state/nation/world I 0 -1 I investigates Contras for drugs, illegal By BRIAN BARGER and ROBERT PARRY Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) A federal investigation is under way into allegations that Nicaraguan Contra rebels and their Ainerican backers have engaged in gun-run ning and drug trafficking, according to U.S. officials and sources close to the investiga tion. The investigation, conducted by the FBI in conjunction with other federal agencies, has spanned at least seven states and Central America, according to the sources, who in sisted on anonymity. Leon Kellner, the U.S. attorney for South ern Forida, is directing the investigation that focuses on possibly illegal shipments of arms from New Orleans and southern Florida to rebels based in Honduras and Costa Rica, according to federal authorities and several rebel backers who have been recently investi gated. The inquiry also is examining allegations of cocaine smuggling to help finance the war and Neutrality Act violations, the sources said. The Neutrality Act makes it a crime to initiate or organize, on American soil, mili tary attacks against a country with which the United States is not at war. The investigation comes at a politically sensitive time, as President Reagan lobbies for a $lOO-million aid package to the rebels, including a renewal of military aid stopped two years ago by Congress. The House is scheduled to vote on the issue next week. Twelve American, Nicaraguan and Cuban- American rebel backers interviewed by The Associated Press said they had been ques- Black students boycott medical school classes By DAVID CRARY Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) The only two Whites attend ing a black medical school sat alone yesterday in classes boycotted by the other 1,078 students, who do not want them there. • "All of the other undergraduates are not attending in protest," said Vivienne Martin, spokeswoman for the Medical University of Southern Africa, the only medical school in South Africa established specifically for Blacks. She said most were staying in their dormitories. The problem began when Pieter Druger and Darryl Wilke enrolled in February. They completed pre-medical train ing at regular universities and en tered the black school, commonly called Medunsa, because others woutd not accept them as third-year students. The predominantly white adminis tration dropped them soon afterward because of black protests, but the Supreme Court ordered their re instatement last month. The boycott began March 22. The two Whites stayed away, and the school closed down five days later for Easter re cess. Classes resumed Monday, but the rooms were empty. Blacks did not return, waiting to see whether Krug er and Wilke would. They returned yesterday. The dispute has disrupted the aca demic program at Medunsa, which is housed in a cluster of modern build ings on the edge of a rundown black township north of Pretoria. It also puts the university administration in the awkward position of enforcing a court order bitterly opposed by the student body. Black leaders, who want integrated education, objected when the white government opened the university in 1978. Students argue now, however, that Blacks need all the places avail able at the school to meet a severe shortage of doctors. The private South African Institute of Racial Relations reports that there was one white doctor for every 330 Whites in 1983 and one black doctor for every 12,000 Blacks. Kruger and Wilke reported yester day to the office of the university rector, Prof. Leon Taljaard, told him Yale gays want protection from discrimination By SUSAN OKULA Associated Press Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. Gay students are asking Yale University for a clearly worded policy providing protection from discrimina tion. Homosexuals at the school, they say, face intolerance and harassment. The Yale Corporation, the school's governing board of trustees, is considering a change to the university's equal opportunity statement. A vote is possible at its meeting Saturday. The students want an explicit statement that Yale will' not discriminate against an individu al in admissions, educational programs or employment because of his or her sexual orien tation. "We need a clearly stated policy because the issue of discrimination is very real at Yale," said Sarah Pettit, a sophomore from London. tioned over the past several months by the barred the U.S. government aid to the Con- were stored for about two weeks before being FBI. The interviews, some covering several tras but no charges have been brought, shipped to a rebel base camp in northern days, were conducted in Florida, Alabama, Sources said some aspects of the previous Costa Rica. Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado and probes have been reopened. Carr, along with four others, were arrested California, the Contra backers said. In one of the previous investigations, a over a year ago by Costa Rican officials and Jack Terrell, who was a leader of the White House official in charge of the Contra remain in prison on charges that their activ- American paramilitary group, Civilian-Mili- program, Lt. Col. Oliver North, was ques- ities supporting the rebels were in violation of tary Assistance, CMA, said FBI agents and tioned several times last year by Justice Costa Rican neutrality. prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in Department officials about possible Contra Some of those interviewed also said federal Miami have met with him several times with law violations, according to two sources close authorities asked about possible arms export at least two of those sessions becoming full- to North. violations involving Mario Calero, brother of day meetings. North is a deputy director for political- Adolfo Calero, head of the largest Contra Terrell said the investigators asked him military affairs on the National Security army, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, about alleged weapons shipments from the Council and a principal adviser to Reagan on FDN. Mario Calero is in charge of the FDN United States to Contra base camps in Cen- Central America. North has overseen the supply pipeline in New Orleans. tral America, Contra involvement in drug Contra program since 1984, when Congress Mario Calero did not return three phone smuggling, and a reported conspiracy to stopped CIA aid to the rebels. calls to his New Orleans office over the past assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to Costa The White House had no immediate com- week. FDN spokesman Bosco Matamoros Rica, Lewis Tambs. ment on the current investigation. White has denied wrongdoing in the supply network. Federal investigators, insisting on ano- House spokesman Edward Djerejian de- Following the deaths of two Americans shot nymity, confirmed that they have inter- dined to respond to six inquiries from the AP down in a helicopter inside northern Nicara viewed Terrell and other persons in over two days. guan in September 1984, the FBI investigated connection with the Contra probe but they In the current probe, federal investigators reports that U.S. military supplies, including refused to discuss details. have asked about an alleged March 1985 arms weapons, were diverted to the rebels from FBI spokesman Bill Carter said the bureau shipment from the Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., two Alabama National Guard armories, in does not comment on pending investigations airport to rebels based in Costa Rica, on a Huntsville and Decatur, but no charges were until arrests or indictments have been charter flight through El Salvador's Ilopango brought. brought. Air Force base, the Contra backers said. The Americans belonged to CMA, a Deca- Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.,a Contra aid Four rebel supporters told The AP that tur, Ala.-based paramilitary organization opponent who has been closey following the they helped collect weapons from two Miami which has trained and fought alongside the investigation, said, "because these charges homes and took the shipment to Ft. Lauder- Contra rebels. Several of their founders, involve important aspects of American for- dale for the flight. They said the weapons including Dana Parker, who died in the eign policy, it is vital for Congress to investi- included a 20mm cannon, several M-60 ma- crash, were members of the 20th Special gate these matters fully in order to uncover chineguns, M-16 and AK-47 rifles, a case of G- Forces Group, attached to the Alabama Na the truth." ' 3 rifles, mortar shells, and crates of ammuni- tional Guard. Prior FBI inquiries into possible Neutrality tion. Federal agents are also investigating re- Act violations and illegal arms exports in One Contra supporter, Steven Carr, said he ports that Nicaraguan rebel groups operating connection with the Contras were conducted then accompanied the supplies on the charter in Costa Rica engaged in cocaine smuggling as early as October 1984 when Congress flight to El Salvador, where the weapons to help finance the war. they wanted to continue their studies and went off to class. The white students have refused to give interviews, but Taljaard said in a telephone interview that they had no political motive for enrolling at Medunsa. Most places at white-dominated medical schools are filled by students who start in theiirst-year program, he said, and it is very difficult to enter at the third-year level as Kruger and Wilke tried to do. "They were very good candidates," Taljaard said. "They applied at other schools and couldn't gain admission, not because of poor quality but be cause there were very few places left." Taljaard said Medunsa's policy is to give preference to black students but to admit applicants of other races if there is room after all qualified Blacks are enrolled. He said the contention by some black students that Kruger and Wilke were depriving Blacks of places was "absolutely false." Some Blacks have attended pre dominantly white univerities in re cent years, including a few