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University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Jury convicts ex-CIA agent of smuggling arms to Libya
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A federal jury, deliberating only 4 ½ hours, convicted multimillionaire ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson yesterday of smuggling arms to Liba to aid Moammar Khadafy's terrorist forces.
The seven-woman, five-man man returned guilty verdicts on seven of eight counts accusing Wilson of illegally exporting four handguns and a Colt M-16 automatic rifle from the United States to Libyan intelligence and army officials.
Herald Price Fabinger, defense attorney, said he would appeal.
U.S. District Judge Richard Williams scheduled sentencing for Dec.
17 on the charges, which carry penalties of up to 39 years in prison and up to $240,000 in fines.
Herald Press Fahringer, defense attorney, said he would appeal. The former clandestine agent still faces three other trials in Washington and was acquitted of conspiracy to murder a Libyan dissident on a $1 million "bit" contract, illegally exporting 44,000 pounds of plastic explosives and bomb devices to Libya and recruiting former Green Beret specialists to teach terrorists in Libya how to use the explosives.
President renews war on drug traffic
HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE, Fla.—President Reagan stood beside a multimillion-dollar cache of seized marijuana and cocaine yesterday and renewed his pledge to "break the power of the mob in America."
Reagan made a dramatic visit to the front line of the war on drugs as he toured a drug-hunting Coast Guard Cutter and examined a display of weapons, money and drugs seized by the South Florida Task Force.
Reagan created the task force in January to stop the multibillion-dollar influx of illegal drugs from Latin America into the United States.
"I repeat what I said when I announced this program. Our goal is to break the power of the mob in America and nothing short of that," he said. "We mean to end their profits, imprison their members and cripple their organization."
95 soldiers killed, Salvadorans sav
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—Leftist rebels said yesterday they killed or wounded 95 military soldiers in two days of combat, pushing to almost 700 the total casualties they claim to have inflicted in a five-week offensive.
The insurgents, who also charged that two Honduran army battalions were aiding Salvadoran troops along El Salvador's northern border, were indicted on charges of espionage.
Honduran military officers have conceded that 1,000 to 2,000 soldiers backed by artillery were stationed on the border to prevent Salvadoran guerrillas from crossing the frontier.
Journalists visiting San Francisco Gotera, 72 miles northeast of San Salvador, reported that the International Red Cross received 52 prisoners of war on Tuesday from leftist guerrillas in Morazan province, leaving the rebels with only a few prisoners.
Aid sought for prairie fire victims
BROOKVILLE—Saline County officials are seeking disaster aid at the state and federal level to help farmers who suffered $250,000 in damages in last week's land-consuming prairie fire.
Elmer Kern, director of the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said yesterday he had asked for implementation of the disaster provision of the Farmers Home Administration to provide emergency credit loans.
The FmHA loans must be approved by the state FmHA office in Topeka and Gov. John Carlin.
Kern said he had also requested implementation of the emergency conservation measures program of the ASCS, which, if approved, would reduce the number of fire incidents.
Kern's office had received 26 damage reports by late yesterday listing 128 dead cattle, 77 miles of destroyed fences and other losses of feed, a
F-A-18 not up to par, official says
WASHINGTON—Navy Secretary John Lehman acknowledged that the costly new F-A-18 fighter-bomber could not perform some combat missions without aerial refueling and that an external fuel tank might be added, it was learned yesterday.
Lehman disclosed in a confidential letter to a key congressman that a Pentagon hearing on the $40 billion F-A-18 Hornet project would be delayed until an "extensive review" of the plane's performance by the Navy was completed in February.
Navy test pilots conducted a six-month operational evaluation of the Hornet in its role as a light bomber and concluded in a report submitted Oct. 4 that it was overweight and could not meet Navy range conditions by flying 580 nautical miles with a full payload without refueling.
Production of 138 of the $22.5 million planes, built by the McDonnell-Douglas Corp. and the Northrop Corp., was authorized in June, 1981.
Ramp collapse kills 24, injures 50
CALI, Colombia—A crowded ramp at a soccer stadium collapsed at the end of a match yesterday, killing at least 24 people and injuring 50.
Fans in the upper level of the Pascual Guerrero soccer stadium "sprayed urine" down in front of an exit, causing a back-up of fans on
The ramp broke under the weight of the crowd, standing on the ramp in an attempt to avoid being hit by the spray, the witness said.
The police, Red Cross, civil defense and firefighters rushed to the scene to aid victims, who were taken to a local hospital.
Police said at least 24 people died and 50 people were injured. Most of the deaths were caused by suffocation, a hospital spokesman said.
War internees may get reparations
WASHINGTON—The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment is moving toward recommending an apology and reparations for 60,000 surviving Japanese-Americans put in internment camps after Pearl Harbor, it was learned yesterday.
The Los Angeles Times quoted former Rep. Robert Drinan, D-Mass., a commission member, as saying the commission may recommend up to 100 members.
One Japanese-American group asked for a total of $3 billion in reparations.
The commission is scheduled to meet next Monday in one of its final meetings.
The commission, which was established two years ago as the first official inquiry into the relocation, opened hearings in July 1981. It heard hundreds of witnesses in Washington and on both coasts.
