News Digest— By The Associated Press
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Coup attempt fails
Troops try to kill Aquino and family
MANILA, Philippines — President
Corazon Aquino said Sunday that mut
* inous troops tried not only to topple
her government but aimed to kill her
and her family.
Sen. Juan Ponco Enrile said he was
not involved in Friday’s coup attempt
by up to 1,200 rebel troops led by his
former aide. The daylong battle left at
least 25 people dead and 275wounded.
Enrile, fired as defense minister last
November after a failed coup attempt,
said he refused a request by a U.S.
diplomat to use his influence with
mutiny leaders to halt the attacks.
Loyal troops searched northern prov
inces Sunday for remnants of the rebel
force, including Col. Gregorio “Gringo"
Honasan and five other ringleaders.
Aquino laid a wreath Sunday at a
Fort Bonafacio military cemetery on
National Heroes’ Day. Dozens of guards
with Uzi submachine guns and M-16
rifles maintained tight security for her
first public appearance since the rebel
lion.
“The size and ruthlessness of the
attack, the treachery that marked it,
the brutality of the rebels who fired on
civilians, and the timing . . . proves
beyond a doubt their murderous inten
tions,” she said.
Her only son, Benigno Aquino III,
was wounded and three of his body
guards killed as they returned to the
presidential palace early Friday. He
later said the rebels fired on their car
after he identified himself as the pres
ident’s son.
The rebellion was the bravest of sev
eral attempts to overthrow Aquino
since she was swept to power in a Feb
ruary 1986 civilian military revolt that
deposed President Ferdinand Marcos.
The mutineers in Friday’s attempt
had said they were unhappy over govern
ment failure to end the nation’s 18
old communist insurgency.
The coup attempt came while many
of the 500-member Presidential Secur
ity Guard force were in nearby provin
ces as advance security for a planned
tour, which Aquino later canceled.
Military spokesman Col. Honesto
Isleta said 816 mutineers had surren
dered or been captured and were being
held aboard two navy ships in Manila
Bay.
He said 12 loyal soldiers were killed
in the revolt and 61 wounded, and six
mutineers died and 24 were wounded.
Civilians caught in the cross fires
also were killed.
Iraq escalates offense,
attacks Iranian terminal
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iraqi fighter
bombers hit Iran’s Kharg Island oil
terminal for a second day Sunday in an
escalating offensive in the Persian Gulf
as a new convoy of U.S.-escorted Kuwaiti
tankers sailed toward the battle zone.
Iraq said it resumed the attacks
Saturday after a 45-day lull to keep Iran
from using increased oil revenues to
~ continue the 7-year-old war and force it
to accept a United Nations cease-fire.
Iran vowed Saturday to retaliate
with “a crushing response” if its oil
exports were threatened and said no
targets would be immune, including
the reflagged Kuwaiti tankers and the
U.S. warships escorting them. But there
has been no Iranian retaliation so far.
Iraq also claimed to have hit three
"large maritime targets," a term usu
ally meaning tankers or other big ships,
including one off Kharg. Neither Iraq
nor independent sources identified the
ships.
The convoy of two tankers and at
least six U.S. warships was about a
third of the way along its 550-mile
voyage to Kuwait.
Kuwait asked the United States to
give 11 of its 21 tankers U.S. flags and
escorts to protect them from Iranian
attack. Iran had accused Kuwait of
backing Iraq and began attacking
Kuwaiti tankers last September.
The convoy entered the gulf after
passing through the Strait of Hormuz,
within range of Iran’s Chinese-made
anti-ship Silkworm missiles.
No indication emerged whether the
United States had been informed in
advance of the Iraqi raids or whether
its ships were on a special alert status
against possible Iranian retaliation.
Iran and Iraq had not attacked each
other’s commerce in the gulf since
before the U.N. Security Council passed
a cease fire resolution on July 20.
In Brief
Family leaving home after suspicious fire
ARCADIA, Florida — A mother whose sons have been exposed to the
AIDS virus said Satuuday that the boys would be withdrawn from school
and that the family would leave DeSoto County after a suspicious fire
gutted their home.
Authorities are looking into the cause of the Are in the Clifford and
Louise Ray home. The Rays’ sons — Ricky, 10; Robert, 9; and Randy, 8 —
were part of a controversy last week when they returned to school even
though tests show they have been exposed to the AIDS virus. Many
students boycotted the school.
South African miners end largest strike
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— The National Union of Mine
workers ended South Africa’s largest and costliest mine strike Sunday
after management Ared tens of thousands of strikers and refused to yield
in negotiations.
The union settled for management’s pre-strike wage offer, but it
would not admit defeat and described the three week walkout as Ma
dress rehearsal for further action.”
Nine miners were killed during the strike, and the union said on
Sunday that more than 500 were injured and 400 arrested. Tens of
millions of dollars in wages and corporate proAts were lost.
Three long-time entertainers die
Three long-time members of the entertainment business died over the
weekend:
Country humorist Archie Campbell, whose career spanned 50 years on
stage, radio and television, including the long-running show "Hee Haw,”
died early Saturday of complications from a heart attack he suffered in
June. He was 72.
John Huston, who directed such movie classics as "The Maltese
Falcon” and "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” died Friday after a long
illness. He was 81.
Oscar-winning actor Lee Marvin, who starred in films such as The
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” and ‘The Dirty Dozen,” died of a heart
attack Saturday. He was 63. A
Successful booster rocket test
fires life into shuttle renewal
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah — A rede
signed space shuttle booster rocket
roared into life in its first full-scale
test-firing Sunday, a crucial step
before the planned renewal of shut
tle missions next June.
