University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 6, 1988
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Vietnam demands more aid and more U.S. cooperation
The Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam - A senior Vietnamese official said yesterday that the United States should help rebuild his country if it wants a full accounting of the 1,700 U.S. citizens still listed as missing 13 years after the end of the war.
Nien said that the U.S. government had done nothing since the war ended to help Vietnam recover from U.S. bombing that destroyed thousands of schools and had not aided Vietnam's disabled veterans or the half-million orphans created by the conflict.
Nguyen Dy Nien, a deputy foreign minister, made the comment the day before Vietnam was to turn over what it said were the remains of 27 missing U.S. citizens, its largest delivery so far.
He repeated charges that Washington, by merely encouraging private
aid to Vietnam, has not done its part under an agreement reached in August between U.S. envoy John W. Vessey and Vietnam's foreign minister. Neuven Co Thach.
Today's delivery is the fourth since the Vessev agreement.
The agreement calls for Vietnam to end a long deadlock on accounting for U.S. soldiers missing in the war, which ended in April 1975, and for the United States to address Vietnam's own humanitarian concerns.
Sen. Larry Pressler, R-South Dakota, told Nien that his constituents often said that Hanoi returned the remains gradually and still held some living U.S. prisoners. Nien called the charges "unthinkable."
"We don't care what the (private groups) are doing . . . We think the government should "participate." We want the government to show its concern, its direct commitment.
Hijackers force down plane in Iran
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Arab hijackers yesterday forced a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet to land in northeastern Iran, threatened to blow it up and demanded that Kuwait release 17 pro-Iranian prisoners. They later released 24 women of the 112 passengers.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said without elaboration that the 24 women were released early today after negotiations with Iran's deputy prime minister, Ali Reza Moayyeri.
Among the other passengers were three members of Kuwait's royal
family and a passenger carrying a U.S. passport and on a flight from Bangkok to Kuwait. The gunmen warned that the Kuwaiti royals would be "in imminent danger" if Kuwait refused to free the prisoners.
The Associated Press
The U.S. State Department said it believed that no Americans were aboard. In Washington, spokesman Phyllis Ollaiskay said that the U.S. government urged Iran to see that the hijackers were caught and tried.
The hijackers, brandishing pistols and hand grenades, identified themselves only as Arabs. But their demands echoed those of Iranian-backed Shiite Moslems holding U.S. hostages in Lebanon.
U.S. may add to forces in Panama
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — President Reagan's national security adviser said yesterday that he would not rule out the possibility of sending more U.S. troops to Panama as the United States considered new steps to force the ouster of military strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriegia
The Associated Press
"We have no immediate plans (to send more forces), but I would not eliminate that possibility." Lt. Gen. Colin L. Powell said.
Meanwhile, about 1,300 U.S. troops began arriving at U.S. military installations in Panama to augment
the 10,000 troops stationed at the U.S. southern Command there.
The Pentagon said that the deployment was only to protect U.S. lives and property in Iraq.
As the military chief, Noriega is the power behind the Panamanian government. The United States has been seeking his removal since he was indicted earlier this year in Florida on drug trafficking charges.
Powell said, "With the additional forces being brought in today, I think there is a reasonable degree of security of American installations, and I see no increased, immediate threat to
Reagan, vacationing at his mountaintop ranch near Santa Barbara, was briefed on developments in Panama in a telephone conversation with Powell. Later, the national security adviser answered questions from reporters at an ocean-side hotel.
the American citizens living in Panama."
The national security adviser said the United States was considering steps that would require U.S. companies to withhold taxes and fees from
He said that the sanctions imposed by the United States $ 3 \frac{1}{2} $ weeks ago had had a telling effect on Panama but obviously had not been enough to force out Noriega.
Panama. But he suggested that there would be problems implementing such actions.
Powell also said he was aware of reports that Cuban forces had joined an international Marxist brigade to assist Norienga, but said he had no information to substantiate such a story.
Income tax burden rises for the rich
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The richest 1 percent of U.S. citizens paid more than one-fourth of all individual income taxes in 1896, in large part because of an extraordinary increase in investment income.
