state/nation/world Defense minister says army gave power to Aquino By MIGUEL C. SUAREZ Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines De fense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, whose criticism of government policies has prompted calls for his resignation, said yesterday that he was no mere appointee and that he and the military handed power to President Corazon Aquino. Aquino’s vice president and for eign minister, Salvador Laurel, meanwhile suggested voters he allowed'to decide whether presi dential elections should be held next year, as urged by Enrile. “I thought it would be more fair not only to the people, but also to Aquino and myself to know what the people feel about our tenure,” Laurel told a news conference. ‘ln the final stages of the revolution, we (the military) had complete control almost of the levers of power in the land. We decided not to accept that power and wield it.’ Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile Enrile, who also was defense minister under President Ferdi nand E. Marcos but helped lead his.ouster, has insisted Aquino call elections to legitimize her govern ment. But a recently drafted constitu tion that is to be submitted to a referendum next year would keep Aquino and Laurel in office until 1992. Aquino maintains she won an electoral mandate in the fraud- Cash piling up at USX By EARL BOHN • AP Business Writer PITTSBURGH USX Corp. Chair man David Roderick said yesterday that work might not resume at the company’s steel plants until spring unless a contract settlement is reached with the United Steelworkers union within 12 days. Meanwhile, Roderick said, the en ergy and steel giant has accumulated $2.7 billion in cash and may have an additional $1 billion or more by year’s end to fend off a possible takeover bid by New York investor Carl Icahn. Because of pressure from Icahn to restructure USX, the company is offering modest “golden parachutes” to its top executives, Roderick said. The USX chief also said Australian investor Robert Holmes a Court, who first fueled takeover speculation in August by announcing USX stock purchases, told him that he has sold his stake in USX for a profit. Holmes a Court had bought more than $l5 million worth of USX stock. The chairman of the diversifed steel and energy concern did not disclose how much Holmes a Court paid for the USX shares. But based on current market prices of about $26 a share, the stake the Australian had acquired represented less than 1 per cent of total USX common stock outstanding. Icahn, who holds about 29 million shares, or an 11.4 percent stake worth about $750 million, is negotiating with USX for access to its books and has not agreed to postpone a formal offer to buy the company, he said. Both issues are under negotiation, said Roderick, who was scheduled to meet Icahn again yesterday af ternoon in New York. “Neither Mr. Icahn nor USX is doing anything that might be consid ered hostile toward the other,” he said. “We are still in a friendly mode. Obviously if the discussions are not successful we’ll each be making our own announcement.” Buying USX stock after Holmes a Court briefly put them in play on Wall Street, Icahn proposed buying the outstanding stock for $3l per share as an alternative to a restructuring stu dy the company had begun two weeks earlier. Icahn told stock regulators he might formally solicit shares from USX stockholders. tainted Feb. 7 balloting in which government officials declared Marcos the victor. Marcos fled to Hawaii two weeks later in the face of a military and civilian revolt. Enrile told a nurses convention yesterday, “In the final stages of the revolution, we (the military) N had complete control almost of the levers of power in the land.” He said: “We decided not to accept that power and wield it, but instead we handed it to a civilian government headed by Mrs. Aqui no. .. . And so, therefore, no one can tell us that they handed to us an appointment of a position be cause we were holding those posi tions before any one of them had their positions.” Enrile told the nurses he would resign if Aquino demanded but would first have to consult the military “the people I represent in the government.” In recent weeks, Enrile increas ingly has criticized Aquino’s poli cies, especially that of seeking a negotiated peace with communist rebels. Presidential spokesman Teodo ro Benigno told reporters yester day that Aquino believes her. position as national leader reflects “the continuing support of the people.” “The president remains, and will continue to remain for quite some time, as the center of politi cal gravity in the Philippines,” he said. Laurel told his news conference that when the new constitution is put to a referendum next year, voters should be asked separately if he and Aquino should remain in office until 1992 or- if elections should be held in May. The referendum is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 23. Laurel said he wanted to “sepa rate the question of tenure from the main body of the constitution so that the constitution will be judged exclusively on its merits.” Feds make largest cocaine seizure ever: 4,620 pounds By ANDREA ROWAND Associated Press Writer MIAMI U.S. Customs agents inspecting a furniture shipment dis covered 4,620 pounds of cocaine, the largest amount ever seized in this country, federal officials said yester day. The cocaine, seized earlier this month, had a wholesale value of more than $46 million and would be worth at least 10 