—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1987 state/nation/world Haitians fear more terror By ed McCullough Associated Press Writer PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Hai tians stayed home yesterday, fearful of deadly streets where men with machine guns and machetes killed at least 34 people in a weekend of terror that destroyed the first free election in 30 years. Most presidential candidates could not be reached at their homes or offices. The independent Electoral Council's nine members were in hid ing. Plane search fruitless; 115 people missing By VISETSAK SANGUANPONG Associated Press Writer KANCHANABURI, Thailand - Searchers trekked through mountain jungles and scanned the Thai-Bur mese border from the air yesterday but found no trace of a South Korean jetliner that vanished over Burma with 115 people aboard. Officials admitted they had no idea in which country the aircraft might have crashed or why it disappeared Sunday on a flight from Baghdad, Iraq to Seoul. The search was sus pended until daybreak today and would focus on both land and sea. A flurry of conflicting reports yes terday from Thai and South Korean officials added to the confusion sur rounding the disappearance of Ko rean Airlines flight 858. Early yesterday, Air Vice Marshal Sommot Sundaravej, spokesman for the Thai air force, said the Boeing jet crashed in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province, along the border. Later, Col. Punlop Roongsumphun, police chief of Kanchanaburi prov ince, said a helicopter crew spotted the wreckage of the plane. The search then concentrated on that area, about 100 miles west of Bangkok. * ee = ...win uu T PESE HEALS* |J3 ■♦CUtCICN DINNER''** # 4« NOW3«SV B.l© DINNERNOW 25 !{ ■♦Combo cuickn rib^s^nov/j 25 / * eilfdinners or potato salap or CpeNCH-PRj&S, CDLeSCAIAJ, AIOP BP€AD // 4-9 PM'/ Boy one DttfweK** Reoewe of eQv£ or tesseft vacug for. HALF PfUC6 & Fbp_ Sl*.fk)dLs// Most businesses were closed. Few cars or public minibuses could be seen and the city’s industrial park was virtually deserted. Small groups of men could be seen in some neigh borhoods. Scores of people were wounded Sunday by roving bands that attacked voting stations and people at random in the streets, while the army did nothing to step in. Gunmen shot up the Electoral Council headquarters. Soldiers patrolled the city yester day, but had little to do. The military-dominated National At the Seoul airport, hundreds of relatives of passengers burst into tears when KAL officials, after hear ing the Thai report, announced the plane had crashed. Most of the pas sengers were South Korean construc tion workers returning from jobs in the Middle East. But later, Lt. Gen. Chitr Boonya chai of Kanchanaburi police told re porters: “We did not spot the wreckage or find out anything about the aicrcraft. Initial police reports were uncertain.” Meanwhile, KAL president Cho Choong-kun said the airline’s investi gation was concentrating on the pos sibility a bomb had destroyed the jetliner. ‘ ‘A bomb may have been planted by terrorists or other impure groups,” said Cho, who arrived in Bangkok with a team of investigators and set out for the province. South Korean officials said they were not ruling out the possibility of hijacking or sabotage. “Kanchanaburi is only one possibil ity, but we’re also paying attention to Burmese territory and the high seas. All kinds of possibilities exist,” South Korean embassy spokesman Lee Seong-Eon said. “ONIYAT I^ USstspiß??; ON CDLL6GE AV6/ DAILY FROM 4-9 ASJ Qf Governing Council postponed the first election of a president and legislature since 1957, when Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier began the family dictatorship that ended Feb. 7,1986. Silvio Claude, a major presidential candidate, asked that an internation al military force be sent to the pover ty-stricken Caribbean nation to supervise a new election. “We call on a group of nations —the Organization of American States or the United Nations to send multina tional forces to conduct elections if the United States, the boss of the Mayor buried Chicago residents pay final respects By LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press Writer CHICAGO The city bid a tearful farewell yester day to Mayor Harold Washington with prayers and praise as dignitaries, family and friends gathered at his funeral and thousands mourned outside under wet, gray skies. Ministers, politicians and relatives eulogized the city s first black mayor before his flag-draped casket as a scrappy political fighter with a warm sense of humor. He died Wednesday of a heart attack at age 65. Several speakers vowed to carry on Washington’s self-proclaimed reform administration and surmount the political struggle now swirling around who will be chosen acting mayor. The death angel can make the very important irrelevant in the winking of an eye,” said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, his eyes misty with tears. “How could he take Harold, we ask? We are hurt, we need him so much. We 11 miss you, buddy ... we will not let you down,” Jackson pledged, drawing applause inside the non denominational Christ Universal Temple. Jackson, a Chicago-based civil rights leader and Democratic presidential candidate, said Washington’s supporters must work to keep his City Council majority intact. “When great teams are down, they rally," said Jackson, who cut short a trip to the Middle East to try junta, doesn’t force it to step down,” said Claude, a 53-year-old Protestant clergyman representing the Chris tian Democratic Party. “No election is possible with this government. They are the Macoutes. They’re the ones shooting every body,” he said on Radio Metropole. The Tontons Macoutes were a private Duvalier militia that terrorized the nation. Haitians often accuse the United States of being the power behind the three-man junta led by Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy. mediating the succession struggle. “We cannot surren der to darkness, to pain and polarization.” The two front-runners vying to become acting mayor are Alderman Tim Evans, Washington’s City Council floor leader, and Alderman Eugene Sawyer, who was linked more with regular Democrats than with Wash ington’s reform administration. Both are black. Interim Mayor David Orr has said he is not inter ested in becoming acting mayor. Orr, an alderman and the city’s vice mayor, was sworn in to the interim position on Thursday and will serve, under law, until the council selects an acting mayor from its ranks. Sawyer’s supporters contended yesterday they had 28 committed votes, two more than the 26 needed for the 50-member council to elect an acting mayor. The acting mayor likely will serve until the next municipal election in 1989. The council has not scheduled a meeting to take a vote, but was to convene this morning to hold a memorial service for Washington. “Eventually those political wranglings will have to come to some fruition,” Alderman Lawrence Bloom said after the funeral. “Harold would have wanted it that way.” As the service began at the South Side church, bells tolled throughout the city for one minute and the city’s public transit system stopped momentarily in Wash ington’s honor. After the services, a hearse carrying the mayor's body made a final pass through the South Side. Leslie Manigat presidential candidate Polish reforms rejected By JOHN DANIS2EWSKI Associated Press Writer WARSAW. Poland In a dramatic upset for the government, voters re jected proposed economic and politi cal reforms that communist leaders said were needed to revitalize the economy, officials said yesterday. The government of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski had strongly campaigned for approval of Poland’s first referen dum in 41 years. It was the first time in the nation’s communist history that the lead ership had suffered a loss in nation wide elections. Low voter turnout in Sunday’s vot ing contributed in large part to the defeat of the measures, which called for large price increases. Nearly a third of Poland's 26.2 million eligible voters heeded the call by the outlawed Solidarity trade union federation and stayed away from the polls. Of the 67 percent who cast ballots, about two-thirds endorsed the gov ernment s position. They represented 44.2 percent of the entire electorate, and the measures had to be approved by a majority to pass. Government spokesman Jerzy Ur ban put a positive face on the out come. “We do not consider this a defeat,” he said, noting that most of those who voted cast ballots for the govern ment. "I want to confirm the deter mination of the authorities to continue reforms and the democratic procedure of consulting the opinions of voters on issues vital to everyone." Jaruzelski had portrayed the refer endum as a sign of increasing democ racy in Poland in the years since the crackdown on Solidarity in 1981. But Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said from his home yesterday that the results “explained nothing.”
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