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Tuesday 23 : Lance Burn, Attorney General, Kickapoo Nation
7:00 pm, Southwest Lottery, Burge Union
Wednesday 24 : Kansas & Burge Univs, Open House
Earth Awareness, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Conversation with Noble Laureates on Ozone Depletion 1:00-3:00 pm, Frontier Room, Burge Union, American Chemical Society, KU Section
Bill Craven, Sierra Club Lobbyist
7:00 pm, Blg B Room, Kansas Union
Sunday 2/8 : Baker Wetlands Field Day, 2:00-4:00 pm
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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Achille Lauro hijacker apologizes
The Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — After decades of violence and living on the run, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking surfaced yesterday to talk of peace — and to apologize.
A bodyguard with a rifle under his jacket stood behind Abbas during the 30-minute interview in an 11th-floor apartment of a luxury Gaza City high-rise overlooking the Mediterranean.
"The killing of the passenger was a mistake. ... We are sorry," Abul Abbas said of the 1985 cruise ship hijacking, when his men shot and killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, then had the victim's body and his wheelchair thrown overboard.
The guerrilla leader, who has lived most of his adult life underground planning attacks on Israel, came to the Gaza Strip on Sunday in a show of support for Yasir Arafat and his peace agreements with Israel.
Armed guards stood watch in the foyer and in the hallway outside the apartment.
But some habits of a violent past appeared hard to shake.
hjacking was a blunder from beginning to end.
Abbas, 48, said the Achille Lauro
"We didn't plan at all to hijack the ship," he said. "The hijacking was a mistake, and there were no orders to kill civilians."
But throughout the interview, Abbas never mentioned Klinghoffer by name. As recently as 1990, he complained that while the world wept for people like Klinghoffer, it ignored the Palestinian victims of Arab-Israeli conflict.
“It's revisionist history,” they said in New York through a friend, Letty Simon. “The facts speak for themselves. He's been convicted of masterminding the murder.”
Abbas, whose real name is Mohammed Abbas, said it was time to forget the past.
"We must open a new page in the relations (with Israel)," said Abbas, speaking in a supporter's living room. "We choose the road of peace, and it's a very long road."
Abbas said he supported Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking and suggested he would vote in favor of revoking sections of the PLO charter calling for Israel's destruction.
hijacking was a mistake, and there were no orders to kill civilians."
Abdul Abbas Israeli guerrilla leader
Abbas and several other guerrilla leaders have returned from exile in recent days to participate in a session of the Palestine National Council, the Palestinianians' parliament-inxile in Gaza City.
The PNC is expected to hold the crucial vote on amending the charter this week.
Arafat has promised the Israelis he would push through the changes before May 7.
For many years, Abbas showed no regret over the Achille Lauro hiliacking.
He has said that the guerrillas who seized the Achille Lauro were aboard as a means of getting to Israel. But that plan was scrapped when they were discovered with their weapons in a cabin by a steward.
The passengers were released in Egypt after a three-day ordeal, and the gunmen surrendered. The United States issued an arrest warrant for Abbas, charging him with piracy and hostage-taking.
Abbas and his men left the next day for Tunisia aboard an Egyptian jet.
To the Americans' dismay, the Italian allowed Abbas to fly to Yugoslavia before the U.S. warrant could be served, claiming there was insufficient evidence to justify his arrest. Abbas then disappeared.
U. S. Navy fighters forced the plane down in Sicily, where the guerrillas were handed over to a reluctant Italian government.
Abbas and two other Palestinians were sentenced in absentia by an Italian court to life imprisonment in 1986, after which the United States dropped its warrant.
Democrats push for higher minimum wage
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration and leading Democrats turned up the pressure yesterday on Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to vote on legislation to raise the minimum wage.
"It's time for Senator Dole to lead, follow or get out of the way," Labor Secretary Robert Reich said.
"Let the majority rule. Let the Democrats and Republicans who support a higher minimum wage have a vote." Reich told the spring meeting of the AFL-CIO Building Trades Council. "The time for talk is over."
Senate Democratic Leader Tom Dashcle said "the time has come to stop talking and start doing."
Democrats are seeking a 90-cent increase in the wage floor, spread
across two years. They contend that when adjusted for inflation, the present wage has the least buying power of any minimum wage in almost 40 years.
Dole contended raising the minimum wage will result in a loss of jobs.
"Somebody is going to lose their job because somebody else gets an increase," Dole said Sunday on CBS show Face the Nation.
Stagnant minimum wage
Reich said a raise is an issue of basic fairness.
Dole and House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged that an increase was likely this year.
In his AFLCIO speech, Reich called for "a simple, up-or-down, yes-or-nove note ... no riders, no amendments, no back-room deals on anti-union, antiworker provisions."
Since 1991, the minimum wage has been $4.25 an hour
SOURCE: Labor Department
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