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University Daily Kansan, March 5, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Rightist gunmen attack U.S. Embassy
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—Right-wing gunmen raked the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador with automatic rifle fire yesterday, but there were no reports of any shots.
U. S. Charge D'affaires Frederick Chapin said the attack was the work of extremists trying to intimidate Washington into backing a military offensive.
It was the second attack on the embassy in four months. On Nov. 20, leftist guerrillas fired two Chinese-made rocket-propelled grenades at the building, destroying an unused office on the top floor of the three-story building but causing no injuries.
Chapin said Dust in the 11 a.m. attack, unidentified gunmen armed with automatic riffles and riding in the back of a pickup truck, pumped six rounds into his hands. (AP)
U. S. Marines and Salvadoran National Guardmen patrolling the compound in northern San Salvador did not return fire. Chakin said.
In Dublin, Ireland, political leaders, newspapers and a Roman Catholic church spokesman yesterday united against the Reagan administration's aid for the El Salvador junta in a rare display of Irish criticism directed at the United States.
Pentagon asks for record budget
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon appealed to Congress yesterday for a $32.6 billion increase in defense spending over the next two years, much of it for new weapons to prevent the United States from becoming a second-rate military power by the mid-1980s.
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger told the Senate Armed Services committee that the Pentagon needed more money now to end the Carter administration.
Weinberger sought the highest pacetime defense budget in U.S. history to pursue President Reagan's policy of preserving peace through strength.
More ships, planes and tanks and $11.5 billion worth of increased combat readiness are necessary to project American armed to the defense of Western interests worldwide, particularly in the Persian Gulf region, which Weieringer described as 'the umbilical cord of the industrialized free
Inherent in Weinberger's revision of the Carter administration defense budgets for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 is a toughened global policy designed to get U.S. power to potential centers of conflict without stretching resources too thin.
House debates waste control bill
*TOPEKA-Responding to public focus on hazardous waste disposal, TOPEKA has established effectively an bill that would make sweeping changes in the state's laws.*
House members debated the bill for a little more than an hour before
admitting it on a 8:30 tentative vote. A final vote is set for today.
State Rep. Robert Miller, R-Wellington, led debate on the hazardous waste bill, saying the measure expanded the law that the public would have a chance to recycle. He said the legislature should not.
Miller, chairman of the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Gov. John Carlin had pinpointed hazardous waste shortly before the session began.
Miller said he doubted that any new commercial hazardous waste sites would be approved under existing law, which requires the approval of new sites by the state Health and Environment Department.
Allowing the public a bigger role in the decisions on whether new licenses for dumps should be granted might help alleviate fears about hazardous waste.
The state's only commercial hazardous waste dump is near Furley, where violations of waste laws have been found. In addition, public attention recently was focused on an area near Kansas City, where a metal company had illegally dumped chemical wastes.
Iran, Iraq disagree on truce terms
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Efforts by an Islamic goodwill mission to forge a cease-fire in the 164-day-old war between Iran and Iraq ended in failure yesterday with both the Tehran and Baghdad governments refusing to compromise their hard-line positions.
The eight-man team of Moslem statesmen, which included PLO chief Yasser Aassar fervently, visited both Tehran and Baghdad, meeting with Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomein and Iraqi President Saddam willing to back down for the markers indicated neither side was waiting to back down for the sake of a truce.
Hussein, after a two-hour meeting with the Moslem mediators in Baghdad, reiterated his position that "any solution that disregards the causes of the war and Iraqi sovereignty over the Shatt Al-Arab Waterway would not be logical or just," the Iraq news agency reported.
Earlier in the day, the peacemakers found the Iranian leadership in Tehran also refusing to end fighting on anything but its own terms.
"The war will continue until all attackers has ceased and its effects have been totally removed," Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai said in a joint speech while the Moslim mission was meeting with Iran's Supreme Defense Council, led by President Abdouassan Bani-Sadr and Khomeini.
