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Chilean priests
assail measures
SANTIAGO. Chile (AP) —
The archbishop of Santiago
assailed Chile’s state of siege
and denounced government
criticism of the church Sunday
in a letter that priests read to
hundreds of thousands of
parishoners despite official at
tempts to censor it in the news
media.
Monsignor Juan Francisco
Fresno warned that the state of
siege measures put the church
at odds with President Augusto
Pinochet and some other
political leaders who are Roman
Catholic, but he stopped short
of directly threatening
excommu nication.
“As a pastor, I am witness to
the confusion, fear and anguish
that these measures have pro
duced,” Fresno said in the let
ter. “I fear that the state of siege
signifies a reversal for
understanding among Chileans
and for the peace of the
country.”
The archbishop made the let
ter public on Wednesday in
response to the most strident
criticism of the church in the 11
years of Pinochet’s military
regime.
The government instructed
Chilean news media to ignore
the letter, the conservative ar
chbishop's most biting com
mentary on the government in
his 18 months as the leading
church figure in this
predominantly Catholic
country.
Only Radio Chilena, the
church-owned station, broad
cast Fresno’s Sunday reading,
but printed copies circulated
widely in Catholic schools late
last week.
Fresno urged Pinochet, who
on Nov. 6 decreed the state of
siege to combat political unrest
and violence, to take “effective
steps” toward democracy.
Bakoush’s trick
stops Khadafy
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A
former Libyan prime minister,
who Egypt says played dead for
r
phony photographs to trick a
Libyan-paid assassination team,
vowed Sunday to keep up his
public opposition to Col.
Moanunar Khadafy.
“We will continue our strug
gle to get rid of this abnormal
ruler,” exile Abdel-Hamid
Bakoush told the Associated
Press the day after Egyptian
authorities revealed the
elaborate ruse that led to the ar
rest of four men.
Interior Minister Ahmed
Rushdi said Khadafy’s govern
ment hired the four, two Britons
and two Maltese, for $250,000
to arrange the killing of
Bakoush, who has lived in Cairo
since 1977. Rushdi said the
death squad was recruited
through the Libyan Embassy in
Malta and was given $150,000
to hire Egyptians to carry out
the actual killing.
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak said on Saturday that
he learned of the assassination
plot, along with Libyan plans to
kill a number of world leaders,
during a trip to West Germany
last month and he warned the
other countries.
In a dispatch on Sunday.
Libya’s official JANA news
agency quoted Libya’s No. 2
leader. Staff Maj. Abdeisalam
Jalloud, as saying Egypt would
not be able to protect Bakoush
“even if Hosni Mubarak put all
the Egyptian army” to that
purpose.
Rushdi said the four men ar
rested told authorities that
Khadafy had plans to
assassinate heads of state in
West Germany, France, India,
Pakistan, Britain, Saudi Arabia.
Qatar, Kuwait and the United
Arab Emirates.
Mubarak told reporters Sun
day the four also told in
vestigators that Libya played a
role in assassinating Indian
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Oct. 31.
When reporters pressed
Mubarak for details, he replied,
‘‘Financing some of the
organizations to commit all
these crimes.”
Rushdi identified those ar
rested as Anthony William Gill,
48, and Godfrey Chiner, 47,
both of London, and Romeo
Nicholas Chakambari, 42, and
Edgar Bonic Cacia. both of
Malta. Rushdi said they would
be tried, but did not say on what
charges.
He said the men ended up hir
ing undercover agents to act as
their killers, and the agents
staged photographs of Bakoush
bound, gagged, blood-spattered
and finally lying supposedly
dead in a pool of blood.
The state-run Egyptian televi
sion showed Gill and the two
Maltese in its evening newscast.
Gill said he began cooperating
with the Libyans last July, met
the Maltese in October and ar
rived in Cairo two weeks ago.
JANA and state-run Radio
Tripoli on Friday trumpeted the
news that one of Khadafy's
“suicide squads" had "ex
ecuted" Bakoush last Monday.
JANA carried Sunday a
Foreign Ministry denial of
Mubarak’s allegations that
Libya was behind an interna
tional terrorist plot, calling
them "barren, untruthful an
nouncements of Hosni
Mubarak.”
