2—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 16, 1986 Threats, reproval and support follow Libyan air raids By The Associated Press U.S. embassies in Mexico City, Poland and South Korea received bomb threats yester day, an American embassy employee was shot in Sudan and there were violent anti- American demonstrations in Britain, West Germany and Austria as America's foes and many friends condemned the air raids against Libya. There was no claim of responsibility for the shooting in Khartoum, but the United States said last November it was withdrawing U.S. personnel and dependents from Sudan be cause of the presence there of Libyan terror ists. In Japan, protesters tried to push their way into the U.S. embassy compound today but were repulsed by guards. Yesterday, a truck carrying a rocket-launching device exploded in flames in a field about a mile from the U.S. Air Force base at Yokota, 21 miles from Tokyo. U.S. officials and police reported no Injuries. „ Paul Smith, a spokesman at the U.S. Em bassy in Warsaw, said the building was U.S. embassy employee shot in Sudan By MICHAEL PUTZEL AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. The White House yesterday proclaimed U.S. air raids on Libya a success that "struck a blow against terrorism," but the attacks were followed by a new inci dent of violence against an American the shooting of an employee in the U.S. embassy in the African nation of Sudan. The bombing raids may have put in jeopardy plans for a U.S.-Soviet sum mit meeting this summer. The Soviet Union called off a mid-May meeting at which arrangements for a summit were to have been made. President Reagan, speaking before the Khartoum shooting, told some businessmen "the United States won but a single engagement in, the long battle against terrorism" and pledg ed to continue with more strikes if necessary. "We would prefer not to have to repeat the events of last night," he told a group of business executives. But he said that would be up to Nigel Hilton Ounionagricultural busi• Katherine Groqch (freshman•division ness management): of undergraduate studies): "No I don't support the bombings. I "Yes Ido support the bombings think it was a little bit preemptive. It's because I think Khadafy Is a terrorist gunboat diplomacy. I agree with Rea. and he thinks he can get away with gan's policy In general but no one terrorizing the Americans. I think it knows all the circumstances or all the was time to show him that he can't get facts. But I wouldn't have struck as away with everything. As for another early as he did. I'm against what he bombing, I think that would depend on did. He's killing innocent people." Khadaty's response." partially evacuated after a man telephoned to say a bomb had been planted there, but it was reopened when no explosives were found. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said a man speaking fluent English called the U.S. Embassy in Seoul and said six bombs had been placed in the compound. An embassy official said the compound was evacuated during a search, but no bombs were found and normal operations resumed. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City received more bomb threats than normal, but evacua tion was unnecessary, embassy spokesman Vince Hovanec said. He said the callers did not specify their motives. Left-wing militants rioted in West Berlin and Hamburg and orderly anti-American demonstrations were reported in Frankfurt, Bonn, Mannheim, Stuttgart and other West German cities. West Berlin officials said scores of masked, black-clad leftists in a crowd of some 5,000 demonstrators smashed windows and battled police along the city's fashionable Kurfuerstendamm boulevard. "Reagan murderer and fascist!" they shouted. Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, whom he labeled an arch-terrorist. "What is required is for Libya to end its pursuit of terror for political goals," said Reagan. "The choice is theirs." The State Department said the Khartoum embassy victim, whose identity and occupation were not dis closed, was hospitalized in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the head. He was initially identified as a diplomat, but the State Department said later that was wrong. A spokeswoman, Anita Stockman, said U.S. officials did not know who was responsible and no group claimed responsibility. National Pub lic Radio said an administration source said it was thought Libya was involved. In Khartoum, about 200 demonstra tors shouting "Down, down U.S.A.!" marched through the streets yester day protesting the U.S. air raids on Libya. Last November, the State Depart ment brought home some U.S. per sonnel and their families from Sudan . • P Do you support the U.S. attack on Libya? Black-garbed militants shattered store windows, damaged four police vehicles and injured three policemen during a demonstra tion by some 4,000 people in Hamburg, offi cials said. There were no reports of arrests in the West Berlin and Hamburg violence. London police reported 160 arrests after an estimated 2,000 demonstrators blocked traf fic outside Prime Minister Margaret Thatch: er's office. The protesters carried placards reading, "Murderers out of Britain" and "Margaret Thatcher Blood on Your Hands." Eighteen U.S. F-111 jets based in England took part in the air raids and their mission had been approved by Thatcher. Police in Vienn, Austria clashed with demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy and reported 22 people in the crowd of about 200 were arrested. Thousands of Greeks marched with Libyan and Palestinian students to the U.S. Embassy in central Athens but dispersed