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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, April 11, 1986
News Briefs Caller links bomb to friends of Libya
LISBON, Portugal — A bomb exploded before dawn yesterday, destroying the glass and aluminum facade of an Air France office and damaging nearby Trans World Airlines buildings.
The blast shattered windows in buildings within a 25-yard radius. There were no casualties.
OMAHA, Neb. — Survivalist cult leader Michael Ryan and his son, Dennis, were found guilty yesterday of killing one of their followers after torturing him for four days.
The elder Ryan, 37, was convicted of first-degree murder and Dennis, 16, of second-degree murder. In 1985 slaying of James Thiem, 28.
The Portuguese news agency ANOP said a male caller with a heavy Spanish accent professed responsibility for the blast on behalf of the French Direct Action terror group. The caller said that he had solidarity with Libya and that the attack was to protest France's collaboration with Washington.
Cultists convicted
Thimm died after four days of torture that included sexual and physical abuse, shooting his fingertips and skinning one of his legs.
Fourth victim found
ATLANTA — A police task force investigating a possible serial or copycat killer said yesterday that a fourth elderly women died in the neighborhood where three others were strangled.
All of the victims were black, poor and lived alone. One was blind, investigators said.
The body of the fourth victim was found Wednesday, almost a month after a four-man task force was formed to investigate.
NEW YORK — A 3-year-old girl was in critical condition yesterday after being submerged in the cold New York Harbor for at least half an hour after her father drove off a pier.
Man drives off pier
Francis Williams, 48, said he had wanted to show his daughter, Jacqueline, the reflection of the city lights when the car plunged into the water.
From Kansan wires.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The United States exploded a nuclear warhead beneath the Nevada desert yesterday, triggering a Soviet threat to resume its own testing after an eight-month moratorium.
Soviets protest U.S. warhead testing
United Press International
Anti-nuclear groups earlier said they had protesters on the Nevada testing site when the warhead exploded. The Department of Energy said the force was less than 20 kilotons.
But hours after the test was announced, Peter Dykstra, a Greenpeace spokesman, said none of its members had been able to get onto the site.
"All of our people are accounted for," he said. "I'd like to make the DOE sweat, but all of our people are off the site."
The test, which was delayed for two days, was carried out at 8:08 a.m. in reinforced tunnel 1,300 feet below the desert floor, a DOE spokesman said.
The postponements were blamed on weather,
technical difficulties and anti-nuclear protesters on the classified government compound.
The Soviet Union promptly condemned the test as a dangerous destabilizing step that demonstrated Washington's "haughty disregard for the vital interests of the U.S. and all other nations, as if it had decided to ride for a fall on the brink of a nuclear precipice," the official news agency Tass said.
A commentator on the nightly television news, Vremya, said, "The further carrying out of nuclear tests by the United States will force the Soviet Union to renew its tests.
"We regret this, but we shall have to do it as we cannot waive our own security and the security of our allies." the commentator said.
The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Defense Nuclear Agency nuclear experiment, code-named Mighty Oak, was carried out at the 1,350-square mile desert facility of Rainer Mesa —
an area about the size of Rhode Island — 93 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The DOE declined to discuss the purpose of the test, but several congressmen and members of Greenpeace have said the blast was designed to test the effectiveness of an X-ray laser being developed for Star Wars weapons technology and the effects of radiation on missile re-entry systems.
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared a six-month unilateral test moratorium in July and extended it until March 31. He said the Soviets would continue the moratorium only if the United States refrained from holding tests.
"The administration is squandering one of the best opportunities in many years to achieve a comprehensive test ban treaty with the Soviet Union." Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said, "Obviously, the administration is bent on proceeding with Star Wars whatever the cost to arms control."
Aquino's drive prompts rebels to end fighting
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — More than 1,100 communist-led rebels and sympathizers laid down their arms yesterday in the first mass surrender since President Corazon Aquino launched a drive to end the bloody insurgency, officials said.
Villagers cheered and relatives burst into tears as young rebels laid down M-16 rifles, .38-caliber pistols and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition in a town plaza outside Catton, 345 miles south of Manila on the central island of Cebu.
"It was quite emotional," said Antonia Cuenco, minister of political affairs, who attended the surrender along with provincial military commanders and local officials.
The ex-guerrillas were welcomed by Bishop Santos de la Serna and Catholic parish priests, who had secretly gone to rebel camps in the mountains and convinced the insurgents to end their 18-year rebellion.
Cuenco said 100 New Peoples Army rebels and 1,000 sympathizers took part in the mass surrender — the first since Aquino took power Feb. 25 and launched a drive to cox the insurgents down from the hills with offers of amnesty and rehabilitation.
