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Monday, April 2, 1984
ondale, Hart battle
r New York primary
United Press International
EW YORK — Walter Mondale
11 franchise, and Gary Kart slugged it out for au
dit intolaw. Rer hour in a televised debate Sun-
< question By as the Democratic front-runners
move was it Jluled for votes in the closing hours
FL franchist pel,)re Tuesday’s key New York pri-
to Indianapi jjnan
real tricky .Blondale took the offensive in the
ughes. “TkBjate, while Hart contended that
lawyers tode®w Yorkers are fed up with his con-
say it is noiBu attacks. Jesse Jackson, still try-
■ toplay peacemaker in the Demo
tion would indBtic contest, at one point accused
ises amongfeM rivals of ignoring him.
to the dtv'spiBrhe ABC-Washington Post poll,
domain. Bhnli has a good track record so far
In lie campaign, said Sunday the for-
mei vice president has a lead in New
York, where 252 national convention
/ (legates are at stake.
KY ■The poll tracks the ups and downs
/ of popularity over the final days be-
lorc the primary.
oles ThursdrBt gave Mondale 11 percent, Hart
>gey-double 28 percent and Jackson 21 percent,
I-under71 ggtli a margin of error of 0 percent,
•oup that int ili.it would mean Mondale is moving
lampion Hjj
up, while Hart is slipping at the ex
pense of Jackson who continues to at
tract a massive black vote.
But even more important than a
popular vote victory in New York is
the battle for delegates. The latest
United Press International delegate
count gives Mondale 728 of the 1,967
needed for nomination while Hart
has 440 and Jackson 101. There are
325 uncommitted.
Following the debate, Mondale
headed for Buffalo, the second larg
est pocket of Democratic votes in the
state and a steel town where he is ex
pected to do well among the heavy
union and ethnic vote.
Hart went running in Central Park
with supporters and scheduled a
fund-raising dinner with John
Denver, Hal Linden, Mario Thomas
and author Stephen King.
For the first 20 minutes of the de
bate on WNBC, Hart and Mondale
tried to get along, but they soon
started fighting again on Central
America and other key issues that
have made their campaign a bitter
feud in recent weeks.
Mondale complained about a Hart
televison advertisement “accusing me
of wanting to kill people in Central
America.”
“When you go beyond the facts to
say things of that kind, I think it is
negative, it is personal, it is inaccu
rate, and it raises concerns that are
totally unjustified,” Mondale said.
Hart replied that Mondale is lash
ing out now that he no longer has a
clear shot at the Democratic nomi
nation.
“The fact of the matter, and Pritz
knows it, is within hours if not days
of our upset victory in New Hamp
shire ... (the Mondale campaign)
went totally negative.”
Mondale accused Hart of switch
ing to favor moving the U.S. Em
bassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jeru
salem only to cater to the heavy
Jewish vote in New York.
“He transferred that embassy to
Jerusalem the same time he trans
ferred his headquarters from Chi
cago to New York,” Mondale said.
lashes shake Mideast
United Press International
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’'^bhole^ML e * janon — Israeli gun
nel^ shelled positions in Syrian-held
ksurn Lebanon Sunday, ending
V" 1 », filnths of quiet along the tense Is-
lwllve ^JIl,-Syrian confrontation lines in
ver <1IH a ' the Bekaa valley, righlwing Christian
^ ^ Israeli authorities said,
a i ose up»»re s ii fighting also shook the
H)uf mountains overlooking Bei-
ri, with at least one government sol-
pi killed in daylong mortar and
, j rockei fire exchanges between Chris-
Ti .JBpJed army units and Druze rebels.
* h0 ^"Ihristian Voice of Lebanon radio
• "i™ 5 ’ ^Morled Israeli tanks were “violently
' in Syrian positions” in the Be-
1 laa valley about 25 miles southeast of
1 ed,h 1 utei U YT S « CapUal ', i
nsiderabl,® Tel Avlv i a " ! s , r 1 f el ‘ m ' Utar r
, ,. ■ spokesman confirmed (he reports of
1 11S n Blling,. and said that in a separate
iad birdie pn
et in a bow
incident, guerrillas sent two Katyu
sha rockets crashing into the village
of Aadyse, some 2 miles north of the
Israeli border settlement of Misgav
Am.
