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Tuesday, August 25, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
U.S. forces drive Iranian warship away from Kuwaiti tankers in gulf
MANAMA, Bahrain — U.S. helicopters and warships inscriffed Kuwaiti tankers out of the Persian Gulf chased away an Iranian warship yesterday in the first major confrontation of the U.S. convoy operation, witnesses said.
The mine-damaged Bridget and three other reflagged Kuwati tankers in the convoy later cleared
the Strait of Hormuz, gateway out of the gulf, and a new convoy of three U.S.-escorted tankers steamed through the strait and into the gulf.
In a separate incident, the U.S. destroyer and frigate fired their machine guns across the bows of two boats that approached the convoy.
British confirm Hess' death was suicide
BERLIN — British authorities declared officially yesterday that Rudolph Hess hanged himself, and his family said the 93-year-old last survivor of Adolf Hitler's inner circle was buried secretly.
Revising an earlier statement,
British military authorities said evidence showed Hess hanged himself Aug. 17 with an electrical extension cord in a cottage inside West Berlin's Spandau prison, where he was the sole inmate.
S. African firm delays firing striking miners
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South Africa's largest gold producer put off yesterday for two days its threatened firing of 10,000 artisans and 25,000 workers the death toll from nationwide, strike-related violence rose to six.
Corp.'s director of industrial relations, said in announcing a delay in the fringes that a "significant" number of workers had returned to work. He did say how many.
Bobby Godsell, Anglo American
The National Union of Mineworkers denied there was a large scale return to the mines.
County commissioners pay for night in jail
MARIETTA, Ga. — It wasn't a typical ribbon-cutting ceremony at Cobb County's new $12 million jail.
$25 for the privilege of spending Saturday night locked up in navy blue prison uniforms.
Several members of the County Commission and assorted other politicians, businessmen and members of the news media paid
The event was intended to give the jail's staff a practice run on procedures at the jail.
Officials say summit unlikely
The Associated Press
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Reagan administration officials said yesterday that another U.S.-Soviet summit would be unlikely unless the superpowers were in virtual agreement on a treaty to eliminate intermediate-nuclear weapons.
Chief presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater emphasized anew that there had been no contacts with U.S. officials indicating that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev wanted to meet with President Reagan in Washington after a visit to the United Nations in New York in September.
Fitzwater and State Department spokesman Phyllis Oakley also said that Gorbachev was not expected to visit the U.N.
But Fitzwater said that Gorbachev had a long-standing invitation to visit this country and that the United States didn't want to send too negative a message in response to possible overtures by the Soviets.
The administration comments came amid speculation about a possible third summit between President Reagan and Gorbachev, triggered by a Los Angeles Times report Sunday that the Soviet leader wanted to meet with Reagan, even in the absence of an agreement to eliminate whole classes of intermediate-range, or INF, missiles.
At a briefing for reporters who accompanied the president to California for the president's annual summer vacation, Fitzwater said U.S. officials were taken aback by the Times story.
The newspaper, in yesterday's editions, noted the State Department denial of the earlier story indicating a possible Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Washington.
But, citing "non-Soviet sources familiar with U.S.-Soviet contacts," the paper reaffirmed that the United States government has been advised through private channels of Gorbachev's plan to attend a General Assembly session at the United Nations in September, and that the Kremlin leader would be prepared to
follow that with a meeting with Reagan in Washington.
Fitzwater indicated that Reagan is not interested in another summit with Gorbachev unless a nuclear arms reduction pact is virtually signed, sealed and delivered before-band.
"We don't have any foundation in those stories," Fitzwater said. "There's no indication that the General Secretary (Gorbachev) has made any overtures towards coming in September, and no contacts have been made that we're aware of."
He said that Reagan had given Gorbachev an open-ended invitation to come to the United States but added that "we have not received a response to that."
While no strings were attached to the invitation, the spokesman said, "I would say that if any summit is held in the United States, it would be associated with the signing of an arms control agreement."
Pioneer civil rights activist dies
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Bayard Rustin, the outspoken civil rights pioneer and activist who organized the seminal rally at which Dr. Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech and counseled against violence and separatism, has died. He was 75.
the island. Hill said.
Rustin died Sunday at Lenox Hill Hospital, where he had undergone surgery T for daya for a ruptured appendix and was admitted to the A. Phillip Randumb Institute of the A. Phillip Randumb Institute.
A pioneer, planner and thinker of the civil rights, peace and labor movements all his adult life, Rustin survived a major heart attack in 1971 and continued to campaign actively around the world against violence and injustice.
Rustin, co-chairman of the institute, went to the hospital with stomach pains upon returning from a trip to Haiti. He had gone to Haiti with a labor group to assess the prospects for democratic change in
"He had boundless energy. He danced and sang at his 75th birthday tribute." Hill said.
Arrested more than two dozen times during a life of activism, Ruskin also came under fire from radical blacks during the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s for counseling against violence and black separatism.
Rustin's activism dated from his high school years in West Chester. Pa. He was born there March 17, 1912, according to the institute.
I'm prepared to be a Tom if it's the only way I can save women and children from being shot down in the
street," he said when taunted for walking the streets of Harlem to help quell the riots of 1964.
Rustin recalled that traveling as a member of a state championship football team, he was refused service at a restaurant and thrown out.
He attended Wilberforce University in Ohio, Cheyney State Teachers College in Pennsylvania and City College of New York from 1930 to 1935 and was later awarded several honorary degrees.
"From that point on, I took the conviction that I would not accept segregation." he said.
Four-year-old Cecilia Cichan of Tempe, Ariz., was the only one of 155 people on the plane who survived.
Motorists place wreaths at site of plane crash
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Little physical evidence remained yesterday of the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255, but motorists stopped to lay wreaths on the disaster site and gifts continued to pour in for the lone survivor.
From The Associated Press.
By Sunday night, the wreckage had been cleared, and grassy areas scorched during the accident had been sprayed green.
Two motorists were killed when the jet crashed.
"Evidently some people placed some wreaths on the site," Wayne County Sheriff's Deputy Dennis Lucas said yesterday.
University of Michigan Medical Center spokeswoman Sandy Lincoln said Cecilia remained in serious but improving condition Monday. She underwent a four-hour skin graft operation Friday, and Sunday she took her first solid food, a cherry-flavored ice.
"She's quite awake and asking a lot of questions," Lincoln said, adding that the child's family and doctors still have not decided when to tell her that her parents and 6-year-old brother died in the crash.
Gifts continued to flood the hospital.
"All of the matters pertaining to what Northwest will pay for will be determined by the insurance carrier. There's no question Cecilia's medical expenses will be covered," said A.B. Magary, executive vice president of marketing for the airline.
Suburban Detroit radio station WNIC-FM yesterday presented $6,000 gathered from listeners and a station donation to the hospital, as well as other gifts, said station spokesman Doug Knopper.
Any money sent to Cecilia will not be needed for her medical expenses.
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