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Monday, October 13, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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Ortega says American on plane to be tried in Nicaraguan court
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — President Daniel Ortega said that an American captured after a rebel supply plane was shot down would be tried soon, but yesterday it still was not clear what charges would be filed against him.
The president commented on the Oct. 5 downing of a C-123 transport over southern Nicaragua in a nationally broadcast town meeting Saturday.
Ortega angrily denounced what he called the direct participation of the U.S. government to aid guerrillas fighting the Nicaraguan government
Ortega later told reporters that Eugene Hasenfus, 45, of Marinette, Wis., would be tried soon in the People's Courts, which were formed after the Sandinist National Liberation Front came to power in July 1979. Hasenfus could face up to 30 years in prison if he is found guilty.
President Reagan and other officials have denied any U.S. government involvement in the flight.
Panel OKs Filipino constitution
MANILA, Philippines — A special commission overwhelmingly approved a final draft of a new constitution yesterday. Most commissioners called it a big step toward restoring full democratic rule after the 20-year Marcos regime.
The draft charter, approved 44-2, strengthens the checks against presidential powers with a U.S.-style legislature. It also abolishes the death penalty and protects the rights of the unborn.
In addition, the charter allows for the retention of strategic U.S. bases in the country beyond 1991 and in-
The document was drafted to replace the constitution Aquino abolished one month after she moved into office in a civilian-backed military. President Ferdinand Marcos was ousted during that uprising in February.
includes a transitory provision granting President Corazon Aquino a six-year term that expires June 30, 1997.
The constitution calls for a 200-seat House of Representatives and a 24-member Senate. Of those seat heads, 10 percent will be reserved for farmers, peasants, workers and other social groups.
The constitution will be submitted to Aquino on Wednesday and to the Filipino people, who will vote to approve or disapprove the constitution tentatively scheduled for Jan. 23.
Group says arms sent from Cuba
WASHINGTON — A U.S. team of experts has con-
cluded that 70 tons of arms smuggled to Chilean com-
munist rebels came from Cuba, a senior U.S. official
said Friday.
The official reading from a report sent to the Chilean military government and several other governments in Latin America, said the quantity, type and method of delivery of the arms "leaves little doubt" that the arms and explosives were sent to the Chilean coast aboard large Cuban vessels. They then were transferred to smaller crafts that took them to eight caches. The arms were discovered in August by Chilean military forces.
The team of experts arrived at its conclusions by means of deduction, record-tracing of U.S. arms left behind in Vietnam and outside intelligence reports, including accounts of ship movements from Cuba and the Soviet Union.
The eight arm caches included, according to the U.S. report: 3,351 M-16 rifles, 114 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, six M-60 machine guns, 167 light anti-tank weapons, 2 million rounds of M-16 ammunition, and 3,000 kilograms of explosives, including 800 kilos of a sophisticated C-4 substance made in Czechoslovakia.
LOS ANGELES — Arnold Lockshin, the cancer researcher who defected to the Soviet Union and who has denied being a Communist, once was a leader of the Southern California district of the U.S. Communist Party, it was reported yesterday.
Defector led Communist group
Former party members said Lockshin, who defected last week along with his wife, Lauren, and their three children, was second in command of the organization for at least three years, from 1970 to 1973, the Los Angeles Times said.
Both Lockshin, 47, and his wife were described by the former members, who asked to not be named, as extremely dogmatic on party issues, the newspaper said.
The former Harvard researcher said he was fired from his job as a cancer researcher at a facility associated with St. Joseph Hospital in Houston. He said he and his family defected to the Soviet Union because they were being persecuted for his political views and activities, such as his opposition to the Vietnam War.
The Times reported that three former members of the party said Lockshin was a district organizer and executive secretary of the Southern California district of the U.S. Communist Party.
Six African leaders hold summit
JOHANNESBURG — The leaders of six black-ruled southern African nations held a special summit in Mozambique yesterday amid an escalating war of nerves with white-ruled South Africa.
The summit followed threats by South African Defense Minister Gen. Magnus Malan of military action against Mozambique if the country appeared to be supporting the African National Congress, the leading black South African rebel organization.
A South African defense force spokesman did not deny the reports of an imminent invasion but called the Mozambican reaction "a severe attack of nerves."
Malan warned President Samora Machel that South
Africa would fight back "with everything in its power" to curb cross-border terrorism against the Pretoria government.
Machel placed his nation on "permanent alert" Saturday, saying he thought a South African attack was imminent.
Machel said he requested the meeting in light of the South African threats."
BBC dismisses correspondent
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The British Broadcasting Corporation fired a white television correspondent for singing a black African anthem at a memorial service, a newspaper reported yesterday. The service was for miners killed in an underground accident.
Johannesburg's City Press newspaper said Sarah Crowe was dismissed last Thursday when BBC officials in London learned she was seen and filmed singing "Nkosi Sikelei' iAfrika (God Bless Africa)" at the recent memorial service in a trade union office.
Union and opposition groups expressed outrage. Crowe declined to comment about her dismissal. A local BBC spokesman referred questions to London headquarters.
Friends said Crow went to the memorial service on her own time and not as a representative of the BBC. They said she did not realize that singing the anthem would be taken as an indication of subjectivity.
Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, said his union would refuse to cooperate with the BBC until Crowe was reinstated.
A spokesman for the United Democratic Front, the country's largest legal opposition movement, said it wouldn't tolerate the situation but declined to say what action was contemplated.
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