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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 29, 1986
Nation/World
News Briefs
Police arrest father after he throws baby
NEW YORK — An 18-month-old girl, who was thrown by her engraved father through a closed fourth-floor window Sunday, clung to a curtain and was caught by a fast-roaring neighbor, police said yesterday.
Keith Manguita, 24, clerk in a Wall Street investment banking firm who rescued the child, said he looked like a curtain and caught it.
The child was in good condition yesterday. Her father, Fred Percell, 23, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Fugitives captured
LOVELADY, Texas — Prison guards and police with tracking dogs yesterday captured four fugitives who had overpowered a prison guard and fled into the woods on horseback.
The four inmates — all heavily tattooed — were working in a utility tunnel at the maximum-security Eastham Unit on Sunday night when they hit a guard over the head and escaped. They were described by prison officials as extremely dangerous.
Police said the inmates were on foot when captured.
Masterpieces lent
WASHINGTON — The National Gallery of Art yesterday unveiled 41 impressionist to early modern paintings on loan from two Soviet museums in the first big U.S.-Soviet art exchange to come out of the Geneva summit in November.
Thirty-four of 41 masterpieces from the museums, Leningrad's Hermitage and Moscow's Puskhin Museum. It is the first time in the United States
Zaccaro enters plea
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — John Zaccario Jr., son of former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, pleaded innocent yesterday to a new charge of selling cocaine to an undercover agent.
This charge comes two months after Zaccarro, a2, senior at Middlebury College, was charged with possession of a regulated substance with intent to sell. The new charge is considered more serious than the first, to which Zaccarro also pleaded innocent.
From Kansan wires.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Abu Nidal's terrorist group claimed yesterday that its men killed a British tourist in Jerusalem in revenge for the U.S. air raids on Libya two weeks ago.
Abu Nidal claims killing of Briton
The Associated Press
The United States blames the renegade Palestinian leader for the Dec. 27 massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports, in which 20 people were killed, while a leader Moammar Khadif of harboring him.
A typewritten statement delivered to a Western news agency in Muslim west Beirut alleged that Paul Appleyb, 28, of Bristol, England, was on a spy mission Sunday when
In another development, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said the Netherlands was closing its embassy in Muslim west Beirut because of the wave of kidnappings and hostages taken on 15 tripoli and Bengahzi. All Dutch nationals are to be evacuated from the Muslim sector.
gunmen of Abu Nidal's Fatah-Revolutionary Council shot him down.
Appleby, who carried a Bible in his knap-sack, was shot once in the back of the head with a small-caliber pistol near the Garden Tomb, a Christian holy shrine on the hilltop where Protestants believe Christ was crucified and buried.
"The Monzer Kadry squad that operates in the Jerusalem district has carried out the death sentence against Briton Paul Appleyb in the heart of Jerusalem while he was on an intelligence mission disguised behind a false flag under the terrorist statement, which was in Arabic.
Appleby was impersonating a tourist.
Palestinian sources in Beirut said Kady probably was an Abu Nalid follower killed in action, but they had no specific information about him.
According to the statement, Appleby's murder was "retaliation for the complicity of the Thatcher government in the U.S. imperialist aggression on Libya." The reference was to the British government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
It did not give the number of terrorists involved, but all said returned safely to base.
The statement was dated April 28 and signed Fatah-Rewvolutionary Council, the group Abu Nidal formed when he broke from Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah guerrilla group in 1974. The PLO has sentenced him to death in absentia
Abu Nidal, whose real name is Sabry al-Banna, is thought to be closely allied with Khadafy. After the U.S. air strikes, he vowed to retaliate with heavy blows.
Reagan to talk with envoy of Aquino
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — President Reagan left yesterday for Southeast Asia for meetings with U.S. allies in that region, including his first face-to-face session with a representative of the new Philippine government.
Shortly before Reagan left Hickam Air Force Base for Indonesia, a senior administration official suggested that deposed President Ferdinand Marcos used the statistics as Aquino seeks to stabilize her fledgling rule.
"Outside agitation can't help but be detrimental," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
out of Philippine domestic affairs while he enjoys safe haven in Hawaii.
