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Wednesday, August 27, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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Assad promises aid to Gadhafi if U.S. launches strike on Libya
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian President Hafez Assad promised Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi that his country would aid Libya if the United States launches another strike against the North African nation, both governments said yesterday.
Assad's promise of unspecified aid — contained in a statement released in Tripoli, Libya and Damascus, Syria — came a day after U.S. officials indicated that Gadhafi was planning new terrorist attacks and warned that the United States would take action to thwart him.
"The two leaders agreed to confront the provocations by America," the statement issued by Libya and Syria said. "President Assad reassured the colonel that he was placing all Syria's resources on the side of Libya."
President Reagan ordered a raid in retaliation for Libya's purported support of terrorism 10 days after the bombing of a a West Berlin nightclub that killed two U.S. servicemen. The United States said Libya was involved in that attack.
In Moscow, the official news agency Tass said yesterday that U.S. accusations of Libyan involvement in terrorism were false and that it was clear the United States was planning a new strike against Libya.
Libya and Syria are the Soviet Union's closest allies in the Middle East. Middle East observers said Syria would at least provide Libya with spare parts or ammunition and launch a campaign in the Arab world to rally support for Tripoli if the United States launched another strike.
HONOLULU — Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who marked six months in self-imposed exile yesterday, has been granted permission to stay in the United States at least another year.
Marcos allowed to stay in U.S.
in the United States, district director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, extended the routine six-month parole visa of Marcos, 68, and his entourage through 1987. It had been due to expire yesterday.
The extension also applies to the 120 to 140 noncitizens and family members who fled the Philippines with Marcos in February or joined him shortly afterwards, Craig said.
Mis, Craig said. Marcos and his party may travel freely in the United States, INS agent Ben Alexander said. But if they leave the country, they will have to apply again for parole status, he said.
The agency can extend the parole status indefinitely for Marcos, who now lives in a rented beachfront home with his wife Iwela in Honolulu. Craig said.
The Marmosets arrived in Hawaii on Feb. 26. They stayed at Hickam Air Force Base until March 24. Marcos has said he would prefer to remain in Hawaii if he cannot go back to the Philippines.
FBI requested to reopen inquiry
WASHINGTON — Four Democratic senators yesterday asked the FBI to reopen its investigation of charges that chief justice nominee William Rehnquist acted unethically as a lawyer before he joined the Supreme Court in 1971.
Democratic Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, Alan Cranston of California, and Paul Simon of Illinois wrote to Chairman Strom Thurmond, R.S.C., of the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked him to get the FBI to reopen its inquiry into whether Rehnquist defrauded his ill brother-in-law by setting up a trust account and then keeping it secret from him.
The three were among five Democrats on the committee who opposed Reinhquist's nomination earlier
cher justice.
The senators' letter referred to an Aug. 15 New York Times story that quoted Rehnquist's brother-in-law, Harold Dickerson Cornell, 73, of San Diego, for whom the trust account was set up in 1961 while Rehnquist was a lawyer in Phoenix.
this month when the committee voted 13-5 to recommend to the Senate that Rehnquist be approved as chief justice.
10 S. Korean officials named
SEFOU, South Korea — President Chun Doo Hwan yesterday replaced almost half of the 22-member Cabinet of South Korea, which has been jarred by a series of scandals and opposition protests.
series or selections. He served 10 of his 22 ministers after Prime Minister Lho Sho-yong and the other ministers resigned en masse yesterday morning to give Chun a free hand to form a new government.
hand to form a new government. Chun chained Prime Minister Lho and Kim Mahn je, economic planning minister, but replaced 10 others, including the foreign minister.
including the foreign intern. Chun has been under pressure to dismiss Cabinet members allegedly connected with a series of scandals, including a sex-torture case involving a detained dissident and a fire that partially destroyed Independence Hall.
dependence hall.
Half the new appointments were filled by members of the ruling Democratic Justice Party, indicating that it will play a bigger role in politics as the government and opposition camps tackle the issue of how to amend the constitution.
the 2018 campaign the past few months, Korea has been rocked by demonstrations with the opposition demanding constitutional change to allow presidential elections by popular vote.
New president named at NBC
NEW YORK — General Electric Co., the parent company of NBC, installed a G.E. financial specialist with no entertainment background as president of the peacock network yesterday to succeed programming wizard Grant Tinker.
Robert C. Wright, who was entrusted with $20.2 billion in assets as president of General Electric Financial Services, was named president and chief executive officer of NBC, effective Sept. 1.
John F. Welch Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of G.E., will become chairman of NBC.
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Tinker, whose entertainment programming background helped lift NBC to the No. 1 position for the first time this year, voluntarily stepped down after five years to devote his time to production interests.
Welch said Wright had an "unbroken track record of success" with G.E. and in his former position as president of Cox Cable Communications Inc.
five years. He was unanimous first choice to run NBC was obviously Grant Tinker." Welch said in a news conference at NBC that was sent closed circuit to NBC offices across the country and sent by satellite to about 200 NBC affiliate stations. "He made NBC No. 1, and we would have loved for him to stay."
Actor Ted Knight dies of cancer
LOS ANGELES — Actor Ted Knight, the white-haired comedian best known as the egotistical anchorman on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," died of cancer yesterday. He was 62.
Knight won two Emmys for his portrayal of bumbling newscaster Ted Baxter, joining an all-star ensemble that included Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Betty White, Cloris Leachman, Valerie Harper and Gavin McLeod.
Publicist Henry Bollinger said that Knight died yesterday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades of cancer that was diagnosed about a year ago. He said the actor's wife, Dorothy, and three children were with him when he died.
Knight was born Tadeus Wladyslaw Konopka on Dec. 7, 1923, in Terryville, Conn., where he was raised. During his career he played more than 300 television roles. He also provided voices for hundreds of radio and TV commercials and cartoon shows.
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