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Monday, October 26, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Cuban military siphoning money from tourist funds, defector savs
WASHINGTON — Cuba's military establishment has secretly taken over much of the country's tourism industry, reaping large profits, according to a Cuban defector.
Brig. Gen, Rafael del Pino Diaz, who detected last May, said cynicism pervades the Cuban military. He said some officers vowed to work their way up to senior positions so they could "steal more than the existing elite does now.
Koreans demonstrate against government
Del Pino said in an interview last week that foreign tourists were flown to resort areas but that the dollars earned ended up in "Raual" (the Latin equivalent of President Fidel Castro), is the defense minister and first vice president of the councils of state and ministers.
SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of people chanting "Down with the military dictatorship" marched through Seoul yesterday in an anti-government demonstration.
The march began after a rally during which two opposition leaders, Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung, supported for support in presidential elections scheduled in December. The demonstrators, predominantly college students, burned effigies of President Chun Doo-hwan and his designated successor, Roh Tae-woo.
Former Nazi's war crimes trial continues
JERUSALEM — John Demanjuk's nazi war crimes trial resumes today with the defense seeking to rebound from the discrediting of two principal witnesses and contradictions in the defendant's testimony.
Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-born retired autoworker who lived for more than 30 years in a Cleveland suburb, is charged with operating gas chambers at the Trebilika death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Kirkpatrick won't be GOP candidate in '88
WASHINGTON - Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the conservative former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said yesterday she would not seek the Republican nomination for president in 1988.
Kirkpatrick based her decision
on a "multitude of reasons, personal and political," said her spokesman, David Carmen. "I think the lateness of the date precluded a practical run at this point."
Brownie leader embezzles cookie dough
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A Brownie girl Cookie troop leader was charged with embezzling money from the Cookie cookie sales, officials said.
Katherine Thornton, 25, allegedly wrote between 50 and 60 checks
on a Girl Scout Council checking account while she was leader of Brownie Troop 729. Members of the troop sold $2,800 worth of cookies in 1986, with all but about $400 going into the account.
From The Associated Press.
Kuwait denounces Iran
The Associated Press
KUWAIT — The Kuwaiti press yesterday accused Iran of responsibility for the bombing of a Pan Am sales office in downtown Kuwait. One newspaper called for the expulsion of Shiite Muslims loyal to Iran.
The London Sunday Times reported that Egypt was providing military assistance to Kuwait in exchange for a financial aid package worth up to $20 billion from Persian government. Egyptian officials denied the report.
Elsewhere, Iranian Prime Minister Hussein Musavi told Tehran Radio his country thinks u.S. sponsored U.N. Security Council call to end the Iran-Iraq war might have been a mistake in the "mad actions" in the reintroduction.
He accused the United States of "fanning the flames . . . which can be seen in the form of an all-out war by America." The broadcast was monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp.
Two senior Iraqi officials flew to Saudi Arabia, where foreign ministers of the Saud-led Gulf Cooperation Council, with partner Kuwait against Iran.
The ministers issued a commu
nique that said their two days of deliberations had centered on the "dangerous escalation" posed by recent Iranian missile attacks on Kuwait, warning that the they could have "grave repercussions" on regional and world peace.
The Iraqi News Agency said First Deputy Prime Minister Taha Yassin Ramadan and Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz would discuss the Iranian attacks on Kuwait and would coordiate with Saudi officials in preparation for an Arab League summit, set for Nov. 8 in Amman, Jordan.
In Kuwait, crews continued to repair damage to an offshore terminal from Thursday's Iranian missile attack.
During the repairs, supertankers will be diverted to a shallow dock, where they will be filled with 80 percent of their load. The tankers will be "topped off" outside of the Persian Gulf before heading to their ultimate destinations, according to oil officials.
The Silkworm attack on the Sea Island terminal was the third Iranian missile strike on Kuwaiti oil installations in eight days
travel agency that handles Pan Am's sales in Kuwait. Nobody was injured because the office was closed for lunch.
A European diplomat described the bomb as a somewhat rudimentary device made from locally available materials.