Mozambique orders Americans out
MAPUTO, Mozambique—Mozambique yesterday ordered the expulsion of six Americans, four diplomats and two of their wives for alleged espionage, subversion and interference in the African nation's internal affairs.
The State Department described the incident that apparently led to the evasion as a "blatant confrontation" and blamed Cuban intelligence officials for the attack.
In Washington, the State Department charged that Cuba and Mozambique had to recruit a U.S. diplomat who failed, they ordered him back, but he escaped from the country.
Unofficial sources in Maputo said the arrests and expulsions were part of a crackdown on foreigners suspected of helping South African commandos in a raid into the capital Jan. 30, during which 14 members of the outlawed African National Council were killed.
A Foreign Affairs Ministry statement said the Americans were given 48 hours to leave the former Portuguese colony. Press reports from Maputo said security police also had arrested other foreigners and Mozambicans during a country-wide crackdown.
Oil companies overcharged Canadians
Those excess charges, amounting to more than $500 for every man, woman and child in Canada, would be worth about $89 billion today to those same consumers if they had been invested instead of paid to the oil companies, the report said.
OTWAWA — The major oil companies, employing "predatory and
$12 billion from 1988 to 1973, overcharged Chesapeake Federal report released vystayed
$12 billion from 1988 to 1973, overcharged Chesapeake Federal report released vystayed
Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet had already announced that the report would be submitted to the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission for a full public airing of corporate practices.
The 1,700-page, seven-seventh report was prepared under the direction of Robert Bertrand, director of the Corporate Affairs Department's Bureau of Competition Policy, and followed an eight-year investigation by the department.
Debate team, director honored nationally
Bertrand estimated that from 1968 to 1973, Canadian oil branches were overcharged for imported oil by about $3.8 billion. If those funds had been invested, they would have amounted to a return in current dollars of about $22.3 billion.
Meanwhile, during that period, world oil prices were driven downward as new companies gained access to crude not controlled by the world's seven largest multinational petroleum companies.
By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
Whether the competitors are slam-dunking, high jumping or arguing their way into first place, most winning teams have a winning coach behind them. KU debaters, nationally known for their expertise, have such a coach.
Dorn Parson, director of forensics,
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"The awards go to me, but they are for the whole team," Parson said. "If the students were not good, I wouldn't
AS DIRECTOR of forensics at the University of Kansas, Paron supervises the six debate coaches and organizes the Heart of America Debate CU sponsors annually. All 60 team members usually participate in the tournament.
University forensic directors across the country participated in a survey that determined the winners of the Baylor and Emory awards. The winners were selected on the basis of their service to debate in the 1970s.
have gotten the bonus. It's like Ive talented based on players making the best plays.
Parson said he encouraged KU students to observe at least one of the debate rounds, which are open to the public. Preliminary rounds will be Saturday and Sunday in Wesco Hall. Elimination rounds will begin at 9:30 a.m. and the finals will be at 4:30 p.m. in the Room of the Kansas Union.
day. Teams representing 46 schools and 30 states have registered to participate
The tournament this year will start Saturday and continue through Mon-
"The 1976 KU team of Robin Rowland and Frank Cross received one of the team awards, and KU's Heart of America Debate Tournament was
The top five tournaments of the decade and the five individual outstanding teams were also selected by the country's forensics directors.
"We were the only school in the country to have winners in all three sports, and we had with any other school in the country, including Harvard and Northwestern."
recognized as one of the best tournaments in the country." Parson said.
Parson said that the debate program had gained momentum over the years.
"The tradition of fine debate at the University has built itself over the years," he said. "Many distinguished people have debated for KU. Former Bennett and several members of the Board of Regents were on the KU squad.
"If the students didn't live up to this winning reputation, I wouldn't be a winning director."
Student Health Insurance Policy Public Hearing
Date: Monday, March 9
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Council Room, Kansas Union
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