Wednesday, December 3, 1986
Page 2
Daily Nebraskan
News
By The Associated Press
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!Reagan takes action
President names NSC adviser; seeks counsel
WASHINGTON Underpressure
from Congress, President Reagan
called Tuesday for appointment of a
special counsel to investigate the
diversion of Iranian arms sales prof
tis to Nicdraguan rebels and named
a former CIA official as his national
security adviser.
"If illegal acts were undertaken,
those-who did so will be brought to
justice," the president declared as
he also announced that Frank Car-
lucci, onetime deputy CIA director
and deputy secretary of defense,
will replace Vice Adm, John M.
Poindexter, who resigned last week
as national security adviser.
The president said he'd been
informed by At torney General Edwin
Meese III earlier Tuesday that
"reasonable grounds" existed to
seek appointment of an independ
ent counsel by a three-judge court.
While Reagan was speaking in a
rare midday broadcast to the nation,
the Senate Intelligence Committee,
continuing closed-door hearings on
the American-Iran-Contra uproar,
questioned Poindexter.
Republican congressional leaders
praised Reagan for moving deci
sively to end the disarray wrought
by the Iranian arms sales disclo
sures. Democrats, too, applauded
his decision to seek an independent
counsel.
Israel denies siphoning funds to Contras
JERUSALEM Israeli leaders Tuesday denied
new assertions that their country siphoned funds
from arms deals with Iran to Nicaraguan rebels.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres called the reports
"complete falsehood."
Denials from the top three government officials
put Israel in apparent conflict with President Reagan,
who was quoted in Time magazine as saying a third
country channeled money to the rebels from inflated
prices Iran paid for weapons.
Newspapers quoted American officials as saying
Reagan meant Israel, which has acknowledged
secretly shipping U.S. arms to Iran but has denied
handling payments to the rebels, known as Contras.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told Parliament
during a 45-minute debate: "The Israeli government
doesn't maintain contact ties or supply weapons from
here to the rebels in Nicaragua. It has not given
approval for any Israeli to assist, supply know-how or
weapons from Israel to the rebels."
The U.S. Justice Department informally has told
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's government that it
will seek to question some Israelis in an investigation
of the Iranian arms deal, officials said privately.
They said Israel has promised to cooperate with
U.S. investigators, but no formal request had been
made.
Israel seeks clarification from Washington on the
Reagan remarks published in Time, an Israeli legis
lator said. He spoke on condition of anonymity and
would not elaborate.
In Brief
ETV tower collapses
BASSETT, Neb. The Nebraska ETV Network's 1.524 foot television
tower near here collapsed early Tuesday apparently because of severe
icing during a storm, ETV officials said in a news release.
The tower's collapse eliminated educational and public television
service for the entire north central portion of Nebraska, a circle of
coverage with a radius of 90 miles in all directions.
A preliminary estimate to replace the Bassett tower and broadcast
antenna is $1.9 million, the release said.
It will take an estimated six months from the time financing is
approved to fabricate, deliver and construct a replacement tower before
service can be restored, it said.
Nebraska Education Telecommunications commissioners are studying
ways to restore service on an emergency basis until the tower is replaced,
the release said.
Death row cases put on hold
LINCOLN A federal magistrate has stayed additional action on two
cases involving death row inmates at the Nebraska State Penitentiary
pending the outcome of another case involving convicted killer Richard
Holtan.
The two cases awaiting resolution of Holtan's case involve Carey Dean
Moore and Peter Hochstein.
Moore was sentenced to death for the murders of two Omaha cab
drivers in 1979. Hochstein was given the death penalty for his part in the
1978 contract slaying of Omaha real estate broker Ronald Abboud.
U.S. District Judge Warren Urbom ruled Nov. 5 on Holtan's case and
declared a portion of Nebraska's death penalty law unconstitutional.
Urbom gave the state 60 days to initiate resentencing proceedings or
reduce Holtan's death sentence to life in prison.
The executions for both Moore and Hochstein were stayed in 1984.
Violence hits New Delhi; police arrest 1,500 in struggle to control riots
NEW DELHI, India Mobs of Hindus angered by Sikh
terrorism rampaged through the capital Tuesday and battled
Sikhs outside their temples. Police reported 1,500 arrests as they
struggle to control the 16,000 Hindu rioters. There was no
immediate figure on the total number of injuries.
The rioting erupted during a general strike called by a Hindu
party to express "anger and anguish" over the massacre Sunday of
24 Hundus in Punjab state by assailants described by police as
Sikh terrorists.
Police fired shots in the air, burst tear gas shells and made
repeated charges with steel-tipped bamboo clubs to break up t he
melee at the temple.
"They challenged us," temple spokesman Hardeep Singh said
to explain why 150 Sikhs came out of t he shrine with ceremonial
swords to confront 8,000 Hindu protesters. He said the Hindus
shouted curses and derisive chants.
The street in front of the temple was littered with rocks and
broken bricks after the battle and a curfew was declared in the
area Tuesday night.
Sikhs and Hindus also battled outside a Sikh temple in east
Delhi, and police fought running battles in other areas with Hindu
rioters who threw stones, blocked roads and set fires. Eight
vehicles and two Sikh houses were set ablaze.
The army was put on alert after a meeting of military and
government officials, and police cars with loudspeakers cruised
the city's neighborhoods at nightfall warning people to stay
inside.
General strikes or other protests were declared in six Indian
states Tuesday, but widespread violence developed only in New
Delhi, where 7,000 extra police and paramilitary troops were
called in.
Sikhs make up about 2 percent of India's 780 million people but
form a majority in Punjab, a rich farming state.
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Desi Arnaz dies of lung cancer
HOLLYWOOD - Desi Arnaz, the
Cuban-born singer-bandleader beloved
by generations of TV viewers as Lucille
Ball's harassed husband Ricky Ricardo
on the "I Love Lucy" show, died of lung
cancer Tuesday. He was 69.
Arnaz, who was married to Ball for 20
years before their divorce in 19(10 and
became one of television's most suc
cessful producers, died at his Del Mar
home in San Diego County just after
midnight. Daughter Lucie Arnaz Luck
inbill was at his side, reading prayers,
publicist Charlie Pomerantz said.
"He was the father of my children
and we were always friends, always very
friendly and close," Ball said. ''I was
down there last week. We've talked all
the time, through the years. Lucie, our
daughter, was with him.
Dr. Charles Campbell of San Diego,
Arnaz' physician, said his patient had
been ill for about a year.
"He died of lung cancer. It was from
smoking those Cuban cigars; that's the
truth." Campbell said.
"I Love Lucy," which Arnaz pro
duced, was one of telev ision's most suc
cessful and longest running shows.
Arnaz pioneered the three-camera
technique, widespread today, in which
three cameras simultaneously filmed
the "Lucy" show from different angles,
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