Wednesday, September 10, 1986
Page 2
Daily Nebraskan
Tr" o
ft
(SW )l JJWfPll By the Associated Press
N
Spy trial date still unannounced
B&miloff fear,
lomg haul'
MOSCOW Jailed American repor
ter Nicholas Daniloff fears U.S.-Soviet
tensions over his case are "escalating
dangerously" and believes he won't be
released soon, his wife said Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Gennady Gerasimov told
reporters a "mutual solution" to the
Daniloff case could be found, but he
declined to be specific. Daniloff was
arrested Aug. 30 and accused of spying.
Ruth Daniloff, accompanied by U.S.
Consul Roger Daley, met with her hus
band for the third time in Moscow's
Lefortovo prison.
She has accused the Soviet govern
ment of framing the 5 1 -year-old journal
ist and holding him hostage so an
exchange can be arranged for Genna
diy Zakharov, a Soviet U.N. employee
arrested Aug. 23 in New York and
indicted Tuesday on spy charges.
After seeing her husband for an hour
and 20 minutes, Mrs. Daniloff told
reporters he looked drawn but was
composed and gave her a thorough
rundown on his conditions and KGB
interrogations that have covered 28
hours.
"He is philosophical. He thinks it
rr,':.".:::.T: ...7"r;r-::::, .zrza
Nebraskan
Jeff Korbelik -472-1766
Gene Gentrup
Tammy Kaup
Linda Hartmann
Kurt Eberhardt
James Rogers
Todd Von Kampen
Scott Thien
Joan Rezac
Chuck Green
Scott Harrah
Andrea Hoy
Bob Asmussen
Geoff Goodwin
Tom Lauder
Daniel Shattil
Katherine Policky
Lesley Larson
Bryan Peterson
Harrison Schultz.
474-7660
Don Walton. 473-7301
The Oaily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is
published by the UNL Publications Board
Monday through Friday in the fall and spring
semesters and Tuesdays and Fridays in the
summer sessions, except during vacations.
Postmaster: Send address changes to the
Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34. 1400 R
St.. Lincoln. Neb. 68588-0448. Second-class
postage paid at Lincoln. NE.
ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1986 DAILY NEBRASKAN
Editor
Managing Editor
Assoc. News Editors
Graphics Editor
Editorial
Page Editor
Editorial
Page Asst.
Wire Editor
Hy Desk Chief
Sports Edlor
Arts & Entertain
ment Editor
Photo Chief
Night News Editors
Art Director
General Manager
Production Manager
Advertising
Manager
Student Advertising
Manager
Publications Board
Chairman
Professional Adviser
will be a rather long haul," she said.
Daniloff, correspondent for U.S. News
& World Report magazine, was arrested
by eight KGB agents after a Soviet
acquaintance handed him a package
later found to contain military photo
graphs and maps marked "secret."
On Sunday he was formally charged
with espionage, which under Soviet law
can carry a prison term of seven to 15
years or the death penalty. Daniloff has
denied the charge.
"He thinks his case is escalating
rather dangerously and that he wouldn't
like to see it torpedo the summit or
torpedo U.S.-Soviet relations," his wife
said, referring to possibility of diplo
matic reprisal by the United States if
Daniloff is not released.
Mrs. Daniloff said her husband feels
isolated and finds its frightening "when
you are alone in your cell and people
are talking about death sentences."
Daniloff asked her to tell his col
leagues he appreciated their support
because "this could happen to any of
you."
She said Daniloff fears "false evi-.
dence" is being prepared against him,
and was especially worried his Soviet
friends are being interrogated and
coerced into testifying against him;
But Daniloff also said he believes
"this whole investigation is basically a
formality," his wife said. "He said it
clearly relates to the Zakharov case."
At his news conference, Foreign
Ministry spokesman Gerasimov accused
U.S. officials of using the case to spoil
superpower relations but suggested it
could be resolved to the satisfaction of
both sides.
Gerasimov was asked to comment on
President Reagan's warning that Dani
loff s detention could become "a major
obstacle" in relations between the two
countries.
"U.S.-Soviet relations should not be
held hostage to this case of Daniloff,"
Gerasimov said. "If both sides make
serious efforts, I think it would be pos
sible to find a mutual solution to this
question."
Mrs. Daniloff said her husband com
plained earlier about being fed only
thin soup and porridge-like kasha and
wanted to be allowed out of his 8-by- 10
foot cell more frequently. She said he is
now getting better food and is allowed
to exercise in a rooftop cage for two
hours a day.
"Obviously they're bending over
backward to appear civilized, after hav
ing done this horrible thing," Mrs.
Daniloff said.
There has been no indication when
Daniloff might be brought to trial.
The government newspaper Izvestia
on Monday accused Daniloff of trying to
gather intelligence on Soviet forces in
Afghanistan, where Western officials
say more than 1 15,000 Red Army troops
have been deployed since the Soviet
Union's intervention in 1979.
Africans executed;
Botha meeting cancelled
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Three black insurgents, including a 19-year-old
convicted in a bombing that
killed five whites, were hanged Tues
day after refusing to seek clemency.
U.S. civil rights leader Coretta Scott
King, meanwhile, cancelled a meeting
with President P.W. Botha at the last
minute. She announced her decision a
day after leading anti-apartheid acti
vists said they would not see her if she
met with Botha.
The execution of the rebels, members
of the outlawed African National Con
gress of ANC members prompted
worldwide condemnation and appeals
for clemency.
The three Sibusiso Andrew Zondo,
Simno Bridget Xulu and Clarence Lucky
Payi were hanged at Pretoria Cen
tral Prison at 7 a.m., said Supreme
Court Registrar Martin van der West
hudzen. He said three other convicted mur
derers also were executed. South Africa
executes about 100 people a year, most
of them convicted murderers.
