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TUESDAY BRIEFING Page 2A Iowa City Press-Citizen Tuesday, March 28, 1989 SPRING SPECIALS Arnlon Plantc $dVO 10 Oil ca all flowering green plants Cosh Corry Coih i Carry WORLD BRIEFS CltiG florist inc. (IrfcwMi Hi and 4ttKlrfcM4 Ml OfMHtovM OvrrfM tfttar Snuimmi Old Chd Cta. Palestinian youths routinely stone cars with yellow Israeli license plates, but often let journalists pass peacefully. Arab-owned cars in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip have blue or white license plates. "The security forces and police defend themselves with weapons and steel helmets," Roni Shaked, a leader of the Journalists' Union, said.

"We have only our pens and the 'Press' signs." Police Commissioner David Krauss said Monday the signs were not illegal, and said police would continue using them. Israel radio said, "From now on, when you see a 'Press' sign, you know it's a policeman. When you see a 'Police on Duty' sign, you. know it's a reporter." MANAGUA, NICARAGUA Ortega denounces Contra aid IHl U4 Il MiHi All Phonaii 311-tOSt IP NEW AT GIFTED National Audubon Bird Figurines Natural Stone and Fossil Specimens Glass Eye Studio Paperweights Francis Hook Sculptures 1 4 MOSCOW Voters reject party officials Voters rejected top Communist and government officials in their first real elections in 70 years. The election returns showed today that voters rejected Moscow's mayor, its No.

2 party leader, five regional party chairmen in the Ukraine, and the party chiefs in Leningrad and Kiev. The contests Sunday were for the new Congress of People's Deputies. A non-voting member of the party's ruling Politburo, Yuri Solovyev, was apparently defeated in Leningrad even though he had run unopposed. The official Tass news agency did not include his name on a list of victors. Voters apparently crossed Solovyev's name off the ballots to deny him the majority.

Politburo members Vladimir Shcherbitsky, the Ukrainian party leader, and Vitaly Vor-otnikov, the president of the Russian republic, also ran unopposed. It was not known whether they were elected. Rejection of the officials by voters did not sweep them from their jobs in the party or government. But the serious embarrassment might weaken their power base and eventually lead to their replacement. JERUSALEM President Daniel Ortega denounced the U.S.

government for deciding to give the Contra rebels more non-lethal aid. He said Monday that the government instead should support regional leaders' plan to dismantle rebel forces, the face of government denials. Sources could not confirm whether the yacht and its passengers were still in Iranian hands. Iranian diplomats in the southern gulf port of Dubai were spreading word that the yacht would not be held, a diplomatic source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. PORT-AU-PRINCE.

HAITI Mob attacks U.S. missionaries A mob with machetes attacked and seri-usly wounded seven U.S. missionaries after a pickup truck carrying the Americans accidentally ran over two Haitians, Radio Haiti-Inter said Monday. In Washington, a State Department official put the number of Americans injured in the incident Sunday at 12, but said none was hurt seriously. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some Americans were hospitalized, and others were treated and released.

The report by independent Radio Haiti-Inter said seven Free Methodist Church missionaries were hospitalized in serious condition with multiple machete wounds after the attack. It said the two Haitians suffered broken legs. The radio station said the attack occurred after the pickup truck went out of control and Slowed into the Haitians, who were celebrat-lg the Lenten season on a highway near Leogane, about 18 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince. Bystanders stoned the truck and set upon the missionaries with machetes, the report said. It did not say what caused the truck driver to lose control.

ISLAMABAD. PAKISTAN Bomb tied to 'Satanic Verses' A bomb exploded early today near a British cultural center. The bomb exploded just hours after Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe of Britain arrived to discuss the controversy over the novel The Satanic Verses. Police said no one was injured in the 1 a.m. blast at a building under construction about 10 yards from the British Council Library.

It broke windows in the library and some surrounding shops, but damage appeared to be slight. From news services Gifed 'OLD CAPITOLS fiSfffil for the exceptional gift 338-4123 Accent on 7 TTTT 7 Ortega Harvard scholars from 37 countries, accused the United States of ignoring a Central American peace plan that committed regional leaders to draft a program by mid-May to demobilize Contra forces. The U.S. proposal, worked out between the Bush administration and bipartisan congressional leaders, was unveiled Friday in Washington. It would provide $4.5 million a month in non-military aid to the Contras.

The package proposes aid at least through November and could continue through February, when Ortega has promised to have general elections. MANAMA, BAHRAIN Iran might release yacht, crew Iran plans to release a yacht seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guards with four Britons and members of the Kuwaiti royal family on board, sources said Monday. Details of the incident remained sketchy in EDNESDAY Police can disguise as reporters Police pursuing Palestinian rioters are permitted to disguise themselves as journalists by putting "Press" signs on their cars and may continue to do so despite reporters' protests, Israel's police chief said. Journalists complained Monday that the practice endangered the lives of correspondents working in the occupied lands and Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. They said they would put "Police on Duty" signs on their vehicles.

Save over $6 with grocery coupons in tomorrow's Press-Citizen It's your news. It's your newspaper. IOWA CITY Press-Citizen Call 337-3181 for home delivery. You are cordially invited to join us in honoring IRVING WEBER Sertoma's Service to Mankind Award Winner NATION BRIEFS ALEXANDRIA, VA, Defense scandal snares 13th victim A private consultant who is a central figure in the Pentagon contract fraud scandal is the 13th defendant to plead guilty even before the first trial. William Parkin, 65, said Monday in U.S.

