University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 26, 1988
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Sandinista agents question survivor of downed plane
The Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Security agents yesterday questioned a crew member of a rebel plane shot down by Sandinista troops, and the army searched the southern jungle for others who may have parachuted to safety.
Government troops hit the DC-6 on Saturday with a Soviet-made C2-M rocket, a Defense Ministry communique said. It crashed at Lomas de Arena, 80 miles southeast of Managua in Rio San Juan, a province bordering Costa Rica.
Lt. Col. Roberto Calderon, chief of the 5th Military Zone, said the army had found four bodies — a Colombian and three Nicaraguans. The bodies may include those of the pilot and copilot. No Americans were aboard.
The survivor. Alejandro Sanchez Herrera. 25, told reporters Sunday in
San Carlos, near the crash site, that at least two crew members parachuted from the plane with a supply drop before it was shot down.
Calderon said the two might be U.S. trained oxyloses experts.
He said the plane took off from Swan Island, a Honduran possession in the Caribbean that had been used for years by U.S. military forces. He also said that 30 U.S. military personnel directed the contra supply effort from there and that the operation was guarded by 45 Hondurans.
Barricada, the newspaper of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front, published a photograph yesterday showing Sanchez Herrera with three people in military uniform. It said the survivor identified one of them as an American who helped direct the Swan Island supply operations.
Death-row inmate gets sixth reprieve
The Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A convicted killer whose cause has been championed by a Nobel Peace Prize winner and activists worldwide won an unprecedented sixth reprise yesterday from Florida's electric chair when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review his appeal.
Willie Jasper Darden, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence during his 14 years on death row, had been scheduled for execution Feb. 3.
terday went into recess until Feb. 22.
Darden's case become a cause celebre as former Soviet dissident Andre Sakharov, presidential candidate Jesse Jackson, attacker Margot Kidder and British rock star Peter Grabriel joined Amnesty International in asking Gov. Bob Martinez to grant him clemency.
There was no immediate indication as to when the appeal would be considered by the Court, which yes-
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Southern Coalition of Jails and Prisons and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also believe Darden may be innocent.
Onlookers at Dallas shooting sought
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Hundreds of people rallied to support the beaguered police department yesterday as authorities said they would try to prosecute bystanders who yelled "Shoot him, shoot him" before a vagrant killed a police officer.
"It is good to see this support in the community for a change. Most of the time we only see the negative side," said officer Thomas Cicio, observing the crowd of about 400 who marched
from the John F. Kennedy Memorial to City Hall and back.
Some carried signs reading "God
Bless Our Men and Women in Blue."
Meanwhile, police Capt. John Holt said officers were trying to identify the two to 10 onlookers who, according to witnesses, yelled "Shoot him, shoot him," encouraging the vagrant to shoot officer John Chase after he took Chase's revolver. If any are identified, murder charges could be brought against them, Holt said.
Shultz pushes for treaty ratification
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George P. Shultz assured conservative critics yesterday that the United States will respond vigorously if the Soviet Union violates the new arms reduction treaty in Europe, but Sen. Jesse Helms declared that the Soviet Union already was exploiting an "engraved invitation to cheat."
Helms claims that Soviets have already violated pact
As Shultz led off the administration's campaign for Senate ratification of the treaty, Helms, R.N.C., waving a document marked "TOP SECRET" in bright red, contended he had obtained classified information proving that the Soviets already have violated the pact which calls for the elimination of medium and shorter-range nuclear missiles.
told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he had received confirmation of the document's authenticity - its contents still undisclosed - from CIA Director William Webster
Helms, an outspoken conservative,
Shultz declined to discuss or even look at the document on grounds he was surrounded by photographers and television cameramen.
But Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., complaining that Helms had not read aloud from a key section of a letter from Webster, quoted the CIA chief as saying that while the document represented excerpts from a draft of
a CIA national intelligence estimate, it did not tell the whole story.
