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Daily Nebraskan Monday, January 26, 1987 News By The Associated Press - ... Page 2 Hostage dilemma, Pro-Iranian group threatens to kill educators BEIRUT, Lebanon Anonymous cal lers Sunday claimed the weekend abduc tion of three American teachers and an Indian professor in the name of an underground group linked to Iran and threatened to kill them if the United States helps Iraq. The first caller said the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth would kill a hostage if Ali Hamadi, 22, were extra dited to the United States, where he is wanted on charges of air piracy and murder in the.June 1985TWA hijacking to Beirut. In the second call, a man said a hostage would be killed if Hamadi were not released by midnight (6 p.m. CST). It was not clear if the caller referred to an American or to other hostages. "We ask U.S. President Ronald Rea gan not to intervene in the Gulf War and not to provide assistance to the Iraqi authorities," the Lebanese-accented Arabic man said. "The (Ameri can) hostages will be wasted if he fails to do so." The three Americans kidnapped from Beirut University College on Saturday night by gunmen disguised as police were Alann Steen, 48, a journalism pro fessor who formerly taught at three northern California colleges; Jesse Tur ner, an Idaho native, assistant instruc tor of mathematics and computer scien ces; and Robert Folhill, 53, assistant professor of business studies. The Indian was identified a Mithi leshwar Singh, chairman of the busi ness studies division and a legal resi dent alien of the United States. I T, o u ? In J hV. f Hcirut University 0 I K 'College ! 1 e-Jy? y I, mJ i w . (j Lebanon Pell: U.S. should consider military action WASHINGTON - The chair man of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Thurs day that President Reagan should consider military action in the latest kidnapping of three Amer icans in Beirut if the hostage takers carry out a threat to kill the U.S. citizens. Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., said Reagan should take "pretty hard" action against Iran if there is "clear evidence" that Iran is behind the latest kidnapping. If he can establish a link between these terrorists and any government, I think he would be justified in going after that government, Pell said. Officials expect Reagan to address health issues in speech WASHINGTON President Reagan is expected to talk about catastrophic health insurance in his State of the Union speech for the second straight year but, once again, what he will say remains a mystery even to government health officials. Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen told a Senate panel Thursday that he did not know whether the president would embrace his proposal to provide catastrophic coverage for the elderly by increasing Medicare premiums about $5 a month. A department official said Bowen still did not know late Friday whether his proposal which has won widespread support in Congress would be made part of the president's speech. Reagan's 1986 address cited potentially devastating medical bills facing the elderly as a major national problem and instructed Bowen to seek solutions. Bowen, a physician and former governor of Indiana, made his proposal public Nov. 20. Since then, he has been working to overcome resistance from others in the administration who argue that any problem that does not absolutely require government intervention. The Bowen plan calls for the 28 million Medicare beneficiaries to pay an additional $4.92 a month in Part B premiums to make up a pool with no tax money included that an expansion of Medicare to deal with catastro- would insure recipients against having to pay phic illness runs counter to the administration's more than $2,000 in medical expenses in any philosophy of letting the private sector deal with year. V" r Wellness. Classes University Health Center Make A Positive Lifestyle Choice! Classes Forming NOW! AEROBIC CONDITIONING Feb. 2 thru Mar. 13 M-W-F 12:10-12:50 Both Campus M-W-F 5:10-6:00 Both Campuses T-Th 4:00-4:50 City Campus FIRMER BODY T-Th 12:10-12:50 T-Th 5:10-6:00 Feb. 2 thru Mar. 13 City Campus Both Campuses BREATHE-FREE PLAN TO STOP SMOKING Feb. 10, 12, 15-19, & 24 7-9 p.m. H.C. Conf. Room AN ACTIVE WAY TO WEIGHT CONTROL M 9:30-11:00 W 9:30-10:20 and 2 days per week for 10 weeks starting Feb. 16 Registration forms can be picked up at the Community Health Dept. in the Univ. Health Center lower level. Call for more information at 472-7440. China hints anti-Western stand Student arrested for passing intelligence PEKING Authorities arrested a student accused of giving intelligence to an American reporter, the official news media said Sunday, in what ap peared to be the first move against the press