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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 3, 1986
Nation/World
News Briefs
Police storm prison inmates free guards
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Rioting inmates who torched four buildings at the Kirkland Correctional Institution on Tuesday night released the guards they had taken to prison and were arrested by prison authorities said yesterday.
About 20 officers were trapped in an area with the inmates when riot squads regained control of the unison about midnight.
Damage to the 950-inmate prison was estimated at up to $2 million, but officials said it would remain in operation.
Diplomat released
OTTWA — A gunman who held a diplomat hostage in the Bahamian Embassy to call attention to the plight of Canada's homeless released his woman hostage unharmed and surrendered yesterday after a 13-hour standoff with police.
David Maltby was expected to be charged with breach of parole, forcible confinement and weapons offenses.
Malby wanted the government to turn over an old firehouse to the homeless.
Shuttle chief resigns
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's shuttle projects chief, one of the engineers who played a crucial role in the decision to launch the shuttle Challenger, asked yesterday to be relieved of his position.
William Lucas, director of Marshall Space Flight Center, said Stanley Reinzart, 52, asked to be reassigned to his old position because of his health and other personal reasons.
Gov. Wallace retires
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Gov George Wallace, saying he has climbed his last political mountain, announced his retirement yesterday, ending a controversial four-term career.
He said the decision was forced by the lingering effects of the 1972 assassination attempt that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Wallace, 66, was an ardent segregationist in the '60s but changed his views and won the votes of blacks in the '80s.
From Kansan wires.
Tutu calls for S. African sanctions
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Bishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate, risked arrest yesterday by calling for international sanctions against South Africa's white-minority government. He warned that only such action could avert a catastrophe.
Tutu's call came as officials allowed black activist Winnie Mandela to return to her home in the sprawling Johannesburg ghetto of Soweto. For the first time in 24 years she was able to move without government restriction.
Thousands of black children streamed back to classes across the country, apparently heeding a decision by teachers and parents to
end two years of sporadic anti-government school boycots.
Tutu previously had called only for Western pressure on the white-minority government to end racial discrimination and segregation. He risked possible prosecution for abandoning 10 years of moderate opposition with his call for punitive economic sanctions.
"Our land is burning and bleeding, and so I call on the international community to apply punitive sanctions against this government to help us establish a new South Africa — non-racial, democratic, participatory and just," he said.
Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize,
told reporters at his Johannesburg cathedral
that apartheid was evil, immoral and unchristian. Apartheid is the government's system of legislated racial discrimination against the nation's majority black population.
An estimated 1,200 people — most of them black — have died in a two-year wave of unrest linked to apartheid protests.
Legal sources said the law on what the South African government called economic sabotage had not been tested and Tutu could face arrest.
After Tutu's statement, Information Minister Louis Nel said, "Bishop Tutu must state clearly whether he has now rejected the path of peaceful political negotiation and evolution."
Nel said sanctions would have disastrous consequences for most blacks, but not for the
pishop of Johannesburg. He accused Tutu of showing a lack of compassion.
Winnie Mandela returned yesterday to the Soweto home she shared for a short time with her husband, Nelson Mandela, a jailed black nationalist. She was welcomed by three grandchildren and a school choir.
She had not been home since Dec. 31, when she was arrested for the second time in eight days for defying a government order barring her from Johannesburg and Soweto.
Her lawyer, Israel Ayob, said he was told by state attorney Pieter Kleynhans that authorities had decided to abandon a Dec. 21 order barring her from Soweto.
Lawyers' worst fears come true
Top attorneys angered by proposals
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Some of the country's leading attorneys yesterday condemned crime commission proposals that would try to weed out lawyers who work for the mob with sting operations and wiretaps on their offices.
One attorney in New York said the tear of wirestaps has already forced him to meet clients in the subway, to pass secret messages across his desk and to burn messages in an ashtray.
President Reagan's Commission on Organized Crime, which earlier created a stir by recommending mandatory drug tests for all federal workers, said in its final report Tuesday that lawyers working for the government's operations and special measures were warranted to flush them out.
"Although few in number, they do exist," the report said of attorneys it termed lawyer-criminals. And such activity, it said, justified using
undercover agents, electronic surveillance of lawyers' conversations and sting operations involving fabricated cases.
