The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 74, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1989 Page: 1 of 22
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statement declaring “total war” on the
government in response to a crack-
down on trafficking after the Aug. 18
assassination of Luis Carlos Galan, a
leading presidential candidate.
The group apparently speaks on be-
half of the 12 Colombians that the
United States wants extradited to
stand trial for drug violations.
Colombia’s Medellin-based cartels
are believed to supply up to 80 percent
of cocaine that reached the United
States. Drug lords are trying to force
the government to abandon attempts
to extradite traffickers and have killed
scores of officials.
In an effort to protect jurists, Co-
lombia’s Security Council decided
Thursday to keep the names of judges
handling drug cases a secret.
In the last 10 years, 220 judges and
other court employees have been
killed. v u
In Colombia, judges handle both
the work of a judge and of a prosecut-
ing attorney in questioning witnesses
and suspects.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
BONN, West Germany - Hungar-
ian and West German officials have
devised a plan that would allow up to
20,000 East Germans to flee to the
West in the next few days, government
sources disclosed Thursday.
About 10 percent of the 150,000 to
200,000 East Germans vacationing in
Hungary are thought to be seeking
passage to West Germany, and Bonn
and Budapest have agreed to help
them, the sources said on condition of
anonymity.
In Vienna, Austrian officials con-
firmed Bonn had asked them to ar-
range for special rail transportation
for 15,000 to 20,000 East Germans to
West Germany.
The reported plan to allow East
Germans out of Hungary without the
usual documents authorizing their de-
parture may have been intentionally
leaked by officials to let would-be emi-
gres in East Germany know about the
rare escape opportunity.
Most areas of East Germany receive
Western radio or TV broadcasts, and
the reports of the purported agree-
ment between West Germany and
Hungary were widely circulated
Thursday.
Asked if Austria had agreed to al-
low the escapes during the next few
days, one West German official told
The Associated Press: “I cannot deny
that.”
Officially, West Germany has de-
nied it is working with Hungary to aid
the escapees.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Peter
Rothen described reports of the plan
as “pure speculation.”
However, Austrian Railways offi-
cials in Vienna told The Associated
Press they had been asked by Bonn to
ready railroad cars for a mass trans-
port of refugees from the Hungarian
border on Sept. 6.
ing were the following:
• to contribute to a student being
“well-rounded”
• athletes are currently isolated from
the rest of the university community
• to allow athletes to participate in
facets of campus life from which they
are now excluded
• with one-third of OU’s freshman mi-
nority population living in the athletic
dorms, cross-cultural and ethnic inter-
mingling would be better served
• athletes and non-athletes would
build lasting friendships.
In its new form, some still did not
■ See Athlete, page 2
the bill must pass through the Gradu-
ate Student Senate, then to UOSA
President Randy McDaniel and finally
to OU President Richard Van Horn
and possibly the OU Board of
Regents.
The resolution was the revised ver-
sion of one Feuerborn presented in
the spring which recommended that
all athletes live in university housing.
The earlier bill ran into opposition in
congress as well as with the OU Ath-
letic Department.
The new resolution stated the pur-
poses of the integration of freshman
athletes into regular university hous-
sian even though their native tongues
are vastly different and represent their
distinct cultural heritage.
It declared Moldavian the state lan-
nomic, social and cultural affairs..
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STATE:
Shooting ruled justifiable
TULSA (AP) - District Attorney David
Moss said Thursday he will not file charges
against a policeman who shot and killed a 42-
year-old man wielding a knife in a stand-off
Tuesday.
Moss said he ruled the shooting of Thomas
Otis Glidewell a justifiable homicide.
Tulsa Police Sgt. George Haralson shot
Glidewell three times with a shotgun when
Glidewell brandished the knife at police who
encircled him.
Haralson has been routinely suspended
pending an internal investigation into the
shooting.
The shooting happened after an undercover
officer purchased child pornography from
Glidewell, a convicted pornographer, in a dis-
count store parking lot, police said
Environment has a chance
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A pending re-
port will show Oklahoma has a chance to repair
damage to its environment and avoid mistakes
of other more industrialized states, officials said
Thursday at Gov. Henry Bellmon’s news
conference.
The status of Oklahoma’s environment will
be discussed Oct. 4 in Stillwater at the first Gover- I
nor’s Forum on Environmental Concerns.
