w SOUTH PADRE with GREAT DESTINATIONS, INC. SPRING BREAK ’87 March 14-21 Sheraton Hotel $239 7 nights Sheraton Condos $279 on the Gulf For more information Contact David or Shane at 693-8930 Page lOAThe Battalion/Tuesday, February 24, 1987 Dean Rusk and Negotiation On the general subject of U.S. talks with Russians... " When a serious and dangerous difference arises, there are vari ous ways of dealing with it: "One would be for the two sides to growl publicly at each other until something happens. "Another is to establish contact in order to clarify the situation and to guard against a catastro phe which might be brought on by ignorance, miscalculation or mistake. "In the modem world, I believe that it is important tha great powers not lose contact with each other in the presence of a severe disagreement. Explora tory talks can clarify an under standing of vital issues and our de termination to defend them. They can also discover whether there is any basis for nego tiations which might lead to a peaceful conclusion. We believe that responsible statesmen must keep in touch with each other-not despite the difficulties and dan gers, but because of them. "If systematic negotiations can occur at some point, that does not insure that an agreement can be reached. The object would be to reach an agreement which fully protects the legitimate vital interests of both sides. But since governments have, not unexpec tedly, different views at to what these interests are, negotiation does not always succeed." —from U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 30, 1961 Dean Rusk will appear at TAMU on April 1, 1987 in the 1987 MSC Wiley Lecture Series. 4= Advertisement PRESENTS NICARAGUA: AMERICA'S NEW VIETNAM? BY KARL GROSSMAN WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1987 601 RUDDER ^ 8:00 P.M. .ril, World and Nation Survivor testifies Demjanjuk was Nazi ‘Ivan the Terrible’ JERUSALEM (AP) — A survivor quivering with emotion testifier! Monday that John Demjanjuk was the Na/.i guard “Ivan the Terrible” who clubbed prisoners, gouged out their eyes and turned on the gas at the Treblinka death camp. rorized and . gassed prisoners at Treblinka in 1942 and 1943. Demjanjuk, 66, denies ever being at the death camp and claims to be a victim of mistaken identity. He lis tened without emotion Monday as his interpreter translated Epstein’s accusations from Hebrew to Ukrai- “This is the man, the man sitting over there,” Pinchas Epstein shouted in the courtroom, pointing at the re tired Cleveland auto worker anti pounding repeatedly on the witness stand. The outburst came minutes after he was asked to identif y a picture of the guard in an album of photo graphs. Epstein’s parents, sister and two brothers perished at the concentra tion camp in Poland with 850,()()0 other Jews. He was the first survivor to testify at the trial of Demjanjuk, a native of the Soviet Ukraine accused of being the brutal guard who ter- man. The witness, 61, flushed and his voice shook as he said of Demjanjuk: “That’s him sitting over there. Age has, of course, changed him, but not so that he would l>ecome unrecogni zable.” Epstein pointed out a 1951 pic ture of Demjanjuk on the third page of the photo album and said: “This is Ivan as I remember him. during a prisoner revolt August 1943 in which some re|x>rls said the brutal guard was killed. American defense attorney Mark O’Connor cross-examined Epstein about Ivan’s appearance, that of a second Ukrainian guard, Nicholai, and about several Nazi SS of ficers at the camp. O’Connor has based his defense on the contentions that Ivan died in the uprising and that survivors’ memories more than 40 years later are not accurate. “The picture is of an older man than the one I knew. Nevertheless, the round face, the very short neck, the broad shoulders, the slightly protruding ears. Phis is Ivan.” Epstein escaped from Treblinka Epstein descril>ed how Ivan lieat prisoners and mutilated their corpses. “He was insatiable,” Epstein said. “He committed incredible atrocities. This Ivan would come out of the en gine room and lieat us mercilessly. Sometimes he would have a bayonet, sometimes a sword, sometimes a metal pipe.” Supreme Court to decide case on execution of teen-age killers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su preme Court said Monday it will de cide whether the death penalty is a valid punishment for convicted mur derers who committed their crimes before they were 18 years old. The justices agreed to hear the appeal of Oklahoma death row in mate William Wayne Thompson, convicted of a murder committed when he was 15. Thompson’s appeal contends that executing teen-age killers violates the Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment.” Of the more than 1,800 men and women on death rows nationwide, about 35 of them