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Thursday, December 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Cuban inmates meet with lawyer, hear Miami bishop's message
ATLANTA — Cuban inmates holding 89 hostages met with a lawyer yesterday to discuss matters raised in talks to end the standoff and heard a tape message from a Cuban-born bishop credited with ending a Louisiana uprising.
The lawyer, Gary Leshaw, said afterward there was one principle obstacle to a settlement. He refused to disclose the issue.
U. S. Justice Department spokesman Patrick Korten could not say what Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman of Miami's Roman Catholic Archdiocese told the 1,080 Cuban inmates in Spanish on the tap played over the prison public address system.
An appeal from Roman to surrender was credited with ending an eight-day siege at the federal prison in Oakdale, La.
Couple from Korean jet still unidentified
MANAAM, Bahrain — Officials sought the identities yesterday of an Asian couple who took poison rather than be questioned about a jettlin that may have been bombed.
ried forged Japanese passports and were detained Tuesday at the Bahrain airport.
The woman revived for a time but said nothing. The man died of the poison, which was concealed in the filters of cigarettes. Both car-
They flew from Bagdad.Iraq, to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on the South Korean jetliner that disappeared Sunday with 115 people aboard. South Korean officials think the plane was destroyed by a terrorist bomb.
Kennedy not asked about how he'd vote
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said yesterday that Supreme Court nominee Anthony M. Kennedy was not questioned to determine how he would vote on controversial issues likely to come before the high court.
Before the nomination of Kennedy to fill the court's vacant seat,
neither the president nor other officials asked Kennedy his views on any case or issue that could be justified by the justices, the department said.
The department made the comments in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Two fundamentalist leaders endorse Kemp
WATERLOO, Iowa — Jack Kemp yesterday received the endorsement of two prominent fundamentalist Christians in a move aimed at converting the evangelical constituency of GOP presidential rival Pat Robertson.
Tim and Beverly LaHaye endorsed the New York congressman at a revival-style rally, hinting at the "electability" factor that has shadowed Robertson's candidacy.
Spuds-as-Santa beer ads allowed to stand
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio rule against depicting Santa Claus in beer advertisements has landed a red-suited Spuds MacKenzie in the doghouse, but Anheuser-Busch Inc. yesterday won a stay of an order that cartons featuring the
"party animal" be pulled from shelves.
Spuds, a dog the brewery uses in its advertising campaigns, appeared in the photo wearing a Santa-like jacket and cap, with a bag full of beer.
From The Associated Press.
Reagan condemns Soviets
Report accuses USSR of violating 1972 missile treaty
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a pre-summit flareup, President Reagan accused the Soviet Union yesterday of fouling a 1972 arms control treaty by shifting two radar installations to the vicinity of Moscow and Kiev and probably carrying out illegal antimissile tests.
A report — submitted to Congress just five days before the arrival of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev for a summit meeting and treaty signing — made serious new charges against Mr. Putin, the United Nations' anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
The report said that in addition to shifting the two radar installations, the Soviets had improved a challenged radar at Krasnosyark, despite offering reassurances, and may be preparing an anti-ballistic missile
defense of the country in violation of the treaty.
"I am confident the Congress fully shares my concern about Soviet non-compliance." President Reagan said in a letter accompanying the report.
Earlier in the day, reporters asked Reagan how he could ask the Senate to ratify a new treaty at the same time. But the Russians of violating an old one.
"I'd say a certain amount of inconsistency is justified." Reagan said.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater was asked to explain a case where he told reporters his speeches. He said it was appropriate to "a summit between old enemies."
"The speeches that the president has made and his comments concerning arms control and dealing with the Soviets is entirely devised to set a
climate that we think is appropriate for the summit," Fitzwater said.
Meantime, a dispute over an exchange of weapons data was eased as the two sides pushed ahead for the third Reagan-Gorbachev summit.
Gorbachev is to arrive Monday afternoon, see Reaag on Tuesday and later that day sign a treaty calling for the destruction of the superpowers' medium range missiles.
Soviet negotiators in Geneva turned over all the information demanded by the U.S. and promised three weeks ago, U.S. officials here said. The two sides still intend to reach an agreement urging them we do not anticipate any problems," one of the officials, who demanded anonymity, said.
AIDS commission gives report
Officials agree that disease is serious but give no solutions
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's top health official and the head of his AIDS commission agreed yesterday that AIDS was the "most significant serious infectious disease" the United States has faced, but they offered the White House no new solutions to the problem.
Retired Adm. James D. Watkins, head of the president's AIDS commission, released the panel's interim report that made no specific recommendations.
AIDS infection rate
Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen released an updated report from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta which sticks by a year-old estimate that 1 million to 1.5 million U.S. citizens probably are infected by the AIDS-causing drome, virus and are thus at high risk of developing the deadly disease itself.
While the AIDS commission's 25-page report basically was limited to summarizing hearings the panel has conducted so far and to giving an agenda for further research in four additional interim reports with substantive recommendations in advance of its final report June 24.
Here is the new federal estimate of the spread of AIDS into the U.S. population. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimated the size of the homosexual population on the basis of the 1948 Kinsey report, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male."
Group description Estimated population Percent infected Number infected
Exclusively homosexual throughout life 2,500,000 20% to 25% 500,000 to 625,000
Other homosexual contact (including highly infrequent) 2,500,000 to 7,500,000 5% 125,000 to 375,000
Regular (at least weekly) intravenous drug abuse 900,000 25% 225,000
Occasional IV drug use 200,000 5% 10,000
Persons with hemophilia 15,500 63% 9,800
Heterosexuals without specific identified risks 142,000,000 0.021% 30,000
Other groups Homosexual partners of on at high risk, Insecuals born in Central Africa, Transfusion recipients, other additional 5%-10% of total number of infections 45,000 to 127,000
Total
944,800
to 1,401,800
SOURCE: U.S. Centers for Disease Control
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Haitian asks junta to resign
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A leading presidential candidate demanded yesterday that Haiti's jitai leader step down or face "total civil disobedience" from voters cheated out of free national elections.
Sylvio Claude of the Christian Democratic Party called for Gen. Henri Namphy's resignation within 48 hours and recommended that a commissioner report to three officers and four civilians replace Namphy's four-man junta.
There was no indication that Namphy, Maj. Gen. Williams Regala or lawyer Luc Hector had any intentions of immediately relinquishing power, which they assumed Feb 7. The chief commander Duxallier fled to exile in France.
They had pledged to step down Feb. 7, 1988, to make way for a newly elected government, but elections scheduled Sunday were canceled after 34 people were killed and 75 wounded by soldiers and thugs wielding guns and machetes.
Namphy then disbanded the independent Electoral Council, which had been authorized by the Haitian constitution to conduct the elections.
Council members, most of whom were in hiding, pledged not to leave the
Claude vowed to boycott future elections organized by the junta, as did the country's largest labor union, the Autonomous Central of Haitian Workers, and opposition political groups.
"We would call on Haitians all over the country to begin total civil disobedience," Claude said in remarks broadcast by Radio Metronole.
Claude, a Protestant pastor and accountant, earned a reputation for bravery for his vocal criticism of Duvalier. His outspokenness landed him more than once in the torture chamber at the Maute. Duvalier's private army.
Eddy Volei, one of Claude's top aides and brother of presidential candidate Yves Volei, who was assassinated in October, said in an interview that Alfight fight with what we rocks, bones, machetes, matches, anything.
But other political leaders are looking for a solution other than open confrontation.
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