The Israeli spokesman identified
the Bekaa targets only as “terrorist
command posts that serve as staging
areas and departure points” for at
tacks on Israeli occupation forces in
southern Lebanon.
Syrian officials had no immediate
comment on the reports, but Voice
of the Mountain, the Druze Moslem
rebel radio, also reported new
clashes along Syrian and Israeli lines
in the Bekaa.
Christian radio said the Israelis
were firing from Joub Jannine,
Kamed el Laouz and Mdhouka at
targets just south of the village of Bar
Elias.
There was no immediate report on
casualties in the Bekaa, where Syria’s
air force lost nearly 100 planes in
dogfights with Israeli jet fighters
during Israel’s 1982 invasion of Leb
anon.
Besides the daylong artillery ex
changes in the Shouf, the Christian
Phalange party radio also reported
shelling of the Christian residential
areas of Mansouriyeh and Broumana
in the Metn mountains east of Beirut.
The Green Line separating Chris
tian east Beirut and the mostly Mos
lem western half was open to traffic,
with 40 French military observers
helping 300 hand-picked Moslem
and Christian police to patrol the
only open road
Tearful Experience
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Texas A&M student Kim Manganaro is es
corted to an awaiting car by Huntsville Prison
personnel after the execution of her pen pal
Ronald “Candyman” O’Bryan early Saturday
morning. Manganaro witnessed the execution
of O’Bryan at his request.
Honduran coup helping
strengthen civilian rule
ambassador blasts killing
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ViWied Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —
S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering
nday condemned the assassination
rightist candidate Roberto d’Au-
isson’s chief campaign adviser,
w was shot to death by leftists out-
lehis office.
Rafael Hasbun, 58, was killed by
bmachine gunfire sprayed from a
ceding car as he stepped out of his
fice in northern San Salvador late
lurday.
“It’s another act of the extreme
i operating in the manner of a
ath squad to disrupt the political
process in El Salvador,” Pickering
told reporters.
The Central American Revolu
tionary Workers’ Party, one of five
leftist guerrilla groups operating in
El Salvador, claimed responsibility
for the assassination in telephone
calls to San Salvador radio stations.
“We have executed him for being
a member of the ARENA party,” one
caller said referring to the National
ist Republican Alliance of d’Aubuis-
son, who has been accused of leading
right-wing death squads.
Hasbun, who served as d’Aubuis-
son’s chief campaign adviser, was the
second ARENA member to be killed
in a week and the fifth right-wing po
litical activists to be assassinated by
leftists since January.
The director of Arena’s youth fac
tion, Manuel Joaquin Escoto, was
shot to death last weekend.
The Hasbun assassination fol
lowed charges earlier in the week by
President Alvaro Magana that a Cu
ban-organized death squad had been
dispatched to kill candidates in El
Salvador’s presidential elections
March 24.
United Press International
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras —
The sudden military shake-up in
Honduras has strengthened the civil
ian government’s authority to pursue
peace negotiations with Nicaragua,
which welcomed the opportunity, of
ficials and observers said Sunday.
Gen. Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Mar
tinez, chief of the Honduran armed
forces, and three other top military
commanders were forced to resign
Saturday because of what President
Roberto Suazo Cordova said was
their involvement in politics.
Alvarez, a hardline supporter of
U.S. policy in Central America, was
forced to leave Honduras in a move
that some said gave the 2-year-old ci
vilian government greater freedom
to conduct peace negotiations with its
leftist neighbor, Nicaragua.
“The removal of Gen. Alvarez
Martinez has given the Suazo Cor
dova government more space to ma
neuver,” one observer said. “The
government now has more capacity
to negotiate.”
In Managua, the head of the leftist
Nicaraguan government’s ruling
three-man junta, Daniel Ortega, also
said Sunday that the shakeup offered
hope for dialogue between the two
governments.
“Gen. Alvarez was the principal
agent that the United States had in
Honduras. Now there is hope for the
Nicaraguan government’s policy of
dialogue,” Ortega said.
