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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 |)iis<inemt
/ion!,” the 55-year-old Bqi
shouted to dozens of Iriendsai
suppotieis as he emerged In*
the ti am that carried himtoMo
cow alter more than three«
m (!histo|>ol 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 <onditi»|
of pi ison.
“I am insanely happy loI
free," Begun said in Russian!
see tins is a certain sign dial J
|Hihttt al pi isoiuTs will lie hen
the nearest future. I willdetm
ail my strength to see thatih i ** r!
hap|K*ns as soon as jxissihle."
f riends hoisted him onloilia
shoiddei s and t arried hinulm
the platform as they sang did
i aeh national anthem andlhtHf
I >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
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cai
A storm <lum|x*d up to two feet of
heavy, wet snow from Virginia to
Massachusetts as it moved up the
East Coast on Monday, shutting
down the federal government, snar
ling transportation and straining
municipal budgets hit hard earlier
this winter.
It was the third major storm for
the region since mid-January, and
before it blew out to sea at least one
person had been killed in a weather-
related accident.
Limited states of emergency were
declared in New Jersey and Dela
ware, allowing deployment of the
National Guard to help keep traffic
moving.
For much of the area, the week
end weather had seemed a harbin
ger of spring.
“Mother Nature gave us the one-
two punch,” said Al O’Leary, a
spokesman for the New York City
Department of Sanitation.
Monday morning’s temperatures,
in the 30s, made the snow heavy. It
left picturesque blankets on fences
and monuments, but broke |X)wer
lines and trees under its weight.
Al
Some 200,000 people lost p
tem|x>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
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