times that on the street, said Drug Enforcement Administra tion spokesman Jack Hook. Customs agents were checking two 40-foot-long containers that held sofas and chairs when they spotted empty, ""v J \ . ■ Sdtx**' Philippine President Corazon Aquino talks with Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile before a cabinet meeting In Manila yesterday. Reagan supports Aquino anti-rebel policy By DAVID BRISCOE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. The Reagan adminis tration proclaimed its “complete and unequivo cal” support for Philippine President Corazon Aquino yesterday, rejecting her defense min ister’s assertions that she isn’t doing enough to combat a communist insurgency. Meanwhile, the head of a congressional panel said criticism of Aquino by Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile was “utterly unseemly.” “We believe that the Aquino government and the Filipino people have made substantial pro gress in developing an effective program for dealing with the threat of the communist insur gency,” said State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman. The statement, which did not mention Enrile’s increasingly political remarks, followed a rou tine State Department reaffirmation of support for Aquino’s government on Monday and a simi lar statement from the White House on Tuesday. false compartments inside the mer chandise, said George Heavey, com missioner of the Southeast Region of the Customs Service. Their suspicions aroused, agents then closely examined the containers themselves and found a false floor in one container that covered up hun dreds of bundles of cocaine. No arrests have been made and none are expected immediately, but an investigation is continuing, said Diogenes K. Galanos, head of the DEA office in Miami. Galanos said the shipment, now stored in dozens of cardboard boxes at a DEA office, might have been meant for two distributors. • I * In several recent public speeches, Enrile has been critical of the Aquino government’s efforts to negotiate peace with the rebels. Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., head of the House subcommittee on Asian and Pacific affairs, said on the CBS Morning News yesterday that he believes Enrile will soon be booted out of Aqui no’s cabinet. “I think this is utterly unseemly,” he said of Enrile’s public statements. “I think it is com pletely counterproductive. I think it creates problems for the Philippines in terms of the international image of the country and the efforts on the part of the new president to elicit invest ment from the United States and other countries, but my guess is that he is not going to be in the cabinet much longer.” The congressman urged the administration to declare the United States will have nothing to do with Enrile if he attempts to seize power militari ly in the Philippines. The State Department spokesman, without mentioning Enrile, said, “U.S. support for Mrs. School leader reported dead, but she was playing hooky By JAMES REINDL Associated Press Writer MILWAUKEE Students at Wash ington High were shocked when school officials announced over the public address system that a girl who was a top campus personality had died of a drug overdose. “Girls just started jumping up and screaming,” junior Thomas L. But ler, 17, said yesterday. But the report was a hoax. The girl was merely playing hooky. And be cause the incident occurred before a long weekend, it was three days be fore the students were told the truth. The mixup began last Thursday when school officials received a call from someone identifying herself as the girl’s aunt, Harold Pollnow, an assistant school administrator, told The Milwaukee Journal. The caller said the girl, a senior whose identity is being withheld, had died of a drug overdose. Academy calls for AIDS commission By WARREN E. LEARY AP Science Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. The Na tional Academy of Sciences, lament ing “woefully inadequate” federal programs to cope with America’s new health threat, called yesterday for creation of a National Commis- sion on AIDS. An additional $1 billion a year The prestigious academy, in a ma- mostly federal money but with sub jor report on the increasing problems stantial contributions from state and of acquired immune deficiency syn- local governments, industry and pri drome, said the only way to avoid a vate sources should be spent on health catastrophe in this country education and public health pro was to launch “perhaps the most grams, said Baltimore, director of wide-ranging and intensive efforts the Whitehead Institute for Biomedi ever made against an infectious dis- cal Research in Cambridge, Mass. ease ” ° These programs would include sex A panel of experts convened by the education in schools, efforts to get academy said the nation should be people at high risk of getting AIDS to spending about $2 billion annually by change their sexual habits, blood 1990, most of it new federal money, in screening to identify those infected a multipronged effort to thwart the with the AIDS virus, rehabilitation deadly disease. for drug abusers and testing the idea Research into the nature of the of providing disposable syringes to viral disease, treatments and vac- addicts who refuse treatment, the cines should get $1 billion a year by panel said. the end of the decade, said Dr. David Dr. Sheldon M. Wolff of Tufts Um- Baltimore, a Nobel laureate who was versity, the other co-chairman, said co-chairman of the study. that until