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Sancflinistas launch offensive against Contras
WASHINGTON — Nicaraguan forces, using aerial bombardment
and heavy artillery, launched a major offensive Tuesday against Contra
rebels in the northern partof the country and sent troops into neighboring
Honduras, IJ.S. and Contra officials said.
“They have overrun certain of our positions,” said Ernesto Palario,
director of the Contra’s Washington office.
Palazio estimated that about 3,500 front line Sandinista forces aided
by 4,000 backup troops were involved,
The operation occurred less than a week before the rescheduled
lesumption of cease-fire talks.
Convicted murderer put to death in Florida
STARKE, Fla.—Convicted murderer Willie Jasper Darden went to
his death Tuesday proclaiming his innocence and thanking people
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14-year battle to escape the electric chair.
For the widow of the man he shot between the eyes, Darden's
execution on an unprecedented seventh death warrant offered hope,
finally, for peace of mind.
- ‘'I think it's long overdue," Helen Turman Baum said minutes after
the execution about 7 a.m. at the Florida State Pristm. “f&d&a Jo
himself.**
Among 1,600 telephone calls Monday, the majority protesting, was
one from Jackson. Nobel Peace Prize winner Sakharov and Amnesty
International also called for a halt to the execution.
Orr says she won’t be Republican running mate
OMAHA — Gov, Kay Orr says if the Republican presidential
nominee asks her to be his running mate, she will refuse.
•‘Give me credit for being a smart lady,” she said Monday after
speaking loan honor roll program at Northwest High School.u!’m going
to stay here in Nebraska, where 1 enjoy living.*’
U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp, R-NY, who dropped out of the presidential
race last week, said in February that he would have considered Mrs. On
as his running mate.
Asked by the Omaha World-Herald if she would refuse the second
spoton the 1988 GOP ticket if asked by cither George Bush or Bob Dole,
Mrs. Orr said, “Thai’s right, plain and simple.”
Karnes reprimands staffer who met with Arafat
OMAHA — U.S. Sen. David Karnes said Tuesday that he had
reprimanded a member of his staff who met with Palestine Liberation
Organization leader Yasser Arafat.
Baker Spring, a foreign policy assistant for the Nebraska Republican,
met with Arafat in Baghdad during a trip to Iraq in January. Karnes said
he was not aware of die meeting before it occurred.
Spring and the others went to Iraq under the sponsorship of a private
group, the National Council of U.S. - A rab Relations, and Karnes said he
approved the eight-day trip because it “provided an opportunity for
expanding trade with Iraq.”
However, the meeting with Arafat was not on Lhe agenda. Karnes said
the meeting was arranged after the group already was m Iraq and that
Spring had no opportunity to contact him.
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First black archbishop named
ATLANTA — Bishop Eugene A.
Marino, named Tuesday as the first
black Roman Catholic archbishop in
the United States, said his appoint
ment as head of the Atlanta archdio
cese is “a great sign of hope to all our
people.”
The appointment by Pope John
Paul II comes more than two years
after Marino and other black bishops
wrote a pastoral letter calling on the
church to increase the number of
blacks in official positions.
‘‘The church has spoken but has
the church listened to itself?” said the
letter, suggesting that in the absence
of a major appointment such as a
black archbishop in a big city, “ the
church’s commitment to black lead
ership may be seen a half-hearted and
superficial ”
The Atlanta archdiocese has only
10,000 blacks among its 156,000
Catholics. Of 52 million Catholics
nationwide, 1.3 million arc black.
Marino said he could sec in his
appointment “a sign of hope to all
men and women of good will that the
church recognizes its wealth within
its own ranks ...”
“I think that this appointment is a
sign of hope to all minorities that the
church in general” and the pope in
particular arc sensitive to the needs of
blacks, Marino told reporters.
Marina, 53, is one of 12 black
bishops in the United Slates and has
served as an auxiliary bishop in the
Washington, D.C., archdiocese since
1974. In 1985, he was elected secre
tary of the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, the first black to
hold an office in the organization. He
is a member of the Society of St.
Joseph, formed in the late 18(X)’s to
work in the black community.
Gorbachev visits Yugoslavian plant
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia —
Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday
loured a factory lhat exports indus
trial robots to the United States and
the Soviet Union, and he met with
workers who run the plant under
Yugoslavia’s local-management
system.
The reform-minded Soviet leader
is on a five-day visit to Yugoslavia,
getting his first look at this independ
ent Communist country’s less cen
tralized economy.
Soviet officials said Gorbachev
was “very satisfied” with his first two
days of talks with Yugoslav leaders
and seeks ways of developing closer
relations with the country Moscow
once denounced for “revisionist”
policies.
President Josip Broz Tito broke
with Josef Stalin in 1948, defying the
Kremlin’s authority in the the com
munist world, and developed lies to
the West. Years of plots and military
threats from Moscow followed.
Relations were mended in the
1950s, with Nikita Khrushchev in
charge at the Kremlin, but the last
visit to Yugoslavia by a Soviet leader
was in 1980, when Leonid Brezhnev
attended Tito’s funeral.
During a brief photo session Tucs
day, Gorbachev told reporters: “We
got off to a good start.”
A new declaration acknowledg
ing Yugoslavia’s independence from
Soviet control is expected to result
from his visit. Soviet officials said
the document would be signed Tues
day and published Wednesday, re
placing similar declarations in 1955
and 1956.
