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Tuesday, January 27, 1987 I Pago 2 Daily Nebraskan News Digest By The Associated Press Seagaim takes tine standi Chief executive answers to investigative panel WASHINGTON President Reagan, silent for weeks on the Iran arms sale scandal, answered "all questions" Monday from an investigat ive committee about authorizing secret weapon shipments to Tehran, the White House said. Reagan met for 76 minutes with the three-member committee he named Nov. 26 to probe the actions of the National Security Council staff following disclosure that profits from secret arms sales to Iran were diverted to Contra rebels in Nicaragua. It was the first time Reagan had discussed the Iran initiative with any outside group. "In the course of the meeting the president answered all of the panel's questions," a White House statement said. "The wide-ranging review included the development of policy in relation to Iran, the factual history of the president's role in the Iran initiative and the U.S. foreign policy process in general." Aquino defuses anger, allows protest march any during the 20-year Marcos era. rm ww mm mm " ' "Ty'' -z-fnv. i s , 1 It was not known whether the president cleared up confusion resulting from contradictory statements by current and former White House aides about when he first authorized arms shipments to Iran. Reagan has denied that the arms sent to Iran were part of a swap for Americans held hostage in Lebanon. MANILA, Philippines President Corazon Aquino sent Cabinet ministers to join 15,000 protesters marching on the presidential palace Monday, defus ing some of the wrath over last week's shooting and proving her control over the military. She overruled military officers who peasants to march to condemn the killings of 12 leftist protesters by marines last Thursday. She dispatched at least eight of her ministers to lock arms with demonstra tors Monday and lead them peacefully to the palace gates. Her action softened the anger of said they could not ensure her safety, both left- and right-wing groups, who Aquino lifted barricades around Malachang Palace and kept soldiers awav to allow students, workers and said her administration could not control the military and was respon sible for a street clash bloodier than Officials said Mrs. Aquino wanted to show her sympathy with the demonstra tors. Organ hers accused Aquino of aban doning her pledge to give priority to helping society's downtrodden. They demanded the resignations of top military and police officers whom they blamed for last week's killings during a demonstration for land reform. In Brief State authorities seize gambling devices LINCOLN About 100 video gambling devices were seized Monday morning throughout Nebraska, culminating a six-month Nebraska State Patrol investigation that stemmed from a citizen's complaint about video gambling devices in Lancaster County. Patrol Criminal Division Lt. Larry Ball of Lincoln said that the counties in which misdemeanor citations for possessing a gambling device or for promoting gambling were being issued included Lancaster, Saline, Seward, Saunders, Sarpy, Scottsbluff, Cheyenne, Hall, Lincoln, Buffalo, Platte, "and possibly Douglas." Ball and Lancaster County Sheriff Ron Tussing said that five Lancaster County establishments were involved: Waverly Farms, at U.S. 6 and Interstate 80; Jim and Pat's Tavern in Sprague; The Roadhouse in Bennet; and Merle's Food and Drink and the El Ranchito Mexican Restaurant and Cantina, both in Emerald. No seizures were planned in Lincoln, said Ball and Lincoln Police Chief Dean Leitner. Navy crew missing after plane crash NAPLES, Italy U.S. forces searched today for seven crew members of a Navy aircraft that crashed in the central Mediterranean, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said. The plane went down shortly before midnight Sunday, said Chief Journalist Patricia Hooks. She said the aircraft was on a routine flight in support of 6th Fleet operations. Others details, including the type of aircraft, were not immediately available, Hooks said. She said a special investigat ion was under way to determine the cause of the crash. The identities of the crew members were being withheld until relatives could be notified. The 6th Fleet ended a week of maneuvers on Sunday that were described as the largest exercises in the Mediterranean in the past year. NelJralkan The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published 6y the UNL Publications Board Monday through Friday in the fall and spring semesters and Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. 