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Q) More news "BaS TV Tonight B9 Entertainment BlMi The Honolulu Advertiser Thursday, November 3, 1983 the nation asia the pacific Space lab to be launched Nov. 28 I 'IB I J. 4 "if i 2'f 4 1 4 a 1 4i iff Trip branded "war junket'- South Korean authorities offered a reward of 30 million won ($37,500) and an apartment yesterday to anybody with information on possible terrorist attacks during President Reagan's visit next week. Authorities also said they would double any offer would-be assassins might make for collusion in an attack on the U.S. leader, who is scheduled to visit Nov.

12-14. -North Korea has openly threatened to kill Reagan if he goes ahead with the visit. North Korea said yesterday that Reagan's upcoming trip to Japan and South Korea, is "a war junket" and will increase the danger of a new war. "It goes without saying that Reagan is coming to Asia to promote a new, more hideous criminal aggressive plan," said an article in Rodong Sinmun, official newspaper of the ruling Workers (Communist) Party. Troubleshooters in Tahiti PAPEETE Three luxury hotels in Tahiti yesterday were forced to close and French authorities flew in extra police from Noumea to guard against any new violence in a strike by hotel workers.

Observers said dispatch of the police was a sign of French anxiety over the disorder in the vacation paradise. The six-day-old strike on the sunny French-owned island interrupted the vacations of hundreds of tourists, with pickets at major hotels making it difficult for visitors to leave the hotel grounds. The dispute turned violent Monday when about 300 strikers pillaged four luxury hotels, throwing furniture and even guests into swimming pools and battling police. Price hike may spread MANILA The government yesterday raised petroleum prices by 18 percent in a move that is likely to send prices of basic goods and services soaring. The Board of Energy said the increase, aimed at preventing hoarding, was triggered by the 27 percent devaluation of the peso, prompted by a massive capital flight following the Aug.

21 slaying of opposition leader Benigno Aquino. i Pressing demands for the resignation of the 18-year-old government of President Ferdinand Marcos, opposition leaders staged a rally yesterday at Lubao, 40 miles northwest, of Manila. Earlier yesterday, Roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime Sin urged Marcos to promote a "more just and peaceful society" and denied charges he is seeking political power himself. round-the-clock care. "Despite my mental abilities, my physical disabilities outweigh them," the quadriplegic cerebral palsy victim said yesterday after succeeding in obtaining a court order preventing doctors from force-feeding her or discharging her.

It was the American Civil Liberties- Union, which often battles to block executions, that went to court on Bouvia's behalf to help her Superior Court Judge John Hews ruled that Bouvia. 26. cannot be transferred from Riverside Genera! Hospital's psychiatric unit until a Nov. 21 hearing on her petition for a preliminary injunction. Chin indictments WASHINGTON A Michigan man and his stepson were indicted yesterday for civil rights violation--in connection with the fatal beating of Vincent Chin, who was; attacked with a baseball bat.

A federal grand jury returned the two-count indictment in District Court, in Detroit against Ronald Ebens, 44. and Michael Nitz. both of East Detroit, in connection with the highly publicized death of Chin. One count charged that he defendants conspired to injure and intimidate Chin, a Chinese-American, in exercising his federally protected rght to patronize a public place. The other count charged them with interfering with Chin's right to patronize a public place because of his race and national origin, resulting his death.

Ebens and Nitz earlier were con- ted of second-degree inurder and probationary sentences by Wayne County Circuit Juugc Charles Kaufman. The sentences prompted outrage in the American community in Detroit and-across the country, and pro.iecutor.-then decided to seek the federal charges. Police station bugged AVON, Conn. State police found at least four electronic bugging devices in locker rooms and other ureas of the. Avon Police Department, with wires leading to the chief's office.

The Police Department has been wracked by dissenuon recent, months. The 15-year tenure of Police Chief Domenic A. Zacchio ended after the controversy culminated in a unanimous no-confidence vote Feb. 9 by the 23-member police union. Two months later.

Zacchio resigned. Lt. James A. Martino Jr. officially became chief last month.

