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Show Vol. 232, No. 120 Salt Lake City, Utah Monday Morning January 27, 1986 Khadafy Cats Trip Short By Tom Masland Knight-Ridde- r Newspapers Back from his seaborne gesture of TRIPOLI, Libya defiance toward the U.S. Navy's 6th Fleet, Libyan leader n Moammar Khadafy met Sunday with an leader who came here to challenge the travel restrictions imposed by President Reagan. Khadafy. who boarded a missile patrol boat Saturday in the port of Misurata and steamed into the Gulf of Sidra toward the city of Benghazi, apparently did not make the e entire trip. The line between the two cities 32.5 degrees north latitude -- - traces what Libya since 1973 has maintained is its territorial border. The U.S. Navy announced Thursday that it was holding weeklong naval air exercises in the Arab-America- 290-mil- Mediterranean, and left open the possibility of entering the gulf. The United States and other Western powers refuse to recognize Libyas territorial limit. claims beyond the traditional U.S intrusion south of that said has repeatedly Khadafy the line connecting the cities would mean war, and he said Friday he had placed Libyas military on full alert. Libyan television showed Khadafy being cheered by a crowd Saturday night at port apparently in Misurata long before he could have traversed the choppy gulf in the patrol boat. We sailed along this line to Benghazi to prove to the Americans that we are here, he said at dockside. Khadafy, in an hourlong talk Sunday with M.T. Mehdi, n Rela president of the New York-base- Patriols in tions Committee, apparently added little to what he had said since the Pentagon first announced the naval maneu- 150,000-square-mil- e j Super Bowl XX vers. After their meeting, Mehdi described Khadafy as "a young idealist and intellectual, in the mold of Thomas Jefferson. MVP Dent Leads Khadafy understands America more than America understands him, said Mehdi, who traveled here despite the order by Reagan that all Americans would have to leave Libya or face prosecution. U.S. Embassy staff members were withdrawn from Tripoli in 1979 after a mob sent the embassy afire. The State Department invalidated U.S. passports for travel to Libya in 1981, after two U.S. fighters on maneuvers shot down two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra. Arab-America- d Bears Emltarrass Shufflin Crew 0 Rout To 16-1- See Sports , C-- j 1 Rebel Leaders Claim Theyve Ousted Uganda Government By Sheila Rule New York Times Writer Leaders of a NAIROBI, Kenya rebel movement announced Sunday that they had overthrown the military government of Uganda after seizing control of Kampala, the countrys capital. Leaders of the rebel movement, the National Resistance Army, said at a news conference in Nairobi that their group was now the legitimate government and vowed to take control of the entire country. Maj. Gen. Tito Okello, who became Uganda's head of state after staging a military coup last July, was reported by a Kenyan newspaper Sunday to have said that he would mount a counterattack and fight on. Western diplomats and other sources said, however, that thousands of his troops were surrendering, others were retreating north toward Sudan and east toward Kenya, and still others were fighting among themselves over whether to stage a counteroffensive or to lay down their arms. The whereabouts of Okello and his army commander, Lt. Gen. Basilio Olara Okello, were unkown. Some reports said the military ruler was in Jinja, about 50 miles east of Kampala, where thousands of government soldiers have fled since fighting began in the capital on Friday. But the National Resistance Army leaders said they had been told that the soldiers had fled from Jinja. Major General Okello arrived Saturday at the border town of Busia in a military helicopter for talks with Ke- - nyan government officials, but was reportedly ordered back by the officials Both Kenya and Tanzania have stepped up security along their bor- ders The rebel army said it attacked in reaction to repeated human rights violations by government troops, which have a reputation for being undisciand poorly edueat plined, ed. The leader of the rebels, Yoweri Museveni, has repeatedly assailed Major General Okello for failing to curb his soldiers. Eriya Kategaya, the rebel army's secretary for political and diplomatic affairs, said at the news conference that the insurgents had captured the "whole of Kampala" by late afternoon Saturday, incLuing the Parliament buildings, the radio station, post office and three army barracks. A fourth barracks, in a suburb of the city, was still resisting, he said. Sunday night Museveni, who began his insurgency in 1981, made a victory statement over the Uganda radio in which he said he would form a broad-base- d government and punish crimi- nals