ways are developed to pre “Our committee believes that suffi- vent the disease, the best hope of “It sounded so authentic,” Pollnow said. “I had no qualms that it was an adult at the time. Knowing the family and knowing how well-liked the girl was, I never thought there would be any prank.” School officials tried to verify the report, but could not reach any rela tives, Principal Jerome Brandi said. Rumors began circulating through the 1,650-student school and Brandi said the decision was made to tell students. “Rather than allow too many ru mors to circulate, we shared whatev er information we had,” he said. Brandi said he told students that afternoon that he couldn’t confirm the girl’s death, but it wasn’t until Thursday evening that she called him to say she was all right. Throughout the day Thursday, stu dents and teachers dealt with grief over the girl’s death. Counselors were made available and some students cient areas of need and opportunity exist to quadruple the 1986 AIDS research funding by 1990 to about $1 billion in newly available funds,” Baltimore told a news conference. “We emphasized that these funds must be new appropriations, not funds redirected from other health and research efforts.” The Daily Collegian Thursday, Oct. 30, 1986 Aquino is complete and unequivocal.” On Monday, Redman had responded to report ers asking about U.S. support for the Philippines in light of Enrile’s statements by saying, "I don’t see any need to reiterate that every day.” Yesterday, he said the reasons for that support “bear repeating,” including her “clear mandate from the Filipino people” a reference to the February election in which she claimed victory over ex-President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Redman made no direct reference, however, to a statement earlier in the day from Philippine Vice President Salvador H. Laurel, who said Filipinos should be given a chance to decide during a Jan. 23 constitutional plebiscite whether they want to add the presidency to the ballot in May. Enrile has called for new presidential elections. The spokesman said Aquino has “embarked on a well-defined program to restore democratic institutions, economic prosperity and national unity.” were allowed to go home early, stu dents and Brandi said. “It shocked me, especially when they said she took an overdose,” said sophomore Nora Glass, 16. “Every body knew she wasn’t that kind of girl.” There were no classes Friday, be cause of parent-teacher conferences, so it wasn’t until Monday that stu dents were told the girl was really alive. Brandi wrote a letter for teach ers to read in class explaining that an investigation was under way and telling students counseling was still available. The investigation has failed to re veal who made the hoax call, Brandi said, and authorities suspect they may never learn who called. Brandi said he and the girl’s paren ts agreed on a date for her return to class, but he wouldn’t say when she would be back. She will be punished for playing hooky last week, he added. curbing it is education. AH)S most commonly is spread by sexual activ ity and sharing contaminated needles during drug abuse, behavior people can influence, he said. “People should be told that they can protect themselves against, the disease by using condoms during sexual intercourse either anal or vaginal with an infected or possi bly infected persons, and by not shar ing needles and syringes,” Wolff said. Stopping AIDS cases through edu cation and public health programs will only cost a fraction of the price of caring for patients with the disease, estimated to rise to between $8 billion and $l6 billion by 1991, he said. The panel said a vaccine to prevent AIDS, or developing safe and effec tive drugs for long-term treatment, is at least five years away. This means that prevention through education presently is the best way to slow the disease, it added. Federal education efforts to date have been “woefully inadequate,” the panel said, more so because the messages have not been frank and clear than because of inadequate funding. AP Laserpholo state news briefs Dauphin county man escapes PITTSBURGH (AP) A Dauphin County murderer in a Pitts burgh hospital for a hernia operation escaped from his bed early yesterday wearing only his hospital gown, authorities said. George Brown, 38, who was sentenced to life in prison for a 1978 murder in Dauphin County, escaped from West Penn Hospital, several hours before scheduled surgery. Brown was an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh. Thomas Seiverling, assistant to the warden, said Brown “did not have any civilian clothing at all and escaped in his hospital gown, as far as I understand.” Seiverling said an unidentified prison officer guarding Brown at the time has been suspended without pay pending a state police investigation. Seiverling said Brown escaped from the State Correctional Facility at Camp Hill on March 6, 1981, was recaptured and was transferred to Pittsburgh. Numbers kingpin gets 14 years PITTSBURGH (AP) A federal judge sentenced reputed mobster Anthony Grosso to 14 years in federal prison yesterday after Grosso pleaded guilty to running an illegal gambling organi zation that netted him $1 million a year. Grosso, 72, long reputed to be the illegal numbers boss of western Pennsylvania, faces additional prison time for his guilty plea to gambling charges in state courts. He pleaded guilty Monday to a 68-count federal indictment charging him with running an illegal lottery, evading