The Sowetan, a Johannesburg news
paper for black readers, quoted rela
tives and defense attorneys as saying
the condemned men did not want a
last-minute appeal to delay the ex
ecutions. They were in good spirits and sing
ing freedom songs on the eve of their,
executions, the lawyers were quoted as
saying.
Zonbo's lawyer, Bheki Shezi, said his
client's final message was that "the
revolutionary loves his life but knows
that life is not the end itself." Zondo
was 19.
Zondo was convicted in April in the
Dec. 23 bombing at a shopping center
south of Durban. Two women and three
children were killed and 48 others
wounded.
Xulu and Payi were convicted last
February in the May 1984 assassination
of a former student leader who had
turned against the African National
Congress. Their ages were not available.
A Winning Start
For Your Schoo Year
The Lincoln YIV'CA h:s a Winning Way ? st:rt your semester.
f s ,s:;ffilPIl SMi Is -vksI Ifiliisii
With our Stud Membership yea can't lose. Yea cart swim; run; shoot baskets, lift free ?
weights, play r? yetball, win handLJL stretch, dance, enjoy exercise classes and so much
more. ' , : ',,'.'
All this is yours foronly $13.00 a r: rth, or you can add Nautilus for only ,tJ.f D more
each month. ? t , . r
Sign up fcr ccr Student Members!,-) fcttween September 1st and C-tr-ber t:t end get
$25.00 OFF your r;:.7 msrr.bsrshtp cr Cw OFF with Nautilusi
Why should you setita for less, when the "Y" has it all!
MOTE: Student Membership excludes the hours of 11 a,m.-1 p.m. and 5 p.m.-7 p.m. weekdays.
Downtown
11th& "?" Streets
475-9622
Northeast
2601 No. 70th
464-7481
U.S. school teacher
kidnapped in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon An American who runs a private school in Beirut
was kidnapped by two armed men while on his way to play golf Tuesday,
and a caller claimed responsibility in the name of the Shiite Moslem
group Islamic Jihad.
The U.S. Embassy identified the victim as Frank Herbert Reed, 53, of
Maiden, Mass., director of the Lebanese International School in Moslem
west Beirut.
A spate of politically motivated kidnappings in west Beirut in 1985
prompted most Americans and other Westerners to leave the city. Reed's
abduction was the first kidnapping of an American in Lebanon in 15
months.
A school associate said Reed has lived in Lebanon about eight years and
had converted to Islam before marrying Sanmiya Dalati, a Syrian. The
associate, who insisted on anonymity, said the couple have a five-year old
son, Tarec.
Islamic Jihad, which espouses the fundamentalist teachings of Iran's
Ayatolla Runollan Knomeini, has said it holds at least three other
American hostages.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Christopher P. English said the embassy
"does not have many details about it (the kidnap) now."
At the State Department in Washington, spokesman Bernard Kalb said,
"we call on those who may be holding Mr. Reed as well as the other foreign
hostages in Lebanon to release their captives immediately. We remind
them further that we hold them responsible for the well-being of their
captives."
Police quoted family friends as saying Reed was kidnapped at 11:15
a.m. near the ruins of a supermarket in west Beirut's Bir Hassan district
while driving from his west Beirut home to play golf at the city's outskirts.
Gunmen in a dark blue Volvo intercepted Reed's car a few hundred
yards from the headquarters of Syrian intelligence officers supervising a
security plan for west Beirut, police said.
Other American hostages held by Islamic Jihad are Terry A. Anderson,
38, of Lorain, Ohio, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated
Press; David Jacobsen, 55, of Huntington Beach, Calif., director of the
American University Hospital; and Thomas Sutherland, 55, of Fort Collins,
Colo., acting dean of the university's agriculture faculty.
Sutherland, who was kidnapped June 10, 1985, was the last American
reported abducted in west Beirut before Tuesday.
Islamic Jihad said last fall it had killed another American hostage, U.S.
Embassy political officer William Buckley, 58, but no body was ever found.
Buckley was kidnapped March 16, 1984.
The group also claims it holds three French hostages.
In all, 17 foreigners are now missing in Lebanon, including Reed. They
include five Americans, seven Frenchmen, two Britons, one Italian, one
Irishman and one South Korean.
4
1
3:
Zakharov indicted on spy charges
NEW YORK A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted United Nations
employee Gennadiy F. Zakharov on charges he tried to buy classified
military secrets on behalf of the Soviet Union.
The indictment charged Zakharov with three counts, including conspi
racy, obtaining classified documents and attempting to communicate the
material to a foreign government.
100 feared dead in sea collision
LAGOS, Nigeria Two passenger ships collided off the Niger River
delta, and about 100 people were feared killed, the local Transport
Ministry said Tuesday.
The collision occurred off Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria, the Rivers
State Transport Ministry said. It did not say when the crash occurred.
A statement from the ministry's inland waterways division said two
motor vessels, the Nembe and the Assei, collided while trying to navigate
a dangerous area off the Niger River delta.
The statement said the Nembe was carrying about 400 passengers,
mostly women taking produce to markets, while 300 people were aboard
the Assei. The Nembe was ripped open below the waterline, the ministry
said.
PARENTS
WITH
DRINKING
PROBLEMS?
SUPPORT &
PROBLEM SOLVING
GROUPS FOR
UNIVERSITY
STUDENTS
UNL HEALTH
CAMPUS
ALCOHOL SERVICES
1 B
Jul l
. 3
1
3
i
1
m
FOR INFORMATION CALL:
ALAN SMITH
472-7440
or 472-2351
i
1