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Friday, November 9, 1984 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Wire Report National and international news from the Reuter News Report i, -1 " r j . 5 t,i icf 1 i n)tr, - ; i .re "1 I J Dave WeselyDaily Nebraskan Lincoln's Women against Pornography pickets Fenton Sundries Thursday evening. The group picketed the store to protest its large collection of soft- and hard-core pornography and to bring attention to the amount of pornography in Lincoln. t2 ... t,i 5 fc-i" - ti ic 4 frf A U! 1 L' r-"?.f pr rrrs i r a p ; - Now when you buy an ArtCarved college ring, you'll get all the tools you need, and usually forget to buy, for your dorm or apartment. See your ArtCarved Repre sentative for details. CLASS RINGS mm! ? c IT'S LIKE NO OTHER RING YOU'LL EVER OWN! AT THE MOST CONVENlENTCC m t -t hatf- Nov. 9th TIME: Deposit required. MasterCard or Visa Accepted. Lower Level City Union Garden Level East Union 9:30-4:00 PLACE: North Union Lobby 1984 ArtCarved Class Rings 18408 D-2 U.S., Nicaragua trade diplomatic denials, shots WASHINGTON The Pentagon Thursday denied shots were fired at a U.S. plane near Nicaragua, and U.S. intelligence offi cials said a Soviet ship was believed to have brought surface-to-air missiles to Nicaragua. The officials, who said earlier they were unsure if the ship docked at a Nicaraguan port carried MiG Tighter planes, told Reuters new intelligence indicates crates aboard the vessel contain SAM-3 and SAM-8 air defense missiles. This explana tion would be consistent with Managua's statement that it had not received advanced MiG-21s, but had a legitimate right to weapons for self-defense. Washington has said MiGs in Nicara gua would shift the balance of power in Central America. Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday said they would support the use of force against Nicaragua if it is determined that Soviet MiG-2 Is have arrived there. A commit tee spokesman said after a Defense Intelligence Agency brief ing on the situation in Nicaragua that there was "some very strong circumstantial evidence to suggest there may be some planes on that boat." President Reagan has said the United States was surveilling the Soviet ship, but he could not say if it contained MiG-2 is. Nicaragaun Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto has denied that Soviet planes were being delivered to his country. Reagan would not comment on what action the United States might take if the advanced aircraft were delivered to Nicaragua. There has been speculation that U.S. forces would destroy them on delivery. The Pentagon meanwhile said two U.S. paratroop battalions were preparing to join an infantry division for exercises in Georgia this month but denied rumors that the move was linked to the situation in Nicaragua. The Pentagon said about 1 5,000 troops would take part in the exercises, which it said was routine and long-planned. Nicaraguan officials have repeatedly charged that U.S. troops were planning an invasion, but the Pentagon has denied it. Nicaraguan officials also charged earlier that it had fired on a U.S. C-130 aircraft that approached within five miles of the country's Pacific port of Corinto. But the Pentagon categori cally denied this and said U.S. aircraft had not violated Nicara gua's airspace. It also denied charges that a Nicaraguan coast guard ship escorting a Soviet freighter at Corinto had been harassed by U.S. Navy ships within five miles of the port. In Managua, the government Thursday night cancelled plans for volunteer participation in its coffee harvest and said all hands were needed to defend the country against invasion by the United States. Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock told 20,000 volunteers who had crowded into Managua's Revolution Square before leaving for the country's coffee-growing areas that they were needed more urgent ly in the capital. Losing the country would be worse than losing the coffee, Wheelock said. Residents of the towns of Leon, Rivas, Matagalpa and Jinot ega had begun digging defensive trenches, he said. Israel, Lebanon to begin talks NAQOURA, Lebanon Israeli and Lebanese officers Thurs day held their first negotiations on ending Israel's two-year occupation of southern Lebanon, and agreed to begin substan tive talks next Monday. Both sides in the negotiations expect the bargaining, to be held three times a week, to be long and difficult. The main stumbling block is the 2,000- man Israeli-backed militia known as the South Lebanon Army, which Israel insists must serve as a buffer force along the border. Israel also wants to retain the right to make forays into the south if necessary. Lebanon and Syria reject these demands. In Syria Thursday, state-run Radio Damascus repeated the naton's position that there is "no role whatsoever" for the SLA. Syria has an esti mated 40,000 troops in north and east Lebanon and is in close contact with the Lebanese negotiators. An unconditional and rapid withdrawal "is the only choice for Israel, otherwise the Lebanese national resistance will dictate the Israeli withdrawl by force," the radio added. Israeli officials say they are willing to change the name and nature of the SLA so that it effectively becomes a brigade of the Lebanese army. Chile halts speech, press freedom SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's military government Thursday announced sweeping restrictions severely limiting the freedom meetings688 m f the PPuIation hold Private nHnI!!rnintnt banned sbc 0PPosition publications, cen nn lS Tn abUt P0litics and rrorism and ordered a ban Thfrf P?Vate meetinfis without government permis thP rnnnthff i!CtlnS T moTe seeping than any seen since Pen A,? PWlnv? bldy miIitary C0UP whch brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power in 1 973 PnnchP7theS :einf0Jce suspicions among opponents of a Tcurl nn,,H 6 fatG f Siege declared this week was aimed at curbing political unrest rather than guerrilla violence.