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Condoms distributed
to New York inmates
By JOHN SHANAHAN
Assoiated Press Writer
NEW YORK Homosexual in
mates in New . York City jails will be
able to obtain condoms as part of a
pilot program to prevent the spread
of AIDS, the city health commission
er said yesterday.
The program also will include edu
cation about acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome for guards and
inmates, and all inmates will receive
educational material and condoms
when released from jail, Health Com
Coup attempt by 400 soldiers fails in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) Officers th
warted a plan by about 400 soldiers to seize a
private school and hold foreign children hos
tage in a coup attempt against President
Corazon Aquino, officials and sources said
yesterday.
The plot was at least the sixth reported
since Aquino assumed power in February
1986, when former President Ferdinand E.
Marcos fled the country. According to the
repoits, the plot crumbled over the weekend
when officers learned of it and confined the
men to their barracks.
Amidst tradition,
Shultz talks arms
By BARRY SCHWEID
•AP Diplomatic Writer
MOSCOW (AP) U.S. Secretary of
State George P. Shultz held three
rounds of talks yesterday with Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevard
nadze, taking up the critical issue of
nuclear arms reductions at an un
scheduled late night session.
There was no immediate word on
the outcome. At the California White
House, meanwhile, presidential Chief
of Staff Howard H. Baker Jr. said he
would not be surprised to see a deci
sion on a superpower summit emerge
by the end of Shultz' three-day visit.
The Soviet news agency Tass, how
ever, accused Washington of "a fresh
cock-and-bull story" of Soviet espio
nage at the U.S. Embassyin Moscow.
The dispatch said the Pentagon came
up with the "spy scare" in an effort to
undercut the State Department.
Charles E. Redman, the State De
partment spokesman, said Shultz and
Shevardnadze brought their arms
control experts to the evening meet
ing.
The meeting was held after a Pas
sover Seder attended by Shultz at the
U.S. Embassy with about 40 promi
nent Jewish "refuseniks," people
who have been refused permission to
emigrate.
Wearing the traditional Jewish
skull cap, Shultz told those assembled
at the supper, "Never give up, never
give up."
Shultz also delivered to one of
them, Vladimir Slepak, a photograph
of the refusenik's grandchildren that
Slepak's son Alexander gave him in
Washington.
Shultz attended the Seder, which
recalls Jewish deliverance from slav
ery under the Egyptian pharaoh, to
demonstrate continued U.S. support
for Soviet Jews. He told them U.S.
citizens are praying for them.
missioner Stephen Joseph said in a
news conference with Correction
Commissioner Richard J. Koehler.
"Sexual activity is a prohibited
activity in the prison system, but it
would be naive to think it does not go
on at all," Joseph said.
Condoms will be available to the
roughly 90 adult male inmates who
have identified themselves as homo
sexuals and are in the homosexual
housing area of one-of the jails on
Rikers Island.
The program is scheduled to be
phased in over the next three months.
Military sources said the mutinous enlisted
men were led by a master sergeant. No
arrests were reported.
In the 18-year-old Communist insurrection,
soldiers captured northern Luzon's, main
guerrilla base and killed about 40 rebels
during a three-week operation, the army
said. It did not give government casualties.
Battles on Samar island in the VisayaS
chain last week left nine rebels, eight soldiers
and two civilians dead. Reports said guerril
las in northern Mindanao killed five civilians.
Brig. Gen. Alexander Aguirre, command
Shultz and Shevardnadze held two
rounds of talks Monday morning and
afternoon to try to stabilize relations
in the midst of a bitter exchange of
spy charges.
Those sessions and a working lunch
were held at a Foreign Ministry guest
house about a mile from the Kremlin.
Sunny skies, melting the little slush
left, spoke of spring.
A special van was set up to provide
secure communications for Shultz to
Washington and for meetings with his
staff. The United States has accused
the Soviets of infiltrating the embas
sy with the collusion of some U.S.
Marine guards and gaining access to
classified materials.
About three dozen reporters and
photographers were taken on a tour
of two rows of red-brick townhouses
where American diplomats have
lived since late last year. Construc
tion on the new embassy building
stopped in 1985.
