state Elie Wiesel Kentucky sniper nabbed by police By MIKE EMBRY Associated Press Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. A sniper dressed in a black martial arts costume and carrying a Samurai sword was subdued by a blast from a water hose yesterday, 11 hours after he began firing a rifle at random from a building at the Uni versity of Kentucky. Two men were wounded during the standoff with the gunman, Ulys ses S. Davis 111, who had been fired by the university last summer for fighting. The blast of water knocked the sword from his hand and pushed him against a wall, “and that made it easy to take him into custody,” said Sgt. preg Howard, one of the police officers who had negotiated with him. Davis, 25, suffered minor injuries and was taken to the Fayette Coun ty Detenion Center, Howard said. Davis, who wanted to air some grievances about the university, had broken off negotiations about 4 p.m., became agitated and began to make irrational demands, and po lice began to fear for the safety of officers in the building, Howard said. He did not describe the de mands. Police said they would probably charge Davis with multiple counts ol' assault in the first degree and possibly kidnapping. He had been an employee on the utility crew at the university’s Pe teVson Services Building and was fired in July for fighting. Police had negotiated with him after the siege began about 6 a.m. Howard, one of six officers talk ing to DaVis face-to-face in the storage-like room and by phone, described him initially as “very Buchanan's statements OK'd By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON D.C. Patrick J. Buchanan said yesterday that he has an unspoken go-ahead from the Oval Office to return fire in the face of “savage” attacks against Reagan over the Iran arms sale controversy. Buchanan, the White House com munications director, has accused leading Republicans of deserting President Reagan over the scandal and lashed out at the “adversary press” for attempting to cripple the presidency. His assertion that the law might be broken if cause is justified has incited calls for his removal, but Buchanan said he is staying put. “I have an implied benediction from the president and chief of staff (Donald T. Regan) to go out and defend the president and make his case and to make the arguments of what he’s done,” he said. Buchanan, whose office produces Reagan’s speeches and handles me dia relations, said in an interview that he decided to go public because of “a sense of exasperation that the Honduras denies staging attacks By REID G. MILLER Associated Press Writer TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Honduras said yesterday that its warplanes did not bomb across the border, as Nicaragua claims, but have at tacked Sandinista soldiers inside Honduras and will continue “until they leave.” However, a Reagan administration official in Washington said Honduran jets had struck inside Nicaraguan territory. President Jose Azcoria Hoyo said an estimated 1,500 Nicaraguan soldiers crossed the frontier late last week, overran several small army border posts and penetrated about 10 miles inside Hondu ras. Nicaraguan rebels maintain camps in the_ area. nation/world Death-camp survivor gets peace prize By FRANK POWLEY Associated Press Writer OSLO, Norway Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, an American writer and human rights advocate, received the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday and said the honor belonged to all survivors of the Nazi death camps and their children. Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Egil Aarvik gave Wiesel the gold medal and diplo ma at ceremonies in Oslo University’s Aula Festival Hall attended by 800 people, including King Olaf V and government leaders. The prize also includes $290,000. The award was “in recognition of this partic ular human spirit’s victory over the powers of death and degradation, and as a support to the calm, very articulate. He has a lot to say.” Howard said Davis had been sit ting in a chair, holding one firearm with several others nearby and wore a “Ninja-like outfit, all black.” The Ninja were practioners of a 9th-century Japanese warrior tradition. Police asked a Lexington radio station for a copy of their 3 p.m. newscast, but did not say what they planned to do with it. Sgt. Fran Root said Davis did not ask for the tape and had no access to a radio or television. Police sent in soft drinks, sand wiches and potato chips to Davis in the afternoon. His brother and fa ther, who also works in the building, were brought to the scene. Police also brought Davis’ son to the building “but we have not shown him his little boy,” said Howard, who would not give the boy’s name or age. Davis is not married. Shots began about 15 minutes after Davis entered the building. There was an initial exchange of fire with university police but after that it was “all one-sided shooting,” said patrolman Tom Baum said. “When he wanted to fire he would raise the shades up.” By the time the shooting stopped more than an hour later, at least 20 and perhaps as many as 50 shots had been fired, police said. “It sounded like the Fourth of July. There was a lot of noise like popping firecrackers,” said Marjo rie Zimmerman, a bookkeeper for the campus newspaper. No injuries were reported outside the campus service building, al though drivers were pinned in their cars during the sniping. people who ought to be