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Tuesday, August 27, 1985 Pago 2 Daily Nebraskan BWS ILJokj) 2 iperts mmt Moscow on 6spycta6t9 investigation WASHINGTON (Reuter) - A team of U.S. experts will travel to Moscow today to begin an investigation into the effects of chemicals Washington charges the Soviet Union has used to keep track of American diplomats, the State De partment announced Monday. Department spokesman Charles Red man said the four-member team will try to determine the extent to which the alleged chemicals were used and devise counter-measures. Washington charged last week that the chemical it says was most widely used, Nitro Phenyl Pentadien dubbed "spydust" might cause cancer in humans. The team will "systematically sam ple residential areas, work areas in the embassy, automobiles, clothing, to determine the extent and level of the contamination," Redman said. "We regard this as a very serious problem and we will take every possi ble measure to ensure the safety and well being of all American citizens in the Soviet Union," he said. Redman denied that the charges were leveled as part of a propaganda war leading up to the scheduled November summit meeting between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. "We can't let such actions pass," he said. "But we will not be deterred from our efforts to put our relations on a sounder and more sustainable footing." Redman defended the timing of the charge as coming within a few weeks of the discovery of its potential harmful ness, although he repeated that there was no evidence that anyone at the embassy had suffered any ill effects from it. He said that although the "spydust" had first surfaced in the 1970s, it had been used then only sporadically and in such minute quantities that there had been no basis for concern. The Washington Post reported Sun day that Congress would be asked for an additional $18 million to replace some 200 Soviet citizens working at the embassy with Americans. But Redman said that the dispersal of NPPD did not require access to the embassy and there was "no evidence that any Soviet employee was involved." Anger, apathy across campuses White S. African students rally JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Angry or deeply uneasy, thousands of white students braved police tear gas, whips and dogs on two university campuses this month to add their voice to the daily black protests against apartheid. "Obviously there is in a sense a crisis of identity," said Rex Grant, a student leader at Johannesburg's " ' overwhelmingly white, 13,000-student University of the Witwatersrand. "Ultimately the government relies on whites to defend apartheid and there is no doubt that ultimately the white community will defend it. But we showed solidarity with blacks," Grant said in an interview, speaking of the campus demonstration in .. which 32 students were wounded in clashes with police. In a second protest, at the Univer sity of Cape Town, some students boycotted classes for three days and 20 were arrested in a demonstration that ended with the stoning of police cars. Grant, 23, a medical student who heads the Students' Representative Council at Witwatersrand, said he is i nplacably opposed to apartheid, the system of racial separation whereby South Africa's white minority of 5 million dominates 24 million blacks. A descendant of english settlers who arrived in South Africa in 1709, he says he will refuse to do two years' compulsory military service. But for many other young South Africans, being white and opposed to apartheid is a confusing business. Can there be a peaceful solution? Will they belong if blacks rule? 'Many ask themsel ves, "Is this my struggle anyway?" ' "The army, that's the biggest deci sion for young whites of my age," said law student Anthony Gordon, 22, son of an accountant and a psychiatrist, and descendant of Jews who fled oppression in eastern Europe. "You don't want to go into the army, it's a waste of time and by going you make a commitment to the government, to apartheid," he told a reporter. But if you leave to dodge military service, you can't come back. Then many ask themselves, 'Is this my struggle anyway?' " If a black government comes to power, he added, "Will they remember you were democratic and progressive?" Gordon, who grew up in the wealthy white northern suburbs of Johannesburg and attended a mainly white university, said that he has tried to identify with the anger in the black townships. "It's impossible," he says, "I can't really identify." The student leadership of three of South Africa's four English-language white universities, Witwatersrand, Cape Town and the University of Natal, is dominated by anti-apartheid