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Tuesday, September 29, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Colombian avalanche kills 120; at least 500 more still missing
MEDELLIN, Colombia — An avalanche of red mud and rock killed at least 120 people, including 43 children, when it thundered down a mountainside and onto an area, officials said yesterday.
Some residents estimated that up to 500 people were missing in the scores of buried shacks.
At least seven of the children killed were attending first Holy Communion parties when they were buried under the landslide
Sunday in Villa Tina, an impoverished area of the industrial city of Medellin.
Exhausted workers dug through 20 feet of mud looking for survivors and bodies, and residents missed relatives and belongings.
"We heard the noise that sounded like an explosion, and soon afterward a huge mass of rocks and mud descended upon us," said Mary Mosquera, who lost three daughters in the avalanche.
Angry travelers complain of police abuse
MIAMI — Angry passengers accused of storming an Eastern Airlines ticket counter after their flight to New York was canceled complained yesterday that they were pushed around by police and treated like criminals or terrorists.
"I've never seen so much violence in my life," said passenger Edilema Rios.
"Eastern didn't handle it prop
erly, and the police were brutalizing the passengers," said John Smythe, vice president of Shearman Brian Brothers in New York City.
Police denied that the seven officers used excessive force Sunday at Miami International Airport but said complaints from the crowd of nearly 200 would be investigated.
Bush meets with Solidarity leader Walesa
WARSAN, Poland — Vice President George Bush made a dramatic appearance with Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa yesterday and many Polish people in a televised address to strive for greater freedom.
"To our freedom and your freedom," Bush said in Polish and English at the end of a live five-
minute broadcast on state-run television that was unprecedented for an American official.
Bush said that he met with Wales, with other Solidarity officials and noted that he had visited the gravestes of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, a pro-Solidarity priest who was slain by secret government police.
Mines block channel in gulf
U.S. Navy suspects Iran, may attack ships carrying mines
The Associated Press
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the rules of engagement had not changed, and a senior official in the organization did not include pre-emotive strikes.
But a Pentagon source said the rules already were fairly broad.
aboard the ship," he said. "If we have it pinned down that a ship is in international waters and carrying mines, then we might move in."
"The key is finding hard evidence, conclusive evidence, that mines are
"We are tracking a whole lot of vessels to see if they are minelayers," he said. "Our resources are being stretched out to the limit."
A Pentagon official said in Washington that the Navy might attack any vessel it determined to be carrying mines, even if it was not caught laying the explosives in international waters.
MANAMA, Bahrain — Mines blocked a key shipping channel in the southern Persian Gulf yesterday, and sources said the U.S. Navy suspected Iran was avenging the airy attack on an Iranian minelayer.
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity.
Another source said the Navy was looking at options for dealing with intensified Iranian activities in the area.
The commander of naval forces for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Rezaie, said Iraq would attack U.S. frigate to retaliate for the Sept. 21 capture of the Iran Ajr, which the Navy said it caught in the act of
laying mines
One U.S. military said the reason he was putting a serious burden on the Navy is that
From The Associated Press.
Rezaie's comment was reported by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency, which gave no direct quotes.
The agency quoted Iranian navy chief Rear Adm. Mohammad Hussein Malekzadegan as saying, "Muslim combatants are ready to teach American Marines a lesson they will never forget."
As many as six mines were spotted about 20 miles off the busy United Arab Emirates port of Dubai.
But U.S. military sources said the destroyer USS Kidd reported possible sightings of only three such mines.
The London-based Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Unit issued a notice pinpointing an area several miles away where it said should be considered mined.
U.S. passed up 1985 meeting chance with Iranian official, former aide says
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials passed up a chance in 1985 to talk directly to a high Iranian official eager to improve relations, instead strengthening the hand of Iranian radicals through arms sales, a for-profit consulting consulted in Iran-contra testimony released yesterday.
The Associated Press
Michael Ledeen, a former consultant on terrorism who took part in early discussions with Israel about
In his testimony, given privately in March, June and September to House and Senate investigators, Ledeen said the official believed the changes could lead to Iran's abandonment of Iran and to better relations with the West.
said to have been eager to cooperate with the United States, asking only for small arms to protect himself and his allies inside Iran and for secure communications equipment to stay privately in touch with the United States, Ledeen said.
the Iran arms saies, said the Iranian official 'believed it possible to, in essence, change the nature of the country to a peaceful, parliamentary methods'
He said the official strongly opposed large-scale scales of U.S. made weapons to Iran because that strengthened his powerful opponents who were resisting any tendency towards moderation.
Bork sees disfavor from polls
The official, who is not named, is
Senate Democrats said that they had nothing to do with the polls and that they would make up their minds based on Bork's qualifications.
As the third week of hearings began, meanwhile, testimony continued to reflect deep divisions over schools, lawyers and public officials.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden, D-Del., said he hoped the panel could conclude its investigation by the nomination by the middle of next year.
WASHINGTON — Public opinion polls that show growing opposition to Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork touched off heated meetings yesterday at Bork's Senate confirmation hearings and at the White House
A Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee said some polsters had been "utterly detestable" in framing questions designed to undermine President Reagan's court nominations. And Reagan spoken Marlin Fitzwater accused Democrats of trying to turn the Bork nomination into a "special interest-led public referendum."
Among witnesses testifying Monday:
The Associated Press
—Former Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., testified, "Judge Bork's views are vintage George III," referring to the British king whose heavy-treatment of his American subjects triggered the U.S. revolution.
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