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News Digest By The Associated Press Attack authorized, Reagan says WASHINGTON — U.S. military for ces had shadowed the Iranian ship they attacked Monday night for days, wait ing for conclusive evidence the vessel was laying underwater mines, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. The officials, who requested ano nymity, said the vessel Iran Ajr had been tracked by radar and by air for several days as it steamed through the central gulf toward Bahrain "because it had been seen loading suspect devi ces" before leaving an Iranian port. "It was no accident" that U.S. heli copters from the Frigate USS Jarrett were flying near the Iranian ship Mon day night, using infrared sensors to monitor its activities, one official added. "When we caught them in the act, we had the evidence we needed and we moved in," he said. The Pentagon said three Iranians were killed and two were listed as missing in the attack, while 26 Iranians were rescued, four of them wounded. It said a Navy boarding party found 10 mines aboard the Iran Ajr, a 1,662-ton amphibious landing craft. President Reagan, meantime, de fended the U.S attack on the ship as clearly "authorized by law” because Correction Don Vrana’s name was misspelled in last week's Sower. The Daily Nebras kan regrets the error. The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board , Monday through Friday in the fall and spring ' semesters ana Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations . Subscription price is S35 for one year Postmaster Send address changes to the 1 Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R ] St, Lincoln, Neb 68588-0448 Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE ALL MATIHIAL COPYRIGHT 1087 DAILY NEBRASKAN I the vessel was sowing mines in interna tional waters. Reagan also insisted, however, the United States had not entered a shoot ing war with Iran, and White House and § Pentagon spokesman said the crew men of the Iranian vessel would bo returned to Iran. At the same time, Iranian leaders dismissed the U.S. account of the inci dent and vowed revenge. Pentagon sources reported U.S. mil itary bases around the globe had been reminded to maintain an alert for ter rorist activity, and tensions in the gulf itself remained high. An unidentified Iranian hovercraft closed within one mile or so of an American frigate that was towing the crippled Iran i\jr on Tuesday afternoon and stopped its approach only after warning shots were fired across its bow, the Defense Department said. Despite the confrontation and rising tensions, the Pentagon announced that Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger would proceed with a scheduled trip to the region. Weinberger will leave Wed nesday on five-day trip that will include stops in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt and visits to U.S. warships. A U.S. military helicopter, believed to be an Army MH-6 Special Operations aircraft, attacked the vessel while a second copter flew nearby, sources said. Chief Pentagon spokesman Fred Hofman said the Ameican aircraft used 7.62mm machine guns and 2.75-inch rockets to attack the boat and caused extensive damage. Khamenei denounces U.S., vows revenge for gulf clash UNITED NATIONS — Iranian Presi dent Ali Khamenei fumed at the U.S. “arch-Satan” before the United Nations Tuesday and swore Iran would avenge a U.S. attack on an Iranian ship in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. delegation stalked out in protest after the black robed and tur baned Khamenei indicted the “bully ing” United States and announced: “This is a beginning for a series of events, the bitter consequences of which shall not be restricted to the Persian Gulf.” "1 declare here, very unambiguously, that the United States shall receive a proper response for this abominable act," the gray beared cleric said in an hour and-20 minute speech in Farsi. Hundreds of angry, dissident Iran ians demonstrated against the funda mentalist Tehran government outside the United Nations building, shouting "Expel Khamenei from the U.N.! Down with the criminal, murdering regime!” "I do not intend to sit by passively when our country is insulted, our pres ident pilloried and the truth trampled,” Deputy U.S. Ambassador Herbert Okun told reporters. He called Khameini’s charges against the United States "false accusations (which) distort the facts and misre present our policy totally." In Brief Report: commission lacks shutdown guidelines WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks guide lines on shutting down nuclear power plants for safety violations, and some have operated for years with significant problems, according to a report by the General Accounting Office released Tuesday. "The report shows that the NRC has failed in its basic responsibility" to protect the public, said Sen. Alfonse M. D’Amato, R-N.Y. He called the report "rather damning." Boy rescued from burning house in Kearney KEARNEY — Two men crawled through heavy smoke and kicked open a jammed door to rescue an 8-year-old boy from a burning house early Tuesday, authorities said. Kearney Fire Chief Dick Rains said people sleeping inside the house were awakened by the 2 am. fire, and everyone ran out. Two others were sleeping in a camper in the driveway and did not wake up until firefighters arrived, he said. Nicaraguan president announces cease-fire plan MANAGUA, Nicaragua — President Daniel Ortega said Tuesday the government would start a partial truce and withdraw troops to desig nated areas to open the way to a total cease-fire with U.S.