On Saturday, a bomb wrecked a
No one claimed responsibility for the blast, which the newspaper al-Anbaa blamed on Iran's "agents inside the country who have sold themselves to the devil." Of Kuwait's 1.8 million residents, more than 80,000 are Iranians or people of Iranian origin
Kuwait "should be able to deal with the acts of sabotage by eradicating the fifth column, which has started to uncover its ugly face and its loyalty to the enemies of this country," the paper added.
"Fifth column" — a term that means infiltrated enemies — in this grab Arab state refers to pro-Iranian Kuwaiti Shite Muslims blamed for a series of sabotage acts since 1983. Scores of them have been rounded up and convicted in connection with the attacks.
Reagan plans budget talks
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — One of President Reagan's top economic advisers and Capitol Hill lawmakers sniped at each other yesterday over the nation's budget crisis, even though both sides pledged to begin critical negotiations on the federal deficit in good faith.
Reagan scheduled his first round of talks with bipartisan leaders of Congress for this morning. The session comes on the heels of last week's stock market crash and is aimed at reducing the budget deficit and restoring confidence in the nation's economy.
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., complained on ABC-TV's "This Week with David Brinkley" that Reagan has failed to take a leadership role in the budget process and for cutting the budget deficit, including any move on a possible tax hike.
certainly coming out of the White House. I don't know who's in charge of the Rostenkowski, the chair of the Board and Means Committee, complained.
try their move on a possible tax hike.
"If there's mixed signals, they're
"We're ready to negotiate." Rostenkowski said, adding later, "I think that what we've got to do is build confidence in what we're doing in Washington. If there was a reason why Wall Street started screaming . . . it was because of the lack of direction."
Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of Reagan's council of economic advisers, countered in a separate interview on the same show that Wall Street's gratitude were due in part to the勾结 with the state government with an appropriate budget" and its flat rejection of Reagan's budget proposals over the past seven years.
As Reagan refused to do at his press conference Thursday, Sprinkel declined to outline a stance on taxes.
except to say that the administration opposed massive tax increases.
Sprinkel brushed criticism of Reagan aside, contending that the president would negotiate in good faith. "He's a very good negotiator. He's not going to say, and I'm certain he will come out. He will listen to what they have to say and there may be proposals for a tax increase." Sprinkel said.
Although the 1988 fiscal year began Oct. 1, the government is operating under a continuing resolution approved by Congress and the budget talks on Capitol Hill have been at an impasse. Congressional Democrats have been calling for months for Reagan to negotiate with them.
Meanwhile, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen,
D-Texas, the chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, said on the
same show that a spirit of cooperation
is essential for any progress to
be made in the negotiations.
Louisiana governor bows out
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Gov. Edwin Edwards stepped aside yesterday with a grand gesture that befitted the flamboyant Cajun populist, withdrawing from a runoff against U.S. Rep. Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer after finishing second in the state's gubernatorial primary.
"He may have the Capitol now if he wants it," Edwards told stunned supporters who had gathered for which they hoped would be a victory party.
Edwards, 60, finished second to Roemer in Saturday's primary and was assured of a spot in a Nov. 21 runoff, but conceded the race early yesterday after two other challengers said they would back Roemer, who had come from behind in the final weeks of the campaign.
The governor's current term, his third, ends in May.
“It’s the end of an era — in a positive way. He offered to meet with me and review his administration,” said Roerem, 44, son of a former Edward crony. “He did it the right way, and you have to give him credit for what he does (than having a runoff), and you have to give him credit for a lot of class.”
Edwards, who had never lost a bid for public office in a political career dating back to 1954, had been seeking an unprecedented fourth term. His third term was marked by his acquittal of charges in the statewide recession triggered by depressed oil and natural gas prices.
Until early last week, Edwards had said he expected to win a runoff match against U.S. Rep. Bob Coyle, who regularly Republican in the ooen primary.
Livingston, who finished third with 297,875 votes or 19 percent, said he would do whatever was necessary to help Roemer.
Secretary of State Jim Brown, the state's top election official who ran fifth in the governor's race, said he would declare Roemer the governor-elect once election returns are made official and Edwards turns in a notarized affidavit saying he is withdrawing from the runoff.
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