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Daily Nebraskan
Friday, October 17, 1986
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By The Associated Press
Middle East conflict
Israeli jet shot down; guerrilla bases raided
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In Brief
SIDON, Lebanon A missile destroyed an Israeli war
plane during raids on Palestinian guerrilla bases near this
ancient port Thursday, the day after a bloody grenade
attack in Jerusalem.
Journalists saw the plane explode after the missile
struck and crash into a valley four miles southeast of Sidon,
and some reporters said the wreckage still smoldered 90
minutes later. One of the two pilots was reported taken
prisoner and the other was reported killed.
It was the first Israeli plane lost over Lebanon in three
years.
State-run Beirut radio said bombs and rockets killed four
people and wounded 10 at the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refu
gee camp on the city's southeastern outskirts.
Israel's military command still had not commented hours
later either on the 40-minute attack on Palestinian targets
or the loss of the U.S.-built Phantom F-4E.
A Shiite Moslem militia commander said the two pilots
bailed out and landed in an olive grove, one alive and one
dead. Abu Jamil Ghaddar of the Amal militia said the
survivor was captured in the grove between Shiroubieh and
Andoun, suburbs of this city 25 miles south of Beirut.
Guerrillas brought the Phantom down with a shoulder
fired Soviet Strella missile at 4:25 p.m., 35 minutes after the
onset of Israel's 13th air attack into Lebanon this year, a
police spokesman said.
The warplanes hit Mieh Mieh less than 24 hours after two
grenades were hurled into a crowd of Israeli army recruits
and their families near the sacred Wailing Wall in Jerusa
lem, killing one person and wounding 69.
Soviet dissident arrives in U.S.
WASHINGTON David Goldfarb,
an ailing Soviet "refusenik" and friend
of American reporter Nicholas Daniloff,
left Moscow Thursday with American
industrialist Armand Hammer and
headed for freedom in the United
States.
The geneticists' wife, Cecilia, also
was suddenly liberated after a two-year
unsuccessful effort to emigrate to Israel.
Their son, Alexander, had gone to the
superpower summit last weekend in
Iceland to appeal for their release.
Goldfarb, 67, reportedly rejected a
KGB overture in 1984 to frame Daniloff.
His son said Goldfarb and the indus
trialist had left Moscow, cleared Soviet
airspace, refueled in Iceland and was
due to land at Newark, NJ., airport in
early evening. The plane belonged to
Hammer.
The son, Alexander Goldfarb, an
assistant professor at Columbia Uni
versity, said Hammer had called him
about 9:30 am. EDT from the plane
"and said that he has just left Moscow
and he has on board my parents."
In Moscow, Goldfarb's daughter, Olga,
said she was delighted and stunned by
the development. "I know I sound a
little bit crazy, but this was all so
quick," she told The Associated Press.
"We said farewell and it was very emo
tional. Now we're just sitting here and
thinking what will happen next."
A State Department spokesman, Pete
Martiniz, said "we welcome the resolu
tion of this case."
Death-row inmate to be executed
LINCOLN The execution of death-row inmate John Rust has been
scheduled for Dec. 15 by the Nebraska Supreme Court, a State Peniten
tiary official said Thursday.
Rust has been on death row longer than any other inmate, said Charles
Hohenstein, administrative assistant to the warden. Rust was convicted of
first-degree murder in Douglas County and sentenced to the death penalty
on Oct. 30, 1975.
Rust shot and killed a man while fleeing from an Omaha supermarket
he had robbed.
The last person executed in Nebraska was mass murderer Charles
Starkweather in 1959.
With the sentencing Thursday of cult member Michael Ryan to the
death penalty, 14 inmates will be on death row in Nebraska.
Four executions have occurred north of the Mason-Dixon line since the
U.S. Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty, said Mel Kammerlohr,
senior assistant attorney general. In all four cases, the defendant decided
not to pursue appeals that were available, Kammerlohr said.
Nobel winner to speak in Omaha
OMAHA Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel is scheduled to give a public
lecture in Omaha April 29, according to the sponsoring groups.
The appearance of the 58-year-old author, who was named Tuesday as
the winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, will be sponsored by the United
Christian Ministries of Omaha and the local Jewish Cultural Arts Council.
Samuel Fried, a cultural arts council member, said the sponsors are
seeking a lecture location to accommodate the greatest number of people.
Both Wiesel and Fried were inmates of the Auschwitz concentration
camp during World War II. Although neither recalls meeting the other in
the Nazi death camp, they became acquainted after immigrating to the
United States.
