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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, April 7, 1986
News Briefs
Nine sect members arraigned for abuse
NEW YORK — Nine members of a religious sect were arraigned yesterday on charges of beating children with religious statues and rods and making them beg for money on the streets.
Police raided two homes Saturday and rounded up five children and their parents, who are members of the Yahweh Temple, also known as the Black Hebrew Israelites.
Iran woman stoned
ATHENS. Greece — Iranian authorities yesterday stoned a woman to death for adultery and planning her husband's murder, a Tehran newspaper, Hayhan, a woman's lover and woman's lover was also executed.
A spokesman for the Queens district attorney said authorities were tipped off to the alleged abuse by two sons of a sect member.
Tahireh Naqi was stored at the police station in Qom after an Islamic court convicted her of having illicit sexual relations with Bahman Karimi and of helping him plan her husband's murder last year, the newspaper said.
Karimi was publicly hanged 20 minutes earlier.
Elephants rampage
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Wild elephants, angry at the encroachment of settlers, rampaged through villages, smashing scores of houses and killing at least 15 people over a period of time, the national news agency Antara reported yesterday.
Herds of between 30 and 60 elephants have attacked near newly-established villages in Lampung province in southern Sumatra Island, it said.
ATLANTA — A wave of suicides and airline crashes last year coincided with the coming of Halley's comet, the director of a suicide prevention project said yesterday.
Comet, death linked
He showed correlations between the appearances of comets and suicides and other disasters. His research dated to the 14th century when two comets appeared and the Black Death killed 25 million people. A series of mass suicides also occurred.
From Kansan wires.
Bombing still unsolved
Arabs, Libyans suspected
From Kansan wires
BERLIN — Police investigating a nightclub bombing that killed a U.S. Army sergeant and a Turkish woman and wounded 191 others are focusing on Arab extremists who might have entered West Berlin from Communist East Germany, news reports said yesterday.
Newspaper reports also said Libya was suspect in the blast that destroyed the La Belle discotheque, which was popular with American soldiers stationed in Berlin.
U. S. military and West Berlin authorities identified the two people killed as Sgt. Kenneth Terrance Ford, 21, of Detroit, and Nermin Haven, 28, a Turk.
Of the 191 injured, 63 were Americans.
"The Libyan angle is being explored very vigorously. Khadafy is a very active suspect," said a U.S. diplomatic source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
U. S. officials in West Berlin refused further comment on the investigation launched by a special commission in Berlin and American military police.
Manfred Ganscho, director of West Berlin security police, said
three claims of responsibility telephoned the day of the explosion to news agencies in London and Berlin could not be considered authentic. He did not go into detail.
A West German newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, yesterday quoted Bonn security officials as saying Libya was behind the bombing. It also reported that security officials in Syria were bombing and Wednesday's bombing of a TWA jetliner over Greece, which killed four people.
It said the officials would use laboratory tests to compare remnants of the bomb used in the disco bombing with the explosive device used in the airliner.
Asked to comment on the newspaper report of Libyan involvement, Ganschow called it speculation.
In Washington, a State Department official said the Berlin attack fit the pattern of Khadab-inspired terrorism, but he said U.S. officials had been unable to directly tie the Libyan leader to the attack.
The Berliner Morgenpost daily newspaper said investigators were focusing on anti-Western Arab militants in West Berlin.
It quoted unidentified West Berlin
security officials as saying the Libyan Embassy in East Berlin, the capital of East Germany, could have served as headquarters for the bombers.
The Morgentopst quoted Ganschow as saying intelligence reports indicated "manual杭舶 operating in the heart of Europe and slipped into West Berlin recently."
Ganscho said during a news conference that investigators continued to look at leftist and foreign terrorist networks that surfaced to identify the bombers.
Police questioned about 130 people without making arrests, he said.
In Bomb, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher established a group of experts to see if foreign governments, not identified, could have been involved in the disco bombing.
An anonymous caller in London claimed a West German leftist terrorist action, the Holger Meins Commando, committed the bombing.
Of the three claims of responsibili-
ty missed by Ganschow
vgestell.
A caller in Berlin said a previously unknown radical Arab group, the Anti-American Arab Liberation Front, was responsible.
Bush feasts and talks with Saudi King Fahd
United Press International
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — Vice President George Bush sat down to a Bedouin feast of roast lamb and ice cream in the Arabian desert yesterday in his meeting with King Fahd.
