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News Digest Edited by Diana Johnson Newspapers: Mobil pulls out of S. Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa i - Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. hold out in South Africa, may have bowed to political and financial pressure to disinvcsl its holdings at fire-sale prices after 90 years of doing busi ness here, published reports said Wednesday. Business Day of Johannesburg quoted banking and other sources as confirming the sale by Mobil of about $400 million in assets for $150 mil a. lion to Trek, the largest privately owned oil company in South Africa. The local financial daily also said the Mobil properties would be sold in separate deals over a period of time. Mobil representatives in South Africa and the United States re mained silent about the reports. Jack Lord, spokesman for Mobil at its New York headquarters, said Wednesday the company had no comment. “We’d heard rumors they’d been doing contingency plans for with drawal,” said Diane Bratcher, a spokeswoman for the Interfaith Cen ter on Corporate Responsibility, a New York-based church group that pressures American companies to leave South Africa. “It sort of flies in the face of everything they’ve been saying.” News of the possible sale sent Trek shares soaring 15.3 percent from Monday to Tuesday on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Trek ---1 is a subsidiary of General Mining Union Corp., a South Africa mining conglomerate. Mobil employs almost 2,800 people in South Africa and has been a symbol of foreign business reluc tance to leave the country, despite widespread condemnation of the white-minority government’s sup pression of the black majority in the system known as apartheid. Partly because of South Africa’s race policies, more than 170 Ameri can companies have withdrawn over the last four years. Most have sold their operations at low prices to South African-controlled business. Since Exxon Corp., the largest U.S. oil concern, pulled out of South Africa in 1986, Mobil had insisted it would not bow to pressure to disin vest, despite pressure on the company by anti-apartheid groups in the United States. School: No more smooches or smacks NEDERLAND, Colo. - Offi cials have embraced a “Daylight Rule” to ban kissing and other affectionate displays between stu dents, but the American Civil Lib erties Union says the rule smacks of violating constitutional rights. The daylight rule, which means daylight must be visible between students, was enacted at Nederland School last week. About 270 stu dents, grades 7 through 12, attend the rural mountain school west of Boulder, which offers many teen agers their primary meeting place. “As a faculty, we just got tired of saying things to kids about kiss ing in the hallways,” said teacher Marsha Skaro. Students who violate the rule get a written warning; a second offense merits a letter to parents. A parent-student conference with school authorities is required for the third. Further discipline is not specified. Boulder County schools Super intendent Jim Hagar said the rule is the school’s prerogative. However, David Miller, re gional legal director of the ACLU, said discipline beyond notification of parents could threaten constitu tional rights of privacy and free dom of association. “As soon as they start to discipline somebody, then we at the ACLU will take the matter very seriously,' ’ Miller said Tuesday. Students said they resent the crackdown as a violation of basic human rights that will only drive them into surrounding forests. Report cites security lack at Moscow airport MOSCOW - Security is so lax at one of Moscow’s major airports that people have walked onto the runways and asked pilots to fly them to distant points for cash, a newspaper reported today. The Moscow regional newspaper, Lcninskoe Znamya, said people pass easily through checkpoints at Dcmodcdovo airport, one of the capi tal’s three major passenger terminals, without passports or tickets. In one case, a car drove onto the runway to unload luggage, the newspaper said. People treat Aeroflot passenger aircraft like city taxis at the airport, the paper said. The airport primarily services domestic routes, but foreign dignitaries often land there, and President Reagan’s plane arrived there when he came to Moscow for last year’s summit meeting. In one case, “a man walked be tween parked airplanes, then stopped and asked a pilot to take him to Baku,” 1,000 miles away, the news paper said. It said he offered to pay cash, but he had no documents 01 tickets. “At the same airport, a car drove right to the plane scheduled to leave for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (on the Soviet Pacific coast) started to unload heavy parcels, saying to an air hostess that the captain was aware of the load, which was a lie,” the Lcn inskoe Znamya said. The newspaper said the crunch of passengers at peak periods, particu larly in the summer, made it impos sible to check documents and pass ports properly. “A person with someone else’s passport can board a plane,” the newspaper said. It said baggage at many airports also was not checked carefully. In the past year, there were 1.966 attempts to smuggle weapons, mostly knives, aboard Soviet airliners, the newspaper said. At Moscow’s Domodedovo air port, sophisticated baggage-check ing equipment was bought but still is not in use, the newspaper said. ‘ ‘Fora year, the equipment has been kept in storage and planes arc flying with crews that do not know who or what they arc carrying,” Lcninskoe Znamya said. There have been three attempted hijackings this year. The latest on March 31 was an attempt to comman deer an airliner to Pakistan foiled by the KGB. Two attempts were reported in January, both stopped by police. In December 1988, four people commandeered a school bus, then 1 demanded to be flown to Israel I aboard an Ilyushin 76-T transport jet. I They were arrested in Tel Aviv and B returned to the Soviet Union. Inlormation head reveals details of alleged network NICOSIA, Cyprus - Iran’s infor mation minister on Wednesday re vealed details of what the Iranians say is a U.S. spy operation in Iran, alleging the agents included military officers, clergymen and civilians, official reports said. In a televised news conference, Mohammad Mohammadi Rcyshahri said the CIA “carried out acts of terrorism and sabotage in Iran, in cluding assassinations of high-rank ing officials,” the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The dispatcn was monitored in Nicosia. “These spy networks were organ ized by the United States to infiltrate the Islamic Republic system and di vert the revolution in the next dec ades,” Reyshahri said. IRNA quoted him as saying the Iranian agents had been recruited by the CIA “mainly from those Iranians calling at U.S. embassies abroad lor various purposes such as obtaining visitors visas to the United States. _-—i Netiraskan I Editor Curt Wagner 472-1766 Managing Editor Jan* Hlrt Assoc News Editors Lee Rood _ ... . _ Bob Nelson Editorial Page Editor Amy Edwards Wire Editor Diana Johnson Copy Desk Editor Chuck Green Sports Editor JettApel Arts & Entertainment Editor Mlckl Haller Diversions Editor Joeth Zucco Sower Editor Klrstln Swanson Supplements Editor Deanne Nelson Graphics Editor Tim Hartmann Photo Chief Connie Sheehan Night News Editors Victoria Ayotte Chris Carroll Librarian Anns Mohrl Art Directors John Bruce Andy Manhart General Manager Dan Shattll Production Manager Katharine Pollcky Advertising Manager Robert Bates Sales Manager David Thiemann Circulation Manager Eric Shanks Publications Board Chairman Tom Macy 475-9668 Professional Adviser Don Walton 473-7301 hr naily N®brasKan(USPS 144 080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Ne_ 1400 R Rt ■Lincoln' NE, Monday throuflh Fnday dunng the academic year, weekly during summer sessions, hu nifrfn ®ooouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Neb[as.,a0 763 between 9 am and 5pm Monday through Friday The public J^o suhi£SS i° he ,Publl<?«ons Board For information, contact Tom Macy, 4 76 9f* Subscription price is $45 for one year , Ann r to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34, ..Lincoln, NE 68588 0448 Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. 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