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Associated Press [V T “TT T T 7jT~t I JT / 1 T"V“VT"I ^0,0......... I J}(TKSI Monday, September 12, 1994 Page 2 News... in a Minute ! McFarlane’s memoir asserts plot WASHINGTON—Formcrnational security adviser Robert McFarlanc says an Israeli official proposed assassinating Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini in mid-1985, a period when the Reagan administration made the fateful decision to engage in arms-for-hostages deals with Iran. In a new book, McFarlanc asserts that David Kimchc, the director general of the Israeli foreign ministry, urged that Khomeini be killed, as part of a plan to have more moderate forces take control in Iran. “We cannot engage with you in an enterprise in which anyone’s purpose is to assassinate the Ayatollah,” McFarlanc says he told Kimchc. McFarlanc writes of the meeting in his newly released memoirs, “Special Trust.” Kimchc has denied McFarlanc’s assertion, telling CBS’ “60 Minutes” that the subject of killing the Ayatollah “never came up” in the July 1985 discussion at the White House. Pope pushes peace ZAGREB, Croatia—A frail but determined Pope John Paul II pushed ahead Sunday on his pilgrimage of reconciliation to the former Yugoslavia, urging Croatians to make peace with Muslims and Serbs. A crowd of at least 800,000 people turned out for an open-air Mass at a race track in Zagreb, capital of predominantly Roman Catholic Croatia, and the only stop on what the pope had planned as a wider tour to help heal the wounds of three years of bloodshed in former Yugoslavia. He repeated apromisc to visit Sarajevo “as soon as circumstances allow.” Dinasours to rise again NEW YORK — Director-producer Steven Spielberg plans a sequel to “Jurassic Park,” one of the biggest box-office successes of all time, but fans will have to wait more than two years. Forbes reported Sunday. The magazine made the disclosure in its Sept. 27 issue cover story about thcTop40bcst-paidcntcrtaincrs, which Spielberg led withestimated 1993 94 gross earnings of $335 million. Forbcssaidthcdinosaurs-comc-back-to-lifethrillcrwasamajorcontrib utor to Spielberg’s wealth, grossing $900 million at the box office. Sales of Jurassic Park-related merchandise generated an additional SI billion. Astronauts test shuttle steering CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Discovery’s astronauts fired their steer ing jets Sunday at the longest boom ever extended from a space shuttle, an eight-story-tall arm used to measure damage from engine exhaust. “I t ’ s an awesome sight,” astronaut Susan Hel ms sa id of the X2- fool bxxtm suspended over the shuttle cargo bay. Instruments at the end of the btxrm measured the pressure and heal of the jetexhaust as well as contain inants, any ofwhich could ruin solar panels, radiators and other large structures on a space station. The first shuttle-station docking is scheduled for next May. when Atlantis flics to Russia’s Mir. Shuttles also would have to dock frequently with an international space station that’s supposed to be built in orbit beginning in 1997. Discovery’s nine-day mission isdue toend nextSunday. NASA will add a 10th day for science purposes if power permits. Cuban exodus halted HAVANA —The ranks of boat people fleeing Cuba dwindled Sunday as police banned the building of homemade rafts and prepared to halt the exodas altogether. “We’re lucky, we’re the last.” said Maria Rodriguez, munching bread while her fellow rafters hauled their vessel of inner tubes and welded metal into the surf. Cuba and the United Slates settled their differences last week over the thousands ofCubans who have fled hunger and poverty in their Communist country this year. Under the deal reached Friday, the U.S. administration will admit at least 20,000 Cubans a year. In return, Cuba promised to halt the flight of boat people and gave rafters until Tuesday to remove their crafts from the beach. Rodriguez said she was leaving with 14 other people, including her 18 ycar-old son. She has not seen her husband since he fled Cuba in 1980 and took up residence in Puerto Rico, although they still talk on the telephone. _I Nebraskan Editor J«M Zeleny Night News Editors Chris Hain 472-1766 Doug Kouma Managing Editor Angle Brunkow Heather Lampe Assoc News Editors Jeffrey Robb Dave Vincent Rainbow Rowell Art Director James Mehsling Opinion Page Editor Kara Morrison General Manager Dan Shattii Wire Editor Deb McAdams Production Manager Katherine Policky Copy Desk Editor Mike Lewis Advertising Manager Amy Struthers Sports Editor Tim Pearson Asst Advertising Manager Sheri Krajewski Arts & Entertainment Publications Board Chairman Tim Hedegaard Editor Matt Woody 436-9258 Photo Director Kiley Christian Protessional Adviser Don Walton 473-7301 FAX NUMBER472-1761 The Daily NebraskantUSPS 144 080) is published by the UNI Publications Board. Ne braska Union 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly dunng summer sessions Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Fnday. The public also has access to the Publications Board For information, contact Tim Fledegaard. 