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Thursday, August 3, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
News Capsules
From the Associated Press, United Press International
Postal ballots to be mailed
WASHINGTON—A federal judge, citing the country's desire to avoid a mail strike, cleared the way yesterday for the largest postal union to be registration of a controversial new contract. Officials of the union, the American Postal Workers Union, said ballots would be mailed today to 300,000 postal workers. The ballots are to be returned by Aug. 25 and the results tabulated within four days.
Soviets summon reporters
MOSCOW—A Soviet court yesterday ordered two U.S. correspondents to appear today in court because their newspapers ignored an order to print retractions of stories that the court has found slanderous. The correspondents, Craig R. Whitney, of the New York City court, Piper, of the Baltimore court, requested to answer the question that Whitney did not appear at the July 18 hearing, when the court ruled that they had slandered a Soviet television official.
Chilean leader defies jury
SANITAGO, Chile—President Augusto Pinochet said yesterday that murder indictments issued in Washington against three former Chilean security officials were only accusations and that nobody would be prosecuted proof of guilt. The Chilean government ordered the arrest of four men at the request of the U.S. embassy a few hours after a grand jury in Washington issued indictments in the 1975 murder of exiled Chilean socialist Orlando Letelier. Pinochet's congressional meeting on Monday in La Plata, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut off all U.S. arms shipments to Chile until it turned the three men over to the United States.
Iraqi diplomat wounded
KARACHI, Pakistan—Two South Yemen men fired yesterday upon officials entering the Iraqi consulate in Karachi, seriously wounding a diplomat and a police guard. It was the third violent attack in Iraq in less than a week. The police said one of the attackers was killed.
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