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Wednesday, July 29, 1987
Around the World
19 die in Colombo disturbances; Gandhi's visit still on schedule
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Police opened fire yesterday on several thousand anti-government demonstrators led by extremist Buddhist monks after the crowd set fire to buses and government buildings in Colombo's business district.
Nineteen demonstrators were reported killed, and more than 100 people injured in the violence, which one observer called "five hours of total anarchy."
An indefinite curfew was clamped on the city on the eve of a visit by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to sign an agreement aimed at ending five years of conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the minority Tamils.
President Junius R. Jayewardene is to sign for the government
Despite the violence, described as the worst in Sri Lanka since 500 people were killed in anti-Tamil riots in 1983, Indian officials said there was no change in Gandhi's plans.
of Sri Lanka.
India is to act as guarantor of the peace agreement, opposed by leaders of Buddhist extremist groups and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. They contend that it grants too many concessions to the Tamils.
Also opposed to the agreement are the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the strongest Tamil rebel organization. Tamil leader Velupillai Prabakhain was quoted as saying that the Indian government's decision to take part in the agreement amounted to a "stab in the back of Tamils."
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge yesterday declared unconstitutional the government's practice of compiling information on political dissidents and ordered the police to relinquish all such files.
Political dissidents' files illegal
Commonwealth Superior Judge Arnaldo Lopez Rodriguez said in the ruling that it was illegal for the government to investigate individuals exclusively on the basis of their political beliefs.
He gave the U.S. territory's police department five days to turn over to the court the names of people on whom it has kept files because of their political beliefs.
Lopez Rodriguez also ruled that the subject of each probe must be given his or her file, information
on when police began compiling it, the criteria used to determine that the person merited investigation and how the information was used.
The judge also prohibited the government from keeping copies of the documents.
The ruling came in response to lawsuits filed by former Puerto Rico Bar Association President Graciani Miranda Marehand and Puerto Rico Independence Party Rep. David Noriega after the Socialist Party weekly newspaper Claridad published a list three weeks ago of 1,000 names said to be on an alleged list of "subversives" kept by police.
Police officials denied that the list was genuine.
Around the Nation
California drivers endangered by gunmen
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The rash shooting that erupted on California highways in the past month continued yesterday when a motorist in backed-up tragic report he was fired on for no reason by a man in a passing car, police said.
Yesterday's shooting was the latest roadway clash in which motorists have turned to guns instead of horns to vent their frustrations and anger. Since June 18, four people have been killed and two injured in roadway shootings.
The latest attack was reported yesterday afternoon when Dan Price, Chino, Calif., was fired on as he traveled eastbound on the
Los Angeles County supervisors passed an emergency motion Tuesday, vowing to prosecute those responsible for roadway violence to the fullest extent of the law, removing the option to plea-bargin.
Pomona Freeway in Hacienda Heights, said Los Angeles County Highway Patrol Sgt. Dan Cox. Price escaped injury.
Price said he had just passed an accident that had backed up traffic when a red Ford Fairland, carry- ing vehicle across from him, cox said.
The passenger in the right front seat leaed out, pointed a handgun at him and fired one shot, Price told deputies.
Law enforcement officials appealed to the public to show restraint.
California Highway patrol officers said they have formed a task force with police and sherriff's deputies in Los Angeles to end the violence.
"I think the best advice and only advise we can offer until we come up with something better is for the individual driver to yield and hope this trend passes," Los Angeles Couty Sheriff Sherman Block said.
Apple Records sues Nike over Beatles' song
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Records, the Beatle's recording company, charged in a $15 million lawsuit yesterday that the Nike shoe company was using the rock group's "persona and goodwill" in its advertisements without permission.
In a complaint filed in the trial-level state Supreme Court, Apple said Nike used an original recording of the Beats's song Revolution in an advertising campaign, Revolution Motion, for a line of running shoes.
Apple cannot sue for the use of the song because it is owned by singer Michael Jackson, who successfully bid $47.5 million against Paul Cartney and others, for ATV Music, when it became available in 1895.
