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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday Jan. 22, 1986
News Briefs
Dartmouth students
smash shantytown
HANOVER, N.H. - Dartmouth College students swinging sledgammers smashed an anti-apartment shantytown yesterday in a campus cleanup branded as racist by student opposed to the college's South African investments.
Twelve Dartmouth students opened their attack on the scrapwood shanties shortly before 3 a.m., police Capt. William Moore said.
MIAMI — Eastern Airlines pilots met yesterday to prepare for a possible crisis caused by the company's disclosure of layoffs, more pay cuts and work changes to make the nation's fourth largest airline profitable.
Two women students inside one of the shanties were threatened verbally but not injured, Moore said. College spokesman Rick Adams said the college was investigating the incident but no charges were contemplated.
Meanwhile, contract negotiators for the airline and the pilots held a separate meeting in Washington under the auspices of a federal mediator.
Pilots consider strike
Eastern asked the mediator to release the company from negotiations, said Jerry Cosley, company spokesman. That would trigger a 30-day cooling off period at the end of which the carrier's 4,458 pilots would be free to strike and the company could impose contract changes.
Guards close factory
AUSTIN, Minn. — National Guardsmen with billy clubs and riot gear closed the George A. Hormel & Co. plant yesterday to guard against violence after the company asked its workers not to cross picket lines formed by hundreds of leering strikers.
The company said it would reopen the plant with newly-hired workers today under the protection of 800 soldiers.
From Kansan wires.
Officials debate retaliation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger are engaged in a public Cabinet-level policy debate that could determine whether the United States someday would attack a country that backs terrorists.
Since U.S. forces withdrew from Lebanon after attacks on U.S. Marines, Shultz has advocated a get-tough stand toward terrorists that would include strikes against targets in countries, such as Libya, that support terrorism.
In a 1894 speech in which he said innocent lives might have to be put at risk, Shultz declared, "We cannot allow ourselves to become the Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond."
Weinberger, on the other hand, has warned against hastily- planned strikes that could kill women and children, aggravate terrorism and lead to chaos that could undermine
U. S. strategic interests in the Middle East.
The Pentagon also has in mind the experience in Lebanon, where 241 U.S. servicemen were killed in a single suicide bombing. The soldiers were fulfilling a mission that Shultz had recommended, but that Weinberger had opposed from the outset.
Another consideration of those who argue against retaliation is the danger of inciting revenge-seeking, Mideast-style terrorism in the United States, especially if innocents are killed.
For example, officials take seriously the threat of Libyan leader Moammar Khadify, who has warned that if attacked, he would send terrorist suicide squads to the United States.
The long-running between Shultz and Weinberger surfaced anew in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the Vienna and Rome airports in December in which five Americans were among the 19 dead.
Although the attacks occurred in European countries, and one of the captured Palestinian killers said his group's motive was to kill Israelis, Shultz has treated the attacks as an assault on the United States that must be answered, with Libya the most likely target.
Weinberger again was in the posture of urging caution.
"It must be clearly and unequivocally the policy of the United States to fight back," Shultz said last week at a conference on terrorism.
But Weinberger told the same conference, "I think there are a lot of people who would get instant gratification from some kind of bombing attack somewhere without being too worried about the details. We have to consider the appropriateness of the response and whether what we are doing will diminish and discourage terrorism in the future."
A senior aide to Shultz, who asked not to be identified, said the State Department advocated a punitive strike against targets in Libya after
the airport attacks, such as a camp where terrorists are thought to receive training.
President Reagan sided with Weinberger and opted for economic sanctions.
Some say the group's report is ambiguous on the question of retribution, neither recommending it nor ruling it out.
After the hijacking of a TWA plane last year in which one American was killed and dozens hostage, Reagan named a special task force on terrorism, headed by Vice President George Bush, to study the issue.
"Some people thought it was supposed to define what retribution should be, but the task force never saw it that way," said a Bush aide, who asked not to be identified. "Some people may be disappointed."
The report focuses on capabilities, responsibilities and coordination of the government's response to terrorism, the aide said. A public version may be released next month.
Court rules camp survivors may sue
United Press International
WASHINGTON - Thousands of Japanese Americans forced from their homes and herded into detention camps during World War II may sue the government for compensation, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia removed a legal hurdle facing camp survivors trying to win $25 billion in legal claims against the federal government.
