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Wednesday, June 17, 1987
Around the World
Parents allowed to visit teen-ager imprisoned for flight into Moscow
MOSCOW — The parents of a West German teen-ager jailed for flying a plane onto Red Square spent three hours at Lefortovpo prison yesterday, visiting their son for the first time since his May 28 arrest and talking with Soviet investigators.
In a prepared statement issued by Karl Heinz and Maria Kurt, they said their son, Mathias, “is feeling well, and according to him, he also is being treated well.”
The Rusts said their conversation with Mathias was agreeable, but they declined to answer any questions about the meeting.
West Germany's Stern magazine paid the couple's expenses for the Moscow visit in return for exclusive access to their commentaries, said an embassy official who wished to remain anonymous.
A West German Embassy spokesman confirmed that the Rusts met with their 19-year-old son for one hour and then with the investigator overseeing the case.
Gerhard Enver Schroembengens, embassy chief for legal and consular affairs, sat in on the meeting between the Rusts and their son, but only the embassy translator knew of the discussions with the investigators.
She declined to answer other questions about the Rust case.
Tuesday's meetings were only the second between the jailed pilot and West German officials since the incident on May 28. Schreibemgens spent 30 minutes with Rust on June 1, when he described the young pilot as calm about his detention.
West German diplomats are trying to arrange another visit between the Ruts and Mathias, the spokesman said.
No formal charges have been filed against Rust, and Soviet law allows investigators to take up to two months before issuing an indictment against an imprisoned suspect.
Contra air force chief hurt in plane crash
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The chief of the contra guerrilla air force was seriously wounded in the crash of a rebel aircraft that was hit by army ground fire, a Defense Ministry spokesman said yesterday.
Capt. Rosa Pasos said Juan Gomez, chief of the Nicaragua Democratic Force's air force, and two other contras were seriously wounded when the twin-engine Beechcraft Baron crashed and burned after being hit Monday in northern Nicaragua.
Pasos said the others aboard were Gomez's son, Juan Jr. the co-pilot, and Alvaro Carrasco, the gunner, Capt. Pasos said the information came from intelligence sources that she did not identify
The Nicaraguan Democratic Force is the main fighting force of the U.S. - backed rebels.
Pasos said the plane fired a rocket at a Sandinista army command post four miles north of Murra, 108 miles north of Managua, before it was hit. She said the rocket missed.
She said the aircraft limped across the Honduran border, 15 miles from the command post, and crashed about four miles inside Honduras. Sandinista soldiers at a hilltop border observation post could see smoke and flames coming from the crash site, the ministry spokesman said.
President Daniel Ortega said the incident "shows once again that the mercenary forces are operating with airplanes supplied by the North American government in operations directed by the CIA."
In Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
spokesman Aristides Sanchez of
the Nicaraguan Resistance rebel
coalition said Monday night that
the plane crashed inside Nicaragua and that the pilot and co-pilot were rescued by other rebels.
Around the Nation
Church leaders choose Louisville over KC
BILOXI, Miss. — Presbyterian leaders narrowly voted yesterday to relocate their headquarters to Louisville, Ky., accepting a businessman's offer of free office space overlooking the Ohio River
pick Louisville over Kansas City, Mo.
The 199th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), after a two-minute silent prayer, rejected two committee recommendations and voted 332-309 to
John Mulder, president of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and a leader in the effort to bring in the headquarters now jointly in New York and Atlanta, old the commissioners, "This is a gift. It isn't a traditional business deal. It comes with one condition. You must accept it."
Testimonies differ about shredded records
WASHINGTON — Two assistants to retired Maj. Gen Richard V. Secord told House and Senate investigators that they shredded records in December after public exposure of the tran-confair affair, according to depositions released yesterday.
But one of the office workers later changed her testimony, telling the congressional Iran-corra committee in a sworn affidavit that the shredding more likely took place in November.
The two employees' original testimony appeared to conflict with Second's sworn testimony, which he gave last month.
