state/nation/world Pentagon reviews Persian Gulf forecast By TIM AHERN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D,C. The Penta gon will review its long-range fore cast about the threats to U.S. servicemen in the Persian Gulf in the face of a CIA judgment which forecasts higher risks, congressional sources said yesterday. The reassessment was offered dur ing a meeting on Capitol Hill between legislators and top administration national security officials, the sources said. At the same time, the White House said it regards as "low to moderate" the risks for U,S, per sonnel and ships in the gulf, Lawyer begs jury to convict Barbie By JEFFREY ULBRICH Associated Press Writer LYON, France A lawyer for alleged Nazi victims urged a jury yesterday to "wipe the unacceptable smile" off Klaus Barbie's face by convicting the former Lyon Gestapo chief of crimes against humanity. Joe Nordmann was one of three lawyers, all former members of the French Resistance, speaking on be half of Barbie's alleged victims, They said there could be no forgetting and no pardon for the man called "The Butcher of Lyon;" Barbie, 73, is accused of arresting, torturing and deporting hundreds of Jews and Resistance members to Nazi extermination or concentration camps when he was an SS lieutenant heading the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, • "In doing justice you will wipe the unacceptable smile . . from the face of Barbie," Nordmann, 77, said on the 47th anniversary of Gen, Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French to resist the German occupation in World War 11. Barbie has been refusing to appear in court, When he was forced to appear briefly, several witnesses Violence in Seoul Students seize city, riot police after 'Anti-Tear Gas' marches By BARRY RENFREW Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea Tens of thousands of students seized the heart of the city yesterday during massive street battles that erupted after police used tear gas to break up marches by people demanding a ban on tear gas. Violence raged in Seoul and at least seven other major cities as opposition groups held an "Anti- Tear Gas Day" to demand the authoritarian government stop us ing the powerful irritant to sup press political dissent. "Expel tear gas from our land," protesters in the capital and other cities chanted. But police repeatedly used tear gas to break what had been large ly peaceful marches, Hordes of students briefly seized the center of the city and trapped scores of riot police. Students stood and sang the country's national anthem as they cheered and applauded their victo ry. "We love our country," stu dents in jeans and T-shirts shouted before police recaptured the area, President Chun Doo-hwan's gov ernment was reported to be con sidering "drastic measures" to end the worst political violence the country has seen since it took power in 1980. Thousands have been injured in the fighting, but there have been no confirmed deaths. So far, the riot police have not carried guns and have relied mai ny on tear gas and truncheons. Special attack squads are trained in martial arts. The lack of weapons reflects the government's desire to limit vio lence, Officials say privately they fear there would be a huge back lash if any protesters were killed by police. Thousands of riot police in green combat uniforms and black, vis ored helmets advanced in row after row with interlocked shields as fighting raged up and down the city's broad streets yesterday. Ar mored cars and police rifle squads blasted the protesters with thou sands of rounds of tear gas as the crowds fought back with fire bombs and rocks. Scores of people were injured As William Webster, the new CIA director, briefed senators on Capitol Hill about the potential dangers in the administration's plan to place Kuwai ti tankers under U.S. protection, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitz water said the CIA assessment "re lates to the possibility of terrorism against Kuwait, which is something different than the risk to our military fleet," As for the risk against U.S, mili tary personnel, Fitzwater said the White House shares the Pentagon's view that it is "low to moderate." Asked if the Reagan administration regarded a "low to moderate" risk as acceptable, Fitzwater said, "Yes, have referred to what one called a "mocking smile." Nordmann described Barbie as a "Nazi policeman who was indissocia ble from the policy of death to which he had adhered and that he applied with all of his inhumanity." "Barbie was only a cog in the wheel," Nordmann said, "But he was a bloody agent of the Nazi order, Nazism could only have existed thanks to men like Barbie." Bernard Blgault du Granrut, anoth er civil party lawyer representing Barbie's alleged victims, sought to demonstrate