University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 19, 1988
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Banks reopen in Panama and accept deposits only
The Associated Press
PANAMA CITY, Panama – Some banks opened for the first time in six weeks yesterday but only to accept deposits, and people who still had currency in this cash-poor economy were in no rush to give it up.
Business was brisk at a few major foreign banks but slow at institutions owned and operated by Panamanians.
About 30 people were outside Chase Manhattan when it opened. Virtually all were depositing checks they had been unable to cash for 45 days because U.S. economic sanctions had dried up the money supply in Panama, whose currency is the dollar.
"I'll keep my cash at home," said Frank Farrell, who is retired and was depositing several dividend checks. "Later on, maybe I will deposit
cash."
Asked if he felt secure putting checks in a bank that had been closed since March 4 by order of an insoluble judge, Chashek replied: "I don't worry. Chashek is solid."
The banks were closed after Panamanians began withdrawing large sums of money on Feb. 26. That was the day Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the real power in Panama, asked the Argentine Eric Arturo Delvalle for trying to fire him as commander of the armed forces and police.
The Reagan administration subsequently ordered the Federal Reserve to halt the flow of dollars to Panama. Lawyers acting for Delvale were able to freeze Panamanian funds in U.S. banks. Washington also has imposed other economic sanctions on Panama in an effort to oust Noriega.
Israeli court convicts Demjanjuk
JERUSALEM — Retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk was convicted yesterday of Nazi war crimes by an Israeli court that said there was no doubt he was "Ivan the Terrible," a sadistic death camp guard who ran gas chambers that killed 850,000 Jews.
The Associated Press
The three-judge court convicted Demjanjuk of the four counts against him: war crimes, crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity and crimes against persecuted people.
Demjanjuk was accused of operating gas chambers that killed 850,000 Jews at Treblinka in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1942 and 1943.
Applause broke out in the courtroom when the verdict was
announced, and a judge admonished the spectators.
Demjanjuk, 68, listened to the guilty verdict from a cot in a cell next to the courtroom. Six police officers had carried him there feet first after he said he was unable to sit down because of a back injury.
"This is ridiculous what happened hayom," said Demjanjuk, using the Hebrew word for today.
After the verdict, Demjanjuk slowly walked to a police van and told reporters, "I'm very good. I'm an innocent man. I will appeal, and I'm sure I will win."
Surrounded by 18 guards, Demjanjuk walked with his head bowed and his hands clasped. Two guards supplied his arms. He was not hand-cuffed.
Demjanjuk was the second person
to be convicted of war crimes in Israel, Adolf Eichmann, architect of Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" for the extermination of European Jewry, was hanged in 1962, the only person to have been executed in Israel's 40-year history.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, who lived in suburban Cleveland before his extradition to Israel in 1986, could face the death penalty when he is sentenced April 25. Observers have said he will probably receive life in prison.
Presiding Judge Dov Levine said the court had determined decisively and without doubt that Demjanjuk was "Ivan the Terrible."
"The accused wasn't an ordinary guard who just obeyed orders but fulfilled a central position in the Treblinka death camp. With his own
hands, he took part in the murders of masses of human beings," Levine said.
Halfway through the 12-hour reading of the 450-page opinion, Demanjuk's relatives left the courtroom in January and did not return to hear the verdict.
Demjanikh's 22-year-old son, John Jr., said the judges were biased.
“As far as I'm concerned, this was nothing more than a Soviet show trial. Whenever one of our witnesses on, they got the hammer,” he said.
"This is going to go down in history as the most lopsided case ever conducted anywhere in the world," said Demanjik's son-in-law, Ed Nishicn, who raised $650,000 for the defense. rejected defense arguments.
Charges dropped in Penn State sit-in
The Associated Press
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State University's president agreed yesterday to drop charges against students arrested during a sit-in protesting racial policy but wouldn't commit new funds for recruiting black students and faculty.
School admissions officials had expressed worry that the arrests would discourage other blacks from
attending the school.
"Most of the students who occupied the building were motivated by a genuine belief that immediate action was required to address the concerns of Penn State's black community." University President Bryce Jordan said in granting amnesty to the protesters.
At an open meeting with his senior administrators and black student leaders, Jordan defended his decision to end a 15-hour sit-in at the university's telecommunications building April 9 by arresting 89 protesters, most of them black students.
More than 150 students occupied the building April 8 when Jordan canceled a meeting with student activists because ground rules could not be agreed upon in advance. Jordan had sent two administrators to meet with student leaders behind closed doors, but the students demanded an open meeting.
Coalition urges suit against church
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Roman Catholic Church's tax-exempt status gives it an unfair advantage in the political battle over abortion rights, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.