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 Iran reports 3,000 Iraqi casualties in Basra attack NICOSIA, Cyprus Iran said its troops turned a battle area "into a graveyard for the Iraqi forces" Monday, killing or wounding 3,000 in a push that brought Iran closer to the southern Iraqi port city of Basra. Iraq retorted that Iran had not advanced "even a single inch" and said the Iranians were retreating. It claimed Iran suffered 2,000 casualties in the overnight fighting and conceded only HO casualties among its men. Iranian troops were keeping up a severe . w V 4 tT The Tehran government claimed that artillery barrage against Basra, iraqs iransomci: iq launched a counteroffensive to second largest city with 1 million Agency said I ) nnn VvCtf-. r . i wvsl Vsr '0 :i K K I ''"li" i j ) k READ YOUR "SPECIAL EDITION" OF ( " . ' I 1 . J j.i'i'to.. i-.,.,-,,,,,, 1 ..- .,--- ) AND FIND OUT! j . j Iraq coincide with the conference of 43 Islamic countries in neighboring Kuwait but that the attack was defeated. In Washington on Monday, the State Department said Iraqi forces had not attempted a counteroffensive. A State Department official, speak ing on condition of anonymity, said An Iranian communique quoted by Iran's official Islamic Republic News Iranian forces seized new people. positions overnignt west 01 tne Jasim The Iranian and Iraqi battle claims River, six miles from Basra. IRNA located wre monitored in Nicosia. The two Per- the newly captured positions as west of Gulf neighbors have been at r ish Lake along tne Dual Canal and west ot the Jasim in bhalamchen region. Iran said it fired two missiles at eco nomic and military centers in Basra on Monday, inflicting substantial damage. sian war since September 1980. Iran launched its big ground offen sive toward Basra on Jan. 9, saying it was out to destroy Iraq's "war machine." 1 ) Each "Special Edition" is personalized with the recipient's name and birth date right in our store. And it's packed with information about the year, month and date born, famous people who share the birthday, the year's top story, popular tunes of the year, and much more! Give one to every friend and family member the "Times" is a unique gift and a fun keepsake. Hot off our press in a handsome folder for just $2.50! . . i . . Patty's -aWwL Shop I Centrum Plaza - Ground Level 477-8014 C ltflbHillmrkCirds. Im I ! Clkallenger America honors shuttle crew with fund raiser, dedications Fourteen-year-old Tami Quinn in Grants Pass, Ore., raised $6,000 for NASA. Audiences at "Star Trek IV" see a dedication to Challenger's crew as the film opens. The international outpouring of grief set off last Jan. 28, when the space shuttle exploded, has been channeled into dozens of projects over the past year to remember the astronauts. The largest is the Challenger Center project taken on by the crew members' families. They are trying to raise $50 million for a space science teaching laboratory in Wash ington and a regional center in Houston, and to provide scholarships and sabbaticals for teachers to attend. About $250,000 had been raised by Jan. 6, and the families hope businesses will donate 10 percent of their sales on Wednesday's anniversary. In another major effort, about $1.2 million has been collected for the Challenger astro nauts' 1 1 children, ages 2 to 25. In Bath, N.Y., Haverling High School students raised $17,000 in their "Pennies for Space-Rebuild the Spirit" fund. They plan to ask the president where to send the money. The Soviet Union named craters on Venus for McAuliffe, the high school teacher who A i v y a If,. in mi i'"-vlr" ; A II', it Ml Am i 1 was to have been the first "ordinary" American in space, and Judith Resnik, the only other woman on the flight that ended in disaster just more than a minute after liftoff. Apollo astronaut widow urge Li Iiuttle families to file lawsuits HOUSTON - The widow of an astronaut who died in an Apollo spacecraft accident urged the families of crew members killed in the Challenger explosion to file lawsuits, say ing NASA and space contractors, "don't care anything about you." "They don't care about me, financially or morally," said Betty Grissom, widow of astro naut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom. Grissom and astronauts Edward White and Roger Chaffee died in 1967 when a fire erupted inside their Apollo I spacecraft while they were conducting tests on a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center. Mrs. Grissom said she would have received no financial judgment for her husband's death if Houston attorney Ronald D. Krist had not filed a last-minute lawsuit for her in 1972. The suit resulted in a $350,000 award from North American Rockwell, the Apollo prime contractor. Department of Justice officials recently announced that four Challenger families had agreed to a settlement of about $1 million apiece in return for not suing the federal government.
