6—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Nov.. 7, 1985
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Guerrillas hold Colombian judges hostage
By TOM WELLS
Associated Press Writer
but radio stations reported earlier that two guer
rillas were slain in the initial gun battles and at
least 15 more were killed during the army assault.
BOGOTA, Colombia About 25 leftist guerrillas Reyes told radio station Todelar, "We are here
shot their way into the Palace of Justice yester- with a large number of judges as hostages and it is
day, but three hours later troops stormed the court a question of life or death that the gunfire stop.
building, seizing the lower three floors and freeing Please pass that on so the president will give the
more than 100 hostages. order to stop the attack."
Guerrillas of the April 19 Movement still held a As the judge spoke, bursts of submachine gun
"large number" of judges on the top two floors of fire could be heard from Reyes' office on the
the five-story structure, according to one of the fourth floor of the building.
hostages, Supreme Court President Alfsonso Radio Caracol telephoned federal Judge. Fe
r He was contacted by telephone and said, nando Gonzalez before the army assault, and he
"If the government doesn't cut off its attack there said, "I think all 24 members of the Supreme Court
could be a tragedy here." are being held hostage."
As sporadic shooting continued, the Bogota It was not known if Gonzalez was among more
mayor's office reported that four policemen and than 100 people who were freed and fled from the
soldiers had been killed and about a dozen were building during and after the army assault.
wounded. It gave no figure on guerrilla casualties, Radio stations said President Belisario Betan-
South 'African riot patrol kills two Blacks at funera
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
A riot patrol shot and killed two
Blacks in a mob stoning police vehi
cles near Cape Town in the first
confirmed riot deaths in a week,
police said yesterday.
A witness said the two men were
killed when violence broke out at
what had been a peaceful funeral for
a riot victim after police seized the
flag of the banned African National
Congress guerrilla movement.
The witness, who declined to be
identified, spoke to reporters and to
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However, a spokesman at police
headquarters in Pretoria said his
records showed the two Blacks were
killed in Guguletu, next to Cross
roads. He said he had no report of a
funeral in the area.
They were the first riot deaths
since the government imposed a
crackdown on the news media last
Saturday, and it was thought that no
journalists were present at Cross
roads to verify the police or witness'
accounts.
The absence of reporters also
meant there was no test of the new
rules ordering television crews and
photographers to leave the scene
when violence breaks out in state-of
emergency areas.
Also near Cape Town, police said
they were investigating the murder of
a mixed-race soldier who was found
shot to death yesterday on a road
near mixed-race townships torn by
rioting in recent months.
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east of Cape Town, police said the
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with police on Tuesday turned in 26
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cur's brother, federal Judge Jaime Betancur, was
among those who escaped unharmed.
President Betancur met with his Cabinet in an
emergency session, but no details were given and
it was not known if it was negotiating with the
guerrillas.
At least 15 guerrillas were killed when the
soldiers launched their assault at 3 p.m., Radio
Caracol reported.
Caracol and another radio station, RCN, said a
police lieutenant and two guerrillas were killed
and four policemen were wounded in the initial
fighting as the rebels, armed with submachine
guns, fought their way into the Palace of Justice in
downtown Bogota shortly before noon.
The Palace of Justice is where Colombia's - 24
Supreme Court judges and 20 other federal judges
have their offices and courtroooms.
home, where the youth fatally
stabbed the man, police said. The
teen-ager was charged with murder.
The fatalities were the first report
ed by police since last Wednesday. It
had been a rare week without deaths
since rioting first erupted more than
14 months ago.
The Rev. Allan Boesak, a mixed
race leader who has been charged
with subversion and is free on bail,
said authorities clamped down on
journalists "so that they can murder
our children and there will be no
witnesses and no record of what they
have done, so that they can kill us in
peace."
Goode's testimony fails
to clear up discrepancies
By LEE LINDER
Associated Press Writer
their lawyers behind them, fac
ing the 11 members of the com
mission and its staff on the 18th
PHILADELPHIA Mayor W. and last day of its hearings.
