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Filipino rebels threaten to halt truce
By ROBERT H. REID
Associated Press Writer
MANILA, Philippines Negotiators for Com
munist rebels insisted yesterday that U.S. bases
here be closed. They also pressed their challenge
of the military’s right to patrol and seize arms,
threatening to delay this week’s scheduled truce.
The government-run Philippine News Agency
said the military was concerned over “mounting
rebel atrocities in various parts of the country”
before the cease-fire, which is to begin tomorrow.
Armed forces spokesman Col. Honesto Isleta
said two helicopter gunshlps were sent yesterday
to Abra province of northern Luzon to help troops
fight off about 200 Communist rebels besieging an
army patrol there.
The Philippine News Agency said at least two
soldiers were killed and seven wounded in “two
major attacks” and three ambushes on Luzon
Island Sunday.
Government peace negotiator Teofisto Guingo
na said he would seek a meeting with his rebel
counterparts to resolve a dispute centering on
conditions under which the army can keep up
Managua
denies
air raids
By FILADELFO ALEMAN
Associated Press Writer
MANAGUA, Nicaragua The
Sandinista government denied yes
terday that its troops made a raid into
Honduras and claimed seven Nicara
guan soldiers were killed and 12 peo
ple were wounded in air raids inside
Nicaragua by enemy warplanes.
Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escotc
and other officials of the leftist gov
ernment denied claims by the Hondu
ran government that Nicaraguan
troops had penetrated Honduran ter
ritory over the weekend and burned
three abandoned border villages.
Instead, D’Escoto told a news con
ference Sunday that American war
planes ‘coming from bases in
Honduras bombed two Nicaraguan
border villages, but when challenged
to provide proof that they were U.S.
warplanes he sidestepped the issue.
• “I said that everything indicates
that the United States for many years
has been carrying out a war against
Nicaragua,” he said. “It is not Hon
duras. It is a war that, although not
officially declared, is being carried
out by the United States.”
Michael O’Brien, a spokesman at
the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa,the
Honduran capital, called D’Escoto’s
charge “completely false.” He said it
was “obviously another example of
Sandinista disinformation.”
The Honduran military issued a
statement saying about 20 of its
planes bombed and strafed a Nicara
guan force of about 700 troopers as
they were withdrawing from Hondu
ran territory and returning to their
homeland.
• Although D’Escoto had spoke of
American planes, a statement from
the Nicaraguan Defense Ministry
early yesterday dropped all mention
of U.S. aircraft and said five unidenti
fied planes flying in from Honduran
territory bombed two villages Sunday
afternoon.
It said three planes attacked the
village of Murra, 119 miles north of
Managua, killing seven Sandinista
soldiers and wounding nine. It said
two more planes then attacked Wiwi
li, another village nine miles south
east of Murra, wounding one soldier
and two children.
Sunday’s clash was the most se
rious in a series of incidents along the
border between the two countries.
U.S.-supported Nicaraguan rebels,
known as Contras, have been fighting
for more than four years to overthrow
the Sandinistas.'Many of the rebels
operate from base camps on the
Honduran side of the border.
Last week, President Daniel Orte
ga accused the Reagan administra
tion of “heating up a conflict between
Honduras and Nicaragua to detract
the attention of American public opin
ion from the scandal caused by the
secret sale of arms to Iran and divert
ing the proceeds to the Contras.”
Ortega claimed last week that
Sandinista military positions on the
Nicaraguan side were shelled by
105 mm artillery from the Honduran
side of the border by Honduran troops
airlifted to the frontier by the United
States.
The U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa
denied that accusation.
Ortega at that time demanded that
Honduras force the Contras out of its
territory and said U.S. troops in the
area “could create a situation that
could culminate in an intervention by
American troops against Nicara
gua.”
Sunday night, the Sandinista gov
ernment proposed that Honduras ask
U.N. General-Secretary Javier Perez
de Cuellar to send immediately a
special commission to inspect the
border area.
Foreign Ministry officials said they
had not received any response from
the Honduran government.
patrols and weapons seizures during the cease
fire.
