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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.”
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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
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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
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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.