University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 23, 1988
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Kidnapped Marine reads group's demands on tape
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The kidnappers of a U.S. Marine officer released a videotape yesterday in which he recited their demands, including Israel's withdrawal from its border "security zone" in south Lebanon.
Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, who appeared to be reading from a text written by his captors, said President Reagan "has to take responsibility for the crimes he has committed against the oppressed people in the region."
A group calling itself the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, which claimed responsibility for the abduction, released the 70-second tape.
The kidnapping increased friction between two Shiite Muslim forces vying for domination in south Lebanon: the moderate Amal militia,
which is searching for Higgins, and Hezbolllah, or Party of God, which is loyal to Iran and is believed to be an ally of the 25 foreigners missing in Lebanon.
It said the six were being interrogated by Amal officers.
NBC Nightly News reported "important progress in the search." In a report from southern Lebanon it said sources there told NBC News the three gunmen who kidnapped Higgins and three other gunmen who were in the getaway car had been caught.
Hezbollah claimed the 43-year-old Marine from Danville, Ky., was removed from the area despite a draget from Amal and U.N. security officers. Release of the tape, delivered to a Western news agency in Beirut, suggested the adbutors were able to get Higgins out.
Talks continue on arms agreement
MOSCOW — The United States and Soviet Union told their negotiators yesterday to draft anti-cheating and other key provisions of a new arms agreement within a month so the treaty can be signed this spring.
The Associated Press
vakia late this month as a display of goodwill. The missiles must be eliminated under the intermediate-range arms pact signed in December.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz reported progress on human rights and emigration and said he did not have the slightest doubt that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would honor his pledge to pull Soviet military forces out of Afghanistan.
Court rejects fundamentalist appeal
Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov said the Soviets would begin withdrawing shorter-range SS-12 missiles from East Germany and Czechoslovakia.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt a blow to religious fundamentalists yesterday when it killed a challenge to the required use of "godless" textbooks in Tennessee public schools.
Ending one of the most widely publicized freedom-of-religion cases in recent years, the justices, without objection, rejected an appeal by seven families.
Today's action left intact a federal appeals court ruling that said it was constitutional to require fundamentalist Christian children to read the objected-to books.
Religious tolerance in our nation's classrooms has been dealt a devastating blow.
The Associated Press
Beverly LaHaye president, Concerned Women for America
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Beverly LaHake, president of Concerned Women for America, a conservative group that aided the families' legal battle, said, following yesterday's ruling, "A dark cloud of religious oppression looms over
America's school houses today.
Mike Farris, a lawyer for Concerned Women, called onborn-again christian families in the involved school to attend their children from public schools.
"I hope . . . there is a mass exodus from the public school system tomorrow, or at least by next fall," Farris said.
But Tennessee Attorney General W.J. Macy Cody praised the court action, saying, "Any alternative disposition would have been the cause of chaos in the school system."
Kennedy took his place at the bench, the court also:
At full strength for the first time in eight months as Justice Anthony M.
- Rejected a related appeal by Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, his latest attempt to block a special prosecutor's investigation into his role in the Iran-contra affair and money affair.
- Agreed to decide whether local governments may impose affirmative action programs requiring minority participation in public works projects.
■ Refused to let a Fort Worth, Texas, hospital withhold the names of its blood donors from a woman who says her baby daughter contracted AIDS after receiving transfusions.
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WITNESS FACES SENTENCE: A principal witness, Steven Michail Kalish, in the drug conspiracy case against Panamanian Gen. Manuel Antonio Norgie faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced this week for his part in the ring which smuggled 500,000 pounds of marijuana and 1½ tons of cocaine into the United States.
HIJACK ATTEMPT FOILED! In Taipei, Taiwan, a 29-year-old Taiwanese man tried to hijack a China Airlines domestic flight with 114 people on board to Beijing yesterday, but was overpowered by crewmembers, the airline reported. The hijacker said he attempted the hijacking because he wanted to pioneer direct transportation links between Taiwan and China.
SEARCH FOR BIGFOOT: An anthropology professor in Seattle plans to take to the air this summer to hunt for Sasquatch, the legendary ape-like creature also known as Bigfoot that some believe inhabits wilderness areas of the Pacific Northwest. Grover Krantz, of Washington State University, has built an ultralight kit helicopter and equipped it with an infrared device that can detect the body heat from a big animal.
BRAZILIAN MUDSLIDE CONTINUES: In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a deadly mix of rock and mud threatened hillside homes during a fourth day of violent rains yesterday that have killed at least 75 people in the Rio area. The new danger slowed efforts to reach a buried roomful of children and prompted the mayor to order hundreds of residents to evacuate.
OPPONENTS SHARE CENTER: In New Haven, Conn., women students on both sides of the abortion issue are uneasily sharing the Yale Women's Center this semester after the university overrode the center's decision to exclude opponents of abortion.
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defiant Palestinians marked "Martyrs' Day" in
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side speeches and stone-throwing demonstrations
as they remembered the 61 Arabs killed in clashes since December. Israeli Attorney General Yosef Harish meanwhile released a letter to Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin criticizing Rabin's policy of allowing soldiers to beat
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