He said he and Defense Minister Rafael Ileto
reached an understanding on the issue, but he
refused to give details until he met the rebels.
At a breakfast meeting with reporters, three
officials of the Communist-led National Democrat
ic Front, which negotiated the Nov. 27 cease-fire
pact on behalf of the rebels, said they stood fast in
opposing the U.S. bases.
They also objected to statements by Chief of
Staff Gen. Fidel V. Ramos that the military would
continue patrols in rebel areas during the cease
fire in the 17-year-old Communist insurgency and
would arrest anyone carrying unregistered weap
ons.
The status of the U.S. military installations at
Clark Air Base north of Manila and Subic Naval
Base northwest of the capital is among "substan
tive issues” to be taken up during a second stage of
negotiations to begin once the truce takes effect.
About 40,000 troops, U.S. civilians and depen
dents are at the bases, the largest U.S. bases
outside the United States.
National Democratic Front official Bobby Ma-
Capitol movement:
Pennsylvania reps
for desirable office-space
By JEFF BARKER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pennsyl
vania congressmen weigh the
chance of a spectacular view and
bigger space with the cost of mov
ing their office as the House’s room
assignment lottery winds to a close
this week.
The lottery has been compared to
the NFL draft because of the ad
vance scouting and gamesmanship
that accompany it. Before the raffle
is held, teams of aides are dis
patched by lawmakers to size up
available offices.
“People were trooping in here
like you wouldn’t beleve,” said Ted
Piccone, an aide to Rep. Bob Ed
gar, D-Delaware County.
“Sometimes, one or two would
come in and then they would come
back with four or five of them. We
counted one day when 19 different
parties came in.”
Edgar, ending his sixth term,
passed up seeking re-election to run
for the U.S. Senate and was defeat
ed by incumbent Arlen Specter.
Edgar’s three-room Rayburn
Building office was considered de
sirable because of its size. The
office, No. 2352, was claimed by
Rep. Toby Roth, a Wisconsin Re
publican.
“We get GOO extra square feet
compared to what we have now,”
said Roth aide Tom Springer.
The one drawback to the office,
Springer said, was its location in an
in raffle
out-of-the-way corridor on the third
floor. The first time the congress
man went to inspect his new digs,
he got lost.
“We’ll have to tell constituents to
leave an hour earlier when they
visit,” Springer said.
Pennsylvania’s 23 congressmen
live in three buildings Rayburn,
Cannon and Longworth. All are
connected to the Capitol by an un
derground subway system.
The office selection system, like
so many other things in Congress, is
based on seniority. The longest
serving members drawing the low
est lottery numbers get the first
crack at the offices of defeated or
retiring colleagues. In turn, the
senior members’ offices are tossed
into the pool for the next class of
representatives.
Lawmakers often choose offices
near the hearing rooms of their
committees for convenience. But to
impress constituents, nothing beats
a Capitol view.
“It’s really spectacular, especial
ly at night,” said aide Ken Nakamu
ra of the postcard-perfect view that
his boss, Michigan Republican Rep.
William Broomfield, has of the Ca
pitol dome.
No congressman is forced to give
up an existing office, and many find
it easier to stay.
Democratic Rep. Austin Murphy
of Washington County drew No. l in
the lottery for lawmakers elected in
1976. The office of departing Loui
siana Republican Henson Moore
lay-.Ocampo said the bases “will have to go”
eventually because “they are the cornerstone of
American control, and domination of the Phil
ippines.”
Front spokesman Antonio Zumel called the
bases “an affront to .. . (Philippine) indepen
dence and sovereignty.”
The lease on the bases expires in 1991. President
Corazon Aquino has refused to say if she will
support any extension.
Ocampo said the two sides will have to decide
during second-stage negotiations how to achieve
“a common objective of establishing our true
independence from the military presence of Amer
ican power.”
He said in reference to Ramos’ statement on
patrols and arms seizures that “unless the politi
cal leadership clarifies or revokes this supposed
policy statement... we are afraid the cease-fire
might not go into effect by Dec. 10... or that there
would be violations very soon.”
