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Top Nasi war criminal reporter
willing to surrender in Syria
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MUNICH, West Germany Alois
Brunner, one of the world's most wanted
Nazi war criminals, says he is ready to
surrender after living for years in Syria,
a West German magazine reported
Monday.
The magazine Bunte reported the 73-year-old
Brunner, who was an associate
of Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi SS and
the deportation of Jews to death camps,
said he would give himself up for trial
on condition he not be sent to Israel.
The Israelis captured Eichmann in
Argentina and took him to Israel where
he was tried, convicted and put to
death in 1962 for crimes against Jews
during World War II.
Brunner is considered the most
wanted Nazi war criminal since the
discovery this year in Brazil of a body
believed to be that of concentration
camp doctor Josef Mengele.
Nazi hunters such as Beate Klarsfeld
have alleged that Brunner was respon
sible for the deaths of at least 100,000
Jews.
The magazine Bunte quoted the Nazi
fugitive as saying that in his escape
after World War II, he received official
documents under a false name from
American authorities and worked for
the U.S. Army as a driver.
"I am ready to go and respond before
an international court," Bunte quoted
Brunner as saying.
Norbert Sakowski, Bunte deputy chief
editor, said in a telephone interview
with The Associated Press that Brunner
set the condition that he "not be
handed over to the Israelis."
In Vienna, Austria, Simon Wiesenthal,
who has tracked many Nazi war crimi
nals, said the reported offer by Brunner
is "rhetoric." Wiesenthal said, "There
is no such (international) court. He
wants to surrender to a non-existent
court of justice."
Sakowski said the Austrian-born
Brunner "is extremely sick and old."
The magazine article said Brunner
showed "no remorse" for his crimes.
Bunte said it had found Brunner in
Damascus, where it said he has lived
for many years under the assumed
name "Dr. Georg Fischer."
Arafat, Hussein reassess moves
AMMAN, Jordan King Hussein
and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat met
for three hours Monday to reassess
their relationship and the future of
their faltering joint bid to make peace
with Israel.
Peres peace initiative
wins vote of confidence
JERUSALEM Prime Minister
Shimon Peres urged the political
right not to oppose his peace efforts,
and easily won a vote of confidence
Monday night for a plan that allows
an international forum to be involved
in negotiations.
. The vote came after seven hours
of debate in the Knesset, and was
68-10 for the Peres plan, with 10
abstentions. The prime minister
presented his peace proposals in a
speech last week to the U.N. Gen
eral Assembly in New York.
He indicated willingness in that
speech to consider an international
conference involving the Soviet Union
if the Kremlin renewed diplomatic
relations with Israel. The Israeli
position previously had been firm
opposition to such a conference.
Only one member of a party in the
ruling coalition revolted against the
leadership and opposed David
Magen of the right-wing Likud bloc.
He is closely identified with Indus
try Minister Ariel Sharon, a leading
Peres critic within the government.
Peres spoke for 30 minutes to
open the debate. Then opposition
legislator Geula Cohen announced
that the prime minister had met
secretly in Paris with King Hussein
of Jordan before outlining his peace
plan to the General Assembly last
Monday.
Cohen said the director of Peres'
office, Avraham Tamir, also traveled
to Amman in recent months.
"We have every reason to fear.
. . promises were made that not
only touched on procedures but on
substance, too," said Cohen, a
member of the nationalist Tehiya
Party, which pressed the motion of
no confidence. - .
Peres said in a television inter
view Sunday night that some aspects
of his diplomatic maneuvers have
been secret. His spokesman, Uri
Savir, however, denied that Peres
met secretly with Hussein.
In his U.N. speech, Peres called
on Hussein to "continue to act with
us in order not to miss the oppor
tunity that has been created."
Arafat and eight other top officials of
the Palestine Liberation Organization
went to the royal palace for meetings
with Hussein, who told reporters last
week that he was ' reconsidering his
relations with the PLO after a new
cycle of violence and diplomatic set
backs. Further talks are scheduled for
today.
The king also had said it was up to
the Palestinian people to decide whether
the PLO should continue to represent
them.
Hussein said at a news conference
last Thursday he was "reassessing the
entire situation" of his relations with
the PLO in the light of recent events.