that Barbie's expulsion from Bolivia and return to France in February 1903 was legal, The defendant has refused to attend sessions of the court since the third day except for two forced appear ances, claiming he was kidnapped and brought to Lyon illegally, "You can forget or pardon when you are the victim," du Granrut said, "But when the victim is humanity, nobody has the right to demand to forget or to pardon," State Prosecutor Pierre Truche is expected to make his final summa tion on June 29-30, Verges will begin his arguments on July 1, and several students were hit at close range by rifle-fired tear gas canisters, But officials declined to provide any figures. About 80 riot police were seized when students overran their unit after crowds seized the main square in front of the Bank of Korea and held it for nearly an hour. Protesters overran another unit of about 30 men in front of the city's main railway station and held it for about two hours, Kneeling officers begged the attackers to stop beating them. But enraged students hurled rocks from a few feet away, hit and kicked the huddled police and stripped them of their weapons and equipment. Student leaders, who tried to stop the beatings, eventually were able to escort the officers to safety as protesters burned the equip ment in two large bonfires, Hun dreds of police counterattacked and retook the square as fighting shifted to outside the railway sta tion. Protesters, mainly students, at tacked three police stations and set fire to three police buses. The fighting brought the inner city to a standstill, and businesses and shops closed as thousands of terri fied people tried to flee the clashes. It was the ninth straight day of political violence in Seoul and oth er cities since opposition groups launched a drive nationwide June 10 to oust Chun's government and force democratic elections. Chun declared April 13 he was suspending talks with the opposi tion on political reform until after the 1988 Seoul Olympics to safe guard national stability and the games. Opposition groups are demand ing full democracy, including di rect presidential elections, They contend the current electoral col lege system favors the ruling par ty. A crowd estimated at 80,000 pea ple, made up of students, workers and residents, surged through the southern city of Pusan chanting, "Down with military dictatorship." Police advancing in massed formations fired volleys of tear gas to control the protests in the country's second largest city. That's assumed in the decision." During the two-hour meeting, ad ministration officials said the Penta gon was in the process of reviewing its assessment of the threat, accord ing to sources speaking on condition of anonymity. The risk arises from the adminis tration's decision to put 11 Kuwaitloil tankers under U,S, flags and captains and offer them the protection of the U.S, Navy as they pass through the Persian Gulf, The reflagging is scheduled to start in July, Kuwait is an ally of Iraq in the Iraq- Iran war, and the apparently acci dental May 17 missile attack by an Iraqi warplane that killed 37 sailors Boaters' garbage is harmful to ►marine mammals, seabirds By CHRISTOPHER CALI.AHAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. New laws are needed to stop boaters from tossing tons of six-pack containers and other plastic throwaways into the sea, garbage that is killing hundreds of thousands of marine mammals and seabirds, coastal lawmakers say, \ An estimated 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea turtles and other marine mammals are killed annually by choking on the floating plastic objects or becoming tangled in them, said a report by the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries subcommittee on fisheries and wildlife conservation. "There seems to be a prevailing attitude that we can't do any harm by throwing plastic refuse into the ocean," Rep. William J. Hughes, D-N.J., said Wednesday, "It's the same 'out of sight out of mind' mentality that has turned our oceans into the repository of last resort for sewage sludge, chemicals and other refuse." Plastic trash is suspected of aiding in the decline of several species, including the northern fur seal, steller sea lion, Hawaiian monk seal and certain sea turtle and seabird species. The subcommittee estimated the amount of plastic garbage dumped into the sea each year at more than 1 million pounds. Vietnam Government welcomes tourists By PETER ENG Associated Press Writer HANOI, Vietnam Vietnam is opening its doors to foreign tourists, making pitches even to Americans and their dollars and to former Viet namese boat people who have be come affluent abroad, "Acquaint yourselves with inscru table Vietnam," says a glossy color brochure that lists 16 package tours, Vietnam, the