Nike spokesman Kevin Brown said Nike is an innocent victim in this lawsuit due to the ongoing squabble between Apple Records and EMI Records.
Nike reportedly paid the record companies $250,000 for the use of the Beatles' recording of Revolution No.1.
ATV's catalog included 251 Bea tles' tunes, including Revolution
Leonard Marks, Apple's lawyer,
said use of the Beatles' voices
constitutes "unauthorized exploitation
of the Beatles' persona and goodwill" in TV commercials for Nike Air shoes.
Mickey Mouse, Flintstones animator dies
Templeton, Calif. (AP) — Kenneth L. Muse, a Hollywood animator who drew Mickey Mouse for Walt Disney, Tom and Jerry for Marto-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Flintstones for Hanna-Barbera, died Sunday. He was 75.
Muse had lived in a San Luis Obispo County suburb since March, said Jay Sarbry, an animator at Hanna-Barbera.
"Walt (Disney) really liked him. He liked anyone who drew Mickey," said Sarbry, who worked with Muse in drawing Mickey Mouse at Walt Disney Studios.
Muse was paid $22 a week to draw Disney's most famous character, his granddaughter, Deborah Delcourse, said.
Muse later moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he worked on the movie Anchors Aweigh, starring Gene Kelly. In one extraordinary scene, the 1945 film combined live action and animation as Kelly danced with a cartoon mouse, which was drawn by Musc.
Muse also on the Flintstones, the Jetsons, Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear and numerous others for Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Muse was born July 26, 1912 in Winston-Salem, N.C. He is survived by his granddaughter, a son, and two great-grandchildren.
Nation and World Soviets take firm stand on warheads
From staff and wire reports.
MOSCOW (AP) — Senior Soviet arms control officials yesterday ruled out any compromise effort to break a deadlock at the Geneva negotiations by insisting that the United States destroy T2 Pershing IA nuclear warheads stationed in West Germany.
Following the burst of public optimism generated late last week by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's latest initiatives, their comments appeared to indicate that the Soviets have shifted to hard bargaining over the final details of an agreement to capture medium- and shorter-range missiles.
warheads could clear the way for a "global double-zero" agreement and a U.S.-Soviet summit in Washington later this year.
In an unusual joint interview, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertynyk and Col. Nikolai Chervov took an unrelenting line in rejecting any possibility that a U.S. pledge not to modernize the aging
Gorbachev agreed last week to
destroy all 441 SS-20 nuclear missiles and about 130 rocket-range SS-22 and SS-33 rockets in Europe and Asia in return for U.S. agreement to eliminate its Pershing II and Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles and the 72 Pershing IAs.
"Non-modernization of these war-heads cannot resolve this issue," said Bessmertynk.
The existing warheads, he added,
"are not about to be scrapped"
unilaterally in a few years, as some U.S. and West German officials have
suggested in trying to define the shape of a compromise.
Chervov, a three-star general who is the Defense Ministry's senior arms control adviser, advanced the idea of intrusive on-site inspections on Soviet and U.S. territory and said that Soviet and U.S. inspectors would have to be able to visit each other's testing ranges, storage facilities and factories to make sure the agreement was being observed.
Kuwaiti says crippled tanker will haul oil
KUWAIT (AP) — Kuwait officials said yesterday they expected to send the crippled supertanker Bridgeton back down the Persian Gulf by the weekend with a U.S. Navy escort and a partial load of crude oil.
An official of the state-owned tanker company, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. Coast Guard had given oral permission to load the Bridgeton. A Coast Guard spokesman in New York said, however, a decision had been made about the tanker, which now flies the U.S. flag.
The Bridgeset hit a mine Friday as it steamed toward Kuwait, under the protection of three U.S. warships, through waters in which many
attacks on ships have occurred in the 7-year-old war between Iran and Iraq.
The Kuwaiti official said the Coast Guard had approved loading 1,820,000 barrels of oil on the 1,200-foot-long tanker, more than two-thirds of its capacity, despite a large hole in its port side. Four of its 31 compartments were flooded after the mine exploded.
