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Thursday, September 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Jackson to announce Monday whether he will run for president
WASHINGTON — After months of campaigning around the country, Jesse Jackson plans to disclose Monday whether he will be a candidate for the presidency in 1988.
Jackson, who has given every indication that he intends to repeat his 1984 bid for the Democratic nomination, will reveal his decision on ABC-TV's "Good Morning
America" and then make a Labor Day swing through three Eastern cities.
S. Korea plans elections: strikes continue
"All indications are it's positive," said press secretary Frank Watkins.
They also agreed that the government should not intervene in labor disputes and promised legislation to increase the rights of workers. But labor turmoil continued as striking shipyard workers went on a rampage and auto-workers fought riot police. Officials said 750 strikes were in progress yesterday.
SEOUL, South Korea - Government and opposition leaders agreed yesterday to hold the first direct presidential election in a generation by Dec. 20.
Victims' friends oppose man's parole
JOLIET, III. — Richard Speck belongs behind bars or in a grave for stabbing and strangling eight student nurses 21 years ago, a prosecutor argued yesterday as a state panel considered whether to grant parole.
seven former classmates of the slain nurses attended the hearing to oppose freeing Speck, who is serving eight consecutive 50- to 150-year terms. The Illinois Prison Review Board will announce its decision Sept. 9.
More than a dozen relatives and
S.Dakotans go all out for outhouse race
KADOKA, S.D. — The third annual South Dakota Championship Outhouse Races take place this weekend, when families, businesses, clubs and entire towns will push outouthouses offitted with wheels down Kadoka's Main
Street. No steering devices are allowed.
First prize, won last year by Owen Ferguson of Long Valley, is a hand-craft, miniature outhouse. "I look at it a lot." Ferguson said.
The Associated Press
Rust apologizes to Soviets
MOSCOW — West German teenager Mathias Rust apologized to a Soviet court yesterday for flying a single-engine plane into Red Square. He said it started as a mission of peace but ended as the greatest mistake of his life.
Rust testified that he encountered Soviet warplanes during his flight and shut off his radio to avoid hearing any orders to cut short a trip he said was aimed at bringing about East-West disarmament.
"My flight was not the best action to bring this about. I'm very sorry." Rust, a 19-year-old resident of suburban Hamburg, West Germany, said during nearly five hours of testimony on the first day of the trial at the Soviet Supreme Court.
It was his first public appearance since he piloted a C萨七尼 172b across the Soviet border on May 28 and set it down amid hundreds of astonished pedestrians on Red Square near the Kremlin, the seat of Soviet power.
The flight led to a shake-up of the Soviet military establishment.
Rust faces charges of hooliganism, illegally crossing the Soviet border and violating international flight rules, and he could get 10 years in prison. The trial is expected to last three days.
He said he wanted to meet with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to discuss a new political system that would bring east and west together in "full democracy, democracy in the fullest sense of the word."
Dressed in a blue suit, a light blue shirt and tie, Rust called himself "a very sentimental man" who meant no harm to anyone.
"I sought the source of peace, and the source of peace is not in Washington, but in Moscow," said Rust. Pale but poised, he spoke in a firm, clear voice and did not appear to be intimidated.
Rust's mother, Monika, also testified in his behalf, saying he wished only for world peace.
From The Associated Press.
Her testimony and Rust's portrayed the tall, thin pilot as a looner who was worried about international relations but who never took part in the West German peace movement.
Supreme Court Judge Robert Tikhomirnov and prosecutor Vladimir Andreyev repeatedly reminded Rust that he could have killed or injured many people by landing on crowded Red Square.
Rust first told Tikhomirnov after the charges were read that "I am aware of my guilt," but later said he did not acknowledge guilt on the charge of malicious hooliganism because he had no intent to harm anyone.
"My flight did not have any aggressive intentions," he said.
Under questioning from his Soviet lawyer, Vsevolod Yakovlev, and prosecutor Andreyev, Rust told the court that with the perspective of the last 14 weeks in Lefortovo Prison, he realizes that his approach was wrong.
Iran, Iraq attack seven gulf ships
Eighteen attacks on ships have been reported and 13 confirmed since Iran and Iraq, which have been at war since September 1980, resumed their "tanker war" last weekend after a six-week lull.
The latest confirmed Iraqi raid was on the small offshore supply ship Big Orange 14, which is based in the United Arab Emirates. It was reported sunk by an air-fired missile late Tuesday near Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal in the northern gulf.
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iranian speedboats and Iraqi warplanes attacked at least seven ships in the Persian Gulf within 24 hours, and U.S. warships prepared yesterday to escort more tankers through the war zone.
Lloyd's of London underwriters announced yesterday a 50 percent increase in the cost of war risk insurance premiums for ships entering the gulf, to .375 percent of the vessel's value from 25 percent.
Dispatches from the Iraqi News Agency reported attacks yesterday on two "large maritime targets," which usually means ships, and an Iraqi attack on a Cypriot tanker Tuesday was confirmed.
The Associated Press
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Prime Minister Hussein Musavi as declaring yesterday that a policy of "blow for blow
will be pursued in a calculated fashion."
Arms train strikes war protester
The Associated Press
The Iraqis reported a fifth day of air raids on Iranian shipping, oil fields and other industrial targets. Iran said its artillery shelled military and industrial installations in southern Iraq, and Iranian planes struck in the northern area of the 730-mile border warfront.
Bouquets of flowers and pebbles spelling "Peace" marked the spot where S. Brian Willson was struck Tuesday outside the U.S. Naval Station during a protest over weapons shipments to Central America.
Shortly before he was struck, the 47-year-old Vietnam veteran told a reporter for the Oakland Tribune, "I have to say, 'You can't move the train without moving my body.'" the newspaper reported yesterday.
CONCORD, Calif. — Dozens of people watched in horror as an anti-war demonstrator was run over and dragged by a munitions train as he knelt on a track, leaving him critically injured.
"He lunged for the train, like he was angry," said the Rev. David Duncombe, who was standing next to Willson.
Willison, of San Rafael, suffered a skull fracture, and one leg was severed below the knee, said Sandra Ryan, spokeswoman for John Muir Hospital. Surgeons amputated the other leg below the knee, she said. His condition improved from critical to serious this morning.
After a news conference, he knelt on the track with others trying to stop the three-car train as it left the depot. But the train, operated by a civilian Navy employee, hit him as about 30 people watched.
Willison, who was about to start a 40-day fast, was leading 25 demonstrators outside the weapons station.
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