Those include the Sept. 25 slaying by
PLO guerrillas of three Israelis aboard
a yacht in Cyprus, Israel's retaliatory
bombing of PLO headquarters in Tunis
on Oct. 1 and the killing of an American
passenger aboard an Italian cruise ship
hyacked by Palestinian gunmen.
Hussein also was upset by the can
cellation of a meeting between British
Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe and
senior PLO officials, an encounter that
had been intended to ease the way for
eventual contacts between the PLO
and the United States.
The Feb. 11 agreement between
Hussein and Arafat called for peace
with Israel in return for its withdrawal
from all land occupied in the 1967 war
and the creation of a Palestinian state.
This plan called for details to be
worked out at a conference sponsored
by the United Nations.
Budget cut package sent to Legislature
LINCOLN, Neb. The Appropria
tions Committee on Monday formally
accepted and sent to the full Legisla
ture a $19.9 million package on budget
cuts that alone wouldn't prevent a
looming deficit caused by faltering
revenue collections.
On an 8-1 vote, the panel advanced
LB1 with a committee amendment cal
ling for the $19.9 million in reductions,
which consist of an average 3 percent
across-the-board cut in many agencies
and state aid programs.
The bill was introduced by Speaker
of the Legislature William Nichol of
Scottsbluff on behalf of Gov. Bob Ker
rey. It contained Kerreys' proposed
$18.1 million, 3 percent across-the-board
cut to help resolve fiscal prob
lems blamed primarily on Nebraska's
slumping agricultural economy.
Acceptance of the $19.9 million in
cuts would fall $29.5 million short of a
H9.4 million target set by the commit
tee in necessary spending cuts, tax
increases, or both to avoid a deficit at
the end of fiscal 1985-86 and provide a 3
percent overlevy.
Sen. Glenn Goodrich of Omaha cast
the opposing vote to advancing LB1,
saying the proposed Spending scale
backs wouldn't slash deeply enough in
some agencies while it would damage
higher education.
"If we're not going to get everybody,
let's not get 3 percent out of higher
education," Goodrich said.
Goodrich declined to name agencies
that he thinks should bear greater
reductions in order to minimize reduc
tions forced upon the Univesity of Ne
braska and the four state colleges.
He said the university and the state
colleges at Kearney, Wayne, Chadron
and Peru should be strapped with 1.5
percent reductions rather than 3 per
cent cuts.
Several agencies would be hit with
cuts exceeding the 3 percent average
under the committee's proposal, in
cluding the Department of Economic
Development and the Department of
Agriculture.
Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly, chair
man of the Appropriations Committee,
has proposed one percentage point
surtax on the individual and corporate
income taxes, retroactive to Jan. 1,
1985.
Warner said budget cuts alone
wouldn't prevent further fiscal prob
lems for lawmakers in the regular 1986
session, which starts in January. He
said an income tax surcharge would
ease the state's economic woes.
ews matters
A roundup of the day's happenings
Former automaker John Z. DeLorean'was hospital
ized for an irregular heartbeat Monday after complaining
of dizziness and palpitations while preparing for a court
appearance in his bitter divorce trial. He was listed in
stable condition in the coronary care unit at New Jersey's
Somerset Medical Center. His former wife, television Hos
tess Cristina Ferrare Thomopoulos, immediately called
the couple's children, but doesn't intend to visit him in
the hospital, her attorney says.
The sight of an ill-fitting helmet atop Prince Charles'
head brought fits of giggles from Princess Diana on the
royal couple's first full day on an official visit to Australia.
Charles donned the too-small plastic safety helmet during
a visit to a new multimillion-dollar aluminum smelter. The
giggles prompted Charles to turn to smelter workers and
ask: "Does your wife laugh at you when you put a hat on?"
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was described
by a Nepalese Sherpa guide as "a strong guy" after he
climbed an 18,900-foot peak on the southern side of Mount
Everest.
The countdown has begun for Wednesday's launch
of the space shuttle Challenger on an international
science mission with a record eight astronauts.
Father, son plead guilty to espionage
BALTIMORE John Anthony Walker Jr. and the sailor son he
recruited into spying for the Soviet Union pleaded guilty to espionage
charges Monday in an arrangement that will mean the father must serve
rt least 10 years of a life prison sentence and his son more than eight
yC For the deal to stand, John Walker must cooperate fully with the
government in future proceedings, including the espionage trial of his
Navy buddy Jerry Whitworth. That trialis scheduled Jan. 13, 1986 in San
Francisco. . . ' , ,
"The reason we entered into this agreement is because John Walker
has something of vital interest to this country," said Assistant U.S.
