University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 15, 1988
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Iranian warship launches first strike of new year, fires on Dutch tanker
MANANA, Bahrain — An Iranian warship radioed "happy voyage" to a Dutch-owned tanker, then blasted it for an hour with machine guns, cannon and rocket-propelled grenades yesterday, injuring two people, crewmen said.
The dawn attack on the 35,731-ton Petrobulk Pioneer was Iran's first shipping strike of the year. It apparently was in retaliation for Iraqi raids this week on Iranian oil traffic that broke a nine-day calm in the
Persian Gulf
Government will collect on debts, Meese says
Iraq claimed later yesterday that its aircraft hit a large vessel off the Iranian coast. The planes returned safely to base, according to the Iraqi News Agency.
Iran, meanwhile, praised Syria for efforts to arrange talks with the gulf Arab states threatened by a spread of the Iraq-Iran war, and a diplomat in Abu Dhabi that said such a meeting was likely to occur soon in the United Arab Emirates.
Dole campaign official resigns post
that there is no such thing as a free ride," Attorney General Edwin Meese III said. Meesee, along with Budget Director James C. Miller III, announced the crackdown during a news conference at the Justice Department.
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration announced yesterday that it would be tapping credit cards and paychecks and even seizing cars to collect an estimated $80 billion in delinquent loans and taxes owed to the U.S. government.
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dave Owen, general finance chairman for Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole's presidential campaign, said yesterday that he was stepping down from his post until questions regarding his business activities were resolved.
questions about business arrangements that allowed Owen to make a profit from associates who obtained government contracts.
Recent news reports have raised
Owen said that Dole had not asked him to step down. He said he had decided to temporarily suspend his campaign activities after consulting with campaign leaders.
"To me, nothing is more serious than to have my honesty questioned, and when it is, I am the one who demands the answers," Owen said.
He said that he hoped to rejoin the campaign and that answers to many of the questions raised recently would be forthcoming, he hoped, in a few days.
"We're indicating to people who willfully refuse to pay their debts
Owen continued to refuse to answer questions about his involvement with a blind trust for Dole's wife Elizabeth, former secretary of the Department of Transportation. He said that federal law prohibited him from releasing information about the trust and that he did not discuss any transactions with Dole or his wife.
BUSH WINS MICHIGAN: Early Bush, storming back from early setbacks, defeated a coalition of conservative opponents last night in bitterly contested Michigan caucuses that set the stage for selection of the first Republican presidential nominating delegates.
News Roundup
ARAFAT WANTS RECOGNITION: Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat said yesterday that he would recognize Israel's
right to exist if it and the U.S. accept PLO participation in an international Middle East peace conference. Israel considers the PLO a terrorist organization and refuses to deal with it. ESPIONAGE SUSPECTED: An Army sergeant stationed at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland was arrested yesterday on charges of attempting to deliver defense information to the Soviet Union, the FBI announced. Sgt. Daniel
Walter Richardson, 42, will be charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
BORK TO RESIGN: Robert H. Bork will resign as a federal appeals court judge on Feb. 5 to correct "a public campaign of miseducation" that prevented his nomination to the Supreme Court, the White House said yesterday.
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