-supported Contra rebels. "We are working on concrete actions to make known the first zones where the cease-fire vill be declared," Ortega said. He said the location of the designated areas would be announced but did not specify a timetable. Seriously ill twins described as fighters BALTIMORE — West German Siamese twins separated two weeks ago in a 22-hour operation were described by their doctors as fighters. But the doctors say the semicomatose boys are still seriously ill and are not yet assured of survival. "I don’t think you’ll find anyone here giving odds because there is nothing to compare it to," said Dr. Mark Rogers, director of pediatric intensive care at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Patrick and Ber\jamin Binder were bom joined at the back of the head and shared a common vein. Human rights group invited to Moscow VIENNA, Austria — The Kremlin issued an invitation to a Western group highly critical of its human rights policy to meet officials in Moscow, the Society envoy to the 35-nation Helsinki review conference announced Tuesday. i --/ DIAMONDS A brilliant diamond solitaire. Have it set in a 6 prong, full 14 karat gold mounting slightly tapered for simple elegance, or in a pendant, with a 14 karat gold chain, or choose two and have them set in 14 karat gold mountings. All are unbeatable combinations of beauty and affordable. Who could ask for more. . . SOLITAIRES Reg. NOW 1/5 carat $345 $295 1/3 carat 515 395 3/8 carat 945 795 1/2 carat 1295 995 1 carat 2695 1995 PENDANTS? Reg. 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"You know, two men nad me in one day,” Hahn said in the interview, referring to Bakker and Oklahoma City evangelist John Fletcher, who she said accompanied him to a Florida motel room for the tryst with the young church secretary. ". . . I’ve been treated as less than human, as a thing, as a pawn," she said. “And just because I don’t have a Bible or a microphone — just because I don’t draw millions of people on TV —doesn’t mean I'm not human." "This has been a game to Jim Bakker and John Fletcher," she said in the interview. "This has been politics toJerry Falwell (who took over PTL from Bakker) . . . 1 hate Jim Bakker for it. I hate John Fletcher for it.” Bakker, who resigned in disgrace from the TV ministry after Hahn's story became public, has acknowledged having sex with her but claims she was the one who seduced him. Fletcher has acknowledged introducing Bakker to Hahn, but has not commented on her allega tions that he also had sex with her. Hahn's lawyer, Dominic Barbara, said her two days of testimony before the grand jury focused on possible IRS testifying under a limited grant of immunity from prosecution. Bakker and his top aides are under investiga tion for possible mail, wire and tax fraud in federal probe focusing on how the $172 million television ministry raised and spent money. SAT scores still too low, education secretary says NhW YORK — Minority students scored Mg gains on the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 1987. But the average for ail groups stagnated for the third straight year, raising doubts about the progress of school reform. The average verbal score among the 1.1 million coliege-bound students who took the two part multiple-choice exam was 430, down a point from 1986, but still six points above the all time low on that section reached in 1980, the College Board reported Tuesday. The average mathematics score gained a point to 476, its highest level since 1976. The verbal and math portions are each scored on a scale of 200-800. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett “Mlnan interview, however, that he believed the SAT scores were "still too low" and that reforms "had not gone deep enough." Blacks continued a decade-long pattern of gains. Average verbal scores have risen 21 points to 361 since 1977, and 20 points to 377 on the math. But blacks remain a long way from closing the gap with white students who averaged 447 on the verbal section in 1087 and 480 on the math. “The black white SAT difference has been reduced by 50 points in 11 years. This is positive, but the simple truth is that the SAT scored of black and white students are a long way from parity,” said College Board presi dent Donald M. Stewart at a news conference. The national SAT averages, cited by the federal government and others as a bar ometer of school performance, have changed little since 1086. From 1981 to 1984, scores improved steadily. Similar flat results were announced Mon day for the rival ACT exam, the predominant college entrance test in 28 Vl^westem and Western states. The four-part exam, adminis tered by the American College Testing Pro gram in Iowa City, Iowa, and taken by approx imately 777,000 graduating high school students, dipped 0.1 percent to 18.7 from the year earlier, on a scale of 1-36.