Nigerian becomes first African to win Nobel literature prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Wole Soy
inka of Nigeria, a master of poetic
drama who writes in English from the
myth and ethos of his people, was
named Thursday as the first African to
win a Nobel Prize in literature.
Soyinka, 52, is an impassioned social
critic who was jailed in the late 1960s
during the Nigerian Civil War. He ex
pressed hope Thursday that the award
was not given "because I have been a
vigorous critic of my government and
others. I don't want to think for a single
moment it's because of my political
stand."
Also Thursday, the Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economic Science was awarded
to American professor James McGill
Buchanan for theories advocating strict
rules to keep national budgets bal
anced. Buchanan, 67, filled a gap
between pure economics and political
science with his work, the citation
said.
Announcement of Soyinka's selec
tion as the literature laureate was the
sixth and final one in this year's Nobel
series.
The dramatist, poet, novelist and
essayist was quoted by the Nigerian
newspaper Vanguard last month as say
ing he prefers the less notorious liter
ary awards.
"I don't like the Nobel thing. I like
the ones (where) you are sitting quietly
and the letter comes," he told the
interviewer after becoming the third
African ever to win honorary member
ship in the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters. "This
kind of award nobody bothers about
because there is no money involved."
This year the prizes established and
endowed by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish
inventor of dynamite, are worth about
$290,000. They will be presented for
mally on Dec. 10, the anniversary of his
death.
When asked in Paris, where he
arrived Thursday morning, what effect
the award might have on the literature
of his continent, Soyinka said: "African
literature has always been very vigor
ous and very varied.
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Soviets: U.S.-Soviet arms talks
depend on space weapons dispute
MOSCOW The Kremlin is willing to discuss
medium-range missiles separately at the Geneva
arms talks, but will not sign an accord that
doesn't settle the space weapons dispute, a
Soviet spokesman said Thursday.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gennady
Gerasimov, discussed the Soviet Union's arms
control policy after a Soviet emissary in London
appeared to contradict Mikhail S. Gorbachev's
assessment of the Reykjavik summit and the
future of U.S.-Soviet arms talks.
There have been some conflicting signals from
the Soviets about whether they are willing to
make separate agreements on medium-range
missiles or whether they would insist on a link
between any arms agreements and "Star Wars,"
the American plan for a space-based defense
shield.
In Bonn, Max Kampelman, senior U.S. arms
negotiator, said the Soviets were sending mixed
signals and need to "get their act together" on
arms control.
The Politburo's No. 2 secretary, meanwhile,
heated up the post-summit campaign against
President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
at a gathering Thursday of top Soviet scientists.
"It has been most clearly established that the
Washington administration does not wish a real
agreement, but is out to ensure military super-
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iority over the U.S.S.R.," said Yegor K. Ligachev.
"That is why is it is important today as never
before that scientists should take an active part
in the fight for peace, for strengthening the
country's defense capacity," he said.
The dispute over space weapons is at the
center of the U.S.-Soviet stalemate at the summit
in Iceland, which broke up Sunday when the two
leaders could not agree on the future of the U.S.
space-based program.
Before that, Gorbachev and Reagan reported
they reached virtual agreement on eliminating
medium-range missiles from Europe, limiting
those weapons in Asia, and slashing strategic
arsenals by 50 percent in each of the three
categories land-based ICBMS, submarine
launched missiles and bomber-carried weapons.
After the summit, Gorbachev told a news con
ference that the Soviet proposals on those issues
and Star Wars were a package deal.
But the issue became confused on Tuesday,
when Viktor Karpovj the chief Soviet negotiatior
at the Geneva Arms talks, told a news conference
in London that a separate "solution" on medium
range nuclear missiles was possible.
Then on Wednesday, Gorbachev was quoted as
suggesting to President Raul Alfonsin of Argen
tina that the arms control proposals outlined in
Reykjavik were an inseparable parcel.
Eyan sentenced to death
FALLS CITY Former cult leader Michael
Ryan was sentenced to death Thursday, but his
attorney predicted the decision will be over
turned. Ryan, convicted of first-degree murder in the
torture killing last year of cult member James
Thimm, was sentenced to die in the electric
chair.
Richardson County District Judge Robert Finn
had the alternative of sentencing Ryan to life in
prison. Finn said the heinous nature of Thimm's
death and Ryan's history of violent crimes were
"sufficient to justify the imposition of a sentence
of death in this case." Ryan, 38, showed no
emotion when he was sentenced to death.
Three cult members pleaded guilty to reduced
charges in exchange for their testimony against
Ryan and his 16-year-old son, Dennis. Dennis
Ryan was convicted of second-degree murder in
Thimm's death and sentenced to life in prison.