payment of a $3O million tax lien and failing to pay a federal excise tax on gambling profits. Grossohad faced a maximum 340 years in prison and an $8.2 million fine on the federal charges. He must serve up to 68 months of the federal sentence before he becomes eligible for parole, authorities said. Grosso also pleaded guilty in Common Pleas Court Tuesday to maintaining a corrupt organization, criminal conspiracy, gam bling and 14 counts of lottery violations. According to the charges, Grosso and his second-in-command, Norman Fabec, 44, supervised a numbers operation that had gross profits of at least $23 million annually and perhaps as much as $35 million. nation news briefs Farmers move cows ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Officials plan a series of surprise inspections of farms in a state-subsidized dairy project because farmers have been playing “musical cows,” moving them from barn to barn to meet production deadlines. “It’s like the old story of the general who convinced the enemy not to fight because he took his small army and paraded around and around,” said Dean Brown, deputy director of agriculture. When the Point MacKenzie dairy project was begun, the state set deadlines by which farmers were required to have certain numbers •of cows milking in order to qualify for low-cost land and low interest loans. Farmers argued that the deadlines were unrealistic and too rigid. Inspectors began noticing familiar faces as they went from farm to farm to see if the required number of cows were present. They discovered farmers were shuffling the cows just ahead of the inspectors so each farm would have the required number.' Assistant Attorney General Lance Nelson said farmers must consistently milk the same cows on the same farms to meet the requirements. But Milburn Tucker, largest operator on the project, admitting loaning cows to other farmers and insisted there was nothing wrong with that. He said the law only requires cows be milked on the property, “regardless of whether the cows have wings.” Federal shutdown cost disputed WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) A House subcommittee estimates the half-day shutdown of the federal government on Oct. 17 cost the taxpayers $33 million, but the Reagan administration rejected the figure yesterday. “There has never been an accurate figure for the costs of these things and there never will be,” said Office of Management and Budget spokesman Ed Dale. Dale said the estimate by the House civil service subcommittee was misleading because “they are trying to put a value on the price of work lost. It’s not a cash cost.” When it passed the $576 billion spending bill to operate the government, Congress provided that the 556,000 federal workers sent home early be paid for a full day’s work. The subcommittee estimated this provision cost the government $2B million because “we’re paying people for time they didn’t work,” said Andrew Feinstein. the panel’s staff director. world news briefs Saudi government fires oil minister RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister for the past 24 years and OPEC’s leading figure, has been fired, the official Saudi Press Agency reported yesterday. The terse announcement gave no reason for the replacement of the 56-year-old Yamani. Yamani is considered the architect of the 1973 Arab oil embargo that triggered the first major oil price rise and reshaped the world economy. There had been rumors Yamani was on the outs with the royal family, and King Fahd appeared to undercut him at a critical juncture of the Oct. 6-22 meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Geneva. But there was no direct evidence Yamani was in danger of losing his job. The surprise announcement issued before dawn in Riyadh said Planning Minister Hishan; Nazer had replaced Yamani. Nazer is considered one of the key ministers in this kingdom of 11 million people. The announcement came between two key OPEC meetings, one that agreed to continue interim production curbs through Dec. 31, and a Dec. 11 meeting in Geneva where the 13-nation oil cartel will try to line up a new production-sharing agreement or prodution quotas among members. Lebanese form force to battle PLO BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Leftist militias formed a joint force yesterday to fight the growing strength of Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon, and heavy fighting broke out around Beirut’s huge Bourj el-Baranjneh refugee camp. Reports said at least two people were killed and eight wounded in the 90-minute battle between the Palestinians at Bourj el-Baranj neh and the Shiite Amal militiamen ringing it. A Palestine Liberation Organization statement issued in Cyprus claimed its fighters repulsed Amal’s attempt to storm the camp’s Mashnouk district behind a mortar barrage. It said one Palestinian was killed and three were wounded. An Amal statement charged the Palestinians started the fighting by hurling hand grenades at Shiite positions and a nearby Syrian truce observation post. A spokesman at the west Beirut office of Amal’s leader, Justice Minister Nabih Berri, said five civilians outside the. camp Were wounded. MANAGEMENT CLUB Mandatory Meeting Tonight 7:00 p.m. 267 Willard COLLEGE AVE MARKET DELICATESSEN 206 West College Avenue 238-6300 Learn how to make beer! BASIC HOMEBREWING CUSS TONIGHT BPM Sharp only $3 00 be there or be □!!!! The Daily Collegian Thursday, Oct. 30, 1986—7
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