President Reagan said last week
the new, $l9l million embassy com
plex might have to be torn down.
Raymond Benson, the U.S. press
and cultural counselor, said "we've
never seen any listening devices" in
the residences. But last week con
gressional probers claimed that
eavesdropping devices were hidden
during unsupervised Soviet construc
tion.
Shultz planned to complain to She
vardnadze about a "pattern of in
trusiveness and hostility." But he
also said before coming to Moscow on
a three-day visit \ that he wanted "to
find our way to a more constructive
relationship" and to lower the level of
nuclear weapons.
No details of Shultz's talks with
Shevardnadze were made public. The
Soviet news agency Tass reiterated
its critical view of Reagan's Strategic
Defense Initiative
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er of the Manila military region, said intelli
gence agents learned of the plot against the
International School in the capital two weeks
ago and "temporarilly neutralized it."
Col. Honesto Isleta, chief military spokes
man, said Marcos may have financed the
plan but this could not be confirmed. Marcos,
who was in power 20 years, now lives in
Hawaii.
Military sources said a letter given to an
army officer last month said the operation
was led by a master sergeant, but they did
not identify him.
World population
breaks 5 billion
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON D.C. The rate at
which people are being born is speed
ing up again, just as the planet's
population edges past the 5 billion
milestone, a population study group
reported yesterday.
The private Population Reference
Bureau cited an easing of strict birth
limits in China as a prime reason for
the turnaround in population growth.
The Bureau's new World Popula
tion Data Sheet for 1987 estimates
that the July 1 population of the world
will be 5.026 billion.
The United Nations has projected
that the world will pass the 5 billion
milestone early in July, while another
private study group, The Population
Institute, calculated that the event
occurred last year.
In its new report, the Population
Reference Bureau estimated the
worldwide birth rate at 28 births per
1,000 people, up from 27 last year. The
world's rate had been 27 for two
years, down from 28 in 1984 and 29 in
1983, the group said. •
"If Beijing continues to ease up on
its population policy, it will shatter
The letter included a drawing of an in
verted Philippine flag, said to be the group's
insignia.
According to the letter, the insurgents
intended to seize the International School and
hold the 2,500 students and their teachers
hostage.
Rebel enlisted men then planned to gather
at the Manila race track, then take over
military camps in the region, it said, indicat
ing that enlisted men at each case were
expected to help.
A report by the official Philippines News
Legal action gives
Texaco protection
By JOHN C. GIVEN
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK Texaco gained
ground in its multibillon-dollar legal
war with Pennzoil Co. by filing for
protection under federal bankruptcy
laws, analysts said yesterday.
In taking the step, Texaco relieved
itself of the necessity of posting a
potentially debilitating security bond
against the roughly $ll billion
judgment won by Pennzoil against
Texaco in a 1985 Houston jury deci
sion.
That effectively removed a nego
tiating club that Pennzoil had been
wielding over Texaco, giving the
White Plains, N.Y.-based giant oil
company plenty of time to negotiate a
settlement, they said.
This is a benefit to Texaco because
the more time it has, the more chance
it has of winning a reversal of the
decision, and the more time Pennzoil
has to wait to get its money, or some
part of the award.
Even if Texaco eventually loses the
fight, it still stands to be better off,
said Bruce Lazier, an analyst at the
Prescott, Ball & Turben Inc. securi
ties firm:
"Pennzoil could win the final suit.
But it's up to the bankruptcy judge to
determine how much Texaco is going
to pay," he said.
In addition, Lazier noted, Pennzoil
will have to stand in line for its money
with other creditors whose claims are
not backed by Texaco assets.
"I think it was a superb move,"
Lazier said of Texaco's filing for
reorganization under Chapter 11 of
bankruptcy law. "They had little
choice. Their banks, their creditors;
their suppliers were starting to shut
them down."
In announcing the move Sunday,
Texaco Officials insisted the company
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current assumptions about a continu
ing slowdown in the global popula
tion's growth rate." said bureau
specialist Carl Haub. "China's sheer
size dominates the entire demogra
phic picture."
