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Thursday, February 12, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
Police break up demonstration of Jews seeking to leave USSR
MOSCOW - Plainclothes police broke up a demonstration yesterday by a group of Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel, kicking and punching several of the protesters as bystanders heckled the group with anti-Semitic comments.
The group of 22 Soviet "refuse-
nicks." Jews who have been refused
permission to emigrate to Israel,
were allowed to demonstrate on the
Arab pedestrian mall for one
and a half hours Monday and for
about an hour Tuesday.
But after 20 minutes yesterday, plainclothes police moved in on the demonstrators, snatched away their placards and kicked and struck several of them, including women, before herding the group
off the mall
Other agents cut a cord on equipment belonging to an ABC News crew, surrounded a French television crew and grabbed cameras from photographers trying to take pictures of the demonstration.
"Leave, get out if you are tired of your country," yelled another.
Some Soviets watching the melee shouted anti-Semitic insults
"titter did not go far enough. We won't stop until you are all in your graves," shouted one passerby.
Three uniformed police watched the proceedings but did not try to intervene.
Talks begin for Arab-Israeli hostage swap
BEIRUT — Newspapers in London and Israel said yesterday that secret talks were under way for a major swap that would free foreign hostages in Lebanon in exchange for 400 Arab prisoners.
Lebanese Shiite leader Nahib Berri said there had been no negotiations yet, but said that indications were positive.
Berri, head of the mainstream Shite movement, Amal, made the original proposal Saturday, setting off a freazy of rumors, reports and speculation on the hostage crisis.
justice minister, proposed that Israel free 400 Arab prisoners. In return, Amal would return a captured Israeli airman, and a Muslim extremist organization would free the four kidnapped captors — three U.S. citizens an Islamic militant — that it was threatening to kill.
Berri, who is also Lebanon's
Yesterday, the Israeli newspaper Dovar said Israel and the United States were negotiating a multinational deal to free all captives held in Lebanon by pro-Syrian and pro-Iranian groups, with Israel freeing 400 Arabs.
Across the Country
Reagan encourages welfare reformation
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday heard success stories from welfare officials while complaining that many "good ideas" for breaking the dependence of the poor "can't be tried within the bounds of our current welfare system."
system had failed.
Keeping with a week long White House theme on welfare reform, Reagan attended a presentation on innovative approaches to anti-poverty programs that sometimes seemed at odds with his recent descriptions of how the current
"In the area of welfare," he told welfare program officials during a briefing in the Old Executive Office Building, "I think it's clear today that it's time for those of us in Washington to face up to how little we know."
The administration is preparing legislation that would give cities and states more flexibility to consolidate some of the 99 existing programs and provide assistance more efficiently.
President is asked about Iran arms sales
WASHINGTON - President Reagan faced more than an hour of questioning yesterday from the Tower Commission about the secret Iran arms sales and agreed to give the panel more time to wrap up its inquiry into a tangled web of National Security Council operations.
of it from a $15 million loan for the deal from Saudi Arabian middleman Adnan Khashoggi, a source said.
Congressional investigators now suspect that $10.5 million from multiple Iranian arms deals went to the Nicaraguan contras — most
An anonymous source, confirming a report in the Washington Post, said about $2 million came from payments by the Iranians for the weapons and about $8.5 million was siphoned off from $15 million that Khashoggi put up to finance arms shipments.
Pilots forced to make emergency landing
MOULD BAY, Northwest Territories — Two pilots heading toward the North Pole in a historic effort to fly a single-engine plane around the world pole-to-pole made an emergency landing on an Arctic island last night because of a damaged wing.
scuttle the mission.
The pilots landed their propeller-driven plane, the Arctic Tern, at tiny Mould Bay in the Northwest Territories at 6:56 p.m. AST (9:56 p.m. CST) and planned to examine the wing to learn whether the damage was serious enough to
The landing was smooth, said Rose Bentley, a Mould Bay meteorological technician, and apparently caused no additional damage to the plane.
Pilots Richard Norton and Calin Rosetti declared the emergency at 3:53 p.m. AST, and a few minutes later Federal Aviation Administration officials helped steer the Arctic Tern to the closest landing strip 420 miles away, FAA spokesman Paul Steucke said.
From Kansan wires
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