Daily Nebraskan
Monday, December 15, 1986
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New Digest
By The Associated Press
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Sandinistas: Prisoner had maps of military targets, worked for espionage group
MANAGUA, Nicaragua An Ameri
can said to be the brother of a U.S.
congressman was arrested at an air
base and told authorities he worked for
a group specializing in military espion
age, Nicaragua's government said Sun
day. The leftist Sandinista government
identified the man as Sam Nesley Hall
and said his case would be treated like
that of U.S. mercenary Eugene Hasenfus.
Officials said that when Hall was
arrested, at 10 a.m. Friday at Punta
Huete air force base, about 13 miles
northeast of Managua, he was carrying
maps and sketches of military targets
stuffed in his shoes.
Reports in the United States said
Hall, 49, is the brother of Rep. Tony P.
Hall, D-Ohio, and is himself a former
Ohio state legislator and a onetime
Olympic diving medalist.
Government officials said Hall's pre
sence could be seen as a preparation
for a U.S. attack on Nicaragua.
State Department spokesman Bruce
Ammerman said in Washington he had
no confirmation of Hall's arrest. Officials
at the U.S. Embassy in Managua could
not immediately be reached for com
ment. Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto
said Sam Hall would be investigated in
the same manner as Hasenfus, who was
sentenced to 30 years in prison last
month. Hasnfus, of Marinette, Wis., was
on a weapons supply flight for U.S.
backed Contra rebels which was shot
down.
The base, on a peninsula jutting into
Lake Managua, accommodates "all types
of military aircraft," the Defense
Ministry said. Reagan administration
officials have said the base was built
for Soviet-made MIG jet fighter planes.
After his arrest, Hall first identified
himself as a writer, but then said he
was an adviser to Miskito Indians
fighting to oust the Sandinista govern
ment, D'Escoto said.
The Interior Ministry quoted Hall as
saying he worked for a group called the
Phoenix Batallion, described as a
private intelligence-gathering organization.
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Voyager aircraft attempts world's first
non-stop flight; damages wing in takeoff
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - The aircraft
Voyager took off Sunday in the first attempt to fly around
the world non stop without refueling, but dragged and
damaged the flexible wing on the runway.
Despite the damage, mission controllers told co-pilots
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager to continue, and they flew the
ungainly airplane over the Pacific Ocean to begin what is
expected to be a 10-day flight.
"At this moment we have no reason to abort the mission,"
spokesman Peter Riva said.
Voyager took off a few minutes after 8 a.m., using 14,000
feet of a 15,000-foot dry lakebed paved runway before it
lumbered into the air at 106 mph, its first takeoff with a full,
9,750-pound load of fuel and supplies.
"In good spirits," Yeager reported from the bathtub-sized
cockpit after Voyager got off the ground. "If it were easy, it
would have been done before."
Voyager's takeoff date, postponed several times by
weather, was put on hold again briefly by frost Sunday. It
was nearly scuttled Saturday after Yeager developed a head
cold. Doctors pronounced her fit to fly early Sunday.
The spindly twin-winged plane was loaded with 1,090
gallons of fuel for the 27,000-mile trip. It was that huge load
in the plane's wing tanks that apparently caused both tips
of the main wing to scrape the runway during taxiing.
Almost immediately, a chase pilot directly behind
Voyager radioed Rutan that there was extensive damage to
the right tip of the 11 1 -foot-long wing.
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Riva said the pilots reported no loss of control. There was
not fire danger, but he said there may be a loss of
performance but that would be evaluated over several days.
Rutan, 48, and Yeager, 32, climbed into the slender
plane's tiny cockpit at 9 a.m. EST as several hundred
spectators stood in the chilly pre dawn desert darkness.
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Study: Inmate populations rising;
more prison guards being hired
WASHINGTON Rising state prison popu
lations have drastically cut the amount of cell
space for each inmate, but more guards are
being hired to keep the lid on violence that
might erupt from overcrowing a federal study
said Sunday.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics study reported
an 11 percent decline in the average amount of
living space per inmate from 1979 through 1984.
The typical inmate in one of the nation's 694
state prisons in 1984 occupied 57 square feet of
housing space and spent about 1 1 hours a day in
a cell.
During the five years beginning in 1979, states
hired 35,000 additional prison guards, pushing
the total nationwide to more than 90,000. Inmate
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totals, meanwhile, went up by 1 20,000, to 382,000
people. Staffing ratios in that time improved
from 4.6 inmates per officer to 4.1 per officer.
Though inmates in state prisons had less
space per person in 1984 than in 1979, staffing
increases may have helped to control "the
prevalence of some negative events," said the
report by Christopher Innes, a statistician at the
Bureau of Justice Statistics, a Justice Department
agency.
The annual number of prison suicides rose
from 1979 to 1984, but the number of homicides
fell, from 89 in 1979 to 81 in 1984.
The study concluded there was little evidence
that population density was directly associated
with death rates, assaults or disturbances.
Paper says Saudi net
$250,000 in arms deal
TEL AVIV, Israel Saudi Arabian business
man Adnan Khashoggi made $250,000 on a seven
day loan to finance the first shipment of U.S.
arms to Iran, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz
reported Sunday.
Khashoggi admitted in a television interview
last week that in 1985 he advanced $1 million to
Iranian arms merchant Manucher Ghorbanifar
"to get things going."
If the Haaretz report is correct, Khashoggi
received 25 percent per week interest on his
loan, or an annual rate, not compounded, of 1,300
percent.
Haaretz reporter Zeev Schiff said Iran paid
Israel $5 million for the shipment of 500 TOW
anti-tank missiles in return for the release of
American hostage held in Lebannon, the Rev.
Benjamin Weir, in September 1985.
Some of the money went to cover the expenses
of Israeli arms dealer Yaakov Nimrodi, a busi
ness associate and friend of Khashoggi's who
was instrumental in organizing the first deal,
Schiff wrote.
Previous news reports have said the weapons
alone were valued at $3.5 million.
Schiff said it was still not clear if the rest of
the money went to the United States to pay for
the weapons or if it went "to other channels
overseas." He did not elaborate, but U.S. officials
have said some profits from the sale of arms to
Iran went to Nicaraguan Contra rebels.