speaking out in defending this president ... weren’t doing their job.” Arguing that the controversy has taken on a distinctly political tone, Buchanan said criticism directed the president’s way has been “savage, and unjust and partisan, and my job is to deal with those criticisms.” Taking up the defense of Reagan and acting as a lightning rod to de flect some of the heat directed against the chief executive is a role the presidential adviser clearly sa vors. The 48-year-old Buchanan is expe rienced at it, having cut his teeth as a die-hard defender of Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal when he was a White House speechwriter. During the height of the storm that later caused Nixon to step down, he wrote: "There is a Titanic mentality around the White House staff these days. We’ve got to put out the life rafts and hope to pull the presidency through.” Buchanan admits to relishing the political and ideological battle ground. “The saying is, ‘An Irishman’s Only a few stragglers remain, he said, “and the situation has improved greatly along the border.” “We bombed positions occupied by the Sandinis ta Popular Army inside Honduras,” Azcona Hoyo told a news conference, and air attacks will continue “until they leave.” Nicaragua “deployed very strong forces, includ ing tanks,” on its side of the border during the six days of sporadic fighting, he said, adding that “they provided very .good targets for our air force” but the Honduran planes did not attack. But in Washington, a Reagan administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity said U.S. intelligence agencies had confirmed the cross-border air attack. “They did hit inside Nicaragua, over the week end,” added the source. “We’re not sure precisely rebellion against evil in the world,” Aarvik said. The Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, economics and literature were pre sented Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden. In a departure from tradition, Wiesel’s teen age son, Shlomo Elisha, was invited to join his father on the podium for the awarding of the prize. Obviously moved, the 58-year-old Wiesel asked the king’s permission to say a brief blessing. “Thank you oh Lord, for giving us this day,” he said. In an emotional acceptance speech, Wiesel said: “Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one V; 0 Police drag Ulysses S. Davis 111 to the paddy wagon after an 11-hour standoff at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Two people were Injured. heart is never at peace unless he is in the middle of a fight,’ and I think there’s something to it,” he observed with a laugh. “I think the American left would like to cripple this president,” he said. “I think the American left is not unrepresented in the national press. ... I think there are some out there who are masquerading as re porters.” He said the investigation into any wrongdoing must “go forward.” But he added that he draws the line “when it gets into people going on television and trashing the president of the United States. Then I think'the president ought to be defended in those same forums, and I’m going to do it.” During the battle for $lOO million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels earlier this year, Buchanan touched off heated objections in Congress < when he contended that the vote would reveal whether the Democratic Party “stands with Ronald Reagan and the resistance or (Nicaraguan President) Daniel Ortega and the communists.” iJMfk Patrick Buchanan in Nicaragua what their targets were, but they did drop ord nance inside Nicaragua fairly close to the border.” A spokesman for Azcona Hoyo denied the U.S. official’s statement, reiterating that “Honduras has not attacked Nicaraguan territory.” The Washington source also denied charges by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that Hondu ras carried out the air raids at the request of the United States. The United States provided helicopters and crews to ferry Honduran troops to the border Sunday and Monday, but no heavy fighting was reported since Monday. The Sandinistas claim Honduran planes crossed the frontier Sunday and bombed the villages of Wiwili and Murra, killing seven soldiers and two civilians, and wounding 12 people. may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. “This honor belongs to all the survivors and their children, and. through us, to the Jewish people with whose destiny I have always identi- Wiesel said it “would be unnatural for me not to make Jewish priorities my own: Israel, Soviet Jewry, Jews in Arab lands... but there are others as important to me.” He said Palestinians were a people "to whose plight I am sensitive but whose methods I deplore when they lead to violence.” “Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and shed too much blood. This must stop, and all attempts to stop it must be encouraged,” he said. Aarvik noted it has been 50 years since the 'V \ AP Laserpholo Soviets say dissident died of hemorrhage By ANDREW ROSENTHAL Associated Press Writer MOSCOW A Soviet official said yesterday that the death of impris oned dissident Analoly Marchenko was caused by a cerebral hem orrhage after a long illness. His wife said he had been on a prolonged hunger strike. Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris Pyadyshev read a two-sentence statement in response to questions at a news conference marking Interna tional Human Rights Day. It said Marchenko died in a hospital, but it gave no date or other details. The human rights activist had spent 20 of his 48 years in prison or internal exile. During the rest of the news confer ence, officials called dissident Andrei Sakharov a criminal and condemned alleged human rights violations in other countries, but they sidestepped or refused to answer most questions about the situation in the Soviet Union. A friend of Larisa Bogoraz, Mar chenko’s wife, said Tuesday that she left for Chistopol prison, 500 miles east of Moscow, after receiving a telegram from prison authorities say ing her husband was dead. Bogoraz has said she believed Mar chenko began a hunger strike Aug. 4 to protest the fact he had not been allowed to see her since April 1984, three years after he was given a 10- year term for “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.” Last month, Bogoraz said the KGB secret police suggested she file a formal application for emigration to Israel. She speculated then that her husband was being force-fed. Bogoraz said she refused to file the application unless she was allowed to meet with her husband. In a letter dated Aug. 4 that made The Daily Collegian Thursday, Dec. 11, 1986 peace prize was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky,. the German pacifist who prior to World War II warned of the Nazi threat to democracy. “His testimony was, however, also his doom Ossietzky did not survive his meeting with the terrible regime which had established itself in the heart of Europe. Today, 50 years later, the peace prize is to be presented to one who survived,” Aarvik said. “From the abyss of the death camps he has come as a messenger to mankind not with a message of hate and revenge, but with one of brotherhood and atonement,” he said. “Elie Wiesel is not only the man who survived he is also the spirit which has conquered.” Thousands of Norwegians in a torchlight procession later filed past the Grand Hotel where Wiesel and his family were staying. V.*) $ ;*♦♦*.*«***! i H *til m i * r Pi itisi J I its way to a Western human rights group, Marchenko wrote of beatings and repeated confinements in a cold isolation cell that he said amounted to “an assembly line to annihilation.” Bogoraz said a KGB officer told her Nov. 21 that “Marchenko is feeling wonderful.” The Foreign Ministry spokesman’s statement yesterday said the dissident had been seriously ill for some time and was hospital ized, presumably in a prison facility. Pyadyshev read this official statement at the news conference: “Anatoly Marchenko, born in 1938, died in a hospital from a cerebral hemmorhage. This happened after a long and natural disease.” He refused comment beyond that. Sergei Shishkov, deputy prosecutor general, was asked later why the Marchenkos had not been allowed to meet for more than 2‘/ 2 years. He replied: “it is very difficult to say.. . . That has to be checked.” Shishkov added that penitentiary rules provide for regular family vis its, but they can be withheld for “gross violations of camp rules.” He did not say how that applied in the Marchenko case. Marchenko wrote the dissident chronicle My Testimony about his prison experiences, which began jvith a two-year sentence following a fight at the hydroelectric power station where he worked. He escaped while serving the first sentence but was captured while try ing to flee the country and sent to prison for six years on conviction of treason. After release in 196 G, he wrote the book and began protesting the impris onment of dissidents. That produced further sentences that culminated in a conviction in 1981 for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. <•v\t .*>■ rv -.*4A >*"»»•* i * i I i i n j AP Laserpholo state news briefs 37 counties get funds for homeless WASHINGTON, D.C. Federal grants totaling $3 million will aid homeless shelters and soup kitchens in 37 Pennsylvania counties, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced yester day. The money will be distributed through local boards and the United Way. It is being awarded under FEMA’s food and shelter program, which is releasing $7O million in homeless assistance funds throughout the nation Although he welcomed the funds, Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., said the nation needs long-term answers to homelessness. "The FEMA money will help communities meet the immediate needs of the homeless, and it is welcome,” Heinz said. “But this country has to develop a strategy to assist the homeless off of Main Street and back into the mainstream of American life.” Of Pennsylvania’s $3 million, $414,029 will go to a state selection committee to pinpoint areas of need. Here are the counties directly receiving aid, and the amount. Lehigh and Northampton Counties were combined for administra tive reasons. Centre County is set to receive $36,785. nation news briefs Couple reunited after 64 years SEAFORD, Del. (AP) Two high school sweethearts who went their separate ways 64 years ago have been reunited in a retire ment home here, and this time they say it’s for keeps. Bessie Barnes Speicher and Alton F. Davis, both 86, will ex change marriage vows Saturday in front of a Christmas tree and about 200 residents of the Methodist Manor House, where they plan to live out their lives together. The romantic spark was kindled 70 years ago when Davis gave Mrs. Speicher a ride home in his “83 Overland” in Stockton, Md. The couple says the flame never went out, even during