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Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Thursday, February 12, 1987 ews Dig(St By The Associated Press Hosttage swap possiMe Newspapers: Shiites offer to trade educators for Arab prisoners BEIRUT, Lebanon Newspapers in London and Israel said Wednesday secret talks were going on for a major swap that would free foreign hostages in Lebanon in exchange for 400 Arab prisoners. Lebanese Shiite leader Nabih Berri said there were no talks yet but indications were positive. Berri, head of the mainstream Shiite move ment Amal Lebanon's justice minister, proposed that Israel free 400 Arab prisoners. In return,, Amal would return a captured Israeli airman and a Moslem extremist organization would free the four kidnapped educators three Americans and an Indian it was threatening to kill. On Wednesday, the Israeli newspaper Davar said Israel and the United States were negotiat ing a multinational deal to free all captives held in Lebanon by pro-Syrian and pro-Iranian groups, with Israel freeing 400 Arabs. Davar, which has close ties to Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' Labor Party, said the deal involved the Swiss and Syrian governments and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The swap would include releasing the airman captured in October and three Lebanese Jews seized in Beirut last year. Israeli officials have expressed doubt that Berri could deliver on promises involving organi zations not his own. Berri's militiamen do hold, however, the navi gator of an Israeli Phantom fighter-bomber shot down over south Lebanon Oct. 1. In Washington on Wednesday, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater insisted anew that the United States is not involved in talks with Israel about hostages. The London Times said Wednesday a "wide ranging deal" was in the works involving the four educators, the Israeli airman and Arab prisoners. There are some posi tive indications that such a swap can be worked out. Israel has not refused the swap operation.1 Berri S ! American hostagi Beirut linctnffAC in . . If Israel ") Lebantm 'L Syria i It said the negotiations followed "months of secret contacts between the Israelis and guer rilla leaders in southern Lebanon" through the Red Cross. Berri told a news conference in Damascus, the Syrian capital, there have been no secret negoti ations for an exchange of captives, but he added, "There are some positive indications that such a swap can be worked out." Berri noted that "Israel has not refused the swap operation." He also cited the decision by Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, the group which seized four teachers from Beirut University Col lege on Jan. 24, to extend "until further notice" last Monday's midnight deadline to kill them. ARIA official: Liberace's AIDS should be secret CHICAGO The public has no right to know that entertainer Liberace had AIDs or that a hos pital doctor suffers from the deadly disease, a top executive of the American Medical Associ ation said Wednesday. The medical hist ory of a patient, even one who is a public figure or a doctor, should be confidential unless the individual's condition poses a threat to society, said Dr. James S. Todd. A different view was offered by Dennis O'Leary, President Rea gan's attending physician when Reagan was the victim of an assassination attempt and how head of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. "Anytime you become a public figure, you do yield some of your right to privacy," O'Leary said. Todd, senior deputy executive vice president of the Chicago based AMA, discussed medical records confidentiality with O'Leary and two other panelists who represented hospitals and insur ers at the American College of Healthcare Executives' 30th an nual meeting. Todd criticized the media's "insatiable desire to know what's going on." O'Leary said there may be some need for publicity in the case of Liberace's death last week. He cited reports that information may have been im properly withheld on the death certificate. "We need balance here" in deciding access to confidential information, O'Leary said. v AIDS destroys the body's im mune system, leaving victims prey to life-threatening infection. It is caused by a virus, believed transmitted by blood or semen. N Daily Editor Managing Editor Assoc. News Editors Editorial Page Editor Wire Editor Copy Desk Chief Sports Editor Arts & Entertain ment Editor Photo Chief Jeff Korbdik 472-1758 Gins Gentrup Ttmmy Kaup Linda Hartmann List Olttn Jamas Rosen Scott Thltn Joan Razac Chuck Green Scott Karrah Andrea Hoy . The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board Monday through Friday in the fall and spring semesters and Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also has access to the Publications Board. For information, contact Harrison Schultz, 474 7660. Subscription price is $35 for one year. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln. Neb. 68583-0448. Second-class postaoe paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL KATEHIAl COPtRJGHT 1887 WILY NEBRASKAN Soviet police stop protest of emigration supporters MOSCOW Plainclothesmen pushed protesters out of a shopping mall Wed nesday, the third day of demonstra tions for release of a Jewish activist not included in the Kremlin pardon that freed 140 other imprisoned dissidents. The protesters also demonstrated for the right to emigrate. They carried placards reading, "Let us go to Israel" and "Free Josef Begun," who was given a seven-year prison term in October 1983. U.S. Ambassador Arthur A. Hartman called the mass release a "step in the right direction," but he said the United States continues pressing for freer emigration. He told a news conference he had appealed to Soviet authorities to let dissident Naum Meiman attend his wife's funeral in the United States. Inna Meiman, 54, died Monday in Washington, where she had recieved cancer treatment since leaving the Soviet Union last month. Hartman said the refusal since 1975 to grant Meiman an exit visa violated "Soviet practice and Soviet law. . . the Soviet govern ment has recognized that their treat ment of individuals had has an effect on their relations with other coun tries," the ambassador said. About 20 Soviets who have been refused emigration visas gathered Wednesday morning for their third day of protest in the Arbat shopping mall. Police did not interfere with the Monday and Tuesday protests, but on Wednesday plainclothesmen took away the placards. They shoved and punched Western journalists and television cameramen trying to report the event. In Brief Another Iranian missile hits Baghdad NICOSIA, Cyprus Iran fired the 10th missile into Baghdad in a month and said its commandos blew up a key radar Wednesday, the eighth anniversary of its fundamentalist Shiite Moslem regime. Iraqi warplanes raided Tehran three times, apparently trying to spoil celebrations of the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Febru ary 1979. The war began with an Iraqi invasion in September 1980. The official Iraqi News Agency quoted a military spokesman as saying the missile landed in a crowded residential neighborhood. He said civili ans were killed or wounded, but gave no figures. White House proposes abortion legislation WASHINGTON The Reagan administration proposed legislation Wednesday to permanently ban federal financing of abortions except where the life of the mother is threatened, and to deny family planning money to private groups that also perform abortions. A third part of the measure sent to Congress by Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen, while having no legal effect, would put Congress on record as urging the Supreme Court to reverse the 1973 decision legalizing abortion. Although those efforts were backed by the White House, this is the first time the administration has offered the legislation itself. Indians take interest in business, future Sioux tribe begins model business venture GORDON, Neb. - Sioux Indians whose ancestors roamed the Great Plains hunting buffalo use power saws to butcher cattle at a meatpacking plant that an official says is a model business venture for other tribes. About half the 100 employees at Nebraska Sioux Lean Beef are Oglala Sioux, and many of them ride a plant bus to work from the Pine Ridge reser vation, about 15 miles north in South Dakota. The $2 million plant, which opened in December and was dedicated Tues day, is seen as a potential turning point for the economy of the ranching region of northwest Nebraska, which has struggled during the prolonged Farm Belt recession. The Ogala Sioux have a 51 percent interest in the plant, and the rest is owned by California businessman Scott Bates, who runs the company. The tribe asked Bates to consider building a packing plant on the reser vation last year about the time the old operator of the Gordon plant shut it down. Bates decided renovating and ex panding the existing plant was a better idea, and he pitched the project to city officials. They applied for and received a $432,500 grant from the state. The tribe got a $370,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, pooled the funds with the city, and Bates raised other capital, including a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dom Nessi, regional director of HUD's Office of Indian Programs in Denver, said the project was the first time a tribe pooled a HUD Indian develop ment grant with a city to start a private business. Tie Oscars 'Platoon', 'Room with a View' take 8 nominations BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. "Plat ton," a searing Vietnam drama that no studio would touch, and "A Room with a View," a period romance regarded as a longshot, scored eight nominations a piece Wednesday to lead the 59th annual Oscar race. Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sis ters" and two surprises, the outer space sequel "Aliens" and "the ion," a church-vs.-state story of colonial Brazil, were runners-up with seven apiece. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 4,000-plus voters made these nominations for best picture of 1986: "Children of a Lesser God," "Hannah and Her Sisters," "The ion," "Platoon" and "A Room with a View," a gentle story of Britons at leisure in Florence, Italy, and the English country side. Besides best picture, "Platoon" gar nered nominations for director, edit ing, sound, cinematography and screen play, and two . nominations for best supporting actor. It represented sweet vindication for writer-director Oliver Stone, who spent 10 frustrating years trying to find back ing for the film of his memories as an infantryman in Vietnam. The independ ently made film, distributed by Orion Pictures, is No. 1 at the box office this week. Stone also was nominated for the screenplay for "Salvador," a film about a journalist in war-torn EI Salvador, co-written with Richard Boyle, which hasn't seen wide distribution yet. "It would be very hard .to have another year as good as this one has been," Stone said Wednesday in New York. "I am thrilled by both honors, especially that 'Salvador' has been retreived from obscurity." Paula Newman was nominated for best actor for his repeat as Fast Eddie Felson in "The Color of Money," a sequel to 'The Hustler" of 25 years ago. Ffioto courtesy of Orion Hctures Corp. Civil war breaks out among Vietnam footscldisrs in "Platoon." Pictured left to right are: Charlie Sheen, Corey Glover, Chris Pedersen, YKlem Dafos, Forrest Whittaker and Keith David.