Ron Kuby, an associate in the law office of William Kunstler, a leading civil rights criminal defense attorney in New York, said the report meant that the worst fears of defense lawyers and civil libertarians have now come true.
Kunstler's firm recently represented 19 accused members of
the Macheteros, a Puerto Rican independence group charged with a $7.2 million 1983 Wells Fargo robbery in Hartford, Conn., and just completed the case of Dr. Grupartap Singh Birk, a matrimonial acquaintance that he conspired to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Raiv Gandhi.
David Russell, an attorney in Kansas City, Mo., said that wiretaps and sting operations would invade constitutional protections.
White House behind free-market oil price
United Press International
Oil prices bounced back above the $10-a-barrel mark yesterday as the White House said it still thought price stability could be achieved by free-market forces and cheap oil was good for the United States.
In Santa Barbara, Calif., where President Reagan is vacationing, White House spokesman Larry Speakes sought to clarify remarks by Vice President George Bush. Bush said Tuesday that he would try to persuade Saudi Arabia, an leader of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, that crumbling oil prices had hurt the U.S. oil industry and posed a threat to U.S. national security interests.
Bush's comments on his planned tour of the Middle East, which is scheduled for later this week, sent crude prices higher in U.S. markets late Tuesday in a rally that spilled over into yesterday's trading. Prices
pulled back somewhat after the White House statement.
"We believe that the way to achieve price stability is to let the free market work," Speaks said. "While we are concerned with the effects of falling prices on oil-producing sectors of the U.S. economy, the net effect on American consumers and the American economy will be positive."
In Baton Rouge, La., Bob Brookshear, president of the Mid-Continental Oil and Gas Association, said the slide in oil prices — a slide of more than 60 percent — over the past three months was shutting down wells in Louisiana that might never reopen. He warned that $10 a-barrel oil would eliminate 10 percent of U.S. production this year.
Many segments of the domestic industry objected to Bush's planned intervention in the international oil market.
Chief justice named to aid Aquino image
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — President Corazon Aquino, trying to restore credibility to the Philippine legal system, yesterday named a political foe of ouder ruler Ferdinand Marcos as the country's Supreme Court chief justice.
Aquino appointed Judge Claudio Teekahen to the court's highest position in a move also aimed at dispelling claims that her government had become a dictatorship since she swept into power Feb. 25 when a military-rebellion forced Marcos from office.
Teehanke, 67, was a member of the court under the Marcos regime but was twice denied the post of chief justice by the former 20-year ruler because of his libertarian political views.
office to Teehankee before presiding over her first Cabinet meeting since she declared a provisional constitution last week, abolished the National Assembly and retained for herself all legislative power until a new constitution could be written and approved by the voters.
Aquino administered the oath of
Rene Sagusag, presidential spokesman, said the 2½-hour Cabinet session centered on how a Philippine mission could renegotiate easier terms from the World Bank, the US Treasury and Fed, and other creditors on the country's $28.2 billion foreign debt.
The mission, headed by Jaime Ongpin, finance minister, and Jose Fernandez, central bank governor, is scheduled to leave Saturday for a 17-day trip to Washington, New York and Tokyo.
Gorbachev says summit still in sight
United Press International
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said his proposed trip to the United States remained in sight; but he gave a dim view of other aspects of superpower relations during a wide-ranging interview released yesterday.
Gorbachev, who has been struggling for the last year to consolidate his power and assemble a viable economic plan, discussed the economics of moving forward faster and called again for a nuclear test ban to obstruct the development of new types of weapons.
The connection between economics and a nuclear ban seemed to bear out views of many Soviet experts that Gorbachev is seeking an arms control agreement so the lagging Soviet economy will not be dragged down further by expensive new weapons programs.
In the interview with the Algerian weekly newspaper, the Revolution Africaine, Gorbachev also conceded that Soviet growth rates had declined and emphasized the importance of radical economic reform.
Gorbachev met President Reagan in November at Geneva in the first summit between the two leaders and agreed to meet again this year in the United States.
No date has been set for the meeting and Gorbachev said last month there was no point of holding empty talks, suggesting the superpowers must first reach an agreement on arms control.
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