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Monday, November 10, 1986 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan By The Associated Press In Brief Congressional leaders criticize Reagan on reported Iran deal WASHINGTON Congressional leaders accused the Reagan administration Sunday of keeping them in the dark about reported White House deals to send arms to Iran, and some suggested its power to conduct such operations should be curbed. The criticism came amid speculation that Secretary of State George Shultz, who also apparently knew little about the contacts that reportedly produced arms deliveries in return for hostage releases, could resign over the matter. Sen. Richard Lugar, R ind., chairman of the Senate For eign Relations Committee, said he had spoken to Shultz on Saturday. "In my judgment, he will not resign." . .f f 7St w L 6 I : t. VV v News reports last week said former National Security Leader Robert Byrd, the arms trade was "a major blunder" Adviser Robert McFarlane traveled to Tehran earlier this that guarantees hostage-taking will continue and could tip year and arranged to ship arms to Iran in exchange for the the balance of power in the Middle East. release of U.S. hostages kidnapped in Beirut. An embargo on arms shipments to Iran, which is at war with Iraq, has been in effect since 1979. The official U.S. position on the war is neutrality. If the press reports are true, said Senate Democratic Senate Republican leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., told a conference in Atlanta Sunday that it would be a "terrible mistake" to cut an arms deal with Iran. "We all want the hostages home," he said, "but I don't think we want to deal with (Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini in an effort to do that." Government says missing Israeli under arrest JERUSALEM Israel revealed Sunday that Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technician who allegedly leaked state atomic secrets, is in detention and will be tried. But it denied that secret agents kidnapped Vanunu in Eng land to bring him to justice. The brief government commun ique ended weeks of speculation about Vanunu's whereabouts. He disappeared in London nearly six weeks ago, after the Sunday Times of London published pho tographs and information he re portedly supplied about an Israeli nuclear weapons plant. A senior government official said the 32-year-old Israeli could be tried for treason, a crime punishable by death. The official spoke on condition of anonymity. A spokesman for Israel's Prime Minister Vitzhak Shamir insisted that Vanunu was arreted "accor ding to law" and will be tried "according to law." Vanunu was last seen on Sept. 30 in London. On Oct. 5, the Sun day Times published a story that quoted him as saying Israel has produced 100 to 200 nuclear weapons at a subterranean fac tory in southern Israel, where he worked for 10 years. The Dail DuDiisnea Monday throu iv Neoraskan (USPS 144-oso is lublished by the UNL Publications Board in Friday in the fall and spring semesters and Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. . , Subscription once is ws tor 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 MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1828 DAILY NEBRASKAN t Aiiiito wants sigsdnst persisting coup minors MANILA, Philippines President Corazon Aquino warned "self-appointed messiahs" in the military on Sunday that she. will call people into the streets if needed to defend her rule. It was her strongest statement yet on persistent coup rumors and came during a televised speech on the eve of her four-day visit to Japan. The president said she ordered the military to "repel any attacks against our units or centers of government as well as any threat to the security of our people" while she is gone. Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, the chief of staff, put the military on maximum alert. Guards increased security at the Defense Ministry and at armed forces headquarters at suburban Camp Aquin-aldo. The Manila Chronicle newspaper meanwhile said a threat continued from officers linked to Defense Minis ter Juna Ponce Enrile who were disen chanted with Mrs. Aquino's govern ment and its peace policy toward communist rebels. She promised to prevent the des truction of the armed forces by "a few misguided elements" and said a soldi er's duty was to "fight the enemies of government and not fight the very government it is ordained to serve." "If it should be necessary, I shall once more ask you to take to the streets," she said, allluding to the pop ular revolt that overthrew Marcos. Phi lippine newspapers credited Ramos with heading off the coup. Mom throws newborn out window BRENTWOOD, N.Y. A 20-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly throwing her son out a second -floor window shortly after his birth, fatally injuring him, police said Sunday. The infant survived the fall Saturday night but died of head injuries Sunday at Stony Brook University Hospital, said Maxine" Simpson, a hospital spokesman. Carol Washington of Brentwood called Saturday night for an ambu lance, saving she was hemorrhaging, said police Sgt. Vincent Ellsworth. She did not mention a baby, he said. When medics arrived, they discovered Ms. Washington had recently given birth and later found the infant on a concrete walk outside the second-floor window, the sergeant said. Ms. Wahington also was taken to Southside Hospital, where she was arrested and charged before the baby's death with second-degree attemp ted murder, Ellsworth said. She was listed in fair condition. Officer leads four from burning home SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. A police officer on his way to direct traffic at one burning house spotted another in flames, and led four people to safety before controlling the blaze with a garden hose, authorities said. Ty Montoya, 23, kicked in the door of the house early Friday and dragged 72-year-old Gabriel Viegas outside. Montoya, who has been on the force two years, went