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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 15, 1986
Nation/World
News briefs
TWA cancels flights from Rome to Cairo
NEW YORK — Trans World Airlines said yesterday it was canceling its flights from Rome to Cairo and Athens because of reduced business on the terrorist-plagued route.
Airline spokeswoman Sally McElwreath said that several terrorist attacks on TWA Rome to Cairo flights in the past 10 months were factors in the decline in bookings for those flights.
She said people in the United States who wanted to fly to Athens may board a non-stop flight from New York.
53 die in stampede
HARDWAR, India — Hundreds of Hindu pilgrims rushing to cleanse their sins in the holy Ganges River were mistakenly directed by police down a dead-end street yesterday, causing a stampede that killed 53 people and injured 39.
Festival officials said some 4 million people had flooded Hard war.
Early feminist dies
French news reported she died of a buildup of fluid in her lungs after a recent appendectomy.
PARIS — Simone de Beauvoir, the French author and philosopher who charted the path for modern-day feminism with the 1949 book "The Second Sex," died yesterday in a hospital at age 78.
Her life-long companion and sometime lover, existential philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, once said of her, "The wonderful thing about Simone de Beauvoir is that she has the intelligence of a man and the sensitivity of a woman."
Comic won't appear
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Times announced yesterday that it would not publish Garry Trudeau's comic strip Dooneyburst this week because it contained exaggerations about corruption in the Reagan administration.
"We feel this week's Doonesbury grossly exaggerates the real and alleged transgressions of many Reagan administration appointees," the Times said.
Attack injures Khadafy's family
United Press International
LONDON — Several members of Col. Moammar Khadady's family were injured and some civilians were killed or wounded in today's U.S. air attacks on Libya, radio reports from Tripoli said. Libyan diplomats promised vengeance.
"The savage American invaders carried out a treacherous and barbaric air strike this morning against the residence of the brother leader of the revolution." Libya's Voice of the Greater Arab Homeland said in a pre-dawn broadcast, referring to Khadafy as the "brother leader."
"A number of members of the
family of the brother leader were injured as a result of this raid," the report said. "The concentrated U.S. barbaric air strike is continuing against populated and civilian quarters of Tripoli. A number of civilians, most of them foreign nationals, have fallen."
Libyan radio, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp. in London, appealed to Arabs to retaliate against U.S. civilian and military targets, and take up arms against "terrorist America."
The report on Libyan radio's external service, the "Voice of the Greater Arab Homeland," called on the forces of Syria and Algeria to attack
It called on Arabs to act against both civilian and military targets because the U.S. raid on Tripoli primarily had been aimed at civilian quarters and populated areas.
the U.S. fleets and bases in the Mediterranean. An appeal was also directed to Morocco and Tunisia.
U. S. jets launched a lightning air strike about 2 a.m. today Libyan local time against what officials in Washington said were terrorist bases in Libya, including Khadafy's headquarters.
details were provided at first beyond the reference to the attacks on Khadafy's family. The radio report did not say where the Libyan leader was.
About a half hour after the strikes began, Libyan radio broke into its regular broadcast of patriotic songs to announce the attacks. No other
In Rome, a Libyan diplomat quoted by the Italian news agency ANSA said three U.S. aircraft were downed. The report could not be confirmed.
In Canberra, Australia, the secretary of the Libyan People's Bureau, the Libyan equivalent of an embassy, lambasted Washington for the attack on his homeland.
"My country will retaliate, any way we can," Shaban Gashut said. "We have plans and we will fight back any way we can."
Japan to ease imbalances in U.S. trade
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasome ended talks with President Reagan yesterday with a prediction that his country's economic reforms should begin to ease the U.S.Japan trade imbalance this fall.
Reagan and Nakasone, who held discussions over two days, agreed that Japan also should make some fundamental changes in its society to gradually whittle down a huge trade surplus and promote international economic harmony.
Reagan praised Nakasone's commitment to undertake the difficult task of restructuring Japan's export-oriented economy to make it go better with those of Japan's trading partners.
"I believe that Japan must tackle the epoch-making task of structural adjustment and transform its economic structure into one dependent on domestic demand, rather than exports, leading to increased imports." Nakasone said in departing remarks in the Rose Garden.
The changes Nakasone intends to promote are spelled out in a report released in Japan earlier this month.
The recommendations include shortening the average work week from six days to five; raising wages; encouraging more consumer spending; housing and other personal comforts and reducing personal savings.
Reagan says aid is needed
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that members of Congress who used subterfuge or backroom deals to stop passage of military aid to the contras would set back the cause of peace and hand down a verdict of shame on everyone.