from previous regimes. According to the Tanzanian government radio, Museveni led his troops into the center of Kampala. The insurgents called on Ugandan citizens to cooperate with the rebels in restoring normality and said government soldiers who surrendered would not be hurt. A senior spokesman for the rebels said Sunday in an interview with the See Column 2 A-- United Press International Photo Voyager 2 captured this highly processed composite of three images of Uranus when the spacecraft was eight million miles away from the planet. Another spacecraft from Earth may not journey to Uranus for 177 years. Voyager Finds Dust Cloud Circles Uranus even in an approximate way, the exotic nature of Uranus moons, said Laurence A. Soderblom. Tribune Wire Services PASADENA, Calif. Voyager 2 sent back a picture Sunday showing Uranus is circled by a cloud of dust between rings of rock or ice, while other stunning close-u- p photiie Uranian planetary tographs - Planetary geologists were stunned at the first close-uviews p five large moons sent back over a distance of 1.84 billion miles. Uranus is so far away that radio signals traveling at the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second, take 2 hours and 45 minutes to reach Earth. of Uranus system have revealed that Miranda, one of Uranus moons, is the most bizarre object so far discovered in the solar system. But if Miranda about 310 is the weirdest, miles across Uranus four other large moons are not far behind, said scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who admit they are dumbfounded by the spectacular findings. "No one could have anticipated, The pictures showed at least 10 different geological processes at work that produced such striking features as huge glacierlike flows, a gigantic formation that looks like a stack of pancakes, a giant slidelike formation and valleys and mountains that may be as high as 30 miles. Miranda, which is named after a character in Shakespeares face, his only response was to say holy cow. Scientists were also ecstatic about the discovery of a dust cloud around Uranus itself. Ten rings of frozen debris had been identified around the planet and scientists located what appeared to be fragments of ten additional rings. But the new picture, a exposure taken with the sun behind the rings, showed a vast cloud of dust and streaks that may indicate the presence of even more rings. "Obviously the small particles have been spread around the ring system, said planetary scientist See A-- Column 1 Tem- pest who appropriately described a brave new world, is so wild that scientists may never be able to figure out what happened to it. There is nothing else like Miranda in the solar system, Soderblom said. You have to compare it with the strange and bizarre places on other moons around other planets . . . its all of these strange places rolled into one. Soderblom said that when he first saw detailed pictures of Mirandas chaotically sculpted sur Undaunted Thatcher Seeks Third Term By Steve Lohr New York Times Writer LONDON Prime Minister Marwhose Conservative Thatcher, garet government has lost two Cabinet ministers in the last two weeks, said on Sunday that the resignations and the continuing political crisis would not force her to step down or undermine her government's effectiveness. "I think I will know when it is time Spills Thatcher said, responding to questions by journalists on British television amid criticism of her handling of the controversy over the future of Westland, Britains only helicopter maker. I do not think that time has come. I would like to go on to a third term. I believe we can do so. 1 believe we shall do so. to go tary Leon Brittan resigned, yielding to mounting pressure within the Conservative Party. The trade secr- etarys resignation came after Thatcher admitted in the House of Commons that Brittan had authorized the disclosure of a confidential government letter on Jan. 6 that served to undermine Michael Hesel-tinwho resigned as defense secretary on Jan. 9. e, Thatchers comments came two days after Trade and Industry Secre- - 20,000 Gallons of Wine From Vat Quake Rattles Northern California - A modCalif. (AP) erate earthquake shook Northern California on Sunday, spilling 20,000 gallons of wine at a winery and sending an oak tree crashing into a home but causing no injuries, police said. HOLLISTER, "We held together pretty well," said police dispatcher Liz Nelson in Hollister, about 100 miles south of San Francisco. University of California seismologists estimated the quake at 5.5 on the Richter scale, while the National Earthquake Information Service reported a 5.2 reading, and the state Do- - partment of Water Resources rated it at 4.9. At the Almaden winery 11 miles south of town, a 20,000-gallostorage vat of wine was knocked loose from n