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University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 21, 1986
Nation/World
News Briefs
Violence intolerable to President Aquino
MANILA. Philippines — President Corazon Aquino, facing demonstrations by supporters of Ferdinand Marcos, warned yesterday that her government wouldn't tolerate lawlessness.
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awareness in response to rowdy demonstrations in Manila demanding the return of Marcos from exile in Hawaii, Aquino said, "I will respect their private grief, but my government will not tolerate its violent outpouring."
SEATTLE — The first payoff of the four-year legal battle that produced the largest comparable worth settlement in the nation will show up this week in checks for almost 35,000 Washington state employees.
The raises from the $428 million, five-year pact will go mostly to women who long have been paid less than men for jobs requiring comparable skill and responsibility. The settlement arose from a landmark lawsuit filed in July 1982.
Ex-Klansmen talk
RALEIGH, N.C. - U.S. Marines helped train members of a Ku Klux Klan splinter group in the use of weapons and combat techniques, two former Klanman told the visualization that monitors had groups.
the statements of two exmembers of the White Patriot Party made to Klanwatch, an arm of the Southern Poverty Law Project of Birmingham, Ala., said Camp Lejeune marines also provided uniforms and other military equipment.
Display causes panic
NEW YORK — A skywriting display above a Turkish-American parade set off a mini-panic among New Yorkers who are the Libyans flag and that the Libyans were attacking, police said yesterday.
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City residents, startled to see the moon carousel and star of the Turkish flag in the sky above Manhattan, flooded the police department and local news organizations with calls Saturday asking what the display meant, a police spokesman said.
Body of hostage returned to U.S.
Kilburn's family requests silence
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The body of American Peter Kilburn, held hostage in Lebanon for more than a year and killed in apparent retaliation for the U.S. raid on Libya, was returned yesterday to the United States without fanfare.
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A spokeswoman at Andrews Air Force Base
on the Starfighter bearing Kilburn's body
landed at the installation outside Washington at
10:40 a.m.
There was no ceremony for the return and reporters were not permitted on the base to watch the plane land.
wBOTs the State Department spokesman Bruce Ammerman said the silence and security around the body's return was imposed at the request of Kilburn's family.
Amermerman said late yesterday that the body had been positively identified as Kilburn's and was being prepared to be shipped to Californias, where the family was arranging a funeral
The plane left Rhein-Main Air Base outside Frankfurt, West Germany, early yesterday. Before his body left Lebanon, U.S. officials used photos to identify Kilburn, 62, chief librarian of the American University in Beirut, who was kidnapped in Moslem west beirut 17 months ago.
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The body of Kilburn, a native of California's Bay Area who had worked in Lebanon for more than the 20 years, was found along with those of two British school teachers Thursday in Syrian and Muslim militia-controlled mountains east of Beirut.
They had been shot in the head at close
range, authorizes staffs.
A pro-Libyan group called the Arab
King's forces claimed responsibility, saying
the hostages were in retaliation for Tuesday's U.S. bombing raid on Libya and Britain's decision to allow British-based U.S. bombers to participate in the air raids.
range, authorities said.
At a news conference five days before the attack on Libya, President Reagan was asked whether he was concerned that the hostages in Lebanon might be put at risk by U.S. military action, which was reported to be imminent. Reagan said the hostages's plight was
Reagan said the hostages's plight was never out of his mind for a minute.
out of his mind for a mistake.
"I would hesitate to think that anything we might in retaliation for terrorists . . . would actually affect them and their well-being.
"But again, we have to deal with this ter-
Kilburn was one of six Americans, three Britons and several other Westerners kidnapped in Beirut since March 1984. He was the first U.S. hostage to be killed and whose body was found
The other Americans are William Buckley, U.S. Embassy political officer, Tyler Anderson, associated Press bureau chief in Beirut, Thomas Sutherland, AUB dean of agriculture, David Jacobsen, ABU hospital administrative director, and the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, Catholic Relief Services director.
The shadowy pro-Iran group Islamic Jibad said last year it had executed Buckley because he was a CIA agent. Although photographs purported to be of Buckley's body were delivered to Western news agencies in Beirut.
Gorbachev savs summit still possible
United Press International
POTSDAM, East Germany —Senator leader Mikhail Gorbachev said yesterday that a summit meeting with President Reagan was still possible this year despite strains caused by the U.S. attack on Libya.