The precipitous plunge in world oil prices and the Iran-Iraq war were among the issues on the agenda for a late-night meeting with Fahd at his summer palace.
The session was to have been held this afternoon. Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater suggested that the change indicated the Saudis were eager to talk to Bush.
Earlier, Bush denied he had come to pressure the Saudis on oil prices. But he said continued low prices might not be in the long-term interest of the United States.
"I'm in a listening mode when it comes to the intentions of these major producing countries," he said. "And again, the interest in the United States is bound to be cheap energy if we possibly can. But there is some point where the national security interests of the United States say, 'Hey, we must have a strong, viable, domestic industry.'"
At the same appearance, which
was before an American business group. Bush underscored concern for Saudi security with an implicit warning to Iran — that the American confrontation with Libya last month showed the Reagan administration was committed to maintaining the flow of oil through the Persian Gulf.
The statement coincided with reports of an attack by Iranian warplanes on a Saudi tanker in the Persian Gulf.
Bush complained of being misinterpreted last week when he spoke about oil price stability in the face of a Saudi-backed price drop intended to regain lost market shares.
Rather than trying to boost prices on his four-nation tour of the Arabian Peninsula, Bush said, "I hope when I leave this part of the world, I will have a clearer idea of how the countries involved — and one major one is Saudi Arabia — feel there can be some stability to a market that certainly can't be very happy to them."
Bush repeatedly referred to the free fall in oil prices as a two-edged sword that benefited consumers but cut against the administration's belief in the need for a healthy U.S. oil industry.
Philippine airport safety fortified
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile ordered tight airport security amid reports that supporters of deposed ruler Ferdinand Marcos might be planning sabotage missions, the government said yesterday.
A Defense-Ministry press release said that officials had brushed aside recent reports of fears that Marcos loyalists had already infiltrated or planned to enter the Philippines on antigovernment sabotage missions.
But on Saturday, Enrile directed a top aide to draft a program to strengthen security at the country's airports.
The directive coincided with a media blitz mounted over the weekend by Marcos from his exile home in Honolulu, announcing that he had no intention of returning and provoking a civil war.
Interviews with Marcos on a Manila radio station and ABC's television program "Nightline" were his first since he fled the Philippines following the revolt that swept Corazon Aquino to the
presidency Feb.25.
"I have no intention of intervening in the politics of the Philippines except to help bring about peace," Marcos said.
On March 20, Vice President Salvador Laural said he and Aquino had received death threats from 16 alleged Marcos hit squads roaming the Philippine capital.
"We are supposed to be eliminated," he said.
"Without Cory Aquino and myself, it would be very easy for Marcos to make a comeback."
Search continues for victims of blast
A pile of rubble, some of it under 6 feet of water, is all that remains of
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Firefighters pumped water from rubble yesterday in the search for bodies of seven people presumed killed in a fire that officials said may have started in a cabinet shop where lacquer was being sprayed.
Fire Capt. Richard Crispen said at
the three-story Bayview Industrial Park, which housed a paint manufacturer, woodwork shops, auto repair shops, artist studios and some residential units.
Friday's fire injured at least 22 people and caused an estimated $10 million in damage. Five people remain hospitalized, two in serious condition.
least seven people were missing and presumed dead in the sooyt: rubble.
"We're talking about people we know didn't come home (Friday night)," he said. "There may be more."
Crispen said the cabinet shop was in an area where the missing people were thought to have been and where the most seriously injured people were when the blast rocked the southeast corner of the city.
The cause of the fire was unknown, but investigators said it might have started in a second-floor cabinet shop where lacquer was being sprayed.
About 160 firefighters battled the fire, and many remained on the scene yesterday while water used to dose the flames was being pumped out of the ruins.
Police end 2-day siege kill captor
EULESS, Texas — Police ended a 48-hour hostage siege last night by storming a food store and shooting dead a Polynesian man who had killed his ex-wife earlier in the day.
United Press International
Officers blew open a back door of the Kwik Pantry store at 9:30 p.m. and killed Malone "Maron" Matafea. The gunman's brother, who was inside trying to negotiate with his brother, was unharmed, police said.
Mataele, a 27-year-old jobless waiter from the South Pacific island of Tonga, killed his ex-wife, Sane Mataele, whom he had bound and gagged after the siege began Friday night.
In a prepared statement, police said they decided to storm the store because the hostage was dead.
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