brochure says, is rich in natural scenery as well as vestiges of both an ancient civilization and mod ern wars and revolution. Soviet tourists have been visiting Vietnam for years, but Hanoi's new leadership is inviting Westerners be cause the country badly needs their currencies, In December the Communist Par ty's National Congress called for de veloping tourism and in April, the government announced it would issue visas speedily, ease customs formali ties, and expand flights and tourism facilities. New wings are being built aboard the Navy frigate Stark has heightened congressional concerns about the risks. Reagan administration sources said the Pentagon has dispatched Navy experts to the Persian Gulf to assess the danger posed to shipping by mines said to be have been placed near the coast of Kuwait by Iran. While the evaluation has yet to be completed, Navy and Pentagon offi cials are convinced at this point that Iran's use of mines would pose "a manageable threat," the sources said. The differences between the CIA and the Pentagon were among the topics Thursday at a closed-door, U,S, law prohibits the disposal of garbage from ships within three miles of the coast. But a measure by Rep, Gerry E. Studds, D-Mass„ would ban disposal of plastic garbage by U.S. flag vessels in all ocean waters and prohibit plastic disposal by foreign vessels within 200 miles of the U.S. coast, The Studds bill mirrors the provisions of an internation al agreement now being considered by countries in the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships. The agreement would halt all plastic garbage dumping worldwide and ban the disposal of all types of trash within 12 miles of land, Nations would be bound by the agreement when cow tries representing 50 percent of the world's shipping tonnage have ratified it. Twenty-seven nations representating 41.9 percent of the world's shipping have approved the agreement. Presi dent Reagan sent it to the Senate for ratification in February, where it is pending before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The United States makes up about 4.8 percent of the shipping, according to Coast Guard Rear Adm. J. Wil liam Kime. Studds said his measure would create the necessary U.S. law to implement the international agreement do mestically. at the Thong Loi and the Thong Nhat, Hanoi's leading tourist hotels. No one is expecting an immediate flood of tourists, though. Vietnam, one of the world's poorest countries, is critically short of almost every thing that attracts tourists: hotels, transportation, consumer goods, service industries, developed tourist• attractions. Another problem is that the non-Communist world has isolat ed Vietnam since 1979 to protest its invasion of Cambodia. "By promoting tourism, we hope to expand our ties to the rest of the world , . . in a political, economic and social sense," Dang Dinh Ky, deputy director of the government's Viet namtourism, told visiting Western journalists recently. Ky said Vietnam expected 30,000 tourists this year, up from 20,000 in 1986 and 15,000 in 1985. Two-thirds, he said, are from East bloc nations, while those from the West included Japanese, French, Italians and West Germans. He said Vietnam earned $l5 million from tourism last year, informal Capitol meeting of senators and top administration national secu rity officials. Along with Webster, the 'meeting was attended by Frank Carlucci, President Reagan's national security adviser; and Adm, William Crowe Jr : , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Among the participating lawmak ers were Sens, John Warner, R-Va„ ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, and James Sas ser, D-Tenn,, who returned from a gulf visit three weeks ago. "There was some very frank talk from us," Sasser told reporters. "I think the administration has failed to By comparison, neighboring Thai land last year drew in 2.7 million tourists and $1.5 billion in foreign exchange. Ky said more tourists were ex pected from the United States, whose forces the North Vietnamese commu nists fought in South Vietnam. Only 22 Americans visited in 1985-86, he said, but dozens already have come this year and monthly tour groups were expected beginning in June. He said most American tourists are Vietnam War veterans returning for a look at old battlefields, bases and resorts. The Vietnamese say they also wel come all overseas Vietnamese, in cluding the more than 600,000 people who illegally fled the country by boat and resettled in the West since the Communist victory in April 1975. Some 300 overseas Vietnamese vis ited last year, Ky said. The only Vietnamese barred from returning, he said, are "war crimi nals who committed crimes before they left Vietnam or people working overseas against Vietnam." The Daily Collegian