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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Feb. 7, 1986
News Briefs Neo-Nazi promises revolution will go on
SEATTLE — A defiant neo-Nazi, Gary Lee Barrengut, sentenced yesterday with four other gang members, vowed his group's violent white supremacist conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government would continue, saying, "the blood will flow."
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Civil rights activists charged that police and soldiers forced blacks to move from their homes yesterday, as a government minister predicted the eventual election of a black president in South Africa.
Prosecutors said The Order, the neo-Nazi group, stole more than $4 million in bank and armored car robberies to finance a white supremacist revolution intended to wipe out minorities, Jews and white traitors.
Police and soldiers in armored trucks forced blacks to move from Moutse, northeast of Johannesburg, to the remote northern Transvaal province, said Ethel Walt, vice president of the Black Sash civil rights group.
Other members of The Order were named as suspects in the June 1984 murder of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg, thought to have been killed because of his baiting of right-wing groups, and in the murder of Walter E. West, a group colleague suspected of being a security risk.
Blacks forced out
It was the first forced removal since blacks were marched at gunpoint from their traditional home at Magopa two years ago.
STRATTON, Colo. — Law officers using backhoes and shovels dug into plains in eastern Colorado yesterday looking for graves that could hold as many as nine bodies of transient ranchhands.
Police dig for bodies
The hunt centered on the Thomas R. McCormick ranch, about five miles south of Stratton. Three bodies already have been found.
McCormick was charged Tuesday with murder and kidnapping in the death of truck driver Hubert Donho, 62, who disappeared from a Colorado truck stop and whose body was found Jan. 30 in a field nine miles north of Byers, Colo.
From Kansan wires.
President-for-Life flees Haiti
United Press International
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country for France early today, hours after gunfire erupted in the streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital of the Caribbean nation.
A State Department spokesman in Washington said a U.S. Air Force plane flew Duvalier out of the country he has ruled for 15 years. In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry reported Duvalier and his wife, Michele, were bound for France.
"I can confirm it. It's true. We did supply an Air Force plane," State Department spokesman Bohdan Demytrwyc said. He said the plane,
A French Foreign Ministry spokesman said Duvalier would come to France but that France was not his final destination.
carrying Duvalker and "a number of people with him," left Port-au-Prince at 3:46 a.m. EST.
"With the goal of facilitating the transition to democracy in Haiti, heading off grave trouble, and in liaison with the United States, the French government has decided to accept Mr. Duvalier in France before he goes to another country," the French spokesman said.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Paris said Duvalier, 34, and his wife, Michele, 26, left early today aboard a U.S. military jet with 22 other people, relatives and members of his
Demytrewcyk refused to say if Duvalier's flight was the result of a deal worked out with the United States and several Western European and African nations. He said the Haitian government would provide details.
CBS News reported Thursday night that Duvalier's departure was the result of negotiations and that a military-civilian junta would govern the poverty-streaked nation.
entourage.
The television network, quoting intelligence sources, said Morocco was one of several nations that might take in Duvalier.
In Port-au-Prince, a U.S. Embassy official who declined to be named said earlier the United States had
"expressed its concern to the Haitian government over the level of violence" under Duvalier, whose family ruled the Caribbean country for 28 years.
Gunfire erupted several times in the capital late yesterday, beginning around 8 p.m. local time and growing heavier towards 10 p.m.
The firing cakes hours after Duvalier ordered security forces to use restraint in a stiff crackdown that has claimed at least 50 lives in two months.
The government said between 50 and 60 people have been killed since Nov. 28 in widespread protests against Duvalier's 15-year rule. It was the first official estimate of the number of deaths.
At a private dinner in the White House, Mrs. Reagan surprised the president with a $20 gold coin minted in 1911, the year of his birth.
'The message from the Kremlin was a best wishes type of greeting from Soviet leader Mkailh Gorbachev relayed to the White House from Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, an aide said.
World wishes Pres. Reagan a happy day
After signing a legislative agenda he wanted Congress to enact, Reagan said that for a birthday present, "I'd kind of like some of these things that we're doing to be accomplished and further advances to peace."
The White House later released a list of 79 countries that had sent greetings, in addition to more than 8,000 cards from private citizens throughout the United States.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, wash in songs, cakes and greeting cards that came from Kenya to the Kremin celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday feeling "only like 39" and wishing for world peace.
Reagan looked fit after a year in which he had surgery to remove cancer from his colon and a minor operation to remove skin cancer from his nose. He heard "Happy Birthday" led by Vice President George Bush at a prayer breakfast for 3,900 of Washington's power elite and received a full box of greetings that Bush said came from more than 100 world leaders.
26 meatpackers arrested
AUSTIN, Minn. — Twenty-six striking meatpackers who tried to stop replacement workers from entering the Geo. A. Hormel & Co. plant were arrested yesterday.
United Press International
Among the arrested was laor-
strategist Ray Rogers who pro-
promptly began a jailhouse hunger
strike.
Rogers was warned by a judge Tuesday that he would go to jail if he continued to violate an injunction against mass demonstrations, and was held without formal charges, said Fred Kraft, Mower
Countv attorney.
"We have 36 hours to issue the charges," Kraft said.
He said he was researching a possible charge of criminal syndicalism, which carries a fine of $5,000 and five years in jail.
Syndicalism is an infrequently used charge imposed on union leaders accused of encouraging their members to break the law during a strike.