peacefully after burning an American flag. Protest demonstrations also were reported because of the presence of Libyan terrorists in Khartoum. Americans were advised to stay out of the city. Libya, in apparent retaliation for the air raid, fired at a U.S. Coast Guard installation on a tiny Mediter ianean island 175 miles off the Libyan coast. Presidential spokesman Larry 'Speakes said the nighttime U.S. bombings "successfully accom plished" their twin objectives of dam aging Khadafy's ability to perpetrate terrorism and showing him the Unit ed States would strike to punish him for past attacks on Americans and to pre-empt future ones. An air and sea search was under way for an Air Force F-111 fighter bomber and its two-man crew miss ing after the Monday night attack. The Pentagon identified the missing airmen as Capt. Fernando L. Ribas- Dominicci, 33, of Puerto Rico, the pilot; and Capt. Paul F. Lorence, 31, of San Francisco, the weapons sys tem officer. Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims Collegian reporter John Spence and photographer John S. Zeedick asked people yesterday: Warren Ricks (a shipper/receiver at Quickdraw Accessories Inc.): "Well, as to blowing up things, I don't support any of it. To me I feel it wasn't necessary. But if terrorism con• tinued and I were the president then I would support further bombings. If Khadafy is going to start blowing things up here, there and everywhere then we'll have to do something." said rescue planes continued to search over the water off Libya after dark yesterday but had found "no evidence of survivors, no beepers, no strobes" to indicate where the lost plane went down. He said the search-and-rescue op eration was not drawing fire and no other U.S. forces were in the area, despite Libyan reports of a renewed attack. The Soviet Union, responding to the bombing raids, called off a planned meeting next month between Secre tary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, casting doubt on plans for a second summit this year be tween the leaders of the two coun tries. The White House called the Soviet decision "a mistake." Shultz and Shevardnadze were to have discussed arrangements for Soviet leader Mik hail Gorbachev's visit to the United States to meet with Reagan, a trip the two leaders agreed on last November but for which no date has 'been set. George Ho (a Canadian engineer visit. Kathy Shields (State College resident) Dick Speece (professor of civil engi. ing State College): "In general Ido support the bomb• veering at Drexel University): • "I would say that I support the ing because something has to be done "I support a measured response by bombings. I think that someone had to about Khadafy and I think the rest of the United States that would Include do something to stop all the terrorism the world is looking for us to do it. It the bombings. That is, when they do In the world. From all the information I seems that no one ever stopped terror- something against us, I support a know, I think Khadafy is a terrorist. But Ism by not retaliating against It so measured response against them, I I haven't heard his side of the story. I some action had to be taken. It re. feel ... we do have a respoomitaty to may change my mind if I heard his side mains to be seen If this was the best take care of world.wide Jnylests in. 1 of the story." one or not." stead of Just our own." outside. U.S. diplomatic facilities in India, Cyprus and Sudan. Israel, Britain, Canada and Chad, where Libyan-backed rebels control the northern half of the country, supported the air raids on the Libyan capital of Tripoli and the city of Benghazi, but the Soviet bloc, China and most of the NATO members joined the Arab world in denunciation. These were some of the responses: Soviet Union The United States "has started speaking in its true tongue the tongue of bombs, flames and death," Vladi mir Goncharov wrote in a news analysis distributed by the official Tass news agency. Saudi Arabia The strikes ran "counter to all international norms," state-run Riyadh radio said. Egypt One of America's best Arab friends and a bitter enemy of Libya, express ed "alarm and strong resentment" at the attacks. Iran, Syria and Libya Foreign ministers of the three countries meeting in Tehran, Iran, called on all Arab, Islamic and "peace loving" countries to break diplomatic and Local Continued from Page 1. "Mr. Khadafy has responded to American diplomatic and economic pressure by continuing Libyan sup ported terrorism. While no one should welcome military action it is hard to see what else would act as a clear, compelling deterrent," Heinz said. "What We're talking about is a head of state who supports, encourages and sponsors the murder of innocents in the air, at airports, and cruising the Mediterranean. The president's decision is one I support." Specter said the facts outlined by President Reagan to members of Congress indicate that Libyan spon sored terrorism is a problem that can no longer be ignored. "The other acts of terrorism, which Khadafy has planned are absolutely astounding and reprehensible," Spec ter said. "I just hope there is not an escalation of terrorism or warfare." A press secretary for Heinz, who asked not to be identified, said fur ther military action might be taken against Libya, but it is one of the last measures the United States wants to use. "A whole series of actions and initiatives must be taken to combat terrorism," he said. "It requires con tinued diplomatic and economic pres sure and cooperation with our allies." U.S. unsure of status of lost fighter plane By NORMAN BLACK AP Military Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. Air