Wednesday, November 25,1987/The Battalion/Page 11
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Rioting Cuban inmates remain
in control at two state prisons
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ATLANTA (AP) — Troops
armed with automatic weapons and
gas masks brought dozens of prison
ers out of the Atlanta penitentiary
where rioting Cuban inmates re
mained in control Tuesday while a
SWAT team faced down a group of
Cubans at a besieged prison in Loui
siana.
The prisoners, who rebelled after
the announcement of a deportation
agreement between the United
States and Cuba, continued to hold
more than 100 hostages — 75 in At
lanta and 28 in Louisiana. One ailing
guard was released in Atlanta, where
one inmate died during Monday’s
riot.
It was not clear whether the in
mates brought out of Atlanta’s 85-
year-old penitentiary were Cubans
or other prisoners, or whether they
had surrendered or had been sub
dued by the troops.
State Corrections Department
spokesman John Siler said those in
mates and 24 others were taken to
Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta.
Tom Delaney, a spokesman for
the federal penitentiary in Terre
Haute, said the prisoners then were
flown to Indiana. He said he had no
information about the nationality of
the prisoners.
In Louisiana, a SWAT team dis
persed about 30 inmates who had
been taunting guards at an entrance
building, the only part of the Oak
dale Federal Detention Center not
controlled by inmates.
High-pressure fire hoses were
used to blast down a makeshift, 80-
foot-long barrier near the entrance
to the Oakdale facility where in
mates had painted slogans such as
“liberty or die” and “freedom or
blood” around the compound.
Detention center spokesman Lue-
nette Johnson at first declined to
comment on the incident but later
said both sides backed off when “the
Cubans related that the hostages
would be hurt if further attempts
were made by staff.”
She added that the prisoners
brought out two hostages and al
lowed one to speak through a mega
phone but offered no details on the
discussion.
J. Michael Quinlan, director of
the Bureau of Prisons in Washing
ton, said negotiations at both facili
ties continued intermittently. How
ever, discord among inmates
impeded the talks, and a scheduled
meeting between a U.S. senator and
an inmate leader in Louisiana fell
through.
Official news briefings at both
prisons were infrequent.
Tomas Garcia-Fuste, a Spanish
speaking radio reporter from
WQB A in Miami who joined in ne
gotiations with Louisiana prisoners
at the request of FBI agents, said
prisoners were reluctant to accept an
offer by Attorney General Edwin
Meese III of a case-by-case review.
“They are afraid,” Garcia-Fuste
said. “There are too many opinions
inside.”
Atlanta Warden Joseph Petrovsky
said, “The negotiating team since
7:15 last night has been dealing with
at least 12 leaders or groups of lead-
“As long as the hostages are not
being injured, and as long as we’re
making headway, we’re going to ne
gotiate this thing out,” Petrovsky
said at a mid-day news conference,
several hours before the troops went
in. Petrovsky said 315 inmates had
surrendered since the takeover be
gan Monday morning and had been
placed in secure areas of the prison.
Quinlan said, “Our No. 1 priority
is the welfare of those being held
against their will.”
Petrovsky said 75 hostages re
mained in Atlanta but Quinlan gave
the number as 76.
Inmates at Oakdale, who took
over the facility on Saturday,
brought two of their 28 hostages to a
gate Tuesday to show that they were
being well-treated.
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Official: Cuba will not punish inmates
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top
Cuban diplomat said Tuesday night
that all Cuban inmates sent back to
their homeland by the United States
will not be subject to any reprisals by
the Cuban government for past ac
tivities.
Ramon Sanchez Parodi, head of
the Cuban Interests Section ' in
Washington, said at a news confer
ence that he was making the an
nouncement in an effort to bring a
peaceful end to the disturbances at
detention centers in Louisiana and
Georgia.
The government of Cuba “wishes
to declare and assure that it will take
no reprisal whatsoever” against peo
ple who are supposed to be returned
to their homeland under a new U.S.-
Cuban agreement signed last Friday,
he said.
As proof of his country’s good
will, Sanchez Parodi cited the exam
ple of the 201 Cubans who returned
to Cuba in 1985 before a prior
agreement with the United States
was suspended.
He said most are free, have re
joined their families and “enjoy full
possibilities of employment.”
He said the 2,500 Cubans who
now face deportation “will be exon
erated from illegal activities that
they might have committed before
their departure from Cuba.”
Sanchez Parodi has served as head
of the Interests Section since it
opened in 1977.
In the absence of full diplomatic
relations, the United States and
Cuba maintain interests sections —
or small diplomatic missions — in .
each other’s capitals.
The U.S. government’s an
nouncement last weekend that it
would begin deporting some 2,500
inmates who arrived from Cuba in
the 1980 Mariel boatlift sparked ri
oting Saturday by Cuban inmates at
the Federal Alien Detention Center
in Oakdale, La., and a riot Monday
at the Atlanta federal prison.
More than 100 hostages were be
ing held by the inmates at the two fa
cilities.
Some of the inmates were imme
diately incarcerated when they ar
rived in this country and admitted to
having been in jails in Cuba.
have committed
and have been
Others inmates
crimes since arriving
kept in prisons pending government
decisions on whether to release or
deport them.
A third group has been confined
to mental institutions.
Street gang
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CHICAGO (AP) — Five mem
bers of the notorious El Rukn
street gang were found guilty
Tuesday of conspiring to blow up
airplanes and U.S. government
buildings as part of a terrorism-
for-hire scheme to win $2.5 mil
lion from Libya.
The U.S. District Court jury re
turned the verdict after six days
of deliberation following a five-
week trial.
Jeff Fort, El Rukn leader, and
co-defendants Leon McAnder-
son, Reico Cranshaw, Alan Knox
and Roosevelt Hawkins had said
the El Rukns were a religious or
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lence and met with the Libyans
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nation’s 16 th defense secretary
Tuesday pledging support for Star
Wars and arms control initiatives
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One day after being sworn in, the
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tails of his future plans for the Pen
tagon and repeatedly echoed the
policy pronouncements of his prede
cessor, Caspar W. Weinberger.
He hailed word of a new arms
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don his Star Wars program.
The Soviets recently softened
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Carlucci listed arms control as one
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ing a strong military force in the face
of budget cutbacks — even if it
means the actual size of the military
has to be reduced — and continuing
to reform the Pentagon’s weapons-
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“Defense contractors should real
ize that recent budget cuts mean
sombody’s going to have to feel the
pain,” he said. Carlucci also said
there would be no reduction in the
size of the U.S. naval force in the
Persian Gulf unless the threat of Ira
nian attacks on commercial shipping
dissipated.
He promised there would be no
purge among the Pentagon’s top
staff despite last week’s forced de
parture of Frank Gaffney, an
avowed hard-liner and Weinberger’s
top arms-control expert.
The new defense secretary told
reporters he saw no point in trying
to contrast his style with that of
Weinberger.
“But like everybody, I have an en
tirely different approach to, say,
how you negotiate with Congress,”
he said.
Weinberger adamantly refused to
negotiate cuts to the defense budget
during his tenure.
“Once it becomes clear that the
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going to cut the budget, as undesira
ble as that might be, then I would be
prepared to work quietly with them
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