Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 3, 1990
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Riots continue in England
The Associated Press
MANCHESTER, England — More than 100 inmates ran loose yesterday in a prison devastated by riots, but guards regained control of much of the prison, and officials were in contact with the inmates still inside, authorities said.
Some prisoners hung up a flag saying "No Dead," but the government said deaths could not be ruled out in the riot, one of Britain's worst.
Authorities said 37 inmates and 12 prison guards had been injured in the riots began Sunday at the courthouse, the prison, one of the most crowded jails in Britain. News media reported unconfirmed accounts of up to 12 deaths.
Prison staff regained control of four cell blocks and the kitchen yesterday after scores of inmates surrendered. Rioters still held five blocks, reported the Home Office, which is in charge of prisons.
Guards take back much of prison but some inmates remain loose
Home Secretary David Waddington said some surrendering prisoners claimed a number of inmates were dead, but he said no bodies had been found.
"The general picture is of prisoners indulging in violence on other prisoners — the full consequences of which remain to be discovered," Waddington told a hushed House of Commons.
"But the possibility that fatalities have occurred cannot be ruled out," he added.
He said nine surrendering prison-
claims to have been orbeily in-
prise.
Philip Randal, a physician with North Manchester General Hospital,
said most of the more serious injuries were caused by prisoners assaulting other prisoners.
By late afternoon, 1,458 inmates had been transferred to other prisons. Seventy-four more were awaiting transport, and 114 still were loose inside the prison, the Home Office reported.
"The (prison) governor has been in touch with the prisoners all day long," said Roy Payne, Home Office spokesman. "There has been no confrontation, no demands and no threat."
Police with riot gear were on standby along with squads of armed officers.
Honduran leftists executed ambush
The Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A leftist group yesterday said it was fighting imperialism in Central America when it ambushed a bus carrying 28 U.S. servicemen and wounded eight of them.
The Honduran military chief, Gen. Armulfo Cantero Lopez, said a nationwide manhunt was under for the snipers who opened fire with machine guns on a bus Saturday carrying 28 U.S. airmen back from a trip to the beach. Two of the eight were in critical condition with head and body wounds.
The Morazano National Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for the daylight attack outside Tegui-galpa, and the U.S. Embassy said that claim was given credence.
In the Front's statement published yesterday in the daily newspaper El Tiempo, it said, "We condemn with all our revolutionary force the Central American occupation by the Yankee empire, which has shed the blood of our people from Panama to Guatemala.
"With this action, taken by patriotic Morazan commandos against the occupying troops, we remind our people and the people of the world that we continue to fight against everyone who despoils our fatherland.
"The fight against imperialism in Central America has more validity today than in the past."
The Front is thought to be an arm of the Communist Party founded in 1979, but U.S. officials said little else was known about the group.
Heart association labeling program rejected by FDA
The Associated Press
DALLAS — The American Heart Association is yanking its Heart-Guide food-labeling program after it failed to get a seal of approval from federal regulators, the association's president said yesterday.
HeartGuide, under development since 1987 and introduced this year, was an attempt by the association to put a comprehensive label on products considered best for preventing heart disease.
Food companies, at a fee ranging from $15,000 to $600,000, could submit their products for testing for cholesterol, sodium and saturated fat contents. Products that met guidelines could be packaged with the Heart-Guide seal of approval, a red heart with a checkmark on it.
Under pressure from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, the association said yesterday it would drop the labeling portion of the program and concentrate on nutrition education and clearer federal labeling standards.
"The FDA has made it clear that it is against third-party endorsements," said Howard Lewis, the association's director of health and science news. "The government's only concern was that it did not like that the institutions entering into an area where it had legal responsibility."
The FDA sent a letter to the association Friday saying it could not support the program. That followed a warning letter in February threatening regulatory action after the program was launched in January.
Nation/World briefs
GERMAN EXCHANGE: West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl tried to placate angry East Germans yesterday after the head of Bonn's central bank suggested swapping East German marks 2-to-1 for West German marks.
Postal workers in the East German city of Suhl held a warning strike yesterday to press for a 1-to-1 exchange rate. East Germany's Labor Union Federation urged a nationwide demonstration Thursday.
East Germans were expecting to get a powerful West German mark for each of their East German marks under a common currency expected to be worked out sometime this summer.
POINDEXTER TRIAL: Jurors began deliberating the fate of John Poindexter yesterday after the judge directed them to focus only on his guilt or innocence and ignore the underlying political controversy of the Iran-Contra affair.
The jurors are not to decide who was right in political disputes between Congress and the president, between Democrats and Republicans or between liberals and conservatives. Greene said.
In nearly an hour of instructions, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene also said the jury should not draw any inference of guilt from Poindexter's decision not to take the witness stand.
Consider specific charges rather than broad policy disputes between the Reagan administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress, Greene told the jury of eight women and four men.
Poindexter, who was Reagan's
national security adviser, is charged with conspiracy, two counts of obstructing Congress and two counts of making false statements.
He is accused of concealing aide Oliver North's secret military assistance to the contras and U.S. knowledge of a November 1965 shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran.
ATWATER IN HOSPITAL: Republican Party chairman Lee Awater entered a New York hospital yesterday for intense radiation treatment designed to reduce the growth potential of a non-malignant brain tumor.
"Doctors determined that the tumor has the potential to behave aggressively," said Mary Matalin, Republican National Committee.
One source familiar with the case said doctors found cells within the tumor that had the potential for sudden growth. The anonymous source said there had been no growth in the tumor that was diagnosed March 6.
NORIEGA TRIAL: Manuel Antonio Noriega's defense put a former U.S. attorney general on the witches' trail after the invasion of Panama was bloodier and more destructive than the government has admitted.
The testimony, which included videotapes of invasion violence and the arrest of the deposed Panamanian leader, was aimed at convincing U.S. District Judge Gregory Haines that he should be freed to demonstrate that the government's executive branch is subject to the rule of law.
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