University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 4, 1988
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U.S. ambassador's limousine eludes Panamanian vehicle
The Associated Press
PANAMA CITY, Panama — A Panamanian military vehicle tried to stop the chauffeur-driven limousine of U.S. Ambassador Arthur Davis yesterday, but the diplomat continued on to his residence, the U.S. Embassy reported.
The embassy called the incident serious.
The effort to stop the ambassador came after Panamanians attended church services observing Easter. A somber mood prevailed during the holiday as Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's refusal to resign continued.
Terence Kneebone, a U.S. Embassy spokesman, said Davis had visited the Vatican ambassador and was leaving in his car when a military "vehicle began following immediately, picking them up right outside the gate.
"It followed them down Balboa Avenue, then tried to stop them with lights and sirens. The ambassador's driver, in accordance with instructions, did not stop. The ambassador was driven to his residence, and the other vehicle followed all the way."
"We consider this serious," Kneebone added. He said that would be the embassy's only characterization of the incident. Kneebone referred any further questions to the State Department in Washington.
The incident came only three days after the Panamanian government invoked force Forces would not do anything to provoke an excuse for a U. I. invasion.
Vietnam will release POW remains 27 unidentified sets of war dead scheduled to be sent home
BANGKOK, Thailand — Vietnam is scheduled to make its largest release of what are believed to be remains of U.S. military personnel missing in action in the Vietnam War.
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A U.S. military team is to receive the 27 sets of remains Wednesday at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport and fly them to the Army's Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu for analysis.
It would be the fourth turnover since retired Gen. John W. Vessey, acting as President Reagan's special emissary, reached an agreement in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi last
August that ended months of deadlocked negotiations on the issue.
Positive identifications of the 27 sets of remains would mean substantial progress because Hanoi has 152 confirmed sets since the war,
The two nations often have quarreled over accounting of the 1,767 persons who remain listed as missing in action in Vietnam.
The largest previous transfer of remains was Aug. 14, 1985. It involved 26 sets, at least 24 of which have been identified as U.S. remains.
A U.S. official closely involved in the issue said recently that although progress since the Vessey agreement
had not been as rapid as Washington had hoped, Hanoi has been much more responsive to U.S. requests to investigate reports involving MIAs.
The Vietnamese have been discussing the issue with an increasing number of congressmen and other U.S. visitors, many of whom return to urge more official contact with Hanoi.
In March, the Vietnamese met with John LeBoutillier, a former congressman who now heads a private lobbying group that insists there are still U.S. soldiers being held prisoner in Vietnam.
The MIA issue also is on the agendas of U.S. Sens. Larry Press-
ler, R-S.D., and G.V. Sonny Montgomery, D-Mo., who separately are visiting Hanoi this week.
The U.S. official said the Vietnamese have indicated they did not believe Washington was implementing humanitarian provisions of the Vessey agreement. He said the Vietnamese complained that the United States has sent only two aid agencies and encouraged private U.S. agencies to aid Vietnam's disabled war veterans and other humanitarian cases.
"They're not making a secret that they prefer direct government-to-government aid," said the official.
Man scorns Swaggart during service
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. — A young heckler accused the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart of hypocrisy after the fallen evangelist warned about 3,000 worshipers against "gloom and doubt" during Easter services yesterday.
"Brother Swaggart, your hypocrisy is scornful of the government of God," the young man, apparently about 16 years old, yelled during a brief lull in the service at the Family
Worship Center built by the evangelist.
A newspaper, meanwhile, reported that Swaggart, who has not been preaching since confessing to an unspecified sin Feb. 21, was preparing to risk dismissal from the Assemblies of God by returning to the pulpit because his financially troubled ministry cannot survive the one-year ban on preaching ordered by church leaders.
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SOVIETS TEST EXPLOSIVE: The Soviet Union detonated an underground nuclear blast yesterday in the republic of Kazakhstan, the third such test announced by the Soviets this year, the official Tass news agency reported. It said the blast had a yield of 20 to 150 kilotons.
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ZACCARO COCAINE TRIAL; After two years and several trips to the Vermont Supreme Court, John Zaccaro Jr., the son of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, goes on trial today on a charge of selling cocaine to an undercover agent.
JAPANESE ISLANDS LINKED: Thousands of cyclists, joggers and sightseers turned out Saturday and yesterday to cross Japan's majestic Seto Ohashi Bridge, which straddles five small islands over an expanse of 7.6 miles in the Seto Inland Sea. The event marked the completion of the first physical link between the main island of Honsu and Shikoku Island.
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