4—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1985
state/nation/world
Kidnappers demand
joint superpower
action in Beirut
By ED BLANCHE
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon The Soviet
Union said yesterday that Moslem
extremists gave only an hour's warn
ing before killing an embassy em
ployee. An anonymous caller
threatened more kidnappings unless
the superpowers combine to end Leb
anon's civil war.
The Moscow newspaper Literary
Gazette published a report by its
Beiruit correspondent, Konstantin
Kapitonov, in which he said he was at
the Soviet Embassy when the threat
to kill Arkady Katkov was delivered
to a Western news agency in Beirut.
"If Moscow doesn't stop the armed
clashes in Tripoli, the first Soviet
hostage will be killed at 2100 (9 p.m.
Beirut time)," Kapitonov quoted the
message as saying.
"Everybody simultaneously looked
at his watch," Kapitonov wrote.
"Only slightly more than one hour
was left until the deadline. Talks
were carried out with the leaders of
parties and organizations and with
the security service, and calls were
made to everybody who had influence
and who could render any assis
tance."
Katkov's body was found Wednes
day.
The anonymous caller said he rep
resented a fundamentalist Sunni Mos
lem group named the Islamic
Liberation Organization that claimed
responsibility for abducting four So
viet Embassy staff members a week
ago. The other three still are held.
A statement issued in the name of
the kidnappers demanded that Mos
cow force Syria, its main Middle East
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were besieging fundamentalist Sunni
fighters in the northern port city of
Tripoli.
Syria declared a cease-fire in Tri
poli after Katkov's body was found,
ending 19 days of fighting in which
more than 500 people had been killed.
The man who telephoned a Western
news agency early yesterday called
the truce in Tripoli "a folkloric move
that does not necessarily mean the
conspiracy against the Moslems is
over. The heretics think they can
invest this truce to deceive us into
releasing the (Soviet) hostages. We
emphasize that this (kidnap) opera
tion will not end that easily and it will
not be the last. We shall not release
the hostages."
The statement said no Soviet hos
tages would be freed unless President
Reagan 'and Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev agree at their summit
next month in Geneva to "terminate
the Lebanese tragedy and the suffer
ings of the Lebanese people."
It was the first communication
purporting to be from the Islamic
-Liberation Organization since a call
er claiming to represent it said sui
cide bombers would blow up the
Soviet Embassy on Friday.
The suicide bombers never
materialized, but three-quarters of
the 150 Soviets in Beirut were evac
uated to Moscow via Damascus, Syr
ia.
The past week's events have put the
superpowers in the unique position of
facing a common threat from Islamic
fundamentalists.
As Israel's main •supporter, the
United States had been the principal
target until the four Soviets were
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in seeking to integrate their workforce by giving minority
members special preferences.
In the sheet metal workers case, the justices must
WASHINGTON, D.C. With the future of racial
decide whether courts may force unions to adopt fixed
preferences in the American workplace at stake, the quotas or goals to increase minority membership.
Supreme"' Court began its 1985-86 term yesterday by Affirmative action called "reverse discrimination"
by some
agreeing to decide a pair of affirmative action disputes.
decades, of its critics —has troubled American courts for
By RICHARD CARELLI
Associated Press Writer
The court set the stage for what could be its most In 1979, the court ruled that employers —at least
important decisions on racial equality of the 1980 s by private, non-governmental employers voluntarily may
agreeing to study cases involving firefighters in Cleve- give minority workers special treatment in hiring, train
land and sheet metal workers in New York and New ing and promotion. The court in that ruling said even
Jeisey.employers with no proven history of racial bias may offer
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Budget
deadlock
continues
By CLIFF HAAS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. While the
goverment lived hand-to-mouth with
out credit in what President Reagan
called an "emergency situation," the
Senate failed yesterday to break its
deadlock over a balanced-budget
plan that has stalled legislation to
increase federal borrowing authority.
"We have to do something," said
Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole,
R-Kan. But there was no indication of
a quick end to the tangle that kept the
Senate in session over the weekend
and delayed action on increasing the
national debt limit to a landmark $2
trillion.
Senate Republicans planned to
meet this morning to consider a plan
by Senate Democratic Leader Robert
C. Byrd of West Virginia that would
set a schedule for voting on various
amendments and wrapping up all the
issues by Thursday night.
Senators spent yesterday meeting
in a series of private meetings off the
Senate floor to discuss what might be
done to curb debate and move on.
At the White House, Reagan urged
a gathering of Republican supporters
to work for passage of the plan to set
statutory limits on federal budget
deficits in order to achieve a bal
anced budget by 1991.
"That's one proposal that is worth
fighting for," Reagan said in his fifth
pitch in four days for the plan.
He also complained that the propo
sal was "being held hostage for
wrangling over the debt ceiling, put
ting the federal government in an
emergency situation. The business of
our nation must go forward. We need
the debt ceiling increase passed."
state news briefs
MOVE hearings begin today
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The state Supreme Court yesterday
rejected the Philadelphia police union's request to postpone a
hearing into the MOVE siege, which ended with 11 deaths and 61
houses burned.
A special investigative commission appointed by Mayor W.
Wilson Goode is to begin hearings today into the tragedy, in which
police surrounded the headquarters of the radical group for most
of May 13 before dropping a bomb on the rowhouse.
The Fraternal Order of Police has challenged the legality of the
commission, saying police officers who were subpoenaed would
be deprived of their constitutional rights since their attorneys
would be unable to cross-examine them or other witnesses.
