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Iran stops two Soviet ships
By Nablia Megalli
Associated Press Writer
MANAMA, Bahrain Iran stopped two
Soviet ships in the first action against Iraq's
main arms supplier since the Iranian navy
began searching freighters for military cargo
early last year, shipping sources said yester
day.
Iranian warships chased the Pyotr Yemt
soy in the southern Persian Gulf on Tuesday,
then forced it into the Iranian port of Bandar
Abbas to be searched.
Shipping executives, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity, said the second vessel was
stopped briefly yesterday and identified only
as the Tutov. •
The Pyotr Yemtsov, which belongs to
USSR-Black Sea Shipping of Odessa, was
seized during a voyage from the Black Sea
port of Nikolayev to Kuwait and was being
Collegian photo /Jean. Hopper
Ring
around
the
scholars
Above, Karen Brooks, right, shows Jeffrey
Shardell (senior-business logistics) some
class rings in the HUB yesterday. At right,
Shardell stoops to take a closer look at the
wares for himself.
Anti-Rehnquist criticism
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The nation's
major civil rights coalition stepped up its
attack yesterday on Chief Justice-designate
William H. Rehnquist, arguing in a report
that he has opposed equal justice for minori
ties "at every turn."
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
issued its report a week before scheduled
Senate debate on the nominations of Rehnqu
ist and of Antonin Scalia as a Supreme Court
associate justice.
While the report covered many of the
criticisms leveled at Rehnquist during his
the
daily
unloaded yesterday at Bandar Abbas,
according to the reports.
In Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokesman
Gennady I. Gerasimov confirmed that the
11,750-ton Pyotr Yemtsov was "detained" off
the coast of the United Arab Emirates but did
not mention the Tutov. Bandar Abbas is
about 120 miles east of the UAE.
Gerasimov said he believed the freighter
was carrying a load of cement. He gave no
information on the size of its crew.
Despite the Soviet role in supplying Iraq
during the 6-year-old Iran-Iraq war, shipping
sources said wpapons or other military goods
were unlikely to be shipped on Soviet freight
ers through the Persian Gulf.
"We believe the Pyotr Yemtsov was loaded
with construction material, but the Iranians
consider such commodities to be an asset for
the Iraqi military effort," said an executive
based in Kuwait.
confirmation hearings in August, it was char
acterized by its use of harsh language.
The Leadership Conference, composed of
185 organizations, said its main reason for
opposing Rehnquist's nomination "is his 35-
year record of opposition to the fundamental
principle of equal justice under law."
The coalition also contended "he lacks the
requisite candor and sense of propriety to
serve in the nation's highest judicial post."
Supreme Court spokeswoman Toni House
said there would be no comment on the study,
entitled "The Case Against William Rehnqu-
Collegian
He noted that several Kuwaiti vessels had
been intercepted and their cargoes of steel
rods and other construction materials seized.
Scores of ships of many nationalities are
known to have been searched since Iran
began intercepting commercial vessels early
in 1985.
Capt. Mohammed Hussein Malekzadegan,
the Iranian navy commander, was quoted
earlier this week as saying his warships
intercept 15 to 20 commercial vessels a day to
make sure they do not carry cargo that would
benefit Iraq's war effort.
Most detained ships are allowed to resume
their trips after searches. Others have been
taken to Bandar Abbas, where their cargoes
were unloaded and confiscated.
The American freighter President Taylor
was stopped and boarded outside the Strait of
Hormuz last January on a voyage to the
United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah. In
escalates
ist: A 35-Year History of Hostility to Victims
of Discrimination and Unanswered Questions
of Candor and Sense of Propriety."
The report reviewed Rehnquist's career as
a private citizen, a Justice Department offi
cial during the Nixon administration and as
an associate justice of the Supreme Court the
past 15 years.
Much of the study covered Rehnquist's
record on issues such as school desegrega
tion, voting rights, public accommodations
and racial makeup of juries.
in Persian Gulf
May, U.S. warships in the Indian Ocean
prevented the interception of another Ameri
can cargo ship, the President McKinley.
U.S., British and French naval vessels
patrol the Persian Gulf, the narrow Strait of
Hormuz that leads from the gulf to the Indian
Ocean and the strait's environs in the Gulf of
Oman.
Soviet warships also cover the area outside
the Hormuz.
Shipping executives said an average of two
Soviet or East European freighters a day ply
the gulf waters. They expressed surprise that
Iran would harass Soviet ships while the
Kremlin is trying to improve relations with
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fundamental
ist Shiite Moslem' government.
"Knowing the Soviets, they are unlikely to
create any fuss about the seizure of their
vessel, however," a Bahrain shipping agent
said.
Family of imprisoned
journalist may face
smuggling charges
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW The wife of an American
reporter accused of spying said yesterday
that authorities have threatened to press
smuggling charges over family jewelry that
she and her husband failed to list on customs
forms.
