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Wednesday, September 17, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Kidnappers ask U.S. for talks
BEIRUT — Islamic Jihad urged the United States yesterday to negotiate for the release of three U.S. hostages in Lebanon as it did with the Soviet Union for U.S. newsman Nicholas Damlioff.
The Shiite Muslim group also released a letter bearing the name of hostage David Jacobsen, which made a similar plea and warned that the kidnappers might kill their captives.
White House spokesman Larry Speaks said in Washington that administration officials thought Jacobsen wrote the letter but questioned whether it was freely written and represented anything more than the views of Jacobsen's captors.
Misspellings in the letter included the name of the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, a hostage who was freed in July after being held with Jacobsen and the others.
The three-page letter was written in poor and often stilted English, raising doubts that its original author was the 55-year-old Jacobsen, who was the administrator of the American University Hospital when he was kidnapped last year.
Jacobsen is one of six Americans now missing in Lebanon. Islamic Jihad says it holds three American hostages and killed a fourth. It is uncertain who carried out the kidnappings last week of two other Americans.
Aquino arrives to begin talks
SAN FRANCISCO — Philippine President Corazon Aquino, vowing to put her country back in shape, arrived in the United States yesterday on a nine-day mission to seek help from President Reagan and investors to ease her country's worst economic crisis since World War II.
Greeted by 600 supporters dressed in yellow — her campaign color — Aquino and her party landed at San
After a one-hour stopover, they boarded Air Force Two, a presidential plane normally used by the secretary of state, for the flight to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington. Official welcoming ceremonies were planned last night at the Washington Monument.
Francisco International Airport aboard a Boeing 747 after a 13-hour Philippine Airlines commercial flight from Manila.
Her flight to the United States skipped a refueling stop in Honolulu, the home of deposed Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.
"I have come to America to relive proud memories of when we won back our democracy." Aquino, smiling but appearing a bit tired, told her cheering supporters in brief remarks at an airport site surrounded by extremely tight security.
Among the objectives of Aquino's U.S. trip are to restructure the Philippines' $26.3 billion foreign debt and to lure investment capital to her country. Her stay includes four days in Washington and stops in New York and Boston. She returns to the Philippines on Tuesday.
GENEVA - U.S. chief arms negotiator Max M. Kampelman said yesterday the KGB arrest of U.S. reporter Nicholas Daniloff in Moscow was a hostage-taking that had seriously damaged U.S.-Soviet relations.
Relations harmed, official says
Returning to Geneva for a new round of arms talks resuming Thursday after a 12-week recess, Kampelman raised the Daniloff case but did not specifically link it to progress in the arms negotiations.
Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, was arrested Aug. 30, charged with espionage and released from prison last Friday pending a trial in the Soviet Union.
U. S. officials have said the charges were trumped up in retaliation for the recent arrest on spy charges in New York of Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations.
"The relationship between the United States and the U.S.S.R. has, of course, been adversely affected, in a serious way, by the Soviet hostage-taking of Mr. Dumiloff." Kampelman said.
Zakharov was turned over to the custody of the Soviet ambassador to the United States at the same time Daniiloff was released. The United States has said, however, it will not equate the two cases.
"We hope that Soviet authorities will come to appreciate the need to release Mr. Danielf so that our bilateral relations can be put back on the path toward better understanding."
Soviet deputy delegation leader Alexei Obukhov made no mention of the issue when he arrived in Geneva, instead repeating Moscow's stand that Washington must abandon its Star Wars anti-missile defense system.
Sanctions started by countries
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The 12 countries of the European Economic Community yesterday banned the purchase of South African iron, steel and gold coins as part of a package of economic sanctions to protest apartheid.
The package also includes a ban on new investments in South Africa. However, a ban on coal imports, which would have had more effect on South Africa's economy, was not adopted.
In reaction to the EEC's decision, South African Foreign Minister R.F. Botha said his government would study ways of defending the economy but would not impose punitive measures in retaliation.
The ban on iron and steel imports takes effect Sept. 27, said Sir Geoffrey Howe, British foreign secretary and chairman of the EEC conference of foreign ministers. Further talks at a lower political level are needed to decide how to implement the ban on commercial investment and purchase of gold coins, he said.
At the insistence of West Germany, the EEC dropped consideration of an import ban on South African coal, a move that would have had a much greater
economic and social effect on the country
The West Germans had argued, with support only from Portugal, that cutting off coal purchases would inflict severe hardships on tens of thousands of blacks.
Du Pont enters presidential race
After declaring his candidacy, du Pont flew to New Hampshire to campaign in the state that traditionally holds the nation's first presidential primary.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont declared his presidential candidacy yesterday, saying it was time to get tough with drug users and advocating mandatory drug testing of teenagers in schools.
Du Pont, who served for eight years as Delaware's governor, became the first formal entrant in the race for the 1988 Republican nomination to succeed President Reagan.
Du Pont, 51, pledged to continue leading the country on the course set by Reagan. He endorsed such Reagan initiatives as tax cuts, school tuition vouchers, welfare-law changes that would require recipients to work for their aid, a phasing out of farm programs and a go-ahead for the space-based missile defense system.
Union takes drug issue to court
WASHINGTON — A federal employees union went to court yesterday to block President Reagan's order that thousands of government workers be forced to submit urine samples for drug testing.
However, a top Justice Department official said that groups who opposed the tests were a minority.
The suit, filed by the National Treasury Employees Union, seeks an injunction halting Reagan's drug testing program — part of the president's new crusade against drug use — because it violates the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable search and seizure.
From Kansan wires.
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