"They said they went to the hills because they didn't see any justice in the Marcos regime, but they are going to give democracy one more chance," Coenco said.
Redesign of shuttle rockets main priority of task force
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA reviewed preliminary results of its accident findings with members of the Challenger disaster commission yesterday, with engineers focusing on eight to 10 potential rocket joint design changes.
In Washington, Rear Adm. Richard Truly, chief of the shuttle program, told a House subcommittee it would cost $300 million to $500 million to redesign and retest booster rockets and $85 million to $100 million to pay for the Challenger accident investigation and salvage operations.
J. R. Thompson, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's accident task force, met with three commission members yesterday: Eugene Covert, Maj. Gen. Donald Kuynya and Neil Armstrong, vice chairman of the commission. Also on hand were astronauts Robert Crippen, David Leestma and Mark Brown.
A formal report to the entire panel is expected April
18 and the commission will report to President Reagan by early June.
Challenger was destroyed when a joint between the lower two of four fuel segments in its right-hand booster ruptured. Engineers are studying a variety of design changes to prevent a repeat of the disaster.
"I'm optimistic that a completely safe, reliable, repeatable design can be made in a reasonable time," James Kingsbury, directing the redesign effort, said. "Time is certainly of an essence to a lot of people and it is to me, but we will do what has to be done to make ourselves a safe, reliable, repeatable seal."
The key is developing, testing and approving a new rocket joint design. Kingsbury said his team is focusing on designs that will utilize existing rocket hardware.
He said an intensive test program was taking place to determine which design is the safest and the most readily adaptable to the existing hardware.
Such joints include a latch system to prevent bulging at the joint during the initial milliseconds of ignition.
AIDS victim goes back to school
The Associated Press
syndrome through blood treatments for hemophilia, has been barred from classes since last summer.
The ruling by Clinton Circuit Judge Jack R. O'Neill was the latest in the battle that has kept the 14-year-old Kokomo boy out of classes all but one day of this school year.
parents of Ryan's classmates at the Western Middle School had obtained the temporary injunction Feb. 21, 2014.
KOKOMO, Ind. — Teen-age AIDS victim Ryan White returned to school yesterday after a judge threw out a temporary order barring his attendance, and some parents promptly took their children out of class in protest.
Parents opposed to Ryan's return responded by pulling their children from classes. Those who had sought the temporary injunction planned to meet with their attorneys to determine whether they would appeal O'Neill's ruling.
School principal Ron Colby said about 27 of the school's 364 students were taken home.
Ryan, who contracted acquired immune deficiency
Officials say retaliation is necessary
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration has decided to retaliate against Libya for a terrorist attack in West Berlin, but when the strike will take place and how it will be carried out has not been decided, officials said yesterday.
United Press International
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U. S. aircraft carrier battle groups were poised in the Mediterranean yesterday awaiting an order from President Reagan to execute a reprisal attack against military targets in Libya, the officials said.
Reagan told a news conference Wednesday that before he would order a retaliation, he would wait for proof that Libyan leader Mosmur Khadijah was behind the Berlin attack. But other administration officials said that evidence existed to link the Libyan leader to the terrorist bombing.
The April 4 attack at a West Berlin nightclub killed an U.S. soldier and a Turkish woman and wounded 64 other Americans.
The Washington Post reported today that the United States had been warned about last weekend's bombing. An administration official told the Post that the United States learned of the bombing days before the attack.
Army Gen. Bernard Rogers, speaking in Atlanta on Wednesday, said U.S. officials tried to warn soldiers about the bombing, but were about 15 minutes too late.
Rogers, the U.S. and NATO commander in Europe, also said the United States had indisputable evidence that Khadafy was responsible for the bombing, a Pentagon transcript said yesterday.
The officials, who spoke on condition they not be identified, declined to specify the military options available for an attack against the North African country.
Jet attack planes and fighter-bombers aboard the carriers America and Coral Sea were one option. Other speculation has the Air Force bringing into action FB-113 bombs based in Britain or longrange B-52 bombers based in the United States.
The presence of the 21-ship naval force in an area west of Italy posed the only apparent immediate U.S. threat to Khadafy.
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HOW TO REGISTER: Return the form below either by mail or in person to the Interfraternity Council office (120B Kansas Union)
A $10 registration fee must accompany your registration form. Registration forms will also be available in the IFC office.
LAST DAY TO REGISTER: 5 p.m. Thurs., April 17
Interfraternity Council Spring formal Rush—1986 Registration Form
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