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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, Jan. 21, 1986
News Briefs
Lesotho's military ousts prime minister
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Lesotho's paramilitary force has ousted Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan. Commander Maj. Gen. Justin Lekhanya will rule as chairman of a military council, government radio reported today.
The radio said that King Moshoeshoe II would remain head of Lesotho, which is surrounded by the Republic of South Africa.
Government ministries would be run temporarily by principal secretaries, the top civil servants in the departments, the radio reported.
Residents of the Lesotho's capital, Maseru, reached by telephone, said they had heard intermittent automatic weapons fire near the Makoanyane paramilitary barracks on the edge of the city late Sunday.
Boston buses to roll
BOSTON — Striking school bus drivers who walked off the job Jan. 2 reached a tentative agreement, and union officials predicted yesterday that buses would begin rolling again when classes resume tomorrow.
Laval S. Wilson, superintendent of the system, which has 57,000 students, announced that an agreement was reached Saturday night between the 600 striking drivers and school and bus company officials after a daylong negotiating session.
Flood warning ends
Rivers pushed out of their banks by two days of rain in western Washington began to recede yesterday, allowing officials to rescind a state of emergency declared Saturday.
Just a day after mud slides injured two people and forced dozens of others to evacuate their homes, many returned home to begin cleaning up.
Roads and bridges all along the western side of Washington were washed out by the rains.
Marxists topple S. Yemen after weeklong rebellion
United Press International
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Hard-line Marxists supported by the Soviet-equipped armed forces overthrew President Ali Nasser Mohammed of South Yemen yesterday after a week of bloody rebellion, official Radio Aden
From Kansan wire reports.
An Israeli radio monitor said Mohammed, 49, flew to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday night, apparently seeking political asylum, and a jet from Yemen carrying an unidentified senior personality left Addis Ababa yesterday for Taizz, North Yemen.
But Addis Ababa radio later said that Mohammed left for home after a short stopover in Ethiopia to brief Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam on the situation in South Yemen. The radio dispatch, monitored in London, did not specify where home was.
The Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported in Monday's early editions that Mohammed flew from Ethiopia to Moscow with five aides. The Soviet Union is South Yemen's closest ally.
There was no confirmation of the reports, which came as an international flotilla of ships, including Queen Elizabeth's private yacht, tried to evacuate about 1,000 foreigners still stranded in Aden, the capital of the only Marxist nation in the Arab world.
A spokesman for the British Embassy in Washington said the royal yacht Britannia, the first of the ships to reach Aden, evacuated at least one American, a woman identified only as Hazel Denton.
The spokesman said Denton and other foreigners were taken Saturday to the east African nation of Djibouti, where the American woman contacted the U.S. Embassy.
evacuated over the weekend, reports said.
The official Kuwaiti news agency KUNA said the situation in South Yemen remained confused yesterday. Official radio reports in Moscow said that the situation in Aden continues to be complex and tense.
At least 3,000 people were
"Armed clashes are in progress in various regions of Aden." Radio Moscow said. "A great deal of damage has been done. There are considerable human casualties. Efforts to put an end to the bloodshed are continuing."
The Radio Aden broadcast, monitored in Abu Dhabi, said an unspecified number of South Yemen's 15-man Politburo deposed Mohammed, accusing him of launching an "adventurous plot" to "physically liquidate" them. The officials formed a collective leadership to replace Mohammed and ordered the army to end a week of bloodshed that left 9,000 people dead or injured.
Soldiers search for victims of jet crash in Guatemala
United Press International
SANTA ELENA, Guatemala Soldiers searched the jungles of northern Guatemala yesterday for victims of the crash of a commercial jetliner that slammed into a hill, killing all 83 people aboard, including eight Americans.
Civil aviation authorities offered no immediate explanation of why the French-built Caravelle jet crashed into a low-lying hill in a jungle area surrounding the Santa Elena air strip, 155 miles north of Guatemala City.
Officials of the airline, Aerovias de Guatemala, said the 65 passengers and all crewmen aboard died when the plane went down Saturday morning near the town, a staging area for visits to the nearby 1,000-year-old Mayan ruins at Tikal.
"The plane first brushed against the highest trees, and then broke up, leaving parts of its fuselage, the wings and many bodies thrown around," said Carlos Estrada, who
saw the crash. "The plane kept going forward and it finally exploded in flames."
Clyde Jones, U.S. Consul, said two U.S. Embassy officials traveled to Santa Elena to try to identify the bodies of the Americans, but added that it was a very difficult job because the bodies were badly burned.