Bakoush, King Idris’ last
prime minister before Khadafy
overthrew the monarchy in
1969, mocked Khadafy in a
Cairo meeting Sunday with
reporters.
• "He has proved by this action
that he is irresponsible.. ..and
has resorted to an open crime to
which he has confessed,”
Bakoush said.
Visa denials stir
debate on rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — State
Department decisions to deny
visas to a group of Salvadoran
women and grant one to an
Italian playwright have renew
ed debate over a 1950s law
enacted over the veto of then
President Harry Truman.
The Ronald Reagan ad
ministration Saturday rejected
visa requests from four of five
Salvadoran women on grounds
that they were involved in ter
rorist activities against the
government of El Salvador. The
women, recipients of the Robert
F. Kennedy Human Rights
Award, were to attend a
ceremony here Nov. 20.
That action came less than
three weeks after the ad
ministration, reversiriH an
earlier policy, agreed to let
Dario Fo visit New York where
his play, “Accidental Death of
an Anarchist” premiered on
Broadway.
Both cases were considered
under the 1952 Immigration
and Nationality Act, which the
State Department says is vital to
national security and serves to
protect the United States’
interest.
The law is “not unduly
restrictive, but represents a
reasonable and sensible
response to real dangers in the
real world," said State Depart
ment spokesman Richard
Weeks.
Rep. Barney Frank. D-Mass.,
and several civil libertarians
disagree. They say the law in its
current form is too broad, in
fringes on the rights of the
American public, and permits
the government to exclude
aliens because of their political
beliefs.
Frank will introduce a bill in
Congress in January to rewrite
the law. A House subcommittee
held hearings on Frank’s
measure last }une, but no action
was taken.
“Americans should have the
right to listen to whomever they
want... . Besides, these policies
are damaging to us interna
tionally,” Frank said.
People's actions — not their
ideas — should be the grounds
for rejecting visas, he said.
At the State Department,
Weeks said, “We strongly
believe they (two key sections)
would be retained in their cur
rent form.”
Over the years, the law has
been used to bar from the
United States politicians,
writers and others deemed to
present a threat to America.
Among those who have been
kept out of the United States in
the past several years are
Hortensia Allende. widow of
former Chilean president
Salvador Allende; Irish activist
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey;
Jagjit Singh Chauhan, leader of
a movement for an independent
homeland for the Sikhs; Nobel
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Prize-winning author Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, and writer
Carlos Puentes.
Rightist Roberto d’Aubuisson
of El Salvador was refused a
visa during the Jimmy Carter
administration but was granted
permission to come by the
Reagan administration.
There are two key sections of
the law.
One prevents the entry of
aliens who seek to engage in ac
tivities that would be “pre
judicial to the public interest”
or subversive to the national
security.
The other bars those who are
— or were — anarchists, com
munists or affiliated with any
organization advocating com
munist doctrine.
But. under a 1976 amend
ment to the act, if membership
in a communist party is the only
grounds for denial, it is
automatically waived. Weeks
said. The person denied a visa
must present a security risk.
Youth meows,
receives fine
YORK. England (AP) — A
$125 fine levied against a teen
ager who meowed at a police
dog has drawn growls from a
British lawmaker.
“The next thing you know,
somebody will be arrested for
saying boo to a goose,” Tom
Torney, a member of Parlia
ment, declared Saturday.
Torney said he would write
the head of the British judiciary.
Lord Haiisham, to protest the
sentence handed down to Larry
O’Dowd. 18, on Friday.
O’Dowd was found guilty of
using abusive language and
behavior likely to breach the
peace.
Sgt. Fred Taylor, the arresting
officer, testified that he had
ordered O’Dowd and several
friends to disperse after they
congregated on a York street
corner and became unruly.
O’Dowd then turned and said
“meow” to the officer’s German
shepherd, Taylor said. The of
ficer testified that he found the
language provocative, and a
scuffle ensued .
Defense attorney Trevor Cox
argued that the word “meow”
is not “abusive, threatening or
insulting — particularly if the
word was directed at a dog.”
But the court ruled otherwise.
Said O'Dowd: “1 just can’t
believe it.”
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