University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 29, 1988
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Iranian planes hit 3 towns; Iraq responds by striking 2
The Associated Press
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NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iranian warplanes, usually crippled by shortages of spare parts, bombed three key economic targets in Iraq yesterday. Iraq retaliated with air raids on two Iranian cities.
The broadcast, monitored in Nicosia, said the attacks were in retaliation for "recent atrocities and crimes committed by the charlats of Iran."
Baghdad's state radio said Iraqi jets bombed the cities of Hamadan in eastern Iran and Dezful in the southeast in simultaneous raids at 9 p.m.
Iran did not immediately confirm the Iraqi raids.
Tehran's War Information Headquarters said in a statement that
Iranian warplanes bombed a petrochemical plant in the southern port of Al Basrah, oil installations in Abul Khassib and a bridge linking Umm Rassas island, in the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway, with mainland Iraq.
The tiny island is a forward Iraqi position southeast of Al Basrah on the southern sector of the front with Iran.
An exchange of air raids that began Saturday have prompted fears that a new round of the "war of the cities" is beginning.
The Iranian air force was out of action for most of 1887. In January, Iranian warplanes resumed combat missions against Iraq, an indication that Tehran had somehow acquired spare parts for its U.S.-built jets.
Egypt endorses plan for talks
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State George P. Shultz finally made a little headway yesterday in his uphill fight to gain Arab and Israeli support for negotiations on a Middle East settlement.
"They liked the package," a senior U.S. official said. Shultz outlined his proposal in a three-hour meeting with President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo.
officials.
Shultz then flew to Israel to resume his discussions with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir yesterday and with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres today before flying to Amman for a second round of talks with Jordanian
A U.S. official on Shultz's flight to Jerusalem, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Egypt had endorsed the U.S. proposal.
On Saturday, Syrian and Jordanian officials rejected the plan as unacceptable.
Shultz's plan, which he outlined for Mubarak on notepaper, calls for immediate negotiations to provide some self-rule for the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The second stage would involve negotiations by December on an overall settlement of the decades-old Jewish-Arab dispute.
Journalists awarded for outstanding reporting
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Six newspaper journalists have won the 1988 Distinguished Writing Awards given by the American Society of Paper Editor. The Washington Post and the New York Daily News each got two of the awards announced yesterday.
The winners were Jimmy Breslin, Daily News columnist, for outstanding commentary; Blaine Harden, Washington Post Africa correspondent, for non-darefinive writing; Bob
Herbert, Daily News columnist, for deadline writing; James M. Klurfeld, associate editor of Newsday, for editorial writing; Carl Sooettler, Baltimore Evening Sun reporter, for obituary writing; and Tom Shales, chief television critic and TV editor of the Washington Post, for obituary writing.
The winners of the national awards will receive a $1,000 cash prize from the ASNE Foundation at the conclusion of its annual convention on April 15 in Washington.
Meese briefed twice on spy case
WASHINGTON — For nine months, the Justice Department gave the impression Attorney General Edwin Meele removed himself from the Pollard spy case. But now it acknowledged that he was briefed twice about the case and said that he never was excluded.
The Associated Press
ism analyst Jonathan Pollard as a spy.
In what chief department spokesman Terry Eastland called a correction, he said Meese was only excluded from the espionage case against the Israeli Air Force officer who recruited Navy counterterrorist
Meese is free to be briefed and even to make decisions in the still-open Pollard case to the extent that he doesn't involve the case against Israeli Brig. Gen. Aviem Sella, Eastland said.
Meese's lawyer, Nathan Lewin, was unaware of that distinction as recently as last week, even though it was Lewin's work for Meese and Sella in separate cases that triggered the exclusion, known as a recusal.
ment source said that independent counsel James McKay was examining another Meese recusal for clues about his motives in dealing with a Mideast oil pipeline proposal in 1985.
Meese hired Lewin last May to represent him in McKay's investigation of whether the attorney general and his attorney, E. Robert Wallach, violated or conspired to violate a federal law barring bribes to foreign officials.
In May 1985, Meese was recused from all matters involving Wallach but arranged for Wallach to meet
National Security Adviser Robert McParlane to promote the pipeline.
