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Tuesday, September 8, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Shiite Muslims free West German after keeping him seven months
DAMASCUS, Syria — Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon yesterday freed one of their two West German hostages from seven months of captivity, and the Bonn government said Iran and Syria played a role in the release.
Syrian army officers drove 47-year-old engineer Alfred Schmidt to Damascus and turned L.m over to West German diplomats.
'It' s wonderful to be a free man
again," Schmidt said before he was taken to the airport for the flight home.
Protests of Berlin Wall mark Honecker visit
"They didn't mistreat me. The treatment was all right. I'm OK. I want to see my family and friends."
Schmidt was released at 4 a.m. in the slums of south Beirut, a stronghold of Iranian-backed Shiite militants.
BONN, West Germany — Erich Honecker, the first leader of East Germany to visit West Germany, was greeted Monday with a demand that his security forces stop shooting people who try to flee the communist nation.
At a banquet Monday evening, Chancellor Helmut Kohl also con-
denied the Berlin Wall. Honecke, who supervised the wall's construction in 1961, saw motionless at his side and stared straight ahead.
As Kohl spoke, about 150 people stood outside the banquet hall chanting "Down with the wall!" and "Scrap the shoot-to-kill orders!"
Jesse Jackson says his chances are good
PITTSBURGH — Jesse Jackson, declaring he has a good chance of becoming the United States' first black president, said yesterday he would announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination on Oct. 10 and pledged to campaign for "jobs, jobs, jobs, peace and justice."
"In a real sense, I'm trying to fulfill the best dimension of the Constitution," he said. "If I can in fact become president, . . . every woman can, every man, boy and woman and girl can," he said on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America."
Garbage barge brings fame to Long Island
NEW YORK — Long Island's real claim to fame is not its beaches, the Long Island Expressway or even "Jaws." Long Island is most famous for the wandering garbage barge.
sion of a poll taken last month of 100 guests at a Long Island hotel.
A majority of those who participated chose the garbage barge, gained fame when it was rejected by six states and three countries
That, at least, was the conclu From The Associated Press.
Officials see end to contras
WASHINGTON — A consensus has formed in the Reagan administration that the 6-year-old U.S. struggle against Nicaragua's leftist government will be lost by the end of the year unless present trends are reversed, officials have said.
The Associated Press
According to a number of administration experts on Central America, a sense of alarm exists, based on the perception that the regional peace agreement signed last month heavily favors the Sandinista government.
Leading Democrats are more optimistic. House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, for example, said the Sandistas had made an impressive start toward complying with the terms of the agreement, which requires democratic reform.
"All they (the Sandinistas) have to do is wait until December," said one official, speaking on condition that he not be identified. Another said, "Time is on the Sandinists' side."
The agreement also calls for an end to U.S. aid to the rebel movement.
One administration official said the administration was working on new ideas to head off what they saw as a potential major strategic defeat for the United States. President Reagan said the contrast would not be abandoned. But he has not specified how that goal would be accomplished.
The current U.S. aid allocation to the contraas expires Sept. 30. The Sandinistas are not required under the agreement to show a good-faith effort to make democratic reforms until Nov. 7.
The officials think the Sandistas need only maintain a democratic facade until late fall to achieve final victory.
As the officials see it, the mood in Congress is such that virtually any token democratic gesture by the Sandinistas will be seized on by the Democrat-controlled Congress and guarantee defeat of any contra aid
Congress seems no longer willing to go along with the administration's view that the Sandinistas will reform only under relentless military pressure from the contras.
Wright has said, "I'm going to wait just as long as the peace process is working — as long as there is any peace in Iraq — and I'm peace before I start talking war."
Once the contras realize they cannot get any more aid from Washington, the rebels will become demoralized and be forced to disband, these officials have said.
request.
The officials predicted that the Sandinistas would dismantle the democratic trappings now in place once the contra threat was removed and the government is under a lifestyle system and resume efforts to subvert their neighbors.
While maintaining a confident public posture, contra leaders privately are worried that the end may be near.
Siamese twins making progress
The Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) — Doctors were slightly encouraged yesterday by the progress of infant twins born joined at the head and separated in a 22-hour operation, and they plan to keep the infants unconscious for up to a week as they recover from the trauma of surgery.
Patrick and Benjamin Binder, of Ulm, West Germany, were in critical but stable condition at Johns Hopkins Children's Center a full day after their operation, which ended at 5:15 a.m. Sunday.
Doctors were upbeat but cautious Monday, saying no particularly troublesome problems had arisen.
"We didn't know how much bleeding or respiratory difficulty there would be," said Dr. Mark Rogers, who coordinated the surgery. "It appears they have developed a stable pattern in both, and we are able at this point to cope with problems."
"We're slightly encouraged they're doing well this morning," Rogers
But he also said, "We will not know how this turns out for several
weeks."
weeks.
Doctors are controlling virtually all the 7-month-old twins' bodily functions as they remain in the drug-induced comas, or prolonged anesthetic sleep, Rogers said.
Two major risks are bleeding and swelling of the brain tissue.
"We would hope that it would take no more than five or seven drug-induced days to allow their brains to recover from the stress of surgery." he said.
Soviets grant visa to Begun
The Associated Press
Successfully emerging from this state is their first big hurdle, Rogers
MOSCOW (AP) — Jewish activist Josef Begun and more than a half-dozen other "refusenks" were told yesterday they could emigrate to Israel after years of waiting for permission to leave the Soviet Union.
Begun, who first applied for an exit visa 16 years ago, was released from prison in February.
"This morning someone from the Moscow visa office called father by telephone and told him that they were giving their permission to go to Israel." Begun's son, Boris, said by telephone.
The elder Begun told Western reporters that he went to the Moscow visa office to fill out papers Monday and speculated that granting of the exit visas could be connected to a summit between Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Reagan.
In a telephone interview with Israeli Television, Begun said: "We are very happy. We feel like we were born again. We were waiting too long, but this is wonderful, and we feel exalted. All our feelings are at meeting other people soon on our land, in our country, in Jerusalem."
Begun, 55, is one of the best-known Jewish "witnesses," the name given to those refused permission to leave the Soviet Union. He had taught Hebrew and Jewish culture in Moscow, which is illegal, and was a leader in efforts for Jewish emigration.
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