City gets gay mayor KEY WEST. Fla. Key West voters have elected a homosexual mayor. Richard Heyman. 4S.

an art gallery owner and admitted homosexual, was elected Tuesday, getting. 54 percent of the vote to 45 percent for Richard Kerr. Combined etin Service The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced yesterday that it will launch the space shuttle Columbia and its Spacelab research facility Nov. 28, despite its inability to conduct eight experiments at that time of year. The nine-day flight, which is being conducted in cooperation with the European Space Agency, was delayed several times, most recent ly by the discovery of a problem with the lining of the shuttle's booster rockets.

That problem has been solved, according to Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, head of the shuttle program. Spacelab, a manned orbiting laboratory that will ride in Columbia's cargo bay, will contain some 70 experiments in the fields of materials science, life sciences, space plasma physics, astronomy and atmospheric physics. The orbiting laboratory was designed and built by the European Space Agency at a cost of $1 billion as Europe's contribution to NASA's space transportation system.

Mike Sander, director of NASA's Spacelab flight division, said the delayed launch date would result in "fewer observing opportunities" for four NASA and four ESA investigations because of less time spent in darkness or poor sun angles. Nonetheless, scientists involved in the other experiments that they wanted to go ahead sooner rather than later. They met in Houston on Oct. 21 and "the great majority of scientists wanted to go in November." according to Wilfred Mellors, the head of the European Space Agency's office 1n Washington. "All of the life scientists and all the materials scientists don't care either the time of year or the time of day they go," he said.

"All they need is zero gravity. Consequently, in view of the long time that they've had to wait, their position was to go as soon as possible." The problem with the shuttle's booster lining was solved over the weekend. Abrahamson said that the erosion of the lining was caused by a defective curing process for the carbon-cloth insulation. The lining to be used on Columbia's launch this month will be taken from a different batch of material. Reagan backs freeze WASHINGTON President Reagan has decided to back a two-year freeze on his own administration's proposal to allow ABC, CBS and NBC a part in the lucrative television rerun market, a top.

aide said yesterday. The administration shift came as Hollywood representatives, including actress Mary Tyler Moore and producer Norman Lear, told a Senate subcommittee that letting in the networks would stifle creativity and drive independent producers out of the market. The Federal Communications Commission has proposed that it phase out. in the name of deregula- Holiday bill signed President Reagan signs a bill establishing a legal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. With King's widow, Coretta, looking on, the president said yesterday that the slain civil rights leader changed America forever." After the signing ceremony was completed, guests sang "We Shall Overcome." Justice Department lawyers filed suit yesterday against University Hospital in Stony Brook.

N.Y.. complaining that the institution refused to allow officials of the Department of. Health and Human Services to see medical records for the 23-day-old girl, identified only as Baby Jane Doe. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York City, asks the court to force the hospital to make the records available to HHS investigators.

Officials say the investigation will determine whether the baby is a victim of discrimination and is unfairly being denied necessary medical care because of her handicaps, which include an open spinal column. No force-feeding tioiv financial interest and syndication rules that bar the networks from syndicating hit prime-time shows. In a letter to Pete Wilson. who has proposed legislation barring the FCC from changing the rules for five years, presidential counselor Edwin Meese said Reagan, a former movie actor, favors government efforts to promote competition but has decided "additional review of the consequences of the repeal of the rule is necessary." 'Babv Doe' suit WASHINGTON In a test of the Reagan administration's "Baby Doe" rules, the Justice Department is getting involved in the case of a severely handicapped New York baby whose parents have rejected life-saving surgery. Without the operation, medical experts have said, the baby probably will die within two years.

With surgery, she could live up to 20 years, but she would be severely retarded and bedridden, they said. Canada Elizabeth RIVERSIDE. Calif. Bouvia begged a court to allow her to starve herself to death in a hospital to end the indignity of-her life as an invalid dependent on the world TecJtnology deal ivitlt China stymied Peacekeepers to Grenada? JTORONTO Defense Minister Jean-Jacques Blais said yesterday the government favors sending Canadian troops to Grenada if requested, but only under the banner of a multinational peacekeeping force. iln Ottawa External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen said "sympathetic consideration" is being given a request by Com-nlonwealth Secretary General Shridath Ramphal that Canada join an observer force in Grenada.

