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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1986
News Briefs
South African police find five blacks dead
JOHANNESBURG South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police found the bodies of five blacks who were bound, stabbed and burned with what has become known as the "necklace" — gasoline-soaked tires placed around them and set afire, police said westerday.
The killings appeared to be part of the struggle between rival anti-apartheid groups that differ on how to fight white-minority rule.
Press reports said the men might have been sentenced to death by unofficial people's courts operating in black townships.
PALERMO. Sicily — The largest Mafia trial in Italian history began yesterday, with defendants in steel cages and police escorting the judges who will hear charges such as drug smuggling and multiple murder against the 474 accused mobsters.
Authorities said 115 of the defendants were at large, including most of the high-ranking bosses who were indicted after a three-year investigation by five of Italy's investigators.
The corpses were found on a street outside the industrial center of Port Elizabeth.
Mafia trial begins
Stores pull Tylenol
The courtroom, which includes 30 steel-barred cages guarded by armed policemen, was built for the trial at a cost of $17 million.
YONKERS, N.Y. — A & P food stores pulled Tylenol from more than 1,000 stores in 26 states yesterday after authorities said a 23-year-old woman who had taken the drug died of poisoning.
Diane Ellsworth, 23, of Peekslaw, N.Y., died Saturday in the first such poisoning since seven Chicago-area people died after taking the pills in 1982, authorities said.
Tests confirmed that three other capsules in the same bottle contained cyanide.
From Kansan wires.
Group meets to declare winner
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — The government-dominated National Assembly held the first meeting yesterday on its official vote canvass, which by law will determine who won the disputed presidential election.
In the slow count of ballots cast Friday, the government election commission indicated that President Ferdinand E. Marcos was leading by 53 percent. An unofficial count by a citizens' poll-watching group of more votes indicated challenger Corazon Aquino ahead by the same margin.
The election was marred by violence, which continued yesterday. A gunman fired at about 50 Aquino supporters in an open truck, killing a 20-year-old man and wounding a woman. Aquino had delivered a speech from the truck earlier.
At the gathering in suburban Makati, Aquino had told 2,000 cheerful supporters she was "claiming the people's due."
"We are going to take power," Aquino said. "The people have won this election."
Aquino accuses Marcos of widespread election fraud in attempting to extend his 20 years of rule over this archipelago of 7,100 islands.
Both Aquino supporters and official U.S. election observers called the slow count an attempt by Marcos to manipulate the results.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, leaving aside evidence of vote fraud, hailed the Philippine election yesterday as proof of a strong two-party system and urged the two sides to come together to make sure the government works.
Reagan urges two parties to work together
National Assembly members, two-
United Press International
President Ferdinand Marcos and challenger Corazon Aquino were neck-and-neck in unofficial tabulations. The administration called for accommodation by Marcos and restraint by Aquino once the results of the election are certified — a position that seemed to assume a Marcos victory.
As a team of U.S. observers arrived home, Reagan said the United States should not interfere in the election, although there was reason to question the fairness of the election.
"I think what we have to watch for," Reagan said, "is that in spite of all these charges, there is at the same time evidence of a strong two-party system now in the islands."
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., who led the team of official U.S. observers, told reporters later on arriving at Andrews Air Force Base. "We have witnessed
democracy by millions of people who have a passion for it."
But, he added, "Tonight we are going to compose our best thoughts for the president and visit with him tomorrow morning. This situation is one that will not go away without a lot of thought," Lugar said.
Reagan will meet today with Lugar, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., another member of the delegation, as well as Secretary of State George Shultz, to make a preliminary report on their findings and discuss what they found to back up charges that the balloting was tainted by scandal and coercion.
thirds of whom are from the president's New Society Movement, spent four hours debating rules for the canvass and then adjourned until this afternoon. The galleries were packed with Marcos supporters and Aquino loyalists who chanted their candidates' names. Thousands more gathered outside.
Returns at the end of the day from the so-called quick count by the government commission gave Marcos 4,017,277 votes, or 53 percent, to 3,610,099, or 47 percent, for Aquino, with 35 percent of precincts counted.
for Free Elections, a poll-watchers' group known as Namfrel, had Aquino ahead by 6,658,838 votes to 5,971,693, a 53-to-47-percent lead, with 60.4 percent of precincts reported.