Budget main issue in lame-duck session
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
Two Kansas congressmen think that instead of making progress toward resolving the nation's chronic economic problems and curing Social Security, Congress' lame-duck session may lay an egg.
Staff Reporter
The lane-duck session, scheduled to begin Nov. 29 and last for about three weeks, became necessary when Congress, during its last session, failed to pass any long-term budgets to keep the government in operation.
If Congress does not reconvene to pass new appropriations bills, the government will run out of money on budget spending and latest stop-gap spending measure ends.
SOME CONGRESSIONAL leaders, including Kansas Republican Sen. Bob Dole, want to spend the lame-duck session discussing ways of reviving the Social Security system and putting Americans back to work in unemployed Americans back to work.
D-Kan, and Pat Roberts, R-Kan, said the chances of the lame-duck Congress coming to grips with those problems were slim because of their complexity.
But U.S. Reps. Dan Glickman,
Roberts, who represents western Kansas, said Congress needed time to review the options reached by the special commission on Social Security and the recommendations by the administration before reaching any decisions.
"You have to realize the commission is considering over 80 options," he said. "I look for a great deal of discussion, but you are talking about one of the most important entitlement programs and a politically sensitive issue.
"NO TO GET Congress to agree so soon is not very reasonable. I wish we could do it, because it would send a signal that Congress is serious about under control. That would be a good psychological boost to the country."
Glickman, who represents south-central Kansas, said any jobs bill would cost congressmen a lot of money. Congressmen would be weary of a bill composed so late in the year. He said
Dole and several Reagan administration officials want to create jobs in highway and bridge construction by increasing the gasoline tax.
this hesitancy could hinder a jobsprogram linked to a 5-cent increase in the federal gasoline tax.
"I don't see a decision made unless a bipartisan consensus is reached, and right now I don't see that happened." Glickman said. "I think there are some problems when we come up in December with an emergency jobs bill.
"WE HAVE TO make sure we construct one that will armark the skills of the jobs bill to the skills of the unemployed. In the past, we have created jobs bills that didn't make sense in the short term or long term."
The lame-duck session also may be unable to agree on a long-term budget, Roberts said, because the Democratic House leadership, with Speaker Thomas "as Tip" O'Neill Jr., D-Mass, at the helm, may play the numbers game.
"I don't look for any long-term budgets to be ironed out because Tip is going to wait until his 26 new members come on board," Roberts said.
The Democratic House majority was increased by 26 members after the Nov-
GLICKMAN SAID some of the less controversial budgets, such as the State, Judicial and Commerce, and the Treasury Post Office budgets, might pass. But he said ongoing differences in the House could force several budgets to be financed through new continuing resolutions.
"I see a couple of things happening in the lame-duck session," he said. "First, I see Democrats flexing their muscles, and I see moderate Republicans shying away from the administration.
"It could be the end of the last hurrur for the administration if it does not wake up and modify its economic program."
One showdown Glicksan sees brewing in the lame-duck session is over defense spending. Glicksan said House Democrats were preparing to push for a $1 trillion defense budget, which could include scrapping the MX missile system.
Solidarity leader's trial enters third dav
By United Press International
WARSA, Poland—The first major trial of an illegal Solidarity underground leader entered its third day yesterday with police guarding the red brick courthouse in Wroclaw to prevent demonstrations.
In Warsaw, the martial law government suspended classes at Warsaw University's psychology department until school officials explain "the circumstances of the lack of classes on campus" and the official news agency PAP reported.
The students staged a one-day strike Nov. 10, apparently in response to the underground Solidarity's unsuccessful appeal for a general strike.
IT WAS BELIEVED to be the first time the government had suspended
classes for such an action, although school officials Tuesday suspended classes at another university in north central Poland because students "disturbed due to excessive use of alcohol" on Nov. 10, officials said.
The first two days of the trial of Wladyslaw Frasynkus were overshadowed by the release of former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa.
Frasnjuki, the 28-year-old mechanic who formed part of the five-man national underground command, has pleaded not guilty to charges of organizing strikes and demonstrations or the impiration of martial law Dec. 13.
with broadcasting illegal radio programs and distributing underground leaflets.
He has also pleaded not guilty to a charge of contributing to death and harming the victim, 31 in which three men were shot in the Wroclaw area. He also is charged
The government said Tuesday that what it releases "way essential in its blueprint," and it said the government would not be bound by that.
It was expected that the decision to lift martial law will be either proposed or adopted at the parliament session of July 13 — the anniversary of military rule.
Frasynniuk, a member of the 107-member Solidarity national commission, escaped internment and, as a fugitive, built up in Wrocław one of the strongest underground operations in the country.
Police, fearing protests in his support, put a heavy guard around the courthouse during his trial.
Defense sources said they thought the
prosecutor would ask for an 8- to 10-year jail term.
FRASYNICK WAS arrested Oct. 5. The Wroclaw underground was death further serious blows by the arrest of his successor and the liquidation by police of Radio Solidarity and underground print shops.
A Warsaw daily, Kurior Polski, said, "Frasynik is not questioning the activity he is accused of; he is only told that if it is supposed to have been illegal."
The newspaper quoted Frasynik as telling the court, "After 16 months of activity within the democratic structures of the union, of the struggle for freedom and civil rights, I would not be able to live in any system forced upon me by martial law."