436-9258. Subscription price is $50 for one year Postmaster send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34, 1400 R St. .Lincoln, NE 68588 0448. Second class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1994 DAILY NEBRASKAN Clues discovered in wreckage PITTSBURGH — Investigators are checking whether the right engine of a 'USAir jet suddenly went into reverse and caused the crash that killed 132 people, a safety official said Saturday night. The Boeing 737 dropped rapidly from 6,000 feet and crashed Thursday night in a thick forest six miles short of Pittsburgh International Airport. On Saturday, one of six thrust re verser activators on the right engine was found to have deployed—a possi ble indication of why the pilots lost control of the plane, N alional T reimpor tation Safety Board member Carl Vogt said. A pilot uses thrust reversers to slow the plane during landings. They can only be deployed by the pilot, Vogt said. “If a thrust reverser deploys in the air — this has happened on one aircraft several years ago, and resulted in an accident — it can have catastrophic consequences,” Vogt said at a news conference. “Any evidence that there was a deployed thrust reverser in flight demands serious attention.” “In layman’s terms, ifyou arc flying along with two engines and both arc going forward and one of them sudden ly reverses — if it were uncontaincd. you would lose control of the aircraft, lie said. A Boeing 737 has 12 thrust revers es. The activator in question was found with five others; fourofwhich were not deployed and one with a status that could not be determined. Investigators will continue to seach for the other activators. Investigators also found the rudder on the plane's tail was turned 4 to 8 degrees to the righf, Vogt said. They are trying to determine if that turn occurred before or after the crash. A United Airlines 737 that crashed nose-first in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1991 appeared to haveproblcmswith its rudder, although the exact cause of that crash has not been determined. All 25 people aboard were killed. TheColorado Springs crash prompt ed the Federal Aviation Administration to order tests on all Boeing 737 rudder controls. The Boeing 737 that crashed Thursday had been checked several times since then and no problems with its rudder were found. A speedometer in the cockpit indi cated the plane was traveling at about 303 mph when it hit the ground, Vogt said. Witnesses who saw the plane in the “In layman's terms, if you are flying along with two engines and both are going forward and one of them suddenly reverses ... you would lose control of the aircraft. ” ■ CARL VOGT National Transportation and Safety Board air said it rolled over on its belly to the left and went down nose first. Vogt said one witness reported seeing the plane go down in a corkscrew pattern. A group of witnesses at a nearby auto dealership reported hearing a surging noise of thrust, followed by silence and then a whining noise as the aircraft fell, Vogt said. One witness saw a pulT of smoke, he said. Christopher: invasion in ‘nation’s interest’ WASHINGTON (AP)— Secretary of State Warren Christopher stressed Sunday that U.S. credibility is at stake in restoring democracy in Haiti, and that President Clinton is moving ahead with military plans despite the current opposi t ion of most A mcricans and mem bers of Congress to sending U.S. forces into Haiti. “Sometimes a president has a re sponsibility. He has to do what is in the nation’s interest,” Christopher said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Christopher and U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright made clear, again, the administration’s message that it has run out of patience with the military leaders who ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide from power in a Sep tember Iddl coup. “Their days arc numbered,” Albright said on ABCVThis Week With David Brinkley.” But there appeared some discrepan cy overwhethcr Gen. Raoul Cedras and other top officials would have to leave Haiti before the United States would call o(T its invasion plans. The restored democracy could deal with Cedras if he stays, Christopher said. “The important thing is not what he docs next, it is that he steps down, relinquishes control of the government to the constitutional powers, as he should.” Albright, however, said Cedras and his associates “have to leave. That has been made very clear. We have deliv ered the message.” Christopheralso strongly denied that the administration hoped to make pol it ical gains by staging an invasion shortly before the November congressional elec tions. “Let me tell you that those charg es are just pure baloney. There is just no partisanship in this situation." Sen. John McCain, R-Art/... a lead ing critic of the proposed use of U.S. force in Haiti, said he agreed thatCl inton would not launch an invasion for polit ical reasons. But he warned that Christopher’s prediction that most U.S. forces would be replaced by a U.N. peacekeeping force within a few months were overly optimistic. “I believe that Cedras and his people would melt into the popula tion. We would sec popular uprising and the kinds of scenarios that we saw between 1915 and 1934,” when U.S. troops occupied Haiti, McCain said. “He had better not do it (invade) without some assurance that he’ll re ceive the backing of Congress and the American people. Otherwisc.ovcrtime, we will find that confidence eroded and perhaps a very embarrassing w i thdraw al." Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan.. appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation” said the Republicans will oiler amendments in the coming weeks chal lenging Clinton’s authority to use mil itary force. “The president would lose because he has not made the case” for invasion. Dole said. Christopher and Albright confirmed that several countries outside the hemi sphere, including Belgium, the Nether lands and Israel, have agreed to join a U.N. peacekeeping force that will move into Haiti after U.S.-dominated forces restore democracy. He said the U.N. peacekeepers, to be comprised mainly of non-Americans, could be out by early 1996, following presidential elections at the endof 1995.
