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Rebel troops in South Yemen
advance on presidential palace
MANAMA, Bahrain Rebel troops
and militiamen in Marxist South
Yemen advanced on the presidential
palace behind tanks Tuesday in the
capital city of Aden, Persian Gulf sour
ces reported. They said earlier that
President Ali Nasser Mohammed was
badly wounded.
Gulf-based shipping executives said
Mohammed was hospitalized following
a would-be assassination Monday dur
ing a coup attempt by leaders of a
radical faction closely tied to the
Soviet Union.
Reports reaching London from Aden
told of unidentified planes bombing
Aden airport Tuesday and of artillery
and small arms fire in central Aden and
in the city's port.
South Yemen, a key Soviet ally in the
Mideast, lies near the mouth of the Red
Sea on the southern end of the Arabian
peninsula. The Soviet Union has impor
tant naval bases in Aden and on Soco
tra Island in the Indian Ocean.
In Washington, State Department
spokesman Charles Redman noted
Tuesday that the United States has no
diplomatic representation in South
Yemen and said there w ere "few, if any,
Americans" there.
"Fierce fighting has been raging in
and around the port district," said one
executive. "Army and militia rebels
have been advancing behind tanks and
armored personnel carriers toward the
presidential palace and radio station."
They said troops loyal to Mohammed
controlled the airport district, where
sporadic fighting was reported Monday
night and early Tuesday.
At least four merchant ships were
reported ablaze in Aden harbor, while
opposing forces traded shellfire in four
suburbs, the sources said.
Official Aden Radio said Monday
that four coup plotters were executed
after a summary trial.
It identified them as former Presi
dent Abdul Fattah Ismail; Ali Ahmed
Nasser Antar, a close associate of
Mohammed and No. 2 man in the presi
dium; Ali Salem al-Biadh, the minister
of local administration, and Ali Shayie,
a ranking member of the ruling Yemen
Socialist Party.
Diplomatic sources in London, in
sisting on anonymity, expressed doubts
about the reported executions, and
reported speculation that Defense
Minister Saleh Musleh led the coup
attempt. They had little information
about Musleh.
A gulf shipping executive, who
spoke on condition he not be identi
fied, told the AP, "We have information
received by wireless from the port of
Aden about President Mohammed
being hospitalized for serious injuries
he suffered in the assassination at
tempt." "We don't know if the Soviets have
been involved in the fighting," said one
Japanese trade company executive,
who said he had received radio mes
sages from a ship in Aden. "But what is
certain is that the Soviets are there on
the streets, blocking a few roads."
The Soviet Union maintains a sizable
military presence in South Yemen,
which has a population of 2.2 million
and is one of the world's poorest
nations.
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coast of Libya was intercepted Monday by two Libyan jet fighters, but the
fighters made no threatening moves and eventually returned to Libya,
adminstration sources said Tuesday.
The sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said two Soviet
made MiG-25 fighters unexpectedly closed on a Navy EA-3 from the
aircraft carrier Coral Sea as the surveillance plane flew over the Gulf of
Sidra, to the northeast of the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
Libya claims the entire gulf as territorial waters, a contention dis
missed by the United States.
Nebraska Congressmen get low vote
WASHINGTON Nebraska's two Democratic senators and three
Republican House members scored low in tabulations of Americans for
Democratic Action for their liberal votes in 1985.
Five senators and 20 House members received perfect scores from the
ADA, the group announced Tuesday.
The ADA, a public interest lobbying group for liberal positions, rated
members of Congress on 20 votes covering issues such as arms control,
national economic policy, domestic social policy and human rights
abroad.
Sens. J. James Exon and Edward Zorinsky received ratings of 25 percent
each for their voting on the issues. Rep. Doug Bereuter scored a 15 and Hal
Daub 5 percent.
Abboud introduces 'Son of Sam' bill
LINCOLN Nebraska would join 24 other states in enacting "Son of
Sam" legislation if senators approve a bill introduced Tuesday by Sen.
Chris Abboud of Ralston.
Felons who sell their stories as movies, television shows or books would
not profit from those sales under LB979. Instead, the convicts1 victims
would get the money.
In other action, farm trucks carrying crops from the field to storage or
to market could exceed maximum weight limits up to 15 percent under an
amended bill that won 26-8 first-round approval also Tuesday.
Also, the Legislature gave first-round approval to what could become
Nebraska's first comprehensive program for regulating underground fuel
storage facilities in an effort to prevent and detect groundwater
contamination.
