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News Briefs From United Press International
Threatened Afghan citizens told to leave
NEW DELHI, India—Western embassies have advised all non-diplomatic nationalists to leave Afghanistan because of rebel threats, a Western diplomat said.
Several sources reported fighting between Moslem rebels and Soviet-led Afghan troops in Kabul since Jan. 13, when armored vehicles appeared in the capital for the first time this year in response to the new wave of violence.
Guerrillas rocketed a Soviet transport plane at Kabul Airport earlier this month, killing several people, according to a witness who saw several shots.
Western embassies in Kabul have advised about 100 teachers, missionaries and medical and relief personnel to leave because of the killing of a Dutchman and a Finnish woman about 10 days ago and because of a rash of rebel "night letters" warning foreigners to leave.
The threats pankicked the foreign community and accelerated many departure plans, the diatomat said, quoting Kabul sources.
Those who stay have been advised to get off the streets by 8:30 p.m. because of additional Afghan police checkpoints, where there have been incidents of harassment by Afghan soldiers, the diplomat said.
Colombian guerrillas hold U.S. linguist
release kidnapped American linguist Chester Bitterman unless the Summer
Journeal of Laputitensis its operations in Colombia, police sources said.
Bitterman, a native of Lancaster, Pa., was abducted Monday and a phone call was the first communication from the kidnappers, the April 19
The sources said an unidentified man phoned the institute and told the organization's director, Albert Wheeler, that all U.S. personnel working for it must leave the country.
A spokesman said the institute, known in the United States as Wycliffe Bible Co., did not receive any word from the kidnappers.
By Wyliec Bible Bible in, in Huntington Beach, Calif., sc'd that when the April 19 movement, known as M-19, guerrillas abducted Bitterman, they said their purpose was to get the Summer Institute of Linguistics out of their country.
M-19 charged that the Summer Institute, which has studied Indian languages in Colombia for 20 years, is a CIA front.
Senate confirms Haig nomination, 93-6
The former NATO commander and Richard Nixon's last White House chief of staff ofoccoece Edmund Minkevich, the United States' state chief of diplomacy.
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Alexander Haig, whose confirmation questions about Watergate, as President Obama's "special counsel" at the state system.
Haig, a retired four-star Army general, was confirmed by a 93-6 vote. During the debate, Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said he would vote against confirming Haig because he "blacks a fundamental understanding of and sensitivity to" constitutional processes.
Hali, the most controversial of the cabinet choices, has been questioned on his role in the final days of the Nixon presidency, President Gerald Ford's first and last days as president.
The Senate also unanimously approved the nominations of the two other Cabinet members and one Cabinet-level official. Richard Schweiker, former Pennsylvania senator, was approved 99-8 as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Senate approved 99-7 as Treasury Secretary and William Brock, former Republican National chairman and former Tennessee senator, won 99-0 approval as trade representative with Cabinet-level status.
State urged to stop toxic waste burial
TOPEKA—The top environmental official in the state and an engineering group represent, 1,400 members urged the state yesterday to quit burying dead animals.
Joseph Harkins, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and Robert Selm, an official from the Kansas Engineering Society, addressed the Kansas House and Senate Committees on Energy and Natural Resources, in their second week of hazardous waste control efforts.
"The policy direction we support is to move away from land burial as quickly as possible." Harkins said.
Selm recommended that future hazardous waste dumps be prohibited and that industries be required to reprocess wastes for recycling or burial once they are disposed of.
He suggested that with the proper tax incentives, industries might find it less expensive in the long run to detoxify their wastes.
Harkins suggested detoxification, incineration and recycling as alternatives to waste burial.
The House and Senate committee will finish hazardous waste hearings this week with sessions on recommendations for hazardous waste
Sen. Kennedy, wife seeking divorce
WASHINGTON-Seen, Edward M. Kenney, D-Mass., and his wife Joan, announced yesterday that they would seek a divorce after 22 years of marriage.