Friday, June 19; 1987 understand the depth of concern in Congress about this issue," "As far as intelligence goes, I don't think everybody's saying the same thing," Sasser continued, "There is a divergence in the intelligence com munity as to the degree of risk. Our military planners view this in terms of rationality that is, what a ratio nal opponent would do. But if we've learned anything, it's that the Irani ans aren't rational." Warner said, "I think the adminis tration has now acknowledged that there should have been closer coordi nation among the intelligence agen cies in preparing these assessments." Economy improves slightly STATE COLLEGE, (AP) —The state's economy improved slight ly in April, but a sluggish man ufacturing sector continued to offset gains in services and con struction, a Penn State economist said yesterday. "The economy moved forward but at a pace that was less satis factory," said William D. Ander son, editor of the Pennsylvania Business Survey. Anderson based his findings on April employment figures. Employment remained at high levels in three areas, finance, insurance and real estate; serv ices; and wholesale and retail trades, Anderson said. In April, total employment rose for only the third time in the last eight months, while the jobless rate dropped to 5,5 percent from 5.9 percent in March. A decline in the labor force accounted for much of the drop in unemployment, Anderson said. Employment in manufacturing remained unchanged from March to April, he said. Finance, insurance and real estate employment rose by 1,400 in April to a record high of 288,- 500, seasonally adjusted, Ander son said. Service establishments added 11,000 jobs in April for a seasonal ly adjusted total of 1.26 million, he said. Two exceptions in the service sector occurred in transportation and public utilities, where Ander son said minimal gains have been recorded this year, Wholesale trade jobs dipped slightly in April, by 1,100, but remained at the third highest level on record, according to An derson. February and March were the only months recording a higher level, he said. Retail trade jobs increased by 2,800 in April for a total of 858,400 jobs, seasonally adjusted. "Employment in this industry has been rising non-stop since February 1986 and has stayed at an all-time high since May 1986," Anderson said. state news briefs Minority students face problems HARRISBURG (AP) Minority students apparently have more trouble with basic math and English skills in the early grades and the problem often carries over into later years, a state human relations official said yesterday. Homer Floyd, executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, said tests show about two-thirds of minority students in grades three, five and eight needed remedial help in English, math or both. Overall, between 28 percent and 30 percent of all students required the extra attention. The figures came from a summary of results of minority performance on the state's Test of Essential Learning and Literacy Skills, Floyd told the House Education Committee. "The results of these tests seem to indicate that the presence of teaching in the, classrooms has not resulted in learning for enor mous and disproportionate numbers of minority students," said Floyd. Burglar leaves picture, is arrested PITTSBURGH (AP) A man who entered police headquarters and allegedly stole computers, calculators, petty cash and ate cookies did all but surrender when he left a Polaroid snapshot of himself, police said. The burglar apparently used a camera he found in an office to take his own picture then tossed, the film into a wastepaper basket before it developed. "He thought the trash would be thrown out," police Sgt. Walter Long said yesterday. "He also left two books that he'd checked out of the library. They were traceable." While police were still trying to trace the library books, the man in the picture was spotted in downtown Pittsburgh and was arrested Tuesday night. Officers said they found the Polaroid camera in his gym bag. Sean Sanders, 19, of Pittsburgh was arraigned on six counts of burglary in connection with break-ins at the Public Safety Building since December, Long said. Indictment charges alleged mobster PHILADELPHIA (AP) Reputed mob boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo and 27 associates have been charged with running a $l3O million drug ring in an indictment that strikes a fatal blow against organized crime in the area, authorities said yesterday. The case also is the first to uncover a Mafia family violating La Cosa Nostra rules against trafficking in drugs, authorities said. The charges against Scarfo and his associates, including five top members of the Philadelphia-South Jersey, Mafia, "will have a substantial impact on the drug business