The truce accord bans “hostile acts” but lets the
army continue “peace-keeping functions ... to
ensure the safety of the civilian populace.”
possessed a lovely view of Capitol
Hill, but Murphy decided to stay
put.
Another factor in deciding not to
move is the cost. It can amount to
as much as $5,000, including hook
ing up telephones. The money
comes out of the office budget.
The prospect of the expenses,
plus drawing a high lottery number,
helped four-term Republican Rep.
William Clinger of Warren County
Jim Wright
6 killed during riots
over news article
By EILEEN ALT POWELL
Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI, India - Moslems
offended by a newspaper article they
considered an insult to the Prophet
Mohammed rioted in several south
ern cities yesterday. Six people were
shot to death by police who tried to
disperse the mobs.
The two-day death toll was 17 as
rioting that began Sunday in Banga
lore spread to several other cities in
Karnataka state, state-run radio re
ported.
Scores of people were injured in the
clashes, including more than 30 po j
licemen, the radio and United News
of India said.
The article which triggered the
violence, published in the English
language Deccan Herald, was about a
mentally handicapped youth named
Mohammed and was printed below a
headline that included the words “Idi
ot Mohammed.” Islam’s prophet Mo
hammed was mentioned in the story.
State radio said the newspaper’s
editor, M.P. Yeshwant Kumar, and
its publisher were arrested yesterday
and charged with promoting commu
nal enmity, but they were freed on
bail.
An apology from the newspaper
was broadcast by radio and television
Sunday.
The violence continued for a second
day in Bangalore and spread to the
First lady denies dispute
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Nancy
Reagan acknowledged yesterday that
she and President Reagan disagree
sometimes, but denied that she and
her husband quarreled over whether
chief of staff Donald T. Regan should
be fired and that her husband told her
to “get off my goddamn back.”
Nancy Reagan, leading a press
corps tour of the White Iloqse
Christmas decorations, was asked
about the report that had appeared
over the weekend in the Washington
Post.
Asked whether the president had
made such a remark, Reagan shook
her head and replied sternly, “No.”
Pressed by reporters on whether
the couple had disagreed over wheth
er the president should fire Regan
because of the controversy over the
sale of arms to Iran and the diversion
of funds to the Contras, she again
replied in the negative.
“We disagree sometimes; every
body disagrees,” said Reagan, who is
regarded by White House insiders as
having great influence over the presi
dent’s personnel decisions.
She told reporters that she had
watched “five minutes” of Secretary
of State George Shultz’s testimony
earlier in the morning before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
decide not to move even though
his office has a view of ventilators
in the Longworth courtyard.
The lottery for congressmen
elected in 1984 was scheduled for
later this week, meaning Demo
cratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Lu
zerne County had to wait to see if he
draws a number low enough to
make leaving his office high atop
the Longworth Building worth
while.
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Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1986
ancient temple city of Mysore, 80
miles to the southwest, and Kolar, 48
miles to the northeast.
Five people were killed and eight
were injured, including two po
licemen, when police fired to disperse
angry mobs thatset fire to five shops
and three rickshaws in Mysore, the
United News of India reported.
The news agency said the shooting
started after tear-gas canisters and
charges by police with wooden batons
failed to disperse the crowds.
A government bus and a newspaper
delivery van were set on fire in Kolar,
UNI reported. The van’s driver and
his assistant were injured by stones
thrown from the crowd, it said.
The disturbances in Bangalore in
cluded attacks on police by protesters
throwing gas bombs, soda bottles and
rocks. One person died when police
fired after tear gas failed to disperse
the crowds. Two other people were
hospitalized in serious condition.
Eleven deaths were reported in
Bangalore, the state capital, on Sun
day, when more than 6,000 Moslems
armed with iron rods, sticks, gasoline
bombs and bottles took to the streets
to protest the newspaper article.
The rioting in southern India came
a week after clashes in New Delhi
between Hindus and Sikhs.
