4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 4, 1984 I' I Amnesty lashes out against torture From AP and UPI LONDON - At least a third of the world's nations torture or otherwise abuse prisoners, Amnesty Inter- national said yesterday. It released a catalogue of modern cruelty and said -the problem warranted the same worldwide revulsion aroused by Nazi expermination camps of World War II. The human rights organization said that torture is applied systematically in scores of countries as part of "state- controlled machinery to supress dissent.' IN A 263-page report, "Torture in the Eighties," it listed 66 countries from which it said it has received allegations of torture, and cited another 30 nations where it said there had been some reports of gross mistreatment. "In the torturer's electrode or syringe is the power and responsibility of the state," it said. Most of the countries named are in the Third World, but the report also cited the Soviet Union, South Africa, Israel and Poland. THE REPORT also mentioned repor- ts of ill treatment of prisoners in Canada and the United States, where there weredallegations of beatings, kickings and spraying of Mace into prisoners' faces. Cases of cruelty cited in the report ranged from small children in Iran's E vin prison being forced to watch their mothers tortured, to pain-inducing drugs administered to Soviet dissidents held in psychiatric hospitals. Among specialized torture methods, it listed Syria's "black slave," an elec- trial apparatus with a heated skewer, and Chile's "parrot's perch," in which the trussed prisoner is hung upside down from a pole to force a "con- fession." The report was time partly to draw attention to a proposed new U.N. anti- torture convention. Amnesty said it was crucial that there be a "renewed and forceful cam- paign by individuals, journalists, professional organizations and, above all, by governments to expose and denounce torture. "Torture can be stopped," the report declared. "What is lacking is the political will of governments to stop tor- turing people." IN BRIEF I31 Land of the Giants AP Photo Claudia Airola is dwarfed by a 12-foot high pickup truck with a 13-foot high wooden mechanic to match. The larger-than- life creations are the brainchild of Brian Cardiff who plans to display them in an upcoming California off-road show. Journal begins internaiprobe NEW YORK (AP) - To millions of investors, it's known simply as "The Journal," the daily bible of capitalism revered for its in-depth reporting. But The Wall Street Journal, which has a larger circulation than any general-interest newspaper in the United States, now finds itself in the embarrassing position of having to turn its considerable investigative guns on itself. THE NEWSPAPER disclosed in prominently displayed ar- ticles last Thursday and on Monday that one of its reporters, R. Foster Winans, was being investigated by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. Winans, who wrote the daily "Heard on the Street" column, allegedly gave cer- tain brokers advance word on the contents of several colum- ns that they later profited from. The SEC has refused to confirm that an investigation is un- der way. But the Journal said in a long front-page story Mon- day that the commission was investigating four brokerage firms and other individuals, including a former news clerk at the Journal whom it identified as Winans' roommate and lover. The Journal not only published the story of its own scandal on Page 1 but also gave it the most prominent position. The article was prepared by two dozen reporters and editors and carried no byline. "As part of our business we often find it necessary to explore and expose facts that embarrass others in general and American business in particular," said an editorial entitled "Dirty Linen" in yesterday's Journal. "So we are, of course, doubly embarrassed to be caught with our own scandal." "IN MANY ways I believe the credibility of The Wall Street Journal is going to depend as much on how we cover this story as anything that Winans did," Norman Pearlstine, the newspaper's managing editor, said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday. "We're talking about the credibility of the publication, the kind of trust that readers place in us. The first inkling of trouble came March 1, he said, when the FEC informed the Journal it was investigating a trader who seemed to be benefitting from advance knowledge of "Heard on the Street." The SEC interviewed Winans by telephone, while Pearlstine listened in. "AT THAT point, I didn't think I had a problem. I had every reason to believe that Foster was a straight, honest reporter," he said. Nevertheless, Pearlstine decided to disclose the SEC's informal investigation in the March 2 edition of The Journal. A