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Wednesday, April 23, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7 World and Nation oredi- or tin in 214 iOreiti- o hooliii iurs i 1 point, ideini: Bowit at cl) isortk eseVI rtingC mk !!0I1 j| ers at i 30 p.® jo; ib. in 1 Vietnam veteran executed despite war stress defense Waldheim: Nazi past contested VIENNA, Austria (AP) —Pres- Jident Rudolf Kirchschlaeger told {Austrians Tuesday that United {Nations documents implicate i Kurt Waldheim in the killings of I Yugoslav partisans and civilians. iBut he said he could not judge I Waldheim, a former U.N. secre- Itary-general and candidate for ■ president of Austria, based on I material he has examined. Kirchschlaeger, who has seen |500 pages of documents from the ■ World Jewish Congress and a file [from the U.N. War Crimes Com- | mission, said he saw no evidence {Waldheim knew Jews were being {deported to concentration camps [from the Balkans. Waldheim has denied allega tions by the World Jewish Con- [gress that he was involved in war [crimes between 1942 and 1945. fHe has acknowledged serving as [an officer in German army [Group E, which waged a merci less campaign against the Yugos- jlav partisans, but has said he was [a German-Italian translator and [had no part in atrocities. STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Vietnam veteran who said he was suffering from war-triggered stress when he stabbed two people to death was exe cuted Tuesday in Florida’s electric chair. David Livingston Funchess, 39, was strapped into the oaken chair shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 against extending a five-hour stay it had issued earlier in the day. The execution was originally set for 7 a.m., but was stayed for five hours by a federal appellate court in Atlanta, before attorneys for Fun- chess gained the second temporary stay in Washington. Funchess became the 56th person executed in the United States since the nation’s high court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, and the third in eight days. No special precautions were deemed necessary to prevent a re peat of the April 15 battle before the execution of rapist-murderer Daniel Thomas, who kicked and fought guards for seven minutes until he could be strapped down, Depart ment of Corrections spokesman Vernon Bradford said. Peter Erlinder, a professor at Wil liam Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn., who has researched the post-traumatic stress disorder’s ef fects on Vietnam veterans, said Fun chess was the first veteran executed despite being diagnosed as suffering from the disorder. Erlinger said at least two Vietnam veterans have been acquitted of murder charges using that defense, which was not recognized until 1980. Funchess was convicted in 1975. Funchess was condemned for the Dec. 16, 1974, deaths of a 53-year- old woman and a 56-year-old man during a holdup in the Jacksonville lounge where he had worked a year earlier. A 65-year-old woman died more than two years after being stabbed in the holdup, but Funchess was not charged in that death. Funchess’ attorney, Jeff Thomp son, also a Vietnam veteran, has ar gued that Funchess was a classic vic tim of post-traumatic stress disorder, an affliction said to have affected thousands of veterans unable to ad just to a civilian environment after combat in a domestically unpopular war. Symptoms include experiencing flashbacks and suppressing mem ories of violence. Funchess was 19, had no criminal record and had graduated in the top third of his high school class when he was sent to Vietnam in 1967. Af ter serving just two and one-half months, he was seriously wounded when he stepped on a land mine, and attorneys claimed medication for his injuries led to heroin addic tion. His parents, Wenis Funchess and Alice Roberts, wife Christine, three sisters and two brothers visited with him from late Monday until early Tuesday, Bradford said. Thompson said, “He was reasona ble, relaxed, jovial and somewhat de tached.” Some two dozen veteran support ers and death penalty opponents demonstrated Tuesday at the Viet nam Veterans Memorial in the state capital of Tallahassee. Veterans also had held a vigil at the capital since last Saturday. ’ Beirut exodus ‘a victory for terrorism’ hurra l p.nu re Cot '.,n\ Pit' l p.m r come, in an4 untiiii eforsiit he beet-) r S ill T® lattalioi ortode ntnw) ■ WASHINGTON (AP) — The exodus of most remaining Ameri cans from West Beirut Tuesday completes a victory for terrorists in a nation once declared “a vital inter est’’ by President Reagan — even as he challenges terrorists in another place, Libya. ■ “Definitely it is a victory for ter- rotism,” Abdullah Bouhabib, the Lebanese ambassador to the United States, said Tuesday of the depar ture of Americans. Bouhabib has said previously he felt the United States should have stuck it out. ■ Ten Americans who had stayed in West Beirut despite the threat of kidnapping by Islamic extremists fled the city’s Moslem sector under heavy guard. They went to East Bei rut, a safer locale, from which most are expected to leave Lebanon alto gether. ■ A State Department official, Mi chael Austrian, said only a handful will remain in Lebanon out of the thousands