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Friday, October 17, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs Israel strikes Palestinian bases in retaliation for grenade attack
SIDON, Lebanon — A dozen Israeli jets attacked Palestinian guerrilla bases near this ancient port yesterday and a missile destroyed one of them. The raids followed Wednesday's bloody grenade attack in Jerusalem.
Israeli military sources said helicopters ferried in troops who rescued one of the F4-E Phantom's two pilots. Reports in Lebanon said the other pilot was killed, but the Israeli sources said he was listed as missing and efforts were being made to find him.
News of the U.S.-built Phantom's loss was held up for eight hours by the Israeli military censor, while Israel troops searched for the crew of the first Israeli plane shot down over Lebanon in three years.
State-run Beirut radio said bombs and rockets from the Israeli attack killed four people and wounded at the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp on the city's southeastern outskirts.
Police said the targets were four bases of the Palestine Liberation Army, the regular military arm of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine led by George Habash said one of its bases was demolished.
Sandinista court to try Hasenfus
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Eugene Hasfenus, a U.S. mercenary captured while flying a supply mission to U.S.-backed contras, will go on trial Monday before a Sandinista People's Court, the government announced yesterday.
The charges were not announced, and a statement by the Justice Ministry read over national radio said prosecutors would detail the charges when the trial
The Justice Ministry said it would guarantee Hasenfus' legal rights, including the right to a public trial, to name his own defense lawyer, to have an interpreter present and to be fully advised of the charges against
The statement said Hasenfuil violated Nicaraguan national security laws when he participated in a flight carrying arms and supplies to contras, fighting to oust the leftist Sandinista regime.
began before the three-judge panel.
In Atlanta, former U.S. Attorney Griffin Bell said he was hired to defend Hasfenus in Nicaragua, but said he would ask for a delay of the trial because he couldn't get there by Monday.
Bell served as attorney general under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979.
PLO savs it raided Israeli troops
CAIRO, Egypt — The Palestine Liberation Organization claimed responsibility yesterday for Wednesday's grenade attack on Israeli troops in Jerusalem that killed one person and injured 69. Two other groups also said they masterminded the attack.
A PLO statement said the organization ordered one of its commando units based in Israeli-occupied territory to attack Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem.
A spokesman for the PLO's news agency, Wafa, said the statement had been issued in Cairo from occupied Palestine and identified the commando unit as the Kamal Adwan group, which he said operated in Israeli-occupied land.
The Damascus office of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility, as did the anti-Arafat Al Fatah Uprising Movement in Damascus.
Egyptian government officials would not comment on the attack or on an Israeli note of protest delivered to Egypt's ambassador in Tel Aviv after the PLO statement in Cairo.
WASHINGTON — Members of the House Judiciary Committee plan to ask Attorney General Edwin Meese to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the U.S. role in fighting in Nicaragua, Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., said yesterday.
Conyers, chairman of a judicially subcommittee, scheduled a news conference today to announce the request, citing possible illegal cooperation by the Reagan administration with Nicaraguan rebels.
Group seeks inquiry of U.S. role
A Justice Department spokesman said the committee would have to prove specific allegations against specific people or agencies in the administration, and would have to prove that an independent counsel would be at Meese's discretion.
President Reagan has denied that a C-123 cargo plane, loaded with weapons and shot down by Nicaraguan troops, was involved in a CIA operation or in any way tied to the administration.
The Senate voted 50-47 yesterday to kill a resolution calling for Reagan to report to Congress on the downing of the plane.
Group says quake relief refused
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A private U.S. relief agency accused the Salvadoran government yesterday of refusing landing rights to 15 planes carrying medicine and food sent from the United States for earthquake victims.
El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte acknowledged that there had been some mixups in supplies for quake victims but denied that the government had refused landing rights to the groups. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who was touring areas devastated by the quake, also denied the allegation.
Sandy Brim, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Medical Aid for El Salvador, said her agency and 14 other agencies were refused permission to land private planes with medicine and food for victims of the Oct. 10 earthquakes that killed as many as 1,200
Brim said the State Department told her the Salvadorans did not want an excess of non-essential medicines and Duarte's government did not want medicine in non-government hands.
people, injured 10,000 and left 200,000 homeless.
U.S. professor wins Nobel prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — An American snared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science yesterday and Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first African to be so honored in the 85-year history of the Nobels.
James McGill Buchanan, 67, the father of the "Public Choice" theory that day-to-day politics are affected by economics, became the 11th American to win the economics award. He is a professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
Soyinka, 52, has published about 20 works, all in English, that denounce racism and fascism and praise men of every color. He draws his inspiration from the society and political climate around him.
Soviets release Jewish dissident
Goldfarb and his wife, Cecilia, were released to U.S. industrialist Armand Hammer, the Occidental Petroleum Corp. chairman, who ferried them to Newark International Airport aboard a corporate jetliner. Goldfarb celebrated with champagne on the flight.
NEWARK, N.J. — Jewish dissident David Goldfarb, who once spurred a KGB overture to frame American newsman Nicholas Danloff, was released yesterday in a surprise move by the Soviet Union and flown to the United States.
No other African has won the literature prize since it was first awarded in 1901. Soyinka also is thought to be the first black to win the literary award.
State Department spokesman Pete Martinez said the U.S. government followed Goldfarb's situation closely for years and welcomed the resolution of the case.
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