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r -age 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1980 Cubans are Peru’s problem 0 United Press International LIMA, Peru — Peru has called an emergency meeting of the Andean I Pact nations to draft a formula for , J moving thousands of Cubans who mobbed the Peruvian Embassy in ^Havana for asylum from Fidel Cas- tro’s communist rule. A government spokesman said the 1 meeting of foreign ministers from Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, i Bolivia and Peru would convene to day at the Peruvian Foreign Ministry in downtown Lima. The ministers will try to devise a plan that will allow the removal of some 10,000 Cubans who flooded the Peruvian diplomatic compound during the weekend after the Castro government removed all police pro tection from the embassy. A government source said the offi cials also would study the refugee problem first created by the sudden entry of a handful of Cubans into the Peruvian and Venezuelan diplomatic missions. In Geneva, Switzerland, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees began consultations Tuesday on a possible role to resolve the problem. In a broadcast monitored in Mex ico City, the Cuban official news agency Prensa Latina, quoting the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Gramma, said authorities have allowed 1,730 besieging the embassy to go to their homes to sleep, then return to the compound. But Cuban officials denounced the asylum-seeking Cubans as “delin quents, antisocial vagrants and para sites.” Less than 24 hours after the secur ity withdrawal, Castro announced his government would grant safe pas sage out of the Caribbean Island to any Cuban who obtained a foreign visa. Both decisions, which have baffled political experts and diplomats, trig gered the human tidal wave of would-be defectors, including thousands of women, who flooded the embassy’s 2,000-square-yard compound and its grounds. In Havana, an official at the U.S. interest section office in Havana, said his office was not involved in the crisis because it was strictly a matter between the Cuban and Peruvian governments. The official said a Cuban Monday afternoon newspaper had reported some 2,500 Cubans at the embassy had applied for safe-passage permits to return to their homes. The gov ernment has said those returning to their homes will not face any dire consequences. Gold higher, dollar stable United Press International LONDON — Gold moved higher in Zurich and London Tuesday and the dollar remained stable in Euro pean financial exchanges following the long Easter weekend. Gold opened in London at $515.50 an ounce against Thursday’s close of $477.50. In Zurich, it opened at $514.50 an ounce, up $24 from Thursday’s close of $490.50. The dollar opened in Frankfurt at 1.9740 marks against 1.9625 Thurs day and in Zurich at 1.8745 Swiss francs, compared to 1.8670. Sources in Frankfurt said the dol lar’s gains in West Germany in initial trading appeared to be a carry-over from the overnight trend in Hong Kong. They added the break in U. S. - Iranian diplomatic relations is not ex pected to influence market activities to a large extent. Opening at 263.50 yen, the high est since September 1977, the dollar moved to 264 yen during morning trading. Female groper offends GI; o fine levied in first such case United Press International NUREMBERG, West Ger many — In the first such applica tion of its new sexual harassment rules, the U.S. Army has sent a female soldier to jail, demoted and fined her for sexually haras sing a male GI, an Army spokes man said Tuesday. A U.S. military court at Nuremberg on March 31 sent enced Pvt. Cheryl Taylor, of Kan sas City, Mo., for sexually molest ing Spec. 4 Kevin Knox, of Rock Hill, S.C., the spokesman said. “It’s the first reported sexual harassment case under current terminology involving charges brought against a female soldier, ” said a spokesman with the U.S. 7th Army Training Command. The Nuremberg court gave Taylor 30 days at hard labor, fined her $298 and demoted her from E-2 to E-l, the Army’s lowest grade, for grabbing Knox be tween the legs, he said. Last month, two male GIs re ceived similar punishment in the Army’s first sexual harassment trial for obscene and insulting advances to a female GI. Taylor, a 20-year-old supply clerk with the B Battery, Third Battalion, 60th Air Defense Artil lery at Regensburg, manhandled Knox in the unit’s dispensary last Jan. 29, the spokesman said. Court testimony revealed that Taylor had grabbed Knox be tween the legs, squeezed and said to him: “You shrimp, give me a light.” Taylor gave no testimony in court. She pleaded not guilty, said Army prosecutor Capt. John Zimmermann, 32, of Columbus, Ga. Knox, 19, had an argument with Taylor in the unit’s supply room, then went to the nearby dispensary, where she followed him and made her grab, witnes ses said. Knox marched straight to his executive officer and reported the incident, saying Taylor had haras sed him before. Zimmerman said Knox was “morally indignant about the situation. “Here we have a soldier whois not interested and does not want to be molested,” Zimmerman a Un Ayatol said. “Knox is very moralistic,a Tuesday very good soldier, who didn’t want to be bothered by unwar ranted advances,” Zimmerman said. “She had made overtures to this guy before. She came up to him once and brushed against his body and said give me a lij irisals a Ameri ory’’ tin ‘eason to Tran’s 1 :used Ca ituation ions of A again and things like tnat, He I The Re said. IT Zimmerman said Taylor said mperialis after hearing her sentence she p' ee ^ tow had joined the Army “to avoid solution, men. She said she had grown) “They; lythe tired of men . ” English beaches, towns back to normal after ri he big ns wc In ..seve vith Iran hat othei aken unle ended qu: Khomei )y Tehran lone one Te o Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired 216 N. MAIN BRYAN 822-6105 Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 8 a.m.