Writing for the court, Judge Skelly Wright said he could not agree with the government that the time for justice has passed.
The ruling reversed U.S. District Judge Louis Oberdorfer, who dismissed a lawsuit filed by 19 camp survivors in 1984 on grounds that it was filed beyond the deadline.
The appeals court ruled that the statute of limitations period for filing claims did not begin until 1980 when a congressional report said the detention of thousands of Japanese-Americans was apparently based on their ethnic origins alone.
The ruling creates an opening for lawsuits by many, but not all, of the estimated 120,000 citizens who were kept in barracks for four years during the war. About 60,000 are thought to be still alive.
Many Japanese-Americans were forced by an executive order by President Franklin Roosevelt to leave jobs and homes to live in remote camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards on grounds that they posed a threat to national security.
The appeals court noted that some 26,000 camp survivors who have made claims under the American-Japanese Evacuation Claims Act, enacted by Congress in 1948 to repay survivors for
Yesterday's ruling says any future compensation to camp survivors hinges on proof that the government concealed the fact that it had no military justification for detaining Japanese-Americans.
lost property, are barred from seeking more money in court.
"Should such concealment be proven here, those individuals who have not received (past payment) should be free to press this cause to its conclusion," the court said.
Rep. Robert Matsui, D-Calif., who as a child spent almost four years with his family in a detention camp in California, said the court's ruling was the right decision.
"We were not Japanese nationalists. We were citizens of the United States," Matsui said. "We were never given any trial. No charges were brought. Nevertheless, we were incarcerated."
Walesa on trial for questioning election
WARSAW, Poland — Solidarity trade union founder Lech Walesa will be placed on trial for challenging last October's official voter turnout figures in Polish parliamentary elections, a government spokesman said yesterday.
"The investigation is ended."
spokesman Jerzy Urban said at his weekly news conference. "It is now being discussed which court should handle the trial. Then the date will be set."
Walesa, 42, winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, is charged with slander. If convicted, he could be jailed for as long as two years.
United Press International
A state prosecutor questioned
Wales in December about allegations that he challenged the turnout figures released by the government. Wales contended the turnout was 60 percent, not the official figure of 79 percent.
elections, was evidence of a return to stability in Poland.
The government of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski considered the election extremely significant and contended the turnout, higher than in 1984 local
Walesa, who led the 1980 strikes that formed the now-outlawed Solidarity union, the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc, had called for a boycott of the election because, he said, communist authorities had controlled the selection of candidates for the 460 seats.
Visitors trapped by battle
Western and Middle Eastern evacues said the streets of Aden were littered with corpses and burned-out cars, trucks and buses. Water and power lines have been cut and the airport was destroyed in the civil war, which began Jan. 13.
The evacuees described Aden as a ghost town. As many as 10,000 people might have died in the war, according to the Cairo newspaper, Al Ahram.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Marxist rebels battling for control in South Yemen gained ground against government forces yesterday in new fighting that hampered efforts to evacuate Westerners trapped in the country's corse-strenuous capital.
Rear Adm. John Garnier, aboard Queen Elizabeth II's yacht, Britannia, sailing off the shores of the capital city of Aden, reported to London by radio that fighting was still going on and that Aden had suffered an incredible amount of damage.
United Press International
Some 600 foreigners awaited evacuation, including 200 to 300 in the Soviet and French embassies. The Britannia, diverted to South Yemen as it sailed to Australia, plucked another 15 Britons off the beach of the capital.
In another rescue operation about 300 miles east of Aden, the British ship, Diamond Princess, picked up nearly 200 Europeans on a beach at Mukalla, according to the vessel's owners in London.
The whereabouts of President Ali Nasser Mohammed, 49, were not known. In a Radio Ethiopia broadcast, the leftist leader acknowledged the government had suffered a setback in Aden. But he said the rest of the strategic pro-Soviet nation was under the legitimate control of his government.
The rebels, claiming victory in their bid to unseat Mohammed, said they controlled all areas except for a section near the Interior Ministry in Aden and Mohammed's home province of Abvan.
In Abu Dhabi, the semi-official newspaper, Al Ittihad, quoted South Yemen sources in Moscow as saying Soviet attempts to arrange a truce had failed.
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