The election commission's count was suspended after 30 computer operators walked out Sunday, charging fraud in the tabulation that showed Marcos leading.
Pedro Baraoidan, an army colonel who runs the commission's computer operation, said he was considering whether to file charges against them.
to sabotage the operation." Baraoidan said.
He said the 18-hour suspension was caused by an equipment breakdown, not the walkout.
A count by the National Movement
Radio Veritas, a Roman Catholic Church station, said eight more of the commission's 120 computer technicians walked out yesterday. Baraoidan.
More than 90 people have been killed in election-related violence since the campaign began Dec. 6.
Haiti official pledges to share wealth fairly
"My theory is that there was a plot
The 178-member National Assembly has 15 days to complete the canvass of vote tally sheets.
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The head of the interim government pledged yesterday to share wealth fairly in Haiti, where people were ground into poverty during three decades that made the Duvaliers and their friends rich.
Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy, president of the six-man interim government council, said at swearing-in ceremonies for the new Cabinet that there would be free elections by universal suffrage and a new, liberal constitution to create a real and working democracy. He did not set a date for the elections or elaborate on the new constitution.
Doc" Duvalier to power in 1957. He later declared himself president-for-life.
Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude, who succeeded at age 19 when he died in 1971, fled with his family and aides Friday in a U.S. military plane and is in France while the French government looks for a country that will take him permanently.
Haiti's last free election was the one that brought Francois "Papa
The remarks by Namphy, who is the army chief of staff, followed a weekend of celebration and violence. Haitians rioted, sacked homes owned by the departed dictator and his lieutenants, and hunted down members of the dreaded Duvalier private militia, the Tonton Macoute.
As many as 300 people were killed over the weekend.
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The Soviet Union sentenced Shcharansky in 1978 to 13 years in prison on charges of spying for Washington. Former President Jimmy Carter denied that the prominent government critic had ever been a CIA agent.
U.S., Soviet disagreement endangers spy exchange
monitoring human rights abuse in the Soviet Union, would be freed ahead of the other prisoners.
United Press International
The newspaper said that five convicted or accused spies to be released by the United States and West Germany would be flown to Berlin from Frankfurt, West Germany, just before the swap.
BONN, West Germany — The East-West prisoner exchange expected today nearly came unglued in an 11th-hour disagreement between Moscow and Washington involving Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, a newspaper said yesterday.
The daily Bild newspaper said the elaborately planned exchange expected today in Berlin was seriously endangered when the Americans refused a Soviet demand that the Jewish dissident be treated as an agent just like the others in the swap.
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Bild said the dispute was settled with the agreement that Shcharansky, who helped run a committee
Two of those were thought to be Karl and Kane Hoecher, a couple held by the United States for spying for Czechoslovakia.
The source said other avenues of investigation were wind shears aloft as the 4.5-million-pound shuttle stack climbed through a period of maximum stresses, and a seal leak between two segments of the booster rocket that caused a sideways thrust and put additional structural loads on the shin.
The presidential commission investigating the Jan. 28 accident met in secret session yesterday to discuss an internal memorandum last July warning officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that shuttle flight safety was being compromised by potential failure of booster seals.
A space agency source, who declined to be identified, said such a scenario — first outlined yesterday in the industry magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology — is one of several possibilities under examination.
WASHINGTON — NASA investigators think Challenger's right booster rocket may have pivoted into the huge space shuttle fuel tank, crushing it and setting off the fireball that destroyed the ship and killed its crew.
Arriving for yesterday's commission meeting, chairman William P. Rogers said the New York Times story gave the impression that NASA had not told his panel everything it knew about the booster's history.
A focus of the investigation has been the possibility that a leak between segments of the right booster allowed a plume of flame to spurt toward Challenger's liquid fuel tank, either puncturing it or raising the pressure inside to cause the explosion.
Theory says rocket leak caused crash
The Associated Press
Aviation Week said a redesign of the joints might cause the next shuttle mission to be postponed a year.
The magazine said NASA's interim accident review board thought that the plume of fire jetting out of the side of the right booster rocket caused the bottom half of the rocket to separate from the tank.
"The lower portion of the booster, then rotated outward from the climbing vehicle." Aviation Week said. "As the bottom of the booster moved outward, its top section pivoted into the external tank and crushed the upper right side of the tank."
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