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Daily Nebraskan
Tuesday, March 10, 1987
By The Associated Press
D
CMygler plans to buj Amei&c&B. Meter
DETROIT Chrysler Corp. an
nounced Monday it has agreed to buy
out Renault's interest in ailing Ameri
can Motors corp. and to buy all out
standing AMC shares for a total of $757
million in cash and stock.
The No. 3 automaker also would
assume $767 million in AMC debt, said
Chrysler spokesman John Guiniven.
The deal must be approved by the U.S.,
French and Canadian governments, the
three corporations' boards and AMC
stockholders, but analysts saw few
obstacles to approval.
"For Chrysler, the attractions are
Jeep, the best-known automotive brand
name in the world; a new, world-class
assembly plant at Bramalea, Canada,
and a third distribution system giving
us access to a larger market," said
Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca.
In Brief
Nicaraguan rebel leader steps down, son says
WASHINGTON Nicaraguan rebel leader Arturo Cruz has resigned his
post as a director of the United Nicaraguan Opposition, his son said
Monday.
The son, Arturo Jr., said the reasons for Cruz's resignation will be
spelled out in a letter scheduled to appear in Tuesday's editions of the
Miami Herald.
. Cruz, a former Sandinista ambassador to Washington, has been feuding
with his rebel colleague Adolfo Calero. He was at the point of resigning
last month but decided to remain on as a UNO director after receiving .
assurances that the rebel movement would undergo democratic reform;
Cruz's son gave no details of his father's decision to step down, saying .
only that he was fed up with the "whole mentality" of therebel movement.
Cruz was reported to be in Costa Rica Monday and was hot immediately
available for comment. -. ...
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Orasiian wins Mrs. Nebraska
BEATRICE Rita Peters Carpenter of Omaha was named Mrs.
Nebraska at the annual Mi's. Nebraska Pageant in Lincoln.
Mi's. Carpenter was crowned Saturday night.
Lana L. DeMarco of Omaha was first runner-up. Patty Nunn of Lincoln
was second runner-up, Peggy Lee Chahey of Beatrice was third runner-up .
and Sharon A. Langvardt of Beatrice was fourth runner-up.
Langvardt was named Mrs. Congeniality and the Woman of Achieve
ment for the pageant.
Correction
Roger Fisher, president of the
College of Dentistry's junior class,
was incorrectly paraphrased in
Monday's state of the college
report as saying the uncertainty
surrounding the college's future
has panicked many students.
Fisher really said the uncertainty
has made the students very con
cerned. The Daily Nebraska
regrets the error.
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Under the terms of a letter of intent
signed by Chrysler and Renault, Chrysler
would trade $522 millon of its stock for
outstanding AMC shares, give Renault
a $200 million, 10-year, 8 percent note
for its AMC interest and pay Renault
$35 million in cash, said Chrysler Vice
NASA: new supercomputer
marks new era in aviation
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. NASA
scientists on Monday dedicated what
they called the world's most advanced
computer system, saying it marks the
start of a new era in aviation design and
shows the space agency "is back on
track."
The system's importance to flight
design rivals the advent of wind tun
nels and the first flight by the Wright
Brothers, said Victor L. Peterson, direc
tor of aerophysics at the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's
Ames Research Center.
The Numerical Aerodynamic Simu
lator, built around a Cray-2 supercom
puter from Cray Research Inc., is an
evolving system capable of making 250
million calculations per second and
has enough memory to hold data equi
valent to 256 million words.
North dial!
WASHINGTON A federal judge, taking unusually quick action, began
hearing oral arguments Monday in Lt. Col. Oliver North's challenge to the
legal standing of the independent counsel looking into the Iran-Contra affair.
Meanwhile, the president's daughter called for the court-martial of North
and former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, and a member of the
Senate Iran-Contra panel said grants of immunity to North and Poindexter
could come soon though other officials said it was too soon.
The afternoon court arguments came after the independent counsel,
Lawrence Walsh, filed a court brief asking U.S. District Court Judge Barring
ton Parker to dismiss a second lawsuit by North, calling it a "desperate"
effort to derail a criminal investigation.
North, the former National Security Council aide who was involved in the
arms sales to Iran and efforts to channel money to the Nicaraguan Contras,
first challenged the legitimacy of Walsh's probe on Feb. 24, arguing that the
law under which it was begun, the Ethics in Government Act, was
unconsitutional.
At the White House, meanwhile, Maureen Reagan said on Monday that her
father was very angry when he saw the Tower commission report, which she
said showed that aides had deceived him.
President James Tolly.
Chrysler also agreed to a payment
ranging from zero to $350 million to
Renault based on future AMC profits
and sales.
Chrysler has been fighting to build
its share of the U.S. light truck market
Officials arrest two accomplices
FBI nabs fugitive killer
LOS ANGELES Two cowboys have
been arrested on charges of harboring
Claude Dallas Jr., the fugitive killer of
two game wardens who was recaptured
after roaming in disguise from Oregon
to Mexico for nearly a year, the FBI said
Monday.
Richard T. Bretzing, the FBI chief.in
Los Angeles, said authorities succeeded
in catching up with the trapper, who
'fled the Idaho State Penitentiary last
March 30, because they knew he had a
past, association with; one of the cow
boys and. kept him under surveillance.
