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University Daily Kansan, March 2, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
'Scopes II' trial scheduled today
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a trial that has drawn national attention, Christian fundamentalists today challenge the state's right to make Charles Darwin's theory of evolution the sole basis for teaching biology in California public schools.
They demand that the State Board of Education revise its guidelines for science instructors to allow teachers to present theories that the world and life were created by supernatural acts. They assert these theories have a scientific basis.
The trial has won the nickname of "Scopes II" in California legal circles after the classic courtroom confrontation between science and religion in
The California attorney general's office has called in prominent scientists such as astronomer-author Carl Sagar and Stanford University Nobel Prize winner Arthur Kornberg to defend its teaching standards, although it is not yet clear whether they actually will testify.
Attorneys on both sides, however, insist it won't be another Scopes trial and maintain the issues are different.
"We are not trying to sneak the Bible into the public schools," said Sacramento attorney Richard Turner, who represents the fundamentalists.
Freighter sinks; crew still missing
JUNEAU, Alaska—A Coast Guard search plane yesterday criss-crossed the icy North Pacific in search of 22 crewmen who abandoned a burning sinking South Korean freighter 90 miles west of Attu at the end of the Aleutian island Chain.
The Coast Guard held out little hope that any could have survived in the near-freezing water.
One crew member drowned Saturday and three were rescued by passing Soviet ships. One survivor died aboard a Soviet vessel, but the other two were recovered.
All but three of the missing men were seen last in a lifeboat that later was found emry in swells as high as 25 feet.
The drama began late Friday night when the Dae Rim, the South Korean freighter, transmitted a "mayday" radio message, saying it had been on fire for three hours. The message said the fire began in the No. 2 hold and spread to the No. 1 hatch.
A later message said the fire had reached the ship's fuel tanks and was out of control, prompting the skipper to make an urgent plea for assistance.
A Navy plane arrived near dawn and reported the fire had spread to the 3 hold. However, the South Korean crew reportedly brought the blaze under control later in the morning, and all seemed well until the sailors suddenly went over the side in the afternoon.
A Coast Guard C-130 aircraft intended to check the condition of the freighter at daybreak and to continue searching for the missing men.
Nicaraguan smuggling questioned
MANAGUA, Nicaragua—Top members of the leftist Sandinista government admit arms may have been smuggled from Nicaragua to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador but offer conflicting versions about efforts to stop the smuggling.
One Western diplomatic source said he had no doubts the Sandinistas and Communist Cuba were involved in the arms smuggled but it had been clear that they weren't. "They were trying to kill me," she said.
"My estimation is that they have stopped the traffic" because of the Reagan administration's rush to support the Salvadoran government and the failure of a five-day Salvadoran guerrilla offensive launched Jan. 10, he said.
In interviews during the past week, Sandinista officials acknowledged weapons may have been smuggled from Nicaragua to neighboring El Salvador but said it probably was the work of individuals within the government and not of the government itself.
Interior Minister Tomas Borge, considered the most powerful official in Nicaragua, said, "You have to consider the great sympathy there is here for the Salvadoran people. If we jailed all the sympathizers of the Salvadorans, we would have a million and a half prisoners."
Borge said the Managua government's policy always had been to stop the arms shipments. He said his troops arrested 10 Salvadorans in northern Nicaragua four months ago in connection with arms traffic and training of guerrillas.
Delegates seek Iran-Iraq solution
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomini yesterday told a ranking Islamic delegation seeking an end to the Iran-Iraq conflict that it must "sit in judgment" and determine the aggressor in the dispute.
After the meeting with Kohmini, Yasser Arafat, delegation head and head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was quoted by Tehran Radio News Agency on Wednesday.
After spending two days in Iran, the eight-man group arrived late yesterday in Bagdad for talks with Iraq officials on ways of ending the 161-day war.
Before leaving Tehran, Habib Chatti, secretary-general of the Islamic Conference Organization, said the delegation would analyze and assess the situation.
Chatti told Tehran Radio that the delegation had not yet proposed a solution for stopping the fighting but that "after visiting Baghdad, we might see."
The official Pars news agency called Khomeini told the Islamic leaders, "If you have goodwill and come here to put out the fire, then you must listen."
