Monday, February 23, 1987
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Daily Nebraskan
News
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Terrorism shakedown in Paris
Police arrest France's most wanted terror suspects
PARIS Police swept onto an isolated farm near
Orleans and without firing a shot, arrested four of France's
most, wanted terrorist suspects, the Interior Ministry said
Sunday.
Two of the four were sought in the assassination three
months ago of Georges Hesse, president of the state-run
Renault, automakers.
Police also seized a stockpile of arms, explosives, money
and incriminating documents at the farm in north-central
France, the ministry said.
Arrested in what President Francois Mitterrand called "a
remarkable success," were Jean-Marc Rouillan, 34; his
companion, Nathalie Menigon, 2!1; Joelle Aubron, 27; and
Georges Cipriani, 35.
All four two men and two women are considered,
leaders of the extreme left terrorist group Direct Action.
Police said that with the arrests Saturday night, all top
leaders of the terrorist group had been caught.
Direct Action has been implicated in about GO attacks
since its founding in 1979, the last being the Nov. 27
shooting of Besse. The group is believed to have links with
other terrorist groups in West Germany, Belgium and Italy.
The raid was carried out at 8:55 p.m. Saturday by dozens
of agents from the elite RAID police unit, which stands for
Research, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion. The four
suspects were armed, but no shots were fired, police said.
The four suspects were armed, but no shots were fired,
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police said.
Officers had staked out the farm, just outside Vitry-aux-Loges
village about 12 miles from Orleans, acting on
information from police intelligence.
Police said documents were seized which dealt with the
Beese killing, claimed earlier by Direct Action. Witnesses
said two women shot Besse in from of his Paris home. Two
days later, wanted posters for Aubron and Menigon went up
all over France.
One room in the farmhouse had been prepared for
holding a hostage, police said, and lists were found of
people scheduled for kidnapping or killing.
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Contragate panel expected to
question former North secretary
WASHINGTON - Congressional
investigators will question the former
personal secretary to Lt. Col. Oliver
North who reportedly helped North
destroy White House records crucial to
the Iran-Contra probe, a member of the
Senate committee examining the affair
said Sunday.
Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine, a
member of the Senate select commit
tee investigating the secret sales of
U.S. arms in Iran, said his panel had
planned to interview secretary Fawn
Hall even before The Washington Post
reported Sunday that she had helped
North shred documents.
Hall, North's former secretary at the
National Security Council, has been
granted immunity from prosecution by
independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh
and has told investigators that she
helped North destroy documents and
internal messages in November, the
Post said.
The paper quoted a government
source as saying that the statements
from Hall and other NSC aides, as well
as the retrieval of multiple computer
communication have established "a
clear case of obstruction of justice."
Repeated efforts to reach Hall were
unsuccessful, and her attorney, Plato
Cacheris, was out of town.
"The congressional investigating
committees are quite interested in
talking to her and will do so at some
point," a source close to the congres
sional investigation told The Associated
Press.
A White House source said Hall now
works in the Defense Department.
The Tower board, headed by former
Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, which has
been investigating the affair, is sche
duled to submit its report on Thursday
to Reagan.
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MANILA, Philippines - Filipi
nos began celebrating the first
anniversaty of their "People Power'
revolution Sunday with appeals to
recapture the unity and .sacrifice
that drove Ferdinand K. Marcos
from power.
Sunday marked the anniversary
of the military mutiny that began
the revolt. Marcos fled the country
three days later, after Cardinal
Jaime L. Sin's appeals brought tens
of thousands of civilians into the
streets to join the revolution.
Celebrations will go on for four
days.
"We need reconciliation, we need
the political will to construct our
tomorrow together," he said in a
statement. "We must, for instance,
be able to set aside corruption,
irresponsibility and the wasteful
ness of incompetence."
Juan Ponce Enrile called for a
rekindling of t he spirit of the rebel
lion to "strengthen the foundation
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of unity."
Armed forces chief Gen. Fidel
Ramos laid a wreath on the tomb of
an unknown soldier three hours
before the Mass. Last November,
Ramos was cred'f ed with blocking a
coup attempt allegedly planned by
officers close to Enrile.
Aquino, meanwhile, visited a
museum, attended parties for for
eign correspondents who covered
the February revolt and visited a
university fraternity to which her
late husband belonged.
In Brief
Mainers debate Lobster plates
AUGUSTA, Maine Some Mainers aren't happy with the state's plan to
introduce new white license plates bearing a red silhouette of a lobster.
The change in the design of the plates, to take effect in July, was
unanimously approved by lawmakers last year.
State Rep. Mary H. MacBride, from potato-growing northern Maine, said
she's sponsoring a bill to provide optional plates without the lobster.
Many Mainers resent having to promote a specifically coastal product,
especially one they cannot afford,' she said.
Joe Eragitano, the Saco schoolteacher whose students spearheaded the
campaign for the lobster plates, argued that the lobster is not a promo
tion, but a symbol of the state.
Health official: Condom giveaway lights AIDS
NEW YORK The city Health Department will give away an additional
1 million condoms in the coming year to help fight AIDS, a department
spokesman said Thursday.
He did not have figures on the number of condoms distributed in the
past.'
The condoms have been dispensed at health clinics, family planning
clinics and social service organizations where there are large numbers of
intravenous drug users, Martin McGinley said.
and grenade
17 near Jerusa
JERUSALEM A hand grenade
attack wounded 18 Israeli border guards
and five Palestinian by-standers Sun
day in a crowded street outside the Old
City of Jerusalem and sent hundreds of
foreign tourists and shoppers running
for cover. Four Palestinian guerilla
groups claimed responsibility.
Dozens of green-uniformed border
patrol guards immediately converged
on the area of stone-paved streets near
the Damascus Gate and began searches.
They detained more than 70 Arabs at
gunpoint.
The grenade exploded 50 yards from
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lem's Old City
the gate, one of the seven entrances to
the ancient walled city. Police said two
victims were in serious condition.
Jerusalem police spokesman Rafi
Levy said the grenade apparently was
thrown at a border guard police patrol
as the paramilitary guards changed
shifts at 2:15 p.m. Israel Radio said the
grenade was Soviet-made.
It was the worst attack in Jerusalem
since Oct. 15, when terrorist hand gre
nades killed one person and wounded
69 people at the Wailing Wall, known
formally as the Western Wall, the holi
est site in Judaism.
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