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2The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, September 28, 1988 World and Nation Terrorist activities u p, off icial says From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON Abu Nidal, after lying low in 1987, appears to be resuming his terrorist campaign with support from Libya, the top U.S. counterterrorism official said Tuesday. L. Paul Bremer, ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism, also told reporters that the number of terrorist incidents appears to be headed for a record level of 1,000 this year, although the number of Americans killed in such attacks has fallen. "Any effort to make an assessment of where we are in terrorism leads you to the inevitable good news and bad news," he said. "The bad news is that terrorism is certainly continuing. - According to the figures that we keep . . . 1987 was the worst year in history; we had 832 recorded incidents in international terrorism," up from 774 in 1986, he said. For the first six months of 1988, "terrorism is up substantially over last year, perhaps by as much as a third. So it is possible that we will end this year with as many as 1,000 incidents, maybe more, which would make 1988 the worst year," he said. The number of Americans killed in terrorist incidents has fallen from 38 in 1986 to 12 in 1987 and three in the first half of 1988, he said. Most of the increase in terrorism consists of attacks in Pakistan by agents of the Kremlin-backed regime in Afghanistan, he said. He said he had no evidence that the Afghan government was responsible for an airplane disaster that claimed the life of Pakistani president Mohammad , Zia ul-Haq and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan on Aug. 17. The good news in the battle against terrorism is increased cooperation among the United States and its allies, said Bremer. "We estimate at least several hundred incidents have been stopped by steps that we and our allies have taken over the last three years maybe as many as 300 ... some majqr and some not," he said. He declined to give specifics. About half the terrorist incidents last year took place in the Middle East, and there has been an upsurge in attacks in Peru and Colombia, he said. Abu Nidal, a Palestine-born terror ist whose real name is Saori Bannah, spent a quiet year in 1987 after sponsoring machine-gun attacks which killed 22 people at the Rome and Vienna airports in December 1985, said Bremer. And in April 1986, the United States bombed Libya, an act that U.S. officials say caused Col. Moammar Gadhafi to suspend his support of terrorism temporarily. Groyp meets to OK space shuttle launch From Associated Press reports CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A new NASA launch directorate met Tuesday to clear the shuttle Discov ery for its Thursday liftoff, hearing an optimistic assessment of the $1.5 billion spacecraft's readiness while discussing a possible problem with a sister satellite system. The data-relay satellite sitting in Discovery's cargo bay had already been checked out and approved for flight, but a source said NASA was , checking "an igniter problem" in similar hardware being prepared in California for flight next February. Several sources, who asked not to be identified by name, said the problem involves the inertial upper stage (IUS) rocket that boosts the satellite to its final orbit, and that NASA needed to be certain the flaw was not replicated aboard Discovery. Delivery of the $100 million satellite in Discovery's main mission is NASA's long-awaited return to space, and the space agency would not likely launch without being sure there was no problem. A 21 -person launch directorate, formed to overcome the communi cations breakdowns that contributed to the Challenger disaster, met for the first time Tuesday to discuss point by point whether the Discovery is ready for flight. A source said the group heard of no problems that would scrub the Thursday morning launch, with the possible exception of the igniter flaw. "As far as we're concerned," said NASA test conductor Chuck Hen schel, "weVe got a good chance at a launch. on Thursday." He spoke before top NASA officials began their launch assessment. The shuttle fleet has been grounded since Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster rocket failure destroyed Challenger and took the lives of seven astronauts. Many NASA workers were wearing green ribbons on their workclothes this week to signify their hopes for a safe liftoff and successful mission. Cloud-covered skies loomed, as always, as a possible threat. Air Force spokesman Mike Beeman forecast "a 20 percent probability of bad weather at launch time, but added, "That's pretty low." Historically, launches have been delayed 40 percent of the time because of weather conditions. A "lightning alert" delayed the final preparation of Discovery's power producing fuel cells Tuesday morn ing, but the countdown was not affected. Overall, NASA officials said there was little trouble to trouble shoot and the countdown was to enter a 19-hour hold at midnight as a cushion. Bush, Dukakis exchange campaign barbs From Associated Press reports George Bush courted the middle class on Tuesday with a modest plan to allow small savers to "put some thing away for a rainy day" and defer takes on the interest. Michael Duka kis criticized another Bush tax cut proposal as a "$40 billion giveaway" for the rich. The vice president got in the snappiest one-liner of the campaign day when he told an audience at Miami University in Ohio that a current television show "reminds me of what interest rates might be if the Democrats get back in again. It's called 'thirtysomething.' " The Democrats ridiculed right back. Asked what a (Republican vice presidential candidate) Dan Quayle administration might look like, Democratic vice presidential candi date Lloyd Bentsen laughed and said, "very exciting." Asked later what he meant, Bentsen laughed again and said, "111 leave it at that." Quayle campaigned in Bentsen's home state of Texas, where he challenged Dukakis to resign his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union. The two vice presidential candi dates are