Monday, March 3, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
By The Associated Press
W. B
ank Palestinian mayor killed
Arabs, Israelis view
NABLUS, Occupied West Bank A
moderate Palestinian recently appoin
ted by Israel as mayor of Nablus, the
West Bank's largest city, was fatally
shot 30 yards from City Hall on Sunday
as he walked to work, authorities said.
The Israeli said the assassin escaped
into a crowded market.
The killing of Mayor Zafer al-Masri
was condemned by both moderate Arabs
and Israelis as a setback to Middle
East peace efforts.
Two Syrian-backed Palestinian fac
tions that reject a negotiated settle
ment with Israel claimed responsibility.
Al-Masri, 44, known for his pro
Jordanian views, was the only Arab so
far to accept Israeli appointment as a
mayor in the West Bank, which Israel
captured from Jordan during the 1967
Arab-Israeli War.
He took over from an Israeli military
officer as head of Nablus, a city of
100,000 people, oh Dec. 19 with the
Magnanimity 'not absence of justice'
Aquino restores basic
MANILA, Philippines President
Corazon Aquino on Sunday abolished
the government's power to detain peo
ple without charge, a practice her
ousted predecessor used in an attempt
to quell a growing communist insur
gency. She told more than 1 million cheer
ing Filipinos at an outdoor rally that
the practice was "not warranted" and
had helped rather than hindered the
guerrillas.
Aquino also said Sunday that all but
four of 484 political prisoners incarcer
ated under Marcos "have been released
or are in the process of being released,"
and the remaining ones will have their
cases reviewed this week.
Top military officers objected to
their being freed without further inves
tigation. Aquino has ruled out any attempt to
extradite Ferdinand Marcos, forced,
into exile last Wednesday in a nearly
bloodless "people power" revolution,
for any illegal acts committed during
his 20 years as president.
But she said on Sunday that did not
mean that those who committed serious
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assassination as
tacit support of Jordan's King Hussein
and of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the
Palestine Liberation Organization.
Al-Masri was shot at 8 a.m. as he
approached the front door of City Hall.
Authorities said he died a short time
later in a hospital.
An Israeli army officer, who insisted
on anonymity, said al-Masri was shot
twice in the chest and once in the thigh
with a 7.65mm pistol. The army first
said he was shot in the back.
The Israeli army imposed a curfew
that was expected to stay in force until
the funeral Monday. Black flags were
hung from City Hall.
Soldiers set up roadblocks at en
trances to Nablus and rounded up Arab
youths for questioning. One group of 20
Arabs was seen being held at gunpoint
before reporters were ordered from the
area. Authorities did not report any
arrests.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres told
crimes during his regime would escape
punishment.
"Magnanimity does not mean an
absence of justice," the president said.
"We are gathering evidence and will
set up the government structure that
will try those who have committed
grave crimes against the people, like
human rights abuses and stealing."
Aquino ran against Marcos in a Feb.
7 presidential election. The National
Assembly, dominated by Marcos' New
Pentagon report estimates
$8 billion to move bases
WASHINGTON The Pentagon esti
mates relocation of the two huge U.S.
military bases in the Philippines would
cost upwards of $8 billion and put
American military forces a long dis
tance from potential hot spots, sources
say.
A classified report containing the
estimate is to be sent to Congress
today, less than one week after the fall
of Ferdinand Marcos and the installa
tion of Corazon Aquino as president of
the longtime U.S. ally.
The Philippines is home to Subic
Officials unaware that teen
who shot dad was abused
SELDEN, N.Y. Classmates some
times saw black-and-blue marks on
Cheryl Pierson's body, but she told
them they were nothing to worry about.
Now authorities say those bruises
were the only indication that the 16-year-old
cheerleader had suffered five
years of incestuous abuse at the hands
of her father.
The situation didn't come out into
the open until her father, 42-year-old
James Pierson, was shot dead in the
family driveway. Miss Pierson and her
boyfriend were arrested and accused of
paying a 17-year-old schoolmate $400 to
kill him. Miss Pierson and the school
mate were charged with the death: the
boyfriend with conspiracy.