Attorney Michael Schatzow. "We need to know what has been broken and
what needs to be fixed." . t
The principal beneficiary of the arrangement is the 22-year-old
Michael, who was subject to two life terms plus 30 years if he had been
convicted in a later trial.
The agreement specified that the sentences, to be imposed later by
U.S. District Judge Alexander Harvey II, will be two life terms plus 10
years for John Walker and two 25-year terms plus three 10-year terms for
Michael.
The sentences will be served concurrently making John Walker eligible
for parole in 10 years and his son after eight years and four months.
Fleeing guru arrested in N. Carolina
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Federal agents arrested Indian guru Bhagwan
Shree Rajneesh on immigration charges Monday after his jet touched
down here for a stop on what authorities called an attempt to flee the
country to Bermuda.
Eight followers of the 53-year-old Rajneesh, whose Oregon commune
has been a center of controversy, also were arrested, said U.S. Marshal Ray
Abrams.
In Portland, Carl Houseman, regional director of the U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service, said Rajneesh was named Thursday in federal
indictments charging him with conspiracy to make false statements to
immigration officers and with harboring aliens illegally in the United
States.
Rajneesh is the spiritual leader of a sect that claims up to 500,000
adherents, mainly in the United States, Western Europe and Australia.
Ed Erigham, assistant agent in charge of the INS in Charlotte, said the
arrest was requested by the U.S. attorney of Oregon involving "an investi
gation concerning Ehaswaa Shree Rajneesh and various ether people
relating to the violation of immigration laws."
South Africa death toll at 334
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa South Africa completed its first 100
days under a state of emergency Monday, with the death rate from rioting
more than double that of earlier months.
A total of 334 people have been killed in the 100 days of the emergency,
a rate of 3.34 per day, according to the South African Institute of Race
Relations. That compares with 509 people who died in the preceding 323
days of unrest a rate of 1.54 per day between Sept. 1, 1984, and the
beginning of the emergency decree, the institute's records show.
Jennifer Shindler, a researcher at the institute, said Monday the
figures were based on press clippings and police reports. She also said
that 845 people have been killed in South Africa's racial violence since
mid-1984, well above the figure of 761 disclosed early this month by
President P.W. Botha.
The government says about cr.e-third cf the victims were killed by other
blacks, mainly because they wers suspected of being collaborators and
informers, while about two-thirds were shot by police in the continuing
violence.
State flu season here, official says
Influenza season has begun in Nebraska, and people in danger of
complications from the illness should be vaccinated, a state health
official said.
"We're beginning to see cases cf the Cu now, tut we don't usually get
excited until November," said Christine Newica, coordinator for Nebras
ka's immunization program at the state Department of Health.
"The peak incidence is normally in Jaiuary and February, but to
protect themselves, people should get those flu shots now.
"Influenza can be serious, even in healthy individuals, and in those
high-risk groups, a bout with the flu can be extremely dangerous."
She said people 65 years of age and older and those with chronic health
problems should get flu shots.
K.C. fans still celebrating Series win
KANSAS CITY, Mo. About 300,000 baseball fans lined downtown
streets, hung out of windows or perched in treetcps to greet the world
champion Kansas City Royals on Monday as the city threw a two-hour
ticker tape parade that littered the town with a snowstorm of confetti.
1 he downtown area remained jammed with traffic following the parade
and accompanying rally as a steady procession cf cars decorated with
streamers, balloons and bows sounded their hems in celebration of the
city's first World Series victory ever.
Players, team officials and others rode the two-mile route along Grand
Avenue to Liberty Memorial, beaming and waving as 40,000 pounds of
shredded paper drifted from downtown office buildings.
Fans along the route, still celebrating Sunday's 1 1-0 victory over the St.
Louis Cardinals in Game 7, skipped school or were given an extended
lunch hour to take part in the hoopla. They hoisted themselves on bus
stop shelters, bill boards, light poles and others' shoulders to catch a
glimpse of the new champs.
The mood was different in St. Louis, where the Cardinals returned
home unceremoniously as airport festivities and a ticker tape parade
were called off. A few die-hard fans who showed up at the airport anyway
found a stand set up on a designated parking lot vacant and the gate
locked.