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Nation/World
Thursday, March 20, 1986
News Briefs
Launching delayed for European rocket
KOUROU, French Guiana — The 17th launching of Europe's Ariane rocket was canceled seconds before liftoff last night and will be delayed up to 10 days because of a problem in the final stage of the launch.
The rocket, which is the main competitor of the U.S. space shuttle, was to carry a U.S. and a Brazilian satellite into orbit.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Two Brown University women, whose arrests sparked an investigation into a sex-exition ring surrounding the Ivy League school, asked a judge yesterday to dismiss prostitution charges against them
Sex decision delayed
Mission controllers at the French National Center for Space Studies didn't know what went wrong.
Judge Victor Baretta continued the case until Friday.
The two Brown seniors were arrested March 7 and charged after allegedly offering to have sex for $150 with an undercover officer.
Planes tease Libva
WASHINGTON — American warplanes flew near Moammar Khadif's "line of death" yesterday amid reports that the United States wanted to lure Libya into a fight.
The Soviets called the arrival of three U.S. aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean near the Gulf of Sidra "armed provocation."
John Poindexter, President Reagan's national security adviser, said the stepped-up naval activity was part of a regular schedule prepared for challenges to territorial claims.
Logo frosts Kellogg's
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Keilogg Co. is taking a dim view of the official symbol for the '1888 Olympic games in Korea which they say greeeeally resembles Frosted Flakes spokescat Tony the Tiger.
The logo created by the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee is a tiger cub in a hat with streamers, wearing the Olympic interlocking rings symbol.
Tony began promoting Frosted Flakes in 1952.
United Press International
Influence of Marcos indicated
WASHINGTON — A document seized from deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos may be evidence of a massive plan to influence U.S. politics with tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions, Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, said yesterday.
Ferdinand Marcos, deposed leader of the Philippines, has asked for asylum in Panama, and the Central American nation said it will consider it, President Eric Artur Delvalle said yesterday.
A U.S. military spokesman in Honolulu said Marcos was still at Hickam Air Force Base, but in Washington, Reagan administration sources said Marcos could be in Panama by the end of the week.
til this week that they might have gotten contributions from Marcos associates.
Several of those listed as apparent recipients of campaign contributions, including President Reagan, former President Carter and Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., vigorously denied knowing un-
Cranston acknowledged late yesterday, however, that his office had turned up records of $1,000 in contributions from two officers of the Mabuhay Corp., a California company whose name appeared at the head of the document titled, "Statement of Expenses." The firm is run by Lenelio Malabed, a San Francisco physician who was a bovahood friend of Marcos.
Initial checks of Federal Election Commission records found no listings of Philippine nationals making direct campaign contributions, which would be illegal, but disclosed some other substantial donations from persons living in that country.
The document, among 2,300 pages confiscated from Marcos and described at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing, indicated that Marcos associates planned to make campaign contributions of $50,000 each to the 1980 Reagan and Carter
campaigns and $10,000 to Cranston's Senate campaign.
Contributions also were listed for as many as nine other Democratic officials, all outspoken foes of Marcos, in California and San Francisco, an aide to Crandan said. Congressional aides said San Francisco Mayor Diane Fainstein and California Lt. Gov. Lee McCarthy were among those listed.
Subcommittee Chairman Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., told the hearing that the documents show a seemingly pervasive pattern of Marcos's using public office for private gain.
The document on campaign contributions is a balance sheet without a letterhead "from someone who knew about the contributions to someone else who knew," said Mike Lewan, an aide to Solarz. Lewan said he could not tell whether the contributions cited in the document actually were delivered.
Swedish police release suspect in Palme case
United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A suspect in the assassination of Prime Minister Olf Palme was released yesterday after a witness to the Feb. 28 slaying failed to identify him as a man spotted near the scene after the killing.
Hans Holmer, Stockholm police chief, said a second person suspected of illegal possession of weapons in the Palms case also was released.
It was the first mention by police of a second arrest. Police did not identify the second suspect, but they said he was a marginal figure.
The unexpected twist in the investigation left police without a suspect in the biggest manhunt in Swedish history. Palme was shot and killed as he walked without guarded or downtown Stockholm站 on Feb. 28.
The first suspect, a 32-year-old Swede identified in news reports as Viktor Gumarsson, was arrested one week ago in his suburban home.
K. G. Svensson, chief public prosecutor, had asked a court Monday to charge the man with murder. An arraignment hearing was set for today, but instead the suspect left national police headquarters under police escort as Holmer told a news conference of the release.
