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University Daily Kansan, January 21, 1981
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Overturned railroad tanker still threat
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Thousands of gallons of water were poured onto a railroad tank car that continued to leak a small stream of flammable gas in the town.
Firefighters had maintained water on the wrecked cars since the accident late Sunday to try to keep the surrounding materials as cool as possible. One fire chief said that if the leaking flammables came in contact with sparks or hot material, an explosion could result.
Donovan cleared of payoff charges
WASHINGTON—Labor Secretary-designate Raymond Donovan has been cleared by the FBI of accusations that he made payoffs to the Teamsters Union, and he is now expected to be approved for confirmation by a Senate committee. Senate sources said yesterday.
Confirmation of Donovan, an executive with a New Jersey construction firm, has been delayed by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee while it checked out the allegation, reportedly made by a former Teamsters official who has FBI protection as a government witness.
In other Cabinet news, Caspar Weinberger was confirmed as Defense Secretary yesterday, the first Cabinet nominee to win Senate approval.
President Ronald Reagan, in one of his first official acts, signed the commission papers for Weinberger, 12 other Cabinet members and four nominees named to Cabinet-level posts. The signing took place in the orate and historic Presidents' Room off the Senate chamber.
All of Reagan's nominees appeared certain of confirmation, including his most contested appointment. Alexander Haima as Secretary of State.
The other Cabinet members are Samuel Pierce, Housing; Donald Regan, Treasury; Richard Schweiler, Health and Human Services; John Block, Agriculture; James G. Watt, Interior; Malcolm Baldridge, Commerce; Robert W. Perry, Energy; Terrell Bell, Education; and William French Smith, Justice.
Judge firm on "Buckeye Three"decision
ALEXANDRIA, La. — A federal judge stood firm yesterday on his decision to affirm two white girls who defied his order to attend a predominantly black school.
Judge Nauman Scott declared in his written decision that credits earned by the girls at all-white Buckeye High School were unacceptable because they were earned illegal. Scott has ordered the girls to attend Jones Street Junior High, which is mostly black.
"They never really earned any credits because they weren't legally there," Scott's law clerk said.
Scott denied a motion for reconsideration filed Monday by attorney J. Minos Simon on behalf of the girls' parents and guardians.
"I have always thought there were laws against blackmail," said inna blackman, a parent of several of the men's not blackmailed, then we'll get more legal terms and call it legal extortion.
State Judge Richard Lee, who has taken the girls' crusade on his own, said the three would stay away from all classes this week and enroll in private schools.
Solidarity says no to Saturday work
WAHSAW. Poland—the national leadership of Poland's Solidarity labor union voted yesterday to declare all Saturdays days off spending talks with the labor union.
The move was viewed as a setback to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, who had urged workers to stay on their jobs on Sundays until the matter was settled, and as a new challenge to the Communist nation's regime. A government plan calls for either two free Saturday a month, with gradual introduction of more, or a five-day week with an additional 30 minutes at the job each day.
The union leadership also called for a review of the implementation of gains made in the agreement with the government that ended the summer season.
During a 10-hour meeting that a witness described as "confused and anarchic" Walesa came under criticism from fellow leaders of the 10-man council.
He was attacked particularly for meeting Monday with Prime Minister Josef Pinkowski without the union's national commission's sanction.
The length of the meeting and the vote to declare Saturdays off indicated there was a sharp clash between militant hardliners and Wales' moderate force.
Black papers closed in South Africa
The move left South Africa with no republic, large-circulation newspaper catering to black readers. In South Africa, more than 80 percent of the population read newspapers.
The two newspapers, the Transvaal Post and its sister publication, the Sunday Post, had not published for three months because of a strike but had published on Friday.
The government, however, insisted the newspapers reapply for licenses because they had failed to fulfill a legal requirement that all newspapers must be licensed.
El Salvador fighting cuts phone lines
SAN VALDADOR, El Salvador—Telephone communications to about 35 soldiers in the Salvadoran government fighting between government troops and local authorities said via telephone.
The army said it killed 15 guerrillas in a raid on a rebel outpost near the town of El Paisal, 15 miles north of San Salvador. Two soldiers were killed.
In San Salvador, officials said they found the corpse of eight people, presumably shot to death by troops enforcing a todd-ko-dawn curfew imposed in 1987.
Spokesmen for the junta said a leftist guerrilla "general offensive" launched Jan. 10 had been "totally crushed." Defense Minister Col. Jose Gullermo Garcia said late Monday the armed forces had killed about 1,000 guerrillas since Jan. 10, while losing only 97 government troops.
But members of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, an umbrella group of five Marxist-led guerrilla organizations with 4,000 and 6,000 fighters in the Philippines, are said to have
Three members of the U.S. Congress returning from a 10-day fact-finding trip to Central America reported alleged atrocities by Salvadoran troops against civilians and called for an immediate halt of U.S. military aid to El Salvador.
Washington resumed $5 million in military aid to El Salvador last week after U.S. officials said they were satisfied with the junta's probe into the Dec. 2 slayings of three American nuns and one American layworker, in which Salvadoran troops were implicated.
Reagan address pledges 'new beginning'
By United Press International
WASHINGTON--Ronald Wilson Reagan took office as the 40th president of the United States yesterday, urging Americans to "dream heroic dreams" for a national renewal to revitalize the economy and sharply cut federal government.
The Reagan administration began dramatically. Just a half-hour after the new president took office, Jimmy Carter's around-the-clock efforts during final days of his presidency were delayed by the loss of the $2 American hostages in Iran.
His left hand resting on his mother's Bible, a calm and confident Reagan solemnly swore "to preserve, protect and restore the Constitution of the United States"
Moments after taking the oath, Reagan moved swiftly on his plans to shore up the economy, signing an executive order that clamped a stuff hiring freeze on the federal government, a move he had promised repeatedly since his nomination last summer.
Reagan, dressed smartly in a formal morning coat, repeated the oath administered by Chief Justice Warren
Burger just before noon, as the new first lady, Nancy Reagan, stood holding the Bible.
The new president then formally signed the nominations of his 13 Cabinet selections, recalling humorous anecdotes about several of them as he scratched his signature across the paper.
Reagan's 20-minute inaugural address was a firm restraint of his campaign promises to slash taxes, trim government spending, boost the military and re-establish American pre-eminence in the world.
"We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow," he said. "And let
Reagan sought to establish a "new beginning" theme for his administration, as did Franklin D. Rockefeller. Mr. Kennedy with his New Fronter.
there be no misunderstanding—we are going to act beginning today."
"All must share in the productive work of this new beginning, and all must share in the bounty of a revived life. I want us to begin an era of national renewal."
Reagan lashed profligate and power-hungry government grown beyond the limits of the federalist concept: "All of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states; nations created the federal government."
make government "stand by our side, not ride on our back."
Reagan resolved to act immediately on "an economic affliction of great proportions" that grips the land, to trim back on the control of big government and to place his trust in the people and human initiative.
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