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no longer
low cost
(continued from page 1)
and fees, 27 percent for residents
and non-residents alike. That
boosted tuition and fees to $1,071
for home-state students and to
$2,134 for non-residents.
The average public college bill
of $4,587 is still roughly half what
it costs to spend a year at the typ
ical private four-year college.
That has led to a surge of applica
tions at many prestigious public
universities.
Hawaii, Nevada, the District of
Columbia and Guam did not raise
tuition and fees for 1985-86. Del
aware, Montana and Washington
recorded 20 percent increases.
Alaska raised its charges by more
than 15 percent. Nebraska posted
a 14 percent increase and Ten
nessee 13 percent.
Five states boosted the charges
by 11 percent: Georgia, Minne
sota, Mississippi, Missouri and
New Jersey. Virginia and North
Dakota also had increases of 10
percent or more.
Twenty states raised tuition
and fees by 5 to 9.9 percent: Col
orado, Connecticut, Florida, Illi
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ken
tucky, Maryland, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Utah, Vermont,
West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Room and board cost $2,343 at
the typical public campus this
year, up by 5 percent, or $101,
over last year.
For in-state residents, tuition
averaged $1,278, making the full
tab for a year on campus $3,621.
The average tuition bill for out-
of-state students was $3,210.
Yemen president goes
back to war-torn nation
Associated Press
President Ali Nasser Mohammed
of South Yemen was reported back
in his small, embattled Arab nation
on the Red Sea Monday, with his
bloody struggle to overcome a rival,
hardline Marxist faction raging into
its second week.
British Foreign Office sources
were quoted as saying in London
that fighting had died down in
Aden, the capital, but that civil war
among rival Marxists and tribal fac
tions appeared to be spreading in
the hinterland.
Associated Press reporter Khawla
Mattar quoted evacuees reaching
Djibouti from Aden as saying the sit
uation in Aden was “disastrous,”
with bodies and burned-out military
vehicles lining the streets.
They said Aden, a city of 55,000
people, was reduced to a “ghost
town” — food stores closed, no water
supply or electricity, hospitals
caught in the cross fire, and the
stench of death everywhere.
Hardcore rebel leader Abdul-Fat-
tah Ismail, a former president of
South Yemen, the Arab world’s only
Marxist country, was reported to be
“still alive” and leading attempts to
oust Mohammed.
Mohammed was reported to have
returned home Sunday night from a
brief visit to Addis Ababa, capital of
Ethiopia, which, like South Yemen,
is a key Soviet ally in the Red Sea re
gion.
Combat between Marxist factions
in South Yemen, a poor nation of 2
million people on the Arabian Pen
insula’s southern tip, broke out Jan.
13, apparently after a coup attempt
by hardliners opposed to Moham
med’s reported desire to liberalize
the economy and improve relations
with pro-Western Arab countries.
The government said last week
that four coup plotters, including Is
mail, had been executed, but a rebel
radio broadcast Monday said all four
were alive.
The radio, which has been saying
South Yemen was now under a “col
lective leadership,” said it was Mo
hammed who tried to “liquidate” the
four men, as well as Defense Min
ister Saleh Muslih.
Britannia, the royal yacht of Brit
ain’s Queen Elizabeth, Soviet
freighters and French warships have
been rescuing foreigners represent
ing 42 nationalities caught in the
Aden fighting.
By last weekend about 1,600 evac
uees were moved from Aden to Dji
bouti.
More than 100 others were
stranded on the beach when fierce
Fighting interrupted the evacuation
Saturday, witnesses reported.
Aside from one American woman
already evacuated, no U.S. citizens
were known to be in South Yemen,
according to State Department offi
cials.
Mexicans deny corruption in drug case
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Mexicans ex
pressed indignation and denial
Monday over a U.S. congressman’s
allegations that a reputed drug
baron jailed in the murder of an
American narcotics agent has been
seen at some of the city’s finest res
taurants.
Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y.,
chairman of the House Select Com
mittee on Narcotics Abuse and Con
trol, said he was also told Rafael
Caro Quintero had been seen at a
lavish birthday party in his honor at
a hotel while he was supposed to
have been in jail.
Caro Quintero was jailed in April
1985 in the kidnap, torture and kill
ing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Ad
ministration agent Enrique Cama-
rena Salazar and his Mexican pilot in
Guadalajara.
“A he. Absolutely false,” a
spokeswoman for the federal Attor
ney General’s Office said of Rangel’s
charges.
Rangel, who led a congressional
delegation to Mexico last week,
made the statement at a press con
ference Sunday in Washington.
He said the delegation was told by
U.S. agents and Mexican business
men that Caro Quintero was seen
“on numerous occasions dining in
fancy restaurants,” at least once
“with some federal officials.”
