News Digest By The Associated Press
Iraqi attacks continue
Warplanes raid Greek-owned ship in ninth attack this week
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iraqi war
planes raided a Greek-owned ship
Monday, killing at least one crewman
in their ninth attack in a week on
tankers either leased by Iran or trading
with it.
In Iran, the leader of that country’s
Revolutionary Guards said Iran now
produces 70 percent of its own equip
ment for the 7-year-old war with Iraq,
including advanced wire-guided mis
siles and multiple rocket launchers.
Four Kuwaiti tankers, flying the
American flag and under U.S. Navy
escort, meanwhile were reported to
have reached Bahrain. The island
sheikdom is the halfway point on the
550-mile route from the Persian Gulf
entrance at the Strait of Hormuz to
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Kuwait, Iraq’s western neighbor at the
head of the gulf.
In Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, a
pro-Iranian group of Iraqi Kurds said
itkidnapped three Iranian engineers in
northern Iraq and demanded that Italy
withdraw its warships from the gulf.
Iraq said its jets hit a “a large naval
target,” its customary description fora
tanker, at midday Monday.
Shipping sources identified it as
the Greek-owned Marianthi M. a
21,166-ton oil products tanker that
flies the Panamanian flag and is char
tered by Iran.
Lloyd’s Shipping Intelligence Unit
in London reported an "air-and-sea”
attack, by shipping executives based
in the gulf who spoke on the condition
of anonymity — said they knew only
of aircraft being involved.
The Marianthi M., said in one re
port to be ablaze, sent a distress call
from 60 miles southeast of the Iranian
port of Bushehr.
In Athens, the owners said one
crewman was killed and one injured.
Iraqi jets have ranged the length of
Iran’s 600-mile Persian Gulf coast
recently, trying to destroy the exports
with which Iran finances its war effort.
Iraq raids Iran’s oil terminals and
tankers shuttling between them.
At least nine ships were hit in the
past week. Monday’s raid raised the
number of people killed to at least
seven.
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Soviets try to forge common market ties;
receive wary response at Brussels talks
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The
Soviet-led economic group,
Comecon, has undertaken a
“charm offensive” to establish re
lations with the European Eco
nomic Community after ignoring
the world’s largest trading block
for 30 years.
But, the EEC, which was first to
propose diplomatic ties 12 years
ago, is in no hurry to welcome
Comecon into its midst.
The president of the Supreme
Soviet, Lev Tolkunov, under
scored the new East block attitude
on his arrival in Brussels Oct 6 for
a weeklong series of talks with
members of the European Parlia
ment
“There is nota moment to lose,”
he said.
Countered Niels-Peter Al
bertan, a spokesman for the Dan
ish government “Relations with
Comecon are not on top of our
agenda.”
Denmark is currently president
of the EEC.
When the Soviet delegation
arrived in Brussels, at the invita
tion of the Socialist group in the
European Parliament, there were
no messages of welcome from ei
ther the EEC's governing Council
of Ministers or its executive Com
mission.
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Bush pledges hard fight
HOUSTON — Vice President
George Bush on Monday officially
began a “last hurrah” quest for the
presidency, trying to become the first
man in more than 150 years to win the
White House while serving in the No.
2 job.
Returning to his hometown to for
mally kick off his second campaign
for the Republican nomination, Bush
told hundreds of cheering supporters
that the key issue in 1988 will be who
should follow Ronald Reagan in the
Oval Office.
“For seven years now, I have been
with a president, and 1 have seen what
crosses that big desk,” Bush said.
Bush, surrounded by his wife,
Barbara, and other members of his
family, said, “1 mean to run hard, to
fight hard, to stand on the issues. I
mean to win.”
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Christina Geiger/Daily Nebraskan
Floyd aims wind, rain
at Florida coastline
MIAMI — Hurricane Floyd
sprang to life in the Gulf of Mexico
early Monday, taking aim on south
Florida with 80 mph wind and heavy
rain. Some coastal residents scurried
for shelter, while others cleared stores
of batteries, canned food and bottled
water.
Floyd grew from a tropical storm
to become the season’s third hurri
cane at 8 a.m. and began heading up
through the Florida Keys toward
southern Dade County at the southern
tip of the mainland, spawning at least
two tornadoes.
“It’s not a strong hurricane,” said
National Hurricane Center Director
Bob Sheets, “we don’t expect it to get
much worse.”
He said Floyd would maintain its
strength as it passed just south of
Miami during the evening and then
would head out to sea.
The center posted hurricane warn
ings around Florida’s southern penin
sula from Stuart north of West Palm
Beach on the condominium-studded
east coast to Venice north of Fort
Myers on the Gulf coast, roughly the
area from Lake Okechobee south.
At 4 p.m. EDT, Floyd’s poorly
defined center was estimated at lati
tude 25 degrees north and longitude
80.9 degrees west, 70 miles south
west of Miami. The storm was head
ing east-northeast at 15 mph.
County officials in south Florida
had shut down all schools by mid
morning, telephoning parents and
sending the children home.
The storm’s central eye passed
directly over Key West between noon
and 1 p.m., bringing a brief and eerie
calm to the island, and began heading
up the Overseas Highway that strings
the islands together.
Jackson enters race on unifying note
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Jesse
Jackson’s 1984 presidential race
posed a dilemma for black political
leaders that was as stark in Alabama
as anywhere in the nation.
That dilemma — whether to stand
by the first black man to run for
president or support a more electable,
white candidate—literally split apart
Alabama’s black community.
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As Jackson begins his 1988 cam
paign, he paces the Democratic field,
at least in the public opinion polls,
and the “new” Jesse is running a
mainstream campaign and striking a
more conciliatory tone.
“ 1984 is behind us. 1984 has noth
ing to do with tonight. 1988 can stand
on its own legs,” Jackson said Friday
night at a reception in Montgomery
designed to heal some of the wounds
left by his first campaign.
In 1984, Alabama’s black political
caucus, the Alabama Democratic
Conference, endorsed Walter Mon
dale because Jackson was late enter
ing the race and lacked a strong or
ganization. Jackson ended up third in
Alabama behind Mondale and Gary
Hart.
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