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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, March 27, 1986
News Briefs University divests from Carnation Co.
EVANSTON, III. -- Northwestern University has divested more than $3.5 million in stocks and bonds in two companies doing business in South Africa, university officials said yesterday.
Funds were divested from Carnation Co. Inc., the milk products company, and Schlumberger Ltd., an oil field studies company.
Pop star John Denver played a tape of his new song "Flying For Me," which honors the Challenger astronauts, at a Senate hearing yesterday, and said he, not Christina Aguilera, have been on the doomed shuttle.
Denver told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that he felt responsible for the whole civilian-in-space program getting started and that he was talking with producers about doing a concert in space.
Strikers free porker
Song honors victims
AUSTIN, Minn. — About 100 meatpackers who have defied their parent union's order to end a seven-month strike freed a pig yesterday outside the Hormel plant and jeered replacement workers. Police caught the pig.
University officials said they would investigate all companies on an individual basis to determine their holdings in South Africa.
Police said two or three people would be charged by complaint summons, including one for opening a truck and letting the pig
Track denial upheld
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court yesterday upheld a decision by the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission denying a license to the promoters of a pari-mutuel racetrack proposed for Love County.
The high court said the racing commission properly had refused to grant the license last April.
The court decision reversed the decision of a Love County associate district judge. The judge ordered the racing commission in June to grant a trac license to Oklahoma Park Inc. if the promoters showed within 60 days that they had received financing.
From Kansan wires.
Gulf quiet after U.S. assault
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Navy forces roamed freely deep in the Gulf of Sidra yesterday without encountering Libyan opposition, and the battle for the United States' right to cross Monammar Khadafy's "line of death" appeared to be over, Pentagon sources said.
See related stories p. 11.
No hostilities were reported throughout the day by the three U.S. ships and planes of Task Force 60 in the gulf and the Mediterranean north of Libya, the Pentagon said.
Sources said the ships steamed farther into the gulf than ever before but stayed outside the internationally 12-mile limit off the Liubao coast.
The commander of the 6th Fleet, Vice Adm. Frank Kelso, later raised the possibility that U.S. forces had not sunk any Libyan missile boats.
The Pentagon had said three were sunk during confrontations Monday and early Tuesday.
The Pentagon said missiles launched by U.S. light bombers and the cruiser Yorktown sank at least three Libyan missile boats, damaged a fourth and knocked out the fire control radar at Sirte that directs batteries of Soviet-built SAM-5 aircraft missiles, the Pentagon said.
Later, however, Kelso told pool reporters aboard the aircraft carrier Saratoga that U.S. forces severely damaged only two missile boats and that evaluations were under way of three other engagements.
He also said only six SAM-5 missiles were fired by Libya. The Pentagon has said as many as 12 may have been launched against U.S. planes.
The discrepancies in the number of Libyan targets attacked and hit by U.S. ships and planes have been a source of confusion since hostilities
The clash, touched off Monday when Soviet-made Libyan SAM-5 missiles were fired at U.S. jets that had crossed Khadafy's line of death across the mouth of the guild, resulted in no U.S. losses.
erupted Monday. The Pentagon has said the confusion resulted from the fog of military activities,
In the absence of renewed retaliation for what Khadafy considers U.S. trespassing, Pentagon sources said they expected the flight operations off three carriers positioned just north of the imaginary line to end as early as today.
"Much depends on what happens today and overnight because they have to understand that there cannot be a perception of anybody driving us out," said one source about the Liyans. No decision had been made about halting the operation, he said.
Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims declined to estimate when the defense agency will release the report.
Saturday and are scheduled to run until Tuesday.
The White House told Congress yesterday that the air and sea clashes did not require invoking the War Powers Act.
In a letter to Rep. Dante Fascell, D-Fla., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, presidential assistant William Ball III said the maneuvers off Libya had long been planned as part of the "freedom-of-navigation" program and added, "A number of similar prior operations did not provoke responses."
Expecting that Libya might resort to more sinister reprisals for the U.S. defiance of Khadafy, the State Department said the United States was taking every precaution in light of evidence that Libyan agents may be scouting U.S. targets overseas for terrorist attacks.
Libyan government agents have been conducting surveillance of U.S. installations abroad.
Pathologists identify remains of astronauts
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Pathologists have identified the remains of at least six of the seven astronauts killed in the explosion of space shuttle Challenger, according to relatives and published reports.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration declined to comment on the reports. The agency had said repeatedly that no further statements would be made until the operation was completed. It an-
gled to have done so, but had found part of the crew cabin and remains on the ocean floor.
