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    4—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Sept. 18,1985
state/nation/world
Syria will not help hostages
He said Syria, which eventually aided in release of the
TWA hostages, had said at the time that it would also
press for release of seven other Americans kidnapped
WASHINGTON, D.C Syria has accused the United previously “as a matter of high priority.”
- states of failing to honor an understanding on release of 39 But the official said that in mid-July, about two weeks
' hostages from a hijacked TWA airliner in June and said it after the release of the TWA hostages, Syria concluded
' wouldn’t any longer try to win freedom for seven other that Israel wasn’t going to promptly release all of its
- American captives, a State Department official disclosed prisoners from Atlit and “told us they wouldn’t help.” with
7 yesterday. the other seven hostages.
' 7 The official said the Syrians made known their sense of The source said U.S. officials aren’t at all sure the
• displeasure in mid-July after it became clear that Israel Syrians could deliver the seven hostages. But he said it is
"would not immediately release all of the more than 750 better for them to be trying than not trying.
Shiite and Palestinian prisoners held at its Atlit prison. “Maybe they will be lucky,” he added.
The last of the prisoners were eventually released last The administration also does not know where the
week 10 weeks after the Americans aboard the TWA 727 hostages are, or who is holding them, but thinks the
were released. , kidnappers are probably closer to Iran than to Syria, and
The official said it isn’t known whether the release of that Syria must work through Iran in trying to obtain
the last batch of prisoners by Israel last week will prompt their release, he said.
the Syrians to give assistance now. Rep. George O’Brien, But the official said it isn’t known whether one or all of
R-111., said on Aug. 16 that Syrian President Hafez Assad the seven are still in Beirut, in the Bekaa Valley or
promised him he would work for the release of the other possibly even in Iran.
seven while saying he didn’t know who had them or Two of the hostages have now been held longer than the
where they were. 444 days that Iran held the 52 American hostages that it
“They said we had reneged on the deal, which we really finally released in early 1981.
hadn’t ’’ said the informed State Department official, who The seven kidnapped Americans are Terry Anderson,
spoke to a reporter only on condition he not be identified. 37, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated
But the official acknowledged that “we let the Syrians Press; William Buckley, 56, a political officer at the U.S.
assume” there was a deal as “a way of getting action on Embassy in Beirut; David Jacobsen, 54, administrator of
the hostage release.” The Syrians played a key role in, the American University Hospital in Beirut; Rev. Law
winning freedom for the airliner hostages. rence Martin Jenco, 50, director of Catholic Relief Serv-
Telephone calls to the Syrian Embassy for reaction ices in Lebanon; Peter Kilburn, 60, a librarian at
went unanswered late yesterday. American University; Thomas Sutherland, 54, acting
Israel had insisted all along there was no connection dean of agriculture at the university; and Rev. Benjamin
between the release of the TWA hostages and the release Weir, 61, a Presbyterian missionary,
of the Atlit prisoners because Israel had planned to let Anonymous calls to news agencies m Beirut over the
them all go free anyway. The United States also dis- weekend reported that Weir had been released, but there
claimed any linkage, although Syria believed something has been no sign of him and no other information since
different, according to the State Department official. that call.
By R. GREGORY NOKES
AP Diplomatic Writer
S. African students boycotting
The paper suggested authorities
might soon lift the 8-week-old state of
emergency, quoting le Grange as
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa saying, “I trust ... that the country
Police moved in with tear gas and will speedily return to normal.”
rubber bullets yesterday to put down Le Grange did not mention the state
efforts by thousands of mixed-race of emergency. It was imposed in an
students and their teachers to open attempt to quell rioting against apart
schools closed by the government heid, South Africa’s system of en
near Cape Town. forced racial segregation by which 5
In other major developments: million whites run South Africa and
• Black students boycotted classes 24 million blacks are denied the vote
near Johannesburg and Pretoria. and other civil rights.
-• On the second day of its invasion Police used the rubber bullets and
of Angola, in what this nation says is tear gas against students, parents
a search for black guerrillas, the and teachers who massed near
South African military offered no schools in the Cape, where the gov
news about the fighting. A spokesman ernment closed 464 mixed-race
blamed bad communications. schools indefinitely on Sept. 6 after
■ • Louis le Grange, minister of law day-and-night rioting. About 360,000
and order, was quoted by a pro-gov- youngsters had been attending the
ernment newspaper, The Citizen, as schools.
saying that ‘‘there is a definite de- Witnesses said scores of arrests
cline in the number of incidents of were made as crowds massed outside
unrest in the country.” locked-up schools. They said that at
By TOM BALDWIN
Associated Press Writer
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times crowds outside locked school
yard gates refused to move to let
police patrols out of the yards.
