Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, April 21, 1989, Page 11, Image 10

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    .World View_
International
Rioting closes offices
POINTE-A-PITRE. Guade
loupe (AP) Police clashed
with several hundred demon
strators Thursday in the north
const town of Port Ijiuis over
the arrests of seven pro-mde
pendente activists in this
French Caribbean island
The demonstrators set up
huge roadblocks across the
main roads leading to and from
the town. Although the violent
clashes had ceased by noon,
banks, schools, stores and all
government offic es remained
closed
The political unrest began
following the arrests Tuesday
of seven pro-independence at
tivists or supporters of the tinv
Popular Union lor the l ibera
tion of Guadeloupe
The seven are < barged with
bomb attacks in januarv 1088
on a bank and the homes of five
French European residents, in
cluding .1 lawyer, a doctor and
an army officer
72 arrested in raids
SAN SALVADOR. FI Salva
dor (AP) Soldiers and police
arrested more than 1(H) people
in raids Wednesday and Thurs
day on a leftist union federa
tion. a refugee organization and
a women's association, group
leaders said.
Military authorities said /2
people were arrested and 20 of
these later were released.
Defense Minister Gen. Carlos
Eugenio Vides Casanova met
with lawmakers Thursday to
discuss drafting legislation to
curb organizations that the mil
itary considers guerrilla fronts.
Francisco Martinez, a direc
tor of the National Union of
Salvadoran Workers, said the
raids formed part of "an escala
tion of repression by the armed
forces and Arena."
Arena stands for the rightist
Republican Nationalist Alli
ance, which defeated the in
cumbent Christian Democratic
Party in the March 19 presiden
tial election.
The raids came hours after
Attorney General Roberto Gar
cia Alvarado was assassinated
by a bomb [nit on the roof of his
Jeep Cherokee while it was
stopped at a traffic light.
President-elect Alfredo
Cristiani of Arena and U S,
Ambassador William Walker
both have accused the rebels of
launching an assassination and
bombing campaign to try to
provoke human rights abuses
by the military and incoming
Arena government
Canada cries 'foul'
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Thursday act used four commu
nist countries of violating a
new Kast West accord on press
freedom and said their propa
ganda techniques and state
controlled media resemble
those of Nazi Germany
Canadian Ambassador Wil
liam Hauer, addressing a :)5-na
turn conference monitoring
compliance with the accord,
said some of the signatory
states remained "locked in a
dark age of information where
the only 'correct' facts are those
put out by tilt' ruling party
"It is particularly poignant to
observe th.it today on the
100th anniversary of the birth
of Hitler the let hnitpies ol
press and information control
whit h i harai terized his regime
are still living applied by some
European governments." he
added
Hauer, head of the Canadian
delegation, said later he yyas re
furring to Romania. Hast Ger
many. Hulgaria and Czechoslo
vakia He described Romania
which yyas reluctant to sign the
accord in January as a "sort ot
joke" as a signatory to an at:
i ord of press freedom and fiee
speech
Romania's t hief delegate lan
Mitaan. accused Western i ritii s
of "deplorable attempts at fla
grant interferem e in the inter
nal affairs other countries
National
$3 map turns profit
INDIANAPOLIS (API A
man who bought a ;i()0-year-old
map of Paris in a junk shop for
$;t in.iv sot' Ins investment re
turn as much as $10 million.
A prospective buyer from
Denver sent word Thursday
that he would pav Kdward
Jones of Indianapolis whatever
price is set by Christie's the
New York auction house, and
Frederick I.. Hem. geography
department chairman at Indi
ana University-Purdue Univer
sity here.
The buyer originally offered
$10 million lor the map, one of
several copies believed com
missioned by king Louis XIV
in 1671.
Hein said he would lie will
ing to explain its historical sig
nificance to Christie's, but
couldn't place a value on the
nine-piece, 4-by-f>-toot map
"What it's worth is whatever
a buyer is willing to pav for it
said Hein, who lias researched
the map "I have no idea what
it's worth. I'm not an art deal
er; I’m a professor
New TV signal aired
PRINCETON, N.|. (AP) A
New York television station
broadcast a wide screen ad
Great Wall
Restaurant
SfHK iali/ing in
S/et huan • ( antonese
• American
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Orders To Go
(>pen 7 (Jav% \ Week
Hbi Wain Springfield
726-9133
sy I ill' • mi l to M> • vi. ' li) hi
vuneed television signal to a
news-hour audience Thursday
on tlu> 50th anniversary of tele
vision's debut at the 10.01 New
York World's Fair.
Viewers with regular televi
sions saw little or no different e
in the signal, hut it showed up
•is a bright w ide pit lure on pro
totype sets at a research tenter
in Princeton, about 50 miles
southwest of Manhattan
The hroadt ast bv NIK's New
York affiliate WNBC w was
another milestone on the mat!
toward a new generation of tel
evisions for the t’tOOs that w ill
have nearly the brightness anti
sharpness of magazine pit
tures
t he system developed at the
David Sarnoff Research ('enter
here, tails short of lull Hedged
high-definition television be
i ause it has to fit into the same
narrow portion ol the broadcast
spectrum its the regular letevi
sion signal does
Those sets mav not arm e tin
til loot or per. anil initially
could cost St ood to $1,000
saitl lames 1 ietjen, president ol
the Sarnoff research t enter.
Connection found
MIAMI (AP) A lii'ln opter
pilot m i used of Irving to llv a
cum ii led drug tratfu ker out ol
a federal prison oni e worked
with .1 m.in .111 used ol being .1
member of the smuggler's m.iri
juana ring, authorities said
A plane owned by the pilot,
Charles Clayton Stevens, and
adapted with extra fuel tanks
for a range of about 1,000
miles is in storage at the Crvs
tal River Airport on blonde's
(lulf Coast said airport opera
lions manager Tom Mavis
Stevens, M. remained hospi
talized Thursday recovering
from two broken legs he sut
fered Mondav when his heli
copter crashed after its tail ru
tor caught a tern e at the federal
Metropolitan Correctional Cen
ter
Stevens fai es federal 1 barges
of aiding 111 the escape attempt
of convicted trafficker Itenja
mill "Harry Kramer, who also
broke a leg 111 the 1 rash and is
hospitalized
Federal authorities initially
did not know what cornier lion
Stevens, who was a sea uri bin
diver in Cold Hear h. Ore . had
with Kramer. .1 former champi
onship power boat timer based
in Miami
But David show.liter presi
dent of the Oregon ..company
where Stevens worked, said
that in 1087 and 19KH Stevens
pilot worked dor si\ months
with |ohn lames Marred. ,n
1 used by tetlei.il .111 tin 11 ities 1 ri
Illinois of being .1 link in K1.1
mer's drug distribution opera
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Boats searched
IUNKAU, Alaska (AP) The
Coast Guard said it found no
fish Thursday after boarding
one nf six Taiwanese boats mis
l>ei teil of fishing illegally on
the high seas oil the Aleutian
Islands
A Coast Guard party that
hoarded the Cyi Nang No 1
found the vessel's cargo holds
empty, saiii Petty Offii er Greg
Robinson, a spokesman for the
servile
_Correction_
The story in Thursday's
Oregon Dally Kmerald in
correctly listed the dead
line for transfer applica
tions as May 1 The cor
rect deadline is Aug 15.
In the Page 1 feature pho
to. two people were tnis
identified. Karen
Martinka was the voter
and Mike Holingnr was
the pollworker. The Km
erald apologizes for the
error
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