Reading the full Webster letter, Sarbanes noted that the CIA director had said the judgments reached in the document "by themselves do not constitute a sufficient basis on which to draw conclusions" as to whether Soviet compliance with the treaty can be adequately and effectively verified.
The Foreign Relations panel will examine the major further during a meeting.
Helms is leading a band of Senate
conservatives expected to oppose the pact. Ratification requires a two-thirds Senate vote, which is 67 votes if all 100 senators are present and voting.
The treaty was signed last month by President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, climaxing negotiations that began even before the Reagan administration came to office in 1981.
The treaty provides that within three years of ratification, both countries would finish eliminating all their nuclear missiles with ranges of 345 or 3,125 miles. These weapons account for 4 percent of their nuclear arsenals.
Shultz told the Foreign Relations Committee that the treaty was the work of level-headed negotiations and represented an improvement in the security of the West.
Mecham faces recall election, impeachment
Rose Mofford, the Democratic secretary of state who would replace the Republican governor if he resigns or is removed from office, said 301,032 signatures were verified. The Mecham Recall Committee needed 216,746 valid signatures to force a vote.
The Associated Press
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Gov. Evan Mecham will have to face a recall election or resign after the secretary of state announced yesterday that Mecham's opponents had collected more than enough signatures to force such a vote.
Meanwhile, an Arizona House select committee resumed hearings yesterday on whether Mecham should be impeached. Mecham is expected to be the last witness before the panel, either late this week or
Mecham, who also faces legislative impeachment hearings and criminal charges in connection with a campaign loan, repeated his assertion that he will not resign, a spokesman said.
early next week.
The governor also faces a March 9 criminal trial on six felony counts connected with his alleged concealment of the $350,000 campaign loan he received from a developer.
Mofford said through a spokesman that she plans to notify Mecham today that he has five days to resign, according to state law. If he does not, she is expected to schedule a recall vote by Monday, probably for May 17, when a number of local elections are planned.
Recall Committee founder Ed Buck said he would be "pleasantly surprised" if Mecham resigned, but gubernatorial spokesman Ken Smith said the governor will not.
"Never not during this term," said
he who said the govern-
ment believed he was not doing so.
When the recall petition campaign kicked off last July, Mecham questioned whether "a few homosexuals and dissident Democrats" could raise enough signatures.
News Roundup
COLOMBIAN OFFICIAL KIDNAPPED: In Bogota, Colombia, gunmen believed to be working for cocaine barons kidnapped Colombia's chief prosecutor yesterday, and a radio network said they had killed him. Billionaire drug traffickers who call themselves Los Extraditables have declared war on all who favor extraditing them to the United States for trial.
ACID RAIN TREATY: The United States presented proposals for a treaty on acid rain to Canada yesterday, but Canadian officials said they were disappointed by the lack of a U.S. commitment to limit northbound air pollution. Canadian officials presented a draft treaty calling for a reduction in the flow of sulfur dioxide from the United States to Canada from about 3.6 million metric tons a year to 2 million tons
HOUSTON, TRAVIS WIN: Whitney Houston won favorite pop-rock female vocalist, and former dishwasher Randy Travis won the favorite country album award at the 15th annual American Music Awards last night. Anita Baker won the favorite female soul-rhythm and blues trophy, and Paul Simon's "Graceland" won favorite pop-rock album.
RUSSIA INTERESTS POPE: Pope John Paul II yesterday called for stronger ties between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in the Soviet Union to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity there. The pope, who often has expressed interest in visiting his flock in the Soviet Union, spoke during a visit to Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
FURTHER SHUTTLE TESTS: Top NASA officials decided yesterday to take another look at the agency's ability to get the space shuttle engines and rockets ready for flight before setting a definite date for launch of the first post-Challenger shuttle. It was decided that a third test of the troublesome solid rocket boots was needed before attempting another shuttle mission, which is estimated to take place about mid-August.
TOUGHER ATV PROHIBITIONS: A task force of state attorneys general in Washington called yesterday for tougher prohibitions on all-terrain vehicles, saying an agreement between the federal government and manufacturers fails to adequately protect young riders.
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