The suspect was freed because police could not prove he had been seen trying to flag down a car for a ride nine minutes after the shooting on the street where Palme was killed, Svensson said in a statement.
Unknown candidate wins in Illinois primary voting
United Press International
CHICAGO — An upset winner in Illinois' primary election for lieutenant governor, backed by radical right-wing politician Lyndon LaRouche, made chaos yesterday of Democratic Party plans to oust Republican Gov. James R. Thompson.
Mark Fairchild, 28, one of a slate of LaRouche's National Democratic Policy Committee candidates, won the Democratic lieutenant governor's nomination without campaigning in Tuesday's primary.
Chicago Mayor Harold
Fairchild said yesterday that his alliance with LaRouche was not hurt former Sen. Adai Stevenson's chances of beating Thompson.
Washington was thwarted in a bid to gain control of the 50-member City Council. Unofficial results showed Washington-backed candidates in the seven federal court-ordered elections won in only two wards.
Janice Hart, another LaRouche candidate, narrowly defeated the slated Democratic candidate in the secretary of state nomination. Her husband Robert Hart made a strong showing in the Democratic treasurer's race.
Stevenson, who narrowly lost to Thompson in 1962 by about 5,000 votes, easily won the Democratic nomination for governor.
The NDPC candidates' stands on the issues included a call for mandatory testing for acquired immune deficiency syndrome and
quarantine of those who have AIDS.
Fairchild said yesterday that his platform included proposals to punish severely banks caught laundering drug money, to halt the sale of drugs from a government domain, and to vigorously investigate withcult and cults.
In a statement issued in Washington, LaRouche said the Illinois vote was a protest against the administration, Congress and the Democratic Party.
Unofficial results showed Fairchild running ahead of the party's slated candidate, state Sen. George Saigmeister. With 98 percent of the state's more than 11,715 precincts reporting, Fairchild had 329,528 to 308,841 votes for Saigmeister.
Redhead snags royal heart
The Associated Press
LONDON — The royal family said yesterday that Prince Andrew, whose flings with models and actresses delighted gossip columnists, will marry a childhood friend nicknamed Fergie who has red hair and freckles.
Sarah Ferguson, daughter of Prince Charles' polo manager, Maj. Ronald Ferguson. Both Andrew and Miss Ferguson are 26.
Buckingham Palace's announcement said Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II and fourth in line to the British throne, is engaged to
Andrew's romantic escapes made newspaper headlines for years.
After marriage, the couple probably will become Duke and Duchess of York, the dukedom reserved by tradition for the monarch's second son.
No date or place was set, but Andrew said he hoped the wedding would be in the summer at Westminster Abbey. His parents were married there in 1947, and it has been the site of all coronations since the crown was placed on William the Conqueror's head in 1066.
Andrew said he proposed "some weeks ago" but put off an announcement until his mother returned from a tour of Nepal, New Zealand and Australia.
Budget gets tax increase defense cuts
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led Senate Budget Committee approved a bipartisan compromise budget yesterday that rejects President Reagan's large military build-up and calls for more than $18 billion in increased taxes.
The committee voted 13-9 for the package, which was the first bipartisan budget to come out of the committee in the Reagan years. Six Democrats joined seven Republicans in a vote that bucks the president's wishes on both the Pentagon and taxes.
The budget allocates $295 billion for the military in fiscal 1987 — $25 billion less than Reagan wanted and not enough to compensate for the project rise in costs due to inflation. The budget reduces the current $182 billion deficit to $144 billion as required by the Gramm-Rudman balanced-budget law passed late last year.
White House spokesman Larry Speaks said the committee achieved a desirable goal through unacceptable methods. He called the domestic spending cuts timid and minimal.
"The president's budget, on the other hand, achieves the same level of savings by carefully pruning non-defense spending, no general tax increase, and growing defense the Congress agreed to last spring." Speaks said.
Pete Domenici, -R-N.M., Budget Committee chairman, and leading committee Democrat Lawton Chiles of Florida built their coalition one senator at a time this week. The two men said they thought that if they were going to fight Reagan on two issues he had so far refused to negotiate on, they would be better off to do it together.
Opponents on the committee complained that the plan raised taxes too much and cut defense too much, but the board planned the plan reflected the good of a compromise.
"I predict before we are finished on the floor, we will pass this or something very much like it," Domenici said.
Chiles said, "It's not a budget I would have produced or that Pete would have produced for himself, but it's a budget we knew we had to produce together."
Domenici said he had not heard from the White House about modifications to the budget.
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