and the ability of organized crime to continue in that business." • nation news briefs Kennedy Jr. hired by Justice Dept. WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) John F. Kennedy Jr., son of the assassinated president, has taken a $353-a-week summer law clerk's job working for the Justice Department's civil rights division headed by Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds, officials said yesterday. Reynolds, one of the leading conservatives in the Reagan administration, personally made the final decision to hire the son of the former liberal Democratic president, said Deborah Burstion- Wade, a spokeswoman for the civil rights division. Group petitions for commutation WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) A conservative group began a petition drive yesterday aimed at persuading President Reagan to commute the prison sentence of former congressman George Hansen The Washington-based Conservative Action Foundation is staff ing a petition van decorated with "Don't Tread on Me" flags and distributing red and yellow stickers which depict a pair of hands behind bars and bear the motto, "Set George Hansen Free." Hansen, 56, a conservative Republican from Idaho, was con victed in 1984 of violating ethics laws while a member of the House in 1981. He was released Dec. 19 after serving six months of a five to-15-month sentence, but jailed again in April on charges he violated his parole. Kraft charged with misrepresentation WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Advertising for Kraft Singles cheese product exaggerated the calcium content of that food, the Federal Trade Commission charged yesterday. Kraft spokesman Scott Horne promptly denied the charge. The Trade Commission issued a complaint charging that adver tisements claiming that each slice of Kraft Singles contain as much calcium as five ounces of milk were "false and misleading." In addition, according to the complaint, Kraft falsely represented in its ads that Kraft Singles contain more calcium than do most imitation cheese slices. world news briefs Elephant Man bones 'sought by star LONDON (AP) The London Hospital Medical College says it will not sell the skeleton of John Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man, to Michael Jackson no matter how much the American pop star offers. College secretary David Edviards said Wednesday that the college had rejected the 28-year-old Jackson's original $500,000 offer and would also reject his second offer of $1 million. "There is a very strong feeling that it would be quite wrong on ethical grounds to sell John Merrick's remains for money. We are always desperate for research funds and sums of this size are attractive, but we are not in the business of selling his remains," Edwards said. The British Press Association said Jackson is reportedly creating a "chamber of horrors" at his Los Angeles home, with items including deformed skulls, skeletons and a library of medical books on strange diseases. Moscow welcomes American pilot MOSCOW (AP) A 61-year-old American who was detained after he flew from Ohio to Moscow in 1985 landed his single-engine plane in Moscow yesterday and emerged for a VIP welcome this time. Millard Harmon, a retired educator from Delmar, N.Y., pro duced a purple piece of paper as he came out of the Beechcraft-36 cockpit after his 41 1 / 2 -hour flight from Washington. "I've got a visa," Harmon said. A dozen Soviet journalists at the Sheremetyevo airport sur rounded Harmon, who was presented with bouquets of yelloW and purple flowers. Harmon ran afoul of Soviet authorities when he flew from Dayton, Ohio, to Moscow in June 1985. After he touched down, Soviet officials found he had no visa and he was locked in a transit hotel for three days. Bahamian elections to be held NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) Both sides predicted victory yester day, the eve of the Bahamas' hardest-fought election in 20 years, as Prime Minister Lynden Pindling struggled to overcome wide spread discontent and charges linking him to drug trafficking. A three-man team of observers from the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee flew into Nassau to report on today's ballot ing for 49 members of the Bahamian Parliament. The election will determine who governs the island nation for the next five years. moi r I AINLY 234-2065 1 I iviANiCu2.E6 - • For Men & Women I I '2. 0 0 Off a manicure • 1524 West College Avenue L Easy Access-Take the F-Bus to Blue Golf Course Stop Ai SUMMER TIME SPECIALS FROM PhD PIZZA DINNER FOR FOUR . Large 1-item pizza and 4 Pepsis, Diet Pepsis or Mt. Dew for $8.50 PhD PIZZA A Persona: lime Dslngrid Pine Loa CALL 234-4Phd EXPIRES JUNE 26, 1987 • 1 COUPON PER PIZZA 301 S. 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