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Thursday, April 30, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
S. African police surround union, make arrests for railway deaths
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— Riot police surrounded a black union headquarters yesterday while officers went through the 11-story building with masked witnesses, apparently to make arrests for the killing of four railway workers.
The state-run South African Broadcasting Corp. reported on its television news that at least 11 people were detained after police searched the downtown building while it was cordoned off late into the evening. The corporation gave no details.
More than 75 policemen, wearing plastic-visored helmets and ear gas canisters slung over their
shoulders, stoot guard with shotguns, pistols, dogs and whips in front of barricades.
Officers used dogs to repeatedly push back hundreds of pedestrians and journalists trying to watch the entrance of the building, headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and its affiliates.
Tuesday night, the bodies of three black men and one of mixed-race were found under a pile of burned tires at a train station, according to a police statement. It said the victims "had been brutally assaulted with knives and pangas (sharpened sticks) and their bodies set alight."
U.S. engineer killed in battle, contras save
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A U.S. engineer killed in northern Nicaragua was caught in a firefight between rebel fighters and Sandinista militia, the largest U.S.-supported contra force said yesterday.
The account contradicted Nicaraguan statements that 37-year-old Benjamin Ernest Linder, of Port-au-Prince, was outlived by the contrasts and slain
The Nicaraguan Democratic Force said that it held the Nicagagua government responsible for the death of the first U.S. citizen to
die in Nicaragua's civil war.
Nicaragua said the U.S. government was to blame for supporting the contras.
"The death of Linder was produced in the midst of a firefight between one of our patrols and a group of militia of the Sandinista army, which accompanied us in the field," PDN said in a released statement.
Yesterday, Linder's body was in Matagalpa, a Nicaragua provincial capital, where a ceremony was held in his honor.
Across the Country
Activist guilty in contra affair. blames North
WASHINGTON — Conservative activist Carl R. "Spitz" Channels pointed to former White House aide Oliver North as a fellow conspirator yesterday as he pleaded guilty to the first criminal charge of the Iran-contra affair.
Channell was formally accused of defrauding the government by telling contributors to his National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty that their gifts would be tax deductible even though the money actually was used to provide military aid to the contras.
Channell pleaded guilty to a
single count and agreed to cooperate in independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh's investigation.
Walsh's formal charge, known as a criminal information, said Channel was involved with a government charge did not identify that official.
However, when Channell was asked in court by U.S. District Judge Stanley S. Harris to name the people with whom he conspired, he said, "Col. North, an official of the National Security Council."
House narrowly approves trade sanctions
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday defied a presidential veto threat and narrowly approved legislation to force Japan and other countries to end 'excess and unwarranted' trade surpluses or face stringent U.S. sanctions.
Gephardt, D-Mo., urged lawmakers to adopt "a new way, a tougher way," to fight the $166 billion trade deficit and related job losses in some industries.
The House voted, 218-214, to attach the plan to a sweeping, 900-page trade bill after the plan's sponsor, Rep. Richard A.
Under Gephardt's plan, countries with "excess and unwarranted" trade surpluses with the United States would be forced to eliminate them or face 10 percent annual reductions.
Goetz says on tape he intended 'to murder'
NEW YORK - Bernard Goetz intended "to murder" the four youths he shot on a subway car "to make them suffer as much as possible," he told police in a recorded statement played yesterday at his trial.
at times emotional, told police in Concord, N.H., where he surrendered Dec. 31, 1984.
"I admit, for those guys, all this time, I wanted to do the worst possible that a human being could do." Goetz, sounding nervous and
Nine days earlier, Goetz drew a gun and shot four young men he claimed were trying to rob him on the subway. His trial on attempted murder charges began Monday in state Supreme Court, the trial-level court in New York.
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