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China's hostile-nation status kept secret to help relations
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department has kept secret for more than a year its listing of China as a nation hostile to the United States to accommodate steps aimed at improving U.S.-Chinese relations, officials said yesterday.
Secrecy on the hostile-nation declaration will end later this year, however, with the public release of a new Pentagon list, said officials who discussed the subject on condition of anonymity.
The Reagan administration believes that China is providing antisiph missiles to Iran, the sources said.
Pentagon moves on China's designation were disclosed in an unrelated
legal battle in U.S. District Court here. The case involves a lawsuit by two civilian Navy employees who are challenging a regulation governing when naturalized citizens from countries deemed hostile to the United States are eligible for a military security clearance.
Phong T. Huynh and Vien U. Huyhn, born in Vietnam, fitted the suit. Among other arguments, they asserted the regulation was unfair as a communist nation like Vietnam, was not on the list of hostile nations.
To counter that argument, the Pentagon had to disclose to the court recently that China had been dropped from the public list of hostile nations but in reality had never been dropped
Survivors tell of Mexico mine blast
The Associated Press
LAS ESPERANZAS, Mexico Survivors of an explosion that killed at least 33 coal miners Monday described from their hospital beds yesterday how they escaped the underground inferno after being bowled over by a blast of searing air.
Gerardo Acosta Garcia, an investigator with the federal Public Ministry, said 138 men were inside the government-owned Sidermex Steel Co. mine when an electric transformer at one of the mine's substations short-circuited and caused the explosion and fire. Most of the men got on their own right after the blast.
Workers dug for more bodies at the mine outside this northern town in Mexico's coal-rich Carbon Region.
The owner of the funeral home where the dead from Monday's disaster were being taken said 27 corpses had been found and told him to expect at least 10 more.
Seventeen miners remained hospitalized yesterday in Palau and Nueva Rosita, said Dr. Carlos Aguirre municipality. He was at the Social Security, Hospital in Palau.
Dallas mourns murdered officer
DALLAS — Thousands of law officers, their badges masked in black, gathered at a Baptist church yesterday to mourn a policeman shot three times in the face by a transient.
marshals, paramedics and park rangers.
The Associated Press
"We're hurting this morning, O God. We don't understand the tragedy of this man whose life was taken from him because of the uniform he wears." Sgt. Carroll Prutt prayed before the lawmen, who were
Thousands of Dallas residents offered a silent show of support for the police department yesterday as they drove to work with their headlights on. A group of homeless people marched yesterday afternoon to back police, and other citizens held a candlelight vigil last night.
Chase, 25, died Saturday in a downtown parking lot when a man who
had lived on the streets wrestled Chase's gun away and, ignoring the officer's pleas for mercy, shot him in the face.
Carl Dudley Williams, 34, then walked away. He fired a shot at two pursuing off-duty officers and was killed by return gunfire.
Williams, who had a police record dating to 1978, including an August arrest for assaulting an officer, and a
history of mental illness, was urged by two or three men in the group of six waiting at the bus stop to shoot Chase, said Lt. Jerald Calame.
"I came without answers. I came without frustration. I came without bitterness but with a lot of questions," said the Rev. Dennis S. Henderson, a reserve officer and senior pastor of the Marsh Lane Baptist Church.
Israeli border police fire on protesters
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israeli border police in the West Bank opened fire on Palestinian protesters yesterday, wounding one, and Arabs hurled firebombs at soldiers in the Gaza Strip.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the policy of using beatings to quell protest applied only during violent demonstrations.
Border policemen shot a Palestinian in the leg when dozens of protesters, many covering their faces with checkered Arab headresses, surrounded a patrol in the Jenin refuge camp, an army spokesman said.
He said the patrol used tear gas he had found in their lives when in danger.
Brezhnev's son-in-law will face trial
The Arab-ran Palestine Press Service said Israeli gunfire wounded
Muslims stall U.S. hostage release
BEIRUT — Muslim kidnappers holding three U.S. citizens and an Indian hostage said yesterday that the release of the hostages had been delayed by the Israeli round-up of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israel's main ally, was "not out of reach for punishment because of all this. Every action against America is worthy and useful."
The Associated Press
A statement from the kidnapers, who call themselves the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, did not define the threat against the United States. The
They also said the United States.
statement, handwritten in Arabic,
was delivered to a Western news
agency in Muslim west Beirut
two Arabs, one 12 years old, during protests at the West Bank town of El Bireh and the Jalazon refugee camp near Nablus.
It said the arrests of hundreds of Palestinians in the Israeli-ocupied territories since protests began Dec. 8 meant any hostage release "will remain suspended without a foreseeable solution."
said a large demonstration began at Jalazoon after two foreign television crews entered the camp and two Arab women were injured, one by a rubber bullet and one by beating.
An army spokeswoman denied that any Palestinians were wounded by shooting at El Bireh or Jalazoon. She
The Associated Press
Riots began Dec. 8 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel
captured from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war. Thirty-eight Arabs have been killed by Israeli gunfire, according to U.N. figures, and Rabin said the policy of using beatings rather than bullets took effect Jan. 5.
MOSCOW — The son-in-law of late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev will go on trial for abuse of power during his stint as deputy interior minister and for accepting bribes equal to 270 years' pay for the average Soviet factory worker.
The official news agency Tass said that the investigation of bribery and corruption charges against Yuri Churbanov had been completed and that "the case will be handed over to a court."
News Roundup
Tass did not mention Churbanov's relationship with Brezhnev, who has been the target of criticism and dishonor in the three years that Mikhail Gorbachev has been Communist Party chief.
The government earlier this month stripped a city, town squares and a Moscow neighborhood of Brezhnev's name, claiming citizens had demanded to break away from the late leader's legacy of corruption and economic stagnation.
SOVIET PULLOUT ANTICIPATED: Nervous Afghan officials are buying foreign currency and passports in anticipation of a Soviet pullout, and some Soviet civilian dependents may have left already, diplomatic sources said yesterday. The reports came after Moscow announced that it wanted to remove its troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
MECHAM GETS ULTIMATUM: Gov. Evan Mecham was officially notified yesterday that he must resign by Saturday or run in a recall election, but a spokesman said the governor had no plans to quit. Secretary of State Rose Mofford, a Democrat, would replace the Republican governor if he resigned or was removed
BOY'S RECOVERY 'REMARKABLE': A 9-year-old boy who was rescued two weeks ago after being trapped 40 minutes beneath pond ice and wrote out his name yesterday in what he called an "absolutely remarkable" recovery. Kendall Smith, of Dillon, came out of a coma Monday.
VIETNAM TO RETURN REMAINS: Vietnam plans to turn over five sets of remains of Americans missing from the Vietnam war and has developed information in 16 other cases, the
ANTI-SEMITIC VANDALISM INCREASES:
Anti-Semitic vandalism increased 17 percent nationally in 1987, with a 121 percent jump in
California sparking a reverse in a five-year downward trend, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith said yesterday. Nationwide, there were 648 reported incidents, up from 594 a year earlier.
MINESWEEPING WILL DECREASE: Plans for the United States and its allies to cut minesweeping in half in the Persian Gulf might tempt Iran to sow more mines, diplomats and shipping experts said yesterday.
SOVIETS REVIEW TESTING: Twenty Soviet scientists began a review of the United States nuclear testing program at the top-secret Nevada Test Site yesterday, a step that could lead to a nuclear test ban.
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