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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Tuesday, March 4, 1986
News Briefs
Pro-Iranian Muslims kill 11 in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A pro-Iranian Muslim fundamentalist group yesterday announced the execution of nine men and two women accused of participating in a Beirut bombing campaign that killed 277 people.
The statement from the radical Hebzollah, or Party of God, came as battles raged around Beirut and an unnamed Armenian political leader was shot and killed in the Bekaa Valley.
the statement said the 11 Lebanese admitted being members of a network that worked for "the three devils — America, Israel and the Phalange" — a right-wing Christian party.
Oil tanker explodes
ETEL, France — Two people were killed and three others were missing yesterday after explosions ripped through a Greek oil tanker in the Bay of Biscay off France's west coast.
A spokesman for the regional maritime safety and surveillance office said 29 of the 34 crew members escaped and were picked up by cargo boats in the area.
The 70,000 ton Galini was bound for Portugal from England. Police kill guerrillas
JOHANNEBSURG, South Africa Police ambushed and killed seven suspected black nationalist guerrillas yesterday in the bloodiest clash between rebels and security forces since a raid in neighboring Botswana last year.
Authorities said one policeman was wounded in the clash in Cape Town's black Guguleu township involving guerrillas of the outlawed African National Congress.
Police were tipped off about the group's plans to attack a police vehicle and waited in ambush for four hours.
Bolivian aid stopped
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The U.S. government has suspended new assistance to Bolivia until the country wipes out at least 10,000 acres of coca, the plant used in making cocaine, the U.S. Embassy in La Paz announced yesterday.
Bolivia receives about $63-$68 million a year in U.S. economic and military assistance.
From Kansan wires.
Aquino endorsed by Marcos supporters
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Leaders of Ferdinand Marcos' political party pledged yesterday to have Corazon Aquino's presidency confirmed by the National Assembly, in which they hold two-thirds of the seats.
The nation's central bank said it was taking legal action to recover documents and money Marcos took with him when he fled the country he had ruled for 20 years.
After a daylong caucus of the Marcos party, the New Society Movement, its leaders said they recognized the legitimacy of Aquino's government and were ready to have the National Assembly confirm this fact.
Demonstrations against Aquino's decision to replace some local officials before their terms expire were reported in two Manila suburbs and a province north of the capital.
Marcos' New York assets frozen
The National Assembly proclamation that Marcos had defeated Aquino in the Feb. 7 presidential election led to a military revolution and civil upris-
In another development, guerrillas of the communist New People's Army killed 15 policemen and four civilians in an ambush in the Bicol region of southern Luzon Island, the Philippine Constabulary said. At least 23 people have been killed in rebel attacks that began during the weekend.
United Press International
NEW YORK — A judge froze $350 million in New York properties thought to be owned by former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos in the first step of a legal fight to recover wealth that properly belongs to the Philippine people, lawyers said yesterday.
The lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights — representing Aquino without fee — assert Marcos has $7 billion in holdings in the United States, $350 million of which is in New York City and on Long Island.
Lawyers working for Philippe President Corazon Aquino filed suit in Manhattan against Marcos, his wife Imelda and 20 other people and corporations in order to recover the holdings which include a palatial Long Island estate.
a temporary restraining order from state Supreme Court Justice Elliot Wilk late Sunday. The order forbids the property from being sold until the dispute over ownership is decided.
They sought, and were awarded,
Wilk also ordered Marcos to appear in court in Manhattan tomorrow to argue for freeing those properties.
Included in the property, besides the Long Island estate, are buildings on Madison and Fifth avenues, Wall Street and Herald Square.
ing that forced the 68-year-old former president to flee.
"We wanted to freeze the assets so the Philippine government can go forward with the judicial process, which will determine whether or not money was taken illegally from the Philippines," said Michael Ratner, a spokesman for the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Jose Rono, secretary-general of the party, said, "We will extend all kinds of cooperation to have this government operate under the constitution and the laws without pre-
Among those named in the suit is New York City real estate agent Joseph Bernstein, who is attempting to buy several of the New York City properties.
The restraining order signed by the judge bans any sale or transfer of ownership of the four New York City buildings or the estate on Sedgemere Road on the Great South Bay in Center Moriches, Long Island.
"The center is working for the recovery of the wealth that properly belongs to the Philippine people now mired in the depths of poverty," said Bonifacio Gillego, a spokesman for the Philippine Presidential Commission on Good Government. Aquino created the commission to recover money Marcos allegedly stole from the Philippine people to buy private property.
empting (Aquino's) right and authority as president."