Wilson Goode yesterday again Goode, who has said he wants
assumed full responsibility for to run for re-election in 1987, said
the fiery, fatal MOVE confronta- he thought the city had a plan
tion despite continuing dis- that would restore the neighbor to
agreements between him and his tranquility by removing the
top deputies on the use of explo- MOVE radicals, who lived in filth
sives and a bomb in the attack. and harassed neighbors by
"The buck stops with me," screaming profanities day and
Goode told the Philadelphia Spe- night through a public address
cial Investigation Commission, system.
which he appointed to determine Under questioning from com
how and why the confrontation mission counsel William Lytton,
ended in May with 11 people dead the mayor continued to contra
in the MOVE home and 61 houses dirt Sambor and Brooks, saying
consumed by fire. he was never informed police
The mayor was recalled by the planned to use explosives to blow
commission, along with former holes in the sides of the house. He
city Managing Director Leo also said he never knew a power-
Brooks, Police Commissioner ful bomb would be dropped by
Gregore Sambor and Fire Corn- helicopter to destroy a rooftop
missioner William Richmond in bunker.
all - unsuccessfuleffort to clear up
discrepancies in their testimony. "At no time was the word ex-
Goode, who has said the was plosives used in my presence,"
misled and misinformed about Goode said, referring to the
the incident, opened with an emo- smaller charges officers used on
tional statement that described the sides of the house.
the failed action to evict MOVE "The only explanation is that if,
from its fortified headquarters as in fact, (Sambor) said a word
"one of the most devastating that meant explosives to him but
days in the history of our city." something else to me, that very
The four men sat side by side, well may have been."
state news briefs • ,
LCB approves 'happy hour' limits
HARRISBURG (AP) The Liquor Control Board approved
regulations yesterday to limit "happy-hour" promotions in a 2-1
vote that pleased both tavern owners and groups fighting drunken
driving.
Under the regulations, which were designed to reduce excessive
drinking without seriously harming the tavern trade, bars and
restaurants would be allowed to offer drinks at half-price for up to
two consecutive hours before midnight.
Bars also would be allowed to offer a featured drink, such as a
special draft beer or cocktail at a reduced price without regard to
the two-hour limit.
But the regulations would prohibit happy-hour promotions such
as "Two-For-One," "Drink 'Til You Drop" and "Beat• The Clock."
Bartenders also would be banned from offering large drinks for
the same price as smaller ones.
The regulations must be reviewed by the state attorney general
and the governor's office and published in the Pennsylvania
Bulletin before they go into effect.
LCB Chairman Daniel Pennick said they should be in place
before the end of the year.
Lesko tries to have execution halted
HARRISBURG (AP) The attorney for one of two men facing
electrocution Nov. 19 said yesterday he was asking the Pennsylva
nia Supreme Court to order the state to honor a 1984 stay and not
execute his client.
Greensburg attorney Rabe Marsh, who represents convicted
killer John Lesko, said Westmoreland County Common Pleas
Judge Daniel J. Ackerman ordered on Aug. 6, 1984 that "all
proceedings and execution of sentence are hereby stayed in the
interim."
Maish argued that order, issued at the start of Lesko's appeals
under the Post Conviction Hearing Act, is still good and will be until
either Ackerman or another court rescinds it or the appeal ends
with a state Supreme Court ruling.
The Supreme Court is still considering Lesko's appeal under the
post conviction hearing process, Marsh said.
"Apparently the governor either can't read or doesn't care to
read (Ackerman's order) because they won't change the execution
date," Marsh said.
David Runkel, press secretary for Gov. Dick Thornburgh, said
lawyers in the state's general counsel office were "reviewing the
situation at the present time and we have been in contact with the
(Westmoreland County) district attorney's office as well as the
courts to determine exactly what the situation is."
Meanwhile, the attorney for a second man scheduled to die the
same night in the electric chair at Rockview state prison was
denied a stay by the trial court on Tuesday, he said.
