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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Jan. 17, 1986
News Briefs Judge drops charges, frees Goetz for now
NEW YORK — A judge yesterday dismissed charges of attempted murder against subway gunman Bernhard Goetz, but urged that the controversial case be submitted to a rare third-gun jury.
State Justice Stephen Crane dropped the charges, on the grounds that the prosecutors didn't tell the grand jury that Goetz could plead self-defense if he "reasonably believed that unlawful physical force was about to be used against him."
Crane also said he doubted the victims told the truth when they testified they were not planning to rob Goetz.
"If that testimony was perjured, as it strongly appears to have been, the integrity of the second grand jury was severely undermined, to say the least," he said.
Yemen battle goes on
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — New fighting was reported yesterday in South Yemen between opponents and supporters of President Ali Nasser Mohammed, as the two factions held peace talks in the Soviet Embassy to try to end the four-day revolt.
Fierce battles to seize control of the Marxist-led Arab nation have raged since Monday, Mohammed, rumored to have died from injuries suffered Monday, reportedly appeared on South Yemen television Wednesday night and appealed to the country to remain calm.
Students aid roamers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Outraged Harvard University students vowed yesterday to help the freezing homeless after their school placed slanted iron grills over heat-venting grates to prevent homeless street people from sleeping on them.
Julie Schrager, senior from Evanston, Ill., said, "We're horrified that Harvard could do such a thing. It's more in the interest of these people to sleep on the grates than die."
Schrager said many students wanted to establish a shelter for the homeless in the basement of her residence hall.
From Kansan wire reports.
Soviets offer to eliminate weapons
United Press International
GENEVA - U.S. and Soviet negotiators began a new round of arms talks yesterday, with the Soviets immediately presenting Mikhail Gorbachev's sweeping proposal to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year 2000.
The maneuver evidently surprised U.S. delegates, who tried to obtain as many details as possible in the few hours before the talks resumed.
President Reagan welcomed the proposal as the first Soviet support for actually eliminating nuclear weapons and urged the Kremlin to back it up at the bargaining table.
On the eve of the start of the fourth round of talks, Gorbachev made his proposal; which would begin with a 50 percent reduction in nuclear arms by the two superpowers. He also announced a three-month extension of the unilateral Soviet moratorium on nuclear tests.
White House spokesmen described the Soviet timetable for nuclear disarmament as "a serious proposal that's worthy of study" — but also flawed.
"We've got to see the specifics on the table," White House spokesman Larry Speakes said.
Gorbachev's plan again calls for the United States to abandon Star Wars — an issue that grounded the talks last year.
Reagan remains committed to his Star Wars missile-defense program, despite Soviet insistence that the effort be abandoned as a condition for arms reductions, Speaks said.
The Soviet government news agency, Tass, also said that continuation of Star Wars "would blast every hope
On the "CBS Morning News," Secretary of State George Shultz cast the move as a bid for public opinion, intended partly to force Reagan to bend on his Strategic Defense Initiative — the official name for the Star Wars program.
for a reduction of nuclear arsenals on earth."
Shultz later said on the "MeNeill-Lehrer Report" that the proposal might be a positive sign, although the United States wanted the bargaining to take place at the Geneva table and not in public.
Shultz said, "This was a counter-counter proposal. That's the way bargaining takes place. In that sense, this is a positive development."
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, disturbed by the continued linking of Star Wars with
reductions in offensive weapons, was less optimistic.
"There are some things in there that look positive," he said during a news conference. "We find some other things very worrysome."
Speakes said many elements of the Soviet proposal appeared unchanged from their previous positions.
Officials said those areas were:
Strategic defense: Gorbachev conditioned any progress toward disarmament on an agreement by Reagan to forgo testing and development of space-strike weapons, the Soviet term for Star Wars.
■ Medium-range missiles: Of greatest interest to U.S. officials was a Soviet offer to eliminate all nuclear missiles targeted on Europe in the first phase of disarmament. While
similar to the zero option long advocated by Reagan, the officials said the offer did not apply to Soviet SS-20 missiles in Asia, and it was unclear whether it counted British and French missiles against the U.S. limits.
**Nuclear testing:** Gorbachev extended a unilateral Soviet moratorium and again asked the United States to join in a ban on testing. Speakes said the administration was suspicious of such moves because the Soviets "now have an advantage and don't need to test."
Verification: Speakes said the proposal for on-site verification whenever necessary was a hopeful sign but would require the Soviets to be more specific before the United States could respond.
Pro-Syrian troops attempt to oust Gemayel from office
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Pro-Syrian militiamen, furious that forces loyal to President Amine Gimemaly topped the only Christian leader to sign a Lebanese peace pact, attacked Gemayel's troops yesterday in a bid to oust him.
