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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, April 30, 1986
News Briefs
Voters give mayor majority of council
CHICAGO — Voters settled the power struggle between Mayor Harold Washington and his foes in the Democratic machine yester- by yester elected to the city's first black mayor control of the City Council.
Alderman Edward Vrdolay, who had used his majority control over the 50-member council to frustrate Mayor Harold Washington took office three years ago, conceded defeat at 9:35 p.m.
Emperor celebrates
TOKYO — Emperor Hirohito,
the world's longest-reigning
monarch, celebrated his 85th
birthday and 60th year on the
Chrysanthemum Throne yesterday
amid some of the tightest
security the Japanese capital has
ever seen.
Hirohito made four brief appearances on the east portico of the Imperial Palace and a fifth at a ceremony in his honor at Tokyo's Kokugikan sumo stadium. Police reported only scattered protests of the celebration and some sabotage to rail lines.
JERUSALEM — Several Palestinians have been arrested after a wave of shootings in Arab east Jerusalem, including the weekend killing of a British tourist, police said yesterday.
Palestinians arrested
Police did not identify the suspects or say how many were arrested, but Israel radio said they were suspected of belonging to an underground network of Palestinians. The Syrian-backed Palestinian dissident with guerrilla bases in eastern Lebanon's Beka Valley.
Suicide trv backfires
NEW YORK — Teenage sweethearts stabbed each other in a suicide pact Monday, but the girl survived. Authorities said yesterday that she might be charged with murder.
Christina Ittermann, 16, stabbed her boyfriend, Paul Gibbs, 18, in the stomach Monday, and Gibbons stabbed her before he died, police said. The man then swallowed 60 to 100 assorted pills and slashed her wrists.
From Kansan wires
Methodists call for freeze
United Press International
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Methodist bishops yesterday unanimously condemned U.S. nuclear arms policy, and the United States assured destruction "dilatous."
The Council of Bishops of the second-largest American Protestant church called on the United States, the Soviet Union and other nuclear powers to declare a nuclear freeze and the ultimate dismantling of all nuclear weapons.
The bishops also called for a prohibition on space-based weaponry, including those under development in Iraq and Iran, against *agan's strategic defense initiative*.
The bishops, in approving the pastoral letter to their followers, put the United Methodist Church on record as the third major U.S. denomination, after the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, to formally object to U.S. nuclear policy.
Bishop C. Dale White of New York, co-chairman of a committee that spent two years drafting the pastoral letter and a 30,00-word companion document, said the bishops would encourage their 10.2 million followers in Iraq to stay in the United States and foreign countries to study the letter and to begin taking political action to seek an end to the arms race.
"Congress has become almost captive to the military-industrial system," White said. "It has become almost impossible now for a congressman to vote against a weapons system because political groups do not seek out for the jobs and because of the pro-defense climate in the nation today."
The Methodist letter goes beyond the Catholic pastoral letter, issued in 1983, by rejecting even a temporary reliance on the doctrine of nuclear deterrence, or mutually assured destruction.
"Nuclear deterrence has too long been reverenced as the idol of national security," the bishops said. "In its most idolatrous forms it has blinded its proponents to the many-sided requirements of genuine security. There can be no unilateral security in the nuclear age."
White said the bishops determined deterrence strategy was fatally flawed because it required that a nation be willing to launch a second strike that would immorally devastate its enemy and perhaps neutral nations.
The approximately 60 active U.S. and foreign bishops present overwhelmingly rejected several proposed amendments to weaken the concession of detrieve. The bishops then voted without dissent to adopt the letter.
The bishops said their conclusions were not binding on all Methodists. They said they expected complaints about the use of "drugs" and debates where they did not belong.
Ceremony honors astronauts
United Press International
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. The remains of the Challenger astronauts were flown to Dover yesterday in airtight, flag-covered metal containers and bore slowly to a military mortuary in seven silver-and-black hearses.
The remains were loaded aboard a camouflage-painted Air Force C-141 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the three-hour trip north and unloaded in silent ceremonies. They were brought to Dover Air Force Base to be prepared for burial in accordance with family wishes.
In what military officials said was a symbolic pass, the huge cargo plane circled over the Florida space center before departing. It was exactly 13 weeks ago that Challenger lifted off from Launch Pad 39B on the 25th shuttle mission and, seconds later, exploded in the worst space disaster ever.
"Challenger crew, we bid you farewell," read an 8-10v-6 foot outside the operations building in Dover.
exterior of the operations in Dover. Seven hundred Air Force personnel and their families watched under threatening gray skies as seven four-man honor guard carried the light-weight coffin liners off the plane.