Westmoreland County Public Defender Dante Bertani's request
for a stay and appeal of Michael Travaglia's death penalty was
then filed with Superior Court which referred it to the Supreme
Court yesterday. Bertani said he would ask the state's high court on
today for permission to argue his case before the justices.
Marsh said his client was "hopeful" about a stay, but added,
"I'm starting to wonder."
Lesko, 26, of Pittsburgh and Travaglia, 27, of Apollo were
convicted in'Westmoreland County for the 1980 slaying of a rookie
Apollo policeman at the end of a six-day crime spree known as the
"Kill-for-Thrill" murders.
nation news briefs
Shuttle returns from science mission
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) Challenger
coasted onto a desert runway yesterday after a science mission
flown by, a record crew of eight, and researchers . promptly began
studying fiVe of the astronauts to see how they re-adaptto gravity.
The space shuttle and its crew of five Americans, two West
Germans and a Dutchman touched down at 12:45 p.m. EST on a dry
lakebed after a 7-day, 45-minute mission in which it orbited the
Earth 111 times and traveled more than 3 million miles.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief James
Beggs said the success of the international, West German-spon
sored mission "gives us a lot of confidence that we can proceed to
the space station . era where we'll be cooperating with a number of
countries."
He said the mission was important for NASA's goal of establish
ing support from a number of nations for the U.S. plan to build a
permanent space station.
During the 48-second coast after Challenger touched down on the
Edwards runway, mission commander Henry Hartsfield tested a
new nose wheel steering system that is to give more control for
landing space shuttles.
"We are optimistic that it worked well," NASA shuttle director
Jesse Moore said.
Moore said he thinks the test will enable the shuttle Columbia to
land in December on the concrete runway at the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida.
Tucked into the Spacelab module in Challenger's cargo bay were
the results of 76 studies on the effects of weightlessness on melted
metals and glasses, biological specimens and on human physiolo
gy.
West Germany paid NASA $64 million to fly the experiments,
about 42 percent of the $l5O million estimated cost of the mission.
The research was monitored from a control center in Oberpfaffen
hofen, near Munich, the first time a foreign agency controlled a
shuttle payload.
world news briefs
Jaruzelski resigns as premier
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, who
imposed martial law in Poland to crush the Solidarity labor union,
resigned as premier yesterday but retained his dominant position
as head of the ruling Communist Party.
After giving up his post as head of government, Jaruzelski was
named to the largely ceremonial post of president, replacing
Jenryk Jablonski.
As Communist Party first secretary the 62-year-old Jaruzelski
occupies the most powerful position in the country.
His resignation as premier ended an extraordinary period in the
history of Communist Poland and the Soviet bloc in which a four
star army general held the two most powerful positions in the
country: head of the party and head of the government.
During martial law, the army, and not the Communist Party,
appeared to be in control of the country, an unusual situation for a
Soviet bloc country.
For a part of that time Jaruzelski also was defense minister, a
post he relinquished in 1983. But he was named chairman of the
National Defense Council, which preserves many martial law
powers, and he still holds that post.
Deputy Premier Zbigniew Messner, an economist who was hand
picked by Jaruzelski to head the government's economic reform
program two years ago, was asked to form a new government.
Jaruzelski's decision to step down as premier will allow him to
concentrate his attention on revitalizing the Communist Party
before next year's party congress. The party lost about a third of its
3 million members following imposition of martial law and the
supression of Solidarity, the only independent labor union in the
Soviet bloc.
It was expected that Jaruzelski would devote a major share of his
time to imposing more discipline on the party and trying to push
through his stalled economic reform program.
Jaruzelski was named premier in February 1981 and party first
secretary eight months later during the height of the political crisis
sparked by Solidarity's demands for political and economic re
forms.
On Dec. 13, 1981, Jaruzelski ordered a military crackdown that
interned thousands of union activists, including Solidarity leader
Lech Walesa.
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