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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, April 14, 1986
News Briefs
Reported holy vision draws many to Cairo
Cairo - A reported appearance of the Virgin Mary in a flood of mysterious light is drawing thousands of people to a small church in a working-class neighborhood in northern Cairo, a newspaper, Watani, said yesterday.
Watani said a fact-finding committee established by Patricair Shenudh III of the Coptic Orthodox Church saw the apparition "clad in light" above the Church of St. Demiana on Friday. The appearance began at 3:40 a.m. and continued for 80 minutes. The newspaper said the apparition was sighted first there March 25.
Punk rock fans riot
MONTREUIL, France — More than 150 punk rock fans, angered by a ban on their weekly concert in a vacant factory, rampaged through the streets Saturday night, police said yesterday.
The trouble began when about 100 youths gathered for a weekly concert. Police arrived to break up the crowd, and the people left peacefully.
But an hour later, 150 youths spilled into nearby streets, turned over six cars and set small fires, police said. Two officers were injured. Police arrested 72 people.
Rally is anti-Aquino
MANILA, Philippines — Thousands of supporters of deposed ruler Ferdinand Marcos gathered in Manila yesterday in the first large rally against the government of President Corazon Anuino.
Reporters at the three-hour rally estimated the crowd at 10,000. Police said 20,000 attended, while organizers put the figure at 1.2 million.
The crowd chanted "We are still for Marcos" and "Cory is dumb." Fingerprinting scarv
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dr. Benjamin Spock, who has been offering tips on child-rearing since the 1940s, says fingerprinting children to aid recovery of abduction victims is dangerous and frightening to children.
"You're going to scare the bejeebers out of 10 million children, and I've seen no evidence that it works," said the author.
From Kansan wires.
TRIPOLI, Libya - Col. Moammar Khadafy's government claimed yesterday that it had moved foreign workers, including U.S. citizens, to oil fields in the desert and army bases which purportedly are targeted for attack by U.S. forces.
Libya prepares for attack by U.S.
The Associated Press
But a Western diplomat said he had spoken to several representatives of his country in Libya, and none reported such an incident. He spoke on the condition that he would not be identified
Tripoli has remained quiet for days, and there were no signs yesterday of any military preparations.
The U.S. 6th Fleet, meanwhile, was poised in the Mediterranean off Libya, awaiting President Reagan's decision on a possible strike in
retaliation for Khadaty's reputed support of international terrorism.
See related story p. 9w
Reagan and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany have said Libya is a prime suspect in the April 5 bombing of a West Berlin discourse that was a gathering place for U.S. troops stationed in West Germany.
A U.S. Army sergeant and a Turkish woman died in the blast and 230 people were injured, including 63 Americans. Reagan said he would consider a retaliatory strike if evidence proved Khadafy was behind the bombing.
A statement released by a Libyan Information Department official, who refused to be identified, said, "Foreign workers have been
forced to live in them (oil fields), taking into account that the majority are Americans."
Diplomats and businessmen estimate 800 Americans still live in Libya, including executives, oil field workers and about 100 American women married to Libyans.
Reagan ordered all Americans out under risk of a 10-year prison sentence and cut all U.S. economic ties with Libya after terrorists attacked the Rome and Vienna airports Dec. 27, killing 20 people, including five Americans.
The United States blamed Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, whose real name is Sabry al-Banna, of carrying out the attacks and accused Khadafy of harboring him.
estimated at 5,000.
Other Westerners in Libya include Europeans. The British community, for example, is
Hundreds of foreign workers already live in the desert oil fields, often on rotating one-month shifts.
Oil is Libya's largest single source of income, although Western analysts say revenues plunged from $22 billion in 1984 to about $8 billion in 1985.
The Western diplomat said only five docks are used to load oil on tanks, so there would be no need for U.S. warplanes to hit the widely scattered oil fields.
Pope makes first visit to Jewish temple
Khadafy, at a news conference Wednesday, said that he and his top commanders had made military plans in the event of a U.S. strike against his country. He has threatened targets in southern Europe, mentioning Spain and Italy, in the event of such a U.S. military move:
The Associated Press
ROME — Pope John Paul II and Rome's leading rabbi embraced, read from the Psalms and prayed together in silence yesterday during the first recorded visit by a pope to a synagogue.