The announcement was made by Bellmon
and the co-chairmen of the Oklahoma Environ-
mental Concerns Council — William Talley of
Oklahoma City and Joseph Williams of Tulsa.
The forum will be held on the campus of Ok-
lahoma State University and will feature presenta-
tion of recommendations ofthe Oklahoma En-
vironmental Concern Council.
NATION:
Bomb detector questioned
WASHINGTON (AP) - A $1 million bomb
detector that the Federal Aviation Administration
starts operating Friday at a New York airport is
not sensitive enough to spot an explosive like the
one that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 last De-
cember, Science magazine reports.
The magazine, the journal for the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, said
the bomb detector, called a thermal neutron
analysis device, or TNA, is being set at a sensitiv-
ity that will uncover about 2.5 pounds of plastic
explosives.
Science said British experts believe the bomb
that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lock-
erbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21 contained only
about one pound of explosive.
The agency has said it wants U.S. airlines to
spend about half a billion dollars to install 491 of
the machines at international airports over the
next five years.
Tighter controls issued
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal gov-
ernment issued tighter controls Thursday on can-
cer-causing benzene, saying the new restric-
tions will eliminate 90 percent of benzene releases
from industrial sources ranging from steel
plants to service stations.
But the curbs are expected to be quite costly
- and they do not cover the primary source of
benzene pollution, automobiles, the Environ-
mental Protection Agency said.
Congress is considering legislation that
would tighten air pollution standards, including
provisions to reduce benzene releases from
motor vehicles.
WORLD:
A royal mess brews
LONDON (AP) - Princess Anne and Mark
Phillips, the royal couple rarely seen together, on
Thursday admitted the open secret of their life
apart with a palace statement that they are sepa-
■rat; ig, although have no plans to divorce.
The announcement ended rumors of strife
that have dogged Queen Elizabeth H’s only
daughter and her commoner husband for more
than half their 15-year marriage.
If they want to file for divorce, British law re-
quires them to live apart for two years.
The queen, who was at her Balmoral Castle
in Scotland, was said by palace sources to be sad-
dened but understanding.
WEATHER:
Hot holiday forecast
Friday: A 20 percent chance of thunder-
storms. High in the mid to upper 90s with south
wind 10 to 20 mph. Low in the mid 70s. Satur-
day: High in the mid 90s. Remainder of the Labor
Day weekend: Hot with high in the 90s and
lows in the 70s.
well as between East Germany and
West Germany.
Hungary has embraced Western-
style reforms and is seeking closer ties
a to the West, while Communist East
Austrian Railways has "promised to Germany has shunned reform.
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within six hours at an unspecified bor- accused Bonn of enticing workers to
der point with Hungary, the official the West and have embarked on a
propaganda war to scare citizens from
Language
change
protested
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW - Thousands of people
in the republic of Moldavia surged
into the streets of its capital Thursday
night to protest a legislative compro-
mise that will keep the Russian lan-
guage a part of their everyday life,
activists said.
Members of the southern republic’s
legislature voted to substitute Molda-
vian - similar to Romanian - for
Russian as the language of govern-
ment and economic affairs. But they
ruled that both Russian and Molda-
vian could be used in everyday life.
“The people are scandalized. We
need only one language,” said Vasily
Nestase of the pro-Moldavian Peo-
ple’s Front, speaking by telephone
from Kishinev, the capital.
Nestase estimated tens of thousands
of people took to the streets outside
the theater where the deputies had
met, and he played a tape recording of
the shouting masses. He said hun-
dreds of police armed with clubs had
formed a cordon around the building.
“If this decision is not reversed, we
will start a general strike,” he said.
The next step, he said, is secession
from the Soviet Union.
“We are not a legal part of the Sovi-
et Union,” he said, pointing to the
Soviet annexation of Moldavia from
neighboring Romania in 1940 under
the terms of the Nazi-Soviet non-ag-
gression pact, which also put the Bal-
tic states under Soviet control.
The legislators had been seeking a
compromise that would placate both
Moldavian nationalists and Russian
immigrants. The Moldavians are try-
ing to shed what they see as decades
of infringement on their rights. The
Russians feared they would be forced
to learn Moldavian and went on strike
at 200 enterprises in protest.
