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Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, January 22, 1937
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By The Associated Press
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tigaiSive' panel.
WASHINGTON A commission in
vestigating U.S. arms sales to Iran iiml
National Security Council operations
on Wednesday nailed down an appoint
ment with President Koagan and won
three more weeks to finish its work.
adviser I'rcnt Seowcroft.
Reagan is expected to answer pane
lists' questions about his recollections
of how t he program of clandestine arms
sales program transpired, Speakessaid.
The three member board was named
nearly 40 officials and former officials
and plans to interview 15 or 20 more, he
said.
The panel plans meetings later this
week with former presidents Richard
M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, said its
While the panel headed by former by the president on Dec. 1 less than spokesman, Herbert E. Hctu
Sen. John Tower interviewed former
President Jimmy Carter in Plains, Ga.,
White House spokesman Larry Speak es
revealed that Reagan will meet with
the commission next Monday.
Speakes said Reagan is expected to
review White House files with counsel
Peter J. Wallison before the session
with Tower and two other panel mem
bers, former Secretary of State Kdmrnd
S. Muskie and former national secunt ;
a week after Attorney General Edwin
Meese III revealed that some proceeds
from the arms sales had been diverted
toNicaraguan rebels.
Speakes said the deadline was exten
ded to Feb. 19 at the board's request
"due to the large amount of . . . docu
ments that the White House and others
have provided them" and the need to
interview more witnesses.
The board so far has interviewed
Reagan held his second meeting
Wednesday with David Abshire, the
retiring U.S. ambassador to NATO, whom
he called home to serve as his special
counselor on the arms sales issue.
Abshire was scheduled later Wednes
day to meet privately with Sens. Daniel
K. Inouye, D-IIawaii, and Warren Rud
man, R-N.H., the chairman and vice
chairman of the Senate select commit
tee probing the Iran-Contra affair.
In other developments . . .
Speakes said top White House officials have discussed "what might be
done" in the event CIA Director William J. Casey is not well enough to
return to work. But the spokesman said no search is under way for a
successor for Casey, 73, who had a tumor removed from his brain on Dec.
18.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Claiborne Pell, D-R.I.,
following a two-hour private meeting with Deputy CIA Director Robert
Gates, told reporters he believes the agency's advice and intelligence on
Iran had been ignored by administration policymakers.
Speakes said no decision had been made on whether the president
would have a lawyer or other aides with him in the meeting. He said it
would be up to the board whether to include a transcript of the meeting in
its report. Hetu said the board does not plan to include transcripts of its
interviews.
News agency: 2nd West German kidnapped in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon Anglican Church envoy
Terry Waite has been meeting in a secret place
with kidnappers who hold two Americans hos
tage, one of bis escorts said Wednesday night,
more t han 24 hours aft er Waite dropped out of
sight.
A second West German disappeared, appar
ently abducted.
"Mr. Waite is having a meeting with the
hostage-holders," said Jihad Zohairi, spokesman
for Walid Jumblatt's Druse militia, which is
responsible for Waite's security.
Another Druse official, speaking on condition
of anonymity, said Waite would be allowed to
"see and converse" with American hostages
Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland during
his talks with the captors.
The pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem group says it
holds Anderson, chief Middle East correspond
ent of The Associated Press, "and Sutherland,
acting dean of agriculture at the American Uni
versity of Beirut.
An anonymous telephone caller to a Western
news agency in Beirut said Wednesday that a
second West German was kidnapped overnight
in Moslem west Beirut.
"We kidnapped last night German national
Alfred Schmidt in the vicinity of the Summer
land Hotel," the caller said in Lebanese-accented
Arabic, then hung up.
Abductions of West Germans are believed to
be linked with the arrest of a Lebanese man in
West Germany and the U.S. request that he be
extradited for trial in the 1985 hyacking of a
TWA jetliner.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -Assailants
burst into a home in a black
township near Durban on Wednesday
and opened fire with automatic wea
pons, killing 12 people. Seven of the
victims were children.
Officials of the United Democratic
Front anti-apartheid coalition accused
the Zulu movement Inkatha of attack
ing the home of Willie Ntuli, father of a
prominent UDF member, in revenge for
recent killings of Inkatha followers.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of In
katha and chief minister of the Kwa
Zulu homeland, said in a statement the
deaths. were "probably a continuation
of the internecine clashes" between
rival black groups in Natal province.
Much of that fighting has been between
Inkatha and the UDF.
Durban police spokesman Charl du
Toit said Ntuli, 50, was among the vic
tims and five of the children killed by
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injury by hiding in a closet, but four of
his brothers and sisters were killed, du
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He said police were using tracker
dogs to hunt the killers in the Kwa
Makhuta black township near Aman
zimtoti, 15 miles south of Durban.
It was one of the worst reported
instances of violence in months.
More than 2,200 people have been
killed in political and racial unrest
since September 1984.
Joseph Gumbi, an official of the anti
apartheid coalition in Durban, said
Ntuli's son Vincent is a leading member
of the Kwa-Makhuta Youth League,
which is - affiliated ' with the United
Democratic Front. He said Vincent
probably was the main target, but he
went into hiding last week and was not
in the house.
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In Brief
India's erotic temples develop cracks
NEW DELHI, India India's ancient erotic sculptures at the famous
Khajuraho temples are developing cracks because of poor maintenance
and vibrations caused by aircraft, an Indian news agency said Monday.
Villagers also have occupied lands near the Hindu shrines in Madhya
radesh state, crowding and polluting the 10th century temples, the United
News of India reported.
S.N. Dubey, the state conservation officer, told the news agency that
the cracks in the temples would be filled after March under a new
conservation program.
Khajuraho, a village of about 3,000 people, is a popular tourist spot, and
planes fly in daily from New Delhi.
More than 200,000 tourists, including 42,748 foreigners, visited Khaju
raho last year.
Air, rail industries may have drug tests
WASHINGTON The Transportation Department will impose a broad
random drug-testing program for the aviation industry, propose similar
testing for railroad employees and test 26,500 of its own workers as well,
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said Wednesday.
Dole said in an interview that random testing for railroad workers
would have to be approved by Congress.
"We want to assure that we have a drug free aviation system and a
drug-free transportation system," Dole said.
She acknowledged that random testing is likely to be opposed by labor
unions and may face court challenge.
Warden suspends penitentiary guards
LINCOLN Two guards on duty when a convicted murderer escaped
from the Nebraska State Penitentiary have been suspended and placed on
probation, Warden Gary Grammer said.
The guards were manning watch towers Dec. 4 when inmate Patrick
Lynch scaled two perimeter fences, avoided two alarm systems and fled
into nearby woods. Lynch remains at large.
One of the guards will be suspended 20 days and receive disciplinary
probation, a decrease in pay and a letter of final warning, Grammer said.
The other guard will be suspended 10 days and also be on disciplinary
probation.
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