Pope John Paul deplored the "hatred and persecution" of the Jews throughout the centuries.
"You are our dearly beloved brothers, and, in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers," the pope said to resoum-
ding applause from the crowd of about 1,000 people
Speaking in Rome's monumental main synagogue, spiritual center of what is thought to be the oldest Jewish community in the West, the pope pledged that the Roman Catholic Church would further its efforts to remove all forms of prejudice.
The pope did not address the issue of Vatican refusal to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
Pope Pope John Paul and Rome's chief rabbi, Elio Toaff, sat in gold-trimmed unhollanced chairs
at the head of the synagogue, facing the congregation. They entered the synagogue to the accompaniment of a choir singing a Psalm.
After readings in Hebrew, which were translated into Italian, Glacomo Saban, the president of Rome's Jewish community, spoke first.
Saban said that Israel was central to the heart of every Jew, and expressed the hope that any reticence in regard to the Israel would be removed.
The pope, speaking in Italian, said, "Certainly,
we cannot and should not forget that the
historical circumstances of the past were very different from those that have laboriously matured over the centuries."
He quoted from Second Vatican Council's revolutionary 1965 document on non-Christian religions, "Nostra Aeate" (In Our Times), which officially rescinded the accusation that the Jews killed Christ. The document was considered a turning point in Catholic-Jewish relations.
Striking meatpackers sing rights anthem with Jackson
Quoting from the document, the pope said the church "deplores the hatred, persecutions, and displays of anti-Semitism."
United Press International
AUSTIN, Minn. — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, hailed as the last hope of resolving the bitter, eight-month-old walkout against Geo. A. Hormel & Co., led jailed, striking meatpackers in a chorus of "We Shall Overcome" yesterday.
Jackson came to Austin in an effort to mediate the conflict, but there was no indication that he had any success. He met briefly with both sides and he said there was more than a reasonable chance he would return.
Neither the company nor the union had a comment.
Neither the company nor the dhon had a comment. Jackson met for 15 minutes with 18 men in jail awaiting court appearance today on charges of rioting outside the Hormel flagship plant's gates Friday.
Jackson then led the group through a verse of "We Shall Overcome," the anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement.
"You're being in jail has aroused this state and has aroused this nation," Jackson told the jailed men. But, he said. "If you are in jail you can't be picketing, you can't be educating."
Jackson said the company and the union should resume bargaining and choose negotiation instead of
confrontation.
Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union continues to defy the call of its parent union to end the strike begun Aug. 17 over wage cuts, job safety, grievance procedures and job security. The company since has opened the plant with 1,050 replacement workers, including about 500 former strikers.
After visiting the jail, Jackson went to the P-9 union hall where he told union members that the strike was part of a nationwide struggle across America against job, racial and sexual discrimination.
Jackson also met privately with Hormel Vice President Charles Nyberg, who had earlier said he would not recognize Jackson as an official negotiator.
Jackson was greeted by hundreds of cheering strikers earlier in the day at the Austin Municipal Airport.
"In many ways what Selma, Alabama, was to the voting rights movement in '65, Austin, Minnesota, has become that to collective bargaining in 1986," the civil rights leader said.
During the worst outbreak of violence since the strike began, eight policemen were injured Friday when rioters threw rocks and sprayed a caustic chemical at police.
Japan vows changes to halt trade deficit
The Associated Press
THURMONT, Md. — Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan assisted President Reagan at a Camp David meeting yesterday that he was determined to effect a historic change in Japanese lifestyle and culture to accommodate Western markets and interests, a U.S. official reported.
The official, who attended the meeting and spoke to reporters afterward on condition he not be identified, said Reagan was impressed by the prime minister's commitment and determination to the huge trade imbalance between Japan and the West.
Japan, which is heavily dependent on foreign oil, does not buy oil from Libya and has instructed its
industries not to interfere with U.S. sanctions against Col. Moamar Khadiyah's reengage regime.
U.S. and Japanese officials,
speaking on condition they not be
identified, said a key topic of the
discussions was to be a report
released earlier this month that
called for changes in the Japanese
lifestyle to accommodate the West
The United States and other Western nations import great quantities of Japanese products, while complaining that the one-way trade route hurts their domestic economies.
The document prepared for the Japanese government recommends dramatic changes, including shortening the work week in Japan from six days to five, raising wages.
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