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i Thursday, December 11,1986^The^Battalion/Page 9 World and Nation .S. officials confirm Honduran airstrikes in Nicaraguan territory Guitar Shop Holiday Specials B. C. Rich (Rare) Warlock $199.00 Harmony Accoustic $99.95 Hondo Telecaster #757 $249.95 Get a years supply of strings with guitar purchase over $150.°°* (sale items not included) Now open Sundays, 12-5, until Christmas 1911 S. Texas Ave., College Station 693-8698 * Six Sets WASHINGTON (AP) — Reagan administra tion officials confirmed Wednesday that Hondu- Vanjets struck targets inside Nicaraguan territory Bast weekend. But they denied charges by Nicaraguan Presi- Jent Daniel Ortega that Honduras carried out jthe raids at the request of the United States. The Los Angeles Times quoted sources in londuras on Wednesday as saying U.S. officials vere not told the Hondurans planned to attack aositions inside Nicaragua and that the Ameri cans were distressed to learn of the bombing But U.S. officials, who asked not to be identi- fied, said the administration had not taken a po sition on the propriety of the Honduran action. The Honduran government denied again Wednesday that it had undertaken any raids in- kide Nicaragua, but Sandinista military officials showed reporters craters and shrapnel in the town of Wiwili that they attributed to Honduran bombing runs. The Sandinistas said that the air strikes left seven soldiers killed and 12 wounded. The town is about 16 miles from the border. Nicaragua said an army post at Murra, 11 miles northwest of Wi wili, also was attacked. The raids apparently were in response to re cent border crossings by Nicaraguan troops into Honduran territory. An administration official said U.S. intelli gence agencies had confirmed the cross-border attacks, but added he did not know what damage had been inflicted. Meanwhile, another U.S. official described as exaggerated a report that the Honduran govern ment has reached an understanding with Nicara guan rebels that they would withdraw from Hon duran territory by next spring. The reports said the rebels had pledged to Honduras they would carry out their fight against the Sandinistas from Nicaraguan terri tory. Rebel use of Honduran territory has been a sore point with that government for years. Asked about the report, State Department deputy spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said, “It is the view of the United States that the Nicaraguan resistance belongs in Nicaragua. The govern ment of Honduras has expressed similar views and we are aware of them.” She denied reports that the United States and the Honduran government had reached agreement on a rebel withdrawal from Hondu ran territory. The Miami Herald quoted unnamed Hondu ran officials as saying that the U.S. ambassador in Tegucigalpa, Everett Briggs, told them that with $100 million in new U.S. aid, the rebels will be moving into Nicaragua as early as April or May. A U.S. official in Washington said the new as sistance should help the rebels to carry out their struggle from Nicaraguan territory. WE BUY BOOKS EVERY DAY! And remember we give 20% more in trade for used books. LOUPOT’S BOOKSTORE Northgate - Across from the Post Office I $ Tract'Sum toy, whom ridav, ly ignored ive. Dunrl ed. 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OPEC market share is up 20 percent in the past year alone, he noted. Irani said OPEC’s dominance also will be aided by Communist- | bloc countries who will buy more i Mideast oil, making it a powerful geopolitical weapon. NOW study lists Washington as best women’s rights state Group releases guide explaining state laws WASHINGTON (AP) — Wash ington ranks best and South Caro lina worst when it comes to legal rights for women, the National Or ganization for Women said Wednes day when it released a state-by-state comparison of laws affecting women. A “chronicle of sweeping legai revolution” is the way NOW de scribes its 523-page “State-By-State Guide to Women’s Legal Rights,” written by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and Renee Cherow-O’Leary. The book reviews laws on mar riage, divorce, domestic violence, in heritance rights, reproductive rights, unmarried couples, equal pay, fair employment, credit, hous ing, insurance and public accomoda tions for each state, and gives the state code citation for each law. “We want women to be informed consumers of their legal rights and remedies — especially when they come face-to-face with writing a will, buying a house, starting school, get ting married or divorced,” said Rox anne