In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the relatives of five Americans had been notified that there was strong circumstantial evidence that their relatives were aboard the aircraft in Guatemala.
He also said the rough terrain and circumstances of the crash might make positive identifications difficult.
The State Department tentatively identified five of the Americans as Robert Todd Swensen and his wife, Patricia, of Indianapolis; Paul Consolove of Virginia Beach, Va.; Jeffrey Sage of Long Island, N.Y.; and John Puffett, an employee of the U.S. Agriculture Department.
Shuttle prepared for launch with teacher as passenger
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Columbia completed its oft-delayed space mission in "excellent condition," officials said yesterday, setting the stage for the weekend launching of the shuttle Challenger with a schoolteacher on board.
Columbia landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Saturday after weather blocked the crew's attempts to land at the Kennedy Space Center for three days.
Spaceport ground operations manager Fritz Widick, in charge of the shuttle's "turnaround" in California, said a preliminary inspection indicated the spaceship completed the 24th shuttle mission in good shape.
"We haven't gotten everything opened up, but at first look, it looks in excellent condition," he said. "The tiles are the best I've ever seen. You have to look real hard to find any damage."
Widick said about 18 heat insulation tiles might have to be replaced and one of the ship's four fragile brakes apparently suffered minor
damage. Columbia is scheduled to be flown back to Florida Thursday atop a NASA transport jet, but Widkird said it could be ready for the trip as early as Wednesday.
Back at the Kennedy Space Center, the shuttle Challenger stands on launch pad 39B awaiting blastoff Saturday on a six-day flight featuring New Hampshire social studies teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe as a crew member.
McAuliffe, the first private citizen to win a seat on a shuttle, and her six crewmates are tentatively scheduled to arrive at the shuttleport Wednesday for final preparations. Like Columbia, Challenger is scheduled to land back at the Kennedy Space Center.
Challenger originally was scheduled to take off Jan. 22, but Columbia's frequent launch delays forced NASA to postpone Challenger's launching first to Jan. 23 and then to Jan. 25.
Robert Sleek, shuttle operations manager at the space center, said Challenger was on track for blastoff Saturday but the schedule remains tight.
Acts to combat terrorists debated
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The administration, struggling with a strategy to combat terrorism, has considered abducting terrorists abroad and bringing them to the United States to stand trial for crimes against Americans, The New York Times reported yesterday.
The Times said the option had arisen in the course of debate within the administration on counter-terrorism tactics, but had yet to receive approval from senior officials.
This internal debate has been marked by rare public disagreement over appropriate responses to terrorism, with Secretary of State George Shultz advocating military reprisals and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger taking a more cautious line.
The White House had no comment on the newspaper report.
Without confirming the debate over kidnapping fugitives, Abraham Sofaer, State Department legal adviser, told the Times there were instances that could justify bending the rules of international law that stood in the way of such extra-territorial action, if innocent people were not threatened and the operation had a reasonable chance of success.
"There might be situations where I would tell my clients, 'Yes, you may be violating a norm of international law in this instance, but the individual involved is akin to an Eichmann or a Hitler or the man who shot Stethem in cold blood," Sofera said.
One case where abduction might have been warranted, he said, the June hijacking of a TWA jetliner to Beirut, Lebanon, in which Navy seaman Robert Stethem was killed.
beachin' it card blows
Adolf Elichmann was a Nazi war criminal who was kidnapped by Israeli agents in 1860 and brought to Israel. He was later tried and sentenced to death.
The Times said that the CIA and U.S. Marshals Service had been at work on a contingency plan to kidnap terrorists implicated in two recent attacks. But an interagency committee working on a counter-terrorism strategy under the auspices of the National Security Council has rejected calls for such action each time they have been offered, the newspaper reported.
Apprehending terrorists overseas was one of the alternatives raised in recent discussions of how the administration might use the U.S. legal system to carry out a vow by President Reagan to insure that those who attack Americans, at home or abroad, are brought to justice.
Reagan attributes the difficulty of following through with that pledge to the problem of finding terrorists and striking back, either through apprehension or military reprisals, without endangering civilians, provoking other attacks on American targets or ruffling diplomatic feathers.
Reagan declared a blow against terrorism Oct. 11 after U.S. jets intercepted an Egyptian airliner carrying the Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro.
In the last seven months, the administration has given increased attention to using U.S. criminal law against terrorists, aided by a 1984 act of Congress that made the taking of American hostages a federal crime.
However, the exercise of U.S. law outside the United States is complicated by what officials describe as statutory inadequacies and diplomatic problems, such as the lack of effective extradition treaties.
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