4 Page 2 -The Michigan Doily - Tuesday, October 23, 1984 Haitians attack U.S. po lic toward aliens MIAMI (AP) - The scene is a com- mon one: a small, rickety sailboat packed with hopeful immigrants crosses the 600-mile-long "Haitian Highway" to Florida, pursuing dreams of a new life. But the dream usually ends when a U.S. Coast Guard cutter stops the sailboat and takes all the Haitians on board. SINCE THE GOVERNMENT began its Haitian Migration Interdiction Operation in October 1981, a total of 2,367 Haitians, more than 90 percent of the 2,549 aliens stopped at sea, have been caught trying to slip through Caribbean and Atlantic waters into the United States. Nearly 98 percent of those picked up at sea are returned to their im- poverished country on the island of Hispaniola, according to U.S. Coast Guard figures. Yesterday, the Coast Guard intercep- ted two more boatloads of aliens. All 96 Haitians aboard a 35-foot boat were returned to Port-au-Prince; another boat with 18 aboard had slipped within this country's three-mile territorial waters and by law were required to be brought to land. Their home for now will be the Krome Avenue Deten- tion Center, where illegal aliens are held until they can be processed. WHEN A COAST GUARD cutter en- counters Haitians at sea, it takes all the Haitians on board. It their boat is seaworthy, the Coast Guard tows it back to Port-au-Prince; if the boat is not seaworthy, it is scuttled. Coast Guard spokesman Jim Sim- pson said yesterday he had no estimates on how many boats are sunk, but added, "I know we sink a lot." The Coast Guard calls the route from Haiti along the coast of Cuba to Florida the "Haitian Highway." The Haitian craft sometimes tie up in Cuban ports before they make their run for Florida. TO THE FEDERAL government, the program is a humane one, aimed at saving lives. Perry Rivkind, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that if the program were stopped, it would probably coast the lives of thousands of Haitians, "because most of those boats were ready to fall apart." There have been many instances of would-beHaitian immigrants drowning at sea; occasionally their bodies wash up on Florida beaches. To many Haitians already in the United States and the lawyers who represent them, interdiction is discriminatory. Haitians are "the purest example of political scapegoats of this ad- ministration," said lawyer Ira Kur- zban, one of the attorneys representing the Miami-based Haitian Refugee Cen- ter Inc., which filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington in July asking that interdiction be declared uncon- stitutional and stopped. Associated Press Haitian refugees crowd a wood sail boat after it was towed to the Coast Guard station in Islamorada, Fla. in this 1983 photo. 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"There will be no price change" in the benchmark rate of $29 a barrel, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani said after meeting with five key oil ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and ministers from non- OPEC oil producers Mexico and Egypt. The meeting was held in preparation for an. Oct. 29 emergency session of the 13-member cartel, which once set prices at will but now finds itself facing pressure from non-OPEC members Norway and Britain and from OPEC member Nigeria. The private meetings, which are to continue Tuesday, mark the first time key OPEC leaders have met with Egypt or included Mexico as more than an observer, suggesting to some oil industry analysts that OPEC may want to be sure Mexico and Egypt will respect OPEC's price guidance. Sources at the meeting, who spoke on condition that they not be identified, said the oil ministers had discussed reduction in output quotas and how each member would share reductions in the cartel's current 17.5 million barrel-a- day output, about one-third of world production. Major opposiion candidate drops' out of Nicaraguan elections MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) - Junta leader Daniel Ortega charged yesterday that a second opposition candidate has dropped out of Nov. 4 elec- tions under U.S. pressure and vowed his ruling Sandinista party will go to the polls "alone if necessary." Ortega, the candidate of the Sandinista Front, also said the Liberal In- dependent Party's decision Sunday to pull out of the race was tantamount to supporting the U.S.-backed rebels fighting the leftist government. "The elections will not be postponed, the Sandinista Front will go to the elections alone if necessary," he said. The elections for president,svice president and a 90-member Constituent Assembly would be the first since the Sandinistas took power by ousting dic- tator Anastasio Somoza in July 1979. The Liberal Independent Party, the most important of the opposition par- ties left in the race, announced late Sunday it was withdrawing its candidate. Virgilio Godoy, and demanding that the voting be postponed until January. 25 receive MacArthur grants CHICAGO - A ocuntry doctor researching high blood pressure in blacks and whites, a quadriplegic seeking equal rights for the disabled and a lawyer promoting entrepreneurial skills in Third World countries were among 25 winners of MacArthur Foundation grants announced yesterday. The John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation's periodic five-year gran- ts of up to $300,000 are given to scholars and others to "do nothing but follow their own creative bent," officials said. The program has committed $43 million to 141 recipients since it began in 1981. "One of the first things I want to do is to develop a curriculum for medical students that would give them an idea of the interdependency" of disciplines such as poetry, philosophy, sociology, economics and medicine, said Dr. Curtis Hames Sr. of Claxton, Ga., a community of about 2,500, 50 miles west of Savannah. Hames, 64, is to receive $58,400 a year over the next five years. The amount of award money is based on a recipient's age and experience. Can- didates are not told they are under consideration, and winners may use the money for any purpose, without having to report progress or complete projects. Army hid son's death father says WASHINGTON - The army tried to suppress information about the death of a helicopter pilot killed in a raid preceeding last year's U.S.-led invasion of Grenada, the pilot's father said. "There has been a big whitewash," Stanley Lucas said Sunday in a telephone interview with United Press International. Lucas said the Army told him of the death of his son, Capt. Keith Lucas, four days after it occurred and only listed it publicly when he pressured Ar- my officials in Kentucky and Defense officials in Washington to do so. The disclosure yesterday followed reports by NBC News and Knight- Ridder newspapers a day earlier that there were up to.10 unreported deaths in raids conducted by Navy "Seal" commandos and a special "Delta Force" before the invasion officially began at 5:27 a.m., Oct. 25, 1983. It could not be independently verified whether Lucas's son was involved in the same operation described in those reports. But a congressional source familiar with classified information on the operation said, "The policy was to declare 'black' (not report) everything that could be declared black. There were losses that were not reported." Strike idles Canadian workers TORONTO - Negotiations for General Motors of Canada and the United Auto Workers union deadlocked yesterday in talks to settle a six-day strike that has idled almost 50,000 workers in Canada and the United States. Talks between UAW Canadian Director Robert White and GM chief negotiator Rod Andrew were "logjamme l," according to union spokeswoman Wendy Cuthbertson. The walkout by 36,000 canadian GM employees has resulted in parts shor- tages that forced the layoff yesterday of 13,199 hourly workers at four GM assembly plants and three parts suppliers in Michigan, Ohio and New York. In Oshawa, Ont., GM spokesman Nick Hall said the company would have to look at further U.S. layoffs "on a day-by-day basis," because of the Canadian strike. Both company and union officials said the talks would continue in an effort to end the walkout at GM's 13 Canadian plants in Ontario and Quebec. 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