The measure is designed to allow the State Fire Marshal to identify,
inspect and regulate underground fuel tanks and containers.
Sen. Rod Johnson of Sutton, chairman of the Agriculture Committee,
said LB217 was one of the most important water quality measures to come
before the 1986 Legislature.
Spare muscle aids heart mending
SARASOTA, Fla. Spare muscle from elsewhere in the body may soon
be used to build new blood pumps for victims of severe congestive heart
failure, sparing them from heart transplants or artificial hearts, a
researcher said Tuesday.
The experimental technique would call for doctors to remove the
muscle, treat it with electric shocks to strengthen it, then form it into a
cone and attach it to a major artery anywhere in the body. They would then
attach a pacemaker to make the muscle contract like a healthy heart.
Dr. Larry Stephenson, a surgeon from the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital, said he believes the strategy could be tried in humans within
Shuttle will return home early
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA said Tuesday it will bring Columbia
and its crew home from space one day early to ease a crunch on a schedule
of 15 shuttle launches this year.
Columbia, which lifted off Sunday 25 days late, will return Thursday
morning after a four-day flight. Flight Director Jay Greene said that in
coming home early, "we're not going to miss any objectives...some of the
experiment degradation showed that maybe we don't need to go the mil
duration."
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WASHINGTON The United States
conducted at least 12 and possibly as
many as 19 unannounced underground
nuclear weapons tests between 1980
and 1984, an environmental group
asserted Tuesday.
Citing research based on public
sources of information, the Natural
Resources Defense Council said the
tests showed the Reagan administra
tion had stepped up the pace of nuclear
weapons research, despite
government figures indicating a stable
rate of testing from the Carter ad
ministration. Eight of the unannounced tests could
be confirmed based on information
obtained from the U.S. Geological Sur
vey or the Hagfors Observatory in
Sweden, which detected them in 1983
and 1984, the report said.
"At least four and possibly as
many as 11 (other) tests apparently
escaped detection," suggesting exper
iments with very small nuclear devices,
the report added.
"This is indicative of an accelerated
pattern that goes directly contrary to
many of the things that Mr. Reagan and
(Defense Secretary Caspar) Weinberger
publicly state," said Robert S. Norris, a
political scientist and one of four
researchers who collaborated on the
study.
"They speak of their desire to get rid
of nuclear weapons, but they're build
ing more of them and they are spending
more on nuclear testing. And they are
operating under a policy of keeping
HVIews make its
A roundup of the day's happenings
Yinicio Cerezo, 43, the first civilian elected to gov
ern Guatemala in 16 years said Tuesday his priorities upon
taking office would be to improve the ailing economy and
control human rights abuses.
The parents of a Los Angeles teen-ager who shot
himself to death 14 months ago have filed suit against
rock singer Ozzy Osbourne, contending their son was
influenced by Osbourne song lyrics about suicide. John
Daniel McCollum, 19, allegedly was listening to an
Osbourne album titled "Speak to the Devil" when he shot
himself with his father's .22-caliber pistol. Two of the
album's songs refer to suicide.
Twenty-nine Nebraska senators have written an
open letter to "emphatically state" that they don't share
the ideas of Sen. Ernest Chambers of Omah in his recent
praise of Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy as "a great
man."
Sean McBride, 2, doesn't have a very big vocabulary,
but he can say "hot," and that may have been enough to
save his family, firefighters say. That one word of warning
from Sean got him, his grandmother, sister and mother out
of their burning Clearlake, Calif, home.
The brightest artificial star ever made in a lab has
been produced by Lawrence Livermore (Calif.) National
Laboratory physicists who used a battery of lasers in a
building big enough for a football game.
some tests secret on a theory, I believe,
that announcing all tests would draw
attention to the weapons buildup that
they would like to avoid."
While no concrete evidence was
available, Norris suggested the smal
lest tests could be related to President
Reagan's "Star Wars" research effort.
Published scientific papers also sug
gest that scientists at Lawrence Liver
more National Laboratory in California
worked on "low-yield fission warheads
for use on anti-satellite weapons, he
said.
The Pentagon declined immediate
comment on the report, citing a stand
ard policy not to discuss any details of
nuclear testing.
Norris, in an interview, said the Rea
gan administration was not the first to
keep nuclear tests secret. But he said
the available evidence indicated only
three unannounced tests had been
conducted during the Carter admin
istration. 77
During the Carter years of l"
through 1980, 58 nuclear tests were
publicly announced, he said. During
the first four years of the Reagan
administration, 65 such tests were
publicly announced.
