Friday, September 5, 1986'
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Daily Nebraskan
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Von Binlow offer rejected
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Claus von
Bulow said Thursday he agreed to di
vorce his comatose wife provided his
stepchildren dropped their civil suit
against him and split their inheritance
with his daughter, but the offer was
rejected. ,
The Danish-bom socialite, acquitted
last year of twice trying to kill his hei
ress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow,
also said the offer included his re
nouncing of any claims on his esti
mated $14 million share of her $75 mil
lion gas and utilities fortune, her
Newport mansion and their luxurious
New York apartment.
"I agreed to any formula that would
take me out of the picture and give
Cosima her fair share, including di
vorce," von Bulow said in a telephone
interview with The Associated Prss
from the Fifth Avenue apartment. "It
was turned down categorically. This is
confidential information. I can't dis
cuss it more."
Alexander von Auersberg and his
sister, Annie-Laurie "Ala" von Auers
berg Kneissl, Mrs. von Bulow's children
by a previous marriage have fought von
Bulow's efforts to reinstate Cosima von
Bulow's cliam to her share of the $40
million estate left by Mrs. von Bulow's
mother, the late Annie Laurie Crawford
Aitken.
They have also sought to void von
Bulow's interest in his wife's estate and
force him to repay any money and
return any property he has received
from her estate since her first coma in
1979.
Before Mrs. Aitken's death and
before the 1985 retrial of von Bulow
that ended in his acquittal she dis
inherited Miss von Bulow because her
granddaughter stood by her father dur
ing his Jour-year ordeal.
The stepchildren also have prevented
their half-sister from using Clarenoon
Court, the palatial Newport mansion
where Mrs. von Bulow twice became
comatose during Christmas holiday
visits.
Von Bulow said Thursday he made
the settlement offer about four months
ago, and received the rejection two
weeks ago.
Michael Armstrong, the New York
lawyer who represents the stepchild
ren, told WJAR-TV of Providence that
the offer was turned down because of
loopholes he said would have allowed
Miss von Bulow to funnel money to her
father.
The stepchildren filed the $56 mil
lion civil suit in U.S. District Court in
Manhattan last year following von Bul
ow's acquittal by a Rhode Island Super
ior Court jury after a widely publicized
nine-week trial.
Romanian immigrants seek asylum
WASHINGTON A Romanian fam
ily sent Capitol officials scrambling
Thursday when they approached guards
and asked for political asylum. It turned
out they apparently have been living
legally in California for four years.
The episode took an even more
bizarre twist when an official disclosed
the family complained of being bom
barded in their home by some sort of
radiation.
The family of nine turned them
selves over to U.S. Capitol police, com
plete with 20 to 25 pieces of luggage,
and officials initially treated the mat
ter as a defection, contacting the State
Department and immigration officials.
The situation became confused
quickly when immigration authorities
determined the family already had U.S.
visas good until 1988 and that some
had already been granted permanent
residence status.
Eventually, Senate Sergeant At Arms
Ernest Garcia disclosed that one family
member had handed a policeman a let
ter containing "statements with re
spect to bombardment ... of a house
they were staying in in California that
was affecting their health and well
being. It was radiation of some kind."
Several hours after the incident
started unfolding, the family was still
at Capitol police headquarters and it
was unclear what was to become of
them.
He said the family, which had arrived
in Washington only recently, told offi
cials they also had sought asylum in
Sweden, but had been turned down by
Swedish authorities. Immigration offi
cials had no confirmation of that
statement, he said.
Seven members of the family ap
proached officers on the northern edge
of the Capitol grounds at mid-morning,
Garcia said. The group included four
boys ages 1 2 to 1 8, a man who appeared
to be their father and an elderly couple
who apparently were grandparents of
the teen-agers.
Two hours later, a boy about 7 years
old and a young man also presented
themselves to police, and Garcia said it
was believed they were members of the
same family.
He said some family members men
tioned during questioning that they
were victims of political and religious
prosecution.
