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Tuesday, September 15. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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U.S. officials to protest detention of diplomat arrested in Panama
PANAMA CITY, Panama — The U.S. Embassy said yesterday it would file a protest with Panama over the detention of a U.S. diplomat who was arrested as he watched men in civilian clothing fire at anti-government demonstrators.
"We plan to protest, but I can't say anything beyond that," embassy press secretary Cynthia Farrell said.
David Miller, the embassy's economic counsel for two years, was arrested Sunday by agents of
Panama's military intelligence and taken to a jail in the suburb of San Miguelito. He was released shortly after midnight to U.S. Ambassador Arthur Davis, Farrell said.
Pope calls for end to abortion, euthanasia
The government newspaper Critica claimed yesterday that Miller was arrested because he instigated Sunday's demonstration.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Rudi Boone said Miller was observing a demonstration of the fire to his head, and he was detained.
POHENIX, Ariz. — Pope John Paul II held a tiny, premature baby in his arms yesterday, then denounced abortion and euthanasia and repeated his condemnation any form of test-tube fertilization.
The meeting, the first of its kind,
He also reserved time during his one-day stop in Arizona for a talk with American Indians.
included 16,000 Indians from 195 tribes and officials of their dioceses. There are 285,000 Indians on the nation's 52.9 million Catholics.
The pontiff's first stop after arriving from San Antonio, Texas, was at St. Joseph's Hospital, where he visited three children in their rooms and stopped in a playroom to see 10 others.
Iraq wants Iran punished for evading truce
BAGHADD, Iraq (AP) — President Saddam Hussein yesterday urged the United Nations to take punitive measures against Iran for failing to respond to a Security Council call for a cease-fire in the Persian Gulf war.
lar. But there was no independent confirmation of any significant military action.
Iran and Iraq accused each other of starting new fighting to wreck the peace mission of Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuel
Perez de Cuellar arrived in Baghdad on Sunday after two days of talks in Tehran, Iran where President Ali Khamenei of Iran told him there could be no end to the war until the U.N. branded Iraq the aggressor and punished the country.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — This country's best-known actress, Janet Suzman, is directing one of its top actors, John Kani, in the first professional production of her play "Io" with a black in the title role.
It is Suzman's debut as a director and the first Shakespearean part for Kani, a 1976 Tony Award winner for his Broadway role in Athol Fugard's "Sizwe Banzi is Dead."
Connoisseur of sand announces winner
PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) — Siesta Key Beach in Sarasota was declared the whitest and silkiest sand in the world yesterday by a marine expert who felt, looked at and even tasted grains from 29 resort spots.
The Great International White
Sand Beach Challenge took four months to organize and 90 minutes to sift through by volunteer judge David Aubrey, an oceanographer and director of the Coastal Research Center at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod.
Reagan says Soviet's visit unlikely to produce accord
From The Associated Press.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday the superpowers still faced difficult issues before they could reach an arms agreement, and the White House cautioned it was unlikely a missile accord or summit date would result from talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze this week.
On the eve of Shewardnadze's visit to the White House, Reagan instructed U.S. negotiators to present a new draft treaty on intermediate-range forces, known as INF. It calls for elimination within three years of all medium-range nuclear missiles, which have a range of about 600 to 3,000 miles. It also would abolish within one year shorter-range missiles, which have a range of about 300 to 600 miles.
"With these new actions taken by the United States, it is now up to the Soviet Union to demonstrate whether or not it truly wants to conclude a treaty, and not to endorse its sites." Reagan said in a speech to the National Alliance of Business.
The Soviets have proposed a timetable of five years for dismantling medium-range weapons and one year for shorter-range missiles.
He said the proposed treaty contained the toughest-ever measures against cheating, a fact the administration cited in minimizing chances for an imminent announcement on a missile accord or superpower summit.
Reagan's speech and the new treaty draft set the stage for three days of meetings between Shewardnadze and Secretary of State George P. Shultz that could be crucial to the fate of an INF agreement.
Sultz and Shevardnadze will win, with three hours of talks at the State Department Tuesday and then go to the White House. There, they will sign a previously negotiated agreement to set up nuclear risk-reduction centers in Moscow and Washington to lower the chance of accidental war
Accompanied by Shultz, Reagan will confer with Shevardnadze in the Cabinet Room and then meet with him over lunch.
Shewardnadze and Shultz then will go back to the State Department for more talks and confer again tomorrow and Thursday. The discussions will be held both attend the special U.N. General Assembly session in New York.
