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Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, September 17, 1986 SWS HJHSlC By the Associated Press N Islamic Jihad urges terms similar to Banilofff conditions BEIRUT, Lebanon Islamic Jihad urged the United States on Tuesday to negotiate for the release of three Amer ican hostages in Lebanon as it did with the Soviet Union for American news man Nicholas Daniloff. The Shiite Moslem group also re leased a letter bearing the name of hostage David Jacobsen, which made a similar plea and warned that the kid nappers might kill their captives. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said in Washington that administration officials believe Jacobsen apparently wrote the letter but "there is good reason to question whether it was freely written and represents any thing more than the views of Jacobsen's captors." The three-page letter was written in poor and often stilted English, raising doubts that its original author was the 55-year-old Jacobsen, who was the administrator of the American Univer sity Hospital when he was kidnapped last year. Jacobsen is one of six Americans now missing in Lebanon. Islamic Jihad says it holds three American hostages and killed a fourth. It is uncertain who carried out the kidnappings last week of two other Americans. Islamic Jihad's latest communique and the handwritten letter we in a packet left outside a Western news agency in Moslem west Beirut. The packet also contained a Polaroid pho tograph of Jacobsen in pajamas, almost identical to one of him released with an Islamic Jihad statement in Beirut last week. "Why was Reagan interested minute by minute with spy journalist Daniloff but he is not interested one minute in our story?" asked the letter said to have been handwritten by Jacobsen. Daniloff s name was misspelled. The three captives were "comparing what the (U.S.) government did in the 'Danilofr case with what it is doing ior them," the statement said. "Are not we Americans?" asked the letter which bore Jacobsen's name. Islamic Jihad, which espouses the Shiite fundamentalism of Iran's Ayatol lah Ruhollah Knomeini, has demanded that 17 comrades jailed in Kuwait for bombing the U.S. and French embas sies in 1983 be freed in return for the hostages. Kuwait refuses. The letter said Jacobsen and fellow captives Terry A. Anderson and Thomas Sutherland "feel homesick" after their' long captivity. "Our bodies are sick and our psycho logical state is bad," the letter went on. "We also fear the possible ending of our story." The letter appealed to three former hostages Jenco, the Rev. Benjamin Weir and Jeremy Levin and to And erson's sister, Peggy Say of Batavia, N.Y., to "continue your efforts because you are our only hope and you know our suffering very much." S. African gold mine fire kills 13; fate of 300 miners unknown JOHANNESBURG. South Africa A welding accident touched off an under ground fire and filled a gold mine with fumes Tuesday, killing 13 miners, injur ing 60 and leaving the fate of 300 others in doubt. General Mining Union Corp., the country's second biggest mining group, said 2,200 workers were in the area when fire broke out at 9:30 a.m. Company spokesman Harry Hill said an alarm was sounded to evacuate the No. 2 shaft at the Kinross gold mine, 62 miles east of Johannesburg, as fumes spread from burning cables and other materials. The fire was put out, but 300 miners were still underground by evening, Hill said. "We don't know why they didn't come up," he said, adding that they may have been overcome by the fumes "or were trapped some way." Hill said the 13 dead, all blacks, were in the vicinity of the fire, but he did not know if they were engaged in the welding operation or what was being welded. He said the fire broke out on the 15th level of the No. 2 shaft, but he did not know how deep that was. Gold mines go hundreds of feet down into the earth. Eight rescue teams went under ground, Hill said. The company said the 60 injured were at a hospital in nearby Evander and were all in satisfactory condition. "The fumes spread through the working areas of the No. 2 shaft," Hill said. He did not know what type of fumes were involved, but said they were made up of various noxious gases. According to a 1983 survey by The. Star newspaper, mining accidents had killed 8,209 people and injured 230,000 in the previous decada The Chamber of Mines had issued a report Tuesday saying that in the first half of 1986, the fatality rate for gold mine accidents dropped below one per 1,000 workers for the first time. It said the injury rate has been halved over the, past 10 years. Soviet: Moscow wants Daniloff case resolved MOSCOW A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that Moscow wants the case of American journalist Nicholas Daniloff resolved soon and that it should not be allowed to harm superpower relations. Boris D. Pyadyshev, first deputy head of the Foreign Ministry's informa tion board, was asked at a news conference if there was any movement toward solving Daniloff s case before Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevard nadze and Secretary of State George P. Shultz meet in Washington on Friday. The two are supposed to discuss a summit, and White House officials have warned a summit is in jeopardy unless Daniloff returns home first. "I am not sure whether it is correct to relate this case to the encounter" between Shultz and Shevardnadze, Pyadyshev said. "No one has placed any time limit on this case. As regards the Soviet side, we would be happy to have this case solved as soon as possible, and would be happy not to have this case at all," he said. "This case should not hamper Soviet-American relations which are at a rather low level, even without this case, and our opinion is that this case should be dealt with in a quiet manner without dramatizing the situa tion," Pyadyshev said. Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, was arrested in Moscow Aug. 30 by eight KGB agents after meeting a Soviet acquaintance and being given a package later found to contain military maps and photographs. Daniloff and American officials have said the KGB set up the meeting and arranged for the material to be given to Daniloff to falsify a case against him. The newsman was held in Lefortovo Prison for 13 days before being released Friday to the custody of the U.S. Embassy. On the same day, Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations arrested on charges of spying, was released to the custody of the Sovfet ambassador. Daniloff said Monday he still considers himself a hostage for Zakharov, who is awaiting trial in New York on espionage charges. At a New York press conference Tuesday, Zakharov denied being a spy and said he was set up by the FBI. He told reporters there was no connection between his arrest and the arrest a week later of Daniloff. The agreement under which Zakharov and Daniloff were freed from detention stipulates that the American cannot leave Moscow and must be available at all times for KGB interrogation. Gallo contract disputes force strike SAN FRANCISCO Winery workers fighting contract concessions launched a strike Tuesday against E. & J. Gallo Co., the world's largest wine-producer, bringing to 10 the number of wineries hit during a monthlong walkout. The walkout of about 1,000 Gallo union workers came as the new harvest neared its conclusion and grape-crush-1 ing was at its height in most of Califor nia's wineries. All the struck wineries, which account for half the state's wine production, claim work is continuing with non-union personnel. The striking members of the Winery, Distillery and Allied Workers Union Locals 186 and 45 joined about 1,200 others who since August 18 have walked out at winery operations across 350 miles from the Napa Valley to Bakers field. The last major wine strike, involving 23 wineries, lasted 17 days and nearly shut off the California retail wine sales are worth about $5.5 billion annually, according to the industry's Wine In stitute. The total output of all the state's wineries was 414.7 million gallons last year. California wines account for 68 percent of total U.S. sales. When talks broke down Sept. 3, Robert Fogg, president of Local 186, threa tened to "shut down the entire Califor- ALt the coMroBrrsr OF HOM6 WITHOUT The em NilfmV nia wine industry." That drew scoffs from employer spokesman Robert Lie ber. He said it couldn't happen and estimated that unions were repres-' ented in only 300 of California's; approximately 550 wineries. Lieber, claimed the employers were not un happy with the Gallo strike. "We are hopeful the union will real-1 ize that a strike will not adversely affect production at Gallo or change! the employers bargaining position, and therefore lead to an earlier resolution of the dispute," he said. The strike mainly involves the San Joaquin Valley whose mainstay is the less-expensive jug wines. They account for about 80 percent of California wines. Gallo spokesman Dan Solomon said the company's Modesto and Fresno wineries continued to operate with management personnel and new hires. Lieber said about 70 percent of the employees at the struck wineries are unionized. Setting it Straight In Monday's Daily Nebraskan an Associated Press article, "Delegates protest Daniloff arrest," carried the dateline Riga, U.S.S.R. Riga is the capitol of Soviet-occupied Latvia and is not part of the Soviet Union. The DN regrets the error. 34 NEBRASKA UNION 1403 R STREET The" Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board Monday through Friday in the fall and spring semesters ana Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. Subscription price is $35 for one year. 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 MTiZHL C3PYR3T 1333 DAILY KSSASXAft Navy seaman shoots instructors GREAT LAKES, 111. A Navy seaman, apparently upset that he was being flunked from an electronics training course, opened fire on instruc tors with a handgun Monday, killing one and wounding two others, officials said. The gunman was identified as Seaman Arif M. Ameen, about 30, a native of Pakistan who became a naturalized citizen July 4, 1984, said Bill Dermody, a Great Lakes Naval Training Center spokesman. "He apparently didn't like what was being said to him, having received the academic drop, and opened fire at the senior chief," Lt. Joseph Gradisher, another spokesman, said. "He left that office and walked to an office next door and opened fire on the other two individuals' Ameen was apprehended by one of the wounded instructors and a petty officer, said center spokeswoman Mary Barreto. Dermody said trainees normally do not carry weapons and that the gun involved, a .32-caliber pistol, was not a military issue. The dead man was identified as Glenn E, Hull, 38, a senior chief electronic technician at the school, who was shot through the heart, Dermody said. The wounded men were identified as chief electronic technicians David Violet, 30, and Lonnie Yowell, 41. Both were in stable to good condition at the base hospital. A firewoman for Lincoln? LINCOLN For the first time, a woman applicant has passed the Lincoln Fire Department's physical ability test, Fire Chief Mike Merwick Jan Cusick, a 31-yesr eld registered nurss. pacse'd all seven parts cf the test If she survives the rest of the application process, she could WS UnMii s firstTOinSirefiiitei Merwick said the deportment has been workteg v,ith wcrasn's group illK Snien's IIIISm :ize to dsmocrslio principles ssd practices" &r&3 a UU visit to 1 knilapiras with Aquino in her llattai Hotel penthouss for S3 minutes. Esi'ber Console, president cf the World Bank, esd Jacqus de Lsrcskre, - r.:."n?r:r.3 director cf the International UcTdirj Fund, hadhnch v.Uh Th3 Philippines, ndi:i with a $23 billiea rtiend dctt, is ssckir 1 ?prov$I cf a prcsren that Central &mk Gcv. JoseB. 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