Investigators said that examining that Meese recusal might help determine whether the attorney general was aiding Wallach's plan or, as Lewin argues, directing it to the proper official.
Pollard was sentenced last year to life in prison for giving reams of secrets to Israeli agents. But Justice officials still pursued the case, in part, because Sella had fled to Israel and has not been brought to trial here.
U.N. to condemn PLO mission closing
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The United States, its U.N. prestige and influence already at an all-time low, faces a showdown today when the General Assembly convenes an emergency session to condemn U.S. efforts to close the PLO mission.
Some Arab leaders said they wanted to shift the next General Assembly meeting to Geneva to punish the United States for harassing the Palestine Liberation Organization, which the United Nations recognizes.
The entire U.N. operation here, including the General Assembly, funnels $400 million to $700 million a year into the U.S. and New York economies, according to the U.S. mission.
The 42nd General Assembly will reconvene for at least three days beginning today and consider two resolutions regarding the PLO mission.
One reaffirms the PLO's right to operate and calls on the United States to honor its treaty obligations; the other calls for a ruling by the
International Court of Justice.
The move to shut the PLO mission comes as Secretary of State George P. Shultz is on a critical Middle East visit aimed at initiating Middle East peace talks and ending the 11-week Palestinian uprising in Israel's occupied territories.
State Department and United Nations lawyers said Congress' new anti-terrorist legislation, which would close the PLO's U.N. observer mission, was illegal and violated the 1947 Headquarters Agreement.
Terzi told the Associated Press that the U.S. action against the PLO mission was harming Shultz's chances in the Middle East.
"The Palestinianians are being killed in their own homes, and this is an attempt to stifle their voice in the international community." Terzi said. "This is not a message of peace, but a requiem."
PLO ambassador Zehdi Labib
The anti-terrorist legislation, passed in December and effective March 22, has put the United States on a collision course with the 159-member world organization.
News Roundup
AIRLINE NEGOTIATORS MEET: Negotiators for a 6,700-member flight attendants union threatening to go on strike against Northwest Airlines met yesterday in Bloomington, Minn., to decide their response to the airline's latest contract offer. Union officials have said that the airline was proposing to stretch from five to nine years the time in which an employee advances from a lower pay scale to a higher scale, a change the union has resisted. In addition, the union wants a 3-year contract, rather than the 4½-year pact offered by the airline. Also, the sides are divided over the issue of retroactive pay, negotiators said.
CYPRUS SEEKS TALKS: Cyprus President George Vassiliou ushered in his administration yesterday by promising to seek direct talks with Turkey to unify this island, split between Turkish and Greek Cypriots for 14 years.
leaders called yesterday for a sweeping campaign of defiance against new restrictions on opposition groups in South Africa. Prominent clergy told their congregations that the church would become more active in opposing apartheid now that the government has banned political activity by 18 opposition groups. They called for a church-led campaign against the latest crackdown.
TUTU FORMS CAMPAIGN: Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other religious
SYRIA MIGHT HELPHOSTAGE: Syrian President, Hafez Assad has hinted that his country may be able to help free kidnapped Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, a U.S. official said yesterday. Higgins, 43, of Danville, Ky., headed a U.N. observer队 attached to the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon. He was kidnapped Feb. 17 while returning to U.N. headquarters in Naqoura from the port city of Tyre.
MEXICANS PROTEST EXHIBIT: An estimated 100,000 people demonstrated peacefully yesterday in Mexico City to protest an art exhibition in
which a print of Marilyn Monroe's face was imposed on a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint.
GUERRILLAS' BOAT SUNK! Israel's navy sank a boat carrying Palestinian guerrillas who were planning an attack against Israel, killing two Arabs on board, police said yesterday. An Israeli patrol intercepted the vessel off the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre shortly after nightfall on Saturday, police said. Three of the five guerrillas on board swam to safety and were captured, they said.
HEAVY DRINKING NOTED: Half the jail inmates convicted of drunken driving had consumed the equivalent of at least 12 bottles of beer or eight mixed drinks before their arrest, the federal government said yesterday. The Bureau of Justice Statistics also reported that almost half of the people jailed on drunken driving charges or serving a sentence for that offense had been sentenced for the same offense previously.
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