The high court rejected the FOP's request to postpone the
hearings until a lower court decides whether the commission was
legally created.
Robert Hurst, president of Lodge 5 of the FOP, representing
most of the city's 7,000 police officers, said the union would ask
the U.S. Supreme Court this morning to stop the hearings.
"Our job is to determine who was responsible for the decision
making and who participated in those decisions," said commis
sion member Bruce Kauffman, a former state Supreme Court
justice.
The 11-member Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission
•was appointed shortly after police, trying to serve arrest war
rants on four MOVE members, dropped a bomb on the group's
fortified west Philadelphia headquarters.
nation news briefs
Atlantis pulls off a perfect landing
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) The shuttle
Atlantis landed safely on a California desert yesterday, still
surrounded by secrecy as spectators were barred from watching
the end of an inaugural four-day mission that launched two
military satellites.
Communications with the five-man Atlantis crew remained
blacked out as mission commander Air Force Col. Karol Bobko
guided the stubby-winged spaceplane to a perfect 1 p.m. EDT
landing on a dry lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base.
A spokesman in• Mission Control reported, "The orbiter is in
very good shape," but no other details were released immedi
ately.
The crowd of spectators usually on hUnd for a shuttle landing
was absent. The viewing area was closed to all but reporters and
NASA and military personnel.
Loud speakers that usually carry commentary and astronaut
communications played the national anthem as Atlantis touched
down.
There was no obvious damage shown on television views
released by NASA and the shuttle looked fresh and new. But a
ground crewman said there was a four-inch gash in the heat
protection tile on the underside of the left wing flap.
Secret plan replaced CIA funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Facing a congressional cutoff of
military aid to Nicaraguan rebels early last year, President
Reagan approved a secret plan to replace CIA funds with
assistance from American citizens and U.S. allies, according to
current and former administration officials.
White House officials picked retired Army Maj. Gen. John K.
Singlaub as the chief fund-raising contact and advised him how to
structure the campaign within the confines of neutrality and other
laws that bar U.S. citizens from supporting foreign wars, said the
sources who insisted on anonymity.
White House spokesman Ed Djerejian refused to comment on
Reagan's reported approval of the plan to go outside U.S.
government channels to continue supplying the rebels fighting to
overthrow Nicaragua's leftist government.
In the past, the White House has insisted that it "neither
encourages nor discourages" the private fund raising that sprang
up after Congress angered by the ClA's mining of Nicaragua's
harbors refused to continue military aid to the rebels in the
spring of 1984.
But government sources, including one senior administration
official, described the behind-the-scenes White House role in
organizing and advising the aid network as much more extensive
than has been acknowledged.
The aid network particularly a recent surge of arms and
money from allied countries has allowed the rebels to continue
military operations during the 15-month cutoff of direct U.S. aid
and thus circumvent congressional efforts to shut down the ClA
sponsored war.
Three congressional committees are reviewing whether White
House National Security Council officials violated a year-old ban
against "directly or indirectly" aiding the rebels militarily.
Catholics protest Godard's film
NEW YORK (AP) "Hail Mary," the film which was hounded
out of Rome by a wrathful pope, made its U.S. debut yesterday
amid fresh protests by Roman Catholics who cannot envision the
Blessed Virgin as a nude starlet.
Cardinal John O'Connor denounced the film as "blasphemous
and sacrilegious," and demonstrations were planned at Lincoln
Center during Monday evening's premiere at the 23rd New York
Film Festival.
"We believe in some sort of decency and decorum in dealing
with matters religious. There is obscene language being used, and
obscene scenes," said John Puthenveetil, executive director of
the Greater New York chapter of the Catholic League for
Religious and Civil Rights, which coordinated the protests.
"I personally felt it was a whole lot of filthy, anti-Catholic
garbage," said Puthenveetil, who saw the film at a press preview
on Friday.
In Jean-Luc Godard's film, Mary is an avid•basketball player
who works at a gas station; Joseph is a dreamy and frustrated
cabdriver; Gabriel an unshaven, unsavory-looking angel who
travels by jet. Mary, played by Myriem Roussell, is nude in
several scenes, but there is no sex.
The story of Mary, Godard said, happens every day. Every man
must take his wife's word about her child's paternity. "Every
man must trust his wife," he said.
Yet not every woman learns of her pregnancy from an angel,
the distinction which makes the film so controversial.
world news briefs
Suspected spy returns to Germany
BONN, West Germany (AP) An engineer suspected of spying
after he fled to communist East Germany has returned to West
Germany, federal authorities said yesterday.
He was the first suspect to come back to West Germany since
the spy scandal started Aug. 6 with the announcement that a
federal Cabinet minister's top aide who was suspected of being a
communist agent had escaped to East Germany. That was
followed by one arrest, and six other West Germans, not including
the engineer, fleeing to the Soviet bloc.
A statement from the chief federal prosecutor's office said the
43-year-old engineer from Coburg had returned, but did not say
when or give his name or other details.
It said only that an investigation was continuing and did not say
if the man had been arrested.
He had worked for the civil engineering office in Coburg,
located in northern Bavaria and 9 miles from the border with
East Germany.
In a letter to his wife, which he sent from East Germany last
month, the engineer said he was dissatisfied with conditions in
West Germany. News reports at the time said he would have had
access to reports valuable to the East Germans.
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