Nicholas Daniloff, correspondent for U.S.
News & World Report, has been held without
formal charges in east Moscow's Lefortovo
Prison since Saturday. He was arrested by
eight KGB agents after a Soviet acquaintance
gave him a package later found to contain
maps marked secret.
The chairman of U.S. News, Mortimer B.
Zuckerman, left Moscow yesterday after two
days of meetings with Soviet officials aimed
at winning Daniloff's release.
Zuckerman said his meetings were "pro
ductive in the sense of a dialogue, but not
conclusive in the sense that I know what the
outcome will be." He said he agreed not to
say which officials he met.
Daniloff's wife, Ruth, said customs authori
ties called the Moscow office of U.S. News &
World Report yesterday to say that she
should come to a customs clearing house
outside Moscow to sign a statement about the
undeclared jewelry. "My instinct is just to
ignore it (the message)," she said.
The Daniloffs listed carpets and a diamond
ring as their only valuables when entering the
country and when filling out forms to leave,
Ruth Daniloff said. Her husband took up the
Moscow post 5 1 / 2 years ago and was planning
on leaving soon for a new assignment in
Washington.
Ruth Daniloff said they did not list a pocket
watch Daniloff's father gave him for his 21st
birthday, a locket that belonged to Ruth
Daniloff's grandmother and some "rubbishy
old jewelry" that she kept at the bottom of
her jewelry box. She said they did not consid
er the items valuable or believe they were
made of silver or gold.
Customs agents confiscated the seven or
eight pieces of jewelry and have informed her
they are being valued at $2,210, Ruth Daniloff
said.
"They're saying we have smuggled our
'own things into the country and now we're
trying to smuggle them out again," she said.
"It's all just so stupid. It may just be part of
the harassment against us."
The Daniloffs sent their household goods to
the customs house for clearance in late Au
gust, she said.
The Daniloff's 16-year-old son, Caleb, left
Moscow yesterday to return to school in the
United States.
"I think it's best for me to depart," Caleb
said at the airport. "I don't really want to, but
I think it would be better for my dad if there
was no chance for them to hassle me, to make
my dad do anything."
Ruth Daniloff vowed to stay in Moscow
until her husband is released, "unless they
want to take me out of here in handcuffs,
kicking and screaming."
She visited her husband Sunday and Mon
day and said she hoped to be allowed to see
him agaili tomorrow.
Ruth Daniloff has accused the KGB secret
police of framing her husband in retaliation
for the arrest in New York of a Soviet U.N.
employee, Gennady Zakharov.
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Executives gave this description of the
Pyotr Yemtsov seizure, based on radio con
tacts they and their monitors had with other
ships in the gulf:
An Iranian warship ordered the captain to
stop when the freighter was about 30 miles
northwest of Dubai. It signaled a threat to
open fire, and the Soviet skipper turned his
vessel and tried to escape.
The Iranian ship caught up after a brief
chase and again threatened to shoot. The
Pyotr Yemtsov's captain cut back his engines
and Iranian commandos boarded, either by
boat or helicopter.
An initial distress signal from the freighter
indicated it was being attacked, but the
captain sent another signal later that his
vessel had been boarded by Iranian marines.
Nothing was heard from the Pyotryemt
sov after the captain's second message.
U.S. proposes
swap with USSR
By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. The United States
has approached the Soviet Union with a
proposal to free an American journalist ac
cused of spying in exchange for granting
pretrial release to a Soviet physicist arrested
for espionage, U.S. officials disclosed yester
day.
The deal to liberate U.S. News & World
Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff
would involve temporarily releasing Genna
dy F. Zakharov, a Soviet physicist assigned
to the United Nations Secretariat, to the
Soviet ambassador to the United States.
A U.S. official who demanded anonymity
said the State Department would have fa
vored release of Zakharov before Daniloff's
apprehension, but was not consulted. "That's
standard procedure," the official said.
But a federal court in New York, acting on
the advice of the Justice Department, reject
ed a Soviet request that Zakharov be handed
over to Ambassador Yuri Dubinin until a trial
date was set.
Correspondent Daniloff subsequently was
arrested, setting up the potential exchange
now under discussion in both capitals.
Zakharov was arrested by the FBI in New
York on Aug. 23 and charged with spying.
Daniloff was seized Saturday by KGB agents
in Moscow after being handed a package with
two maps marked "top secret" by a Russian
acquaintance.
The officials, who insisted on anonymity,
said Zakharov would face trial on spy
charges under the proposal, but that there
would be an "understanding" that he might
be swapped in some future deal with the
Soviets.
There was no immediate response from
Moscow to the proposal, the officials said.
One of the officials said "a significant
precedent" for Daniloff's situation was set in
1978 when a similar arrangement was worked
out.
Nicholas Daniloff