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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
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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. The story also incorrectly re
ported that a 4-H conference was in
South Dakota; it was really in North
Carolina. The DN regrets the errors.
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