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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."
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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.
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