scheduled to debate, on Oct. 5 in Omaha, Neb. Bush outlined his plan for a tax break for low- and middle-income people in a speech in Columbus, Ohio. He called the program an individual savings' account and said it would help the nation "gain better control over the future" as well as help savers "put something away for a rainy day." One adviser said the tax deferred on interest the first year on $1,000 a year would save roughly $12 for a taxpayer in the 15 percent income tax bracket and slightly more in later years. Bush -said the plan .would allow S I G O U R N E Y WEAVER She left everything she knew and entered a world few have ever seen. She risked her life to save a wondrous creature from the cruelty of man, and went further than anyone ever dared. Some say she went too far. S r " ' VJ. Y I I W- mil Iw-w - ( , mmWm fc.. ... ii . - - a-V i i ' many Americans to lock up as much as $1,000 a year in accounts of five years or more with federal income tax deferred. When with drawn, the accumulated interest would be taxed at the saver's income tax rate then in effect. Bush proposed his savings plan after weeks of being criticized by Dukakis for an earlier proposal to cut the maximum tax rate on capital gains. Dukakis renewed his attack in an appearance in Peoria, 111., calling the capital gains cut a "five-year, $40 billion giveaway to the wealthiest Americans, people making more than $200,000 a year." The Democratic candidate also depicted Bush as no friend of Social Security and Medicare who cast a tie breaking vote in the Senate several years ago in favor of a plan to cut cost-of-living increases in federal benefits for retirees. Pilot inexperience a factor in crash, federal report says From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON Federal investigators said Tuesday that the pilot of the Continental Airlines jet that crashed last November in a snowstorm in Denver had a history of training problems and 1 little experience flying jet aircraft. The experience of the cockpit crew of Continental Flight 1713 was a key focus of the National Transportation Safety Board's nearly year-long investigation of the crash last Nov. 15 in which 28 of the 82 people aboard were killed. As the safety board prepared its final report of the accident, its staff of investigators made clear at a ' .hearing that pilot experience and questions about whether the air craft took off with ice on the wings were central factors in the accident. ' Investigators said co-pilot Lee ! Bruecher, 26, who was at the controls of the McDonnell Doug las DC-9 as it took off, had numerous training problems dat ing back to 1983. He had failed initial tests for his multi-engine license and was fired by a small air taxi operation in 1985 because of "handling prob lems" in flight tests. After being hired by Continen-, tal in the summer of 1987, the young pilot went through a series of simulator training tests in which instructors found him to have problems controlling his flights. Continental spokesman Bruce Hicks said the airline was not aware of the pilot's previous training problems. He said when inquiries were made about his previous employment, "everything we got was terrific." Jury chosen for Hatcher trial ; RALEIGH Deflecting argu ments . that racial discrimination had tinged the jury selection process, a federal judge Tuesday empaneled nine blacks and three whites in the hostage-taking trial of two American Indians. Attorneys for Timothy Jacobs, who with Eddie Hatcher is charged in the Feb. 1 takeover of The Robesonian newspaper in Lumberton, said prosecutors had shown "a pattern of discrimina " tibn." They said' prosecutors had ' cut four blacks, one Indian and News in Brief one person with substantial Indian ' background from the pool of ' potential jurors. , Assistant U.S. Attorney John . Bruce, meanwhile, accused defense attorneys of practicing discrimination by cutting 10". whites from the pool as it was narrowed to 12. U.S. District Court Judge Ter rence Boyle, after hearing argu-. ments out of the jury's presence, ruled the jury was hot discrimi natory. He said the prosecutor had shown sufficient reason to cut the minorities from the pool. Shroud of Turin counterfeit ROME Laboratory tests show the Shroud of Turin was made in the 14th century and could not be the burial cloth of Christ, the scientific adviser to the archbishop of Turin said he learned on Tuesday. -. Professor Luigi Gonella said he has not yet seen the official report from the three laboratories that conducted the carbon-14 dating tests, but that all the leaks to the press dated it to the 14th century and "somebody let me understand that the rumors were right." ' :' "It is quite evident somebody sold out to the press," said Gonella . in an interview from his home in Turin. He refused to identify who had . told him about the results of the tests at Oxford University, the . University of Arizona and the. Swiss Federal Institute of Tech nology at the University of Zurich. Stock trading remains low NEW YORK Stock prices remained stuck in a narrow trad ing range Tuesday in the lightest trading since the end of August. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks fell 2.84 to 2,082.33. That marked the aver age's 1 1th straight finish inside the range of 2,080 to 2, 1 0 1 points. Trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 113.01 million shares, down from 116.42 million in the previous session and the lowest rsinee Aug. 30, when 108.72. .million, shares. changed; hands. ; . . For the Record Tuesday's story, "Student charged Chi Omega sorority. The Daily TkrY' with crimes," incorrectly identified Heel regrets the error. Jody Ross. She is president of Alpha --it The Adventure of Dian Fossey MNER BROS. so UNIVERSAL PICTURES mM GUBEHTETERS nannm IN soc,ii?5 ARNOLD GUMCHER SIGOL'RNTY WFAYFR "MRll I ASIVTHF tut. amxvTitcnrmvcrvccrv -IMUUM'VMI' VMt'lVllMI ViVVVIU'bl HUlTbll VvlUbU if II i AM rrurtn awii niitn t s hah ....' ...... . . . . , BKIAMTO jtutnAKKb ivMlAKl BA1KU.U.L SwiMi JUrLN GRAY5MARK mSSJOHNSEALUCS. fMRICK BAKER co-nam ROBERT NIXON sd JUW KESSLER MAI RICE JARRE Kjttffil PETER GIBER , JON PETERS th DIAN FOSSEY HAROLD TP. 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