Seven crew members died when Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28.
Sources told The Associated Press that remains had been recovered and that parts of most of the astronauts had been identified. They declined to say how many.
The USS Preserver, the salvage ship working the crew compartment 18 miles offshore, has returned twice to port with no running lights, under cover of darkness, and on both occasions containers from the vessel were placed aboard military ambulances.
The remains are being examined
at the NASA Life Sciences Laboratory at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by forensic experts from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington.
They want to identify them and also to learn whether the astronauts were burned to death, poisoned by fumes, killed by the sudden loss of cabin pressure, killed by flying debris or impact with the water, or drowned.
The Orlando Sentinel, citing an unidentified source, said remains of all seven crew members had been identified. "To one extent or another, all the astronauts have been accounted for," the newspaper quoted a source as saying.
The New York Times quoted relatives of two of the astronauts as saying they had been notified that identifiable remains of astronauts Ellison Onizuka and Michael Smith had been recovered.
Mary McNair, sister-in-law of astronaut Ronald McNair, also said NASA told the family there had been a positive identification. "We haven't heard anything since then," she told the Los Angeles Times.
Marvin Resnik of Akron, Ohio, father of astronaut Judith Resnik, declined comment.
27 S. Africans killed in political violence
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police opened fire yesterday on a crowd that was protesting the arrest of schoolchildren and killed 11 blacks, pushing the death toll to 27 in the most deadly single day of political violence since the Sharpeville massacre more than 25 years ago.
Police Col. David George said about 70 people were wounded in the shooting in the B公uthatshura wanai homeland.
Witnesses said that after the shooting about 1,000 people were arrested when police surrounded the crowd and made everyone, including the wounded, wait about an hour for transport to hospitals and prisons.
A police official said 11 people died, but witnesses later reported seeing 22 bodies.
"Apparently the police just drove up and went wild," opening fire at the crowd of more than 5,000 near a Roman Catholic mission, a Catholic source said.
to protest recent police arrests of black schoolchildren.
"Parents stayed away from work today so that they could go to the meeting and find out why their children were arrested," he said.
A spokesman for a local action group said the crowd had gathered
In another incident, police waiting in ambush in a partially gutted ghetto liquor store near Port Elizabeth opened fire on a gasoline-hurling crowd, killing nine men.
A police spokesman said that about 10 p.m. the government-owned liquor store in the city's district ghetto was torched by rioters.
After the fire was doused, police hid in the ruins until a m., when about 100 blacks returned throw-away bombs to reignite the building.
A police source said black radicals planned to destroy all the liquor stores in the area. Income from the liquor is the biggest source of funds for government-appointed black local councils.
Two men were killed in a clash with police at another liquor store in the area and police said they shot and killed two blacks in a crowd that was throwing stone:
Filipinos may file charges
The Associated Press
The constitution abolishes the National Assembly, which is dominated by members of Marcos' New Society and members of Ayores' Aquileo sole lawnmaking powers.
Also, members of Marcos' former ruling party said yesterday that they consider void and without force the interim constitution proclaimed Tuesday by new President Corazon Aquino.
MANILA, Philippines — The government may file criminal charges against ousted President Ferdinand E. Marcos for allegedly looting millions of dollars from the nation's coffers, an official said yesterday.
Raul Daza, a member of the Commission on Good Government that was set up by Aquino to track down Marcelo' s wealth, told a news conference that filing charges against the former president might be the only way to recover the money. Much of it is thought to be in Swiss banks.
Marcos' labor minister, Blas Ople, said Aquino was setting up a dictatorship.
Several assemblymen who had supported Aquino also criticized the interim constitution and said they would not be able to consider possible responses.
Daza said the commission might bring criminal charges against Marcos after commission Chairman Jovitio Salonga returns next week from the United States. Salonga is following up several lawsuits to recover Marcos' holdings there.
Daza said two other commission members were in Switzerland and Canada to investigate reported Marcos holdings in those countries. Switzerland took the unprecedented step on Tuesday of freezing all assets placed there by Marcos and his family.
Neither Swiss nor Philippine officials have said how much money Marcos is thought to have deposited in Swiss banks. One commission official said that two weeks ago he had received a report that Marcos had deposited $800 million in one Swiss bank, but the commission had not said whether it verified the report.
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