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5 5 TexasA&M mm V# The Battalion 2. (5 'ol. 82 No. 202 (ASPS 045360 16 pages College Station, Texas Friday, September 5, 1986 nd special ession set rMonday AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Mark hite, insisting the Legislature’s ■st uidgei-balancing try wasn't a He, Thursday summoned law- akeishack to finish the job. Hike announced another special Hn to begin Monday. He gave it fjsamegoal that eluded the session Hi enaed Thursday — balancing state budget that faces a $3.5 bii- m deficit. Hhetinie has expired on the ses- in which was called, but we're not Iding our tents and we’re not ling home," White said. ^■e have to realize that our con- Hional duty and our first resport- Hy is to balance the budget,” he id. Hnte renewed his call for a tem- Hy sales tax increase to be com- ■ with spending cuts to wipe out ede licit. Hien he opened the just-ended ||Hil session Aug. 6, White urged ^Bakers to hike the sales tax from ■4 cents to 5 !A cents for a year. Al- he told lawmakers then that ^Kht cost them their jobs to raise in an election year, he said liursday that remains the best iursr “I tliink we’re going to need deep itstombined with an emergency, Horary tax increase in order to osethe budget gap," White said. ^^Biat’s the reality I described at elx ginning of this effort,” he said. ™lihink ihai's tin* lies! promise.” ^Bike’s election opponent, for- er Gov. Bill Clements, a Republi- said the Legislature’s deadlock » graphic proof of White’s inabil- ' to lead. Jhe fact there is a second special •ssion is uirfortunate for the state.” lenients said. “If the leadership om the governor’s office had been ere during the first 30 days, this isis would be over.” ^ .... - \ A , r.-* -1 Net Work Photo by Tom Ownbey In a tournament volleyball game, this player prob- idents seem to have developed their own set of ably would be called for a foul, but these Aston res- rules for their Thursday afternoon game. Gunmen seize Pan Am plane carrying 400 Unconfirmed report says passenger dead KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Four men firing machine guns seized a Pan Am jumbo jet filled with nearly 400 people at Karachi airport early Friday and an unconfirmed report said a passenger shot and thrown from the plane has died. At least four people were wounded, officials said. The three-man cockpit crew of Flight 73 bound for New York man aged to escape through an emer gency hatch when they heard the ini tial gunfire. The hijackers offered to release all the passengers if the crew were returned to the plane to fly them to Cyprus, said Khurshid Manwar Mirza, director general of civil avi ation administration. Pan Am offi cials in Bombay, India, the stop be fore Karachi, said about 41 Americans were among the passen gers. Mirza said the hijackers, who were dressed in the blue uniforms of the airport security force, claimed to be seeking the release of friends in Cy prus prisons. “They have nothing against us, or anyone else,” he said. Pakistan has tentatively agreed to the deal, in which the passengers would leave the plane as the crew boarded, but was waiting to hear from Pan Am, said Mirza. A Pakistani air force spokesman, who refused to be identified, said the gunmen appeared to be Arabs and are speaking English. Heavily armed Pakistani soldiers and commandos surrounded the Boeing 747 and cordoned off the Qtadium filled with tear gas to enforce ban o o 3 -o c I-* CD mm ■ N CD 3 O i 03 Security forces halt riot victims’ funeral IpHANNESBURG, South Africa rflP) — Security forces filled a sta- *:■) with tear gas to stop a mass fu- Qeral for riot victims Thursday, then O vept through Soweto breaking up [her services and battling gangs of ^lilths, witnesses said. //A Soweto clergyman said, “The * b! that people managed to get ibugh the dragnet to bury their Mis laudable.” He asked not to be lend lied. Hte funeral organized by anti- jltheid leaders in defiance of po- ■orders was to have been held for ■people killed by police gunfire Hng riots Aug. 26-27 in the huge He township outside Johannes- ptfteen of the victims were buried a nearby cemetery after police CO CD & CD </) rove mourners from Javavu soccer um near White City, the Soweto jighborhood hit hardest by the vio- clergymen and Soweto resi- :s said. ergymen said they formed a hu- barrier in the stadium at one iit to to avert what appeared to be imminent confrontation between e and mourners. iccording to the government’s au for Information, which pro- Is official accounts of unrest un- the nationwide state of emer- ly imposed June 12, “several Her funerals did take place.” It [eno details. Limited sanctions package against S. Africa renewed SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — President Reagan Thurs day renewed a package of limited sanctions against the white-ruled government of South Africa, but refused to impose the tougher steps approved by Congress. Reagan, in a message to Con gress, said that additional mea sures “will be considered upon the completion of consultations with key allies on joint, effective measures to eliminate apartheid and encourage negotiations for peaceful change in South Africa.” Sanctions imposed last year by Reagan expire next Tuesday. Reagan’s action Thursday keeps them in place for another year. The sanctions include a prohi bition on the sale in the United States of the South African gold coin, the Krugerrand, a ban on computer sales and bank loans to the South African government and a prohibition on the export to South Africa of U.S. nuclear technology. The House has approved legis lation imposing a total trade em bargo on South Africa while the Senate has passed a bill that would impose a partial trade em bargo and a ban on new U.S. in vestments in and bank loans to South Africa. In announcing Reagan’s act, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes expressed disappoint ment over the impact of the lim ited sanction package. Speakes said he could not spec ulate on when Reagan might take additional steps. Youths angered by the ban on the mass funeral set up street barricades in neighborhoods throughout So weto, which is home to about two million people. The government re ported fire-bombings, stone-throw ing and attacks by militants on resi dents who disregarded a call to stay away from work. Security men sped through the township in armored vehicles, firing tear gas canisters and sometimes birdshot. Surveillance helicopters clattered overhead. There were unconfirmed reports of casualties, but the government’s Bureau for Information said police had filed no reports of deaths or in juries. Witnesses said a woman was killed when she fell in front of a train while fleeing from young men who used whips to prevent people from going to jobs in Johannesburg. A man was hurt when hejumped from the train to escape the whips, they said. Witnesses gave this account of the scene in Soweto: Most shops were closed. Commut ers going to work in the morning and returning in the evening were lashed with whips and pelted with stones. After the stadium rout, mourners left the Regina Mundi Roman Cath olic church in a long convoy to bury some of last week’s riot victims at Av alon cemetery. A dozen policemen entered the church, stopping the service, and others lobbed two tear gas canisters from an armored car into a bus car rying people to the cemetery. Police fired more tear gas at the cemetery and moved up a dozen ar mored cars to disperse several thou sand mourners. Security forces continued patrol ling large areas of Soweto in late af ternoon, more than nine hours after the violence began. They tore down barricades, many of which were re built when the armored trucks moved on, and parked by the So weto Freeway in the afternoon watching for returning workers who had ignored the boycott. Gangs of angry youths formed a procession in the White City area, chanting slogans for the banned Af rican National Congress guerrilla movement and its imprisoned leader, Nelson Mandela. A helicopter swooped in and dropped tear gas canisters. The young men scattered and built more barricades of burning tires, rocks and garbage cans. Adds, late registration continue until 5 p.m Those students who needed to add dasses or go through late ^registration but were unwilling to brave long lines at the Pavilion earlier this week have their last chance today to take care of those scheduling matters. |i Registration headquarters at the Pavilion will be open until 5 lm. Editor: Reporter against Soviet deal NEW YORK (AP) — Nicholas S. Daniloff, the U.S. News 8c World Re port correspondent jailed in Mos cow, doesn’t want to be traded for a Soviet spy suspect, his editor said Thursday after returning from the Soviet Union. A State Department official in Washington said the Soviet govern ment has not responded to the U.S. proposal to exchange Daniloff, ac cused by the Soviets of spying, for an understanding that a Soviet physicist accused of spying in the United States would be sent home after his trial. Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner and editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report, said Daniloff was buoyed by public support, but “didn’t feel it was appropriate for him to be swapped for someone clearly involved in espionage.” “He is no more a spy than John Wayne, no more involved in espio nage than Gidget or any of us and it’s outrageous he’s kept in prison,” Zuckerman said as he arrived home from Moscow. The deal to liberate Daniloff would involve temporarily releasing Gennadiy F. Zakharov, a physicist who was assigned to the United Na tions Secretariat, to the Soviet am bassador, U.S. officials said Wednes day. State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said the United States is “taking every appropriate measure, using every appropriate diplomatic contact and channel” in an effort to secure Daniloff s release. Another U.S. official, who de manded anonymity, said the corre spondent was, in effect, a hostage and that the Soviets appeared un able to decide how to respond to the U.S. proposal. Daniloff, who has not been for mally charged, was arrested in a Moscow park after a Soviet acquaint ance who had accepted several Ste phen King novels from Daniloff more than a year ago handed him a packet that the correspondent didn’t ask for or anticipate, Zuckerman said. He called the arrest “obviously a KGB setup.” Daniloff had not heard from the man in more than a year until receiv ing three phone calls shortly after the Aug. 23 arrest of Zakharov, Zuckerman said. He said the packet handed to Daniloff contained Soviet newspa per articles indicating how Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev was be ing received in the provinces, poor quality photographs that the mag azine had rejected when they were previously offered and two 35-mil- limeter negatives containing two maps which the KGB said were top secret. area. Airport officials said the four men drove out to the parked airliner in a van after the jet arrived. They opened fire and stormed aboard the plane, scattering terrified passen gers waiting to board in every direc tion, officials said. Two airport ground crew mem bers were injured in the assault, but it was not clear if they were shot. Hours after the plane was seized, the gunmen opened fire from the plane at airport personnel and wounded at least one worker of Pa kistan’s Civil Aviation Administra tion, officials said. Pakistani army generals and top civilian officials were directing the security operation from the airport control tower. Pan Am officials in Karachi and the U.S. Consulate estimated about 380 passengers on board Flight 73, which was to stop in Frankfurt, West Germany, after Karachi. Anil Ba- tasa, Pan Am manager in Bombay, said there were 387 passengers. In New York, Pan Am spokeswo man Ann Whyte said 284 passengers were on board. It was not immedi ately clear why there was a discrep ancy in the number of passengers. The flight was scheduled to arrive at Kennedy International Airport at 3:25 p.m. EDT Friday, according to the airline. Peter Roussel, a White House spokesman in California with the va- catining President Reagan, said, “We are aware of the reports and are monitoring the situation. The presi dent has been informed and is being kept updated on it by John Poin dexter,” the White House national security adviser. One of the American cockpit crew members, who spoke to The Asso ciated Press by telephone from the airport operations center, said it did not appear anyone on the plane had been hurt. The crew member, who de manded anonymity, said the plane’s two pilots and flight engineer had escaped through an emergency hatch as soon as they heard shots. Hanlon said that about 5 a.m. Fri day (9 p.m. EDT Thursday), four armed individuals, dressed as secu rity guards, boarded the airplane and demanded they be flown to Cy prus. The attackers told the cockpit crew, who had left the plane, to get back on board and prepare for take off, she said. Captains arrested in liner crash MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet au thorities have arrested the cap tains of the two ships that collided in the Black Sea and left 398 peo ple dead or missing, a senior offi cial said Thursday. Official newspapers said the collision was caused by careless ness on the part of the ships’ crews. Albert I. Vlasov, first deputy chief of the Communist Party propaganda department, said the cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov sank just seven to eight minutes after it was rammed by a freighter Sunday night. Vlasov said 37 more bodies have been recovered, bringing the confirmed death toll to 116. Little hope appeared that any of the 282 missing people would be found alive. He said both captains, Vadim Markov of the Admiral Nakhi mov and Viktor Tkachenko of the freighter Pyotr Vasyov have been arrested. The cruise ship, packed with 1,234 Soviet tourists and crew, was rammed by the freighter late Sunday night. Vlasov said the search for the missing continued Thursday though no survivors have been found since 836 people were res cued Sunday and Monday. Vlasov said divers found no signs of life in the wreckage.