The mobs were dispersed before
they could push their way into the
schools.
People outside the schools com
plained that closing the institutions
hurt students who hadn’t rioted.
The South African Press Associa
tion said about 4,000 people gathered
at the Alexander Sinton Secondary
School alone. The school is in Athlone
district.
The white-minority government
contends the schools provided meet
ing grounds for rioters.
Near Johannesburg and Pretoria,
about 1,000 miles north, authorities
for 19 months have been trying to
force black youngsters to attend
school.
Students there began boycotting
classes in early 1984, complaining
about' inferior' education.'
Danks will close at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday to prepare for this event.
Laser blast
A blast from a high-powered chemical laser blows apart a stationary missile in a recent experiment conducted at
White Sands Mlssle Range, N.M. The experiment was part of President Reagan’s Star Wars program.
Rome cafe attacked, 39 hurt
ROME (AP) Police and patrons overturned chairs and
charged a Palestinian from Lebanon tables in an effort to escape the cafe,
yesterday with the grenade attack on Coffee cups, silverware and wine
a fashionable cafe on Rome’s Via glasses crashed to the floor in the
Veneto in which 39 people were in- cafe that once was a favorite of movie
jured. Five of the injured were in stars, directors and starlets in the
serious condition. 19505. The Cafe de Paris was made
Justice officials were unable to famous by its use as a locale in film
offer a motive for the Monday night director Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce
attack on the Cafe de Paris, located Vita.”
about 100 yards from the U.S. Embas- Police identified the arrested man
sy _ as Ahmad A 1 Hossen Abu Sareja, 27,
Hospitals reported that 15 people and said he was born in a refugee
were still being treated for injuries, camp in Lebanon. He was charged
including six Italians, three Ameri- the bombing and denied all responsi
cans, three Britons and one victim bility. “If (the suspect) is a Palestin
each from Argentina, Australia and ian, we can only say that a liberation
Spain. movement like ours does not act with
The attacker threw two grenades means like this. And who knows who
from a car or a motorcycle as patrons he is, and for whom he is acting, it
of the crowded cafe sipped coffee or said.
'drinks. Only one grenade exploded Police officials said the investiga-
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tion would concentrate on several
groups that had threatened reprisals
unless seven Lebanese arrested by
Italian police last November were
released.
The Lebanese have been indicted
on charges of planning to blow up the
U.S. Embassy.
According to police, Abu Sareja
checked in Sunday at a Rome hotel
with setting off an explosive.
Police said Abu Sareja was first
identified as a Moroccan because he
carried a false passport from that
country. He was spotted by police
running from the cafe and caught
after a chase.
But in a conversation with an Arab
speaking Italian journalist the sus
pect denied "he had carried out the
attack.
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state news briefs
MOVE houses being replaced
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Workers put down the first rooftop
yesterday on one of 61 new houses that will replace homes burned
in the deadly assault on a rowhouse stronghold of the black
supremacist group MOVE.
The fortified headquarters of the radical, primitivist group and
60 other homes were destroyed May 13 in a police siege, when a
police concussion bomb triggered a fire that killed seven MOVE
members and four children.
Damage from the blaze totaled more than $lO million.
“We want not only to build these houses here we want to build
homes,” Mayor W. Wilson Goode said at yesteday’s “topping-off”
ceremony. “We want to rebuild this community. And this is yet
simply another step toward achieving that."
Goode said construction was on schedule and that he was
optimistic that the 250 residents displaced by fire would return to
the west Philadelphia neighborhood by next May.
“I will not cheer until every single person who lost a home here
is in fact back in that home and feels comfortable with that
home,” the mayor said before climbing stairs to the roof of one
house and signaling workers to pour the first bucket of tar.
nation news briefs
Funny papers fight world hunger
NEW YORK (AP) The funny papers will take on a serious
issue on Thanksgiving Day, as more than 100 of the nation’s most
popular cartoonists devote that day’s panels to world hunger.
The idea was proposed by Garry Trudeau, whose “Doones
bury” often grapples with controversial issues. But Trudeau has
recruited as co-sponsors two cartoonists who deal in less topical
fare Charles Schulz, creator of “Peanuts,” and Milton Caniff,
who draws “Steve Canyon."
So far, 114 cartoonists have enlisted in the project, including
“all of the biggest names,” and more are expected, said David
Stamford, who edits Trudeau’s books for Holt Rinehart &
Winston. .