.' Dallas,, who. had -vowed not to be
taken alive and was listed as one of the
FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives, was
arrested unarmed on Sunday afternoon
as he left a convenience store carryng
groceries in Riverside, Calif.
; U.S. Magistrate Lek von Kaesborg
denied bail for Dallas at a hearing in
San Bernardino on Monday and ordered
him back to Riverside pending extradi
tion to Idaho.
Dallas, 36, was using the alias Al
Schrank when arrested and denied his
identity until it was confirmed by fin
gerprints, said FBI spokesman Jim
The system, which cost nearly $100
million to develop, will be upgraded to
1 billion computations per second by
next year and 4 billion per second
within a decade.
Although largely intended for aero
space research and design, the system's
abilities will be applied in physics,
chemistry, weather modeling and bio
logy. The new system already has been
used to help redesign the space
shuttles.
Scientists have been using it to ana
lyze the structure of the O-ring gaskets
that sealed joints between segments of
the shuttles' solid fuel booster rockets.
Scientists also are using the compu
ter to redesign the shuttle's main
engine to allow it to develop more
thrust.
emges coiirtoverlraia-ComtmaETair
and has no sport utility or specialty
vehicles of its own, while Jeep is the
best-known name in that arena.
Renault, owned by the French govern
ment, bought into AMC in 1979 and
holds 46.1 percent of its stock, making
it AMC's largest stockholder. Renault
has invested a total of $645 million in
AMC, said AMC spokesman Edd Snyder.
Six of AMC's 13 board members are
Renault representatives, meaning only
one additional vote would be needed
for AMC approval of the deal.
Under the deal, which could be
closed as early as June, Chrysler would
leave AMC an independent subsidiary
for a while but eventually would absorb
the No. 5 U.S. automaker's manufactur
ing and produce development operations.
Neilso?j.
FXil o't aIs said they also arrested
Gregory Lw ant Davis, 357 a cowboy from
Perris, and Dan McCurry Martinez, 35,
of Riverside, a cowboy and a welder, on
charges they "knowingly harbored,
transported and supported Dallas."
Dallas had escaped last March 30
from the Idaho State Penitentiary,
where he was scvirg a 30-year sen
tence for voluntary manslaughter in
the 1981 slaying of two Idaho Fish and
Game wardens who had come to arrest
him for poaching.
Scientist link
to increase in
WASHINGTON - Prompt interna
tional action is needed against widely
used ozone-destroying chemicals that
ae indirectly causing skin cancers at
an almost epidemic pace, scientists
warned a House hearing Monday.
"At the current rate, about one in
seven Americans will develop (some
form of) this disease during their life
time," said Dr.'Darrel Rigel, a research
physician from New York University
Medical Center.
"The rate of skin cancer in the Uni
ted States is increasing at a near epi
demic pace," Rigel told an Energy and
Commerce health and the environment
subcommittee hearing on depletion of
the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer.
He said physicians believe the major
cause of skin cancer is the ultraviolet
rays of the sun, which are filtered by
. . .a member of
the United States
military who lies
to their
. . should be
courtmartialed. .
M. Reagan
As for her feelings, she said Poindexter and North, both military officers,
should be court-martialed.
She said that "a member of the United States military who lies to their
commander-in-chief is guilty of treason and should be court-martialed." And
she added that "by omission or commission, they did not tell the president
what they were doing. And that's a lie."
Survivors, kin
mourn dead of
ship disaster
ZEEBRUGGE, Belgium Sur
vivors and victims' relatives joined
in an ecumenical prayer service
Monday for those who died when
water rushed through a British
ferry three days earlier and turned
it on its side.
Salvage crews prepared to right
the partially submerged vessel
so scores of bodies can be reco
vered from inside. The Herald of
Free Enterprise, which capsized
Friday night while leaving Zee
brugge harbor for Dover, rests
starboard-side-up on a sandbar.
More than 130 people are
thought to have died in the
shipwreck.
That left 81 people still miss
ing and presumed dead. Van
neste said 409 people survived
and 53 bodies had been recovered.
Paul Ellis, spokesman for the
Townsend Thoresen line that owns
the ship, announced a plan,
beginning Monday night, to return
bodies to Britain by ferry. Most of
the dead were British.
Transport minister John Moore
of Britain said Monday in Parli
ament that a public inquiry will
be conducted into the disaster
and the government will donate
1 million pounds ($1.6 million)
to the survivors and families of
the dead.
- Ship's boatswain Marc Stan
' ley was reported to have said the
accident was his fault because
he left the front loading doors
open, but Van Bale said he "denied
under questioning he ever made
that statement"
The government of Prime Min
ister Wilfried Martens issued a
statement of condolence to the
British government and families
of the victims. In it, he also
praised the international rescue
effort involving Britain, the Ne
therlands, Belgium, West Germany
and France.
ozone loss
skin cancers
stratospheric ozone. Other witnesses
said that while there is still scientific
uncertainty, it appears that the ozone
layer is being destroyed by chemicals
such as chlorofluorocarbons.
Rigel said the estimated number of
cases of malignant melanoma the
skin cancer type most often fatal has
risen eightfold in the last seven years,
making it the fastest rising type except
lung cancer in women.
He told the subcommittee that not
only is the skin cancer rate rising, the
disease is being found in people of
increasingly younger age.
"Five years ago, it was unusual to see
persons under the age of 40 with skin
cancer," Rigel said. "Now we will often
see persons in their 20s with this
disease."