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Wednesdav. September 30, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Military coup leader declares Fiji a republic, suspends constitution
SUVA, Fiji — Army commander C. Sitiveni Rabuka declared Fiji a republic yesterday, appointed himself head of government and constitution, but he asked not to be compared with military dictators.
"I don't think I am the type of military coup leader (seen) around the world," he told a news conference five days after staging
his second coup in five months. "I don't want to be compared with them."
Rabuka's declaration came in a national address over army-controlled radio. He said Fiji, an ethnically divided South Pacific island nation that is 2,000 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia, was severing constitutional ties with Britain.
OU official is accused of falsifying records
NORMAN, Okla. — A former University of Oklahoma admissions director and a former Norman resident have been accused in district court of conspiring to falsify scholastic and attendance records, accepting bribes and falsifying records, officials said yesterday.
"It would appear they were
selling degrees," Assistant District Attorney Irby Taylor of Cleveland County said.
Taylor said the university's police department began investigations after receiving tips that transcripts were being purchased and a report of an alleged attempt to bribe the director's successor.
Korean opposition disagrees on candidate
SEOUL, South Korea — Opposition leaders Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung failed to agree yes to the plan, so should run for president this year.
Reunification Democratic Party in elections to be held before Dec. 20.
Both indicated they were determined to run, despite fears it could mean defeat for their opposition
The two leaders said they could not break the stalemate during a breakfast meeting, despite an earlier pledge to agree on a single candidacy by the end of the month.
Passengers injured during turbulent flight
NEW YORK — Passengers on an Eastern Airlines jet bound for New York said yesterday they found themselves smashed against the ceiling and dodging flying dinnerware after the plane hit severe turbulence on a trip from Puerto Rico.
The turbulence forced the plane
to make an unexpected stop in Bermuda. Hospital officials said 27 people were treated for minor back and neck injuries.
Airline officials said 21 people were injured. Eastern spokesman Robin Matell in Miami originally reported that 41 passengers and crew members were injured.
Reagan lobbies for Bork
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate's second-ranking Democrat said yesterday that Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork had lost ground and now appeared to be losing his bid for confirmation.
"I think he's licked," declared Democratic whip Alan Cranston of California.
However, White House spokesman Martin Fitzpatrick said Bork had been meeting with individual senators as part of a continuing effort to win confirmation and that President Reagan in person and on the telephone.
"We have four or five weeks before the vote; there is plenty of time."
He said that Reagan was not considering whom he might nominate if Bork was rejected and "gets angry at the fact of even mentioning a replacement."
"His attitude is that Bork will be the new justice, he won't look at any other one."
Cranston, who keeps vote counts on major issues for the Democrats, asks her Bork count has been changing from day to day — adversely to Bork.
"Opinion polls of the American public show the undecided moving to the anti-Bork column. The same thing is happening in the Senate."
Craston told reporters that his latest head count showd 49 senators likely to vote against Bork and 40 others. leaving 11 undecided or unknown.
"My count before Bork testified was 46 against confirmation, 45 for and 9 undetermined," Cranston said.
Iran masses warfront units
The Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain — Military analysts and diplomats in Cyprus said yesterday that Iran was massing up to 20 divisions of Revolutionary Guards in the southern sector of the Persian Gulf battlefront, heightening speculation that Teheran plans a new offensive.
Iranian military units vary widely in length, but a division averages 10,000.
There was no independent confirmation of a buildup on that scale. However, Iran's state-run media, monitored in Nicosia, have reported that as many as 48,000 men have been sent to the front in recent days.
Iran television, monitored in Nicosia, showed some of the battalions parading through Tehran on Monday, carrying giant portraits of Ayatollah Khomeini and red and green banners bearing Islamic slogans proclaiming victory.
Tehanan's daily paper, Arbar,
reported yesterday that as many as
34,000 more men were being sent to
the south to respond to a U.S. attack.
U. S. officials said the Navy would respond strongly if Iran intensified war activities which, they said, have threatened U.S. interests and attacked an Iranian minelayer.
A U.S. source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Navy's gulf-based resources were already seriously strained.
U. S. warships yesterday escorted a Kuwaiti tanker toward a major Persian Gulf shipping channel where British mine sweepers were searching for explosives believed planted by Iran.
A Greek tanker was attacked in the gulf last night by an Iranian gunboat, but there were no casualties or fire damage, as艘, marine salvage executives said.
The 38,699-ton Koriana sent a distress signal about midnight saying it had been attacked by missiles, and that it planned to anchor for the night near the ship, 50 miles north of Abu Dhabi, the executives said. Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence in London confirmed the attack.
The analysts and diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they believed the Iranian units were being deployed in the south for a new offensive in October or November when the rainy season starts.
Auto innovator Ford dies at 70
DETROIT — Henry Ford II, who at age 28 took over and rescued the auto company founded by his grandfather, died yesterday from pneumonia complications at a hospital bearing his family name. He was 70.
The Associated Press
Ford won recognition for advocating corporate contributions to social progress, backing Detroit's Renaissance Center and dealing with such corporate lieutenants as Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca, whom he fired as company president in 1978.
From The Associated Press.
Ford died at 7:21 a.m. after $ 2^{1/2} $ weeks in Henry Ford Hospital, where heart and kidney problems complicated pneumonia he contracted while traveling recently in Europe.
His successes included recruiting a young management team dubbed the Whiz Kids that returned the company to profitability after World War II.
He introduced the Mustang, but his failures included the Edsel, a car named for his late father.
He also rejected lacocca's idea for a minivan when lacecuna was Ford president. lacocca took the idea to Chrysler and made it a huge success.
Married three times, Ford lived a full and colorful life, but friends said he sometimes tired of the fane that accompanied his name.
Robertson quits post in ministry
The Associated Press
called his decision to quit as a minister and sever ties to his television ministry "one of the most painful I have ever been required to make."
religious broadcaster.
WASHINGTON - Television evangelist Pat Robertson said yesterday he is resigning as a Southern Baptist minister and cutting ties to Republicans. He proposes to enter the race for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.
In a statement from his headquarters in Chesapeake, Va. Robertson
In recent months, as public opinion polls indicated voters were reluctant to put a member of the clergy in a high elected office, Robertson has stressed his business background rather than his long career as a
Robertson said he would resign as chairman and chief executive officer of the Christian Broadcasting Network and CBN Continental Broadcasting Inc. Robertson began CBN with $70 in 1960 and built it into the nation's fifth-largest cable network, reaching 37 million homes.
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