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Reagan says no more weapons deliveries to Iran
WASHINGTON President Reagan said Monday he has
"absolutely no plans" to send more arms to Iran, although
his spokesman said the president's authorization for the
weapons shipments technically remains in effect.
Reagan was asked if there would be more U.S. arms
shipments to Iran like those he confirmed last week after
numerous published reports of secret U.S.-Iranian dealings.
"We have absolutely no plans to do any such thing,"
Reagan told reporters. Nor, he said, would he be firing
Secretary of State George Shultz or any other top foreign
policy advisers as a result of public controversy over the
covert operation.
Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, meanwhile, said
Reagan had told him there would be no further arms ship
ments but that the "intelligence finding," a Jan. 17 docu
ment authorizing the weapons and spare parts sales, is
technically "still in effect" because it carried no time limit
and has not been rescinded.
The spokesman also said the Iranians paid cash for the
military supplies they received under Reagan's order,
although neither the amount nor the precise weaponry
S.African police, strikers
clash at General Motors
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa Police used dogs
and rubber whips to disperse strikers outside the Gen
eral Motors plant Monday, and the company said those
who stay off the job will be fired.
The automaker gave strikers a deadline of 9 a.m.
Tuesday to return to work. The walkout began Oct. 29 in
this depressed industrial city on the Indian Ocean,
where GM is the largest employer.
Police said about 300 strikers were intimidating
workers who wanted to go to their jobs inside the plant.
Employees struck over demands for compensation
from the American parent company after General Motors
announced plans to sell its South African operation to
local management.
Although the strike began as a wildcat action, the
National Automobile and Allied Workers Union has
endoresed the workers' demands. GM says it will not
discuss the issues until the strike ends.
A police spokesman said about 1,000 people were
outside the plant when officers arrived and ordered
them to disperse. He said many moved away, but about
300 stayed, chanting slogans and interfering with
workers trying to enter the plant.
"We then had no alternative but to disperse them,
using police dogs and sjamboks (rubber whips)," he
said. "Two policemen were stoned and suffered slight
head injuries."
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supplied has been disclosed. The Iranians long have been
seeking a variety of weapons and spare parts for their
U.S.-made planes and equipment ordered and paid for dur
ing the reign of the Shah of Iran.
Reagan has insisted that although the United States
sought Iranians' help in freeing the hostages as a measure
of their willingness to deal with the United States, there
was never a ransom paid for the three hostages who were
released during the period the secret diplomacy and arms
shipments were taking place.
North Koreans deny
leader's reported death
SEOUL, South Korea A South Korean announce
ment of reports that archenemy President Kim II Sung of
North Korea was shot dead brought strong denials from
his overseas envoys Monday but only silence from his
Communist nation.
After a weekend of rumors, the South Korean Defense
Ministry announced Monday that North Korean loud
speakers along the 151-mile demilitarized zone separat
ing the two countries had broadcast statements that
Kim was shot to death.
Defense Minister Lee Ki-Baek later went to the
National Assembly, where he said to lawmakers, "Judg
ing from all such circumstances, it is believed that Kim
has died or a serious internal power struggle is going on
there."
According to reports in Seoul, Kim had set into
motion plans to relinquish power to his 44-year-old son,
Kim Jon II, creating the first Communist dynasty. The
reports said senior military commanders in the north
opposed the succession.
The elder Kim, 74, came to power in 1948 with the
backing of the Soviet Union after the peninsula was
divided at the end of World War II.
Kim, known as "The Great Father Leader," has
created one of the world's most closed societies. No
Western reporters are known to be based in Pyongyang,
the capital.
In Brief
Teacher's coffee spiked with LSD
EUGENE, Ore. Three high school students accused of spiking a
teacher's coffee with LSD will be expelled if convicted or if they admit
responsibility, their principal says.
Police arrested the boys after Lou Hammer, an industrial arts teacher
at the school, became disoriented and was taken to a doctor Friday
afternoon. A student told school officials that he heard LSD, a hallucino
genic drug, had been put in Hammer's coffee.
The boys were charged with second-degree assault, unlawful posses
sion of a controlled substance and furnishing a controlled substance. In
, addition, one of the boys was charged with first-degree burglary. Two of
the boys were lodged at a juvenile detention center, and the other was
released to the custody of his parents.
Two of the boys were ages 14 and 15; the age of the third was not
available. Their names were withheld becuase they are juveniles.
Hammer said Saturday that he felt "shaky" but was recovering.
Superpowers set tentative session
WASHINGTON The United States and the Soviet Union have reached
a tentative agreement to have their senior arms control negotiators meet
early next month in Geneva over the stalemate in nuclear weapons
reductions, an administration official said Monday.
The special talks were requested by Moscow and represent a "de facto"
extension of the negotiating round that ended last week in the Swiss city
without an agreement, the official, who demanded anonymity, said.
Ambassador Max M. Kampelman and the two other U.S. negotiators,
Ron Lehman and Maynard Glitman, will represent the United States at the
Dec. 2-5 session. The Soviet delegation is expected to be headed by Viktor
P. Karpov, the chief Soviet negotiator.
Assasins lull Renault president
PARIS Georges Besse, president of the state-run Renault automobile
company, was shot to death Monday night near his home in Paris, officials
said.
The 58-year-old Besse was felled by several gunshots about 8:25 p.m. on
Boulevard Edgar Quinet, almost in front of his home.
The Agence France Presse news agency said Besse was shot by a man
and a woman passing by in a car.
