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Workers, police clash
SEOUL, South Korea — Riot police
on Sunday fought hundreds of strik
> ing shipyard workers protesting the
death of a fellow worker in a pre
vious clash, news reports said. A
policeman was reported seriously
ir\jured.
The death on Saturday of 22-year
old Lee Suk-kyu was the first in a
month of national labor turmoil.
Bus service in Seoul returned
almost to normal after a partial
walkout Saturday, but foreign and
domestic flights at Seoul’s airport
were delayed Sunday as 500 ground
workers walked out for the second
consecutive day.
In Koje on the southern coast, a
police officer was injured in a clash
when he tried to persuade about 500
workers to release Lee’s body for an
autopsy in another hospital, news
reports said.
The workers were keeping watch
over the body at a hospital mortu
ary. They had sealed off the mortu
ary with welding torches because
they feared that police might try to
forcibly take away Lee’s body to
destroy evidence, news reports said.
Lee worked a* the shipyard, Dae
woo Shipbuilding and Machinery
Ltd. He was reported to have been
hit by fragments of a tear gas canis
ter in a clash between about 3,000
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workers and 1,300 police. Two dozen
other workers suffered minor injuries.
Daewoo workers rioted Saturday
after talks on higher wages and
benefits broke down.
On Sunday police fired tear gas to
prevent 1,000 workers from march
ing out of the Daewoo shipyard.
After a one-hour protest rally, the
state television KBS reported.
Labor protests began Aug. 8 at
Daewoo shipbuilding, a subsidiary
of the big Daewoo group. Daewoo
shut down the yard Friday after mil
itant union members turned down a
labor-management accord.
The agreement would have given
the yard’s 15,000 workers an addi
tional $18 a month, but the workers
sought twice that figure. Daewoo
workers make $192 to $387 a month
depending on their skills and length
of service.
Soviet leader plans to visit U.S.
LOS ANGELES — Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev plans to visit the
U.N. General Assembly and meet with
President Reagan next month, accord
ing to a published report.
Reagan and Gorbachev could use the
meeting as a summit to sign an arms
pact if Moscow and Washington can
>* reach an agreement in stalled talks on
banning short- and medium-range
nuclear missiles, The Los .Angeles Times
1 eported Sunday.
However, if no consensus is reached
by late Septemeber, Gobachev is pre
pared to come to Washington on a
lower-level working visit to personally
negotiate an agreement with Reagan,
the newspaper said.
In Washington, a highly placed U.S.
official disputed the report.
The official, speaking on condition
of anonymity, told The Associated Press
he knew of no direct notification by the
Soviets that Gorbachev planned to
attend the U.N. meeting.
The official conceded, however, that
there was speculation within the Rea
gan administration that Gorbachev
might indeed make a last-minute deci
sion to attend the session, and that
such a step would cause concern to
American policymakers.
The official noted a precedent for
quick decisions by Gorbachev to seek a
summit. Last year, Gorbachev requested
a meeting with Reagan only weeks
before the two leaders met in Reyk
javik, Iceland in October.
The official said the United States
does not particularly want to hold a
summit unless it results in an agree
ment to eliminate intermediate nuclear
forces and if Gorbachev arrives in New
York in September negotiations on a
pact might not be completed.
Truck accident kills l on parade route;
minister driver cries for his parishioners
BOSTON — Etanislao Gonzales sat,
head in hands, at his dining table Sun
day, recalling how a pickup truck he
was driving in a religious parade went
out of control, killing two of his pari
shioners and injuring 29 others.
"I still see the scene of the accident
in my mind. That’s all I see all the
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time,” the 46-year-old Pentecostal min
ister said, his eyes reddened from
crying.
The two who died, Idalia Cruz, 10,
and Maria Otero Reyes, 21, were active
in his small congregation of 75 at the
Doors of Salvation Church.
The religious procession was moving
Correction
The Daily Nebraskan incorrectly
listed the address of the Chartroose
Caboose in Thursday’s Back to School
issue. The restaurant is located at 1447
0 St., not 1321 0 St., its former
location.
The Women’s Resource Center was
also listed incorrectly. It is located in
Nebraska Union 117.
The Daily Nebraskan regrets the
errors.
very slowly, Gonzales said, when he
brought the truck to a complete stop as
it approached Blackstone Park, the
end of the two-mile parade route.
“We were stopped waiting for others
when the (truck) just accelerated by
itself. 1 tried to make it stop, very
hard,” he said, describing how he kept
hitting the brake.
The narrow residential street lined
with red-brick row houses was crowded
with an estimated 2,000 people, most of
them young children. Gonzales said
there was nowhere to turn and the
truck didn't stop until it came to rest
against a flatbed being towed by a
wagon about 20 feet ahead.
Police and state Registry of Motor
Vehicles said they continued to inves
tigate what caused the half-ton, year
old truck to lurch forward unexpectedly.
Funerals for the two victims are
scheduled for tonight.
Democrats trade jabs
in state fair debate
DES MOINES, Iowa — Seven Demo
cratic presidential hopefuls traded
gentle economic jabs Sunday in a two
hour debate at the Iowa State Fair,
with Massachusetts Gov. Michael
Dukakis at the center of much of the
fire.
While the seven reserved most of
their heavy blows for the Reagan admin
istration, several pressed Dukakis to
defend the centerpiece of his cam
paign: claiming credit for economic
revival in his home state.
“The problem with what Gov. Duka
kis said is it contains no specifics
whatsoever,” said Sen. Albert Gore Jr.
of Tennessee.
“With all due respect to my friend
from Massachusetts, we need some
specifics.”
Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri
noted that there might be a link
between the criticism and Dukakis’
standing in the polls.
"If I get to 52 percent in the polls in
New Hampshire, will you start attack
ing me like you attacked Gov. Duka
kis?” Gephardt asked Gore.
Dukakis said he didn't "think any
body was picking on me.”
“I like debate. I like discussions,
one never knows what's going to
happen," Dukakis said. “I thought it
was a good discussion, a good debate.
This adventure is very unpredictable.”
The exchanges came before more
than 1,000 Iowans who took time out
from the com dogs and cattle shows at
the fair.
The debate, sponsored by the Iowa
Broadcast News Association, was the
first of a series of meetings for the
seven candidates in Iowa, with at least
three more scheduled before the state
holds its Feb. 8 precinct caucuses, the
nation's first test of Democratic presi
dential strength.
The candidates said Sunday’s debate
was important both because it was
broadcast statewide on Iowa Public
Television and because it gave Demo
crats a chance to spell out their eco
nomic programs, an area where the
party has been considered weak in past
presidential elections.
Dukakis argued that the 1988 elec
tion will turn on pocketbook issues,
and that he has the best record because
he’s taken his state from being “an
economic and financial basket case” to
the "Massachusetts miracle.”
All seven candidates agreed to cut
back on military spending, with Presi
dent Reagan’s "star wars” program the
favorite victim of cutting.
In Brief
Neb. hospitals follow AIDS guidelines
Hospitals and health workers in Nebraska are following National
Centers for Disease Control guidelines to prevent the spread of infec
tious diseases such as AIDS, state health care authorities said.
“The current CDC guidelines are widely distributed and followed,
especially at Omaha and Lincoln hospitals, which hove treated AIDS
patients, said Dr. Philip Smith, chairman of the Nebraska infection
Control Network.
The CDC added new guidelines Thursday, saying appropriate precau
tions should be taken any time “contact with the blood or any other body
fluids is anticipated.”
Thousands protest Soviet takeover pact
MOSCOW — Thousands of people in the Baltic capitals braved police
barricades Sunday to protest the 1936 Hitler Stalin pact that allowed
the Soviets to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, sources said.
Sunday was the 48th anniversary of the non-aggression pact between
Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, which
delayed Russian fighting in World War II and deeded control of the
Baltic republics to the Soviet Union.
Poll shows many disagree with pope
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most Americans think highly of Pope John
Paul II but disagree sharply with many of his beliefs and those of the
Roman Catholic Church, according to a Los Angeles Times poll released
Sunday.
The survey of 2,040 adults, including 967 Catholics, found that while
Americans express admiration for the pope, a majority disagree with his
church’s position on such subjects as birth control, artificial insemina
tion and women in the priesthood.
Of the Catholics polled, 76 percent said they admire John Paul, who
will visit the United States next month. Among Catholics 40 or older, the
pope is well thought of by 89 percent.
Girl dies after 5 cars hit her; 3 drive on
TAMPA, Fla. — An 11-year-old girl was killed when she was struck by
an automobile as she crossed a street, then run over by four more cars,
three of which kept going, the Florida Highway Patrol said Saturday.
"The first and the fourth car stopped to help, the other three just kept
driving,’' said patrol duty officer Nancy Fenton.
The girl, Kellie Leece, was crossing the suburban four-lane road alone
about 11:40 p.m. Friday when she apparently stepped into the path of a
car, Ms. Fenton said.
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Damaged tanker Bridgeton leads convoy
MANAMA, Bahrain — The mine
damaged supertanker Bridgeton and
two U.S. warship escorts Sunday steamed
down the Persian Gulf far ahead of a
convoy of three smaller, U.S.-registered
Kuwaiti tankers and two warships.
“It was another successful exercise
in subterfuge by the American Navy,”
said one Dubai-based salvage expert.
U.S. officials are striving to keep con
voy movements secret and unpredic
table.
All the tankers left Kuwait together
early Saturday. It was not clear whether
the other tankers would catch up with
the Bridgeton later for the dangerous
transit past Iranian anti-ship missile
emplacements at the Strait of Hormuz,
the gateway out of the gulf.
Iraq meanwhile said its warplanes
Sunday bombed the Iranian petro
chemical complex at Bandar Khomeini
on the northern gulf coast for the
second time in 24 hours and said Iran
ian shelling killed 12 civilians in Basra,
southern Iraq. Iran did not comment on
the report.
The 401,382-ton Bridgeton and the
destroyer Kidd were spotted by a team
from the NBC broadcast network aboard
a helicopter about 100 miles southeast
of the smaller tankers.
By early evening the patched-up
supertanker, one of the largest in the
world, was reported to be In interna
tional waters off the Unitd Arab Emi
rates.
The USS Guadalcanal and its Sea
Stallion mine-sweeping helicopters
scouted the waters ahead, said gulf
based shipping executives and another
group of reporters posted farther south
along the gulf.
On July 24, a mine blasted a hole in
the Bridgeton off an Iranian island in
the northern gulf, but the vessel safely
sailed through the same waters Satur
day for the return journey.
The 81,283-ton Sea Isle City and the
79,999-ton Ocean City, both tankers,
and the 46,723-ton Gas King, a lique
fied gas carrier, anchored for 12 hours
about 60 miles off Banrain.
They sailed at 3 p.m. escorted by the
destroyers Hawes and Klakring, said
Brent Sadler, a reporter for Britain’s
Independent Television News who saw
them leave.
Shipping and salvage experts said
the U.S. command signaled the Brid
geton to steam ahead past the anchored
tankers before dawn Sunday, but Its
progress was not spotted until later.