Hindus rampaged for two days to
protest the killing of 24 Hindu bus
passengers by Sikh extremists in
Punjab state Nov. 30.
and that she thought his performance
was “very good.”
As reporters continued to question
her, she entreated, “No, now come
on, this is Christmas.”
The first lady, dressed in a
Christmas red satin blouse and wool
skirt, tried to turn the press corps’
attention to the new Christmas deco
rations in the state rooms of the White
House, brilliantly arrayed with ever
green boughs, holly, poinsettas and
bedecked Christmas trees.
The White House had issued a
statement from the president himself
over the weekend also denying that
the two had had a tiff or that the first
lady had pushed for Regan’s remov
al.
“There is no truth to it either the
quote or anything else. There is just
no truth to it,” White House spokes
man Dan Howard quoted the presi
dent as saying.
The first lady, asked about the
president’s mood while dealing with
the controversy, responded, “Fine.
He is fine.”
Queried whether the president
scheduled to meet hundreds of mem
bers of the press corps during two
White House Christmas parties this
week still held the view that the
media was acting like “sharks cir
cling,” she smiled and said Reagan
was looking forward to the parties.
Jim Wright
new speaker
By STEVEN KONIAROW
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. House
Democrats on yesterday selected
Jim Wright of Texas, their ma
jority leader for the past decade,
to become the chamber’s 48th
speaker.
Wright accepted the unani
mous nomination of his party
colleagues with a promise to
quickly move a legislative agen
da that will include but not be
dominated by investigation of
the Reagan administration’s Iran
arms sales.
Democrats “hope to demon
strate to the American peo
ple. .. that we Democrats have
our act together, and that we can
govern,” Wright said.
The speaker of the House holds
a constitutional position, in line of
succession to the presidency af
ter the vice president. Wright’s
nomination requires ratification
by the full House on Jan. 6.
Democrats will hold a 258-177
majority, and party allegiance in
such a vote is nearly absolute.
The Democrats, in their open
party caucus, also unanimously
chose Rep. Thomas Foley, D-
Wash., currently the majority
whip, to move up to become ma
jority leader.
Wright said the House will
move quickly to establish a spe
cial committee “to get all the
facts of the Iranian arms misad
venture on the table.”
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High-tech jobs grow in western Pa.
PITTSBURGH (AP) A small but fast-growing high-technology
sector is creating new jobs four times faster than the overall
economy in western Pennsylvania, according to a University of
Pittsburgh study released yesterday.
The study, sponsored by the Pittsburgh High Technology Council,
a trade group, identified 639 “high-technology” companies employ
ing about 66,000 people in western Pennsylvania.
The study said nearly 30 percent of high-technology companies in
western Pennsylvania were founded since 1980 and more than half
were started in the past two years.
It also said 57 percent of high-technology firms employed fewer
than 25 people and more than 45 percent had revenues of less than
$1 million in 1985.
Nearly half of the firms surveyed manufacture a product and the
rest are service companies, research and development companies,
consultants or distribution firms, according to the study.
Nearly 57 percent of the companies are located in downtown
Pittsburgh or near the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-
Mellon University in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section, the study said.
Town supports suspended doctor
GRAND MEADOW, Minn. (AP) Many of this town’s 900
residents think the world of Dr. Hideo D. Mori, their only doctor for
26 years, and they want him back at work. But the state has
suspended his license, saying he committed sexual improprieties
with female patients.
“The whole town is in a state of shock,” said Robert Lamp,
administrator of the Meadow Manor nursing home. “He was
accessible 24 hours a day and a fantastic doctor.”
“It’s been like a funeral around here. People are devastated,”
said Kitty Sween, a home health aide and longtime resident.
Mori, 56, has been a popular and respected leader in this
southeastern Minnesota town of 900. In 1970 the father of four was
named father of the year, and three years later he was honored
with the Community Better Life Award.
He also served on the school and hospital boards, taught judo,
and helped train ambulance crews, Sween said.
But the state Board of Medical Examiners, suspended Mori on
Nov. 18 and a hearing is scheduled tomorrow.
The allegations involve seven female patients over 19 years.