The official indicated that the administration had signaled to Marcos its preference that he keep
Reagan was to make a 14-hour, 6,000-mile flight to Bali, Indonesia, crossing the international date line and making a refueling stop at Guam, where he planned to address U.S. troops.
His eventual destination at the end of the week is the summit of industrialized nations in Tokyo.
Two Australian journalists in Reagan's press contingent said they might fly with the president to Bali even though it remained unclear whether the Indonesian government would let them in.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Sunday that Indonesia had rejected large U.S. diplomatic efforts to gain entry for Richard Palfreyman and James Middleton, Washington-based correspondents for the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Indonesia's President Suharto has banned Australian journalists from his 13,500-island archipelago country in response to articles in a newspaper suggesting corruption in his government
Yesterday, however, the two said their employer had reported an apparent breakthrough in negotiations on their status between the Australian and Indonesian governments.
Shortly before the press plane left Hawaii, Middleton said he and Paliremwould fly at least to Guam and then decide whether to proceed to Indonesia or leave the entourage temporarily.
Deaver requests investigation of charges
Middleton said their employer thought it was worth proceeding to Guam and then evaluating the
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Michael K. Deaver, a friend and former top aide to President Reagan, asked yesterday for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that he violated conflict-of-interest laws as a lobbyist for foreign and domestic clients.
"I believe elementary due process and fairness to me and my family require appointment of an independent counsel," Deaver said in a statement released by his office.
It also released a letter from Deaver to Attorney General Edwin Meese III seeking the designation of an independent counsel, also known as a special prosecutor.
But Messe said he would take no personal role in the matter because of his long-standing friendship with
"While I am grateful for the president's continuing support, the climate has become such that this is the only way to resolve the issue fairly," said Daver, former deputy White House chief of staff.
because a majority of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee already have asked for an investigation.
Under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Justice Department must respond to the senator's request with a written explanation of why he does not seek appointment of a special prosecutor.
If the attorney general finds reasonable grounds to think that further investigation is warranted, he must ask a special federal court to appoint an independent counsel, the law says.
Deaver's action has little practical effect,
Officials investigate cable pirate's break in
United Press International
looking into it.
NEW YORK — Officials yesterday warned that cable pirates such as the "Captain Midnight" hacker who broke into a Home Box Office broadband provider to distribute satellite users — including the federal government.
Attorney General Edwin Meese said that a complaint had been made to the Justice Department's criminal division and that the department was
1. **don't think any of us would like the idea of having television programs interrupted at will by pranksters.** "Meese said, 'So I'm sure they'll be caught and they'll advise if there are not enough laws.'"
The incident is also being investigated by the Federal Communications Commission.
A cable pirate dubbed "Captain Midnight" broke into an HBO showing of "The Falcon and the
Snowman" early Sunday with a message protesting the scrambling of satellite signals.
David Pritchard, HBO vice president of corporate affairs, said it was ironic that the message interrupted "The Falcon and the Snowman," a movie starring secret secrets about defense satellites to the Russians.
The raider apparently was the first pirate ever to interfere with satellite transmissions.
Consul knew about plan, lawver says
The Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — Employees of Libya's embassy supplied hand grenades with which two Libyans planned to attack a U.S. military officers' club in Ankara during a wedding event, a prosecutor said yesterday.
The grenades were brought into Turkey under cover of diplomatic immunity, Ulku Coskun told the Associated Press in an interview. He spoke about Zeyani, Libyan consul in Istanbul, knew of the plan.
Two Libyans, identified as Ali Ecefli Ramadan and Recep Muitar Rohoma Tarhuni, both 30, were captured April 18 near the officers' club residential district of Gaziosimass and questioned for nine days.
They were arrested formally on Sunday and charged with conspiracy to kill a group of people and illegally bringing weapons into the country.
Coskun, who is deputy prosecutor for state security, said conviction on the charges might mean prison terms of 12 to 20 years.
Authories have said two Libyans were seen loitering near the club on the evening of April 18, three days after the U.S. airs援 on Libya. They ran when police ordered them to halt, tossing away a bag containing six hand grenades, and another team of police caught them nearby.
The raids on Libya followed U.S. allegations that Libya was involved in terrorist acts against U.S. citizens.