Collegian Monday, Nov. 25, 1985
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Waite back home,
hopeful on hostages
By The Associated Press
. ATHENS, Greece Anglican
envoy Terry Waite, in Athens after
a high-speed car ride yesterday
through combat in Beirut, said he
was “optimistic” about his at
tempts to negotiate the release of
American hostages in Lebanon.
Waite, the archbishop of Can
terbury’s envoy, is due to leave for
Anglican envoy Terry Waite steps
through the security gates at Bei
rut airport as he leaves for Athens.
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New York early Monday to meet
U.S. officials on his efforts to free
the hostages. His one-man mercy
mission was stalled in the Leb
anese capital because of fighting
between rival Moslem factions.
“I’m optimistic but it takes
time. At least the contacts have
been made and the kidnappers
identified,” Waite said at Athens
airport.
He arranged to spend the night
in Athens and arrive in New York
Monday aboard TWA flight 841
after a stop in Rome. He was
expected to land at New York’s
JFK airport at 2:20 p.m. EST.
The Anglican troubleshooter, a
bullet-proof vest under his tan
safari shirt, told reporters at Bei
rut yesterday that after his secret
meetings with the kidnappers
“we’re making progress.”
He added that he expected “to
be back soon.”
Waite was trapped in west Bei
rut’s Commodore Hotel with
scores of journalists for three days
while Druse and Shiite Moslem
militias fought savage street bat
tles around the seven-story build
ing.
He was sent to Beirut after four
Americans kidnapped in Lebanon
appealed by letter to the Rev.
Robert Runcie, the archbishop of
Canterbury, to work for their re
lease.
The Briton made a 15-minute
dash to the airport in a sedan
pocked with bullet holes. Follow
ing him, as gunfire crackled
around the city, was a fast-moving
convoy of journalists and tele
vision crews.
The convoy sped past bullet
scarred buildings and burned-out
cars in streets littered with debris.
Waite joked with reporters at
the airport and called his dash
through Beirut’s streets an “invig
orating experience.”
Waite said the street fighting in
Beirut “caused some delay, but
we’re moving forward.”
He told a Thursday news confer
ence that he met twice with the
kidnappers since Tuesday.
Police and rescue workers inspect the site where a powerful car bomb exploded At least 23 people were injured in the blast. The blast was similar to a terrorist
yesterday at a busy U.S. military shopping center in Frankfurt, West Germany, attack that killed two Americans at a U.S. Air Force base Aug. 8.
German bomb blast strikes U.S. facility
By NESHA STARCEVIC
Associated Press Writer
FRANKFURT, West Germany A powerful
car bomb exploded outside a busy U.S. military
shopping center yesterday, injuring 34 people,
most of them Americans, authorities said.
The blast at 3:20 p.m. damaged 42 cars in the
center’s parking lot, shattered windows and blew a
gaping hole in the back wall of one shop.
“We suspect leftist terrorists because the attack
was similar to the car bombing at the U.S. Air
Force base in August,” said spokesman Alexander
Prechtel of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in
Karlsruhe.
That Aug. 8 car-bomb attack at the U.S. Air
Force Rhein-Main Air Base killed two Americans
and injured 20 people.
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The terrorist Red Army Faction asserted re
sponsibility for the August attack but there was no
immediate claim of responsibility for yesterday’s
bombing
“Like in August, Americans were the target of
the attack,” Prechtel said.
Frankfurt police spokesman Kurt Kraus said the
bomb was packed in a blue BMW sedan that was
bought by a ‘‘Moroccan-looking man” Saturday at
a second-hand car dealership near Frankfurt.
Kraus said the BMW was bought at the same
dealership that sold the car used in the August
bombing.
Bill Swisher, a spokesman for the U.S. Army’s
97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, said 34 injured
people were treated at the hospital. He said 27 had
been released by late evening.
“Seven people are still here and they are listed
in fair to good condition,” Swisher said.
He said a three-year-old American child was
among those released but could give no further
details.
The injured included 19 U.S. military personnel,
11 American civilians, a West German civilian and
a Filipino, Swisher said.
A witness, not identified, described the scene to
the American Forces Network:
“All of a sudden there was a real loud crash. I
turned around to look and see where it came from.
Automatically I put my hands over my head. I
looked and there was a big yellow flash from
between the two buildings.”
Those entering the shopping center
must pass by a military police checkpoint located
about five yards from the blast site.
state news briefs
Specter puts off party endorsement
HARRISBURG (AP) U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, saying he wants
to avoid political bloodshed, has decided to wait until early next
year to seek the state Republican Committee’s endorsement for re
election.
Specter dropped his plans to ask for formal-support at the
committee’s weekend meeting here and said he did not feel the
advantage to be gained by the early endorsement was worth the
grief it could cause the party.
“If we had gone for it, there would be acrimony and bitter things
said,” Specter said. “There would be deep wounds from this kind of
meeting ”
Specter has been trying to outmaneuver Gov. Dick Thornburgh,
who said he is thinking about challenging the incumbent in the May
primary. A head count by the senator’s supporters gave Specter 146
affirmative votes, 16 against and 47 abstentions for the endorse
ment, which will be decided in February.