Reagan, in a speech to the General Contractors of America at the White House, portrayed the Marxist-sandinista government in Nicaragua as a repressive gang. He blasted plans by the House Democratic leadership to attach the $100 million contra aid plan to a federal spending bill.
"If this happens, the bill could be lost for months in a forest of legislative delay, and could cause the destruction of the CIA-backed contra forces," Reagan said.
"The Sandinista government is not a duly elected chosen government. It's a gang that took over by force, so we think that maybe force on them will cause them, perhaps, to be willing to listen to the will of the people of Nicaragua.
There's no question that the cause of peace and democracy will be set back and there is no question that the judgment of history will hand down a verdict
From Kansan wires.
of shame on us all."
Reagan rejected the House Rules Committee decision to make the aid request the centerpiece to a $1.7 billion spending bill packed with disaster relief funds, aid to Northern Ireland and other politically cherished projects — some of which Reagan opposed and had threatened to veto.
Reagan said that if the House voted yes, but aid didn't go through or if the House amended the bill to block defensive weapons the freedom fighters needed, there would be no question that the count of countless young Nicaraguan would be put in jeopardy.
But an aide to Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., a leading critic of Reagan's Nicaragua policy, said the contraid would never get to the floor on its own and House Republicans were not concerned with its attachment to the spending bill until Reagan raised his objections.
"It's hardly unusual for the House or Senate to attach various things to the supplemental," the aide said. "Their concerns only started as the president, in a political decision, decided to veto the supplemental."
The House opens debate today on the aid package, which includes surface-to-air Stinger missiles, and is expected to vote on it tomorrow.
Yale police arrest 78 protesters
United Press International
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University campus police arrested 78 people yesterday as officials ordered removal of a shantytown built to protest apartheid and the school's policy on South African investments.
The orderly arrests climaxed a weekend of protest by hundreds of Yale students and supporters demanding that Yale sell $350 million to $400 million in holdings in 98 companies doing business in segregated South Africa.
Yale Secretary John A. Wilkinson said students had been offered two alternate sites for the "Winnie Mandela City" shantytown, erected April 4 at Beineke Plaza at the heart of the historic urban campus.
They refused, and campus police moved in without notice about 5:30 a.m. to carry or escort the protesters to a bus and other vehicles for processing on charges of criminal trespass.
honor of Winnie Mandela, the wife of imprisoned South African nationalist Nelson Mandela.
After the quadrangle was cleared, workmen began tearing down the shantytown, which was named in
A school spokesman said the arrests were ordered after protesters ignored a third warning issued by police using a bullhorn outside Woodbridge Hall. Most of those arrested were students, he said.
New Haven police in riot gear stood a short distance away but did not take part in the arrests since Yale campus police have full arrest powers.
Ex-official denounces president
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Ferdinand Marcos' running mate in the fraud-tainted February election called yesterday for a civil disobedience campaign against President Corazon Aquino, saying her claim to power was unconstitutional.
Marcos supporters staged a mock legislative session, denouncing Aquino's firing of local officials. The firing sparked violent protests in which 33 people were injured in the suburban town of San Juan.
Aquino abolished the National Assembly on March 25 — exactly one month after she swept to power in a civilian-backed military revolt that ousted the 20-year Marcos regime.
Arturo Tolentino, ex-assemblyman and Marcos' running mate, called for a civil disobedience campaign against Aquino, saying she could not legally claim power in the Philippines. Manila residents who supported the revolution formed a "negligible minority" of the 54 million Filipinos.
"If people in the past have resorted to civil disobedience, this is a proper instrument today to show in a nonviolent manner popular nonacceptance of an unconstitutional regime." Tolentino said.
The then Marcos-controlled assembly declared Marcos and Tolentino the victors of the Feb. 7 election despite widespread fraud and independent counts showing Aquino had won. Both Marcos and Aquino took the oath of office Feb. 25 — but Marcos later in the day fled his palace in the wake of the military revolt.
Although Aquino has appointed her own running mate, Salvador Laurel, as vice president, a petition of 2 million signatures has urged Tolentino also to take the oath of office. He said he would wait until he had 5 million signatures before taking his oath and assuming the presidency in an acting capacity in the absence of Marcos, who is exiled in Hawaii.
Former Labor Minister Blas Ople predicted protests against Aquino would continue to gather momentum and said he expected Tolentino to claim the presidency by Aug. 15.
Yelling "Marcos, Marcos still," more than 2,000 supporters of the expresident massed.
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