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Daily Nebraskan
Tuesday, October 22, 1985
Rv The Associated Press
News
Israeli leader says he'll go
to Jordan for peace talks
UNITED NATIONS - Prime Minis
ter Shimon Peres told the General
Assembly's 40th anniversary session
Monday that he is willing to go to Jor
dan to negotiate peace in the Middle
East. '
Most Arab delegations, including
Jordan's, walked out when Peres took
the podium, their customary reaction
when Israeli leaders speak. The dele
gation from Egypt, which signed a
peace treaty with Israel in 1979,
remained in the hall.
"I hereby proclaim: The state of war
between Israel and Jordan should be
terminated immediately," Peres said.
"Israel declares this readily in the
hope that King Hussein is willing to
reciprocate this step."
Peres suggested negotiations that
"can take place before the end of this
year, in Jordan, Israel or any location as
After
the hyack 'Picking up the piece
Craxi asked
to form new
government
ROME Bettino Craxi was
asked to form a new govern
ment Monday, four days after he
resigned as prime minister. Poli
ticians expect him to try to
resurrect the same coalition that
fell apart over the Achille Lauro
hijacking.
"I will immediately start work
to resolve the political crisis",
which does not lend itself to easy
solutions," Craxi told reporters
after President Francesco Cos
siga named him premier-designate.
Politicians said Craxi would
try to form a government with'the
same four parties that joined his
Socialists in the former coalition
The Christian Democrats,
Republicans, Social Democrats
and Liberals.
Craxi's previous government
was the 44th since World War II
and in another month would
have been the longest-lived.
Political sources said another
five-party coalition headed by
Craxi would be the most realistic
way of obtaining a comfortable
parliamentary majority and fend
ing off Communist Party attempts
to gain a foothold.
Klinghoffer
NEW YORK Leon Klinghoffer's
body, cast into the sea during a terror
ist hijacking, came to rest in the earth
on Monday. The death of this crippled
man was "a holocaust of one," said his
rabbi.
More than 600 attended the funeral
at Manhattan's Temple Shaaray Tefila,
including Gov. Mario Cuomo, Mayor
Edward Koch, Sens. Daniel P. Moyni
han and Alfonse D'Amato, and two
representatives of the Israeli government.
Nowsmak6rs
An expert on sexual preference law and gay rights
said Monday that quarantining AIDS victims would be
unconstitutional. Rhonda Rivera, associate dean of the
Ohio State University College of Law, also blasted Lincoln
psychologist Paul Cameron, who has been promoting such
a quarantine. "The only person I would like to see quaran
tined is Paul Cameron," Rivera said after lecturing UNL
law students on how to represent gay clients.
Ted Wright of Lincoln recently puffed his way to
victoiy at the annual competition of the International
Association of Pipe Smokers Club of Moline, 111. Wright, a
mutually agreed upon. We will be
pleased to attend an opening meeting
in Amman," Jordan's capital.
He was one of 20 speakers Monday,
including President Daniel Ortega of
Nicaragua, who said he would not
remove the suspension of civil rights
imposed last week until the United
States ends "state terrorism" against
his Central American country.
The Israeli prime minister seemed
to be answering a speech King Hussein
of Jordan delivered here Sept. 27, in
which Hussein declared his readiness
to negotiate "promptly and directly"
with Israel within the framework of an
international peace conference.
The Peres gesture was reminiscent
of the 1977 offer by the late President
Anwar Sadat of Egypt to travel to Jer
usalem. The trip started the process
that led to the 1979 peace treaty.
There were gaps between the posi
U.S. envoy to Egypt says
meeting a 'good first step'
CAIRO, Egypt President Reagan's
special envoy said a meeting Monday
with President Hosni Mubarak was "a
good first step" toward easing diplo
matic tensions over Egypt's handling of
the Achille Lauro hyacking, incident
and the U.S. interception of the plane
carrying them out of Egypt.
John C. Whitehead, deputy secretaiy
of state, told reporters he gave Mubarak
a letter from Reagan that "expressed
his continued commitment to close
U.S.-Egyptian relations and his hope
that we can now put our recent differ
ences behind us."
He came to Egypt from Italy, whose
coalition government collapsed over
Prime Minister Bettino Craxi's deci
sion to release Paleefinian guerrilla
leader Mohammed Abbas ac
companied the four alleged hijackers
out of Egypt on an Egyptian jetliner
which took off 10 hours after Mubarak
said they had already left the country.