Force and Navy bombers successfully at tacked all five of their targets inside Libya, leaving planes and hangars destroyed and causing serious dam age to the main headquarters of Li bya's terrorist organization, the Pentagon said yesterday. Chief spokesman Robert Sims said no U.S. forces remained in the area, except for those involved in a search and-rescue operation for a missing U.S. warplane. Sims denied reports on Libya radio asserting new Ameri can attacks. The attack planes managed to achieve the element of surprise, but as they were completing their bomb ing runs many encountered stiff anti aircraft fire and large numbers of surface-to-air missiles, Sims said. The only apparent American cas ualties, he said, were the two crew men aboard the missing Air Force F -111 bomber. "The (terrorist) nerve center, the barracks at Al Azziziyah, suffered structural damage," Sims added. "We don't have a complete report on that." The spokesman was asked repeat edly about the extent of damage caused to civilian homes and foreign economic relations with the United States. The Syrian government denounced the "bar baric American aggression against sister Libya." Palestine Liberation Organization PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and North Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh, meeting in the North Yemeni capital of Sana, joined Kuwait in calling for an Arab summit to discuss the situation. Palestine National Salvation Front The pro-Syrian coalition of six Palestinian guer rilla groups based in Damascus vowed "de terrent action" against the United States. China The official Xinhua news agency said, "The day when big powers can wanton ly sway their power has long gone and the act of the strong bullying the weak has become very unpopular in the world today." Britain Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe, said, "Are we to stand by and allow terrorism directed by Libyan authorities to continue absolutely unchecked when they have been appealed to by peaceful means through the U.N. Security Council?" The effects of Monday's bombing on curbing Libyan sponsored terror ism, however, will not be known for quite a while, Gamble said. "I suspect there will be a lot of rhetoric (from the Libyans)," Gam ble said. "They'll threaten to do a lot of things. There may be more state sponsored terrorism for awhile, but it may calm down in the long run." The professor cautioned, however, that Libya is not the only country sponsoring terrorism. "We tend to blame the Libyans for the terrorism that goes on in the world," he said. "There is clear evi dence, that they're responsible for some but surely not all." Harry Phillips, press secretary for U.S. Rep. William F. Clinger, said the White House sent the congressman documents detailing how the United States cracked Libyan cable codes and intercepted messages revealing Libya's plans for further terrorist attacks against American military bases, business people and their de pendents oversees. "The congressman believes the United States had exhausted every alternative from loud diplomacy to quiet diplomacy to economic sanc tions, and he felt we had no other option," Phillips said. embassies in Tripoli during the bombing raids. He declined to ad dress the matter, saying the Penta gon simply did not have enough information to know whether Ameri can bombs caused the damage. On Capitol Hill, Sen. Paul Simon, D 111., emerging from a classified brief ing for members of the Senate, said "no civilian neighborhoods were in tentionally hit in the raids" but added, "Apparently there was some unintentional damage." Sims accused the Libyans of engag ing in a disinformation campaign, displaying a picture released by the Libyan government that supposedly showed parts of an American plane that had been shot down. In reality, Sims said, the picture displayed portions of a spent booster rocket from a Soviet S-3 missile. Sims, in the first official comment on the search for the missing Air Force crew, said ships and planes from the 6th Fleet were expected to continue their search through the night yesterday. "But the continuing efforts thus far have shown no evidence of survivors; no beepers, no strobes (lights)." Sims said the search was being 'concentrated in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tripoli and could well extend inside Libya's 12-mile territo rial limit if that appeared necessary. state/nation/world Soviet relations aggravated by U. S. attack By ROXINNE ERVASTI Associated Press Writer MOSCOW The Soviet Union ac cused the United States yesterday of threatening world peace by attacking Libya and canceled a planned meet ing between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Min ister Eduard Shevardnadze. In a strongly worded government statement, the Soviets condemned the attacks by U.S. warplanes as a "criminal action" and said the Amer ican "administration itself has made impossible at this stage the planned meeting on the level of the ministers of foreign affairs of our two coun tries." Shevardnadze was to visit Wash ington, D.C. May 14-16 to make ar rangements for a superpower summit in the United States between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Although the statement did not mention the summit preparations, it said the Soviet Union had warned the United States "that such actions can not but affect relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. Reagan said the United States car ried out the air raids to retaliate for terrorist actions it traced to Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy. In Washington, D.C. the White House said it was "a mistake" for the Soviet Union to call off the meeting. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said the Soviet action "shows where they stand on the im portant issue of international terror ism. "It also says something about their commitment to work constructively on issues on the U.S.-Soviet agenda, including arms reductions and re gional crises." By cancelling the meeting, the So viets demonstrated their displeasure with the American action against the Supporters of ousted President Ferdinand Marcos flash the victory sign as they cheered arriving Assemblymen Monday for the opening session of the abolished National Assembly at a suburban Manila hotel. Loyalists want Marcos By CRISELDA VASES Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines More than 4,000 supporters of Ferdinand E. Marcos marched to the U.S. Embassy yesterday and demanded the return of their leader, who urged them on from exile in Hawaii. Demonstrators burned an American flag and shouted obscenities at two U.S. officials entering the embassy. "The flame you have started shall spread," Marcos said in an interview with a Manila radio station. He exhorted loyalists to continue protests against Presi dent Corazon Aquino's government and asked Filipinos to recognize his running mate in the Feb. 7 election as acting president. Members of the crowd at the embassy accused U.S. officials of drugging Marcos and abducting him. American helicopters took him from the presidential palace the evening of Feb. 25 at the height of a military-civil uprising that swept Aquino to power. The former president, his wife Imelda and their retinue were flown to Hawaii the next day in U.S. Air Force planes. Marcos, who ruled the Philippines for 20 years, has said American officials promised to take him to his hothe province of Ilocos Norte. The United States -cjetiks it. 2 41=4‘ they (the Americans) kidnap Marcos? North African country that has re ceived aid and military supplies from the Soviet Union. The statement accused the United States of actions. that threaten world peace and with "making violence, aggression and belligerent chauvi nism a standard of its policy." It said the Soviet government "con demns the aggressive bandit action" against Libya "and demands an im mediate end to it. "Otherwise, more far-reaching conclusions will have to be drawn in the Soviet Union." Before announcement that the Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting was off, Gorbachev called the attack a provocative action and a deliberate attempt to aggravate U.S.-Soviet re lations. "This action, which cannot be justi fied by any arguments, is a link in the chain of the challenging and provoca tive actions of the United States taken in response to the Soviet Union's peace initiatives," Gorbachev said in a dinner speech for visiting Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson of Sweden. "They signify a deliberate aggra vation of Soviet-American relations," he said. "The whole international commu nity, the United Nations organization and, in the first place, Western Eu rope, the NATO member countries, are confronted with the serious choice," Gorbachev said. "Passive ness, the more so connivance at or complicity in actions of this kind threatens turmoil in international relations with unpredictable conse quences." Vladimir Lomeiko, chief of the press department of the Foreign Min istry, said at a briefing for Swedish journalists that the Soviet Union "views these brutal actions as a vio lation of international law and total disregard for common human ethics." He's our legal president, not Cory!" one woman in the crowd shouted. Cory is the nickname commonly used for Aquino by both supporters and opponents. One of several Marcos loyalists who went on the air at station DZME to talk with him said she participated in a street vigil and had not slept. "We will not stop until you come back. We are not being paid to do this," she said. Critics of Marcos have said he paid people to attend his rallies when he was president. Demonstrators raised their fists at the embassy gates and shouted repeatedly: "Bring back our presi dent!" Two U.S. Marines in battle gear and about a dozen armed Filipino guards stood inside. Some of the Marcos loyalists pasted a sticker read ing "Cory Suicide" on an embassy seal and wrote "Marcos Kidnappers" across an embassy sign. Others shouted that Aquino was a "panty stealer." She has turned the presidential palace into a museum, displaying Imelda Marcos' extensive assortment of gowns, lingerie and shoes as a symbol of the family's excesses. A van parked outside the embassy displayed Marcos buttons, shirts and campaign paraphernalia from the election, which was widely denounced as fraudulent. Across a drawing of Marcos on one shirt was written "I shall return," the words of Gen. Douglas MacAr thur, who led the liberation of the Philippines from the Japanese in World War 11. AP Laserphoto Navy finds rocket segment More astronaut remains may also be recovered By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer APE CANAVERAL, Fla. Divers combing the wreckage of Challeng er's crew cabin may have found more astronaut remains yesterday, according to radio traffic monitored by news organizations. A coded message from the USS Pierce referred to a "Tom O'Mal ley," a term used earlier by ships in the cabin search area. It is believed to indicate the discovery of remains. After stormy weather left a blanket of silt over what remains of the cabin last week, sources close to the investi gation said divers were certain they would recover no more remains. However, the