activists. The English-speaking students form the 44,000-strong National Union of South African Students, affiliated to the country's major, mainly black anti-apartheid organization, the Uni ted Democratic Front. Like other white opponents of apartheid, student liberals walk a lonely road. Several have been detained, along with more than 2,000 blacks, under the month-old nation wide state of emergency. Farm family seeks 'last chance' in ad COAL VALLEY, 111. (AP) - David Schroeder took his first wobbly steps in the house he still lives in today. He milked his first cow here as a boy. And as a young man, he brought his bride here from her farm three miles down the road. Good years followed. But when mount ing debts and sagging crop prices threatened the survival of the farm and a way of life for Schroeder, his wife, Anita, and their nine children, he swal lowed his pride and took his troubles to the want ads: "Philanthropist sought. Young, pro ductive, faithful Illinois farm family looking for $400,000 at low interest to consolidate deadly high interest loans. Collateral: $1,000,000 farm." His family had tilled the same soil for 75 years, and now it had come to that, a classified ad in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It may be the longest of longshots a plea for a good-hearted benefactor with bucks to spare. The Schroeders believe such a per son is out there, although no one has come forward. "We basically feel there's somebody out there who will show enough . . . con cern for us they would be willing to take a chance with us," said Mrs. Schroeder, 40. "We feel there's some body who still believes in the family farm." "Everybody says just survive," Schroeder, also 40, added. "That's all we want to do." So far, about 20 callers have ans wered the ad, placed by.Schroeder's clergyman brother, Ed, in his home town newspaper. St. Louis is about 225 miles from Rock Island County and has a lot more readers and, presumably, a lot more wealth. Some callers offered financial advice. Others promised to send a few dollars for groceries, but no one has offered the desired loan at 6 percent to 8 percent interest. N S WS ST1 B llB rS A rounduP of the day's happenings Moscow television devoted a 30-second report to the death of Samantha Smith, 13, of Maine, whose desire for peace led to her highly publicized tour of the Soviet Union in 1983 as the invited guest of the late Yuri Andropov. Smith, her father, Arthur, and six other people were killed Monday in a plane crash .... Nicaraguan Vice President Sergio Ramirez accused the Reagan administration of drawing up plans for the assassination of Nicargua's lead ers in the event of a U.S. invasion of the country. "Reagan has long wanted to invade us and there are plans for helicopters to drop special forces in front of our homes to assassinate us," he said. In response, White House spo kesman Larry Speakes told reporters: "It's rub bish" In Soweto, South Africa, Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela said she will take part in an illegal anti-aparthied march Wednesday. "If my people are marching, I would be part of that," she said Three Dutch baloonists were rescued by a Panamanian ship seven hours after their baloon fell into the sea during an attempt to fly across the Atlan tic ... . Some recent name changes at the Los Angeles name-change court: Insurance worker William Wilson Bobo in July became Beau Wilson Williams after his Colombian wife informed him "bobo" means "idiot" in her native language. Frederick Koch, tired of hearing his name mispronounced "Kotch," changed his moniker to Coke-Is-It and Valentine Kekahiolanikapukanehunamo kiukakuialonoikaouiaulani Kanehailu, 27, simplified his name to Valentine Likolehau Likolehau Neuhaus Trevor Tutu, 29, son of black anti-aparthied cam paigner Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa was arrested for allegedly calling a white policeman "a clown" during a hearing for 92 black children. The elder Tuto says he's proud of his son .... Representatives of some 70,000 married priests throughout the world who are meeting at an international synod in Ariccia, Italy, say the Roman Catholic Church's stance on priestly celibacy is unjust and stupid and a carryover from paganism with no theolog ical basis . . . The price of vodka rises sharply today in Moscow as part of the Soviet government's anti-alcohol campaign. The increase raised the cost of the cheapest one-pint bottle of vodka to $5 up $1.20. m r. .. it c fat fa, lA Stores to disclose credit sources h WASHINGTON (he oft?. 2 1 .!'. VsS.r'ti'c rlr.::.t store chains -vH tn ('!! rr 'T3 " it r ' J.3 V... '.: .,! t io " r - i t AUUHJj because of information r r : u n a a i rpaMi cjdcy, the Federal Trade Cerr.xl ' nzirrz 1!'"