''T News Digest SeKTESS--. NdSalskan ** Monday, April 25,1988 Iran attacks Saudi tanker MANAMA, Bahrain — An Ira nian speedboat shot up a Saudi Ara bian-owned tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday after President Reagan said the U.S. Navy will no longer ignore attacks on noncombat ants in the Persian Gulf region. The speedboat fired rocket-pro pelled grenades and machine guns at the 37,011-ton Sea Trader in the strait, the southern entrance to the gulf. An unexploded rocket dangled from the Sea Trader’s hull after the attack but fell into the sea before the tanker reached the port of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The Indian master, Capt. B.R. Pagarkar, reported his vessel sus tained slight damage and no casual ties among the Indian crew. It was not known whether any U.S. warships were near the Sea Trader during the attack. Navy officials do not disclose warships’ movements, but several U.S. frigates and destroy ers have been in the southern gulf since last week, when U.S. and Ira nian ships skirmished in the area. Reagan warned Iran in his weekly radio broadcast Saturday that contin ued attacks on neutral parties, includ ing gulf shipping, “will be very costly to Iran and its people.” On Friday, U.S. officials disclosed in Washington that the Reagan ad ministration was planning to expand the U.S. naval role in the gulf by giving American commanders the right to intervene in Iranian attacks on non-U.S. flag vessels. Previously, U.S. warships have only been permitted to provide i “humanitarian aid” to non-American j ships in distress and requesting aid, but not to intercede in armed conflict involving those ships. Gulf-base shipping executives said the Sea Trader encountered a flotilla of six armed speedboats. Soviet reforms face problems WASHINGTON — Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s economic reform program ran into problems last year and things aren’t likely to improve in the near future, U.S. intel ligence agencies said in a report re leased Sunday. Unless Gorbachev can do some thing to tum the economy around, he may find himself in trouble, said the bleak review which was conducted jointly by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. “Tension within society and the leadership will increase,” it said, “Bureaucrats will become increas ingly frustrated by loss of privileges and status and by demands that they show greater initiative. Military lead ers are likely to become more and more uneasy if benefits from the in n-- —= dustrial modernization fail to materi alize.” ‘‘Soviet citizens will need to see some improvement in living stan dards if the regime is to achieve nec essary gains in worker productivity and avoid widespread discontent,” the study said. The report concluded that ‘‘failure to head off these tensions would, at a minimum, make it more difficult to pursue his economic program vigor ously and could ultimately call into question his strong political position at home.” Gorbachev and supporters of his reforms have acknowledged resis tance at the highest levels, and there have been reports in Moscow of con flict over reform measures between Gorbachev and No. 2 Kremlin leader Yegor K. Ligachev. Army lifts four-day ban on Palestinian travel JERUSALEM — The army lifted a four-day ban Sunday to let Palestinians travel from the occupied territories into Israel, but Arabs said soldiers wrecked homes and shops in another bid to control unrest Israeli soldiers have killed 173 Palestinian protesters in the nearly five-month-old uprising against 21 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, according to U.N. figures. An Israeli soldier and civilian also have been killed. , Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told the Cabinet that 165 Palestini ans have died in the uprising, including 147 killed by soldiers, Israel radio said Sunday. Rabin said 4,900 Palestinians have been detained since Dec. 8, including 1,700 held in administrative detention for up to six months without trial. Police ordered Arab merchants in Jerusalem to open their stores at normal hours in a tug-of-war with protest leaders, who are also trying to dictate when shops may do business. Sloppy repairs, drunkenness plague Chernobyl MOSCOW — Sloppy repairs, drunkenness and nepotism are ram pant at the Chernobyl nuclear plant two years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Pravda said Sunday. The communist Party daily said engineering jobs at the plant were handed out to medics, teachers, veterinarians and people without any higher education. It also accused Chemobyrs managers of trying to resolve at any cost” obstacles to full electricity production at the plant “to the detriment of the quality of repair and maintenance of extremely intricate equipment.” The scathing attack was a departure from the numerous articles appearing in the Soviet press before Tuesday’s anniversary of the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the power plant 80 miles north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Previous stories have stressed the extensive safety equipment in stalled at the plant, improved worker training, the decrease to safe levels of radiation and the return of people to surrounding areas. Official says school system ‘still at risk’ WASHINGTON—Education Secretary William J. Bennett says the American education system has made little progress in the five years since a searing report called “A Nation At Risk” warned that the system was sinking below “a rising tide of mediocrity.” The school system, Bennett says in a report to be formally delivered to President Reagan on Tuesday, “is still at risk.” Bennett acknowledged that “American education has made some undeniable progress in the last few years— We are doing better than we were in 1983. “But,” he wrote, “we are certainly not doing well enough, and we are not doing well enough fast enough. We are still at risk. The absolute level at which our improvements are taking place is unacceptable low.” A story in the April 20 Daily Nebraskan omitted Tracy Overstreet’s name from a list of newly elected University of Ne braska-Lincoln 4-H officers. Over street, a freshman in broadcasting, was elected publicity director. Mitch Mason, a freshman agricultural eco nomics major, will be the parliamen tarian. 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