The portion of taxes paid by those with incomes of less than $50,000 a year dropped from 66.8 percent in 1981, before across-the-board tax cuts were enacted, to 45.7 percent in 1986, the department said. During the same period, the share borne by those making more than $100,000 more than doubled, from 15.2 percent of the total to 30.6 percent.
Police dig for skulls in yard
Escaped victim tells story of torture in Kansas City home
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man whose calling cards said he had "poison in my head" and who police said had torture devices in his house and a human head buried in his yard was regarded by neighbors as a community leader.
Police working behind a cordoned-off area used shovels and a backhoe yesterday to dig up Robert Berdella's back yard, where the severed head was discovered during the weekend.
"We're investigating the possibility he may be linked to ... unsolved cases of missing persons," said Rick Pilgrim, a police homicide detective.
Two human skulls also were found in Berdella's house, police said. One skull appeared to be very old and was discarded as evidence.
The dark, tangled web of Berdella's secret life came to light Saturday after a man who police said Berdella had held captive and sexually abused leaped out of a second-
Berdella has been charged with eight felonies in the case. Officials said that the 22-year-old victim had been held captive for five days. He was in stable condition in a hospital yesterday with injuries to his throat and eyes caused by an unknown chemical being forced into them, officials said.
story window of Berdella's house. The man, who had lash marks on his back and was wearing nothing but a dog collar, sought help from neighbors.
Police said they found photographs in Berdella's house that showed people, including the man who escaped Saturday, being tortured. The photographs were taken inside the house, which also had torture and bondage devices, said Sgt. Troy Cole of the police homicide unit.
Berdella owned a curio shop called Bob's Bazaar Bizarre in the Old Westport Flea Market, a building that houses similar shops and a bar and grill. Replicas of skulls, faces of dragons and demons, and ornaments from foreign countries were among the items he sold.
News Roundup
MEESE PICKS REPLACEMENTS: Attorney General Edwin Meese III yesterday announced replacements for the No. 2 and No. 3 positions in the Justice Department. They are John C. Shepherd, a past president of the American Bar Association, and Francis A. Keating II, a top Treasury Department law enforcement official.
PANEL: TRIM THE FAT: U.S. citizens are eating too much animal fat, but government regulations make it difficult for the food industry to market leaner products, a scientific panel said yesterday. The panel recommended a change in regulations, education of consumers and technological advances by manufacturers.
SHULTZ IN MIDEAST: Secretary of State George Shultz said there was no “convergence” with Israel on Mideast negotiations during talks yesterday with King Hussein of Jordan in Amman and President Hafez Assad of Syria in Damascus. Shultz said he was taking questions from Hussein to present today to Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
U. S. GETTING GRAVER: The United States' population is older than ever, with maturing Baby Boomers and the growing number of elderly pulling the median age past 32 years for the first time, new Census Bureau figures showed yesterday.
ISRAELIS BATTLE GUERRILLAS: Soldiers fired at "suspicious shadows" yesterday in south Lebanon and fought Palestinian guerrillas trying to cross the border, killing two and capturing one, the army said. Four Israelis were reported wounded.
ENVOY TO CENTRAL AMERICA: Special U.S. envoy Morris Busby will go to Central America today to discuss the possibility of opening regional talks that would bring about U.S. Nicaraguan diplomatic contacts for the first time since 1985, administration sources said.
U. S. STUDENTS DON'T COMPUTE: Computer literacy is low among U.S. students because they have
adequate access to the machinery and because minorities are falling behind white students, according to a first-ever nationwide survey released yesterday. A majority of the 24,000 third-, seventh- and 11th-graders tested by the National Assessment of Educational Progress had little or no working knowledge of computer functions or programs.
MECHAM SUCCESSOR TAKES CHARGE: Rose McFord, a Democrat, was sworn in yesterday to replace Evan Mecham following his conviction and removal by a Senate impeachment court. She ordered Mecham's personal staff of about 20 off the payroll as of April 15 and withdrew the names of 45 Mecham appointees from Senate consideration.
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