at white medical schools. Black students at Medunsa call the existing level of integration a token effort by the gov ernment to ease international pres sure. Taljaard suggested that the boycott was motivated in large measure by the intensifying nationwide black op position to apartheid. "The students are associating with the struggle of the community out side. It's a show of solidarity," the rector said. "And they also feel Whites have had opportunities which they haven't." South Africa has been torn for 19 months by violence against the race policy that gives 5 million Whites supremacy and denies rights to 24 million Blacks. More than 1,400 peo ple have been killed, nearly all of them black. Taljaard said the black students' academic progress was being se verely affected by the boycott. "We've just about reached a point where it will be impossible to main tain our academic standards and complete our academic year," he said. The academic year runs from February through November. Student leaders insist that they will continue the boycott until Kruger and Wilke leave. "Many people have experienced verbal, if not physical, attacks in their four years here. It is difficult to be open and out (openly express ing preference for the same sex) in this com munity." However, Pettit said she did not have first hand knowledge of any physical attacks. The issue of including homosexuals in the university's equal opportunity statement sur faced in 1982 with a similar demand by stu dents. The Yale Corporation responded by adding a paragraph to the statement saying that the university was committed to "respect ing an individual's attitudes on a variety of matters that are essentially personal in na ture." The student members of the Yale Gay and Lesbian Cooperative say that statement is not good enough, because it does not definitively state that there shall be no discrimination against homosexuals at Yale. The university's statement says specifically that discrimination will not be tolerated on the basis of sex, race, handicap, color, religion, age and national or ethnic origin. University spokesman Walter Littell said that school officials would not comment on the request until after the corporation had fully considered it. However, in a speech to the class of 1988, Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti indicated he was sympathetic to gay concerns. The gay students are not satisfied with Gia matti's assurances. Senior Patrick Santana, from Seattle, said Giamatti's remarks rep resent only an interpretation of the current policy. Interpretations can change, he said. Tony Resse, a senior from Chicago, esti mates that as many as 1,800 Yale students, faculty and staff could be homosexual. His figures are based on a 1948 study by the Kinsey Institute which estimated that 10 percent of the general population had primarily homosexual tendencies. The number of Yale students and staff who are openly homosexual is much smaller, the students say. Yvonne Zylan, a senior from Wading River, N.Y., said that between 35 to 40 women attend meetings of a Yale lesbian group and that the attendance was similar for gay male groups. The change of policy was requested by 15 students, who signed an open letter to Giamatti in February. They met with Giamatti, and later with the corporation, to explain their request. At least 40 universities, including Harvard and most of the other Ivy League colleges, have institutional protection for gays, Santana said. The Daily Collegian Friday, April 11, 1986 weapons Investigators and American rebel support ers have told the AP the smuggling opera tions involved all the leading rebel groups, including the FDN; the Democratic Revolu tionary Alliance, ARDE; the Nicaraguan Democratic Union, UDN; and a smaller faction known as M-3. Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, told a House pan el last month the administration had evi dence implicating ARDE officials in drug smuggling, but denied involvement by the largest U.S.-backed group, the FDN. Three rebel supporters two Cuban exiles and one American said one rebel cocaine smuggling operation centers on a leading member of the 2506 Brigade, a Miami-based Cuban-exile group that has assisted the Con tras. They said the man owns a seafood import business he allegedly uses to smuggle cocaine into the United States. The Cuban exiles, who have worked closely with the Contras, said the Contras helped ship cocaine through Costa Rica, where they guarded airstrips for planes landing from Colombia. Some of the cocaine was taken to an Atlantic Coast port, where it was con cealed in large containers of frozen seafood for shipment to the Miami area, the exiles said. Terrell, who quit CMA in mid-1985, said he attended a Miami meeting early that year with the Cuban and an American farmer living in northern Costa Rica. Terrell said cocaine shipments were discussed and the Cuban offered the Contras the proceeds from the sale of lobsters that had been used to conceal a cocaine shipment. Guinness abductors demand $2.6 million DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) Masked men kidnapped Jennifer Guinness, a member of one of Europe's richest families, from her clifftop mansion, and are demanding millions in ran som, police said yesterday. Police Superintendent Frank Han lon said Jennifer Guinness, whose husband is a distant cousin of the Guinness brewery family, pleaded with the three kidnappers not to take her daughter and they left the young woman behind, bound hand and foot. Authorities threw up roadblocks, launched a, massive search in the Irish Republic and informed police across the border in Northern Ire land. Forty-five detectives, support ed by hundreds of uniformed police, were assigned to the hunt. Hanlon said there were similarities between the abduction, which oc curred Tuesday afternoon, and kid nappings by the outlawed Irish Republican Army, but it might be the work of ordinary criminals. "We are keeping an open mind about this crime," he told a news conference. Police flushed out IRA sympathiz ers on both sides of the border, but there was no indication of any new leads. Hanlon said there had been no contact with the kidnappers. A news blackout had been imposed on the case since Guinness, 98, was taken from the pink Georgian-style house, which is set in 12 acres of land in the exclusive Baily Howth suburb and overlooks Dublin Bay. Before fleeing in a beige Toyota sedan, police said, the kidnappers told the victim's husband: "Two mil lion pounds or you will never see her again." Two million Irish pounds is about $2.6 million. A car of that description was found abandoned yesterday in Swords, a village near the Dublin airport and about five miles from the Guinness home. Police said they were examin ing it, but gave no further details. Jennifer Guinness is married to John Guinness, 50, chairman of the Dublin merchant bank Guinness Ma hon and Co. The Guinnesses, whose two main family branches are in banking and brewing, are among the richest families in Europe. Guinness returned home to find his wife, 23-year-old daughter Gillian and a visiting English book dealer, who was not identified, tied up and the kidnappers still in the house. Police said he tried to snatch a gun from one of the intruders but was pistol-whipped across the face and then bound. Jennifer Guinness, a small woman who has two other children, pleaded with the kidnappers to leave Gillian behind and they did. "It may very well have been her mother's plea that prevented her being taken," Hanlon said. John Guinness freed himself 2 1 / 2 hours after the masked men fled with his wife and a small amount of money stolen from the house. He was bruised, but not badly hurt, and called police immediately, Hanlon said. The commissioner said the kidnap pers called their tall, well-built leader "colonel" but there was no other evidence of a military link. • campus briefs Leadership conference slated A conference to help students develop leadership and commu nication skills will be presented by the Network organization Sunday from noon to 5:30. The conference, open to all students, will include programs presented by faculty, administrators, social service agency profes sionals and student leaders. "The main goal of the conference and of Network is to show that leadership is not about status, but about service," said Andy Mozenter, assistant director of the Office of Student Organizations and Program Development. "We try to provide communication and group management skills so students can effectively achieve group goals," he said. Conference topics will include leadership transition; how to motivate, recruit and retain group members; time management; how to hold effective meetings; developing group cohesion; inter nal communications; job search strategies; and planning retreats. Network is a free service that provides training and consultation in leadership and human relations for students and student group advisers. Operating since the fall of 1984, it has presented over 100 programs so far this year, Mozenter said. Theta Chi hosts philanthropy • Theta Chi fraternity will host its first annual "Kicks at Theta Chi" philanthropy Sunday. Dave Ferro, co-chairman of the event, said the philanthropy will take place at the fraternity house, 523 S. Allen St., and will beneift the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Centre County. "Kicks" stands for Kids In Cooperation with Karing Students. The day-long event starts at 11 a.m. and is open to big brothers and big sisters in the county who are matched with little brothers and little sisters. About 25 children will atend who will be matched with a big brother or big sister for the day, Ferro said. The children will be divided into teams and participate in 17 activities including a three-legged race, numerous throwing games, a "burst the bag" relay race and a game of Simon Says. The children will also be treated to lunch, Ferro said. Prizes will be distributed to all the children regardless of what place they finish in the event, Ferro said. AEPi wins