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University Daily Kansan
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Nation/World
Monday, April 28, 1986
News Briefs
Plane disappears with 18 on board
BOGOTA, Colombia — A commercial passenger plane flying to the Venezuelan border with 18 people aboard disappeared yesterday and was declared missing, authorities said.
The Twin Otter light plane, owned by the airline Acees, left Bogota at 7:15 a.m. and was expected to arrive at the Colombian border town of Saravena, 160 miles northeast of Bogota, at 8:43 a.m., officials said.
The pilot last made radio contact at 8:26 a.m., reporting that the plane was over the town of Tame, 37 miles south of Saravena.
Aces President Felipe Montez went to the capital to direct the search, but overcast skies made the use of planes and helicopters.
Group claims bomb
MEXICO CITY — A previously unknown organization claimed responsibility for planting a bomb next to the U.S. Embassy that was defused before it exploded, officials said yesterday.
A man calling himself a member of the Simon Bolivar International Commando called the newspaper La Jornada Saturday and said a bomb in a car near the embassy would explode in 50 minutes.
The caller asked La Jornada to evacuate workmen remodeling the hotel near the embassy.
Police said the car had a homemade device weighing between 20 and 30 pounds in its trunk and had exploded a large area if it had exploded.
Rally ends in riot
CHONGJU, South Korea — Police used tear gas yesterday to end a protest by 300 rock-throwing demonstrators. The violence came as part of the national constitutional amendment permitting direct presidential elections.
Witnesses said that about a dozen demonstrators were taken into custody by police.
Police kept an exceptionally low profile, seemingly in an effort to avoid clashes. But violence erupted after 3,000 opposition politicians and supporters marched peacefully through the downtown area shouting "down with dictatorship."
From Kansan wires.
Briton's death called terrorist act
JERUSALEM - A British touris was shot to death yesterday outside the Garden Tomb, a Christian holy site in Jerusalem's Arab sector. Police called the shooting a terrorist act.
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Police spokesman Rafi Levy identified the dead man as Paul Appleby, 28, of Bristol, England, who arrived in Jerusalem about a month ago with his family. He was on a pilgrimage to the Garden Tomb, which is closed on Sunday.
Authorities said they could not determine whether the killing was related to an *English sentiment* against the U.S. air on Libya on April 15.
No group or individual immediately claimed responsibility for the shooting but police said the slaying appeared to be a terrorist act.
Israeli troops and police sealed off the area after the shooting.
The shooting is the four reported attack this year against a Westerner in east Jerusalem, which is predominantly Palestinian. The
shooting occurred about 1 p.m. outside the Garden Tomb, which some Protestants believe is the burial site of Christ.
Caretaker William White said his wife rushed outside after hearing a gunshot and found the man lying on the ground behind a bullet wound in the back of his head.
"As he stood at the gate, someone shot him in the back of the head," White said.
The victim, wearing blue jeans and sandals, was shot with a small caliber handgun. He was pronounced
dead on arrival at a Jerusalem hospital.
large rato reported that several people were detained as suspects, but Levy said no one was arrested. One Palestinian source said the Garden Tomb area was well known locally as a haven for drug dealers.
The slaying came at the height of Israel's tourist season, a time of the year when Christian faithful from all over the world immigrated to the holy city of Jerusalem.
Israeli travel agents say visits to Jerusalem by U.S. citizens have
dropped significantly this year, with most U.S. citizens saying they were scared off by fears of terrorism.
British citizens also have become targets, particularly since British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher approved the Reagan administration's plan to use all 117 fighter bombs based in Britain for the bombing raid on Libya.
President Reagan said the United States attacked Libya because Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy supported terrorism.
Reagan prepares to meet Asian leaders
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HONOLULU — President Reagan spent the second day of his slow journey to the Far East yesterday preparing to voice American concerns in meetings this week with Asian leaders.
The Reagans spent the day at the estate of Honolulu developer Christopher Hemmeter adjusting to jet lag and pacing themselves on their traveler's feast-and-famine diet.
Reagan said he planned to stress the U.S. commitment to increased democracy and regional security against Soviet expansion, but also that Asian nations are masters of their own fate.