-l p.m. BILL’S AND JAY’S AUTO TUNE UP s 9 a ;r,A ZJ. t v) PARTS Oil change filter!oil $4.00 Tune up & oil change PLUS OIL & PARTS <jj-| 2 yij By appointment only 846-9086 3611 South College Ave. NEED TO GET HALL TOGETHER? Complete Tuxedo $25 to $40 formals 846-1021 111 College Main 846-4116 United Press International LONDON — England’s seaside towns returned to an uneasy peace Tuesday following the invasion this weekend of rival youth gangs who fought running battles on the beaches in the second major out burst of mob violence in a week. Police leaves were canceled in the northern resort of Scarborough where roadblocks ringed the town and a special magistrate’s court was created to deal with the aftermath of Easter weekend rioting. Authorities could give no explana tion for the disturbances except to say the youths “just wanted a con frontation with us.” The gangs of mods, rockers and punks apparently battle each other, but unite to fight intervening police. Police compared the clashes to similar rioting in the southwest port of Bristol Wednesday in which 28 people, including 19 policemen, were hurt. In Scarborough, police arrested 217 people after a crowd of about 3,000 youths rode scooters into the area Saturday and turned the beaches into a battleground. A special court Monday handed down fines against eight people total ing $4,400 for assault or looting local shops. Other violence swept England’s southern holiday beaches. Police at Southend, the popular day resort for Londoners, said 72 people were arrested after a 10-hour fight with violent teen-agers. About 250 motor-scooter riders in vaded Margate but were driven out by extra police patrols, who arrested 38 on charges of assault, theft or dis orderly conduct. A force of 300 police in historic Brighton arrested 40 mods from a group of 3,000 who arrived at the town’s beaches. A police spokesman said serious clashes were prevented MSC AGGIE CINEMA wmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmg EE-' MEET THE t.n. challenge::: !S= once again challenged Texas a contest to determine which hu. has A&M to school can donate more blood as a per cent of the student body. WeVe beaten them in the past, UET’S DO IT AGAmiZZ by splitting the crowd of poteiaL troublemakers into small groups In Clacton, about 500 yoiiS shoved back families on the bed but plainclothes police conh~™ the crowd at the first sign ofblofP shed. Six youths were hospitalized Unj injuries in Weston-superMares' BEIRIT police arrested 68 people andc4uhollah cated weapons after fighting "hat threal out. H urged Rampaging youths in Great l^e people mouth hit any passersby whocr tie of Pre their path as they rampaged At the sa the town’s boardwalk, police s^uage nev uwait sai ad gone ir f specula light borr •an. v '- Tehran uesday qu i saying h ddiers ale ith Iran a Lebanese to release Irish tro dat-le O' The* new larges Me pforted •‘SMiiiiiiliiiiilitaiiiiSimmismmsay BLEED THE HEEL OETA t.n.!!!!!! • rogh Quality •Qn*ck Service 1 M • No Mlnimums • Large Orders / J* ■ •LegalSize OVERNIGHT RATES — 44 DURING THE DAY Reductions €f Dissertations Collation & Binding & Padding WE HAVE A XEROX 9400 — THE BEST COPYING MACHINE IN THE WOWW Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 Zinko’s Graphics, Inc. 201 College Main St. f7131846-9508 United Press Intematioml __ BEIRUT. Lebanon — Lebiie border renegade Maj. Saad Haddad's'aimed the tias promised the gradual relenffi. 10 Irish privates from the Khomein peacekeeping troops held s-oadcast March 31 and said the first thri ved the Ii likely to be released soon, a d topple spokesman said Tuesday. w Islamii The spokesman denied reffys you. that four of the soldiers had All tribe released earlier in the day. §ri- s (river The soldiers were captured S 31 by Haddad’s militiamen atj clash between two sides aroiw[ strategic bridge of At Tiri of Lebanese frontier, duringwhidj Irish private was seriously woi and taken to a hospital in thet town of Haifa. 1 Unite( A U.N. statement said thefiflSLAMAl occurred when a sizeable nuni»anes drop militiamen, with one armored;gr the Af cle and two Land-Rovers, Kir in atta entered At Tiri village in tbeirhen and contingent sector, after rangee told at aside an Irish vehicle with the delegatior tion of setting up a permanentt-THe refug point at At Tiri. ? ^Soviet The Irish tried to dissuade meland ar dad’s forces but were metwithhelp and tar and heavy machine gun (Capons to statement said. 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