United Press International
As shells and rockets fell on Gemayel's hometown of Bikfaya as well as north of Beirut, families held funerals for those killed in fighting Wednesday, when Gemayel's forces routed those of his rival, Elie Hobeika, head of the militia — known as the Lebanese Forces.
Hobeika, who surrendered Wednesday after he was cornered in an underground bunker by forces loyal to Gemayel, was flown out of Beirut with his family aboard Lebanese army helicopters. He traveled to Nicosia, Cyprus, and then to Paris.
The defeat of Hobeika, 28, in the Christian power struggle was seen a possible death blow to a 2-week-old Syrian-sponsored agreement he signed with Lebanon's two main Moslem militias in a bid to end nearly 11 years of civil war.
Militia and radio reports said that at least 200 people died in Wednesday's militia battles and at least 14 more died in the fighting Thursday.
Wednesday's assault was launched by forces loyal to Gemayel, a Christian, and to Samir Geagea, Lebanese forces chief of staff. Both men oppose the peace accord. Hobeika had rebelled against Gemayel's leadership last March.
"the treacherous coup will not pass," said the pro-Syrian Al Sharq newspaper as Moslem militia leaders who signed the peace accord with Hobeika met to discuss his overthrow.
Gemayel, whose support was viewed as crucial for effective implementation, expressed reservations and flew to Damascus this week for talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad. He returned to Beirut on Tuesday without an agreement on the pact. A day later, the offensive was launched and Hobeika's forces were crushed.
The peace pact calls for an end to the civil war in Lebanon within a year and a restructuring of the government, ending the traditional Christian dominance and giving more power to the majority Moslems. The powers of the president — traditionally a Christian — would be reduced sharply.
"The coup against Hobeika has ended and the war to topple Gemayel has started," said Berri's Al Hakima newspaper as Moslem militiamen were mobilized and moved forward to battle positions.
Shiite Moslem Amal militia leader Nabih Berri and Druze Moslem leader Wali Jumblatt left for talks with Syrian officials in Damascus amid Christian speculation the Moslems were waiting for a green
Critics began to blast the accord almost as soon as it was signed in Damascus, and it never took effect.
Military sources said hundreds of fighters from the mostly Christian Syrian Social Nationalist Party attacked Bikfaya, in the mountains northeast of Beirut, killing at least four soldiers and wounding six before they were beaten back.
light from Syria to launch an all-out campaign to topple Gemayel.
Ten of the attackers were killed and three were wounded, the pro-Gemayel Voice of Lebanon radio station said. Military sources refused comment on the fighting.
Dozens of buildings and cars were wrecked in the shelling, which came as Gemayel met with his top political and military advisers in the mountaintop village. Army units returned fire and beat back the attackers.
On the coastal road north of Beirut, pro-Syrian fighters attacked areas control-d by Geagea.
Despite reports by Muslim-run radio stations of advances by the pro-Syrian forces, the army said the Christians held their positions and returned fire with artillery and rockets.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Under the great dome of the Capitol where the first of the civil rights bills that he lived and died for was signed, the image of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., yesterday joined the American pantheon of heroes.
Unveiling the three-foot bronze head in the Capitol rotunda, Coretta Scott King expressed hope that the life of her martyred husband "will remain a living and creative force in our society."
King's wife unveils statue during Capitol ceremony
United Press International
The ceremony, which unveiled the first work of art honoring a black person in the Capitol, was the day's highlight of continuing tributes to King that culminate Monday with a national holiday celebrating his birth 57 years ago.
Delivering an address before about 1,000 people at the unveiling, Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., said King's achievement was a goal "that had eluded such great presidents as Abraham Lincoln and Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt."
That goal, Mathias said, "was to bring about a unity of the American people, black and white."
President Reagan's contribution was a message to the Congress of Racial Equality, one of several
proclamations and statements issued this week, in which he told civil rights leaders. "Never abandon the dream. Never forget that this is America, the land where dreams come true."
Reagan also met later in the day with Mrs. King and Aminda Wilkins, wife of the late NAACP leader Roy Wilkins.
Mrs. King said that during her meeting with Reagan, which lasted more than a half hour, the president "talked about his image" and told her, "You know, I don't know why people paint me the way they do."
Calling him "a very affable man," Mrs. King said she nonetheless had the impression that "he's not really aware" of some of the policies being made by his advisers — particularly proposed changes in affirmative action.
"I get the impression that he really does not know what's going on out there in the nation and how bad the situation is for a lot of people," she said.
The observances included one event that might have exceeded even King's fondest dreams.
As the crew of the shuttle Columbia orbited Earth, co-pilot Charles Bolden, the fourth black astronaut to飞 aboard the shuttle, sent word that he was joining in the honors.
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