In a statement announcing the treaty draft, Reagan said the superpowers had come a long way toward an
agreement and that a "historic agreement . . . is now within reach.
"Further, some of the details they have provided have not met the test of ensuring verification and confidence in compliance," he said.
Separately, Reagan said that arms control would not be the only topic for discussion. In a letter to a U.S. Jewish group, he sharply criticized treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union and said political pressure on Moscow must be maintained.
Constant issues remain to be resolved, including verification," the president said. He said the Soviets had agreed in principle to a number of U.S. verification requirements but had yet to provide some key details.
Reagan credited the Soviet leadership with some positive steps in human rights but said there were indicators of possible future tightening on emigration and a growth of anti-Semitism.
American arms negotiators presented Reagan's new treaty in Geneva and then quickly boarded a plane for Washington. The full team of U.S. arms negotiator joined the head of the strategic and space weapons, will be in Washington for working-group meetings with Soviet counterparts.
Exposer of Iranian scandal shot
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Lebanese journalist who disclosed the secret U.S. arms sales to Iran was shot and wounded yesterday by a gunman riding a motorcycle.
A doctor said Hassan Sabra, publisher and editor of the Beirut weekly magazine Ash-Shirna, may have been blinded by the gunfire.
Sabra, 38, suffered four bullet
bounds to the head, chest
chest (the assaults were in
the foreign hostages held in Lebanon
"He is in stable condition but might lose his eyesight from the head wound," said one doctor at the American University Hospital when Sabra emerged from three hours of surgery to remove the bullets. The doctor spoke on condition of anonymity.
Sabra, a Shilite Moslem, made enemies through his reporting in Ash-Shiraa on Iranian politics and
He was heading to the magazine's office in Muslim west Beirut's Mossesbit district in his chauffeur-driven white Mercedes-Benz when the assailant, riding on the back of a motorcycle, opened fire.
Police said Sabra was in the back seat with his 12-year-old daughter Nissir, who suffered a minor injury when she met that grazed the left side of her chest.
Sabra's driver, who doubles as a bodyguard, told reporters he jumped out of the car and fired his pistol at fleeing assailants on the motorcycle.
"But I do not know whether the assailant was hit," the driver said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
on Sabra, raising speculation that one of the two motorcycle assailants may have been killed.
Police said the body of an unidentified man bearing bullet wounds was taken to the American University Hospital two hours after the attack
"We are trying to establish the identity of the dead man in order to determine whether he was involved in the assassination attempt," said a police spokesman, who cannot be named under standing rules.
Sabra is known to have close ties with Ayatollah Hussein Montazeri, the appointed heir of Iran's revolu-
tion in March, Ayatollah Ruhul-
khomeini.
Sabra gained international fame when his magazine made the first disclosure last Nov. 1 of the secret American arms sales to Iran.
Montazer heads the militant wing in the Iranian government that suppressed a series of States. Montazer's supporters have criticized less militant leaders.
Hearings to begin for Bork
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Supporters and opponents of Judge Robert H. Bork exchanged verbal jabs yesterday on the eve of Senate hearings that will help determine the fate of one of the most pivotal Supreme Court nominations in history.
The outcome of the confirmation fight is too close to call, with perhaps a couple of dozen moderates in the Senate to commit to secure holding the balance of power.
During a speech to a National Alliance of Business audience, President Reagan made another pitch for Bork, saying that "too often, charac- assassination has replaced an in principle in Washington."
"Destroy someone's reputation and you don't have to talk about what he stands for," Reagan said. "Well, I hope Judge Bork's critics will be candid about why they oppose him and not fabricate excuses for attacking him personally. That way, we can avoid it and also create an important constitutional principle, and when the votes are counted, America will win."
The principle that Reagan was referring to was Bork's belief that "laws should govern our country, and if you want them changed, you should convince the elected legislatures to change them, not unselected." The point of the restraint shouldn't be controversial in our democracy, but it is."
The American Civil Liberties Union, which departed from its own traditional neutrality on judicial selections to oppose Bork, said the Court's recent judgement conservatism in recent interviews did not conceal his real views.
"He is fundamentally outside the mainstream," said Morton Halperin of the ACLU. Recent interviews only show he's trying to backtrack, he said.
Halperin said Bork, in extensive writings and speeches during the last few years, had espoused conservatism and viewed a retweets of 30 years ago. Halperin said.
Among those defending Bork and raising questions about the propriety of the Senate in examining a nominee's political ideology is former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.
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