It was not immediately clear what
effect the changes in the military
might have on the large U.S. military
presence in Honduras or on U.S.-
backed Nicaraguan rebels fighting
the leftist regime in Managua from
base camps in Honduras.
In one sign that the government
intended to maintain close relations
with Washington, new U.S. maneu
vers called Grenadier I began as
scheduled Sunday.
The exercises will include the par
ticipation of some 1,000 U.S. service
men in the construction of two airs
trips and counter-insurgency
practice.
With Alvarez at the helm of the
armed forces, Honduras allowed a
large U.S. military presence in the
country, including the installation of
a regional training base manned by
120 Green Berets on the Caribbean
coast.
Some 10,000 American troops
participated in the largest military
maneuvers held in Central America,
a 7-month exercise called Big Pine II
that ended Feb. 8.
Lixpert explains Soviet poiicy
in Today’s Battalion
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By CASEY RAMSEY
Reporter
|Dr. Lynn Hansen, deputy head of
United States negotiation team in
ickholm, said here Friday the So-
Union did not go to Stockholm
ks to reduce the threat of nuclear
in Europe.
Instead, he said, the Soviets want
use propaganda to drive a wedge
tween the United States and its Eu-
lean allies.
Beyond that, no one knows exac-
what they want to do because they
ve not come forward with concrete
Jposals in the area of confidence-
ilding measures,” Hansen told an
dience of about 40 people in Rud-
Tower.
The United States, Soviet Union
d35 European countries are meet-
| in Stockholm, Sweden to discuss
urity-building measures and dis-
nament in Europe.
The negotiations are a result of a
■75 conference at Madrid in which
the United States and the Soviet
Union agreed to try and regulate
what was happening in Europe in the
interest of peace, security and coop
eration. The United States and its al
lies agreed to participate only if the
conference included human rights
interests as well, Hansen said.
“The United States has always in
sisted on balanced progress, not only
in military security, but in humanita
rian affairs as well,” he said.
The current negotiations in Stock
holm deal with the confidence-build
ing measures discussed in Madrid,
Hansen said. At Madrid, the United
States won a concession from the So
viets when they, and the other 35
other countries attending the confer
ence, reaffirmed their intention “to
recognize, respect and futhermore
take all actions necessary to insure
the freedom of the individual to pro
fess and practice, alone or in commu
nity with others, religion or beliefs
acting in accord with the dictates of
his own conscience.”
“For my own sake, I think that is a
rather amazing achievement,” Han
sen said.
Hansen said the Stockholm con
ference is part of a larger process
which began in Helsinki to ultimately
demand improvement in humanita
rian affairs and other aspects of So
viet behavior.
“We have opened up a new chan
nel of communications between the
United States and the Soviet Union,”
Hansen said.
At Helsinki, Hansen said it was
agreed that countries should notify
each other prior to military manuev-
ers involving more that 25,000
troops
“In eight years, there have been
over 100 of these notifications,” Han
sen said. “At about 50 of these, ob
servers have been invited from the
other side to watch the activity.”
The Soviets have allowed the
United States to observe on only two
occasions while the United States has
invited the Soviets to observe about
eleven times, Hansen said. It turned
out to be a very valuable experience.
“We learned that we weren’t going
to actually see the manuvers, but we
were going to be treated to Russian
delicacies and vodka,” Hansen said.
“We were, however, issued binocu
lars that were out of focus”
The Stockholm conference was
designed to negotiate a new set of
measures to reduce the threat of war
in Europe, Hansen said.
Hansen said any war in Europe
will begin as a conventional war and
then escalate into a nuclear war. De
spite suspicions on both sides, Han
sen remains optimistic about an
agreement.
“The Soviets don’t want an
agreement along the lines the West is
proposing but the Europeans do and
they strongly influence and pressure
them,” Hansen said.
Local
• TAMU System Chanceiior Arthur G. Hansen
has been appointed to serve on te Energy Research
Advisory Board. See story page 3.
State
• A Houston apartment will soon be open only to
those who are witling to “bare all.” See story page 5.
National
• The father of a young boy who was killed in
Louisiana wants to witness the execution of his son’s
killer Thursday. See story pageS.