The 126-foot-long solid fuel rocket
blasted orange flame 500 feet and a
thick cloud of smoke boiled 1,500
feet into the sky above Morton Thi
okol Inc.’s desert test site 25 miles
west of here.
The rocket used up 1 million
pounds of propellant during the
two-minute test, consuming it at a
9,000-pound-per-second pace, said
company spokesman Rocky Raap.
"It obviously ran the right amount
of time. The plume ran normal, it
appears to be a normal, successful
test,” said Carver Kennedy, Morton
Thiokol’s vice president for space
programs.
The test of the solid fuel booster
was originally scheduled Thursday,
but was aborted three times by test
equipment failures.
NASA’s shuttle fleet has been
grounded since Jan. 28, 1986, when
a flaw in a Morton Thiokol booster
led to the destruction of the shuttle
Challenger and the deaths of its
seven crew members.
Before the boosters are certified
and the shuttles are allowed to fly
again, officials have decided that
the redesigned booster must be
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test-fired at least four times on the
ground.
NASA officials hope the new rocket
design has eliminated the flaw that
destroyed Challenger when the Thi
okol booster leaked superheated
exhaust gases out of the side of the
rocket, igniting the contents of the
external liquid fuel tank for the
shuttle’s main engines.
NASA and Thiokol are spending
$400 million to redesign the rocket
and the joints between segments to
ensure that such a leak doesn’t
happen again.
Hastings to be chief justice
LINCOLN — Supreme Court Judge
William C. Hastings will become chief
justice of the high court this week.
Gov. Kay Orr announced his appoint
ment Friday.
Hastings, 66 of Lincoln, will replace
former Chief Justice Norman Krivosha.
Krivosha, whose public profile and
energetic style often drew attention
and sometimes drew criticism, resigned
from the bench to return to private
practice in Lincoln.
The appointment of Hastings, ex
pected to be sworn in next Wednesday,
created another vacancy on the seven
member high court from the district
which includes Lincoln.
Orr told reporters that the opportun
ity to appoint another judge to the
Supreme Court didn’t influence her
decision to elevate Hastings to the
office of chief ji stice.
Hastings is a 1948 graduate of the
University of Nebraska College of Law.
He practiced law in Lincoln from 1948
until his appointment as a district
court judge in Lancaster County in
1965. He held that position until his
appointment to the Supreme Court by
Gov. Charles Thone in 1979. The New
man Grove native was retained in office
in 1982.
Regarded by most observers as a
judicial conservative, Hastings was one
of four finalists for the post of chief
justice. The others were attorney Ed
Perry of Lincoln, Washington County
District Judge Darvid Quist, and Doug
las County District Judge Keith How
ard. They were chosen from a field of 11
applicants by a Judicial Nominating
Commission on July 23.
Orr heaped praise on Hastings, say
ing he had the qualities of leadership,
judicial temperament and ability to
“complement the distinguished his
tory of the chief justices of Nebraska.”
“1 am pleased, Gov. Orr, to accept
Health officials outline plan
to cut abortion information
WASHINGTON — The Department
of Health and Human Services unveiled
rules Saturday aimed at “building a
high wall’’ between abortion clinics
and federally funded family planning
programs.
Under the proposed rules, outlined
last month by President Reagan but
described in detail for the first time
Saturday, clinics that receive federal
family planning funds and also offer
abortions would have to provide separ
ate entrances and exits, separate wait
ing and examination rooms, and main
tain separate medical records and per
sonnel systems, the department said.
Federally funded family planning
centers also would be banned from hav
ing informational literature on the
premises that mentions abortion as an
alternative, said Nabers Cabaniss, a
deputy assistant secretary for popula
tion affairs at HHS.
The proposed rules, to be published
Tuesday in the Federal Register, spell
out how the department would revise
Title X of the Public Health Act, which
provides grants to support voluntary
family planning services.
Last month, Reagan told Health and
Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen
to eliminate Title X language that
requires recipients of federal funds to
suggest abortion as an alternative for
pregnant women.
The proposed regulations ban the
use of federal funds for abortion coun
seling or referral, lobbying for abortion,
or distributing materials that advocate
abortion, HHS said.
Richard Mintz, a spokesman for the
National Abortion Rights Action League,
called the proposed regulations uncon
stitutional.
Mintz said pro-choice groups would
mount a drive against the rules during
their 60-day public comment period.
Correction
The distribution of concessions at
FarmAid HI was incorrectly reported in
Friday’s editorial column by Chris Mc
Cubbin. The column stated that all the
profits from concessions will go to the
renovation of Memorial Stadium. Some
of the money from the ConAgra hotdog
sales will go to FarmAid. The Daily
Nebraskan regrets the error.
the appointment and I hope to meet
the challenge,” Hastings said.
Like Krivosha, whose ability and
energy he praisied, Hastings expressed
concern about the case load facing the
seven judges and said an intermediate
court of appeals might be the answer.
He said a constitutional amendment
might be required for such a step.
Court vacancy
field wide open
The field of candidates for the
Nebraska Supreme Court vacancy
created by the promotion of judge
William Hastings to chief justice
is a large one, according to sev
eral legal observers.
“It is wide open” said Kile
Johnson, 1st Supreme Court Dis
trict representative to the Ne
braska State Bar Association’s
executive council.
"I anticipated a lot of candi
dates," said Lincoln attorney
James Hewitt, immediate past
president of the state bar.
“It’ll be interesting to see who
surfaces,” said Lincoln Bar Asso
ciation President William Sutter.
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