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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, March 28, 1986
News Briefs
Sirhan Sirhan loses eighth bid for parole
SOLEAD, Calif. — Sirhan Siranh, who assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy 18 years ago, lost an eight bid for freedom yesterday when a state parole board ruled that the magnitude of his crime outweighed his good behavior in prison.
It was the eight time parole has been rejected for the Jordaniian immigrant who is serving a life sentence for shooting Kennedy in
The panel ordered Siran transferred to Vacaville State Prison for psychological testing and said he could try again for parole next year.
Police hit by bombs
MELBOURNE, Australia — A terrorist car bomb exploded in front of police headquarters in Melbourne yesterday, injuring 22 people, triggering a spate of gasoline tank explosions and forcing 1,000 police personnel to flee the building.
After the explosions, anonymous telephone callers warned of more blasts at government offices, law courts and hotels, but police searches failed to turn up any explosives. There was no clue to the identity of the terrorists responsible for the bombs.
Stevenson quits party
CHICAGO — Adalai Stevenson, moving to distance himself from two right-wing extremists who scored upsets in the Illinois primary, said yesterday that he would try to run for governor as an independent.
In a statement, he said he would abandon his Democratic Party nomination for governor and seek new running mates for lieutenant governor and secretary of state. The change was forced by Democratic primary victories of two followers of extremist Lyndon LaRouche.
Bottled water tainted
TEMPE, Ariz. — Sodium cyanide was found in the bottled water at an office where a woman collapsed and died Monday after taking a drink, police said yesterday.
From Kansan wires.
U.S. withdraws from Gulf of Sidra
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The ships and planes of the Sixth Fleet withdrew from the Gulf of Sidra off Libya's coast yesterday as President Reagan and other officials declared that the United States had accomplished its mission of defending freedom of the seas.
"The exercise is over." Reagan announced in early afternoon as he stopped in New Orleans for a speech on his way to a California vacation.
Defense Secretary Caspar Sawar. Weinberger told reporters at the Pentagon. "We have completed our exercise in the Gulf of Sidra and it was in every way a successful operation."
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"This exercise has demonstrated once again what it set out to do, which is our right and the
right of all nations to operate in international waters," Weinberger said. "If Libya's radical claims and aggression against our forces were to go unanswered, no peaceful nation could safely rely on freedom of the seas anywhere."
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The withdrawal came four days after the Sixth Fleet began operations in the Gulf of Sidra and two days after Libyan forces gave up any pretense of further military challenge to the 30-ship battle group led by three aircraft carriers carrying about 250 planes.
The firing of surface-to-air missiles at American planes Monday provoked U.S. attacks on the missile site and on Libyan patrol boats. At least two of the vessels were reported sunk.
No American casualties were reported, and Weinberger said the United States had no estimate of Libyan losses.
Reagan charged that Khadafy was planning
terrorist operations against Americans even before the confrontation in the gulf, and he pledged, "The United States will not be intimidated by new threats of terrorism against us. Mr. Khadiya must know that we will hold him fully accountable for any such actions."
Without being specific, he said, "We're aware of intensive Libyan preparations that were already under way for terrorist operations against Americans."
The president telephoned the Sixth Fleet commander, Vice Adm. Frank B. Kelso, to praise the servicemen for their bravery and tireless response to Libyan threats.
He told reporters as he left for an Easter vacation in California that he had;"sent the fleet a well-done."
In other developments yesterday:
Weinberger said the United States had maintained three U.S. ships in the gulf below
the line of death for 75 hours. U.S. warplanes conducted 1,546 flights, of which 188 were below the line of death. he added.
■ Crowe said U.S. jets and ships had to overcome intense electronic jamming from Libya in an attempt to foil American radar and weapon systems. "We demonstrated the last trick, that did operate or manage that environment and do so very well without casualties," he said.
Crowe also reported that two U.S. missiles never before used in combat — the Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile and the HARM anti-radar missile — had both worked well.
The withdrawal of the U.S. battle group began yesterday morning with a gradual reduction in the number of fighter flights over the gulf and orders to a cruiser and two destroyers inside the gulf to begin steaming northward.
Strike may divert U.S. Seventh Fleet
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Leaders of 24,000 workers striking at key American military bases submitted new contract demands to U.S. authorities yesterday as both sides expressed optimism about ending the six-day walkout by today.
