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Monday, September 22, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
NATO, Warsaw Pact countries try to reduce accidental war risk
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Delegates from 35 NATO and Warsaw Pact nations approved a document last night outlining ways to reduce the risk of accidental war in Europe in the first East-West agreement since 1979.
The agreement between NATO, the Warsaw Pact and Europe's neutral countries approved at a late-night session sets guidelines for monitoring troop movements and exchanging military information.
The agreement is the first in which the Soviet Union, or any nation, accepted on-site inspection to verify compliance with an arms-control agreement.
Under the agreement, European nations must accept at least three on-site inspections annually. To avoid cheating, a member of one alliance may not carry out a mock inspection of another member of the same pact.
The document requires a 42-day advance notification of military activities involving more than 13,000 soldiers or 300 tanks. The nation holding the exercise must invite two observers from each of the other 34 nations to any exercises involving more than 17,000 soldiers.
The agreement would be effective Jan. 1 and covers Europe from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural mountains, the traditional European boundary of the Soviet Union.
French captives' fate questioned
BEIRUT — An Iranian-backed group yesterday accused France of reneging on a promise to allow two expelled Iraqis to return to France and said such
But in Paris, a French Foreign Ministry spokesman said the dissidents, Fawzi Hamza and Hassan Khairedine, were granted visas to return to France to study.
"devious and treacherous" actions threaten French hostages in Lebanon.
The two were among more than 60 people arrested in a February wave of bombings in Paris.
a Ponian war. The Islamic Al Dawaa Party, in a statement sent to Western news agencies in Beirut, linked the fate of the two dissidents expelled to Iraq in February to the fate of the three Frenchmen held by the extremist group, Islamic Jihad.
Islamic Jihad
Islamic Jihad, the pro-Iranian Muslim fundamentalist organization that says it is holding three kidnapped Americans, said it executed one French hostage in retaliation for France's Middle East policy. Some analysts think Islamic Jihad is part of Al Dawaa.
Islamic Jihad has taken responsibility for kidnapping French journalist Jean-Paul Kaufmann, 48; French Embassy vice consul Marcel Fontaine, 45; and embassy protocol chief Marcel Carton, 62. Three other Frenchmen are held by other extremists in Lebanon.
London airport tightens security
According to the Mail, all major U.S. airlines have been notified to pay special attention to black or gray suitcases that might contain explosives.
The report said increased security was based on Israeli intelligence indicating that Arab terrorists planned to attack an American airliner.
Scotland Yard, which is in charge of security at Heathrow. refused comment.
The stepped-up security follows a warning circulated to all European airports in June. The airports were warned about three Arab terrorists groups
The day after that warning, a suitcase bomb destined for an El Al flight exploded at Madrid Airport, injuring 13.
traveling on false Tunisian or Libyan passports that planned to attack American or Israeli airlines.
Scotland Yard police began high profile patrols by officers openly brandishing machine guns last January in the aftermath of attacks by Arab gunmen at Rome and Vienna airports.
Protests disrupt Yale ceremony
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Anti-apartheid demonstrators who disrupted the inauguration of Benno Schmidt Jr. as president of Yale University vowed yesterday to continue protests over the school's South African investments.
The fight over divestment brought out hundreds of demonstrators Saturday to protest as Schmidt was installed as the 20th president of Yale in a day of pump and pageantry.
Three members of the Yale Divestment Campaign were arrested during the roving demonstrations, which were staged to press Yale to divest $400 million in companies doing business in racially segregated South Africa.
Leaders of the divestment campaign planned a rally to coincide with a meeting today of the Yale Corp., the governing body of the Ivy League school that was founded in 1701.
Nathan Light, a spokesman for the divestment campaign, said he and two other people arrested Saturday were charged with disorderly conduct and were released on promises to appear in court.
At one point during the demonstrations, former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, a Yale trustee, was caught briefly among protesters as police pushed demonstrators away from Schmidt.
Professor warns of dying forests
Wilson said each species of insect, plant and vertebrate was the repository of an immense amount of genetic information, which could be valuable to science and to the health and welfare of today's growing human population.
WASHINGTON — Mankind is destroying the world's forests so rapidly that most will be gone in the next century, taking with them hundreds of thousands of species of extraordinary biological diversity, a Harvard professor warned yesterday.
Edward Wilson, professor of science at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Biology, said the reduction of diversity of life could approach that of a great natural catastrophe, such as the one in which dinosaurs and many other life forms disappeared 65 million years ago.
Wilson said tropical rain forests were of primary concern. Although they cover only 7 percent of the globe's surface, they harbor half of the world's species.
SAT scores unchanged from '85
NEW YORK — The 1986 national average SAT scores were unchanged from last year, the College Board said yesterday. But other high school students who took ACT college admissions tests achieved the highest national average in a decade.
The average for more than 1 million scholastic aptitude test-takers from the high school class of 1986 was 431 on the verbal test and 475 on math out of a possible 800 — the same as 1985. The average for nearly 1 million youths who took the American College Testing exams was 18.8 of a possible 36, up 0.2 from 1985.
Male students scored higher than their female counterparts on both tests.
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