back inside twice more to lead three other residents outside. Thanks to Montoya's efforts, "the fire never really took hold," said fire Capt. Jess Campos. Damage to the home was estimated at $3,500. Firefighters stationed nearest the home were unavailable because they were responding to the first fire. That fire, which broke out in a garage, 'resulted in no injuries but caused $26,000 damage, officials said. Bus accident kills one, injures dozens FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A bus carrying tourists to Walt Disney World overturned Sunday on a slick highway, killing one person, injuring 31 others and closing part of the road for more than three hours, police said. The 49-passenger Galaxy tour bus flipped upside down and landed on the highway shoulder, crushing the cabin and bursting luggage compart ments. Three passengers were seriously injured, Lee said. The rest of the passengers and the driver suffered mostly cuts and bruises and were taken to four hospitals, the officer said. "He's the best driver in the company," the representative said of driver Fernando Ortiz, 39. "He's driven with us for 10 years without an accident. You can see how many rocks there are on this road. That's why this happened." "There were reports from a witness that (the bus) was exceeding speed limits," said Highway Patrol Lt. Jim Lee. lOiomeiM: My death will mot affect revolution NICOSIA, Cyprus Ayatollah Ruhol- Widespread reports said Khomeini, "They (Iran's enemies) should not to speak for Islam and the revolution, lah Khomeini, Iran's ailing, 86-year-old who had a heart attack in 1980, recently rejoice. This is something that happens The hard-liners include such un spiritual leader, said Sunday his death suffered one or two more attacks. Rum- and you will see that, God willing, the compromising figures as Seyyed Mo would not end the country's Islamic ors that he is in declining health are Islamic Republic will remain, whether hammad Musavi Khoeiniha, 45, who revolution. He apparently was trying to common, but this time people in power or not I stay," Khomeini said. defuse a power struggle within the clergy-led regime. "Our enemies must understand that the Islamic Republic ... has been stabilized and is not dependent on any person, but on the people and the armed forces," Khomeini said in a seem to be taking the reports seriously. They come at a time when academic, diplomatic and business sources say a struggle for survival is under way in Iran's leadership, nearly eight years after uprisings inspired by Khomeini I The struggle for power in Iran is not a simple affair between right and left or moderates and hard-liners. Numerous groups are involved, and some switch sides frequently. Iran specialists sav at least two was in charge of militants who occu pied the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for 444 days in 1979-80 and held 52 Americans hostage. Other hard-liners are Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, head of the Assembly of Experts which rules on appointments to government posts, and Khomeini's speech to military men at his residence ended the reign of the late Shah Reza hardline groups of clergymen are pit- in Jamaran, north of Tehran. Pahlavi. ted against each other, each claiming son. Ahmad. First major snowstorm strikes northern plains Road crews worked to clear highways Sunday The heaviest snow was in North Dakota, with 25 A gust to 66 mph was recorded at the Twin Cities after the northern Plains' first major snow storm of inches at Devils Lake. Bismarck got 18 inches, a of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Minn., and trees and the season stranded hundreds of travelers and record for any November storm and just short of the utility Doles toDDled. blacking out more than 6.000 22-inch single-storm record set in March 1966. Ear- customers around the cities. About 3,200 remained lier, Red Lodge, Mont., got 21 inches. without power Sunday, said Northern States Power Wind gusted to 65 mph at Grand Forks, N.D., and Co. spokesman Sam Macalus. police in Minot reported snowdrifts up to 5 feet It was the first weekend of deer hunting season in high. Minnesota and the Dakotas. killed at least five people. The storm had moved into Canada on Sunday, after spreading wind-blown snow and low temper atures from the northern Rockies to the Great Lakes. "Wu If'm I.Uiiiw'lj) () flirai 1 t; Mini. Commission proposes doubling number of college graduates by turn of century WASHINGTON A national commission headed by former Education Secretary Terrel H. Bell called Sunday for a massive effort to nearly double the number of college-educated adults by the turn of the century. And the commission took a sharp slap at members of the Reagan administration and other politicians for "unthinkingly abetting an act of national suicide" by trying to cut aid for college students. Bell's 22-member panel prepared the report for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, which represents 372 four-year campuses that enroll 2.5 million students and award a third of all bachelor degrees. "America has far too many people whose abilities are never awakened," declared the 22-member National Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Universities in its 56-page report, "To Secure the Blessings of Liberty." Bell's report said, "With a high school dropout rate ranging from 25 to 50 percent and with almost 10 percent of our total population functionally illiterate, who can deny that we have a massive population cfur.dereducs.ted people?" " . "Public officials who propose budget reductions in education at a time when the republic is handicapped by the burden of an undereducated populace are unthink ingly abetting an act of national suicide," the Bell commission said. "Their priorities are wrong." "Tragically for the American people, the federal student financial aid program today is on the chopping block in Washington," said the report, adding that the real value of federal aid has fallen 25 percent since President Reagan took oSce in 1881.