sources, who spoke on condition of anonimity, said some remains of one of the seven astro nauts had not been located, and when the weather cleared, a scallop boat was hired for one day to help clear the silt and the search resumed. NASA has declined comment on astronaut remains, out of deference to the families. Meanwhile, experts seeking to de termine precisely what caused the Challenger explosion yesterday ex- 'Gary' is By MICHAEL L. GRACZYK Associated Press Writer HOUSTON The FBI yesterday released two composite ketches and a tape recording of "Gark•,: the man suspected in the recent tampering contamination of Contac, Teldrin and Dietac capsules. "This individual's actions are con sidered to represent a grave danger to society and the FBI continues a very intensive investigation to identi fy and apprehend him," said W. Douglas Gow, special agent in charge of the Houston FBI office. "Right now we have just a very vague description. Hopefully there will be some features that will key someone that has some information and will come forward and tell us," Gow said. The sketches are based on informa tion from several witnesses who be lieve they watched a man place contaminated capsules in an Orlando, Fla., store on March 19. Tainted cap sules subsequently were found at the store. The sketches, made by the Orlando Police Department, show a white amined a two-ton piece of rocket wreckage containing part of the joint that failed and triggered the acci dent.. As the scorched 11-foot-by-20-foot chunk was unloaded from the salvage ship Stena Workhorse, observers could see a large hole burned through the joint between rocket segments and the surrounding steel casing. The Navy said the hole measured 15-by-28 inches. Launch day photos show a plume of flame spewing from this joint, and investigators believe it burned through the bottom rocket attach ment, allowing the top of the solid fuel booster rocket to swivel and crash into the shuttle's huge external fuel tank. The crew of seven died in the explo sion that occurred 73 seconds after the shuttle lifted off on Jan. 28. The Stena Workhorse recovered the piece Sunday, hoisting it from 560 feet down on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The presidential shuttle commis sion said Monday its recovery was of "critical interest" to its investigation of the accident. Also here were NASA's acting ad- identified by FBI male of undetermined age. In one photo, he is wearing sunglasses. Gow, whose bureau is coordinating the nationwide hunt, said no one is known to have ingested the capsules, tainted in each case with a chemical used in rat poison. The amount of poison in the capsules, however, would not likely cause death, he said. Six of the capsules were found in Orlando. Four others were discov ered in Houston. The tamperings prompted Smith - line Beckman, a Philadelphia phar maceutical company, to pull Contac, Teldrin and Dietac capsules from stores around the country. The Pro prietary Association, a trade organi zation that represents 83 manufacturers of over-the-counter medicines, is offering a $300,000 re ward in the tampering case. Gow said a caller identifying him self as Gary has made at least 10 telephone calls, including one to radio station WCBS in New York City. "We want Smith Kline to find anoth er way to package their products, totally take them off the shelves and repackage them," the man said in a recording. The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 16, 1986 ministrator, William Graham, and the agency's shuttle director, Rich ard Truly. They were briefed on the preliminary report a NASA investiga tive task force will deliver to the commission Friday in Washington, D.C. Investigators are not sure if the rocket segment will tell them exactly what caused the accident, but chemi cal and metallurgical tests might yield clues to the sequence of failures that started at liftoff when a puff of black smoke escaped from the joint'. The joint somehow resealed itself until it was reopened again 58 seconds into the flight, apparently by the buffeting of high-altitude winds. The examination also could dis close the exact course of the gases as they burned through the solid propel lant that powered the rocket, past an insulative layer of putty, the two 0- ring' gaskets in the joint that were intended to contain the gases and the steel casing. Several theories for the cause are being studied, including defective or damaged 0-rings, a joint misalign ment and the possibility that freezing weather on launch day might have weakened the rings or the putty. "They are going to have a lot more problems with a lot more people and it's not going to be whatever they want to call it, corn syrup, whatever the hell they're calling it. They are going to have a lot of problems and they're . . . that's all I'm going to say at the time." Gow said Gary's reference to "we" could mean more than one person is involved. "That's a possibility," he said. "We can't discount that. But right now we're going under the assumption that it is an individual." He also said authorities were un certain where the calls originated. "As far as location, we're going under the assumption that right now we can't pinpoint the location," Gow said. Gow refused to say if the authori ties have compiled a psychological profile of Gary or whether he could be a former employee of Smith Kline. The FBI, however, has established a toll-free telephone number 1-800- 222-3081 for people to call with information about the case "due to the severity of this crime committed against the unsuspecting public."
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