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Thursday, January 29, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World Tambo, Shultz discuss violence Soviet intervention in South Africa
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz told South African black leader Oliver Tambo yesterday that his group's continued use of violence would lead only to catastrophe and expressed concern about Soviet influence in the organization.
Tambo, president of the African National Congress, said after his 50-minute meeting at the State Department that he had urged Shultz to rally Western allies behind the same economic sanctions imposed by the United States over the objections of the Reagan administration.
But State Department spokesman Charles Redman told reporters after the meeting that
the administration's position on sanctions had not changed.
The State Department meeting was the highest-level contact ever between the U.S. government and the 75-year-old ANC. Both sides called the session "serious and substantive" and expressed hope for continuing contacts.
Redman, reading a written statement, said Shultz "laid out our concerns about the degree of the ANC and its stance on violence.
"The secretary made it clear that a policy of violence from any party is not the answer to South Africa's problems and that there are other options."
Filipino rebel surrenders television station
MANILA, Philippines — The leader of some 250 rebel soldiers occupying a television station surrendered today, ending a 56-hour drama that began with an aborted coup against President Corazon Aquino's 11-month-old government.
"I am glad to announce we have ended another episode in the history of these disturbances that have plagued us in the last so many months," Defense Minister Rafael Ileto said after a final 90-minute round of negotiations with rebel leader Col. Oscar Canlas.
Canlas declined to call his withdrawal from the Greater Manila Arts television station a surrender.
"We never left the armed forces.
We have always been with the armed forces," said Cianlas, who was killed in a firefight armed with automatic weapons.
Canlas was taken from the station by a government negotiating team including two Cabinet ministers, and was brought to the Defense Ministry for a meeting with Ileto and top military officials.
Waite safe and still negotiating, Church says
The Church of England said yesterday that Muslim leaders in Beirut had made fresh assurances that church envoy Terry Waite was safe and was continuing to negotiate for the release of Western hostages kidnapped in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, an unknown extremist group calling itself the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for kidnapping three U.S. citizens and an Indian-born U.S. resident last week from Beirut University College in Muslim west Beirut.
In Teheran, the speaker of Iran's parliament, Hojatoleslam Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, holding up a Bible he said had been autographed by President Reagan, said better relations between Washington and Teheran could lead to freedom for U.S. hosts in Lebanon.
And in Washington, the State Department said U.S. passports would no longer be valid for travel to Lebanon because "no American can be considered safe" there, and they ordered all U.S. citizens out of the country within 30 days.
Across the Country
Reagan kept quiet on arms deal, Bush says
WASHINGTON — President Reagan was advised to keep quiet about the Iran arms-contra aid scandal, Vice President George Bush said yesterday, adding that the advice may have come from Attorney General Edwin Meees, who has made some of the most startling revelations in the affair.
later said Bush's suggestion that Meese gave such advice was incorrect.
In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, Reagan said he regretted that his arms-to-Iran initiative had failed, that "serious mistakes" had been made in the ploy and he accepted "full responsibility" for the failure.
Flags flv half-mast in memory of astronauts
CAPE CANVERAL, Fla. — Tearful rocket engineers at the Kennedy Space Center paused yesterday for a somber 73-second period of silence to honor the memory of Challenger's fallen astronauts on the first anniversary of their deaths.
At 11:38 a.m. EST, three security guards slowly lowered a large U.S. flag to half-mast and Lt. Gen. Forrest McCartney, director of the Florida shuttleport, asked
employees to rededicate themselves to returning the United States safely to space flight.
The seven astronauts killed that cold day last January were commander Francis "Dick" Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis and space teacher Christa McAuliffe. All were killed when the Challenger exploded 73 seconds into flight.
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In a January 18th piece entitled "Conservatism," syndicated columnist George Will claims that "New Deal economics involved the assumption of responsibility by the federal government for the performance of the economy, and the use of deficits to smooth the business cycle. Today there is consensus about that responsibility, and triumph conservatism has run record-smashing deficits straight through a prolonged recovery."
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