Rear Adm. Edwin Kohn, U.S. Armored Forces commander in the Philippines, said he had postponed for 24 hours a decision to divert a U.S. ship from Haiti to allow for Subic Bay Naval Base pending the outcome of talks today.
The five-ship amphibious assault group with 4,000 Marines and sailors aboard was scheduled to make a 15-day liberty stop at Subic, but Bohn indicated that the group would go to Japan unless the striking Filipino workers dismantled barricades outside Subic and Clark Air Base.
"Our faithful employees who cannot get their paychecks, who cannot earn their livelihood are hurting, and
Thousands of striking workers manned picket lines and blockades outside Subic, Clark Air Base and six smaller U.S. installations north of Manila yesterday as the longest walkout against the American bases entered its seventh day.
“In a situation like this, there are no winners. Everybody is losing.” Kohn said on a U.S. Armed Forces broadcast, monitored in Monitor 7.
we are hurting too, but we are surviving on the facilities," he said.
The blockades violate a 1968 U.S.-Philippine accord requiring complete access in and out of the bases, asked Kohn, who Wednesday asked Labor Ministry officials to declare the strike illegal and order workers to remove the barricades.
"Perhaps Good Friday will bring a good message for both our employees and for ourselves," he said.
Kohn said he hoped a third round of negotiations scheduled for today would be successful.
The workers went on strike March 21 after negotiations on a new three-year contract collapsed when the Pentagon rejected a demand for severance pay upon resignation.
The U.S. military does not grant employees severance pay upon resignation anywhere in the world, a U.S. Navy spokesman said.
Roberto Flores, President of the Federation of Filipino Civilian Employees Association, said union leaders yesterday presented alternatives to the severance pay demand during a second round of talks with U.S. base negotiators.
"Our American friends asked us to submit alternatives just so we can go back to the negotiating table and discuss our demand, that of severance pay upon resignation." Flores said in a prepared statement.
Dental X-rays discovered
Mengele's body confirmed
United Press International
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Newly discovered dental X-rays prove with absolute certainty that a skeleton unearned near Sao Paulo last year was that of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, experts said yesterday.
American dental scientist Lowell J. Levine, sent by the Justice Department to Sao Paulo last week to examine the new evidence for Brazilian authorities, said the X-rays proved beyond all doubt that the skeleton was Mengel's.
tional panel of forensic scientists as Josef Mengele with reasonable scientific certainty, may now be identified as Josef Mengele with an absolute certainty," Levine said.
"It is my opinion that the skeleton identified by an interna-
Authorities last June exhuced the skeleton of a man near San Paulo who drowned in 1979 off the Brazilian coast.
Local residents testified that they helped Mengilee live in hiding and buried him under an assumed name. Forensic experts from the United States, Brazil and West Germany concluded within a reasonable scientific certainty that the skeleton was Mengilee's.
computer-assisted X-ray studies to compare wartime photographs of Mengle with the skull found in Sao Paulo. But they said they needed more medical and dental records to convince some Jewish leaders, who said they feared the skeleton was another ruse by Mengle to trick his enemies into thinking him dead.
The evidence disclosed at a news conference yesterday includes eight sets of X-rays of Mengle's teeth that were obtained last Friday from a dentist who treated Mengle from 1976 to 1978.
The dentist, Kasumasa Tutiya,
was tracked down last week by U.S. consul-general.
Soviet schoolgirl meets Reagan; children kev to future, both say
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan bumped into Soviet schoolgirl Katya Lycheva while she was on a White House tour yesterday and told her if children around the world would get to know each other, "There would be no more wars."
ding her VIP White House tour.
Deputy press secretary Peter Roussel said the meeting between the president and Lycheva, 11, was coincidental and occurred as she was en
Roussel said Reagan smiled, shook hands and had a short chat with the girl, whose peace mission to the United States is dedicated to Samantha Smith, the 10-year-old Maine schoolgirl who toured the Soviet Union in 1983.
Smith was killed in an airplane crash in Maine last year.
Lychela presented Reagan with a doll, Roussel said.
The president encountered Lycheva on the ground floor after he came down the elevator from the family quarters on his way to the Oval Office.
Roussel later told reporters aboard Air Force One, as the president traveled to New Orleans, that Reagan told Lycheva: "If all the children of the world would get to know each other, there would be no more wars."