Gorbachev told reporters that the Soviet Union would like to take serious steps to safeguard peace and that the Soviets were ready to cooperate with the United States.
"However, if the United States attempts to poison the atmosphere and increase tension it will cast a shadow on a future meeting," said Gorbachev, who was in East Germany for the Communist Party congress in East Berlin.
Gorbachev said the United States should return to the spirit of Geneva, and be willing at a summit to consider the Soviet disarmament proposals he made Friday in East Berlin.
"If the United States recognizes that it is necessary to follow the path of detente the Soviet Union is ready to do so," he said.
"If the American administration continues to do what it is doing now, if it makes the international situation worse, if it attempts to abandon spirit and will all plan for a summit that will be depreciated," Gorbachev said.
"We are ready for serious negotiations. . . We are ready to take a
Reagan and Gorbachev met in Geneva in November and agreed to meet again in the United States this year. No date has been set for the second summit, and the meeting is meeting aimed at offing the groundwork in response to the U.S. bombing raid on Libya, a Soviet ally and arms recipient.
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In Washington, White House
spokesman Edward Djerejian said,
"In our view, a summit is in the interests of both countries. The president takes *he* commitment that he and General Secretary Gorbache agreed to at Geneva seriously and assumes that Gorbache does, to *he*, want to meet with him at summit meeting in Washington in '86, to be followed by a summit meeting in Moscow in '77.
"We, on our part, are willing to talk and to negotiate because we want to solve the problems that divide our two countries."
Texas twister damage draws promise of aid
United Press International
SWEETWATER. Texas — Standing among debris that once was a housing project for the elderly, Gov. Mark yesterday promised state loans and a plea for federal disaster aid for the 1,500 people left homeless in this western Texas town by a killer tornado.
"I don't see how anybody could have lived through this," White said. "It's as bad as I've seen."
Two twisters converged just before touching down about 7 a.m. Saturday, cutting a path two miles long and a half-mile wide through the southeastern section of New York City, the popular site of warning of the storm was issued. The National Weather Service said it did not show up on radar.
@ people were injured, three critically. The five people who had been reported missing Saturday all were accounted for yesterday.
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wilh promised to seek federal
disaster aid for the area and said
the county had already been approved
for state housing loans.
for state housing a shop at Sun Village, a housing project for the elderly, where Henry Earl Tatman was killed by the storm. One hundred and twenty-four residents, ranging in age from 65 to 96, had lived in the project.
Mayor Rick Rhodes said about 600 homes were damaged by the twister and more than half of those were demolished. None of the units in the housing project was livable.
On one rooftress home someone has painted in large red letters, "House for Sale Cheap!"
Pianist's return to Russia draws rapt concert crowd
United Press International
MOSCOW — World famous pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who left Russia in 1925 vowing never to return, was hailed by a rapt audience that jammed the aises and cried "Bravo" at his first concert in the Soviet Union in 61 years.
Hundreds of music lovers braved a cold rain outside the prestigious Conservatory of Music in the hope of getting a spare ticket or even a glimpse of the 82-year-old Russian-born pianist.
Most of the 2,000 in the audience were Westerners and Soviet officials, including the family of Minister Eduard Silevardadez.
But about 300 people crashed the
concert with fake tickets, bribes or the help of friends. They jammed the aisles, perched on railings and sat two to a seat.
Dozens of students crashed through heavy police barricades and made their way into the conference room with arguments and scuffles ensued.
Police pushed one woman down the conservatory's grand staircase, her shoes left at the top in mute testation to her vain effort.
"I was terrified I wouldn't make it in," said a blind piano teacher in her 30s. "I got through the first lesson when the second and then the third.
"When I got to the door, it was no problem," she said, "All the ticket-takers are my friends."
Before the concert, members of the audience buzzed with anticipation and clapped impatiently. They jumped to their feet with cries of "Bravo" when the blue-suited and of Ukraine shuffled on stage.
Russians received Horowitz's program of mostly Russian music with whispers of "aastounding," "a fairy tale" and "magnificent."
fairy the first piece was married once when an argument broke out outside the hall doors.
Between pieces, Horowitz delighted the audience with his antics, pointing and waving at friend Lily and crowd-affecting stuffing carnations and sticking his tongue out at television cameras.