Representatives of both the Molda-
vian People’s Front and the pro-Rus-
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they saw support for the compromise.
The choice of language is an impor-
tant issue for Soviets because many
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Drug runners promise more deaths
million military aid package for Co-
lombia’s war on drug traffickers.
The bombing of the paint factory in
Medellin was the latest in a two-week
wave of assassinations, arsons and
bombings by Colombia’s drug traffick-
ers in retaliation for a government
crackdown on the narcotics trade.
The radio networks Caracol and
RCN said they had received telephone
calls from an anonymous man claim-
ing responsibility on behalf of “The
Extraditables,” a group blamed for
past violence linked to drug
traffickers.
“At nighttime, when bombs are
placed there are few victims, but there
will be more victims now because we
will place the bombs at daytime when
there are more people in the city,” the
caller told the radio stations.
Until Thursday, most of the bomb-
ings have been at night, although an
Aug. 24 bombing of a political party
headquarters in Medellin killed a
passerby.
The same group on Aug. 24 issued a
Athlete housing may be changing
By Tim Hoover
UOSA REPORTER
A revised resolution recommending
that freshman athletes live in regular
university housing will go before Stu-
dent Congress Tuesday.
Barry Feuerborn, greek representa-
tive, presented a resolution last sum-
mer calling for all freshman athletes to
live in regular university housing. The
Summer Legislative Council attached
a “no pass” recommendation to the
bill and now it awaits the approval of
congress.
If approved by Student Congress,
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Planmayailow East German flight
One official said he expected the
exodus sooner, perhaps this weekend.
He said West German railroad admin-
istrators told them to prepare for up
to 20,000 East German passengers.
make up to 50 train cars available
der point with Hungary, the official
said.
A Frankfurt-based national newspa- fleeing.
per said the refugees would be al- Rumors have been sweeping East
lowed passage to West Germany on Germany that harsher restrictions on
the basis of their East German visas travel to Hungary will be imposed
for Hungary.
The Frankfurter Rundschau news-
paper reported that the “pragmatic
solution” had been worked out be-
tween West Germany and Hungary combined with the largest
during confidential negotiations. spree
The illegal exodus of at least 6,000 Wall ------
East Germans through Hungary this 100,000 East Germans to West Ger-
;r has strained relations be- many this year, the Inter-German Af-
the two Warsaw Pact allies, as fairs Ministry has predicted.
Crowd crossing
Not deterred by the heat, a group of pedestrians wait for a This onslaught of students at the crosswalks sometimes
green light at the crossing by Dale Hall Thursday afternoon, backs up traffic. Photo by Sharon Saneman.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOGOTA, Colombia - A bomb
‘ > an ice cream vendor’s bi-
cycle blew up at a paint factory in
Medellin on Thursday, and drug traf-
iam issue iui owivw — j fickers vowed to intensify their tenor
believe they were forced to adopt Rus- campaign by killing more people.
- ... .------ The attack on the paint factory in
Medellin, the heartland of the nation’s
cocaine trade, injured eight people,
radio stations reported. About 20 cars
. . were damaged, a police spokeswoman
guage, to be used in “political, eco- on condition of anonymity,
nomic, social and cultural affairs. jbe bombing followed the first
Moldavia previously had no official njg^t of a curfew imposed in Medellin
language, but Russian was typically an(j ejght nearby towns. Police report-
used in government and commerce. ec| a serjes of bombings that caused
The legislature also restored the minor damage in Medellin as the cur-
Latin alphabet taken away a half-cen- few went into effect Wednesday night
tury ago by dictator Josef Stalin when About 530 people were arrested
he annexed Moldavia. Stalin imposed through dawn Thursday for violating
Cyrillic - the alphabet used in Rus- the 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew.
sian - to back his claim that Roma- In Washington, the Pentagon set
nians and Moldavians are two distinct Sunday as the target date to begin
nationalities even though the lan- shipping weapons, aircraft and other
guages are virtually identical. supplies under President Bush s $65
lowed passage to West Germany on Germany that harsher restrictions
soon. It has been relatively easy for
East Germans to obtain travel visas
for Hungary.
Unprecedented legal immigration
‘ x escape
since 1961, when the Berlin
was built, will bring at least
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