in China's anti-westernization campaign. The official Xinhua News Agency said in a two-paragraph report that Lin Jie, a student of Tianjin University, was arrested for "his secret collusion with and providing intelligence to" Law rence MacDonald, reporter for the French news agency Agence France Presse. The report said conclusive evidence was obtained by the Tianjin office of the State Security Bureau, a secretive organization reponsible for China's ex ternal security. The French news agency's Peking bureau issued a statement saying, "Agence France-Presse states that it knows nothing about all accusations against Mr. MacDonald and only learned about this from a dispatch from the New China (Xinhua) News Agency." A. U.S. Embassy official also said he had heard nothing about any criminal case involving the reporter. Lin could get up to life in prison if convicted of passing state secrets to an enemy of the state. MacDonald, 32, from San Luis Obispo, Calif., was in Hong Kong on Sunday. Fluent in Chinese, he has reported extensively on student activism that has led to the massive campaign against "Bourgeois liberalizat ion," the trend of favoring Western culture and capital ism over socialism and the Communist Party. The report did not say if Lin was involved in recent demonstrations, but the arrest appeared to be a clear-cut warning to Western news organizations and their Chinese sources. r. Q Vl - .... u::ocLj's o::i-sre? nzmiu mnm Emm -ths-weeS THIS WEEK qihy psipt ph Tues., Jan. 27-Thurs., Jan. 29 C"lpl Fri., Jan. 30 & Sat., Jan. 31 FOXY FOXY mSTEE Tues., Jan. 27 Wed., Jan. 28 TEE JXS Thurs., Jan. 29-Sat., Jan. 31 Wednesday Ladies' Night Thursday 75c Longnecks Friday Penny Draws 404-7243 it it 27th & Ccrnhusicr itit 434-1432 Correction In Friday's News Digest story datelined Manila, Philippines, the story incorrectly illustrated a marine aiming a Russian AK47 assault rifle. The illustration should have shown the marine aiming an M16 automatic rifle. 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For information, contact Harrison Schultz. 474 7660. Subscription price is S35 for one year. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34, 1400 R St.. Lincoln, Neb. 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1987 DAILY NEBRASKAN In Brief Soviets propose way to eat alcohol away MOSCOW Two Soviets think they have the answer to problem drinking in the Soviet Union: selling liquor in an edible bottle to reduce the alcohol level in the blood. I. Bogomolova and S. Kimaikin of the city of Magnitogorsk drew up a patent application suggesting bottles made of meat and bread, which could provide the fixings for popular Russian "zakuski," or appetizers, the newspaper Socialist Industry reported Sunday. In their application, the two said their edible bottle would achieve a "lowering of the alcohol intoxication level" by requiring drinkers to buy something to eat along with their liquor, the paper said. The suggestion was promptly shelved in the archives of the government patents commission as impractical, the paper said. Soviet airliner makes emergency landing MOSCOW When an Aeroflot jetliner's nose landing gear failed to drop, the captain ordered all 92 passengers to crowd toward the tail section in hopes of a more stable landing, Tass reported Sunday. The Tu-154 was flying from Moscow to the southern city of Ordzhonikidze last Monday when a warning light indicated a landing gear malfunction, Tass said. In-flight maneuvers failed to shake the gear loose, and fuel was running low. "Going into reverse and engaging flaps, the crew landed the plane, its nose gradually lowering and scraping off myriads of sparks on its run until the craft finally came to a screeching halt," Tass said. It said there was "insignificant damage" to the plane, and "no loss of life." Tass did not say if there were any injuries. Hawaiian beaches reopen after oil spill HONOLULU Three popular beaches were declared safe Sunday by the Coast Guard after crews cleaned up after an oil spill, but state health officials said warning signs would remain in place at least until Monday. About 1,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled from an interisland barge Tuesday when it was buffeted by a storm southeast of Oanu. The oil drifted across the Molokai Channel to the eastern shore of Oahu, Hawaii's most populated island. Black gobs floated ashore Friday and the state Health Department advised swimers to stay out of the water at six beaches. They were the popular bodysurfing beaches of Makapuu and Sandy Beach, the tropical fish preserve ofllanaumaBayu and Kaiona, Waimanalo and Lanikai beaches. The Air Force closed Bellows Beach, next to Bellows Air Force Station. The Coast Guard said Makapuu, Waimanalo and Bellows were safe enough Sunday for swimming.