District Court that he bribed a public official and conspired to defraud the government. He was to have been one of five defendants next week in the first trial stemming from a 33-month investigation that has uncovered abuses the Pentagon's $150-billion-a-year buying system. Parkin admitted that he bribed a Navy official, Stuart Berlin, by channeling money to him in exchange for information and favors that might help the consultant's clients get contracts. Parkin's sentencing is June 3. LOS ANGELES l- -fib 'M i -if iy.

hsL 'I April 5, 1989 6:00 p.m. Social Hour 7:00 p.m. Dinner The Highlander $20 Prime Rib Dinner f' 1 ft ntftn lllll iiiliMMinliiHiiwI Cleaner, bilker gets 25 years A young entrepreneur who conjured up a carpet cleaning company that cleaned investors out of more than $100 million got the maximum sentence Monday. U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian sentenced Barry Minkow to 25 years in prison and ordered him to pay $26 mil Reservations required.

Please call: Ray Glass GaryOrtale Hawkey State Bank 351-4121 Iowa State Bank 356-5924 Lori Detweiler Ivy puffy First National Bank 356-9030 viv.nu,.ti.n 339-1000 Comaunit; Credit Uiioa Hosted by Old Capitol University Sertoma Clubs The Associated Prats A Secretary of Egg Roll Minkow President Bush gives his granddaughter Ellie LeBlond top-level instructions on how to roll an egg. About 40,000 people attended the White House's 111th annual Easter Egg Roll Monday morning on the South Lawn. READER INFORMATION "Everyone who ever heard you out there (on the revival circuit) ought to kick you good," U.S. District Judge James Turk told evangelist Mario "Tony" Leyva, 42. The remark prompted cheers from the courtroom audience, which included some of the victims and their families.

Turk sentenced Rias Edward Morris, 47, an organist for the Tony Leyva Evangelistic Association of Columbus, to IS years in prison, and Freddie Herring, SO, of the Lighthouse Assembly in Douglasville, to 12 years in prison. All three were fined $5,000. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennie Montgomery said Leyva had sexual relations with at least 30 boys, some as young as 8, during the past 20 years. CEDAR CITY, UTAH Mudslide takes over main road A mudslide closed the main road to Cedar Breaks National Monument and stripped off a half-mile section of pavement, and it continued to ooze downhill Monday.

The slide, about half a mile long and half a mile wide, sent mud and boulders cascading across State Road 14 sometime during the night and was discovered Monday morning. No injuries were reported, and no one was stranded at the monument because other roads were available. NEW YORK lion in restitution for his conviction on 57 counts of securities, credit card and mail fraud. Minkow, 23, founder of the now-defunct ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning company, was convicted Dec. 14.

Prosecutors described him as a remorseless thief whose schemes cost victims more than $100 million. Tevrizian denounced Minkow as a charismatic fraud and said his harsh sentence should warn white-collar criminals. "You're dangerous because you have this gift of gab, this ability to communicate," he told Minkow. "You don't have a conscience." WASHINGTON Mayor broke law, paper reports The District of Columbia's chief ethics official has concluded Mayor Marion Barry violated a financial disclosure law by failing to report a real estate partnership, a newspaper reported today. The Washington Post quoted sources who said that Marianne Coleman Niles, who directs the city's campaign finance office, had determined that Barry should be fined for failing to report the deal with developer Jeffrey Cohen.

The Post said the mayor's legal counsel, Herbert Reid did not say whether Barry would agree to the sanctions. He said the mayor did not knowingly violate any law. ROANOKE, VA. Sex ring puts evangelist in jail A judge sentenced an evangelist who admitted guilt in a child-sex ring to 20 years, calling the man and his two partners bad to the core. Volume 148 Number 99 Tuesday, March 28, 1989 TO SUBSCRIBE call 337-3181 and ask for circulation; or come to the Press-Citizen at 319 E.

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amendment Monday that required all pit bull terriers be registered, spayed or neutered and identified by photographs and tattooing. regulations, which begin in 30 days, also require that the animals be muzzled whenever there is any potential contact with the public, that they be on a leash when outside the owner's home and that signs be posted on the premises indicating the presence of a pit bull. The terriers, which were long ago bred to battle bulls for sport, have been known to turn on humans without warning. SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON Venus probe has broad mission The astronauts who will fly the first space shuttle planetary mission said Monday that the Magellan probe they planned to launch toward Venus next month could teach us about more than that planet. "Not only will we learn much about Venus but we'll learn more about Earth" and why these neighboring planets evolved so differently, astronaut Norm Thagard said.

Astronaut Ronald Grabe noted that Magellan would be the first American planetary launch in 12 years and the first from the shuttle. The Atlantis is to launch April 28 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Six hours after Atlantis lifts off, astronauts are to release the Magellan spacecraft from the cargo bay. An hour later, a payload rocket motor is to ignite to start the probe on a 466-day voyage to Venus. From news services City puts bite into pit bull laws The city is getting tough on pit bull terriers.

The Board of Health adopted a Health Code.