marriages to others and lives that kept them a continent apart until last July. ‘T’ve been in love with her since 1916,” Davis said yesterday as he squeezed the hand of his bride-to-be. “You can’t forget an old love like this. “We kept that little spark burning all those many years,” said a beaming Bessie. “I guess you could say we just decided to fan the flame up again ” The couple began courting when both were 16 as students at former Stockton High School. In 1918, they exchanged rings engraved with both sets of initials. Davis still has his. Bessie passed hers on to a granddaughter. • After high school, the couple drifted apart when Alton went to business school in Philadelphia and Bessie followed her legislator father, the late Democratic state delegate James Barnes, to Annapolis. Larouche backers' BOSTON (AP) A judge has set April 6 as the trial date for 10 supporters of political extremist Lyndon H. Laßouche, who are accused of using a $1 million credit card scheme to help finance Laßouche’s presidential campaigns Six of the defendants pleaded innocent in October to charges contained in a 117-count indictment. Four others remained at large, but U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller 111 said they also would be tried in April if caught by then. The grand jury said the defendants and five Laßouche-affiliated fund-raising groups were involved in a scheme in which more than $1 million was billed fraudulently to the credit card numbers of more than 1,000 people who had been solicited for donations. The trial originally was scheduled to begin Dec. 1. It was rescheduled Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Robert Keeton. Laßouche, who has alleged that the queen of England is involved in drug trafficking and Henry Kissinger is a Soviet agent, has announced he is running for president in 1988 as a Democrat. 6 die in executive-jet crash WINDSOR, Mass. (AP) Four managers and two pilots died yesterday when-a Teledyne Inc. jet crashed into a mountain on approach to an airport, a company spokesman said. Assistant President Berkley Baker said three executives at Teledyne Post of Des Plaines, 111., and a plant manager from filyria, Ohio, both subsidiaries of the Los Angeles-based company, were headed to Pittsfield to visit a paper supplier. The managers were identified as Walter Rabus, 62, of Norridge, 111., director of material managment, who worked 35 years for the company; Michael Mizianty, 54, of Rolling Meadows, 111., director of research and development; Allan Janda, 48, of Mount Prospect, 111., coating manager; and Steven Rollbuhler, 28, of Elyria, Ohio, factory supervisor Also killed were pilot Douglas G. Machler, 44, of New Carlisle, Ind., who had two years with the company; and co-pilot Richard L. Vernon, 26, of South Bend, Ind., a one-year veteran. The Beech 100 turboprop jet was about eight miles east of Pittsfield Airport when it hit the mountain at midmorning, said state police trooper Carey Maroni. Art Goyette of Windsor said he was hunting in woods nearby when he saw the jet circle and descend. “I watched it go out of sight as far as you could see and heard a whole bunch of brush tres get mangled. Then there was a small explosion,” he said. world news briefs Paris hasn't ruled out hostage swap PARIS (AP) President Francois Mitterrand said he has not ruled out pardoning a man convicted of trying to kill former ■lranian Premier Shahpour Bakhtiar in exchange for the release of six French hostages from Lebanon. Mitterrand said in a radio interview that he would consider the release of Anis Naccache “if it were in exchange for all our hostages, at one time,, and if in conscience I believed that it was good and if I also believed that it answers an express demand of the government.” The president repeated that he would examine the question “if the government formally asked me,” but he did not indicate whether Premier Jacques Chirac had done so. Naccache is imprisoned for life for the 1980 attempt to assassi nate Bakhtiar, in which two other people, one of them a policeman, were killed. French presidents have the right to pardon convicts. There had been suggestions that France was prepared to release alleged terrorist leader Georges Ibrahim Abdallah to make peace with terrorists responsible for bombings in Paris and help secure the release of French hostages. The group claiming responsibility for a September bomb wave demanded Abdallah be freed. But Mitterrand said it was normal that Abdallah go on trial “if the investigating magistrate believes the evidence is heavy enough to the point of being virtual proofs.” Labor Party softens nuclear stance LONDON (AP) The opposition Labor Party yesterday amended its proposal for unilateral British nuclear disarmament, saying the vast savings should be spent on beefing up conventional forces. The governing Conservative Party responded that the policy would wreck NATO and that no matter how much Britain spends on conventional arms, the Soviet bloc’s vast superiority in that sphere could not be overcome. Labor leader Neil Kinnock issued the party’s new defense policy paper, titled “Modern Britain in a Modern World,” at a news conference. “The choice is between nuclear pretense and real defense and we made the choice of real defense,” he said, arguing that Britain cannot afford both nuclear and conventional arms. set for April trial 2 slices of HI-WAY PIZ2 & 16 oz. 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