Conlin, president of NOW- LDEF. Until the mid-1960s, the book says, it was illegal to prescribe, sell or use contraceptives in many states. In 1970 “there was no such thing as a shelter for battered women,” it says. It wasn’t until 1972 that “Con gress officially recognized that sex discrimination existed in the schools “We want women to be in formed consumers of their legal rights and re medies. ” — Roxanne Conlin, presi dent of NO W-LDEF and passed laws designed to remedy these deep-seated practices,” NOW says. A year later the Supreme Court legalized abortion. Other changes over the past 20 years include the availability of no fault divorce in all states, the emer gence of joint custody arrangements and the increasing consideration of children’s rights, the book says. In addition, it says, some states now consider marital rape a crime and many have passed laws guar anteeing women fair treatment in the marketplace. Marsha Levick, legal director of the NOW fund, said, “There has been tremendous progress in the area of home and family, but the le gal gains have not yet been trans lated into economic gains.” In rankings based on the book, Washington topped the list with, among other things, a state equal rights amendment, pay equity policy for state employees, equal pay and equal employment laws, state abor tion funding, a model law on enforc ing child support payments, laws benefitting displaced homemakers and abused spouses, divorce laws that permit joint child custody and require equal distribution of prop erty and laws against discrimination in credit, housing and public acco modations. Massachusetts and New York ranked second and third. Bringing up the rear were Georgia, Missis sippi, Alabama and South Carolina, with South Carolina at the bottom. South Carolina, among other things, does not have a state ERA, the survey found. 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His wife said he had been on a pro- liscovcrfd't B) n g ec j hunger strike. of an i» , so bf § well, La 0 Foreign Ministry spokesman Bo ris Pyadyshev read a two-sentence statement in response to questions at a news conference marking Interna tional Human Rights Day. It said Marchenko died in a hospital, but it gave no date or other details. 1 The human rights activist had spent 20 of his 48 years in prison or internal exile. 1 During the rest of the news con ference, officials called dissident An drei Sakharov a criminal and con demned alleged human rights Isolations in other countries, but they sidestepped or refused to an swer most questions about the situa tion in the Soviet Union. A friend of Larisa Bogoraz, Mar chenko’s wife, said Tuesday that she left for Chistopol prison, 500 miles east of Moscow, after receiving a telegram from prison authorities saying her husband was dead. Bogoraz has said she believed Marchenko began a hunger strike Aug. 4 to protest the fact he had not been allowed to see her since April 1984, three years after he was given a 10-year term for “anti-Soviet agita tion and propaganda.” Last month, Bogoraz said the KGB secret police suggested she file a formal application for emigration to Israel. She speculated then that her husband was being force-fed. Bogoraz said she refused to file the application unless she was al lowed to meet with her husband. In a letter dated Aug. 4 that made its way to a Western human rights group, Marchenko wrote of beatings and repeated confinements in a cold isolation cell that he said amounted to “an assembly line to annihilation.” Bogoraz said a KGB officer told her Nov. 21 that “Marchenko is feel ing wonderful.” The Foreign Ministry spokes man’s statement Wednesday said the dissident had been seriously ill for some time and was hospitalized, pre sumably in a prison facility. Marchenko wrote the dissident chronicle “My Testimony” about his prison experiences, which began with a two-year prison sentence fol lowing a fight at the hydroelectric power station where he worked. He escaped while serving the first sentence but was captured while try ing to flee the country and sent to prison for six years on conviction of treason. After release in 1966, he wrote the book and began protesting the imprisonment of dissidents. That produced further sentences that cul minated in a conviction in 1981 for anti-Soviet agitation and propa ganda. Marchenko also was a founding member of the group formed in 1976 to monitor Soviet compliance with human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreements on Euro pean security and cooperation. The group has disbanded. 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