"If a kid comes into school and is
banged up, I would think it would come
to somebody's attention," said John G.
Ehrlich, chief of the family crime bureau
of the Suffolk County district attor
ney's office.
But Miss Pierson had never been
mentioned in any complaint to his
office. Ehrlich's staff has increased
from two to six in the past four years,
while the number of child abuse com
plaints increased tenfold.
Miss Pierson's lawyer, Paul Gianelli,
said she now realizes there were alter
natives, and regrets her father's death.
Police say the destruction of Miss
Pierson's home life intensified when
setback to peace
his Cabinet Sunday he hoped a re
placement for al-Masri would be found.
Deputy Mayor Hafez Tukan mean
while will be named interim mayor,
said city council member Ezzat Alul.
Peres was quoted in a Cabinet com
munique as saying, "The murder will
not deter the Israeli government from
proposing to the residents of the terri
tories (that they) administer their own
affairs."
The U.S. consul-general in east Jer
usalem, Morris Draper, called the kil
ling "mindless brutality."
Elias Frey, the Palestinian mayor of
Bethlehem told The Associated Press,
the shooting was "a serious criminal
act which can only have an adverse
effect on the peace process."
FreU is the only elected Palestinian
mayor on the West Bank who has not
been dismissed by Israel, which last
held elections in the occupied territory
in 1976.
Society Movement party, declared him
winner Feb. 15, although foreign ob
servers cited massive ballot fraud.
New Society scheduled a meeting
today at which it was expected to nul
lify the assembly's proclamation declar
ing Marcos the winner.
The public gathering Sunday in bay
side Rizal park was the largest since
the 1983 funeral of Benigno Aquino,
slain husband of Aquino, which attract
ed nearly 2 million people.
Bay Naval Station and Clark Air Base,
the largest American bases outside the
United States. The leases on those
bases run out in 1991 and Aquino has
refused to say whether she will let
them stay.
The Pentagon report says that if
those two bases are lost, the most sta
ble potential spots to relocate would
be Guam and Tinian islands, according
to the sources, who spoke only on the
condition they not be identified.
Both islands are under the control of
the United States and are already home
to U.S. military installations.
her mother got sick several years ago
with kidney disease.
Gianelli said Miss Pierson considered
leaving home, but remained for the
sake of her 8-year-old sister. Then one.
day she saw her father "roughhousing""
with her sister and feared that he had
found another prey.
According to police, Miss Pierson
planned the shooting over several
months, and asked friends at school if
anyone would kill her father for a fee.
Officers say 17-year-old Sean Pica agreed,
and Miss Pierson's boyfriend, Robert
Cuccio, 19, paid him $400.
On Feb. 5, as Pierson left his home in
this Long Island community to go to his
job as an electrician, he was shot five
times with a .22-caliber rifle.
Police who interviewed Miss Pierson
said they found inconsistencies in her
story, and that she confessed eight
days later.
Miss Pierson and Pica pleaded inno
cent to second-degree murder, while
Cuccio pleaded innocent to conspi
racy. Pica remains in jail in lieu of
$100,000 bond; the other two were
released on bail. No trial date has been
set.
Since Miss Pierson's arrest, Gianelli
said he received offers from strangers
who wanted to help pay her $50,000
bail.
legal right
In Brief
Cocaine said to cause leukemia
WASHINGTON Half of the cocaine seized in Florida late last year
contained denzene, a carrinogen that has been banned from consumer
products because it has been shown to cause leukemia, a federal official
said Sunday.
"We see the potential as extremely dangerous for lung damage or
worse," said Robert H. Feldkamp, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement
Agency.
- The agency in January esmo ins
to evaluate the possible effects cr Denzene used n manufacturing cocaine
"before we put all the red Izz cut that people who m cocaine may be in
differ. We have not yet determined that." FeUtestp said in a telephone
interview. The CDC study is expected in April or F,!ay, he said.
Poll: 'Majority favor pcrannitcry eutlavr
LINCOLN A majority cf Nebraska believe paramilitary camps
should be outlawed in the state, according to a statewide poll.
