Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - July 5, 1983, Hutchinson, Kansas The Hutchinson News July 5, 1983, Kansas 67501, 24 Year 112 No. 2 20c Open season on foreigners in Africa's trouble spots By Charles Mitchell United Press International Kenya - Guerrilla groups in a continent wracked by have declared open season on Their targets are often Westerners and their main aim is In the past year alone at least 128 foreigners from 17 countries fell into guerrilla hands in Sudan and Guerrilla demands have included humanitarian the release of captured comrades and access to 'the Demands are rarely met. you give in to one movement you would have hundreds springing said U.S. Embassy spokesman Len echoing a widespread The guerrillas often consider themselves guerrillas in Mozambique and Ethiopia have at least tacit Western joke used to be that working in Africa you would end up in someone's cooking said a Dutch aid no joke now about ending up in a guerrilla camp In the past not a day went by without a guerrilla group somewhere holding a foreign according to taking has the desired effect to get news coverage and said Jon Canada's Secretary for Consular Affairs in is especially effective for unknown like the Southern Sudan Liberation People start finding out who they The fighting to make the mostly Christian southern half of Sudan independent from the Moslem kidnapped five aid relief workers in the Boma National Park June 23. The guerrillas demanded in clothes and broadcast time in exchange for the lives of a a West a Dutch citizen and two Americans identified as John 36, of and Ron 29, of Fla. The allow us to demonstrate our strength and logistical to strike where we evade care for the said Evo spokesman for the Mozambique National are legitimate targets in campaigns to disrupt rural social services and government said whose South group seeks to topple the communist government of President Samora The group captured 25 foreigners in a dozen incidents in Mozambique in the past All were later There is little advantage in killing men tell no said the Rev. Joe a New Yorker in the Holy Ghost Fathers missionary are often taken and returned unharmed with a good account of how they were treated and what programs the guerrillas have set up in liberated he Of the 128 seized in the past only six are thought to have died - all in where two others are listed as The six - two two Australians and two Britons - were grabbed by army deserters of a minority tribe who demanded the SPLASHDOWN - Mike 18, fends off a wall of water sent his way by Terry 14, as the two canoed on Sterling Lake during the Fourth of July celebration at the By Craig Chandler Both are sons of Carl and Linda 808 East 8th, Andropov postpones meetings with West German leader MOSCOW - Soviet leader Yuri repeatedly depicted in failing health in recent postponed two meetings Monday with visiting German Chancellor Helmut Kohl later said the delay was health Western diplomats said it was the first time in decades a Soviet leader pulled out of meeting a head of state once an official visit was under Twice in the past month 69, has been seen unsteady and reinforcing reports he is suffering either from Parkinson's disease or a kidney Visiting diplomats last month said he needed to be helped in and out of his chair and appeared the first NATO head of state to visit the Soviet Union since the November funeral of Leonid told West German television absence and cancellation of their afternoon meeting was health He did not identify the source of his fully understand Kohl are health problems all over the At a Kremlin dinner Kohl urged the absent Soviet leader to meet with President Reagan and said only negotiated at the Geneva arms talks could prevent NATO countries deploying new missiles in West Federal which has the backing of the majority of the German will not be deflected from Kohl Andropov was represented at the dinner by Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai In its the official Tass news agency made no mention of Kohl's comments and only reported NATO's pledge to use its weapons only in Tass also did not mention the cancellation of the meeting with reporting instead Kohl was met by Gromyko and other Soviet A West German government spokesman said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko called Ambassador Andreas to the Foreign Ministry early Monday to announce the change in and to say that Andropov could not meet Kohl as planned on the first day of his visit for must be something they thought until the last moment they could control or a West European diplomat There was no official explanation of last-minute cancellation of a Kremlin tete-a-tete and the ceremonial banquet in the Diplomatic sources said they thought no snub to Kohl was The Soviets seem anxious to foster good relations with the West Germans with whom they have very stable commercial the Communist Party ran front-page portraits of Kohl and Foreign Minister Genscher together with a message of although it warned that NATO nuclear policy threatens world Kremlin officials said an meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning would go ahead as Americans whoop it up on July 4th By June Preston United Press International Americans from sea to shining sea - and all the points in between - paid an Independence Day tribute Monday to the White and Blue with parades and a patriotic pillow In Atlantic 200,000 people turned out for a concert by the Beach who said Interior Secretary James Watt's criticism of them helped draw throngs to the beach for the in announcing the selection of entertainer Wayne Newton to perform in Washington on Independence had said the Beach Boys were passed over because their music attracted President Reagan summoned Watt to the White House for a music appreciation lesson and Watt But it was too late - the group had already been booked for Atlantic think did us a great said Beach Boy Mike A thunderstorm 30 minutes before Newton was to appear at the Washington Monument drenched those who attended that a lot of people getting They're going under trees and in their said Park Police Lt. Wayne lot of people are going to be soaking a group staged its 15th annual marching down Pennsylvania Avenue and not said 17 people United Press International Photo Wayne Newton performs on-stage during the July 4th holiday celebration at the Washington Monument