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Wednesday, February 11, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Around the World
Kidnappers trying to strike deal through Red Cross, radio reports
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muslim kidnappers were reportedly trying to strike a deal with Israel yesterday that would free 400 Arab prisoners in exchange for three Americans and an Indian held in Beirut and a captured Israeli airman.
The Christian-run Voice of Lebanon and the Muslim-run Voice of the Nation radio stations quoted "reports from Washington and other capitals" as saying that the captains might be working through the Red Cross for an exchange.
In Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross denied involvement in any negotiations.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
of Israel said his government would be willing to consider a direct request for negotiations, but added that no such request had been made.
Israeli officials said Washington has not asked Israel to meet demands by the kidnap group, the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, to release 400 prisoners in exchange for the lives of the four educators it holds.
counselor White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said in Washington, "Our terrorism policy remains the same, and I reiterate once again that we will not ransom hostages nor will we encourage other countries to do so."
Soviets release 140 political prisoners
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union, relaxing its policy against dissent, has freed 140 political prisoners in the past eight days, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday.
The spokesman said that about 140 more cases were under review and that more releases were expected in line with the Kremlin's decision to have fewer people behind bars and barbed wire for political crimes.
more democratization of Soviet life," spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said.
White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater said the administration hoped that the Soviet government would follow up these recent moves by releasing more political prisoners who unjustly remain in confinement, and not impose any requirement that they recapit their past activities or limit future human rights activities.
This is in line with our policy of
Clash in Philippines kills 14 after cease-fire
MANILA. Philippines — Government troops and Communist rebels clashed yesterday for the first time since the end of a ceasefire, killing 14 people and sending panic-streaker villagers fleeing for their lives.
The military said the firefight killed 11 guerrillas, an army lieutenant and two civilians who were caught in the crossfire.
officers that she has no Communist sympathizers in her government and that all her advisers are anti-communists.
As the threat of widespread fighting loomed, President Corazon Aquino tried to patch up relations with the 250,000-member military, assuring disgruntled
The latest fighting between troops and communist rebels erupted in Namulandayan, a rebel-held village on the outskirts of the town of Lupao, 90 miles north of Manila.
About 50 guerrillas engaged a company of soldiers in an hourlong firefight in the village yesterday, 48 hours after an unprecedented cease-fire between government and rebel forces expired.
Across the Country
McFarlane's overdose called suicide try
WASHINGTON — An investigation concluded that former national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane attempted suicide, a police source said yesterday, but authorities said only that they found no evidence of foul play in McFarlane's Valium overdose.
Washington.
"There's not going to be any ruling that it was an attempted suicide. We are satisfied that there was no crime, and there's no further legal action to be taken," said a spokesman for the Montgomery County Police in suburban
But a source close to the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the police had determined that McFarlane's ingestion of 25 to 30 tablets of Valium, a tranquilizer, was a suicide attempt.
The source also confirmed that police learned of a note written by McFarlane that his wife carried to the hospital. But police did not know the contents of the note, the source said.
Seib unsure why he was detained in Iran
NEW YORK - Wall Street Journal reporter Gerald Seib said yesterday that he still was unsure why he was held and interrogated in Iran but that he never feared for his life and was treated well by his captors.
"It may have been an honest mistake," Seib said of his detention in Tehran. "It remains a mystery why I was held."
Flanked by his wife, Barbara Rosewicz, and the managing and foreign editors of the Wall Street Journal, the Cairo-based correspondent gave a low-key account of his ordeal that ended when he arrived in Zurich on Friday, six days after he was seized.
He had been one of 57 Western journalists visiting Iran at the invitation of the government.
From the KU Weather Service
LAWRENCE FORECAST
Weather
Warm temperatures will continue today with the high reaching 53 degrees under partly cloudy skies. This afternoon the winds will shift to the northwest but remain light. Tonight, the temperature will dip to 33
degrees and tomorrow will again be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-50...WEATHER FACT..So far this month only one day has had a below-average high temperature. On Feb. 5 the high reached only 44 degrees.
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