Coast Guard approval is needed because the ship now is registered as a U.S. vessel The Bridgegon normally carries 2.4 million barrels of crude oil.
But Capt. Jerome Foley, commander of Coast Guard's Marine Inspecting Office in New York, said that a
proposal to load the tanker was being considered but that no decision had been made.
"It has not yet been approved, disapproved or modified. It's still studied." he said.
Foley said the report about oral approval was "bum information." He said the answer to whether the Bridgeton could take on a partial cargo and make the return voyage was "not a simple yes or no."
In Washington, Pentagon officials said Saudi Arabia told the Navy that more mines were moored near Iran's Farsi Island, where the Bridgeton was hit, and that some had been removed.
Officials at the Pentagon said they
were almost certain the mine was planted by Iran, which has denounced and threatened the American convoy effort.
Ayatollah Rubailah Khomeini, patriarch of Iran's revolution, warned the United States of further "disgrace" if it continued its naval escorts and said the Moslem world should "be determined to crush America's teeth in its mouth."
He said U.S. military intervention in the gulf was a "big trap and a dangerous game," according to a dispatch from Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency, monitored in Cyprus. The news agency said Khomeini's comments were made to pilgrims.
General strike in Panama City called success
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Opposition leaders yesterday declared a two-day general strike a complete success and began planning their next moves to counter what they called a new wave of repression by the government of military strong-man Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega.
The general strike shut down economic activity in the Panamanian capital and other cities for a second day Tuesday amid a continuing furor over the arrest of a leading Noriegia critic, retired Col. Roberto Diaz Herrera, after a military assault on his house in a luxurious residential district Monday.
A news blackout that was imposed by the military on the opposition through the closure of three newspapers and a radio station continued yesterday. Security forces Sunday night shut down the leading opposition newspaper, La Prensa, and two other papers on the eve of the general strike.
A spokesman for the opposition
National Civic Crusade, a grouping of 106 business and professional organizations that called the strike, said leaders decided yesterday afternoon not to extend the work stoppage beyond the planned 48 hours. According to National Crusade spokesman Roberto Brines, leaders of the organization who went underground Monday after the attack on Diaz Herrera's house plan to come out of hiding today for a meeting to decide their next moves.
Brines said a crackdown by Noriega since Sunday meant that Panama "is no longer a quasi-democracy but a full-fledged military dictatorship" and that the opposition would longer measures, including longer strikes, to deal with the new situation and try to force Noriega's ouster.
A State Department official in Washington said the Reagan administration has adopted a "wait and see" attitude on the developing situation in Panama. The official said the administration saw "no need to get
out in front" while an intense national debate and test of strength among Panamanians was taking place.
State Department spokesman Charles Redman, for the second straight day, called on the government of Panama "to end all interruption or censorship of press reporting immediately." He said the United States regards the curbs on news "indefeensible."
"The United States calls on all Panamanians, and particularly government security officials, to avoid the use of force or violence," Redman said.
Northea, the commander of the 15,000-member Panama Defense Forces, formerly called the National Guard, is the power behind the government of nominal President Eric A. Delvale, whom Noriega virtually installed in office.
Government-controlled newspapers yesterday published photographs of Diaz Herrera at a public prosecutor's office where he was taken Monday after troops backed by heli-
copiers stormed his house and captured him and 45 followers. The photographs, showing the former military second-in-command from the waist up, revealed no sign of any injuries.
There were unconfirmed reports Monday that Diaz Herrera had been wounded while he and his supporters resisted the assault on his home for more than an hour.
The former colonel's lawyers said yesterday that he had been beaten during his arrest, but was not wounded by gunfire.
Lawyers and church officials said they still had not been permitted to see Diaz Herrera or any of his relatives and supporters arrested with him Monday.
Diaz Herrera, who was forced to resign as chief of staff of the Panama Defense Forces on June 1, triggered a wave of public protests when he began accusing Noriega of involvement in massive corruption, election fraud and the murder of a prominent political opponent.
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