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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, June 11, 1986
News Briefs
Nicaraguan rebels free eight German volunteers
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Contras, U.S.backed Nicaraguan rebels, released eight West German volunteer workers late yesterday after holding them in the jungle for 25 days, a Nicaragua official said.
Information Minister Manuel Espinoza, in a nationwide radio broadcast, said 15 Nicaraguan peasants were killed.
The group was released in the remote town of Presillitas, 100 miles east of the capital and not far from Laredo.
The Germans, four men and four women, were kidnapped from a project where they were building
Espinosa did not give details of how the release was carried out, nor did he comment on the condition of the
Rival blacks battle in S. Africa
CROSSROADS, South Africa — Hundreds of shanties were burned yesterday during the second day of a battle between rival blacks that is laying waste to this squandid squatters' cause. Rose to 14 and two more were left homeless.
about 20,000 people in less than a month between conservative vigilantes and militant "comrades" in Crossroads, a sprawling shanty town 12
miles east of Cape Town that the government has been trying to build dolloze for years.
Men fought in a cold, winter rain with guns, axes, iron bars, and rocks. Police said seven people were killed.
Many of the people attacked this time were among about 30,000 people who lost their homes in previous fighting and had taken refuge in tents, churches and community halls.
Nicaragua-aid debate continues
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, under pressure from the White House and GOP leaders, said yesterday a showdown on military aid to Afghanistan was coming. The president and insisted President Reagan still could not win.
Calling the issue "a question of conscience and heart," O'Neill said sentiment in the House had not changed since the $100 million aid request was rejected in March.
"The president still doesn't have the votes," he said. "The policy of the White House is wrong."
The White House, echoing the sentiments of House Republican leader Robert Michel and assistant GOP leader Trent Lott, insisted there has been movement toward the president's position since the last vote.
"We are anxious to vote," said Larry Speakes, White House spokesman.
Congress starts shuttle inquiry
WASHINGTON — Congress opened its own investigation of the shuttle program yesterday and the chairman of the Rogers Commission said he saw no proof. The agency prosecution resulting from the Challenger accident.
But William Rogers, commission chairman, said it was not beyond the realm of possibility that some amateur could win.
"It doesn't seem to me prosecution would be successful of anyone in this tragic accident," Rogers said in reply to questioning from members of the House Science and Technology Committee.
Rogers, accompanied by Vice Chairman Neil Armstrong and Alton Keel, commission staff director, said the panel's 266-page report pinpointed the cause of the attack on the long history of managerial errors that led to it.
House hears testimony on Deaver
WASHINGTON -- Members of a House subcommittee criticized former White House counsel Fred Fielding yesterday for discussing a job with presidential aide Michael Deaver's lobbying firm while Fielding's office was looking into Deaver's business activities.
The House subcommittee on oversight and investigations met privately for three hours to hear testimony from Fielding about his discussion with an official of Deaver's multimillion-dollar company concerning a possible job when he left the administration.
"I get the impression that some people skipped Common Sense 101 back in school," Ron Wyden, D.Ore., said after the hearing. "The office of the president should not appear to be up for sale."
Deaver, President Reagan's former deputy chief of staff, left the government last year to start a lobbying
NOW files suit against pro-lifers
WASHINGTON — The president of the National Organization for Women said yesterday that the group had filed a class-action suit in federal court against three leading abortion foes to force an end to a "nationwide criminal conspiracy" that was threatening abortion clinics across the country.
In announcing the suit, filed Monday in federal court in Wilmington, Del., NOW President Eleanor Smeal said the legal action was an attempt to focus attention on a national problem of harassment and often violent intimidation at abortion clinics. The suit cites two men and one woman, as well as two anti-abortion groups.
The suit was filmed the same day a large pipe bomb ripped a 10-foot hole in the front of a Wichita clinic. Police said they would question anti-abortion activists who often picketed the site.
From Kansan wires.
Kansas Summer Theatre`86
The Golden Fleece by A. R. Gurney and the Harmiliness of Tobacco by Anton B. 8:00 p.m., mighty Y. T. & J. 1986, Waworth Recruit Hall Swarthout Recruit Hall
The 1940's Radio Hour written by Walton Jones
Based on an idea by Watson Jones and Carroll,
originally presented by the Invisible Company and Yale
Repertory Theatre and further developed by the Arena Stage in
presented by Juamcyn Productions.
Joseph P. Harris, Ira Bermstein and
Roger Benlin
8:00 p.m. nightly
July 11, 12, 13, 18 & 19, 1986
Crafton Theatre
Tickets on sale June 9 in the Murphy Hall Box Office
For reservations, call 913/864-3982
VISA/MasterCard accepted for phone reservations
Released by The University of Kansas Theatre