University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 26; 1990
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Salvadoran ex-president dies of cancer
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR — Hundreds of mourners Saturday thronged a
respects to former President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who tried and failed to ease the searing class divides that sparked a crippling, decade-old civil war.
Duarte
Duarte died at his home Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was 64.
Two of Duarte's six children, Alejandro and Napoleon, accompanied by leaders of the Christian Democratic Party he helped found, carried his flag-draped coffin to the Don Rua Roman Catholic church in the blue-collar neighborhood of San Miguelico.
About 500 mourners, many carrying flowers, awaited them at the church, where Duarte's body was to in state until the funeral yesterday.
Duarte was born in San Salvador Nov. 23, 1925, the second of three sons of a tailor father and dressmaker mother.
He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1948 with a degree
in civil engineering, married a childhood friend, Ines Duran, and worked in her family's construction business.
He served three terms as mayor of San Salvador. He was winning the presidential election in February 1972 when the army stopped the count and declared its candidate the winner.
After supporting a failed coup attempt a few weeks later, Duarte was arrested, beaten and sent into exile in Venezuela.
After reform-minded military officers seized power in a 1979 coup, Duarte returned to El Salvador, and in 1880 he became president of the ruling junta.
Elected president in 1864, Duarte enjoyed wide popularity and opened peace talks that year with the guerrillas who had been trying to destabilize the government.
The negotiations failed, however, and a plague of problems that accompanied the war — accusations of corruption, economic failure, a devastating 1988 earthquake, parchmentight — overwhelmed his government.
In May 1988, doctors diagnosed the cancer and removed 60 percent of Duarte's stomach, but the disease had spread to his liver. They estimated he would live from 6 to 18 months.
Millionaire Forbes, 70 dies of heart attack
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Malcolm Forbes, the multimillionaire magazine owner, motorcyclist, balloonist and self-proclaimed "capitalist tool" who revealed in life and free enterprise, has died of a heart attack at age 70.
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"Death happens to everyone but we never believed it would happen to him; he always defied the odds," said Forbes's son, Malcolm Jr., who will succeed his father as editor in chief of Forbes magazine and chief executive officer of Forbes Inc.
Various estimates placed the worth of Forbes at anywhere from $400 million to $1 billion.
Forbes died in his sleep Saturday afternoon at his 40-acre estate in Far
Forbes was born in Englewood, N.J., on Aug. 19, 1919, two years after Forbes magazine was founded by his father, Scottish emigrant, Bertie Charles Forbes.
Forbes' family will have a private service Monday at an undisclosed spot in New Jersey.
After his father's death in 1954, Forbes became publisher and editor in chief. The magazine rode the 1980s bull market and the pro-business Reagan era to the greatest success since its founding.
In accordance with Forbes's wishes, his body will to be cremated and the ashes buried at the Forbes-owned Pacific island of Lucala in Fiji, the family said.
"We have tried to persuade him to run, but he remains convinced that he should not," said one local supporter that spoke yesterday on condition of anonymity.
JACKSON WON'T RUN: Jesse Jackson will announce today that he will not run for mayor of the nation's capital, top advisers to the civil rights leader said.
Smoking ban on airplanes draws criticism, applause
The Associated Press
The supporter, who said he spoke to Jackson for more than three hours over the weekend, said the two-time Democratic candidate for president was committed to gaining statehood for the District of Columbia.
A smoking ban on virtually all domestic U.S. flights took effect yesterday amid both relief and grumbling, and the phrase "Smoking or non-smoking?" all but disfused from the lips of ticket agents.
"It the plane starts to go down, I'm lightning one up," said Dave Noeth of New York City, a traveler at LaGuardia Airport.
"It's wonderful. It's for the health of everyone," said Eastern Airlines flight attendant Nancy Roberson of Charleston, S.C.
Supporters of the ban say separate smoking sections do not adequately shield non-smoking passengers and crew members Critics argue that smokers' rights are being trampled out.
The federal ban, in force since 1988 on flights of less than two hours, now applies to 99.8 percent of domestic flights — excluding flights to Alaska and Hawaii of more than six hours. Overseas flights are not affected.
Dan Laurie, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute, a lobbying group, said last week that he had been called many calls from miserable smokers.
Jackson's political plans have been the subject of much conjecture since he moved to Washington in April. That speculation intensified with Mayor Marion Barry's arrest last month on a cocaine possession charge.
"We are telling the people that the law is the law," he said."
MANDELA CUTS FACTIONALISM:
Nelson Mandela, seeking to end four years of fighting among black factions in Natal Province, appealed to the warring groups yesterday to put aside their differences and fight together for racial equality.
Mandela, released Feb. 11 after 27 years in prison, still supports the low-level armed struggle waged by the final Congress guerrilla movement.
But he said the Black-on-Black fighting in the southeastern province hindered the battle against apartheid, South Africa's policy of racial segregation.
"Even now as we stand together on the threshold of a new South Africa, Natal is in flames," Mandela told an estimated 100,000.
ATLANTIS LAUNCH POSTPONED:
the countdown resumed yesterday
for the nighttime launch of shuttle Atlantis after technicians fixed a computer problem that caused a fourth postponement of the secret military mission 31 seconds before liftoff.
But forecasters said a cold front was expected to bring clouds and high winds, reducing to only 40 percent the chances that weather would be good enough to launch the shuttle with its soy satellite early today.
Despite the gloomy forecast, shuttle managers in midafternoon gave the go-ahead for the launch team to pump 528,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into an unfrozen fuel tank for another try.
Contributing to the decision was the fact that today offered the best weather odds of the next three days. The odds drop to just 20 percent on tomorrow and Wednesday, forecasters said.
REAGAM TESTIFIES: Former President Reagan repeatedly endorsed false letters to Congress in his videotaped testimony for John Poindexter's Iran-contra trial.
The letters, which were written by former national security. adviser Robert McFarlane and form the basis of one of the criminal charges against Poindexter, categorically deny that Oliver North was raising money or giving military advice to the Nicaraguan rebels.
Reagan said he did not know that the letters were false. He also said he did not know that McFarlane, Pointdexter's predecessor in the Reagan White House, pleaded guilty to crimes in connection with the letters or that the Tower Board that Reagan appointed three years ago concluded that North had been assisting the contras militarily.
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