The suit is against the federal government, not the church.
The court was urged by a prochoice coalition to keep alive an 8-year-old lawsuit that seeks to strip the church of its tax exemption because of its anti-abortion lobbying.
The justices are being asked to decide whether the suit can go forward, not whether the church's tax exemption should be revoked. A decision is expected to be announced by July.
If the suit against the government is kept alive, the church faces $100,000 a day in fines for its retusal to surrender documents.
Kuwaiti urges compliance to demands
The Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria — A man identified as a member of Kuwait's royal family spoke yesterday from the hijacked Kuwaiti jetliner and said he had his government yielded to the gunnery commands to end the two-week ordeal.
Most of the brief radio message from the man the hijackers said was Fadel Khaled Al-Sabah was impossible to understand, except for the part
about their demand that Kuwait free 17 pro-Iranian prisoners convicted in mass attacks on the U.S. and French missiles in the Persian Gulf sheikhdom.
"I hope that Kuwait releases all the prisoners," the man said, speaking in Arabic in a feeble, halting voice. Kuwait officials insist that they will not give in to the hijackers, who have killed two Kuwaiti passengers.
Report proposes major revisions in FAA makeup
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A presidential commission concluded yesterday that the U.S. air transport system currently is safe but urged appointment of a "safety czar" in a newly independent Federal Aviation Administration whose officials would be insulated from political pressure.
"The nation's air transportation system is safe, for now," said John M. Albertine, chairman of the AviA Safety Commission whose final report was issued after a nine-month study of the burgeoning airline industry
"However, that safety is being maintained to an increasing extent through delays and through what I can only characterize as heroic efforts of air traffic controllers, airways facilities technicians, safety inspectors" and others, Albertine
said.
The report said there was widespread public concern about the safety of air travel, coinciding with increasing technological advances and safety improvements waiting to be written into government regulations.
The panel recommended that the FAA expand its force of inspectors and begin conducting surprise inspections of airlines in addition to pre-announced examinations. Those measures would give the airlines "increased incentives to keep their day-to-day operations in close conformance with safety regulations," the panel said.
It also urged the FAA to publish stricter safety standards for commuter air carriers and require private planes to contain equipment that could report their altitudes to ground controllers.
Fewer inspectors watching more airlines Operators include all airlines and air taxi operators. Numbers include general aviation inspectors, who inspect planes flown by commuter airlines, air taxi operators, and private planes.
Inspectors per operator (scale at left)
Number of operators (scale at right)
KANSAN/Knight-Ridder Graphic
The report proposed a dramatic restructuring of the FAA, including appointment within the agency of a "safety czar" who could initiate or block proposed air safety regulations.
Under the panel's plan, the FAA would become an organization independent of the Transportation Department with streamlined regulatory procedures and greater authority.
News Roundup
said they were investigating
CUBANS GET VISAS? Cuba has given exit permits to 252 former or current political prisoners and their families and a portion of the group is expected to fly to the United States this week. The State Department said yesterday that Charles Redman said this represented about 60 percent more than 2,000 persons who the U.S. has authorized for entry into the United States as refugees.
SHEPHERD WITHDRAWAL LIKELY: John Shepherd, Attorney General Edwin Meese III's choice to fill the No. 2 post at the Justice Department, told officials in Washington yesterday to proceed with a search to fill the job, department sources said. While not yet closing, the job of Shepherd is on the verge of withdrawing from the job of deputy attorney general, the sources said.
COMPUTER BREAK-IN DISCOVERED: A West German hacker linked his home computer to about 50 U.S. military computers to gain access to sensitive defense and aerospace information, a prosecutor in Bonn said yesterday. The 24-year-old hacker was among worldwide computers for nearly two years through telephone links, according to the West German newsmagazine Quick. FBI spokesmen
AIDS WARNING GIVEN: The head of the World Health Organization's AIDS program cautioned in Washington yesterday that it was too early to conclude that the deadly virus would not spread far beyond the millions of people already believed infected. WHO estimates that between 5 million and 10 million people are infected with the virus and that 150,000 new cases of fully
developed AIDS will be reported during the coming year.
CHILD LABOR INCREASING: Illegal employment of children in violation of the nation's child labor laws increased by more than 50 percent in 1987, the Labor Department said yesterday. Labor Department officials said the most dramatic increase in violations of the child protection laws was in the Northeast, where unemployment rates in several states have been hovering in a range of 3 percent, or about half the national average.
VOLVO RECALLING CARS: Volvo of North America is recalling 90,000 model 1983 and early 1984 cars because they exceed carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon exhaust requirements, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday.
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