Reagan signs water projects bill
WASHINGTON President Reagan on Monday signed a $16.3 billion
water projects bill requiring states and local governments to pay a higher
share for the popular projects.
The Water Resources Development Act of 1986, the first omnibus
waterworks measure in 16 years, authorizes 300 Army Corps of Engineers
projects across the nation.
The projects include development of ports and inland waterways, as
well as flood control, erosion protection and other conservation measures.
The act forces state and local governments to pay an average 25 percent
of project costs.
NASA plans space shuttle
liftoff rehearsal, crew escape
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Astro
nauts will board a space shuttle
Tuesday for the first time since the
Challenger accident for a practice
countdown that will help launch
teams maintain proficiency during
a long flightless period.
Five veteran space travelers will
settle into the cabin of Atlantis,
perched on launch pad 39B, for the
final two hours of a rehearsal that
will end with simulated ignition of
the main engines.
On Thursday, a team of seven
rookie astronauts will board Atlan
tis to participate in an emergency
crew escape exercise.
The drills will conclude seven
weeks of launch pad tests for Atlan-,
tis, which will be moved back to a
hangar on Saturday.
The exercises mark the last chance
that astronauts and launch teams
will have to sharpen their skills
with a shuttle on the pad until Dis
covery is rolled out of storage to be
readied for the next shuttle launch,
now set for Feb. 18, 1988.
The three remaining shuttles have
been grounded since Challenger
exploded 73 seconds after liftoff
last Jan. 28, killing the crew of
seven.
The five astronauts who board
Atlantis on Tuesday will be the
same ones who flew the last suc
cessful shuttle mission, that of
Columbia, which ended just 10 days
before the Challenger tragedy.
They are commander Charles
Gibson, pilot Charles Bolden and
mission specialists George Nelson,
Steven Hawley and Franklin Chang
Diaz. Two non-astronauts who flew
on that flight, Rep. Bill Nelson, D
Fla., and RCA engineer Robert
Cenker, will not take part.
Thursday's crew-escape test will
last about three hours as the seven
astronauts and dozens of fire and
rescue workers run through every
aspect of emergency pad operations.
During the exercise, a launch
emergency will be declared and
some of the astronauts will feign
injury. Workers will pull the astro
nauts from the cabin and take them
from the pad to nearby helicopters.
The astronauts participating in
the escape test will be commander
Frank Culbertson, pilot Stephen
Oswald, mission specialists Carl
Meade, Kathryn Thornton and G.
David Low and payload specialists
Pierre Thuot and Jerome Apt.
Survey: Nebraskans prefer rock music over country;
state's musical tastes differ from national average
LINCOLN, Nebraska Nebraska, land of pickup trucks
and cowboy boots, would appear to be natural territory for
country music. But a survey found rock 'n' roll is the favorite
music of the Cornhusker state.
A Research Associates poll for the Sunday Journal-Star
showed rock was the favorite type of music for 24 percent of
the people surveyed. Twenty-three percent preferred coun
try, 20 percent chose easy listening and 12 percent favored
: classical.
Although the margin between rock and country was thin,
rock's popularity with all Nebraskans is likely to be even
higher than the poll indicates because only registered
voters were surveyed, a researcher said.
The poll's findings are surprising when compared with a
national survey sponsored by the National Endowment for
the Arts released earlier this year. It found country-western
to be by far the favorite music, chosen by 23 percent of the
public compared with 15 percent for easy listening and 14
percent for rock. The national survey also interviewed only
those 18 years of age and older.
When the national survey asked if listeners liked the
various types of music, country was on top with 58 percent.
But rock rose to 48 percent.
Churches pledge to pursue
hostage release efforts
Correction
LONDON Anglican Church envoy
Terry Waite, flanked by three American
former hostages, said Monday that
news of secret U.S. arms supplies to
Iran and arguments over it compli
cated his efforts to free other captives
in Lebanon.
Waite addressed a crowded news
conference after a meeting with the
ex-hostages and with five American
representatives from the Episcopal,
Presbyterian and Baptist churches.
He denied he has been a tool of the
U.S. administration and said he had
been shuttling to and from the Middle
East on hostage-release missions un
aware of the arms supplies.
"We in the churches stand clearly
together to continue our work no mat
ter what comes our way," Waite said.
"But the revelation of that fact
(arms supplies to Iran) . . . has at this
point made the job of a mediator such
as myself complicated."
Waite acted in hostage negotiations
as personal envoy of Archbishop of
Canterbury Robert Runcie. Runcie
accompanied at the news conference.
The three ex-hostaes, the Rev. Ben
jamin Weir, the Rev. Lawrence Martin
Jenco, and David Jacobsen, former
head of the American University in Bei
rut, paid tribute to Waite and prayed
for the release of remaining captives.
The meeting appeared mainly an
attempt to refocus attention on
humanitarian release efforts, which
have been overshadowed by President
Reagan's acknowledgment last week,
after days of speculation, that he sent
arms supplies to Iran. Reagan denied
the arms were a trade for hostages.
He said many of his contacts in
Lebanon "have now gone to ground and
they may not surface again."
The Daily Nebraskan incorrectly re
ported (Monday, Nov. 17) the Red Star
women's basketball team that lost to
Nebraska 67-62 Saturday night was
from Czechlosvakia. The story should
have reported that the team was from
Yugoslavia. The Daily Nebraskan regrets
the error.
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Editor
Jell Korbelik
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