Bush rolls to victory in Illinois
CHICAGO—George Bush won a
ringing victory Tuesday in the Illinois
primary, but Sen. Bob Dole vowed,
“we’re staying in the race” for the
Republican presidential nomination.
Sen. Paul Simon led Jesse Jackson in
the battle between Democratic favor
ite sons.
In the separate contest for conven
tion delegates, Bush hoped to pad his
seemingly insurmountable lead and
Jackson bid to narrow the gap be
tween himself and front-runner,
Massachusetts Gov. Michael
Dukakis.
The Simon-Jackson battle made
third place worth winning to the rest
of the Democrats, and Dukakis bid to
claim it over Sen. Albert Gore Jr. and
Rep. Richard Gephardt.
CBS News, relying on polling
place interviews with the voters, said
Simon would be the Democratic
winner.
Simon was rated the slight favorite
on the Democratic side as he sought a
victory he said was essential to sus
tain his candidacy. He campaigned as
the man to represent Illinois at the
bargaining table of what he said
would be a brokered Democratic
National convention in Atlanta.
Returns from 12 percent of the
Illinois precincts showed Bush with
59 perccntof the vote to 34 percent for
Dole. Former television evangelist
Pat Robertson was gaining slightly
less than the 5 percent he said he
needed to justify remaining in the
race.
Democratic returns from 13 per
cent of the precincts showed Simon
with 49 percent of the support.
Dukakis had 23 percent to 19 percent
for Jackson — but there seemed no
question Jackson would finish at least
second once the votes four the pre
dominantly black precincts of Chi
cago were counted.
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Study finds loss ot protecting ozone
WASHINGTON — High-alti
tude ozone, which protects humans
from skin cancer, shows an unex
plained thinning of about 2.3 percent
since 1969 over mid-latitudes of the
Northern hemisphere — an area that
includes most of the United States,
scientists said Tuesday.
The decline, which is at least
twice as large in winter at high lati
tudes, was almost certainly the result
of human use of ozone-destroying
chemicals, the researchers said, in
what is believed to be the most defini
tive report on ozone concentrations
to date.
Ozone, a pollutant atground level,
makes possible life on earth by block
ing the harmful ultraviolet rays of the
sun at high altitudes. The Environ
mental Protection Agency has esti
mated that every 1 percent decline in
ozone overhead means an eventual
increase in skin cancer of 5 percent to
6 percent
Satellite data from 1978 on are
consistent with a similar shrinkage in
me oOUuiem nemispnere, according
to the report of a panel assembled by
the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
The satellite data show a similar
unexplained decline in ozone around
the middle of the globe in both hemi
spheres of about 0.5 percent to 1.8
percent form 1978 to 1987. The ac
tual decline is larger, about 2.5 per
cent, but most of it results from vari
ations in the output of the sun, the
panel said.
Differences not bridged in peace plan
WASHINGTON — Secretary of
State George P. Shultz said Tuesday
he was unable to bridge differences
with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir over a U.S. plan for opening
Mideast peace negotiations by May 1.
But he called the first of three days
of talks with Shamir constructive and
said “we feel encouraged to continue
our efforts to work with Israel and
others in the Middle East.”
Shamir underscored one of the
main differences. He said that in
Israel’s view, the Middle East peace
conference Shultz wants to convene
next month to set the stage for nego
tiations could not play “any positive
role.”
President Reagan sought, mean
while, to reassure Shamir he would
not be put under U.S. pressure to
agree to any particular solution to
Israel’s 40-year dispute with the
Arabs.
But Reagan stressed that “making
progress toward peace in the Middle
East not only serves mutual interests,
it is urgent.”
In a speech to the United Jewish
Appeal, the president said he would
tell Shamir at the While House on
Wednesday that “peace will not be
imposed by us or anyone else.”
“We haven’t found our way to
bridge all of the differences,” Shultz
said. “I sec quite clearly what the
nature of the differences are and what
they aren’t.”
Shultzdid not offer any details, but
Shamir restated his opposition to an
international forum that would in
clude the Soviet Union and China,
which do not have diplomatic rela
tions with Israel and usually support
Arab positions.
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Shelter found in freezer
...NORTH PLATTE — A North Platte woman found shelter from a
blinding snowstorm and frigid temperatures by crawling into an aban
doned freezer, authorities said.
Sue Hettinger, 52, suffered from exposure and bruised her fingers
trying to escape from the freezer, where she apparently spent the whole
weekend. She was listed in stable condition Tuesday at Great Plains
Regional Medical Center, a spokeswoman said.
Mrs. Hettinger, dressed in a down-filled coat and other winter
clothing, left her home Friday morning to go for a walk, her husband,
Henry, said Monday.
She apparently was disoriented when she set off into the near
bli/zard conditions Friday, authorities said.
When she hadn't turned up by early Friday afternoon, Hettinger
reported his wife missing.
Searchers combed the area over the weekend, but they began to
expect the worst, said Chief District 9 Probation Officer Dave Wegner,
one ot the searchers.
A Union Pacific worker heard someone yelling for help and saw a
and sticking out ol an old commercial-style chest freezer Monday
morning. J
a ty)P**renlty s^c had gotten in the freezer to get out of the weather
ana tne door had blown shut and she remained there until she was
discovered this morning,” said Police Lt. Rick Ryan.