Mubarak had accused the United
States of treachery for intercepting the
Egyptian airliner on Oct. 10 and forcing
it to land in Sicily, where the alleged
hijackers were arrested and charged
with piracy and the murder of an Amer
ican passenger aboard the cruise ship.
Whitehead left Cairo on Monday
afternoon. U.S. Embassy spokesman
Edward Bernier would not comment on
eulogized; slayers vilified
Klinghoffer, wheelchair-bound be
cause of two strokes, was aboard the
Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro when
it was hijacked on Oct. 7. Authorities
say the terrorists shot him and then
ordered crew members to throw
Klinghoffer and his wheelchair into the
Mediterranean.
The body washed onto the shore in
Syria. Four men have been charged by
Italian prosecutors with the piracy and
murder.
A roundup
tion expressed Monday by Peres and
Hussein's call for a conference includ
ing all parties to the Middle East con
flict and the five permanent members
of the Security Council: the United
States, Britain, China, France and the
Soviet Union.
Peres eased Israel's opposition to
such an international conference with
his statement that negotiations "may
be initiated with the support of an
international forum as agreed upon by
the negotiating states," but said the
actual peace talks "are to be con
ducted directly, between states."
He seemed to rule out participation
by the Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion. Hussein and PLO chairman Yasser
Arafat reached agreement in February
on a joint approach to peace in the
Middle East, and the king insists the
PLO be involved.
his destination, but air controllers at
Cairo airport said Whitehead's pilot
filed a flight plan for Tunis, Tunisia.
A visit to Tunis by Whitehead was
expected to be aimed at smoothing
diplomatic feathers ruffled by the Rea
gan administration's refusal to con
demn Israel's Oct. 1 air raid on the
Palestine Liberation Organization head
quarters outside the Tunisian capital.
Egyptian officials did not comment
on Whitehead's meeting with Mubarak.
Sources in the Egyptian government,
who spoke on condition of anonymity,
said Mubarak is anxious to avoid further
worsening of relations with the United
States. Egypt received $2 billion in U.S.
aid during the last fiscal year.
In a statement read to reporters
after Monday's meeting, Whitehead
described relations between the Uni
ted States and Egypt as "close and vital
and important." He added: 'Today's
meeting was a good first step toward
furthering this relationship."
Whitehead said he assured Mubarak
that the U.S. takeover of the Egyptian
aircraft was "in no way directed against
Egypt or its people." .
Whitehead said Mubarak explained
Egypt's actions in the hyack drama,
and the U.S. envoy said the two coun
tries "now have a better understanding
of each other's point of view."
Klinghoffer's wife, Marilyn, kissed
her hand and touched it to the coffin as
she entered the synagogue. Her daugh
ters Lisa, 34, and Ilsa, 28 walked
beside her.
A family friend, Charlotte Spiegel,
also spoke. She remembered a "very
good friend, a gentle man of humble
origins," who was "the victim of a mad
and depraved bunch of criminals."
Spiegel also was a passenger on the
cruise ship. ,
of the day's happenings
physical education teacher at West Lincoln Elementary
School and a smoke shop owner, smoked his 3.3-gram
issue of tobacco for 81 minutes and 20 seconds Saturday to
beat 38 competitors.
The winners of the Inland Daily Press Association's
38th Annual Local Public Affairs New Contest have been
announced, with the Lincoln Star winning second place in
its division of the Sustained Coverage category for articles
on credit problems facing Nebraska fanners and ranchers.
The articles were written by farm reporter Dan Looker.
Reagan seeks arms sales to Jordan
WASHINGTON President nea&m on Monday formally proposed
celling $1.9 billion in aricraft and other sophisticated arms to Jordan ,
igniting a fight with Congress that administration supporters conceded
won't be won without major concessions.
Even as rentaon omciais issued
The Pentagon, in releasing the
Congress to approve the Esle cf 40
Abo pcpcscJ v;z the sale cf Irjrcved 1HY.T air-defense r.:es;Ia
batteries and shoulder-fired Stirrer miseilas for roughly $710 million,
plus 32 Ercdley K3-cslvary fitting vehicles for an estimated $75 million.
Nebraska Shares relief plan launched
LINCOLN A statewide program was launched Monday that will ask
Nebraska fanners to donate grain to help feed famir.e-stricken Africa and
reduce mountainous surpluses that have phued U.S. agriculture. .
We find ourselves in an intolerable position, " said Sen. Loran Schmit
of Bellwocd, who announced the start of the Nebraska Shares campaign
along with Sen. Don Wesely of Lincoln.
"While millions cf people are starving around the world, the Nebraska
farmer and the America former is suffering severe financial difliculty
because cf lew commodity prices" caused by a hugs surplus cf form
products, Schmit srid at a Statehouce news conference.