were condemned for crimes they committed as juve niles. Of the 69 U.S. prison inmates exe cuted since 1977, three were killed for murders committed before they were 18. T he high court attempted to re solve the same issue in 1982, in the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Monte Lee Eddings, but decided his case on other constitutional grounds. A decision in Thompson’s case is expected sometime in 1988. Returning from a four-week re cess with a flurry of activity, the court also: • Ref used to use a case from Min nesota to reconsider its past rulings that let states require some girls who seek abortions to get permission f rom their parents or a judge. • Agreed to judge the validity of a Virginia law banning the commer cial display of some sexually explicit materials where children might get at them. Soviet prisonei makes return home as hero oi.s; MOSCOW (AP) - Josef gun came home from prisj M onday to a hero’s welcomeauf snowy railroad station in Mom, where he vowed to keep upikt light f< >r Jewish emigration am J human lights until all Soviet^ lit it al prisoners are f ree. “f reedom lot all |)iisol Prison. His arms were raised umphantly over his head; mouth was open in a wide.f flecked grin. Bnl he lookedtini and gaunt from a two-week hi I gei st like and front whal ft I tailed the “inhuman i ew si »ng "Shalom Aleichem.' Begun appeared optiniiiu alxuit the release of [xililicaljii religious dissidents and Kremlin leader MikhailS U4 I chev’s reforms would lead! some lilreralization of Soviet pnil lit s, culture and stxiely. but fie saitl without herd* | loi all |H)litital prisoners and emigration, “the pnxessoh ot ratizatiou will lx' just abd slatistit s and not real.” Begun saitl he still wantedl emigrate it) Israel, butauthtiiilii had made no promises. Terrorist leader denounces Yankee criminals' at trial PARIS (AP) — A Lebanese man accused in the killings of American and Israeli diplomats said at the opening of his trial Monday that fie was an Aral) fighter and denounced “Yankee executioners” in his homeland. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 35, spoke for about 10 minutes in what appeared to lie a rehearsed monologue when he was inter rupted by Judge Maurice Co- lomb, wlto said Abdallah was l>e- ginning to repeat himself. When Colomb asked whether an attorney representing the United States would like to re spond, Alxlallah objected and, rasing his voice for the first time, shouted he should not l>e forced to listen to a “Yankee criminal.” Alxlallah was handcuffed and led from the courtnxmi, and the judge called a recess. Abdallah’s attorney, Jacques Verges, later saitl Abdallah did not plan to attend the remainder of the trial because he ref uses to subject himself to French justice. and objects to the U.S. govern ment’s role in the trial. The case is the first to lx: tried in a special seven-judge “terror ism court,” set up under laws en acted last year. The trial is being conducted under heavy security. Two dozen gendarmes were stationed in the courtrcxmi, and dozens of armed guards were stationed outside the courthouse near Notre Dame Ca thedral in central Paris. Thousands of gendarmes and riot police patrolled Paris streets after the government reported receiving threats in connection wilh the trial. Alxlallah is accused of complic ity in the killlings of Lt. Col. Charles Robert Ray, the deputy U.S. military attache in Paris, on Jan. 18, 1982, anti Yacov Barsi- mantov, second secretary at the Israeli Embassy, on April 3, 1982. Alxlallah also is charged with complicity in the attempted mur der of the U.S. consul-general in Strasbourg, Rolx:rt Homme, on March 26, 1984. Latest storm cripples northeastern states AS leg cai A storm rarily. Among the hardest-hit cities Philadelphia, where the westerns!) m bs were socked with live inches! snow jxm hour, for total accup tious of 18 to 24 inches. Bus, commuter rail and airli service was kiuxked out lor alii* city government shutdown. The federal government' 300,000 workers also were told* stay home. Eleven inches fell on Washing D.C., closing Ixitli of the cajiiti major air|x>rts fora time. Debris covered train tracks k tween Baltimore and Washing s t er causing delays for Amtrak thatwtn nse , exjxected to last through the th) Amtrak s|x)kesman John said. Maryland jxdice reportedasna 1 | rsa as 100 stranded tractor trailertru lthorit on a 15-mile section o! Interstate^ imhe north of Baltimore. eT>o Seven hundred plows and 320^.the cc spreaders were sent out to clear 'v 1 day w York City streets of snowfallsr4|publi, ing from four to six inches. Jnerst Jen Th m jry C ven erg om titi-r Cool Down m Pat Magee’s when CIRCUc Things Start Getting Hot! Post Oak Mall Mon-Sat 10-9 Sun 12:30-5:30 764-9009 W(Hll< Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 [; ii fi