"The response has been great.lt looks like pretty much the
entire comics page will be devoted to hunger,” said Stamford..
Trudeau was not available for comment. But Stamford said
Trudeau who had donated proceeds from his most recent book,
a cartoon chronicle of the USA for Africa recording sessions, to
African famine relief came up with the idea, and called Schulz
and Caniff.
U.N. opens 40th session
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The General Assembly opened its
40th session yesterday and the most pervasive issue, although not
yet on the agenda, was the U.S. effort to make the world body
mend its free-spending ways.
The United States threatens to reduce its share of the total U.N.
budget from 25 percent to 20 percent unless weighted voting is
introduced for money matters. Such a voting system would give
the major Western allies control of fiscal policy.
The session was gaveled to order by outgoing Assembly
President Paul Lusaka of Zambia at 3:30 p.m., half an hour
behind schedule.
Spanish diplomat Jaime de Pinies was chosen by acclamation
to replace Lusaka and serve as president of the 40th General
A Reagan will be here Oct. 23-24 for a commemoration of the date
the U.N. charter came into force, Oct. 24,1945.
Lusaka told a news conference earlier yesterday that he
strongly opposed changing the current voting system, which
gives each of the 159 assembly members a single vote regardless
of how much it contributes to the budget.
Senate reverses immigration vote
WASHINGTON, D.C (AP) The Senate, reversing itself on an
immigration'amendment, voted 51-44 yesterday to allow 350,000
foreigners to enter the country as temporary farm laborers.
The seasonal-workers provision was the last major issue in the
way of a final Senate vote on the immigration control bill.
However, senators threatened to delay the legislation with a
debate on unrelated issues. 1
The overall measure would try to slow illegal immigration by
providing $16.7 million over two years to improve border enforce
ment, and by imposing severe fines against employers knowingly
hiring undocumented workers.
Within three years of enactment, the bill also would grant
amnesty to thousands of illegal immigrants who arrived in the
United States before Jan. 1,1980.
Only last week, the Senate had voted 50-48 to table, in effect kill,
a seasonal-workers provision that did not include a limitation on
the number of foreigners to be admitted to pick perishable fruits
and vegetables. „ .
But as growers’ lobbyists persisted in talking to wavering
senators, the amendment’s sponsor, Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif.,
offered the revised proposal with the 350,000 worker “cap.” He
said this would negate arguments that growers wanted an open
ended program.
Cosmonauts rendezvous in space
MOSCOW (AP) Two rookie cosmonauts and a highly deco
rated space veteran blasted into space yesterday, and headed for
a rendezvous with two colleagues who have been aboard the
Salyut-7 space station for more than three months.
Soviet television interrupted regular programming shortly
before 7 p.m. (11 a.m. EDT) to show film of the Soyuz T-14 rocket
carrying the three men through clear skies. „
“We can feel the craft trembling, like a horse before the start,
one of the cosmonauts told television commentators before liftoff.
His voice was not identified.
Reports did not say where the launch took place, but manned
space missions usually leave from the top-secret Baikonur
Cosmodrome in northern Kazakhstan, 1,560 miles east of Moscow.
The official news agency Tass said the launch occurred at 4.39
p.m. (8:39 a.m. EDT) and that all systems on board the craft
were functioning normally. .
Lt Col. Vladimir Vasyutin, 33, the mission commander; re
searcher Lt. Col. Alexander Volkov, 37; and veteran flight
engineer Georgy Grechko, 54, were said to be feeling fine.
Nixon visits Afghan border
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) Former U.S. President Richard
M. Nixon said yesterday the Soviet Union cannot win its fight
against widespread insurgency in Afghanistan and the conflict
must be settled politically. . J
President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq accompanied Nixon on his
trip to this city close to the border with Afghanistan. Nixon visited
Afghan refugees and spoke to reporters about the Soviet mili
tary’s occupation of the neighboring country.
More than 3 million refugees have crossed into Pakistan since
the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan in December,
“The settlement of the Afghan problem must be reached
politically,” said Nixon, who supports the indirect talks between
Pakistan and Afghanistan. The two sides are snagged over laying
down a timetable for a withdrawal of Soviet troops.
“The Soviets know they can destroy bodies but they cannot
destroy the will of the independent peoples, Nixon said. The
Soviets are also aware that they cannot win this war.”
Nixon later drove to inspect the Pakistan-Afghanistan border,
traveling to a post in the historic Khyber Pass.
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