Milk, Moscone slayer White kills self
SAN FJiANCISCO Former Sipervisrx Dan Whits, v. 1.3 CM ar.j killed ;
ofnecs in 1873, 'committed suicide Monda'citycfM mM
White killed himself by carbon mencxidf pcisordBglhy. attaching.. a
garden toe to the extiaust pipe of his car end pushing the other end into
the pssssr.gcr compartment, said Felice Chief Cornelius Murphy, .
"I arn very sorry to hen the! Don Waite haf ..taken his.HCe," said Mayor ".;'
Diar.ne Fcinstein, Mosccne's successor who announced the City Kail :
IshooiMsMos
White shot Milk, a popular gqr supervisor, and Moscone on Nov. 27,
1978, just days after resign his elected cir.ee. lie had come to the
mayor's cHlce on the dsy cf the shoct.ir.33 to ask Mosccne to give him his
The former police c'Tiecr and firefighter was convicted of voluntary':;
Jmanslaasier iteadcfmimleron a defense of diminished capacity due :
in part to the consumption of junk foods. The defense became famous as
the "Twinkle defense."
Local phone rate hikes lower than '84
WASHINGTON Local phone rate increases, which were $3.9 billion
last year-as the telephone industry adjusted to the breakup of the Bell
System, are much smaller this year, according to a federal report released
Monday.
In cases completed in the first nine months of 1985, public utility
commissions in 31 states and the District of Columbia have approved 49
percent cf the $1.7 billion in revenue increases requested, or local rate
hikes cf $323.9 million.
Pending in 28 states are another $2.7 billion in increases. In some of
those states, rate increase requests from previous years were completed
this year and new ones are already on file, some of them from different
phone companies.
Even if all cf thess are approved and history shows only half of
revenue requests are honored the total bcreases for this year would fall
hundreds of millions of dclisrs below last year's $3.9 billion.
The rcie hikes da net ail shew up in monthly residential phone tills.
Smoking linked to lower birth rate
BOSTON ' Intensive care far babies born too small because their
mothers CT.eked during pregnancy costs Americans $152 million ayear in
medical expenses,-a mew.study concludesi:;-!
A variety cf studies in the past have found that smokir.g mothers are
mere likely than non- smokers to produce unusually smdl babies, or those
under 5.5 pour.d3 (r.erly CC3,CC0 titles in 1033).
Gerry Ceter, whs ccnicted the ana!;:!!, is a medicel economist at
Policy Analysis IncaBrockline, Mass., firm that researches health cost
issues. He presented his Ending last week at a conferences cn sr.eMng
and reproductive health la Ssa Ftanciscc-JllSII
On averago, the babies cf women who smoke m seven ounces lifter :
than those cf r.cn slithers. Eesech has eho'o that the racw vsaen
l:.nioke:ths iradi.lar.thtlr'tattes tend to b& Smcklng laoreihin a pick a;;
Kday doubles tie Oslisod of producing a law tirthei jht I :ly.
ffQ3ter,33s3
th-3 tofs-1 r-.r:;vi:J ec:t cf mvlwn Intensive c:e in the Vmiti Stilca.
Drug cases cocaine use, cravings
DAiXAS nssefs-chcni bve eased Cccs::;2 cravfeg End wlC.irar&I
depleted iachron;cpcdn3.iise
Cccdne use I :Vj reduces the brain's supply of a chemical that
certain Irsin czlli i . ta ccsirnurdcate. The chemical, called dopamine,
is tc 'icv: j to I'zyz ciilcul rc! in the pleasura centers cf the brain, said
Dr. Tcud I": tropin a revert Mcr.Jzy in Dallas t the annuel meeting cf the
Dut tliz train car.:;;t ccpe with such kr3 amounts cf dopamine, and so
the rito for ma:r.t:;rJr3 adcquite levels cf the subctir.ee is adversely
produced a craving for cocdse
minutes sJler they had taken the
lie termed the thcciy ry 5 f;. a heay cocdno users a commercially
availitls prescriptien drjj kr,c:.7i to stbiuLts dcpir.:r.3 production in
the triin. The drug ucers v;cr8 acked to nt2 their ceccins cravir.3 on a
seals cf cne to 100, beiv-e and aSer taking the drug, called bromocriptine.
Ceth cccdr.e users resorted srr'v fipcrpr rr.i cnc. rrn'ir.! within
me iorraai arms sow uuiliwuu w
formal not
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advanced jet fighte
crs and SCO air-to-air
drug.
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