who used to live and work in the prosperous Western-oriented nation. He said all Americans who aren’t there on official duty have been urged to leave. ■A small embassy staff, headed by Ambassador Reginald Bartholo mew, remains. HbFive kidnapped Americans re main hostages, unable to leave. It was the murder of a sixth American Reporters view wreckage left from U.S, attack on Libya TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Foreign reporters have been shown shat tered houses, wrecked mess halls and devastated schools as evidence of last week’s U.S. air raid, but they have been kept from viewing sensitive military targets. Libyan authorities have taken reporters on limited tours of five areas containing the air raid targets identified by the Pentagon. Reporters also saw scores of damaged houses in a well-to-do neigh borhood in central Tripoli, which the Pentagon did not identify as a tar get. U.S. officials claimed the damage there was caused by misfired Li byan missiles or bombs jettisoned from a U.S. F-lll bomber believed shot down in the attack. Maj. Abdel-Salam Jalloud, Col. Moammar Khadafy’s deputy, told re porters Friday that 37 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the attack. An official mid reporters touring Benghazi on Monday that 24 ci vilians died in the raid there. hostage, Peter Kilburn, and two British hostages, in the aftermath of the bombing of Libya that led to Tuesday’s exodus. A large group of British citizens also left on Tuesday. While the U.S. defeat in Lebanon marked a low point in the struggle against terrorism, it served to galva nize some administration officials to devise a strategy for fighting terror ism that included preemptive and retaliatory strikes against countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who opposed the pullout from Lebanon, argued long and hard for the new strategy. Three countries were prime targets — Syria, Iran and Libya. Last week, the attack came, with Libya the target. Shultz had insisted for two years that using force against terrorism would entail risks — the killing of in nocent people, the loss of American servicemen, even the threat of more terrorism. But he said not fighting back at terrorism amounted to sur render. Lebanon was his example of the consequences. Others, however, find another les son in Lebanon. They recall that Is rael mounted its 1982 invasion in an effort to destroy Palestinian-based terrorists. William Quandt, a former Carter administration Middle East specialist now at the Brookings Institution, had predicted one result of the inva sion would be to disperse Palestinian guerrillas throughout the Middle East and provoke more terrorism from an even more desperate peo ple. Quandt said in an interview that the new terrorists are “quite literally the children of people massacred in Sabra and Chatilla,” the Palestinian refugee camps near Beirut. Quandt also said there is danger Palestinians will conclude from Leb anon that violence works. “That image of Shiite resistance driving the Israelis out of Lebanon is a very potent one,” he said. ghtly ■ Anti-AIDS ‘alternative school’ opens m ISSIOd >re 3PM f RUSSIAVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Twenty-one youngsters whose par ents don’t want them in class with AIDS victim Ryan White began at tending an alternative school Tues day in a former American Legion hall. R “The presence of Ryan makes me very nervous,” said Chad Gabbard, 12, a seventh-grader who said he had two classes with Ryan at Western Middle School. ■‘Tm afraid if I go to (public) school — they don’t know much about AIDS — I might get it,” said Jennifer Byers, whose father, Charles, is one of the alternative program’s organizers. Byers and Dean Leicht established the Russiaville Home Study School for sixth- and seventh-grade pupils after a judge dissolved an injunction on April 10 and allowed Ryan to re turn to the seventh grade. Ryan, who contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome through blood products used to treat his hemophilia, is from Ko komo but is assigned to Western Middle School in rural Russiaville. Health officials have said repeat edly that AIDS cannot be trans mitted through casual contact, but some parents believe there is no guarantee against that. Things were normal Tuesday at Student Official Tanning Center of the Miss Texas A&M Pagent The Original. Perfect Tan Po»t Oak Square, Harvey Road 764-2771 Western Middle School, said Princi pal Ronald Colby. “I’m sure there’s some psychological or emotional thing for some of the kids because they may have a friend who is no longer in the school,” he said. “I feel a lot of compassion for those people. I know some of those kids. And they are afraid ... I’m glad they have been able to help those children who were afraid.” Colby said 20 of 364 students had been officially withdrawn from his school, but he had no concrete atten dance figures for Tuesday. Six weeks remain on the current term. Also Tuesday, attorney David Rosselot, who represents parents op posed to Ryan’s presence in the classroom, filed a notice of appeal asking Clinton Circuit Judge Jack R. O’Neill to stay the order returning Ryan to class. 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