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Wednesdav. October 8. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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Reagan says advance of rights as big a concern as arms issue
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that unless the Soviets made some advances in human rights, chances for progress on other issues would be slight at this weekend's superpower meeting.
Reagan, striving to mollify conservative critics of his upcoming meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, said for a second straight day that human rights would share equal billing with arms control at the Iceland meeting.
the rebellion. Reagan addressed about two dozen human rights activists — mostly from the conservative part of the political spectrum — after meeting privately with Yuri Orlov, the Soviet dissident released from exile last week in exchange for Soviet spy Gennadi Zakharov. The exchange followed the Kremlin's release of U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff.
Reagan escorted Orlov and his wife, Trina, into the Cabinet room as the human rights leaders applauded. "I'll make it amply clear to Mr. Gorbachev that unless there is real Soviet movement on human rights, we cannot have the kind of political atmosphere necessary to make lasting progress on other issues." Reagan said.
Meanwhile, a senior administration official said yesterday he thought that a framework for making arms reduction agreement could be decided on at the Reykjavik summit.
Judge's impeachment trial starts
WASHINGTON — Convicted U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne told the Senate yesterday in the first day of his impeachment proceedings that he is innocent of tax evasion and feels "like a piece of meat thrown out to a couple of dogs."
Claiborne, 69, fighting for his judicial life, dramatically addressed a nearly full Senate, pleading he not be impached. His attorney, Oscar Goodman, said Claiborne was wrongly convicted of cheating on his taxes and wound up in prison as the result of an FBI vendetta.
Vice President George Bush is presiding over the trial, the first impeachment proceedings in the Senate in 50 years. The votes of two-thirds of the senators present are required for conviction.
Claiborne has been sentenced to two years in prison for tax evasion but has refused to leave his post.
Earlier yesterday, a lawyer pleaded for a full hearing before senators decide whether to remove Claiborne from the bench. But the Senate is expected to decide Claiborne's guilt or innocence based on evidence gathered last month by 12 senators who sat as an impeachment committee.
as an impeachment committee. Senators rejected by voice vote a motion by Claiborne to postpone his trial and made no immediate ruling on the request to have a full hearing.
Falling. A nine-member House panel acting as prosecutor argued Claiborne was trying "to turn this proceeding into a three-ring circus" and deflect attention from his crimes with accusations of government misconduct and vendettas.
LaRouche hiding from officials
LEESBURG, Va — Lyndon LaRouche, the mysterious head of the cult-like organization that has hundreds of candidates running for local offices across the country, remained in hiding yesterday, but sent a telegram to President Reagan saying an attempt to arrest him could result in violence.
Hundreds of armed law enforcement officials swooped down on two office buildings used by groups affiliated with LaRouche in a predawn raid Monday hours before a Boston grand jury indicted 10 close aides in a massive credit card fraud scheme investigators said was used to finance the LaRouche
"I will not submit passively to an arrest, but in such a scenario I will defend myself," LaRouche said in a statement released by aides in Washington. "Any arrest or attempt to arrest me would be an attempt to kill me."
Aides would not say whether LaRuche was at his $1.3 million estate near Leesburg, but said he was "in the Washington area."
empire.
The manhunt continued for six of 10 LaRouche aides still at large the day after their indictments for credit card fraud and obstruction of justice. Four were in custody, and the others were thought to have fled the country, authorities said.
State and federal investigators are digging through "a gold mine" of evidence seized in the raid.
Boeing union to vote on offer
SEATTLE — The union representing 38,500 machinists at the Boeing Co. said yesterday it will present the company's revised contract offer to the rank and file, warning that rejection would trigger the first strike against the giant aerospace manufacturer since 1977.
Boeing's machinists — including 28,000 in the Seattle area, 8,500 in Wichita and 1,500 in Ore. -Ore will vote Wednesday on the revised offer, just five days after decisively turning down the company's previous offer.
Union negotiators have not made any recommendation to members on the latest offer.
"Our intent is to review the proposal with the members and have them vote their pleasure," said Jack Daniels, spokesman for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Daniels said that if machinists reject the proposed contract, a separate strike vote would follow even though union members have voted twice previously to give union negotiators strike authorization.
The Boeing talks are seen as a possible bellwether for other labor negotiations in the aerospace industry
this fall. Contracts covering some 200,000 unionized aerospace workers at companies including Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics and United Technologies expire within the next few months.
Professor calls Nakasone racist
TOKYO — A leading expert on Japan's largest minority group yesterday called Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone a "racist" for remarks last month about U.S. minority groups.
Sueo Murakoshi, a sociology professor at Osaka Municipal University who also heads a research center devoted to studying the problems of the Burakumin minority group, appeared before foreign reporters along with two members of the Buraku Liberation League who recounted personal accounts of discrimination.
The League was established in 1955 to help fight discrimination and integrate the Burakumin into Japanese society.
Murakoshi said he was "happy and relieved" when Nakasone fired Education Minister Masayuki Fujio in early September for making remarks about Japan's World War II atrocities that enraged China and South Korea.
"But Nakasone revealed that he was also a racist" in his speech on Sept. 22, Murakoshi said.
The prime minister triggered strong protests from U.S. minority groups by suggesting in the speech that "blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans" were holding back academic progress in the United States.
Nakasone's remark initially drew little protest in Japan, but domestic criticism from opposition political parties, women and minority groups in Japan have been mounting in recent weeks.
From Kansan wires.
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