"What they are asking for is totally
unclear," said Verne Jervis of the
Immigration and Naturalization Ser
vice, who said at least some members
of the family had been granted per
manent resident status years ago, based
on a fear of retaliation if they returned
to their homeland.
Detained journalist opposes swap
NEW YORK Nicholas S. Daniloff,
the U.S. News & World Report corres
pondent jailed in Moscow, doesn't want
to be traded for a Soviet spy suspect,
his editor said Thursday after returning
from the Soviet Union.
A State Department official in Wash
ington said the Soviet government has
not responded to the U.S. proposal to
exchange Daniloff, accused by the
Soviets of spying, for an understanding
that a Soviet physicist accused of spy
ing in the United States would be sent
home after his trial.
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Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner and
editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World
Report, said Daniloff was buoyed by
public support, but "didn't feel it was
appropriate for him to be swapped for
someone clearly involved in es
pionage." "He is no more a spy than John
Wayne, no more involved in espionage
than Gidget or any of us and it's out
rageous he's kept in prison," Zucker
man said as he arrived home from
Moscow.
State Department spokesman Cha
rles E. Redman said the United States
is "taking every appropriate measure,
using every appropriate diplomatic
contact and channel" in an effort to
secure Daniloff s release.
Redman said the Soviet's "failure to
resolve this satisfactorily cannot help
but have a negative effect on U.S.
Soviet relations."
Another U.S. official, who demanded
anonymity, said the correspondent was,
in effect, "a hostage" and that the
Soviets appeared unable to decide how
to respond to the U.S. proposal.
Daniloff, who has not been formally
charged, was arrested in a Moscow
park after a Soviet acquaintance who
had accepted several Stephen King
novels from Daniloff more than a year
ago handed him a packet that the cor
respondent "didn't ask for or antici
pate," Zuckerman said. He called the
arrest "obviously a KGB setup."
He said the packet handed to Dani
loff contained Soviet newspaper arti
cles indicating how Soviet leader Mik
hail S. Gorbachev was being received in
the provinces, poor quality photgraphs
that the magazine had rejected when
they were previously offered and two
35-millimeter negatives containing two
maps which the KGB said were top
secret.
Zuckerman said he himself favors
the proposal to get Daniloff back in
exchange for temporarily releasing
Zakharov. Zakharov was arrested on a
New Yokr City subway platform as he
allegedly gave $ 1,000 to an employee of
an American defense contractor for
three secret documents.
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U.S. set for arms talks;
weights fresh proposal
WASHINGTON The Reagan administration, set to open another
round of nuclear weapons talks with a high-level Soviet delegation, may
ease its proposal for a 50 percent reduction in strategic bombers, missiles
and submarines, a U.S. official said Friday.
The revised approach would be an attempt to strike a compromise with
the Soviets, whose latest negotiating position calls for more modest
cutbacks in nuclear warheads and an overall cutback of 30 percent.
But it would still force the Soviets to make some hard choices about
their arsenal of heavy land-based missiles and the destructive force, or
throw-weight, of their nuclear armories.
New ceilings would be set for various categories of weapons, including
a limit of 7,500 intercontinental ballistic missile warheads and cruise
missiles, the official said.
The Soviets had proposed a ceiling of 8,000, while the United States
would have allowed no more than 6,000.
A final decision has not been made by Reagan, who is on vacation in
California.
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SANTA BAE3AEA, Calif. President Remand his wife, Nancy, will
make -a joist broadcast address to' the nation on the war against drug
abase at 0 p.ra.XDT Sept. 1 4, it was' aiusousccd Thursday. ..
'T..zy wanted to do it together, from tlr.i home to our homes, as
parents fend friends as well as the first couple, to stress the importance of
all segments of our society pulling together in a common, determined
effort to get rid of drugs," said spokesman Larry Speakes.
He said the Reagans are writing the speech together and will deliver it
from the family quarters of the White House.
"When the chapter on how America won the war on drugs is written, the
Reagans speech is sure to be viewed as the turning point," Speakes said.
Speakes said the speech is intended to "mobilize the country as never
before."
He described the address as a personal appeal from the first family to
wage war against drugs and said the president "may talk about some of
the things he's decided to do, policy-wise."
