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Monday, November 14. 1977
University Daily Kansan
Guard admits negligence in S. Korean explosion
SEOUL, (UPI)- A security guard has admitted he fell asleep after drinking and left candles burning inside a dynamite-loaded freight car that exploded and killed at least 65 and injured 1,300. Investigators said yesterday.
The huge blast Friday night levelled almost all buildings within a 1,000-yard radius of the rail station at Iri in central Korea, digging a crater nearly 50 feet deep and leaving more than 10,000 people homeless in freezing weather.
Police said Shin Mu-ul, 36, admitted that he left the parked car filled fuel with 33 tons of dynamite packed in wooden boxes to have a few drinks and fell asleep on his return without extinguishing the candles.
INVESTIGATORS said that he was drunk.
Officials also told them he awoke to find his quilt on fire and the freight car filled with fire and smoke. He said he ran into a man who exploded three or four minutes later.
During initial police questioning, Shin denied any responsibility for the blast and said when he returned from dinner he asked the police to open and saw free fire out of control.
Despite Shin's confession, government authorities said they sought corroboration evidence of his story and required to investigate all possibilities.
Poets to give readings
Two poets, a woman from New York City and a Salma girl, will give poetry readings tonight and Friday night in the Council Room of the Union as parts of the SAoPs
Maxine Silverman, 30, will give a reading at 8 tonight. Her book, *A Life*, was published in p67 by Chelsea Publishing.
the Sunbury Press. She is an assistant the
career of freshman programs at Barnard College.
Harley Elliott, a 37-year-old South Dakota native, will give a reading at 6 p.m. Friday. He is an art instructor at Marymount College, Salina, and has published several books of poetry, including "All Beautyfull and Foolish Soul and Sky Heart."
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said yesterday it was prepared to accept a renewed peace conference in Geneva if Palestinian participation is brought under United Nations auspices.
Said Kamel, head of the PLO delegation in Cairo, read a statement to reporters at the Arab foreign ministers' meeting here asserting that last month's Soviet-American declaration was acceptable to the PLO as the basis for a Geneva conference.
PLO endorses Mideast proposal
The Soviet-American document, issued in New York by Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, called for resumption of Geneva talks before the end of the year with the participation of the Palestinian people.
It made no reference to the PLO, which has been rejected by Israel but has been designated by the Arab states as "the sole representative" of the Palestinian people.
"THE MINIMUM basis that the PLO can accept for the participation of the Palestinian nation... is the U.S. Sovet statement." Kamel said. He added:
"This statement should be considered as a document of the United Nations Security Council on the same basis as Security Council Resolution 242 of 1967.
"We agree to participate in the Geneva peace conference provided U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has approved."
NEW YORK (UPI)-A tentative settlement was reached yesterday in the six-week strike by dock workers against container ship operations, a strike that has left $4 billion in goods piled up in ports from Maine to Texas.
Strikers reach tentative accord
International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) President Thomas Gleason said he hoped to have the contract extended. The men could return to work next weekend.
The agreement, announced shortly after 5 p.m., directly affects 35,000 ILM members.
Gleason said the three-year pact would provide a pattern for talks that would take
place this week in ports on the south Atlantic, southeast Florida and Gulf coasts. The ILA represents an additional 15,000 dock workers in those ports.
GLEASON SAID the agreement included landmark job security provisions to protect longhaemerow jobs as more and more employees, the labor-saving containerization systems.
At a news conference held after announcement of the accord, Gleason said he
"As far as the job security plan is concerned, there's nothing like it. I think it will spread to other industries." Gleason said.
Gleason refused to disclose details of the provisions until his membership was notified. But he said, "The union held that the ocean industry must protect worker benefits from the impact of containerization and other automated forms of shipping that have caused a fall-off in jobs for ILA members and impacted benefited funds."
The union and the shippers had been working on a master contract since April 1.
NAIROIB, Kenya (AP) - Somalia, once one of Moscow's closest friends in Africa, broke relations with Cuba yesterday, expelled all Russian advisers and terminated Soviet use of air and naval facilities at two Somali ports, the Somali radio said.
Resolution 242 and other key U.N. measures passed since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war for an eventual settlement refer to only the fact that no specific reference to the Palestinians.
The moves capped a steady decline in Somali-Sri Lankan relations as Moscow has increasingly thrown its support behind Ethiopia, Somalia's bitter rival.
The Somalis also ordered the Soviet embassy to cut back its staff and renounced its 1974 friendship treaty with the Kremlin, the radio said.
Observers said the statement did not appear to signal a major shift in PLO policy. They noted it made no mention of a PLO willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist. Israel repeatedly has condemned the软硬对立 to accept an independent Louisiana state.
There was no immediate comment from Moscow.
two superpowers, invites the representatives of the Palestinian people as part of the peace process.
Yesterday's moves followed Somali claims that Cuban troops were fighting alongside Ethiopian forces which are in Ethiopia. In the eastern town of Ethiopia, in southeastern Ogaden desert.
SPEAKING ON behalf of Faraku Kad-dombi, who heads the PLO delegation here,
The Russians have been sending arms, including tanks and jet fighters, to Ethiopia. At the same time, they have cut supplies to them formerly their major ally in the Horn of Africa.
SOMALI INFORMATION Minister Abduqbal Salad Hasan was quoted in the Somali broadcast from the capital of Mogadishu as saying the Cuban Embassy staff and experts have been given 48 hours to leave the country. He said Soviet military forces have been deployed to number from 3,000 to 4,000, have been ordered to leave within seven days.
Somalia severs ties with Cuba
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reconvening the Geneva peace talks, suspended since December 1973.
Israel has rejected any negotiations with the PLO because the organization's charter cannot be amended.
Kamel reiterated the PLO is the "sole representative" of the Palestinian people.
MISS STREET DELI
But the endorsement of the Soviet-American declaration appeared to leave open the door for the designation of a non-nuclear state for the Palestinians at future Geneva talks.
The question of Palestinian representation has been the major stumbling block to
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But Egypt's President Anwar Sadat suggested last week the Palestinian representative might be an American professor of Palestinian descent.
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GERSHWIN
Music by George Lyrics by Ira
Student Union Activities Announces
AUDITIONS
for its stage production of a new revue of the music of George and Ira Gershwin to be produced in woodruff Auditorium this coming February. Interested performers should come to the Forum Room of the Kansas Union between 7 & 10 p.m. on Monday, November 14th. For additional information call SUA office 864-3477.
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