The decision was announced in a brief statement issued by Kennedy's Capital Hill office. It said Mrs. Kennedy would continue living in Boston while Kennedy lived in Mclean, Va.
*With regrets, yet with respect and consideration for each other, we have met in this group to provide our support together, with the understanding of our children, and after pastoral counseling.*
The statement said:
The Kennedys were married in 1958 and have three children, Kara, 20; Edward M. J., 19; and Patrick, 13.
Safety flaw found on some GM cars
WASHINGTON—The government made initial finding this week that a safety defect exists in the tailgate windows of 80,000 1979 and 1980 General Motors Corp. intermediate-sized station wagons equipped with rear-window defoggers.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the defect in the electric defoggers might cause the glass to shatter or explode unexpectedly.
The agency said it had received about 400 reports of explosions and other incidents related to rear windows in 1978, 1979 and 1980 GM intermediate vehicles.
Most of the complaints involved cars built in 1979, an agency spokesman said.
When the agency began its investigation last June 10, Safety Agency administrator Joan Claybridge urged GM to conduct a voluntary recall.
Workers escape unharmed
KANSAS CITY, MO (UPI)—About 50 men escaped serious injury yesterday in an explosion at the site of a train station which happened earlier this week.
Workers at the site on the city's west side were in "serious danger," according to Fire Chief Edward Wilson, when leaking fumes or liquids from an overturned car ignited. The ex-plosion caused by sparks from a power tool.
Wilson said men were using power saws and torshes yesterday to repair railroad tracks near the West Pennyway Bridge damaged in the collision Sunday night. According to spectators at the site, a land sounded in the air.
Since Sunday, the car has been leaking pentane at a rate of two-to-five gallons a minute, fueling a blaze that hastened itself early yesterday morning.
quickly doused the area between the explosion and the leaking tank car with a blanket of foam, thus preventing flames from reaching the tank car.
"It happened in an instant," said Police St. Jim Treece.
Firefighters standing by at the scene
Workers were in the process of uprigging the overturned tanker when the explosion occurred about 1.45 p.m., Wilson said.
Wilson said human error might have caused the explosion because apparently the men working with power devices were unaware of the leaking chemical.
"We still have a potentially dangerous situation," said Treece. He said the uprighted tank car, now loaded on a flatcar, was to be relocated to a safer, less populated area a half-mile west, near 203 and Allen streets.
At this location, the fuel remaining in the damaged tank car, which contained 8,100 gallons at the time of the collision, was to be pumped to another tank car. Wilson estimated the fuel transfer would take about two hours.
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STUDENT SENATE CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE AND MINORITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE will elect chairpersons:
4:30 January 22,1981 International Room Kansas Union
Audit says Carter group owes $129,449
all interested persons are welcomed.
WASHINGTON—President Carter's 1980 campaign committee must repay the government $123,442 it got during the primary election period, the Federal Election Commission ruled yesterday.
Pd. for by Student Activity Fees
The commission said audits showed the committee allocated $123,458 and $796 to Maine and New Hampshire than the limits for those states permitted, im
properly shifted $5,947 from primary to general election activities and the parking tickets that should not be seen charged to government funds.
The Carter-Mondale committee has 30 days in which to appeal the U.S. Treasury, which does not to appeal, it has 90 days, a which to repay the U.S. Treasury.
Room to rent? Use Kansan classifieds.
When is it okay for a reporter to lie? Steal?
- Michael Davis, Dean, School of Law seeks answers in a discussion with
- Richard Von Ende, Executive Secretary, KU
- Robert Samsot, Editor in Residence, School of Journalism
- Mark Spencer, University Daily Kansan
- David Adkins, representing the Student Senate
na Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists presents
ETHICS FORUM
Thurs. Jan. 22, 7:30 pm
Union Big 8 Room
For further information, call Diane Swanson (749-2334) or Greg Richards (841-2427).
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