fraternity merit award The Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity recently won the Oniega Epsilon Award for fraternity merit while the Acacia fraternity won the second place award. The Pennsylvania Lambda Educational Foundation, in cooper ation with the Interfraternity. Council, presents the award each year to the fraternity that best exhibits the most exemplary qualities of a fraternity. Winners of the award are selected by awarding points in the areas of scholarship, leadership and University activities. In the area of scholarship, Alpha Epsilon Pi won first place while Sigma Pi took second. Scholarship points are awarded on the basis of house cumulative grade point average and improvement. In the leadership category, Alpha Epsilon Pi again took first with Acacia winning second place. Leadership points are awarded on the basis of members of the house being involved in major and minor activities. Major activities include involvement in honor societies and IFC and also in activities such as the Blue Band and cheerleading. Minor activities include participation in any University-related organization or community service organization. In the area of University activities, Phi, Delta Theta won first while Delta Tau Delta and Pi Kappa Alpha tied for second. Activities Merit is based on involvement in such things as Greek Week and IFC Dance Marathon and individual philanthropies and non-fund-raising events. As the overall winner, Alpha Epsilon Pi will receive a plaque and $2OO for educational use. Acacia will receive a plaque and a $lOO award. . Also, the fraternities finishing first and second in each of the three categories will receive plaques. Societies hold training conference Constituent Societies, a branch of the Penn State Alumni Associa tion, is sponsoring a training conference for its leaders today in the HUB. The Third Bi-Annual Constituent Society Conference will go over the responsibilites of association members and will discuss fund raisers for the University, said Pat Clark, the association's assistant executive director for special programs. The conference will also help the society members to better understand how they fit into the entire picture of the association. This conference will be held concurrently with the Penn State Club Leaders Conference. The Penn State Clubs, also a part of the association, is made up of alumni living.in a particular geographic area. The clubs provide a place for Penn State graduates to meet with people when they are far from home, said Field Director Jerry Wettstone (class of '62). The clubs, found throughout the United States, assist in Universi ty fund raising, he said. The two conferences will include a lecture and luncheon at 11 a.m. with Executive Vice President and Provost William C. Richardson and Vice President for Development and University Relations David Gearhart speaking. Grad students exhibit research The first annual Graduate Research Exhibition, sponsored by Graduate Council, begins today with over 70 exhibits in Kern Building lobby competing for $lO,OOO in prize money, the chairman of the committee on graduate research said. Matthew Rosenshine said University graduate students involved in research will present their exhibits from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and tomorrow. The awards ceremony for the exhibition will follow the closing of tomorrow's exibit, he said. Poster exhibits make up about two-thirds of the exhibits, he said. Rosenshine explained that posters will be judged differently from other exhibits Eight judges for graduate exhibition were chosen from the four University areas: Engineering and Physics; Health and Life Sciences; Arts and Humanities; and Social and Behavorial Sci ences. Two judges were selected from each area, Rosenshine said. The judges will determine how the $lO,OOO prize money will be distributed. Many of the judges are recipients of University awards in their areas, he said. —by Vicki Petties Black Arts Festival winds down A dinner, fashion show, and arts and crafts display will be featured at the African Festival tomorrow evening. The festival, sponsored by the African Student Association, will mark the end of the week-long Black Arts Festival. Members of the organization will model trditional African clothing during a fashion show and a collection of original African art will be displayed. A slide show of Africa will be presented by a professor who visited Africa and Afrcian music and dances will be provided. The Earthtones, a local band, will provide live music in addition to recordings of African music. The event will be held from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. Tickets are $5 for dinner and entertainment. Reduced ticket rates for anyone wishing to come for the band and other festivities will be available later in the evening. —by JIII A. Bedford —by Christine Metzger —by John Spence —by John Spence —by Valerie Bailey )52 ... CIKT ... X,Q—... toKT ... X.C/ ... OKT ... 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