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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Feb. 28, 1986
News Briefs
Haiti wants return of ousted Duvalier
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's new government announced yesterday that it would request the extradition of ousted President Jean-Claude Duvalier from France in an apparent move to halt a new wave of looting and unrest in the capital.
Gourge did not say whether Haiti would put Duvalier on trial.
Paris store bombed
The government also said it would move to extradite Albert Pierre, chief of the feared Ton Tons Macoutes secret police, whose flight Sunday provoked anger against officials of the new administration who allowed him to escape.
PARIS — A bomb exploded early yesterday in a Latin Quarter bookstore specializing in anticommunist works, causing extensive damage but no injuries, police said.
The explosion sparked a fire. It blew out store windows and damaged windows in 15 neighboring buildings.
The explosion came a day after another explosion in central Paris. Sit-in goes third day
Sit-in goes third day
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — Smith College students held control of the campus administration building yesterday for a third day, but the protesters and trustees of the school agreed to meet.
As many as 200 students continued their occupation of College Hall to protest the trustees' refusal to completely divest of $22.3 million in stock in companies that do business with South Africa.
Students have refused to allow employees into College Hall since Tuesday morning.
Cosmic Contest won
NEW YORK — A frail, elderly woman, who in the propeller-plane days of the 1950s envisioned high-speed jet travel, global weekend jaunts and helicopter shuttles, yesterday won a 30-year-old contest on the future of air travel.
TWA officials awarded Helen Thomas, 80, of Cambridge, Mass., $50,000 as the winner of the "Cosmic Contest." The contest asked people boarding TWA flights in 1955 to predict what commercial air travel would be like in 1985.
From Kansan wires.
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — President Corazon Aquino's Cabinet took over yesterday and her office announced that records in several ministries reportedly had been destroyed by Marcos loyalists.
Aquino Cabinet takes control
The new government said hundreds of political prisoners held by the fallen Marcos regime could be freed next week, but extensive paper work slowed the process.
Some political prisoners were freed yesterday, but only one of the 39 people on the list for immediate release actually had gone home by nightfall, said Armando Maley, head of a group of prisoners' families called Kanatid, which means Brother.
Other prisoners were taken from jails to processing centers and had emotional reunions with relatives
Officials said more than 500 people were in jail on assorted political charges when Ferdinand Marcos ended 20 years of rule in the Philippines and fled the country Tuesday. He now is in Hawaii.
while .bureaucrats dealt with the documents.
Philip Habib, the special U.S. envoy, spent 1½ hours with Aquino yesterday. A statement from her office said Habib extended "the warmest greetings of President Ronald Reagan and the American people."
He told Aquino that the uprising that forced Marcos from office, which was largely peaceful, had "deeply moved the American people and those in the highest circles of the U.S. government," the statement said.
Habib paid a fact-finding visit last
week during the tense standoff created by Aquino's refusal to concede the Feb. 7 election, which was marred by violence and widespread evidence of fraud. The Marcos-controlled National Assembly proclaimed him the winner.
Members of the Cabinet announced by Aquino on Wednesday assumed their posts yesterday, meeting with their predecessors and staff.
Aquino's executive secretary, Joker Arroyo, ordered heads of government offices to preserve all records and make inventories of their assets and finances.
A government announcement said he issued the directive in response to reports of "deliberate destruction and pilferage" of records at several ministries and agencies. Among them were Human Settlements, a heavily financed ministry headed by Imelda
Marcos, the former president's wife; the Government Corporate Counsel.
Aquino's official spokesman, Rene Saguisip, told a news conference that a five-member committee was reviewing lists of political prisoners and making decisions to release individuals on a case-by-case basis.
He said the committee would meet again tomorrow, and "we would hope to be able to announce by then the release of maybe hundreds of political detainees."
Sagusug is a lawyer who, with Arroyo and several human rights groups, led a campaign under the Marcos government for release of prisoners.
Former Sen. Jovito Salonga is chairman of the committee, which also has Saguisag, Arroyo, Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Gen. Fidel V. Ramos.
Irate smoker threatens hijacking
United Press International
NEW YORK — A woman, enraged after being told to put out a cigarette on a TWA jetliner yesterday, threatened to hijack the Miami-to-New York flight with a knife she was using to slice salami, authorities said.
The woman, who had a history of mental problems, was arrested by FBI agents when the Boeing 727 landed at Kennedy International Airport at 5:15 p.m., Trans World Airlines spokesman Sally McFlireth said.
Authorities said she would not be charged.
Tom Middlemiss, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport, identified the woman as
Frances Lieberman, 37, of New York. The FBI had earlier identified her as Frances Cohen Sitton. 39.