China's policy of one child per
family had been very effective in
reducing growth in recent years, but
that has not been stressed as heavily
this year, said Mary Kent of the
bureau.
As a result, China's birth rate
jumped from 18 per 1,000 people in
1986 to 21 this year and "they may
have trouble getting it back down,"
Kent said in a telephone interview.
"They didn't mean to ease up that
much," she said, adding that there
have been indications that Chinese
officials plan to renew their stress on
small families.
Kent cited a combination of factors
for the Chinese increase in births,
including some public reaction
against the strict limits, a large num
ber of young people moving into the
childbearing ages and Some changes
in the age at which people marry.
Between 1986 and 1987, the Chinese
population grew from 1.263 billion to
1.275 billion.
Agency said senior officers learned of the
plan and put the entire military on full alert
for the weekend, confining all units to base.
About 38 percent of International School
students are American, many the children of
diplomats or businessmen. Another 15 per
cent are Filipino and the rest are from India,
Pakistan, South Korea, Australia and various
European and Asian nations.
Amelia Ramos, wife of armed forces com
mander Fidel V. Ramos, works in the regis
trar's office of the school.
will be conducting business as usual
while reorganizing its finances.
A few industry watchers suggested
this view was optimistic at best.
"It's not mirrors. It's not percep
tion. It's a real bankruptcy," said
Richard Lieb, a bankruptcy special
ist at the Kronish, Lieb, Weiner &
Hellman law firm. "Texaco's got real
problems."
One of those problems stemmed
from Texaco's previous warnings
that it might file under Chapter 11 if it
could not negotiate a resolution to the
Pennzoil judgment.
Those concerns should be less of a
problem, said Rosario Ilaqua, of the
L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin
securities firm. •
"First," he said, "they had $3 bil
lion in cash on hand. Second, with
Chapter 11, their interest and divi
dend payments are suspended
that's another $1.5 billion; and third,
their cash flow looks like $3 billion."
Texaco Chairman Alfred C. De-
Crane Jr. sought on Sunday to calm
the fears of companies with which it
does business.
Under Chapter 11, Texaco will be
free to conduct its business while all
debts to creditors remain frozen as it
seeks to work out a way to pay the
debts.
High on that list is Pennzoil, which
won a 1985 judgment that Texaco
wrongfully interfered with a merger
agreement between Pennzoil •and
Getty Oil Co. and then acquired Getty
itself.
A Houston jury awarded Pennzoil
$10.53 billion in damages, since re
duced to $8.5 billion, but with.interest
it amounts to about $ll billion.
Texaco faced a Texas state require
ment that it post bond equivalent to
the award or an amount suitable to
Pennzoil while appealing the ver
dict.
state news briefs
Mellon appoints new chief executive
PITTSBURGH (AP) On the first business day after reporting
the first loss in its 118-year history, $6O million in the 1987 first
quarter, Mellon Bank yesterday said Chairman J. David Barnes
had resigned and a search was on for a permanent successor.
Nathan W. Pearson, 75, the senior member of the board of
directors, was named by the board at a meeting Sunday to fill
Barnes' posts as chairman and chief executive until a new leader is
found. The shakeup was announced yesterday.
Barnes' exit offers no assurance that Mellon can extract itself
any faster from a tide of non-performing loans in the energy
dependent Southwest and to developing nations, primarily Brazil,
AFL-ClO says treaty was broken
HARRISBURG (AP) Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Julius
Uehlein yesterday accused business leaders of trying to break faith
with a 1983 unemployment compensation agreement.
Uehlein also said business leaders are "crying wolf" about the
unemployment tax burden. Although a federal unemployment
compensation tax is increasing, the state tax and overall average
tax burden are dropping, the labor leader said.
He said the state Chamber of Business and Industry, the
Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association and a group of small
businesses are lobbying legislators for benefit changes that he
called potentially devastating,
Heidnik's handwriting analyzed
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The north Philadelphia man charged
with killing two women and torturing others is a loner with a highly
creative, emotional nature that leads to explosiVe outbursts,
according to a handwriting analyst.