in front of more than 100,000 the concert was delayed for more than an hour due to heavy thunderstorms in the Washington were arrested on President Reagan spent the holiday in seclusion with his at their ranch near Santa Calif. The Reagans were busy tending to chores and no speeches were forthcoming from the western White All was quiet on the antiwar front in where hundreds of women gathered to plant a rose along the fence of the Seneca Army Depot and officially open a peace Peace marchers from Pax Christi in New York trekked through on their way from the Pentagon to the nuclear weapons plant in In Fort 75 marchers converged on Carswell Air Force calling for an end to America's but a man who disagreed shouted obscenities at before being persuaded to leave by St. Louis concluded a four-day celebration that drew 4 million In the Society Extraterrestrial - SEX - held fireworks and music they claimed would attract alien About 2 million New York City residents crowded onto the beach at Coney Island where Nathan's Famous held the 67th annual hot-dog eating Two brothers from the Bronx took first and second place in the Another 2 million people watched the annual fireworks extravaganza sponsored by Macy's department store and many in the city experimented with their own illegal fireworks which were sold openly on the streets of Farmers celebrate 4th golden grain reaping From staff and wire reports Monday might have been a holiday for most but for farmers in western Kansas it was a perfect day to spend in the fields harvesting farmers in the Wichita area were not so An overnight thunderstorm dumped 5.25 inches of rain on grinding to a halt the harvest that began three days Three to five inches of rain also pelted wheat fields near forcing several days of delay while the soggy fields dry Where the weather the holiday meant work for grain elevator employees weather is real cool with a slight said Jean manager of Cimarron Grain Co. Inc. elevator in ideal for harvest and they're running like said Ms. who planned to spend her Fourth of July working until midnight as farmers hauled their crop to the She said the wheat in Seward County exceptionally with moisture levels at 8 percent and test weights of 63.5 two days we'll pretty well have this area cut she Harvesters in some areas were delayed at getting in the fields early Monday by overcast but made it out later in the just had a lot of wet fields to said manager of Anthony Farmers Co-op Elevator Co. Kiser also said he would be working into the night as farmers tried to catch up on a harvest that was two weeks not like normal Kiser the mud like they are it just slows everybody It probably will be a week before they clear up some of these Thank goodness we didn't get that rain Wichita got or it probably would have been another Kiser said he could not make a yield estimate because farmers are having to leave so much wheat in the fields because of the soggy Pat Prue of the Garvey Elevator in Coldwater said the Comanche County harvest began Saturday and already was 50 percent test weight is 60 to 64 pounds and moisture is 10, 11, 9 she very We've taken in 225,000 With sunny skies she predicted big A 19-year-old Beloit man was listed in critical condition Monday at Wesley Medical after suffering internal injuries in a freak accident Sunday at a Jewell County Greg Heidrick was pinned between two wheat trucks after he and two other farm workers attempted to stop a driverless truck that had slipped out of gear and was coasting toward another according to Jewell County sheriffs Heidrick and the two other workers were in the process of augering a truckload of wheat into a storage bin when the accident They tried to stop the truck by pushing against the front of the moving deputies After receiving emergency care at a Beloit Heidrick was flown by helicopter to the medical a hospital spokesman The accident occurred on a farm seven miles six west of one mile in to Jewell Beloit is about 50 miles northwest of release of senior commanders held by the government on coup plotting was brutal and Omar Second Secretary at the Australian High Commission in said of the incident in guerrillas like the Tigre People's Liberation Front in Ethiopia choose their targets The fighting for the independence of Ethiopia's Tigre seized 10 foreigners - most of them British - in The guerrillas then gave their a guided tour so they could tell the world of the dismal Soviets blocking arms cut By Julian Isherwood United Press International Denmark President George Bush in a major policy speech Monday accused the Soviet Union of blocking disarmament agreements and criticized Nicaragua for betraying its He praised President Reagan's arms reduction efforts and called for unity Bush within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in his address to the foreign policy association of Denmark at the end of his two-day official visit to After the which aides says was the most important of his 8-nation, 12-day European Bush went to where he spoke before several thousand Danes and Americans taking part in Independence Day From the celebration - Europe's largest Fourth of July observances - Bush flew to Ireland on the seventh leg of his His last stop will be Bush was greeted on his arrival in Dublin by Prime Minister Garret But within seconds of his Bush blew away the rigid protocol of his he said cheerfully as he emerged from Air Force a wonderful day to be in he whispered to FitzGerald at the were three fellows on the plane - three out of Not Bush shook every hand in bringing anxious looks to security who were worried about terrorist All police leave was canceled and armed troops patrolled the president is a man deeply committed to arms a man with a vision of a world free from the burden of the nuclear Bush told the foreign policy association in The president he put forward proposals to eliminate nuclear reduce substantially strategic cut troop levels in Europe and completely ban the production and stockpiling of chemical On each of these he the Soviets had proven inflexible and prevented Bush also defended U.S. policy in Central which has been sharply criticized by Scandinavian He said the U.S. had withdrawn support of the government in Nicaragua when it became evident that it had their promises and | Inside | Intercepted Letter WAYNE NEWTON Entertainer D.C. 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