!;. : The agreement cevtrs YctJ 'II,: .1. iCU -cd h Cincin nati, which operates star, At?.-' rav - r av. 3 C e natioa The agreement, which ;j V.: 1 : . . . ' : : ' . slcr.s from .commission charges a: 'r.r.t Tc'.rz, a iJ r .::n (-writing 14 stores in Texas. The commission chased that Wry's r::e;te"y the Fair Credit Reporting Act by filing to r.tQ caaa-..;cr3 vhen it defied credit based on information from more than cue credit cfency or when the agency reported having no file cn the consumer. IUD users oppose company's plan ' ATLANTA About 65 former users of the birth control device Dalkon Shield, who are now suing its manufacturer, Monday announced they were contesting A.H. Robins' application for bankruptcy protection. "The company is financially viable and, therefore, not entitled to a debt restructuring ta satisfy Dalkon Shield claimants," the IUD Litigation Group said in a statement. A.H. Robins, besieged by health claims from Dalkon Shield users, last Wednesday filed for protection frera its creditors under Chapter U of the U.S. Bankruptcy Act. Robins established a tS15-rai:!;en far.i I-:t --I to py claims for women who siaTcred health prcl!:3 tec! .'!: ' 7 : 1 is i - 'aliens, steril ity, spontaneous atartiarj? ar.d even dcrih I -:lcr:l:l it wzs evident the fand was inaie-r.te to meet cUrs tr.i !-. J of rr.i ca, The group also a!Ie;!"lthat Ail. IzVn c:n -:..: ! l.rti: j fase in court procecur;;", lrdzb:$ p rrj ;ry &:A ? In rH -1 1 fe.Hrrxe. Shuttle try may be scrr ?p ?aI again CAFE CAN ill. A trt ; '.: . ! .:': could force a tliri dulay h U l:f$ e;.V " fjpC Scntfcl3 lI2Ctt CIjj ifcwSA. i- ..- t . - If tedcy's third &ticrr7 t- i- . - - - z. ti&MLsy nfsdon is c:a!::jc;!,a:. TAc; .'. net be raaia ur.tll Tlr.:.;, '.; ra il a v. ' at. . 'Mi1. 3 Caribbean - of the " v wen its 'try would Chinese pilot reque: " Hair.: Iv.xa :rove. J I er that J iUtl ill ter and a SEOUL, South Korea CI2dab Fy the f.'.A 1 ?i 1 ran out of facl and crashed b a riee p a i Ij i n : ' . - rew returned. The crash of the tAin-cr.;?r.c jet SatarJ y l-.il! farmer working in ths padJ, Scuth Korean c j e Defense Ministry said the plane's radio operator wants to return ta China. South Korea's daily Dong-Ailbo Monday quoted viI.I:;:ors n saying the pilot yelled "Taipei, Taipei, Taipei!" as they ran to help Urn, the paper reported. It said statements given to investigators by the pik i, Xiai Tienyen, and radio operator, Lia Shuyi, indicated Xiao tricked Ih crew etd Chinese authorities by fclsnur. a broken rudder for the plane's rente tcxard South Korea. Museum opened at death camp PEKING China has cpened a nrua Li the l:::!.' where 'Japanese army researchers tortured to drdh racre th:..a 3,C: 3 prisoners in germ warfare experiments, the Peking r.:vie.y r:-:-z:zlr.;: t:: rtcd Monday. : Between l$33and IS ij the carp and labcrnt cries ia thscity cfllargin in northeast China were the heartera Lr 3: li-'t JI, uhich initially dieted itself ss the n.'atcr Srpp'y T;::r::s Tcvention Department." ; In experiments that echoed the atrocities cf 11: :i Jr:;:f I'crele at Auschwitz, the unit drained Mood frcrs ccr lives a:i J rc; I : sr i it with that cf horses, or frc:e people b crdcr to claenc the c ' ' tls f c;.:i They screamed and srr--f'1 l -f o si r.-..i!M" Y.nmnn They were lurers ef ciftri m a tl !-'. "t llr.it 731 Was Q'JOtad SS payoff f,y tv,,p. a '! ' --"n unt veteran The Peking Eeview said the nuaeam crzzz 1 ca ; 15, S3 yars and one day after Japan surrendered. Report clears French in bombing t PARIS A government investigator MenaVy ebarci tcp French offi cials of responsibility for the July 10 bombing cf the Greenpeace ship Uinbow Warrior but left cpen the possibility that Tni.ch recret agents were somehow involved. J!1? fR Present state of my information, I do net bdL' there was any oJicial French responsibility," investigator Drrnard Tricot said in a carefully worded report. He said the government had dispatched secret stents to cpy on and muitrate Greenpeace, a militant er.vircnr.cntal rroun, bat had not ordered the Rainbow Warrior sabctsed. ' Tncot, a highly respected former civil scrva-.t, ccrr i no theory as to v,as bombed and sa-VH a. . t .,j:i,0 bombing, which carr.e es the vessel was r r tothe Mururoa Atoll, a site cf French r!u :; ' v.iiien nave dravrTi strcr protects m h';vZ' ' ' ii;;::iinthe -tnctilla U.S.-Honduran vcr T ft O TEGUCIGALPA V - . ... V'!,'.a.Aiiii.j iv 1 1 :' J .t!n frt3 -::c;ac3 Tic - r games m the northern tI-acIY-Vi gaenHas are active, b the e-"t-- " Laitahon played the role cf & --fJ ; t.e mo-ontainous province 3 r ''apwf ' IFarJaran S - - , :y war - .tsl ist 'J.'-. i:: I:--.try cat in til. j Li iFar.anawith From News Wires
