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Monday, October 20, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Soviets expel 5 U.S. diplomats for their 'unlawful activities'
MOSCOW - The Soviet Union expelled five U.S. diplomats yesterday for what it called "unlawful activities" in apparent retaliation for the U.S. expulsion of 25 members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations.
Secretary of State George Shultz said the United States would "take some action" in response to the latest expulsions but he would not be specific.
William Norville, Charles Ehrenfried, Gary Lonnell, David Harris, who all work at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, were asked to leave the country. Jack O'Neill, who is in a consular section of the U.S. Consulate in Leningrad.
A statement indicated that the five U.S. diplomats were expelled for engaging in espionage. The ouster had been anticipated since the United States ordered 25 Soviet diplomats from the United Nations delegation out of the country last month. They were accused of being intelligence officers. The last of the 25 left Wednesday, officials said.
Hasenfus denied U.S. counsel
In Washington, White House officials had no immediate comment because, they said, they had learned from the attack.
ATLANTA — Former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell said the Nicaraguan government's decision not to allow him to represent Eugene Hasenfus, accused of flying guns to Contra rebels, would seriously damage Hasenfus' defense.
Bell, the attorney general under President Carter, said he was notified on Saturday that he would not be allowed to enter the Nicaraguan courtroom to defend Hasentus on unspecified charges.
honesty or impureness can change.
Hasenfus, 45, was arrested Oct. 6, after Nicaraguan
troops shot down a C-123 transport plane carrying weapons and supplies to U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels fighting to overthrow Managua's leftist government.
Bell said he was informed by a State Department cable that his request to represent Hasenfus had been rejected by the Nicaraguans and that his request for a two-week delay in the trial also had been denied.
Hasfenus will be formally charged today at the trial in a people's tribunal.
Bell said he had advised Hasfenus his Nicaraguan attorney, Enrique Toleo Borgen, to file a motion today that would allow the Atlanta-based attorney to act as an unofficial adviser.
Filipino rebel policy under fire
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile said yesterday that the Cabinet would break up if President Corazon Aquino asked him to resign over his opposition to her peace policy toward communist rebels.
The 62-year-old minister, who held the same post under ousted President Ferdinand E. Marcos, gave the warning during a radio talk show. He said other Cabinet members asked him to step down or to stop publicly criticizing the peace policy.
Enrile's statements marked the latest stage in a growing rift between him and Aquino over strategy to end the 17-year insurgency by the communist New People's Army.
Aquino vowed to pursue all avenues to negotiate a settlement with the communists, but she said she would take a tougher stance if the talks failed. Enrile said the communists were not bargaining in good faith and called for tough military action.
Commentators believe the rift could set off a government crisis because of Enile's support among some military officers who share his opposition to negotiations.
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Shimon Peres wished Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir success as Israel's next prime minister yesterday, the day before they planned to carry out their delayed job swap.
Peres also "promised to do his utmost to support" Shamir in his post as leader of Israel's coalition government, Cabinet secretary Yossi Beilin said.
Peres and Shamir to swap jobs
Peres had bowed out of the Cabinet five days after he was scheduled to exchange jobs with Shamir at the halfway mark of their 50-month government. Bickering over who would get plum political jobs in Shamir's government slowed the transfer of power.
The power-sharing deal, the first such arrangement in Israel's 38-year history, was put together in September 1984 after neither man's political party won a majority vote in the election two months earlier.
Peres, 63, is leader of the moderate Labor Party and Shamir, 71, head of the hawkish lilwuk bloc.
The two leaders announced Friday that they had settled their dispute, and today they will submit Shamir's new Cabinet lineup to Israel's parliament for formal approval.
Judge freezes groups' accounts
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge, acting on a suit by an elderly widow who charged she was cheated out of $60,000, froze the bank accounts of two Lyndon LaRouche-backed groups, including the sponsors of the AIDS initiative.
U. S. District Judge Thelon Anderson took the action Oct. 10 — the day Margaret Beynen, 83, of Berkeley, filed the $5 million suit.
Beynan charged that Caucus Distributors Inc. and the Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee defrauded her out of a "great portion" of her life savings and diverted the money into the PANIC account.
The judge's order, which would freeze up to $63,958,
was unsealed Friday, along with 400 pages of supporting
documents.
The suit was filed by lawyers Daniel Bookin and George Riley. They said organizations affiliated with LaRouche defrauded 19 people, mostly elderly, out of more than $2 million in 11 states.
Campaign spending reports attached to the suit and obtained by the San Francisco Examiner showed that Beynen made $60,000 worth of loans to Caucus Distributors Inc. and it defaulted on the loans. Caucus Distributors Inc. then funneled $201,000 in three contributions into the PANIC account, the reports said.
Marijuana price is on the rise
NEW YORK - A nationwide shortage of marijuana has doubled its price in metropolitan New York and elsewhere in the nation, the New York Daily News reported yesterday.
Small bags of marijuana that sold for $5 last year now sell for $10 in New York, the newspaper reported.
Three dollar bags are priced at $5.
The reason for the price increase was simple economics — demand exceeded supply, and there was a federal effort to stop marijuana imports from Florida, the top illegal drug entry point, the paper said.
Marijuana seizures have averaged more than 2 million pounds a year off the Florida coast since 1981, the paper said.
But some people speculated the efforts to stem marijuana smuggling may have forced drug exporters to turn to cocaine because of higher profits.
This year, federal agents and New York State Police have destroyed 336 marijuana plots in the state, the paper reported.
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