its foundations and spilled, said California Department of Forestry fire engineer Kelly Blake. Several other vats of wine were leaking, and main- - Todays Chuckleclear Show me somebody with a conscience and Ill show you somebody with a lousy memory. tenance workers were ordered to leave a damaged building because of a threat of collapse, he said. A small oak tree dented the roof of a house, Nelson said. The 10:20 a.m. tremor was centered five miles southeast of Hollister, but was felt as far as San Francisco to the north, southeast to Fresno and directly south as far as San Luis Obispo, said Anthony Lomax of the University of California at Berkeley. earthquake of before the scale was devised, has been estimated at 8.3. The San Francisco 1906, Heseltine was the main antagonist of the trade secretary, who was spokesman for the official government position on the Westland issue. The financially troubled helicopter company has become the object of two rival rescue bids. The first came from the United Technologies Corp. of the United States, and Fiat; the second came from a consortium of five European companies. Heseltine is an outspoken backer of the European bid, whose success he contends is essential for European collaboration in defense industries and to escape dependence on American suppliers. The governments public position has been that Westland and its shareholders should decide its future without government interference. Thatcher, however, has been seen as giving tacit backing to the American-le- d bid. In the televised interview, Thatch- er attributed the continuing political crisis to Heseltine and his decision not to conform with the majority decision of the Cabinet. Of the Westland affair, she said: "It was a comparatively small thing which would never have assumed this proportion but for the fact that we had that thing one member not playing as a member of the team. CIA Remains Mum Reports of KGB Defector Stir Denials, Confusion By Brian Barger Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Senate Intelligence Committee has been told nothing about a senior KGB major-generwho, according to published accounts, defected to the United States last year and was in CIA custody, Sen. Patrick Leahy, vice chairman of the panel, said Sunday. said CIA officials Leahy, continued to tell him as late as Sunday morning that no such defector existed. They are denying it today, he - al said. However, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Lee Hamilton, said he had received a "preliminary report on the alleged Soviet defector. He declined to comment further until he received a more thorough briefing on the case and said he was not yet sure about the information. CIA spokeswoman Kathy Pherson declined comment on the report Sunday, saying only, "We don't comment on defectors." The alleged defection was first reported in U.S. News and World Re- come public, and it could be one of them. He said that details concerning the defector did not jump out at him, but said it could be accurate." The disclosure, and subsequent CIA denials of the report, raised speculation on Capitol Hill that the story may have been leaked to influence an upcoming debate over whether responsibly for handling defectors should be turned over to the FBI. The CIA was deeply embarrassed last November when Vitaly S. Yurchenko, a senior KGB agent the CIA hailed as one of their most important defectors" in years, fled his CIA handlers. He turned up two days later at a press conference at the Soviet embassy, claiming he was kidnapped and drugged by the CIA, and announced his intention to return to the Soviet Union. The CIA denied the charges, and has since maintained he was a legitimate defector who later had a change of heart. port, which said the Soviet officer was smuggled out of East Germany in late April or early May by helicopter and debriefed at a U.S. base in West Germany." The report said the defection was kept secret "to prevent press leaks that might have upstaged the Geneva summit in Geneva." The U.S. News and World Report story described the alleged defector as "extremely valuable," and said he fed secrets to U.S. intelligence even before his defection. He was repored-lgiven a new identity, and settled in an undisclosed location in the Midy west. Leahy said that at any given time the CIA "handles several significant defectors" whose identities are not made public. He said the CIA was responsible for advising the intelligence committees about defectors, but said he had not received any information on this case. A congressional source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said there were "several defectors over the past few years that have not be Today's I'ortTasl Salt Lake City and vicinity Fair, with increasing haze. Highs 30s, 40s. Lows 20s. Details, B-mid-teen- |
