Thursday, August 27, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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South African mineworkers union votes to reject effort to end strike
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The president of the black mineworker union said the miners were rejecting management's offer yesterday in a vote on whether to continue South Africa's longest and costliest mine strike.
Hundreds of thousands of miners voted by show of hands on the offer
by the Chamber of Mines in the effort to end the 17-day-old strike.
Union officials say 340,000 miners are on strike at 45 gold and coal mines.
Plane crash victim learns of family's death
"The reaction of the workers has shown that they are rejecting the offer," National Union of Mineworkers President James Motlatsi said.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Four-year-old Cecilia Cichan, the only survivor aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 255, has been told that her parents and brother died in the crash, relatives said Tuesday.
When she asked for her parents Monday night, "It was time to tell Cecilia, her grandfather, Annalisa, told the Arizona Republic.
"She didn't understand,"
Pauline Ciamachela, the girl's grandmother, told the newspaper. "She'll be asking again."
The child, who is from Tempe, Ariz., was gaining strength, but she remained in serious condition at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, said hospital spokesman John Turck. He said no decision had been made on who would care for Cecilia when she was released from the hospital.
Clemson to open condo parking garage
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson's first condominium parking garage opens this fall for football fans who score $20,000 to $12,000 to tilt in style.
For the money, a Tiger fan gets car space and access to a large-screen television, dance floor and wet bar.
sion approved the plan Monday. Developer G. Peter Manos said Tuesday that the condo garage was likely to be Clemson's one and only.
The Clemson Planning Commis-
"There is just no private property available near the football stadium," said Manos, president of Greenville-based Atlantic Southwest Capital.
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CIA messages missing
Counsel investigates lost cables about Iran arms sales
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The chief of the CIA's clandestine service told Congress that Iran-contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh was probing the mystery of missing CIA cables alerting the spy agency in late 1985 that U.S.-made missiles were being shipped to Iran, according to testimony released Wednesday.
testimony here to confirm Clair George, the CIA's deputy director for operations, raised the possibility that the cables could have been destroyed in a cover-up, but he discounted the likelihood.
One controversy the congressional investigating committees are trying to resolve concerns the question of just when the CIA knew that an Israeli aircraft, which was being routed to Iran through Portugal, contained U.S. anti-aircraft missiles and that a cover story, which said the cargo consisted of oil-drilling parts,
Documents released by the committees in June indicated that retired Air Force Maj. Gen, Richard V. Secord, who had been asked by the White House to help with the logistics of the shipment, had told two CIA agents in Portugal that the aircraft contained Hawk missiles that were part of an arms-for-hostages swap with Iran.
was false.
The agents told the committees they immediately sent an "eyes-only" cable to Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, then head of covert operations for the CIA's European division, relaying Secord's revelation.
According to the documents, witnesses are available to testify that the cable was in fact sent.
The committees say that two cables are missing; the one telling Clarridge about the missile shipment and one from Clarridge telling th-
CIA office in Europe why it was to try to obtain landing rights for the Israeli plane.
The cables are among 78 messages supposed to have been sent to Claridge at agency headquarters in Langley, Va., from the CIA station, through a special "privacy channel."
In his testimony, George said there was no way he could have missed a cable, and he quoted Second as saying, "We are trading missiles for hostages."
"I promise you, no matter how many cables we send in and out over a month, that one would have grabbed me," he said.
George was asked directly whether he knew what happened to that missing cable.
He said it would be foolish to think it had somehow disappeared within the relay system, because the odds were against that happening.
Chad prepares to attack air base to remove Libyan soldiers
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. defense officials say Chad's President Hissen Habre is preparing to launch a U.S.-backed offensive to push the remaining Libyan troops from his country, despite French advice against the move.
Habre's attack, which he is expected to launch in the coming weeks, will be directed against the Aouzou air base, which straddles the Chad-Libya border and where the Libyan maintain an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 troops, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The officials said Habe could amass as many as 10,000 troops to take the Aouzou base, and he would
have to move slightly into Libyan territory to gain complete control of the base, about half of which is inside Libya.
"We're interested in helping Chad push out the invader," said one official.
U. S. support for Chad, amounting to $32 million over the past year, appears to be part of the strategy to destabilize the leadership of Libyan strongman Moammad Gadhafi. Speaking privately, one U.S. policymaker says that as long as Gadhafi was fighting against Chad, "he can't stir us as much trouble elsewhere."
Since January, Habre has chipped away at the Libyan presence in the Gaza Strip.
most of the troops in several battles.
Libya has launched several counteroffensives in recent weeks, including high altitude bombing, to regain the lost territory, but both Chadian and Western officials say Chad has inflicted heavy losses on the Libyans.
The last Libyan attack was on Aug. 19. The defense officials said the Libyans lost several hundred troops and had 250 soldiers taken prisoner, including the commander of the offensive.
Gadhirai annexed the Aouzou, a 70-mile-wide strip in northern Chad, in 1973 and has claimed legal right to occupy the mineral-rich land under a pre-World War II treaty between Italy and France.
U.S. offers higher pay for sailors
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON  — The Reagan administration, while insisting the United States is not about to be drawn into combat, will pay $110-a-month imminent danger bonuses to an estimated 10,000 military personnel serving in the Persian Gulf region, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
The bonus will go to the crews of warships operating in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and a small portion of the Gulf of Oman, as well as personnel stationed in Kuwait and Bahrain.
David J. Armor, acting assistant defense secretary for manpower, told reporters that the danger pay had been authorized as of Tuesday and would come to about $1.1 million a month.
In other developments, the Los Angeles Times quoted Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger as indicating additional warships might be sent to the area by the United States or other western allies.
"I think that what we have now is sufficient to do what is required today, but that is by no means static or final," the secretary said. "The important thing is to have increased capabilities ... in the area."
Pentagon sources, meanwhile, disclosed that the Navy had quietly slipped an amphibious landing ship, the USS St. Louis, into the Persian Gulf with a load of two small mine-sweeping boats and two SEAL commands speedboats on board.
The administration has been under pressure from Congress recently to authorize the danger pay bonus, but had balked on the grounds that it might add weight to the demands of congressional leaders that the president invoke the War Powers Act.
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