News Digest
Expected losses concern candidates
CONCORD, N.H. — The cam
paigns of Democrat Michael
Dukakis and Republican George
Bush are concerned that their front
running status in New Hampshire
could be affected by expected losses
in the Iowa caucuses today.
With only eight days separating
the Iowa precinct caucuses and the
first-in-thc-nation presidential pri
mary on Feb. 16, the New'Hampshire
front-runners have the most to lose.
Neither Bush nor Dukakis is head
ing the pack in Iowa. Senate GOP
Leader Bob Dole of Kansas leads
Bush in the Iowa polls, while
Dukakis of Massachusetts is locked
in a tight Democratic race in the Iowa
samplings with Rep. Richard
Gephardt of Missouri and Sen. Paul
Simon of Illinois.
Both the Dukakis and Bush cam
paigns readily admit they may lose
Monday night.
“There is no question we’re going
to lose Iowa,” said Ron Kaufman,
Northeast coordinator for Bush.
“It’s pretty clear we’re not going
to win in Iowa,” said Charles Baker,
Dukakis’ New Hampshire director.
Polls have consistently pul Bush
and Dukakis substantially ahead ol
their rivals in New Hampshire, and
both candidates have major organi
zations on the ground in the stale to
match. But with the feared impact of
Iowa, neither has been taking any
thing for granted in New Hampshire.
Two Democrats, Gephardt and
former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt,
have mounted efficient, energetic
operation. And a third Democrat,
former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, has
a residual store of good will here.
In 1984, Hart stunned Democratic
front-runner Walter Mondale in New
Hampshire, riding a wave of media
attention from a bettcr-thaq-ex
pectcd showing in Iowa.
The polls in New Hampshire this
year also give campaigns pause. The •
leading candidate in each party has
not changed, but the rankings of the
rest of the field have varied from poll
to poll, day to day.
And there is at least some evi
dence that the voters amid shift dra
matically in the next eight days.
“I’m a little surprised that this late
in the premess some polls are suggest
ing as high as one-third uncommit
ted” in the Democratic race, said
state Democratic Party chairman Joe
Grandmaison.
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Arafat orders hostage release
SI DON, Lebanon— PLOguerril
las Sunday surrounded a house hold
ing two kidnapped Scandinavian
United Nations employees and their
abductors, and PLO chief Yasser
Arafat ordered the hostages freed.
The Palestine Liberation
Organization’s Sidon commander,
Anwar Madi, who issued the order in
this southern Lebanese port city, said
his guerrillas might use force to re
lease the two captives.
“We shall try to gain their freedom
with peaceful means. But if this
proves ineffective, we shall resort to
other means,” Madi told reporters,
“we expect they will be free in 48
hours.”
Sources close to Madi said the two
captives — United Nations Relief
and Works Agency employees Jan
Stening, 44, of Sweden, and William
Jorgensen, 58, of Norway — were
being held in a deserted house that
had been encircled by PLO guerrillas
near Sidon’s Ein el-Hilwch refugee
camp.
“We have clear orders from Ara
fat to storm the hideout if the captors
fail to free the two captives peace
fully,’' said one source, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
Stemng and Jorgensen were trav
eling in an UNRWA car from their
base in the southern Lebanese port of
Tyre to Beirut on Friday when they
were intercepted and kidnapped by
masked gunman on Sidon’s southern
outskirts.
They were the first Scandinavians
to be abducted in Lebanon. An
UNRWA communique released Sat
urday said it had been established
that the captors were Palestinians
“acting individually without a politi
cal motive.”
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Department gives OK to private Contra efforts
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department says private supporters
of the Nicaraguan Contras can legally raise funds for the rebels.
The Contras’ backers will have to step gingerly, though, if they want
to avoid past mistakes that have led to criminal charges or made them
— both wittingly and unwittingly — part of the Iran-Contra affair.
For instance, U.S. law would prohibit the private backers from
shipping arms now in the United States to the Contras without State
Department approval.
And the department would have to agree before U.S. -made arms ;
could be sent from other countries to the rebels.
Other laws prohibit the launching of private military operations from j
U.S. soil and require registration of anyone operating as an agent of a
foreign entity. _ .
Internal Revenue Service rules say that tax-exempt charitable or
ganizations must raise money for food, clothing and shelter — not for
weapons.
Private Contra backers said last week they would try anew to raise
money for the rebels because of the House’s rejection of $36.2 million
in aid.
Three Palestinians killed in occupied territories
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinians on
Sunday and hospital officials said at least 25 other were wounded.
Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek declared that “coexistence between
Jews and Arabs has collapsed.’
Widespread demonstrations rocked the occupied territories of the
West Back and the Gaza Strip in one of the worst day s of bloodshed since
the protests began Dec. 8. Jerusalem also suffered as Arab activists cut
a water main, leaving several neighborhoods dry.
Two other Arabs — a 15-year-old boy hit in the head by a soldier
Saturday and a 10-year-old boy struck by a bullet last week — died of
injuries suffered earlier and dozens more were hospitalized after they
were beaten and teargassed by Israeli troops.
Nebraska lacks money to fund land conservation
More than 1 million acres of Nebraska farmland will need terraces
and other soil-saving improvements by 1995 to meet current farm laws,
but officials say only about half the government money needed is
available.
And the state’s 60,816 farmers and land owners arc receiving blunt
reminders from the federal government that they can be penalized
financially if improvements aren’t made.
“It has been determined that you have highly eiodiblc land,” letters
to farmers announce before warning that landowners have until 1990 to
plan improvements that the Soil Conservation Service will approve.
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