Poland launches rationing program
WARSaw, Poland—The government approved meat and sugar rationing yesterday and launched a campaign to curb a growing alcohol abuse problem.
Under the rationing, the first in Poland since the 1950s, a person will be allowed to buy 2.2 pounds of sugar a month for the next seven months and between 4.4 and 10 pounds of meat a month, depending on the person's age and occupation, from April 1 until the end of June.
The rationing plan was one of the first proposals made by the new government of Fremier Wojtech Jauzelski in a bid to put the faltering and weakening system under control.
In an attempt to tackle another problem affecting the economy, the government announced a campaign against alcoholism.
The official Pap news agency said government statistics showed that 4.5 million, or about 1.2 million and about 1.2 million out of a work force of 12 million, or 10 percent, were drained.
Jersey Odzowski, Roman Catholic deputy premier, said consumption of alcohol last year was estimated at eight liters a person. The trend is not expected to change much in the foreseeable future.
The government said prices of vodka would be increased and the number of stores selling liquor reduced.
Rifle misfires after Reagan passes
WASHINGTON - A Secret Service agent's riff accidentally discharged inside a metal carrying case yesterday after the motorcycle taking President Obama into the lobby.
No one was injured, although several frightened bystanders reportedly fell to the ground at the sound of the shot.
Dick Hartwig, Secret Service spokesman, said the incident occurred two or three minutes after Resgan had left the National Presbyterian Church.
Hartwig said the rifle was in a metal storage case at the time of the misfire. The officer, who was not identified, was standing watch on a building fire.
The President and first lady Nancy Reagan were driven to and from the church service in a covered, bullet-proof limousine.
The spokesman said the incident apparently was a "weapon malfunction." He said an "in-house inquiry" would be held to determine what happened.
The Kansas Supreme Court heard arguments Friday to overturn the first-degree murder conviction of a former teacher. The court was assisting the suicide of the victim.
On the Record
Camille Nobe, a Shawnee County public defender, urged the court to reverse the June 1980 murder conviction of the woman, Kateble Cobb, because she said the lower court made several procedural errors.
The case could set a legal precedent in Kansas. The state law on assisting suicide has been on the books since 1982, and never been a case to test the statute.
Cobb, who had been a close friend of Davis for five years, said during her trial that Davis had planned to kill himself with an overdose of cocaine and killed his girlfriend asked her to accompany him if his attempt proved to be unsuccessful.
Cobb faced the first-degree murder charge after Henry Davis of Lawrence was found dead last winter of a gunshot to the head.
Nobe said that Davis told Cobb to
She said that Davis never intended to kill himself but wanted someone else to kill him. She noted that Cobb was the person responsible for the injection that cried into the vaccine.
use a gun to kill him if the cocaine did not work.
THE WEEKEND in Lawrence was "fairly quiet" with no reports of major crimes, according to the Lawrence Police Department.
The seven-member state court is not expected to issue a decision for several weeks.
A THEIF TOOK a gold necklace Thursday at Tainque Tangine Center, 2449 St. W., when the owner was there and said, The necklace was valued at $450.
Sally Pokorny, an assistant Shawnee County district attorney, argued that the case was indeed a murder case.
IN ANOTHER TREFT, someone took two envelopes lying on a counter at Anglers Unlimited, 1449 W. 23rd St. NJ. The envelopes contained almost $400.
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The Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council are sponsoring a blood drive March 24-36 in the Kansas Union.
Sign-ups for donors will be tomorrow and Wednesday at residence of Hollyhawk Christian Mass Union. Satellite Union, fraternities and sororites.
The "Jayhawk Fight For Life"
Groups sponsor blood drive
Former jaundice or hepatitis patients cannot give blood, according to Jo Beyers, American Red Cross volunteer. Nine million pounds must weigh at least 10 pounds.
Nurses are needed to help take medical histories in the Blood Bank. They can contact the Panbileni office, room 119B in the Kansas Union.
drive last fall exceeded its 700-pint goal by 42 pints.
--this Tuesday from 7-9 Adm. $3.00
Spring Formal Rush March27,28,29
Registration:
February 23-March 24
Council Office or call 864-3559.
Register in the Interfraternity
Booths will be set up in Oliver,
Templin and JRP on
March 10,7-9 p.m.
There will be a $10 registration fee.
Place a Kansan wanted Call 864-4358.
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