More hioons for Saturn?
NEW YORX Scientists have detected evidence of two new moons
among Saturn's rings, and researchers say they may have helped furnish
the icy material that forms the rings around that plant.
' "I think it's significant in terms of the dynamics and the evolution of
ring systems just to know there are large bodies in there," said Len Tyler of
Stanford University's Center for Radar Astronomy, co-author of a report in
Thursday's issue of the British journal Nature.
Such bodies "may be sources of some ring material," Tyler said, and the
new finding "is a further clue as to how rings work." He also said he
believes other moons still circle undetected among the rings.
Robbery suspects nabbed
CAMPBELL, Neb. Three gunmen with their faces painted camou
flage colors held up the Campbell State Bank on Wednesday, and authori
ties said they later apprehended five suspects in Kansas.
Franklin County Sheriff George Schmidt said three males and two
females were apprehended in northern Kansas, but he would not say
where. He would no disclose any other details on the arrests.
Campbell is in south-central Nebraska, southwest cf Hastings and
about 25 miles north of the Kansas border.
The robbers, each carrying a handgun, entered the bank about 10:45
a.m. and forced employees to lie down behind a counter, chief sheriffs
deputy Jerry Archer said. The gunemen then took an undetermined
amount cf money from cash register drawers and ran to a car about a block
from the bank, Archer said.
Authorities at first described the getaway car as a 1970 Dodge, but
Archer later described it as a light blue Ford Maverick-style car from
about 197a '
Archer also said the suspects were believed to be between the ages of
15 and 20.
Bank president Dwayne Hendricks said he could no comment on the
robbery until reports were completed. He did say that no one was hurt.
Ex-Nebraskan spots Bigfoot
HASTINGS, Neb. Although some people question his story, Clayton
Paulson says he's convinced that what he saw walking on a hill in
California last month was the legendary and elusive creature Bigfoot.
Paulson, 38, a former Hastings resident who now lives in Fresno, Calif.,
told his tale in an interview Tuesday. He was in Hastings this week visiting
his mother.
Paulson said he saw Bigfoot the night of Aug. 4. At the time, he was
working with a construction crew building a bridge in the Sequoia
National Park.
He said he was getting ready for bed at the crew's campsite when he
was startled by loud screeching from a hill about 700 feet away.
"I saw a big old creature walking across the top, screaming at us," he
said. "It was a humanlike figure walking up there, giant-size."
Paulson said the creature screamed far two cr three minutes as it
walked up the hill and disappeared into the rigM. .
Two members cf the crew were natives cf the area,' Paulson said, "and
knew that screech wasn't frcm assy anted that inhabits the area"
"All five of us decided we weren't gsir.3 to stay there that night," he
said. The crew stayed in a nearby ranger's cabin.
- In the morning they returned to the csnpsiie. and explored the hill
where they spotted the creature.
"We found two different sets cf humanlike footprints," Paulson said.
"The prints had four cr five toes and distinct crease marks, just like on
your hand."
He said the prints ranged In siie from 12 to 18 inches.
Experts: Cliernofcyl evacuation poor .
WASHINGTON Soviet authorities had to scrap, their prepared emer
gency plans and start from scratch to evacuate 135,000 people after the
Chernobyl nuclear accident, U.S. experts who attended an international
conference said Wednesday.
"None of their emergency plans were adequate to the circumstance'
The plan they locked at first they had to throw out," Harold Denton,
director of reactor safety for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told the
NRC at a briefing on the conference held by the International Atomic
Energy Agency.
Denton said Soviet delegates to the meeting, which ended last wee
kend in Vienna, said the major lesson thev learned was that "there is an
absolute need for a single coordinating authority ; . . one person in
charge." . , - -
He said a translation of the initial Soiet"plan was not yet available for
comparison with U.S. emergency plans. - " . ' :
Denton said the direct causes of the accident were "multiple deliber
ate violations of procedure" and dedfes. "The causes are under- -stood,
the sequence is clear, but the details will have to be studied for a
long time." he said
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