Lieberman was interviewed by a doctor after her arrest and taken to a local hospital where she was put under observation, said Bernard Graber, a Port Authority police lieutenant.
McElwreath said Lieberman had been smoking and pacing the aisle of the jetliner as it was taxing for a 2:50 p.m. takeoff from Miami International Airport. She was told to extinguish the cigarette and take her seat. Lieberman complied with the order but was unhappy. McElwreath said.
FBI spokesman Joseph Valquette said the captain was aware of the disturbance but thought it was safe to continue with the flight once Lieberman sat down.
Later, however, she started to cut some salami and make threats, McElwweather said. She emphasized that Lieberman never brandished the knife.
"Apparently (Lieberman) said the word 'hijack,' " McElwreath said. The threat was reported to the captain. He notified air-traffic controllers in New York and said he wanted to be met on arrival by the FBI.
Graber said Lieberman surrendered the knife to a crew member without a struggle. He would not describe the knife and said police couldn't explain how it passed airport metal detectors.
Robert Penn Warren, 80 named 1st poet laureate
Lieberman has a history of psychological problems and was put under observation at the Queens Hospital Center, Graber said.
United Press International
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — When a poem is right, "You feel it in your toes." Robert Penn Warren said yesterday, speaking modestly of his work after being named the country's first official poet laureate.
Warren, 80, the only writer to have won the Pulitzer Prize twice for poetry and once for fiction, was named U.S. poet laureate by Daniel J. Boorstein, the librarian of Congress.
A law passed after years of lobbying by Sen. Spark Matsunaga, D-Hawaii, established a poet laureate in the United States only last year.
tant in poetry at the Library of Congress — a position created more than 50 years ago and held by Warren in 1944 and 1945.
The bill also authorized a consul-
Britain has had a poet laureate since the 17th century.
Warren's most famous novel, "All the King's Men," appeared 40 years ago. Although he has written in almost every literary form, Warren said he enjoyed poetry most.
When a poem is right, "You feel it in your toes, in the back of your neck, your stomach, everywhere."
Writing is about the author's sense of existence, Warren said, and the writer often is the last to know when he or she has succeeded.
Prosecutor recommends acquittal of Bulgarians
The Associated Press
ROME — The prosecutor recommended yesterday that three Bulgarians be acquitted because he could not prove they conspired in the shooting of Pope John Paul II. He said he was not given time to complete his case.
Antonio Marini appeared to suggest in his summation, however, that the jury exercise its right to ignore his recommendation. Italian law requires prosecutors to ask for acquittal if they feel the evidence is insufficient.
Marini tried to have the trial
reopened at the last minute so he could call more witnesses. The judge denied his request, and Marini said he was obligated to seek acquittals.
Three Bulgarians and four Turks were charged in the case. The panel of two judges and six citizen jurors is not bound by the recommendation, and all defendants in custody will be held until a verdict is delivered.
Italian juries reach their decisions by majority vote.
Acquittal would cast doubt on the alleged Bulgarian and Soviet connection.
President plans aid to Contras
WASHINGTON - President Reagan, applauded by congressional leaders for his handling of the Philippines crisis, sought yesterday to convient the ovation into support for his plan to give $100 million to the Nicaraguan Contras
"We stood for democracy in the Philippines. We have to stand for democracy in Nicaragua," spokesman Larry Speakes quoted Reagan as telling the lawmakers.
Reagan spoke to 32 members of Congress about his foreign policy and defense initiatives, including his new $311 billion Pentagon budget and his plan to funnel covert military aid to the rebels who are fighting the leftist Nicaraguan government.
During a picture-taking session at the start of the meeting, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole told Reagan, "I want to thank you for your outstanding work in reference to the Philippines. We appreciate it very much."
Everybody in the room, including Democratic leaders, applauded, and Wright praised Reagan's clear-eyed, level-headed approach to the change of power in the Philippines following the election of U.S.-backed President Ferdinand Marcos.
Reagan said he saw several parallels to the Philippine situation in Nicaragua.
"The most important parallel between the two cases is this — we stood for democracy in the Philippines. We have to stand for democracy in Nicaragua and throughout Central America and in our own hemisphere."
"We can ignore the fraudulent elections (Nicaraguan President Daniel) Ortega held, we can ignore the repression and we can ignore the subversion, terrorism and drug-trafficking," Reagan said. "But if we ignore it in Nicaragua and don't deal with it now, when will we deal with it? I maintain we have to deal with it now."
United Press International
Earlier in the week Reagan proposed that $70 million in military aid and $30 million in humanitarian aid be given to the Contras. Congress refused last year to give the rebels anything but non-lethal aid.
Speakes said Reagan was not comparing new Philippines President Corazon Aquino with the Contras.
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