Security for the visit to the Indonesian island of Bali has been tightened after reports that a
group of terrorists tried to enter Indonesia, seizing American officials said yesterday.
A U.S. diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said 11 suspected terrorists had been stopped from entering the country based on evidence that they were the international police organization Interpol.
The diplomat said he did not know the suspects nationality or details of their
The president said relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which includes the large Muslim population of Indonesia, are very good. The president alsoLibya — another nation with large muslim ties.
Reagan will fly today to Ball for meetings with ASEAN foreign ministers from Brunei, Inl.
donezia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines.
Indonesian President Suharto, whom Reagan has called a strong U.S. ally, has been criticized for alleged human rights abuse during 20 years in power. White House officials said they did not know if Reagan would address those concerns.
Reagan has billed his trip as one carried on the winds of freedom blowing across the Pacific, but he may encounter complaints about U.S. trade policy, particularly about a bill that would put Asian agricultural products at a disadvantage on the world market.
On CBS's "Face the Nation," Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday that the
seven world leaders will discuss how to work together against terrorism.
Of the tight security around the summit site, Shulzt says, "Naturally, when you get the heads of state of the seven key industrial democracies together, it's a very juicy target for terrorists."
Reagan is due to arrive in Bali tomorrow night and will meet with Indonesian President Suharto and ASEAN foreign ministers before the Tokyo Friday for the May 4 economic summit.
A senior American official expressed confidence that the tight security cord around the resort island would deter any potential terrorist.
Pirate's HBO break-in protests scrambling
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Supreme Court to decide on cable rights
CHICAGO — A video pirate calling himself Captain Midnight struck at the hour of his namesake and broke into a Home Box Office movie early yesterday with a nationwide television network, crambling of satellite transmissions.
In an apparently unprecedented interference with satellite transmissions, the pirate interrupted HBO's movie, 'Falcon and the Snowman,' with a multicolor test pattern and a multi-colored message printed in white letters;
"Good evening HBO
From Captain Midnight
$12.95/month?
No way!
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Showtime/Movie Channel beware."
"It was the most scary thing that ever happened to HBO," said Donna Priestly, a customer service supervisor for Cablevision, Chicago-area
WASHINGTON - Cable television is bringing dozens of channels into millions of homes and forcing them to look at the First Amendment.
Tomorrow, the justices will consider whether cable television operators have the same right to string their yards of wire as publishers have to print newspapers.
Local governments say they do cable marketing firm. Priestly said the company was deluged with calls from distressed viewers.
not, and will urge the court to sanction the increasingly monopolistic nature of cable television.
The industry says it is not afraid of competition and wants to exercise its constitutional rights.
"This means they could do the same thing to CBS, NBC or even NASA if they want to," said Jay J. Dixon, attorney who owns a satellite dish.
Association.
"While different modes of communications may have their own unique circumstances and problems, the underlying principles of freedom of speech and freedom of the press do not vary," said Michael Schooler, attorney for the National Cable Television
"The idea that the government should determine how many there should be . . . and which ought to be permitted to speak, goes to the heart of the First Amendment," he said, referring to cable franchises.
HBO's signal was replaced for anywhere from 10 seconds to more than a minute in Chicago and on the East Coast.
The case before the court is from Los Angeles, which is appealing a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals striking down its auction process for awarding cable franchises.
"Apparently some kind of pirate station overrode their signal," another surprised viewer, Mark Johns of Stratford, Conn., said.
The pirate may have been able to overpower authorized signals beaming down from a satellite, officials said. The action alerted the Federal Communications Commission, which jurisdiction to investigate the piracy.
"We're aware of the situation . . .
and of course, it is a violation of the law to interfere with communications;" said FPC spokesman William Villiam. "This is not an action on any action the agency might take.
The interruption took place shortly before midnight in Chicago and before 10 p.m. in the western part of the country.
HBO was the first of the subscrip-
tion movie channels to scramble its transmissions to prevent satellite dish owners from receiving the service free. Most other satellite channels use their own scrambling their satellite signals. Showtime and the Movie Channel will do so next month, Ross said.
The $12.95 reference in the message apparently was to the subscription fee now required of many viewers who had been watching free of charge by using their own dish antennas.