The delegation also was told that
“over $600,000 was found in his
(Caro Quintero’s) jail cell, along with
some guns,” Rangel said.
Kingholiday sparks parades, protests
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lanta, the president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
challenged the nation to move for
ward toward complete racial equal
ly- . . ,
“In the name of Martin, we am t
going back,” said the Rev. Joseph
Lowery, who heads the organization
King founded. “We’ve come too far,
we’ve worked too strenuously, we’ve
marched too long, we’ve prayed too
hard, we’ve wept too bitterly, we’ve
bled too profusely and we’ve died
too young.”
Lowery joined Vice President
George Bush, South African Bishop
Desmond Tutu, Sens. Edward Ken
nedy, D-Mass., Bill Bradley, D-N.J.,
and Mack Mattingly, R-Ga., Atlanta
Mayor Andrew Young, Georgia
Gov. Joe Frank Harris and members
of King’s family at an ecumenical
service at Ebenezer Baptist Church
near downtown Atlanta.
“America today bears witness to
the fact that Dr. King’s faith in
America was true faith,” Bush said.
“Love has overcome hate.”
In Louisiana, all 485 students at a
black high school in Plaquemines
Parish stayed home to protest the
school board’s refusal to recognize
the holiday.
“No one showed up this morning.
No one but the teachers,” said James
Jones, assistant principal at Phoenix
High School.
Plaquemines Parish employees
had the day off, as did state employ
ees and parish workers in Louisiana,
which celebrates the holiday every
other year.
first legal holiday to honor a black
American.”
Vandals in Buffalo, N.Y., painted
a bust of King white Sunday night,
but city parks crews cleaned it in
time for holiday celebrations.
Absentee rates were also high in
Tulsa, Okla., as black students pro
tested the city’s decision to hold
classes to make up for a bad-weather
day in December.
The Rev. Lawrence Lakey, direc
tor of the Tulsa Urban League, said,
“We are protesting the fact that the
city and schools refuse to honor the
United Nations Secretary-General
Javier Perez de Cuellar announced
Monday that he had accepted a re
quest by African delegates to make
King’s birthday a U.N. holiday, be
ginning next year. It will replace one
of nine holidays now observed by the
U.N. staff.
Harry Belafonte and Bill Cosby
were co-hosts Monday night for a
three-city celebration.
Bloodless coup overturns Lesotho regime
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appeared to be more against the de
posed prime minister than pro-mili
tary.
Many people in this conservative
Christian nation have been uneasy
about Jonathan’s authoritarian ways.
His confrontations with South Af
rica, which is Lesotho’s biggest em
ployer as well as its primary supplier,
were followed by a turn to the Soviet
bloc for aid and alliances.
Jonathan won friends among
black South Africans and other black
African leaders by welcoming Afri
can National Congress guerrillas,
but many Basotho worried about re
prisals from the white-ruled land
that surrounds them.
“This step has been taken to restore peace and national
reconciliation, which has been a problem of politicians
in Lesotho. ...”
— An announcement made by leaders of the Lesotho
coup.
South African authorities began
delaying shipments into Lesotho at
the first of the year, saying they were
looking for arms and guerrillas.
Fuel, medicine and some foods were
in short supply by Monday.
Hours after the coup. South Afri
can radio said the first goods train in
some time had crossed the border
into Lesotho.
Roelof F. Botha, South Africa’a
foreign minister, said his country
“would welcome any lessening of
tension in Lesotho.”
The announcement of the coup
said,“This step has been taken to re
store peace and national reconcilia
tion, which has been a problem of
politicians in Lesotho. . . . The police
and foreign companies should carry
out their activities as if nothing has
happened.”
Jonathan came to power as a pro-
Western leader but suspended the
constitution and ruled by decree. He
canceled elections that he appeared
about to lose in 1970, and there has
not been an election since.
South African commandos killed
42 people in Maseru in December
1982, in a raid on alleged African
National Congress militants, and a
commando strike in the capital a
month ago killed nine people, in
cluding six ANC members. Lesotho
blamed the South Africans, who
denied responsibility.
About 150 soldiers led by Gen.
Lekhanya surrounded Jonathan’s
office in Maseru last Wednesday.
Officials of the General Directo
rate of Prisons and of the city’s
Northern Prison, where Caro Quin
tero is being held, could not be
reached for comment Monday.
However, the Excelsior news serv
ice reported angry reactions from
lawyers and penal officials. The
news service said various officials,
none of whom were quoted directly,
“coincided in pointing out that it is
very easy to make statements and
not corroborate them with facts.”
The Mexico City Lawyers Associa
tion and penal officials “said the
United States should be grateful” for
Mexico’s anti-narcotics efforts “and
not be making statements, falsely,
that a total corruption exists among
the bodies charged with eradicating
(narcotics),” the news service said.
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