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Wednesday, October 0, 1986 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan TV TT Nicaragua shoots down plane Sandanistas claim U.S., CIA involvement HI 1 II III M HUM II- """" Tl " - -TTH "" In Brief MANAGUA, Nicarague Sandinista helicopters arrived Tuesday at a remote jungle area to pick up a man Nicaragua claims is a U.S. military adviser who survived when a rebel transport plane was shot down, a Defense Ministry source said. Washington said the man has no connection with the American government. The leftist Sandinista government said the man was an adviser from El Salvador who was on a plane that was downed Sunday, 35 miles north of Costa Rica and 91 miles southeast of Managua, while carrying weapons and ammu nition for Nicaraguan rebels. It said three Americans aboard were killed. Secretary of State George P. Shultz said in Washington that the plane did not belong to the U.S. government, and a CIA spokeswoman denied Sandinista claims that the survi vor was an employee of the intelligence agency. In Managua, the Defense Ministry identified the survivor as Eugen Hafenfuf, 35, but said it was not certain of the spelling of his name. It said the man identified himself as a U.S. military adviser to El Salvador, but did not say whether he was a soldier, and told Sandinista troops the three men killed were Americans. U.S. Embassy spokesman Alberto Fernandez said the embassy delivered a note to the Foreign Ministry on Tues day morning requesting permission to meet with the survivor. HONDURAS VK Aircraft , III sta men Surgeons remove fetus, correct bladder problem SAN FRANCISCO Surgeons partially removed a fetus from its mother's womb, corrected a bladder problem and returned it to its previous position where it developed until birth nine weeks later, the doctors reported Tuesday. The infant, Baby Mitchell, was later delivered in a Texas hospital by Caesarean section. The baby is now a smiling, walking 1-year-old, the longest survivor of such an operation, according to doctors at the University of California at San Francisco. They said it was only the third such open-womb surgery since the first one was performed in 1981. In the case of Baby Mitchell, a blockage of the fetus urinary tract was preventing the buildup of amniotic fluid in the mother's womb, threatening to prevent the normal growth of fetal lungs and to collapse the mother's uterus. The surgeons opened the uterus and brought out the legs and lower body of the 23-week-old fetus. The upper part of the fetus' body remained attached to the placenta inside the uterus. The Defense Ministry said Sandinista forces shot down the aircraft with a Soviet-made surface-to-air missile. It said the plane, tentatively identified as either a DC-6 or C-123 aircraft, carried 50,000 rounds of ammunition for Soviet made AK-47 rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, dozens of automatic rifles, jungle boots and other military supplies. Impeachment trial begins; Senate urges fair trial WASHINGTON Opening an impeachment trial steeped in tradition but conducted in keeping with the television era, the Senate was urged Tuesday to avoid a "rush to judgment" on U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne. With the sergeant at arms ordering silence "on pain of imprisonment" and Vice President George Bush presiding, Calibome attorney Oscar Goodman argued for a "full and fair" hearing for the Nevada jurist, who's serving time in prison on a federal income tax evasion conviction. Goodman, standing at a lecturn on the blue-carpeted Senate chamber, protrayed Claiborne, 69, as a victim of vengeful federal prosecutors, and of hired tax preparers who bungled his returns. Goodman asked for the right to summon witnesses to the Senate floor. Responding to the House charges, Goodman said his client may have been "grossly negligent" about his tax returns but was "not a foolish person." He said it "borders on the incredulous" to suggest that Claiborne would deliberately try to defraud the government when he knew he was targeted for prosecution by vengeful federal agents. "Shame on him and shame on the accountant who permitted him to sign his return in blank," Goodman said of Claiborne and the accountant who prepared his 1979 tax return, Joseph Wright of Las Vegas. t v Dai i MC The Daily Kebraskan CUSPS r BuWished by the UNI PuMcatms Board londaylhrouoh Friday in the tea and sjrrsg semesters ana Tuesdays and Fridays tn 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. 6S5S3-C448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln. NE. MI tATEBSAl t&nSffl IE3 ISX1 KtUSUtl LaRouche claims innocence; vows to resist arrest WASHINGTON Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, his inner circle penetrated by indictments and a sweeping federal fraud investi gation, declared Tuesday that "I have committed no crime" and "will not submit passively to an arrest.' LaRouche, who was not indicted, responded to the charges against 10 of his followers and Eve of his organizations by saying the Reagan administration will be "condemned by history" if federal prosecutors seek to charge him, after a massive raid seeking records at his headquarters in Leesburg, Va. Telephone Credit Card Application f UJZJLI Lincoln Need a VISA or MasterCard? Cant find Jh3 fcmo to apply? Call RrsTier Bank Lincoln new Telephone Credit Card Application Service. Here's how it works. Call 471 -1234. Then simply answer the appli cation questions over the phone. WeH process your application and get back to you . . . usually within 24 hours. 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When Rather responded, "I don't know what you're talking about," the questioner punched Rather and knocked him down, said Sgt. Raymond O'Donnell. Bather ran into an apartment building, followed by the assailant and another man, still being asked, "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" O'Don nell said. . The men knocked Rather down and kicked him until the building's superintendent came to his rescue. The attackers fled. "I do know that I was luckier than many other Americans who have been victims of violent crime, and for that I'm very thankful," he said. "Aside from a little stiffness and some bumps and bruises, I'm feeling fine." U.S. battles for America's Cup FREMANTLE, Australia Stars and Stripes of the United States, skippered by Dennis Conner, defeated Azzurra of Italy by 3 minutes, 19 seconds Monday for its second victory in a preliminary round of the America's Cup challenger elimination series. The series will determine which boat will oppose face Australia in the America's Cup finals, which begin Jan. 31. Two other American yachts, San Francisco's USA, skippered by Tom Blackaller, and Heart of America of Chicago, skippered by Buddy Melges, also scored victories. USA beat Courageous IV of the United States, sailed by Dave Vietor, while Heart of America defeated Challenge of France. Thirteen challengers are seeking the right to face Australia's defender, still to be decided. They will compete in three round-robin series in which each boat will meet the other once during each series. Each victory in the first round-robin is worth one point. Five points is given for each victory in the second round-robin and 12 to each winner in the third series. For the second straight day, Stars and Stripes trailed as Azzurra crossed the starting line four seconds ahead of the San Diego boat. But Stars and Stripes took the lead on the first windward leg and never was headed. It was the second straight victory for Conner, considered the world's best match race skipper, over an Italian boat. In Sunday's opener, he easily defeated Italia. Commonwealth official wonts new trial LINCOLN Former Commonwealth Savings Co. officer Marvin Copple Tuesday filed a motion in Lancaster County District Court requesting a new trial, citing seven errors allegedly committed by the court The motion also asks Lancaster County District Court Judge Robert R. Camp to reverse a $500,000 judgment handed down against Copple Sept. 23. Camp handed down the judgment against Copple alter the case, origi nally scheduled for jury trial earlier in September, was submitted to Camp Sept. 5 through mutual agreement of the parties. The judgment was obtained on two causes of action filed by the state Department of Banking and Finance involving a 1930 real estate transac tion between Copple and Phillip and Virginia Stettinger. 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