In a statement from his jail cell, Rogers said he had begun the hunger strike to protest "today's wanton violation of workers' and the public's constitutional rights."
Rogers would not say under what conditions he would end his fast.
Kraft said Rogers would be held until a court appearance that was expected to be today.
Wayne Goodnature, Mower County sheriff, said the arrests were orderly and occurred when 26 pickets — five women and 21 men — refused an order to leave. They had walked up to a police and National Guard post on a road leading to the north entrance of the plant. Before the arrest, about 70
Before the arrest, about 70 strikers forced police and the National Guard to close a road to the Hormel plant for five minutes.
Tornadoes on Gulf Coast kill two
United Press International
Thunderstorms that spewed killer tornadoes over Texas rolled along the Gulf Coast yesterday, damaging buildings in north Florida.
marina at St. Marks.
Two people died and at least 35 were injured in tornadoes that plunged out of greenish-black skies in Texas. Two more were killed in a traffic accident during a blinding rainstorm.
In Florida, authorities said a tornado hit a Tallahassee middle school early yesterday. No one was hurt and classes continued on schedule, although five classrooms had to be closed because of water damage.
In the town of Mayo, a tornado or high winds overtured a house trailer and dropped a tree on another trailer. Another twister struck a
The worst of Wednesday's storms in Texas struck around the Houston area in Harris County. An 81-year-old woman was killed in a tornado that ripped through a trailer park, and a 30-year-old power company maintenance man died when his truck blew over.
In Dallas, two men died when their pickup truck struck a van parked in the emergency lane of an expressway during a driving rain.
Roofs were ripped off hangars at an airport outside Houston, damaging or destroying 300 airplanes. Three of the planes were hurled into a nearby lake. The storm set off the airplane emergency locator transmitters on dozens of the planes, and Civil Air Patrol volunteers worked through the night trying to find
The body of Barbara Leona Wilkerson, 81, was pulled from the wreckage of her mobile home at Bourdeaux Gardens Trailer Park. Several trailer houses in the park were flipped.
Aircraft ELTs trigger automatically during a crash to help search and rescue personnel locate the site as quickly as possible. The transmitters set off by the storm could have blocked actual emergency transmissions, authorities said.
Two victims remained in critical condition early today at Tomball Community Hospital.
"In Tomball itself, we had the high winds. I think the tornados just tree-topped us, just danced over the trees," said Tomball police dispatcher Dianne Wiater.
Salvage ship ready to lift heavy debris
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A salvage ship capable of lifting 10 tons, was on call yesterday to raise sunken, rocket wreckage from the destroyed, shuttle Challenger, but NASA officials would not say what parts of the shuttle may be the target of such muscle.
ABC News last night broadcast a photograph of what appeared to be a damaged astronaut flight helmet that had been recovered from sea. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials would not comment.
A 3-mile security zone was in effect around a point 15 miles east of Challenger's launch pad, and mariners were advised once an hour by radio that vessels were not permitted to enter the area.
Another less-restricted zone was established running 18 miles to either side of a line extending 72 miles out to sea.
A NASA spokesman said Challenger's left-side solid booster rocket might have been located based on sonar hits. It could not be confirmed what the targets might represent. The right-side booster also may have been located, but that could not be confirmed.
The object or objects also could be 'the shuttle's blasted crew module or its beefed-up engine compartment. Neither is known to have been, ecovered so far. As for Challenger's seven-member crew, the space agency will not comment on whether any remains have been found.
The Preserver, one of 11 salvage ships operated by the Navy, arrived on the scene from Virginia early yesterday. The 213-foot ship is equipped with diving equipment and two cranes capable of lifting up to 10 tons.
In Washington, a newly formed presidential commission conducted its first hearing on the accident and was briefed on shuttle systems by members of NASA's internal review board, appointed after Challenger exploded Jan. 28.
The commission members, including astronaut Sally Ride and moonwalker Neil Armstrong, were shown previously released photographs taken instants before the explosion of Challenger's 500,000-gallon external fuel tank that showed an apparent rupture in the right-side solid booster rocket.
Don't Make Spring Break Mistakes
Remember:
Remember:
1) Don't go unless you know where you're staying.
2) Don't waste a fortune getting there.
3) Don't waste valuable tanning time walking to the beach.
4) Make sure you're close to the night life.
5) Bring bathing suit and sunglasses.
PARTY
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1) Accomodations provided by Econolodge & Desert Isle.
2) YOU DRIVE (To the Party) 119
WE DRIVE (The Party Starts Here) 184
3) All hotels are ON THE BEACH.
4) We are within walking distance of the boardwalk & strip.
5) We do not provide bathing suits or sunglasses.
For sign up call Tim and Tony at 841-0409
Come to Gammons Wednesday, Feb. 12 for the Second Annual "Surf's Up" Party... Where a free trip will be given away!
watch for details Monday
THIS IS A SERIOUS PARTY
Huge Picture and Poster Sale!
100's to choose from LAST DAY TODAY! Friday, February 7
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Located in the Student Union Lobby, 4th floor
Art Repro & Laser Photo Art Frames available for laser photo art.
$4.50 or 3 for $12.00
M. C. Escher, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Seurat, Dali and many more also available. Cars, cities, animals, scenery travel posters, etc.
LOTS OF NEW PRINTS!
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