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Tuesday, September 16, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
New security measures in Paris fail to prevent latest bombing
PARIS — A bomb exploded yesterday in a crowded waiting room at police headquarters, killing one person and injuring 51 others. The bombing came less than 24 hours after Premier Jacques Chirac announced a crackdown on terrorism.
It was the fourth bombing in Paris in a week. A total of three persons have been killed and more than 100 wounded.
The latest explosion happened about 1:50 p.m. on the ground floor of the police headquarters building on the ile de la Cite, close to Notre Dame Cathedral.
Police said two of the wounded were in serious condition.
The bomb was planted despite strict security precautions, which were supposed to include a search by police of every handbag and briefcase brought into the building.
In Beirut, a French-speaking telephone caller took responsibility for the bombing on behalf of a group called the Committee of Solidarity for Arab and Middle East Political Prisoners. That name also was used by persons claiming responsibility for last week's bombings.
Police said the police headquarters bomb appeared to have been similar to those used in three other attacks since Sept. 8.
Peace is goal for Reagan, Peres
WASHINGTON — President Reagan and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres agreed yesterday to make a "steady determined effort" toward Middle East peace, but both governments put stringent conditions on bringing the Soviet Union into the peace process.
"There is reason for optimism and hope." Reagan said after the meeting.
Peres will leave office next month after serving for
"Prime Minister Peres and I have agreed that a steady, determined effort is needed by all if the remaining obstacles to direct negotiations are to be surmounted." Reagan said.
two years as prime minister.
Peres said that after his summit last week with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the ground at least had been laid for the next step toward direct Israeli-Arab peace negotiations after years of deadlock.
"International support," Peres said, "can provide the parties with an opening occasion, but negotiations should be between the parties concerned."
Reagan said the first item of his talk with Peres was "our commitment to continue the search for a negotiated peace between Israel and all its Arab neighbors."
Mubarak said he and Peres had agreed at their Alex-
adria, Egypt, summit Friday to convene a Middle East
peace conference including the five permanent
members of the U.N. Security Council — the United
States, the Soviet Union, China, France and Britain.
Peres and Secretary of State George Schultz said after a morning meeting that the U.S. and Israeli governments were amenable to such a conference, if it led to direct Arab-Israeli peace talks but not as a substitute for them.
Texas Air to get People Express
NEW YORK — People Express Inc., the low-cost, low-fare airline that stunned competitors with its growth on the wings of industry deregulation, yesterday succumbed to mounting financial difficulties and agreed to a $122.1 million takeover by Texas Air Corp.
According to the agreement, People Express shareholders would receive $2.25 a share in Texas Air common stock plus $2.50 of a new Texas Air preferred stock issue. People Express has 25.7 million shares outstanding.
Besides the takeover of People Express, Texas Air has an agreement to buy substantially all of the assets of Frontier Airlines for $176 million, the People Express subsidiary now under the protection of Chapter 11 of the federal Bankruptcy Code.
The agreement between the two carriers was announced at a New York news conference by People Ex.
To alleviate People Express' pressing need for operating cash, Lorenzo said Texas Air will arrange for loans secured by assets of People Express, including aircrafts, spare engines and parts.
press Chairman Donald C. Burr and Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo.
In total, $4.5 million in cash will be provided to People Express, $10 million of which was received by the carrier yesterday.
Dole asks for vote on Rehnquist
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole moved yesterday to limit debate and vote tomorrow on the nomination of William Rehnquist to be chief justice after Democrats insisted on prolonging their attacks.
Dole said Sen, Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and other Democrats declined to vote on the nomination yesterday despite three days of debating the nomination of Rehnquist to replace retiring Chief Justice Warren Burger.
Dole said he expected to take up the nomination of federal appeals court Judge Antonin Scalia to replace Rehnquist as an associate justice after the Rehnquist vote tomorrow.
Despite bitter denunciations by a small group of Democrats, Rehnquist is expected to be confirmed by a comfortable margin as the nation's 16th chief justice, and there is virtually no opposition to Scalia, a well-respected conservative judge.
In an impassioned speech, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said the opposition to Rehnquist was based on contradictions in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, not on his ideology, as Republicans charged.
Metzenbaum rose to make his statement after Dole accused the Democrats of playing partisan politics and opposing a highly qualified candidate because of ideology.
Secret S. Africa tapes released
WASHINGTON — The American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization, released interviews yesterday with South African journalists and anti-apartheid leaders under restriction by the
Pretoria government.
In a videotape, Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the leader of the black nationalist African National Congress, told interviewers, "Our townships are in a war situation."
The tape showed of a mass funeral in Port Elizabeth, children being carried away in military transports and security forces chasing and blacking protesters.
Anton Harber of the Weekly Mail newspaper said, "The tragedy is that many of the whites prefer not to know what's happening."
That sentiment was echoed by other journalists shown on the tape, who said the government was able to pretend violence had subsided because the Western media was not there to report it.
Rep. William Gray, D-Pa., who backed legislation passed by Congress last week to impose sanctions against South Africa, said the film showed South Africa was not a democratic state because it restricted freedom of the press.
The interviews were videotaped secretly by Afravision, a small London-based video group that works closely with journalists inside South Africa. It was released by the American Friends Service Committee through the office of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Cuban prisoners come to U.S.
MIAMI — Cuban political prisoners, some free for the first time since Fidel Castro took power in 1959, shouted "Long live the United States!" as they arrived yesterday for reunions with relatives and friends.
"I'm happy. But I'll be happier when all the prisoners are liberated," said Domingo Suarez Espinosa, 72, as he carried his granddaughter in one arm. He was imprisoned almost 28 years.
Some of the 111 prisoners and relatives who arrived from Havana aboard a charter flight flew on to other U.S. destinations, but 54 were bused to Miami's Tropical Park for a reunion with friends and families, sponsored by a Roman Catholic Church.
An estimated 3,000 cheering, crying, flag-waving Cuban-Americans crowded into a pavilion at the park
Cuban-Americans crowded into a pavilion at the park. The church, with help from explorer Jacques Coursteau, had negotiated with the Cuban government for two years to win the prisoners' release.
From Kansan wires.
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