Secord, the operational chief of the Iran arms shipments and the private effort to resupply Nicaragua's rebels, contended the documents had been destroyed in November.
because any destruction of documents after the launching of an official Department of Justice investigation might constitute obstruction of justice.
Joan Corbin, a secretary for Secord's firm. Stanford Technology Trading Group International, said shredding occurred on several days in early December.
Investigators suggest the dates of the shredding are important
According to the transcript of her deposition, the documents destroyed included "telexes and shorthand notebooks and old phone book message pages and just a couple of Rolodex cards."
In another development yesterday, The Wall Street Journal quoted Lt. Col. Robert Earl, who formerly worked with North, saying that North was told of the Justice Department's decision to investigate House involvement in the Iran-contra affair by Attorney General Edwin Meese III.
Dole Foundation raises almost $1 million
At its second annual $1,000-aperson reception, the foundation honored International Business Machines Corp. for providing employment opportunities for the disabled in its company.
Dole, who lost most of the use of his right arm and hand because of wounds in World War II, formed the nonprofit, non-political foundation in 1983.
WASHINGTON — The Dole Foundation, established by Sen Bob Dole, R-Kan., to aid the disabled, collected nearly $1 million at a fund-raiser yesterday and honored a corporation and several individuals for efforts to help the handicapped.
The foundation presented special tributes to:
It has raised almost $3 million, including Tuesday's receipts, and has awarded grants of nearly $1.2 million in 21 states.
- The Postal Service for what Dole calls a "top-notch disability employment program that sets a standard for other public agencies and for private companies as well." It has about 100,000 disabled people in its work force of 800,000.
- Hal Harallson, an Austin, Texas lawyer, for counseling people with mental illness and "his willingness to share his experiences with manic depression."
—John Kemp of Chicago, director of the national Easter Seal fund-raising campaign. Dole described Kemp, a quadruple congenital amputee, as a vigorous disability rights advocate.
—Paul Scher of Chicago, a corporate manager at Sears Roebuck & Co. Dole praised Scher, who is blind, for a lifelong dedication to the cause of disability employment.
Nation and World Study says risks to U.S. in gulf are low
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's Persian Gulf policy came under renewed attack yesterday from congressmen, while an administration study given to Congress said risks were low for U.S. naval forces in the gulf.
cans over it and the administration needs to do a better job of explaining."
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-Wa., in his sharpest criticism yet, called Reagan's plan to protect Kuwait oil tankers by placing them under American flags "half-baked, poorly developed."
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., and other Republicans meet with Reagan for lunch and Dole said later, "I think there's some confusion about the Persian Gulf policy. There isn't any consensus among Republi-
Congressional fears have been raised in the wake of last month's Iraq missile attack on the frigate Jake, a tank which killed 37 U.S. seamen, an Iraqi attack was a mistake, an explanation accepted by the United States.
Iran has threatened to attack the kuwait tankers which Reagan says is a threat to Iran.
Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger and Adm. William Crower Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met behind closed doors with the House Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss the policy.
student sent to Congress in answer to Capitol Hill demands for an assessment of specific military threats to U.S. forces.
Weinberger made public a declassified version of an administration
"The risks to U.S. naval forces in the gulf from these threats are low," it said. "The risks involved in protecting U.S.flagged vessels are moderate."
Three more Navy ships will be added to the gulf task force to help out, the report said.
It warned that there are some risks, particularly from unconventional threats, such as Iranian terrorism or sabotage.
The report made clear that while the administration has talked about protecting shipping in the gulf and keeping the waterway open, the Kuwaiti protection plan is more limited.
The report spelled out the "rules of engagement," a military term detailing when weapons may be fired. Those operating practices have been questioned after the attack on the Stark because the ship did not fire any of its defensive weapons.
The new rules permit a ship's captain to fire if he perceives hostile intent. They define hostile intent as when any aircraft or ship maneuvers into a pattern from which it could launch a weapon, or if a potential attacker's radar engages a U.S. target.
