Monday, November 10, 1986
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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?" "
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"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.