David Ziegenhagen, executive director of the panel, declined to
discuss details.
“It seems a shame that seven people can deprive ... people of
their doctor,” said Sween.
Mori’s request for a temporary restraining order to block his
suspension was denied. In a Nov. 26 memorandum, Ramsey
County District Judge E. Thomas Brennan said Mori admitted the
“sexual exploitation of several women,” but said there had been no
complaints in the past five or six years.
Many share view of divine guidance
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) A new survey of religious attitudes
shows there is little point in attacking or ridiculing a political
candidate just because he says he is being guided by God, pollster
George Gallup Jr. suggested yesterday.
Many Americans have felt the same divine guidance, so “the
public understands when a leader says God has spoken to him or
guided him to take a specific course ( of action,” Gallup said.
The new poll by the Gallup Organization was sponsored by the
•Christian Broadcasting Network, whose founder, the Rev. Pfit
Robertson, has said he will formally run for the Republican
presidential nomination if he believes he has sufficient backing
next year.
Some opponents have made television evangelist Robertson a
target of satire or criticism because of his statements that he was
being guided by God in his decision whether or not to run and that
his praying had helped keep a hurricane away from the Virginia
shore, where his operation is based.
However, Gallup said in an interview, his new poll found that 69
percent of adult Americans questioned said God has led or guided
them in making decisions and 36 percent said God has spoken
directly to them.
Neither Robertson nor politics in general are mentioned in the
actual survey, and Gallup said his organization is strictly neutral
and doesn’t do political polling.
However, when asked about possible political significance of the
survey, Gallup said, “The public is perhaps more open to a person
saying he is receiving guidance from God than the press has
indicated, and not just in terms of Pat’s statements about hurri
canes and so forth but also in a broad sense.”
Students force withdrawal
PARIS (AP) Premier Jacques Chirac bowed yesterday to
student demands and withdrew a bill to revise the state-run
university system after a three-week campaign of violent protests.
In the Latin Quarter, the capital’s student district, about 30,000
demonstrators marched peacefully through the streets to mourn
the death of a 22-year-old student who had been beaten by police.
According to an autopsy, the student died of a heart attack after he
was beaten.
Throughout the country, people paused for a moment of silence.
In West Berlin, an estimated 1,200 demonstrators sympathetic
with the French students marched through the streets during the
visit of French Foreign Minister Jean-Bernard Raimond.
About 30 of the demonstrators became violent and ran through
the city damaging storefronts, police said. They reported there
were several arrests, but gave no number.
Raimond, who arrived in West Berlin yesterday afternoon for a
short visit with city officials and West German Foreign Minister
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, did not cross paths with the demonstra
tors.
. It was not clear if the Berlin demonstrators were aware of
Chirac’s earlier decision to withdraw the plan or chose to ignore it.
Opposition to Chirac’s center-right government has been snow
balling since the protests began. Teachers, unions, leftist poli
ticians and even government officials have spoken out against the
university bill.
The government has said the measure would make higher
education more competitive, but critics claim it is elitist and
diminishes students’ freedom of choice.
Farmer removes bomb to save grass
CLYDACH, Wales (AP) A farmer said he carried an unex
ploded World War II bomb off his land because he didn’t want bomb
disposal experts trampling his newly sown grass seed.
“I know it was a silly thing to do, but it was just on the spur of the
moment,” 46-year-old Gordon Griffiths said yesterday, after bomb
experts defused the device and found its detonator still intact.
He said his pickax struck the bomb while he was working on his
100-acre farm near Swansea in south Wales during the weekend. He
called the bomb squad, but then picked up the 30-inch-long
projectile and carried it 60 yards to the edge of the field.
Griffiths said he was “sweating and frightened” but guessed that
if his pickax hadn’t detonated it, it was safe. “I knew what these
police and bomb disposal people would be like, and I was worried
about my grass. I’m just a down-to-earth farmer and I wanted to
keep my land tidy.”
A police spokesman who declined to be identified said, “We
would not recommend anyone do what Mr. Griffiths did.”
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