i B.C. strike talks continue VANCOUVER Union and government leaders traded insults yesterday before entering talks aimed at ending a two-day-old British Columbia civil servant strike over proposed government firing policy Provincial Secretary James Chabot said the B.C. Government Employees Union was being manipulated by other labor organizations. BCGEU chief negotiator Cliff Andstein said Chabot "doesn't understand the labor movement, democracy or our membership." Goody bad Chrysler news WINDSOR, Ontario Workers cheered yesterday when chairman Lee Iacocca launched Chrysler front-wheel-drive minivan from a renovated assembly plant, but a few kilometers away Chrysler's Canada Pilette truck assembly plant stood silent. Some 2,900 Pilette workers were laid off temporarily Tuesday because of a strike at Chrysler's parts plant in Twinsburg, Ohio.

ports to communist countries. Peking is demanding that Washington get it a full exemption as a "friendly, non-allied country," according to business sources here. Blasts during vote JOHANNESBURG. South Africa South African whites voted heavily yesterday on a proposed new constitution that would give political rights to some non-whites but exclude the nation's overwhelming black majority. Police stepped up security at polling booths after two bombs rocked downtown Durban in what officials warned might be black militant attempts to disrupt the balloting.

One hour before the polls closed. an explosion damaged a suburban rail line between Bosmont and New Clare. No one was injured. Hell's Angels banned BONN. West Germany West Germany yesterday banned the Hell's Angels in Hamburg, calling it a criminal organization that runs prostitution and extortion rackets.

Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann ordered a police search of the motorcycle club's premises in the northern seaport and confiscation of its treasury. Thirteen of the club's 15 members were arrested Aug. 10 on charges of procuring, forcing women to become prostitutes and extortion. They have not been tried yet. The club considers itself part of a worldwide Hell's Angels organization, the announcement said.

Reward increased DUBLIN. Ireland A reward of S375.000 has been offered for the safe return of the racehorse Sher-gar, kidnapped at gunpoint from the Aga Khan's stud farm in Februarys-It is the biggest reward offered so far for the horse. Previous rewards amounting to $90,000 failed to locate the missing stallion. More dead ERZURUM, Turkey Troops packs of wolves crazed by the stench of the dead yesterday as rescuers unearthed hundreds more victims from earthquake-flattened villages. A military official predicted that the death toll would reach 2.000.

Three powerful aftershocks and several minor tremors rolled across the demolished villages in eastern Turkey and felled some of the damaged buildings, particularly schools, that survived Sunday's quake. Although the Chinese say they are still reviewing the U.S. terms and are continuing to request "clarifications," which some American sources describe as "further U.S. concessions," American officials here said they remain convinced that the United States will receive the necessary Chinese assurances before long. "China has accepted, certainly principle, the conditions under which this technology will be available." a U.S.

official said, "and presumably it eventually will also accept them in fact, simply because it would be in China's interest to do so." Peking, however, sees serious questions of Chinese sovereignty at issue. Peking opposes "out of principle" any agreement for on-site inspection, Chinese sources said. Similarly, it believes strongly that, having purchased advanced know-how or equipment, it ought to be able to refine, develop and sell products stemming from it without getting further permission from the United States. China is also pressing hard, businessmen said, to get a full exemption from the review procedures of Cocom. the coordinating committee set up in the West to monitor ex Combined eu Vri irrv PEKING U.S.

plans to sell China more advanced technology have been delayed by Chinese unwillingness to guarantee how that technology will be used, American businessmen said here yesterday. Peking has balked at Washington's terms barring the transfer of sensitive technology to other countries, such as North Korea, and requiring periodic inspection to ensure that sophisticated equipment, such as high-speed computers, is still being used for the civilian purposes for which it was sold and has not been converted to military use. The Reagan administration, in a major bid to improve Sino-American relations, offered six months ago to liberalize the restrictions imposed on the sale of high-tech products to China. The administration is dismayed by the prolonged deadlock, according to American businessmen here, and it now feels somewhat betrayed by Chinese efforts to change the terms. The focus of the dispute is a required exchange of letters between China and the United States confirming the conditions that will govern American exports of advanced technology.

Without such Chinese guarantees, the liberalization cannot go into full effect. Farmland prices to drop REGINA Farmland prices will decline at least through the first half of 1984 after peaking last year, according to a report released yesterday The report cited a feeling that farmland remains overpriced relative to current earnings..