But the new rules authorize only a very narrow use of force.
Students, police clash in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — Waves of students beating drums and shouting "Revolution!" pelt riot police with bricks and firebombs in Seoul and other cities yesterday, which was the seventh day of violent anti-government protest.
Many people showed support for the protesters by booing the outnumbered police and sometimes joining in the attacks.
Officers with helmets and shields fired thousands of tear gas grenades in Seoul and in at least eight other cities. The officers used multiple tear gas launchers set up in streets to drive back charging crowds of students and their supporters.
Chants of "People's revolution!" and "Destroy the military dictatorship!" accompanied gasoline bombs that exploded in bursts of flame among police who were sent into the streets by President Chun Doo-Hwan's government.
Students stormed at least four police stations and set fire to police vehicles. They forced officers out of the streets around at least two universities in Seoul.
The news agency Yenghap reported clashes and anti-government demonstrations in Seoul, Pusan, Kwangju, Haeung, Chonji, Wonju, Taeon and Taqug.
About 6,000 protesters cheered by
bystanders battled riot police in the
southern port of Pusan, burned a police bus and set up barricades.
was assaulted four police stations in the central city of Chinju. A fire started by gasoline bombs heavily damaged one of them.
Crowds again gathered in front of Seoul's Myongdong Roman Catholic cathedral demanding the ouster of Chun's government. Assembled at the cathedral were prosperous families and elderly people, some of whom knelt and prayed as others shouted, "We want democracy!"
Riot police used tear gas grenades to disperse the crowds when some people tried to march to the city hall, but downtown Seoul was free of major street battles for the first time
in a week.
Anti-government protests began a week ago, promoted by a new coalition of political, religious and human rights leaders. The nationwide campaign was timed to coincide with a convention of the ruling Democratic Justice Party that endorsed Chun's choice of fellow ex-general Roh Taewo to succeed him as president in February.
The National Police announced yesterday that 7,004 people were detained from Wednesday through Monday, including 910 Monday. Officials said 1,937 were being held and the rest had been released.
Jury verdict frees Goetz of murder charge
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A jury found Bernhard Goetz innocent yesterday of attempted murder for shooting four young men he said were about to rob him on a subway car. The jury convicted him only of carrying an unlicensed handgun.
Goetz, who claimed he fired in self-defense, showed no emotion as jury foreman James Hurley read the
verdicts, which ended a case that ignited a nationwide debate over urban violence and vigilantism.
The 39-year-old electronics technician could be sentenced to no time in prison or receive any term up to a maximum of seven years. State Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane set sentence for Sept. 4 and allowed Goetz to remain free on $50,000 bail until then.
In all, Goetz was acquitted of 12 charges, including second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. He was found guilty of third-degree weapons possession, a Class D felony, for using the unlicensed 38 revolver in the Dec. 22, 1984 shootings.
Crane pronounced the case "one of the most difficult of our time" and
told the jurors that there has been and will be "faction and criticism, but you have been seen to do justice. You have attended to your duties in the way that the American court system was meant to operate."
Assistant District Attorney Gregory Waples, who prosecuted the case, refused to comment on the verdict, saying only: "My thoughts on the case are my own.
A Sincere "Thank You"
to Everyone for Helping Make Our Grand Opening a Big Success!! Congratulations to the Following Winners of $10 Gift Certificates for ICBIY Frozen Yogurt
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I would like to express my appreciation to each and every one of you who visited us during the Grand Opening. It was a true pleasure to have you in our store and we hope to see you all again soon.
If you did not have a chance to stop by and taste our frozen yogurt, I would like to personally invite you to do so.
Also, a special thanks to Magician Rex Getz and my employees, Julie Adam, Matt Rankin, Mary Lingwall, Karlun Richards, Beth Brown and Martha Eddy, who made sure that everyone had a delightful experience while in our store.
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