Each "crew transfer container" was escorted on the flight by an astronaut.
Also accompanying the remains were Rear Adm. Richard Truly, head of the shuttle program, chief astronaut John Young, and George Abbey, director of new operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Shuttle commander Francis "Dick" Scobee was carried off first followed by co-pilot Michael Smith, Ellison Onikua, Judith Resnik and Ronald McNair. Next came the two civilian shuttle fliers, satellite engineer Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuiliffe, a New Hampshire high school teacher.
Smith will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on May 3 and Scoobe on May 19. McNair will be buried May 17 in his hometown of Lake City, S.C. Plans for the other shuttle flights have not been announced, but it is expected that Onizuka will be returned to his homestate of Hawaii and Jarvis to California.
One internal NASA document said, "Transfer of remains from Dover will be to different destinations, at different times, and will be at the discretion of the families."
Chile may reimpose state of seige
SANTIAGO, Chile — A powerful bomb blast damaged the U.S. ambassador's residence yesterday and only hours later Chile's military government threatened to reimpose a siege to contain a wave of terrorism.
"It is possible that the government
could reimpose a state of siege to contain terrorism, though we do not favor such a step. "Defense Minister Vice Adm. Patricio Carvalal said after a wave of violence that left five dead and 10 injured in 24 hours.
United Press International
Residents of La Legua and El Pinar slums said soldiers rounded up more than 1,000 men and women and
took them to a football stadium for identity checks.
Southern with automatic weapons barred residents from leaving the area and stopped journalists from entering the slums. They also exposed film of two photographers working for international news agencies.
Historic library burns; rare books destroyed
The military government last imposed a state of siege Nov. 6,1984.
The Associated Press
"Books were burning from the floor to the ceiling," firefighter Ron Matsuo said.
LOS ANGELES — Fire erupted in the stacks of a landmark, 60-year-old downtown library yesterday, destroying rare books, forcing evacuation of hundreds of patrons and injuring at least 14 firefighters.
More than 160 firefighters were called to the three-story building, which contains more than 2 million books, periodicals and photographs. They broke through skylights to get at the flames in the building, which is listed on the National Register of Historical Places.
Flames started in the sixth tier of the building's eight-tier central book stacks, long a concern of fireprevention officers, and pushed their way into the attic. Tier six corresponds with the second floor.
The fire moved east to west, destroying parts of two floors of books, said Fire Capt. Tony Diomenico.
The fire began before 11 a.m. and part of the third floor collapsed about two hours later. Firefighters broke windows when the blaze spread heat as the blaze continued to burn out of control yesterday afternoon.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known, city fire Inspector Ed Reed said.
Former aide accused of conflict-of-interest
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Michael K. Deaver, under investigation for possibly violating conflict-of-interest laws in the 11 months since he resigned as one of President Reagan's aides, has lobbed friends and top administration officials on behalf of his clients, government records show.
Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge, Secretary of State George Shultz and U.S. Trade Representative Clayton K. Youtter from the international industry that Daver or members of his firm have contacted on behalf of their clients.
And the clients have paid handsomely for the services of Michael K. Deaver and Associates, according to documents filed with the Justice Department for the six-month period ending March 18.
The picture that emerges is that of a firm whose employees traveled abroad, entertained clients at some of the Washington's priestiest hospitals and top-ranking officials as well as bureaucrats and congressional aides.
The documents, filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, do not make clear which employee was involved in each duty. However,
Deaver told a television interviewer earlier this month that some clients, such as Saudi Arabia, insisted that he handle its case exclusively.
The law requires companies that represent foreign countries or foreign firms to detail what they do in the case of a disaster. It does not cover domestic clients.
The law provides penalties of up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Deaver received substantial fees from his clients. Canada signed a $105,000-a-year agreement and paid over $50,000 on Nov. 7 and $25,000 six weeks later. The CBI Sugar Group Inc., a consortium of Latin American and Caribbean sugar producers based in Panama City, Panama, paid a royalty fee of $3 million and the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia paid him $125,000 on Feb. 18.
The Justice Department has been urged by the Office of Government Ethics, five members of the Democratic minority of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Deaver himself to seek the appointment of a special prosecutor to see whether Deaver violated any laws.
Deaver, 48, a former White House deputy chief of staff and an intimate friend of the Reagans for years, has denied doing anything wrong. But he said he does not think a prosecutor's investigation is necessary.
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