Sixty-five percent of the 449 people questioned in the mid-February
survey conducted for The Lincoln Star favored the Legislature's LB772,
which would outlaw paramilitary training camps in Nebraska. Twenty-four
percent opposed the bill, and 11 percent were undecided. The poll was
conducted Feb. 14-19 by Research Associates cf Lincoln.
The camps were described to respondents as tralr.ir. camps that teach
participants how to use or develop firearms ar.d ether war materials to
promote civil disorder.
(iNASAjdbcs majority of vmrli via phone ;'
SPACE CENTER, Houston With 20 centers te 11 states, NASA does
much of its work by telephone and In telephone conferences forcing
officials to reach decisions without the bcr.cHt cf rczir.g one another's
body language and gestures.
"Telecons" linkirg experts in at least five si: Its played a key role
in the decision to launch the space shuttle Cfcalkr'cr.
The presidential commission invcstiUr ths shuttle explosion con
ducted extensive hearings on the conduct cf the prs-hunch telephone
conferences and declared NASA's launch-deck! en process "clearly
ost don't object to lie dzlzzlot test
NEW YORK A majority cf Americans believe lla detectors should be
used in the courtroom, but they don't believe they should be used by
businesses in most circumstances, according to a Media General
Associated Press poll.
The nationwide telephone poll of 1,512 adult Americans found that 72
percent believed the machines should be used in court to test people
accused of crimes, and 63 percent said witneses in court should also be
tested.
The poll also found that eight in 10 respondents thought lie detector
tests should be given to government employees who have access to
classified information.
Three-quarters also thought it was appropriate for employers to test
workers suspected of stealing, but most objected to the use of polygraphs
by businesses in general.
Big-name stars earn big-buck salaries
NEW YORK Barbra Streisand has earned nearly $100 million during
her life, but Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev makes a more modest salary
of $18,700 a year, People magazine reports.
Somes stars earn huge salaries for little work, while ethers toil for every
penny, the magazine says in its March 10 issue.
One example of the hard workers, People says, is broadcaster Larry
King, who earns $600,000 a year.
King airs a nightly four-hour talk show on Mutual Radio, does five
interviews a week on the Cable News Network, makes weekly appearances
during football season for NBC Sports and writes regular columns for USA
Today and The Sporting News.
People compares hard-worker King with Marlon Brando, who earned
$3.4 million for 13 scenes totaling less than 50 minutes in three movies,
"Superman," "The Formula," and "Apocalypse Now."
Gorbachev celebrates 55th birthday
MOSCOW Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev turned 55 Sunday, but
the official news agency Tass gave no details on how he observed his
birthday.
Gorbachev was named Communist Party leader March 11. He was the
youngest party general secretary named since Josef. V. Stalin, who was 42
when named to the post in April 1922.
Tass reported that Gorbachev met Sunday with Cuban President Fidel
Castro. Delegates to the 27th Communist Party Congress, which began
last Tuesday, on Saturday wished Gorbachev "every success" for his
birthday.
Police think Palmo killer 'shadowed' him
STOCKHOLM, Sweden The man who killed Prime Minister Olof
Palme apparently had him under surveillance for some time before he
shot him with a powerful American-made revolver, police said Sunday.
Police Commissioner Hans Holmer told reporters that two bullets
recovered at the scene of the late Friay night shooting, a downtown
sidewalk, were fashioned from an unusual combination of metals and may
have been handmade, making it harder to track down the sources of the
bullets. "
Sweden's two-day-old caretaker government meanwhile held its first
session and discussed arrangements for the funeral of Social Democratic
leader Palme, who was shot once in the back Saturday while walking with
his wife.
TVA to buy Ozark Air Lines
NEW YORK Ozark Air Lines, a St. Louis-baced air carrier that earned
only $636,000 last year, has agreed to be acquired by Trans World Airlines
for $250 -million, the companies said.
The merger agreement signed Saturday comes a-ainst a backdrop of
rapid consolidation and intense competition in the U.S. airline industry,
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