Thornburgh’s spokesman, David Runkel, said anything less than
100 percent support from the committee was not in Specter’s best
interest. Since the senator had pressed for the endorsement, “it’s
surprising he didn’t go forward,” Runkel said.
Pitt to coordinate transplant plan
PITTSBURGH (AP) Transplant surgery at three Pittsburgh
hospitals and one in West Virginia would be coordinated by the
University of Pittsburgh if a plan proposed by surgeons at Pres
byterian-University Hospital is adopted.
The proposal gives other hospitals “a chance to swim in the big
ocean. But if they want to stay and swim in their own little sea they
can,” said Dr. Robert Gordpn, a surgeon at Presbyterian who
wrote the proposal
The plan, quoted in yesterday’s Pittsburgh Press, would give
Presbyterian control over multi-organ transplants at their own and
Children’s Hospital, as well as kidney transplants at Allegheny
General Hospital in Pittsburgh and the University of West Virginia
Medical Center in Morgantown.
Surgery at the four hospitals would be coordinated at the
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, where most of the
Presbyterian surgeons teach.
, nation news briefs
Regan says he was misinterpreted
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) White House Chief of Staff Donald
T. Regan apologized yesterday to anyone offended by his remark
that most women do not understand arms control or other summit
issues, saying it was “not intended as a put down.”
But Regan repeated his belief that women are more interested in
“peace and things of that nature” than the “nitty-gritty” issues of
arms control.
“(Women are) not . . . going to understand (missile) throw
weights or what is happening in Afghanistan or what is happening
in human rights,” The Washington Post quoted Regan in a story
about first lady Nancy Reagan’s schedule at the summit. “Some
women will, but most women believe me, your readers for the
most part if you took a poll would rather read the human interest
stuff of what happened ”
Regan, interviewed on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation,” said he was
“horrified” when he saw how the remark had been “misinter
preted.”
Regan said what he had meant by his remark was that women
and men alike who don’t understand arms control and other
complex issues that would be discussed at the summit “will have
an interest in the human side that was going at Geneva.”
Regan apologized “to those who feel offended” by his published
remark, but added, “My own wife wasn’t offended, by the way.”
Latchkey children play with sex
DENVER (AP) So-called latchkey children who are home
alone after school are more likely to experiment with sex than are
other children their age, according to a report published yesterday.
The study covered 400 middle-school children between the ages of
12 and 15 who were interviewed across the nation, the Denver Post
reported in a copyright story
“Teen-agers these days don’t get pregnant in motels and cars at
10 at night,” educational researcher Thomas Long said. “Sex
happens at home at three in the afternoon while mom is away at
work.”
The children did not say they were experimenting with alcohol or
drugs when they were asked what they do at home after school.
The study found 40 percent of those living in single-parent
families said that at some time they have participated in heavy
petting or intercourse at home while their mothers were at work.
“The more regularly they were left unattended, the more likely
they were to be engaging in sex,” Long said.
The Longs estimate there are up to 10 million latchkey children
under the age of 14 across the nation.
world news briefs
Pope opens synod on Vatican II
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John Paul II yesterday opened an
extraordinary Synod of Bishops convened to assess the Second
Vatican Council’s far-reaching reforms and the divisions they
spawned.
“We begin the synod. . . with the same openness . .. which filled
the council fathers 20 years ago,” he said in his homily.
John Paul convened the two-week synod to evaluate Vatican 11,
which recast the church image from unchangeable monolith to an
institution ready to modernize its structures and ways of teaching.
Although the synod is an advisory body that can make only
recommendations to the pope, the current meeting is considered
crucial because it represents the first official Vatican forum for the
bishops to air their views on the effects of the Vatican II reforms on
local churches and to make suggestions.
Many theologians say the Vatican II injected vitality and
dynamism into the world’s largest religious institution of 800
million followers.
But the reforms have also bred dissent and challenges to church
teaching within the church. In some areas, especially in the more
developed countries, many bishops say the church is estranged
from its flock.
Hondurans turn out to vote
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Voters turned out peacefully
yesterday in this key U.S. ally in Central America to choose a
president in elections held hours after a decision was made on how
the winner would be chosen.
A peaceful transition from one civilian president to another
would be the first in Honduras since 1929.
Nine candidates were running, but the race appeared to be
largely between Rafael Leonardo Callejas, a 42-year-old banker
and businessman who studied at the University of Mississippi, and
Jose Azcona del Hoyo, 58, a civil engineer.
Nearly 2 million Hondurans were eligible to vote at 6,500 voting
tables segregated by sex throughout this nation of 4 million people.
Also at stake were all 132 seats in the National Assembly, 284
mayorships and three vice presidencies.
The National Elections Tribunal ruled just before midnight
Saturday that an electoral reform pact, forged by the nine presi
dential candidates earlier this year to end a political crisis, would
prevail in the general elections.
Under that pact, the leading candidate of the party that gets the
most votes will be the next president, to be inaugurated Jan. 27 for
a four-year term. The Honduran Constitution calls for direct
election of a president by a simple majority.
Callejas is one of three National Party candidates, Azcona one of
four from the Liberal Party. Two smaller and newer parties were
fielding one candidate each.
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