The caucus also drafted a resolution asking Aquino to stop dismissing pro-Marcos mayors and provincial governors whose terms expire June 30.
She and Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel have been criticized, even by some supporters, for canceling local elections scheduled for May and replacing incumbent officials before their terms expire.
Jose Fernandez, director of the central bank, said government lawyers were applying in Hawaii for a court order stopping further movement of a planeload of possessions Marcos took along when the U.S.'Air Force flew his entourage to Hawaii.
Fernandez did not mention Marcos by name, but said he had orders to "recover assets that have been delivered (to Hawaii) which we consider to be in clear violation of existing central bank regulations."
Fernandez did not say what Marcos took with him. News reports from Washington have quoted U.S. officials as saying the cargo included boxes of documents believed to contain information about his business dealings. They also were quoted as saying Marcos took the equivalent of $1.1 million in Philippine currency.
Taking national currency out of the country without central bank approval is illegal. Fernandez said there was no such authorization.
Communist insurgents have been relatively inactive since the election.
Vice President Salvador Laurel had predicted most of them would lay down their arms when a new government took over.
Col. Jovencio Sales, Philippine Constabulary chief of staff in Albay province, said that in addition to those killed, 10 policemen and seven civilians were wounded in yesterday's ambush of a military truck.
Sweden swears in new leader
United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Acting Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson was sworn in yesterday as the leader of Sweden's Social Democratic Party, clearing the way for him to succeed slain Prime Minister Olof Palme as the nation's chief of government.
nation's chief or governor.
As the new head of Palme's party, Carlsson is the most likely choice to succeed him when Parliament votes on a new prime minister next week. Carlsson said he planned to keep most of Palme's government intact and continue its policies.
Police continued to search for clues in the Palmy slaying, slapping a news blackout on their investigation after reports that the Red Army Faction terrorist group had claimed responsibility for the assassination shortly after it occurred.
The Foreign Ministry said that three hours after Palme was shot, a man telephoned Peter Teijer, first secretary of the Swedish Embassy in Bonn, and announced in German that the Red Army Faction, West Germany's most feared terrorist group, had killed the prime minister. Teijer did not report the call until Saturday.
Later Saturday, a caller to an international news agency in London claimed responsibility for the assassination in the name of Holger Meins, a Red Army Faction terrorist who starved himself to death in a West German prison in 1974.
The Red Army Faction, formerly known as the Baader Meinhof gang, has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks across Europe in a 20-year reign of terror, including the bombing last August at the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Force Base outside Frankfurt that killed two people.
the gang plotted to kidnap Swedish Labor Minister Anna-Greta Leijon but police foiled the plan. Norbert Kroecher, the Baader-Meinhof terrorist sentenced in 1981 in the plot, lived in Sweden for many years and is said to have shadowed numerous prominent figures. During this period, Palme had received death threats and moved only with heavy security.
Professor Nils Bejeroth, a psychiatrist who is a police consultant, said the killing appeared to be "the work of a professional" and that the killer was part of a larger plot.
The only physical evidence police have disclosed so far is that the gunman fired a .357 Magnum revolver, probably a U.S.-made Smith and Wesson.
The two bullets found on the street where Palme was assassinated while walking unguarded with his wife, Lisbeth, Friday night were copper-tipped and capable of piercing a bullet-proof vest, supporting police suspicious the slaying was well planned.
Reagan fights for aid to Nicaraguan rebels
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, raising the stakes in a foreign policy showdown, challenged Congress yesterday to prove it was as committed to democracy in Nicaragua as it was in the Philippines and to approve $100 million in aid for the contras.
Reagan insisted U.S. support was vital for the insurgent movement to be sustained and argued defeat by Congress could deliver Nicaragua to the Communist Bloc.
Flanked by rebel leaders Arturo Cruz, Alfonso Robelo and Adolfo Colero, Reagan escalated his drive to renew a flow of military assistance halted by Congress in late 1984 in angry response to perceived CIA abuses.
rebel leaders took their lobbying efforts to Capitol Hill while the administration hammered away with demands that Congress show resolve to resist communist expansionism.
With Democratic fees threatening an early vote in the House, the
"It's going to be a difficult fight," White House spokesman Larry Speakes told reporters, "but it's not going to be one we stand back from."
As part of what Speakes called the full-court press over the next several weeks, Reagan will focus on the contra aid issue in his weekly radio addresses.
Secretary of State George Shultz kept up the pressure by asserting in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars that arming the rebels was the only way to force the Nicaraguan communists to halt their subversion and stifling tyranny at home.
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