Gary Heidnik's handwriting shows "he is easily annoyed, has a
volatile temper, is quite domineering and has a strong need to
control others and his environment," analyst Robert J. Phillips told
the Philadelphia Daily News.
Phillips, trained as a handwriting expert with the Secret Service
and now self-employed, was hired by the Daily News to analyze
three letters by the 43-year-old Heidnik.
Heidnik's handwriting indicates strong talent in art and music,
and he probably would benefit from some kind of art therapy to
relieve tension, said Phillips.
nation news briefs
FAA investigating 4 near accidents
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The Federal Aviation Administra
tion is investigating four incidents over a 10-hour period in which
commercial jetliners came within danger of colliding with smaller
planes, officials disclosed yesterday.
The four near-collisions last Friday involving jetliners from
United Airlines, Trans World Airlines, Northwest Airlines and
American Airlines are considered an unusually high number,
according to aviation safety experts. •
The FAA is already under criticism because of an increasing
number of such incidents,
Two neo-Nazis convicted
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) Two former White Patriot
Party members were convicted yesterday of conspiring to buy
stolen military weapons for .a series of robberies and assassina
tions, while a third was acquitted of his conspiracy charge.
"Today's convictions prove that the white supremacist
movement is not alive and well in North Carolina," said U.S.
Attorney Sam Currin after a six -man, six-woman U.S. District
Court jury handed down its decision midway through its second day
of deliberations.
"If we had lost this case, it would have been a real shot in the arm
for the neo-Nazi movement," he added.
Stephen Miller, 36, of Fayetteville, could be sentenced to 25 years
in prison and fined $30,000 for his convictions of conspiracy to
obtain illegal weapons, possession of an illegal machine gun and
possession of an illegal silencer, Currin said.
Death row inmate in legal limbo
EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) Henry Rogers Anderson has spent 27
years on death row, longer than any other U.S. prisoner, sentenced
to die under a law that no longer exists and prevented from
pressing an appeal by his demand to defend himself and a diagnosis
of mental illness.
An appeal by Anderson, 73, is still on the U.S. Supreme Court's
special docket, cases the court does not expect to act on in the near
future, where it was placed in 1962.
"No one speaks for me," is the law school graduate's motto. U.S.
Supreme Court justices once informally agreed he probably had
the right to argue his own case, but they also agreed to wait until his
mental health improved. •
world news briefs
East German chief refuses invitation
BONN, West Germany (AP) Erich Honecker - rejected an
invitation yesterday to become the first Communist East German
leader to visit West Berlin.
The official East German press agency ADN, in a brief report,
said Honecker decided not to accept the invitation from West Berlin
Mayor Eberhard Diepgen to attend April 30 ceremonies marking
Berlin's 750th anniversary.
Explaining Honecker's refusal, the agency cited statements by
Diepgen last year objecting to East Germany's claims on East
Berlin. West German sources said Moscow also apparently ob
jected to Honecker visiting West Berlin.
Soviet space station links
MOSCOW (AP) Two cosmonauts working in space for nearly
four hours removed an "alien object" caught between the orbiting
Mir laboratory and a space module, allowing a firm linkup between
the two craft, Soviet media said Sunday.
The object, which had prevented an airtight connection, ap
peared to be a plastic bag, said the official Tass news agency.
"The object was removed," said Radio Moscow. "On command
from ground control the two spacecraft were then docked into a
single complex."
The linkup ended a week of efforts by Soviet mission control to
dock the Kvant module, which is carrying important research
equipment, with the Mir.
Posters criticize Pope John Paul II
ROME (AP) Pope John Paul II denounced riots that disrupted
a Mass during his visit to Santiago and said yesterday the trouble
underscored his belief that violence will not solve Chile's political
problems.
John Paul returned yesterday from a two-week trip to Uruguay,
Chile and Argentina.
He praised the "dignity" of the many faithful who remained until
the end of the Mass he conducted April 3 at a park in Santiago,
Chile.
Groups of young Chileans in the crowd of 600,000 threw stones,
prompting police to respond with water cannon and tear gas. At
least 260 people were injured.
The pope's homily at the Mass warned against violence both by
the 13-year-old military government of President Augusto Pinochet
and by its leftist opponents.
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