one-paragraph reference to the probe appeared in a major story on illegal insider trading. On March 25, Pearlstine learned that the "informal" SEC inquiry had become formal, and that Winans' telephone and bank records were being subpoenaed. The subpoena listed 21 stories instead of the original six, Pearlstein said, including columns written by four or five other Journal reporters. Pearlstine said he was satisfied that no other reporters had been involved in the leaks. ON MARCH 26, Pearlstine assigned a Washington reporter to start work on a more in-depth story on the investigation. "Although our reporter still hadn't been named as a target of the investigation, the fact that a Journal reporter's band and telephone record had been subpoenaed seemed to me suf- ficient reason to put a story together," he said. A day later, Pearlstine said, the Journal's general counsel learned Winans' attorney was going to the SEC - for reasons still unknown - to confess that he had systematically leaked information about his columns. - Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports U.S. soldier shot in Greece ATHENS, Greece - Two gunmen riding a red motorcycle wounded a U.S. soldier in an ambush yesterday, firing a .45 caliber pistol when he stopped his car at a traffic light on his way to an American air base, police and wit- nesses said. Army Master Sgt. Robert Judd, 36, was hit in his right hand and left shoulder when the gunmen, driving a red Honda motorcycle, fired at least three shots through the rear window of his light blue Plymouth station wagon, police said. Judd was described in "satisfactory condition" with a bullet lodged in his lung, a hospital spokesman said. Police said Judd was shot less than 2 miles from Hellenikon Air Base at Athens airport, where he was headed. Judd, who served as a postal officer for the Joint U.S. Military Aid Group, managed to steer his car onto the base before, collapsing, an embassy spokesman said. Witnesses quoted by the state-run Athens News Agency said the gunmen began shooting at Judd when he stopped at a traffic light. Attorney General Smith to stay on as Meese probe continues WASHINGTON - William French Smith, bowing to President Reagan's request, will continue to serve as attorney general dntil a successor is con- firmed, the White House said yesterday. Larry Speakes, chief White House spokesman, said Smith agreed to Reagan's request during a brief meeting in the Oval Office. The attorney general was known to be anxious to return to his California law practice, as well as to take an active role in the president's re-election campaign. However, he has been blocked from leaving by the problems White House counselor Edwin Meese has run into in winning Senate confir- mation as Smith's replacement. In a written statement, Reagan expressed pleasure that a special prosecutor had been named to look into the allegations against Meese, his top policy adviser and longtime friend. A three-judge panel on Monday chose Jacob Stein, a 59-year-old Washington lawyer, for the job. Hindus riot at funeral in India CHANDIGARH, India - Authorities in Punjah state told security forces yesterday to shoot rioters on sight as a means of quelling violence in which at least 13 people have been killed and 250 wounded. The order was issued after troops used machine gun fire to scatter 20,000 rioting Hindus at the funeral of an assassinated politician in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar and killed eight people, according to a police report. The report said club-yielding mourners had attacked police, gasoline stations and shops in the city 140 miles northwest of here. Enraged by the firing, the crowd lynched two police sergeants, reports from the area said. A police official said the situation was "very bad, with mobs fighting, running battles with police." The daylong communal violence in Punjab began early yesterday when Sikh gunmen assassinated Vishwa Nath Tiwari, a leading Punjabi-language writer and member of the upper house of Parliament. Tiwari, 48, a professor at Punjab University and a supporter of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was killed in his living room in Chandigarh by two unidentified Sikh youths. As many as 100 rounds were fired by police since yesterday afternoon,said an official who asked not to be named. The four main cities in Punjab were placed under curfew. Largest Soviet fleet ever maneuvers into Norwegian sea LONDON - A Soviet armada believed to be the biggest Russian battle fleet ever assembled in the Atlantic poured into the Norwegian sea yester- day in sudden maneuvers that took NATO allies by surprise. NATO officiers monitoring the exercise from Britain said more than 40 Soviet vessels, including the most-modern destroyers, frigates and cruisers .and more than 20 submarines, were participating in three formations off Scandinavia. The fleet included the Kirov, a 28,000-ton nuclear-powered battle cruiser. A "significant number" of Soviet aircraft also took part, they said. NATO said the exercise appeared to be both a test and a display of the Soviet navy's defense capability. "The main thrust of the exercise appears to be anti-submarine warfare and it is assessed that more than 20 subs are participating," officers said. Ships and maritime aircraft from the United States, Britain, West Ger- many, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark were keeping "constant sur- veillance" on the exercises, NATO said. Snowstorm strands thousands A blizzard buried the buds of spring under as much as 2 feet of snow from Colorado to South Dakota yesterday, and trapped thousands of travelers in the Plains, including scores who were stranded overnight in stalled cars and trucks. Rescuers on snowmobiles fought head-high snowdrifts on the lonely high- ways of eastern Colorado, looking for marooned motorists and some local residents were reported missing, including the superintendent of Elizabeth public schools, and a woman who left her home in Last Chance at noon Mon- day and hasn't been seen since. Winds gusting to 50 mph created blinding ground blizzards and 7-foot drifts that isolated the town of Limon, stranding more than 1,000 travelers. The snowstorm was blamed for two deaths on Wyoming highways earlier in the week. Five tornadoes'touched down in Kansas on Monday night, causing minor damage, and thunderstorms in the Southeast had dumped almost 4 inches of rain since Monday in the Louisiana towns of Alexandria and Fort Polk. 0 be £idbtgau ?OaiIJ Wednesday, April 4, 1984 vol. XCIV-No. 147 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Sub- scription rates: $15.50 September through April (2 semesters); $19.50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Satur- day mornings. Subscription rates: $8 in Ann Arbor; $10 by mail outside Ann Arbor. 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JAMES BOYD Nussel, Sandy Pincus, Rob Pollard, Mike Redstone, 6 I II Salvadoran aid survives Senate WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan's $61.7 million military aid package for El Salvador survived what EUROPE BY CAR a Republican leader' described as a One Rockefeller Plaza crucial test yesterday, as the Senate New York, N.Y. 10020 rejected a move to withhold 15 percent Phone (212) 581-3040 of the funds until the Salvadoran gover- StudentTeache Tarif.c nment obtains a verdict in the 1981 Rent T eaShe rHaSEmurder of two U.S. labor advisers. The proposed amendment by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) was Ulch'sAnnual Inventory Sale Involving every item in our store except textbooks. Special prices on calculators, computers and computer products. Sale Ends Saturday, April 7th MIMI *; 20% OFF General Supplies INCLUDING: ", Watches Alarm & travel clocks Sunglasses Tote bags Back packs Globes ...and other useful things. rejected 69-24, his second defeat in two days on the issue of Salvadoran aid. On Monday, the Senate rejected 63-25 his bid to slash the aid to $21 million. "YESTERDAY, the Senate voted to' send more guns and more bullets to El Salvador," Kennedy told his colleagues. "Today, we can vote to send more justice." But Sen. Robert Kasten (R-Wis.) chairman of the Appropriations sub- committee that oversees foreign aid, said, "Any effort to withhold aid today is simply a vote against the level that we have agreed to." Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) planned to offer an amendment that would withhold 30 percent of the proposed $61.7 million in aid until there is a court verdict in the murder of four American churchwomen slain in El Salvador in December 1980. "Should one of them pass, we are going to be here a long time," Stevens said. ASKED IF there was any likelihood that the amendments would be adopted, the Alaska senator replied, "Not that I see." At the White House, President Reagan told Republican congressional leaders that "some members of the El Salvadoran army may have to go on missions . .. with only one clip of am- munition," said presidential spokesman Larry Speakes. House GOP leader Robert Michel (R- Ill commenting on the president's remarks, said "As an old infantryman, boy, if there's anything I wanted when I went into any kind of foray was ban- doliers and err on the side of being heavily loaded down with additional ammunition, rather than just a fraction of what I thought would be necessary for any kind of fray." The House Republican leader served as a combat infrantryman in Europe during World War II. He was wounded and discharged on disability. 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