured American told NBC Nightly News, "I'm guilty of everything they've charged. It's there. How can I say I wasn't carrying small arms and munitions to their resistance?"
NBC said Hasentus was sure he was working for the CIA, and that he felt abandoned by the U.S. government.
Husanett said he was working for a government agency to build a military fortune, but she did not ordered a mercenary or a soldier of fortune, that it then **"bounced."**
Hasenlus said he was working for a paycheck
The attorney, Enrique Sotole Borgen, said he was allowed to talk to Hasentus for just 10 minutes Monday after the opening session of Hasentus' trial before the People's Tribunal.
The charges against Hasenfu said he was acting on behalf of the U.S. government Oct. 5 when the C-123 cargo plane on which he was a crew member was shot down in southern Nicaragua.
Hasentus faces a 30-year sentence by the tribunal which has a conviction rate of nearly 100 percent according to human rights groups.
AIDS antibodies found in China
In addition, a World Health Organization official warned that more may have been affected.
The government is asking that Hasenus be sentenced to the maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.
PEKING — The Health Ministry said yesterday that four Chinese, who tested positive for AIDS antibodies, received transfusions of U.S. blood products.
Health officials said, however, that no AIDS sufferers have been diagnosed in China, but an Argentinian tourist did die from the disease while visiting the country in June 1985. People found to have AIDS antibodies may not develop symptoms of the disease.
"In China, there are four hemophiliacs, who, because they were transfused with Factor Eight (blood clotting agent), tested positively for AIDS antibodies," a Health Ministry spokesman said. "The Factor Eight was imported from the United States."
The spokesman gave no additional details of the cases, which were first reported Monday by the official Xinhua News Agency.
A senior World Health Organization official said the four probably were injected with the antibodies before China banned blood imports last year.
The WHO official said he expected more Chinese hemophiliacs to be diagnosed as AIDS antibody carriers. The official estimated that hundreds of people received transfusions of imported blood before the ban was imposed.
Soviets to investigate fatal crash
JOHANNESBURG — Soviet experts have been invited to join an international team investigating the plane crash that killed Mozambican President Samora Michel and 28 members of his entourage, officials said yesterday.
Anti-apartheid groups have blamed South Africa for the Sunday night crash just 200 yards inside the border of Mozambique, although none have offered any proof. Two newspapers reported that the pilot of the Tupolev 134A jetliner had claimed it was shot down but investigators blamed pilot error.
While Mozambique mourned the death of Michel, thousands of blacks rampaged through the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, and torched the offices of South African Airways.
They said he may have mistaken the lights of a small South African frontier town for the Mozambican capital of Maputo, 50 miles away moments before the 8:50 p.m. crash into mountainous terrain.
Robertson sues former shipmate
WASHINGTON — TV evangelist Pat Robertson said yesterday he has filed libel suits against former Rep. Pete McCloskey and Rep. Andrew Jacobs, D-Ind., due to claims that Robertson tried to use his father's influence to avoid combat duty in Korea.
Robertson, a Republican presidential prospect in 1988, charged in a statement that McCloskey and Jacobs "made wanton and reckless statements denigrating my role with the U.S. Marine Corps while serving in the Korean conflict.
"They have also made untrue and libelous statements about my late father, Sen. A. Willis Robertson, D-Va." the statement said.
From Kansan wires.
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