Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 20, 1989
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German police find bomb
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany — Police have found a third bomb in their investigation of two jailed Palestinians, and the government said yesterday the case may be linked to the December bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
The government's Today in Parliament news service said the bomb was hidden in a television set.
Police found it in the same apartment in the Dusseldorf suburb of Neus was two other explosive bombs in radios, were seized last week.
Investigators found the third bomb last Thursday in a follow-up search of the apartment, said Alexander Prestorov. The suspects were a prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe.
Monday when experts tried to disarm it at federal police headquarters in Wiesbaden. Nilting 35-year-old Hans-Joachim Koehler wounded a 29-year-old colleague.
One booby-trapped radio exploded
The two imprisoned Palestinians, Hafez Kassem Dalkamoni and Abdul Fattah Ghandanaf, are suspected of
the formation of terrorist cells in West Germany, illegal possession of weapons and two bomb attacks on U.S. military trains, Prechtel said. The train attacks in August 1987 and April 1988 caused no injuries.
Prechel confirmed details of the parliamentary report but said again that no solid evidence had emerged to link the Palestinian case to the 21 Pan Am disaster over Lockerbie Scotland, which killed 270 people.
An employee of the federal police force said no one was available to answer questions about the latest find.
Bomb kills Salvadoran official
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador's attorney general was killed yesterday by a bomb that his driver said was placed on top of his car at an intersection. The rightist government blamed leftist guerrillas.
Roberto Garcia Alvarado, 33, was killed instantly by the blast, said Mr. Oreland. Orlanda shot the explosion with a hole through the roof of the attorney general's Jeep
Cherokee
Garcia is the highest-ranking government official slain since the civil war began in 1981.
Neither the driver nor a bodyguard in the jeep was visibly wounded, but both complained of partial deafness from the blast.
The rebel's Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last month accused the attorney general's office of "covering up for murderers" in the assault on Cristiani's rightist Republican Nationalist Alliance, or Arena.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. President-elect Alfredo Cristian blamed himself in criticizing the U.S.-backed government.
El Salvador's attorney general, the government's chief prosecutor, is not a Cabinet official and is appointed by the Congress, which is controlled by Arena. Garcia had held the post since December.
SOVIETS JOIN CLEANUP: A Soviet ship that can skim oil on the high seas joined the fight against the United States' worst oil spill yesterday, docking in Seward, Alaska, a town named for the man who bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
The Soviet ship, the 11,400-ton Vadoglubovsky, steamed 30 miles up fjordike Resurrection Bay under a cloudy sky, flying the Soviet flag from its stern and an American aircraft to towering white superstructure.
By midmorning, a stream of tourists was driving up to the dock to take pictures and to wave to the crew.
The Vaidogubsky, which is 425 feet long, works with two motorboats that drag a boom to corral the oil. Then two pipes, working like 100-foot straws, dip into the oil and suck it onto the larger ship.
The ship probably will be available for 30 days.
NORTH CALLED SCAPEGOAT: Oliver North's lawyer, in an emotional final argument yesterday, portrayed the former White House scapegoat and the scapegoat and a hostage, and impled jurors to "set him free."
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"Oliver North never wanted to be a hero." said Brendan Sullivan.
"He just wants to go home."
But prosecution John Keker, having the last word, asked the jury to "return a verdict of guilty in each and every one of the 12 charges."
During deliberation, the jury will be sequestered for the first time since the Iran-contra trial began.
North is charged with 12 criminal counts, including lying to Congress and the attorney general, illegally converting traveler's checks to his own use and conspiring to defraud the Treasury through a tax scam to support the Republican government. If convicted, he could receive prison terms of 60 years and fines of $3 million.
RELIEF CONVOV ATTACKED:
Attackers ambushed and shot up
the first truck convoy of a U.N.
famine relief effort intended to
save 100,000 lives in the southern
Sudan war zone, killing seven
armed escorts. U.N. officials said
yesterday.
They said that a civilian driver and two assistants were wounded, and radio reports from the scene identified the slain escorts as members of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army.
The attack occurred Tuesday about 20 miles west of Kapoeta, a
rebel base in southeastern Sudan. 50 miles north of the Kenya border.
DIAL-A-PORN DEBATE: The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court yesterday to protect the nation's children by upholding a federal law that would shut down the $2 billion "dial-a-porn" indus-
Congress was justified when it passed a law last year banning all sexually explicit telephone dial-up message services to "protect child abuse." The attorney for the offensive speech," Justice Department lawyer Richard Taranto said.
The total ban on dial-a-porn was never imposed because a federal judge in California ruled that the 1988 law could be applied only to obscene, not merely indecent, phone messages.
U. S. District Judge Wallace Tashima in Los Angeles said that outlawing non-obscene messages, even though they may be inappropriate for minors, violates the Fourth Amendment to the country's First Amendment. The government appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court.
Congress in 1983 attempted to protect children by imposing restrictions on dial-a port services did not seek a total ban until 1988.
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