Monday, April 28, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
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Americans
still living
in Liby
TRIPOLI, Libya - For hund
reds of Americans working in
Libya, life has become a shadow
existence. They are shielded by
nervous ibusinesses and a host
government that needs their ser
vices while'issuing daily threats
against the United States.
Now, after the U.S. air attack
on Libya on April 1 5, Washington
is raising the stakes with a threat
of indictment once the U.S. citi
zens return home. Americans re
maining in Libya could be impri
soned for up to 10 years and fined
on their return.
Despite the air strikes Libya
$till officially welcomes Ameri
cans who work in business and
the vital oil industry.
An estimated 800 Americans
t live in Libya. About 1 00 of them,
women married to Libyans, are in
the country legally.
The American's employers and
the government have erected a
protective wall of silence around
them.
"We don't stamp Americans'
passports if they don't want it.
This is a favor we do for them,"
said Information Department
official Mustafa Ahmed.
Businesses believed to be
employing Americans told repor
ters no such workers were there.
Libyan officials refuse to take
journalists hundreds of miles into
the desert to see Americans,
many of whom work in rotating
month-long shifts, leaving their
families outside the country.
Some Americans reportedly earn
as much as$10(),000 a year and
enjoy tax breaks.
The government has posted a
guard outside the Tripoli com
pound where some Americans
are believed to be living. Ameri
cans also enjoy special privileges,
such as the ability to get meat
during a recent nationwide shortage.
Setting it Straight
In an article titled "Nebraska cli
mate cooling off; Plains states plung
ing into a mini-ice age, scientist says"
(Daily Nebraskan, April 25), Bertrand
Schultz' correct title is paleontologist.
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Marcos to followers: I'm your president'
MANILA, Philippines Ousted Pre
sident Ferdinand Marcos told 12,000
followers Sunday he was the legitimate
president of the Philippines and urged
them to keep demonstrating against
the government of Corazon Aquino.
He urged that they keep their pro
tests peaceful and avoid violence. "I
am healthy ... 1 am ready to fight,"
Marcos, speaking by telephone from
Hawaii, told a cheering crowd that
gathered for a rally at Manila's Rizal
Park.
His wife, Imelda, referred to herself
as "your first lady" and sounded in
tears as she told the crowd she and her
husband "will do everything" to return
to their homeland.
Earlier Saturday, Marcos talked by
phone with President Reagan, who
stopped in Honolulu on his way to Bali,
Indonesia, where he will meet leaders
of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations this week.
A source in Manila called Marcos
later and quoted him as saying the talk
with Reagan was "friendly, congenial,
productive and fruitful."
Reagan had called Aquino last week.
It was their first conversation since she
assumed the presidency shortly after
Marcos fled the presidential palace on
Feb. 25 during a popularly backed mil
itary rebellion. Marcos has been in
exile in Hawaii since then.
At the rally, Marcos spoke for 20
minutes in a pre-arranged call to a
former aide, Lito Gorospe, who hooked
up the receiver to a loudspeaker. Some
people sobbed as Marcos' voice boomed
out at them.
Led by former government officials
and some film celebrities, loyalists ral
lied for the third straight
demand Marcos' return.
For the past two weeks, Marcos sup
porters have also staged vigils on the
lawn in front of the U.S. Embassy,
accusing the United States of kidnap
ping Marcos from his former palace.
As in previous speeches, Marcos
accused the Aquino government of
illegally confiscating his personal pro
perty. "I will get even," he said in Tagalog.
"I do not mean I will exact vengeance,
but I will get evt.i with their cruelly
their abuses and their thievery."
Vet's death shows complexity of Vietnam defense
LAKE WORTH, Fla. - David L. Fun
chess was a victim of Vietnam, just as
surely as if he had died in a jungle
firelight instead of Florida's electric
chair, say fellow veterans and those
who study the war's lingering psychic
wounds.
Tuesday's execution of Funchess,
39, was the first of a veteran diagnosed
as suffering from post-traumatic stress
disorder. It rekindled deep emotions
among Vietnam veterans and debate
about the fi-year-old stress disorder
defense by veterans accused of crimes.
"They could have helped him; at
least let him live in prison," said Ron
Hanna, a 34-year-old Army veteran st ill
trying to deal with the emotional dam
age from two years of combat 15 years
ago.
"They taught him to kill indiscrimi
nately. It's not fair that they kill him
now," he said.
Peter Erlinder, a Minnesota law pro
fessor who has researched crimes by
They taught him how
to kill It's not fair
that they kill him now.'
veterans afflicted with the stress dis
order, said its symptoms weren't rec
ognized by the American Psychiatric
Association until 1980.
Funchess stabbed a man and woman
to death in 1974 at a Jacksonville
lounge where he had been fired. He was
convicted in 1975. During a 1982 cle-
We interrupt this program
. . . for a viewer protest
NEW YORK - A video hacker cal
ling himself "Captain Midnight" start
led cable television viewers from Maine
to the Plains early Sunday when he
interrupted a movie on Home Box
Office with a printed message protest
ing HBO's scrambling of its satellite-to-earth
TV signals.
"It's a criminal, willful interference
of a government-licensed satellite broad
cast," fumed David Pritchard, an HBO
vice president. Pritchard said HBO
planned to report the incident to the
Federal Communications Commission.
The message, printed in white let
ters on a color-bar test pattern back
ground, read: "Good evening HBO from
Captain Midnight. $12.95 a month? No
way! (Showtime-Movie Channel Be
ware.)" Mahany said that at first the picture
flipped back and forth between the
message and the movie, making it seem
like "HBO was trying to get its signal
back. ... It looked like a fight for control
of the microwave beam."
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mency hearing before Florida's gover
nor and Cabinet, expert testimony
stated that Funchess suffered from the
newly recognized post-traumatic stress
disorder.
Gov. Bob Graham refused to recom
mend mercy. Last week, he said he
believed PTSD exists but it did not
justify clemency for Funchess.
Testimony showed Funchess was a
battered child from a poor Jacksonville
family but had no history of violence.
He enlisted in the Army in 1967 and
was absent without authorization dur
ing training after his brother was mur
dered. He stepped on a land mine in Viet
nam 2 12 months into his war tour and
was discharged after going AWOL two
other times. When he got home, Fun
chess became a heroin addict and
bounced through several jobs before
the murders.
William Weitz, an Army veteran and
clinical psychologist who heads the Vet
Center here, said PTSD doesn't excuse
all crimes.
Erlinder says every war has pro
duced sufferers of the syndrome, a
delayed, sometimes-violent reaction to
traumatic, violent events. He said it is
particularly prevalent among Vietnam
veterans who have never dealt with a
war incident.
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