University Daily Kansan, May 1, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Food escapes from space zoo
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — posing rat food particles, monkey pellets and feces escaped into a shuttle laboratory module yesterday, but all 26 animals in the onboard space 200 were reported healthy and happy.
The "flood" of debris from the space shuttle's animal cages was the latest in a long series of nagging problems for the seven men aboard Challenger.
The particles were released when scientist William Thornton tried to replace rat food and check on a feeder for one of the traps. The module is Spacelab module in the ship's cargo bay.
WARSAW, Poland — Solidarity founder Lech Walesa accused authorities yesterday of making mass arrests of workers and intellectuals to blunt calls by underground union leaders for anti-government May Day protests
Walesa decries mass arrests
Underground leaders of the banned Solidarity union have called for national demonstrations to demand compulsory taxes and censures and the release of political prisoners.
Police yesterday detained three of Wales's associates and banned another.
Man begins Everest assault
KATMANDU, Nepal — A 55-year-old Texas millionaire began an assault on the summit of Mount Everest yesterday in his plane to climb the world's highest mountain.
But 15 hours after Dick Bass of Dallas, the millionaire, and two assistants set off for the summit of the 29,029 foot mountain, their expedition colleagues reported there has no word on whether they had succeeded in the try, the Tourism Ministry said.
Car bomb kills 1. injures 12
BRUSSELS, Belgium — A car bomb planted by plantian terroristists exploded in central Brussels early today, killing a man and wounding 12 other people, police said.
The car blew up as the firefighters were trying to extinguish the blaze, killing one firefighter and injuring four of his comrades, who were thrown by the blast, police said. Eight civilians also were injured
The Communist Combatant Cells claimed responsibility for the blast in leaflets distributed shortly before the attack, police said. The group is responsible for a string of bombings against NATO targets in Belgium since October.
Compiled from, United Press International reports.
Reagan begins trip as protests mount
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, opening a 10-day European journey that includes a controversial visit to Nazi graves, said yesterday he was determined "to carry forward the spirit of peace and reconciliation" of World War II foes.
Meanwhile, West German leaders praised President Reagan's determination to visit the cemetery, but a Jewish group vowed to trip unless he abandoned the cemetery tour.
In a farewell statement, Reagan said, "The friendship between the American and German peoples" was "dramatic proof of the former enemies can be brought together again."
Reagan, wearing a gray suit and maroon tie, read his statement, refused to answer questions and waved to a crowd of several hundred staff and guests on the floodlit South
Lawn of the White House before boarding his helmet and flying to Andrews Air Force Base in Pennsylvania.
THE PRESIDENT's decision to go through with a wreath-laying ceremony Sunday at the German military cemetery at Bitburg, Germany, where members of Adolf Hitler's dreaded SS Waffen are buried, has caused consternation among Jewish and veterans groups and provoked protests from Congress.
The President left Andrews Air Force Base on board Air Force One at about 10 p.m.
In remarks to a gathering of staffers and their families at the White House, Reagan noted the "strong, confident alliance of free people," who carried on this journey infused with pride and hope.
As the leaders of the major industrial democracies converged on Bonn for their annual group encounter, Reagan's aides tried to emphasize the events scheduled to
mark the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II and take the spotlight away from the Biburg ceremony.
IN A BALANCING action, arranged after the furor over Bitburg erupted, Reagan also intends to stop at the Bergen-Belsen death camp the same day, and aides said he would speak on the "horrors" of the Holocaust.
Kalman Sultaniak, vice president of the World Jewish Congress, told the West German news agency DPA that "only with the help of police" would Reagan succeed in entering the former Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen — a stop planned for Sunday — unless he gives up his controversial cemetery visit.
Sultanik indicated protesters would attempt to block the president's way to Bergen and sent tens of thousands of geysers and Rumans died, if the Biburst goes forward.
"In the eyes of Jews, this is a gross injury to the memory of the victims." Sultanik said.
SECRETARY OF STATE George Shultz told a news conference yesterday that "the political price would be heavier" if Reagan canceled the visit, reflecting administration concern that to back out now would damage West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Following the two-day Economic Summit, Reagan will stay on in Bonn for a two-day state visit, including the Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen events Sunday.
From Germany, the president will travel to Spain and Portugal for state visits.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Reagan's planned visit to the cemetery was "a noble gesture" that would "prevail as a great achievement of a great president."
"Welcome, Friend," read the headline yesterday in the Bild Zeitung, the country's biggest newspaper with 11 million readers, alongside a photo of Reagan.
Saigon's fall recalled by U.S. and Vietnam
By United Press International
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Vietnam marked the 10th anniversary of the communist takeover of Saigon yesterday, parading its goose-stepping troops past the former U.S. Embassy where the last Americans died April 30, 1975.
Meanwhile, in Washington, two teen-agers and three young adults, representing the 50,000 children of Americans lost in Southeast Asia, placed a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial — the 10th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
About 1 million spectators in Ho Chi Minh City braved swelling weather for the three-hour ceremony, the elixir of a month of memorizing the end of the Vietnam War.
"We extend to the progressive American people our friendly greetings," Communist Party chief Le Duaan said Monday in the capital of Hanoi, making clear that impoverished Vietnam was anxious to restore diplomatic ties with Washington.
DESPITE VIETNAMS overtures, diplomats in Ho Chi Minh City — formerly Saigon — said it was doubtful Washington would move to renew ties with Hanoi as long as the issue of about 2-477 American soldiers listed in unconfrontation in Indochina remained unresolved
salvo from 105mm cannons abandoned by U.S. combat forces when they evacuated Vietnam in 1973 – two years before the communists' final triumph on April 30, 1975.
Gunners from the world's fourth-largest standing arm opened the parade by firing a
The last U.S. personnel in Vietnam fled Saigon in a helicopter that took off from the embassy's roof on April 30, 1975, as North Vietnamese tanks rolled into the city and crashed through the gates of the former Presidential Palace.
NGUYEN VAN LINH, Ho Chi Minh City's Communist Party chairman, read a speech praising founding father Ho Chi Minh, the North Vietnamese communist leader, and noting the celebration marked the end of a long battle against French and then American forces.
But, in Washington, the representatives of the children who had lost parents had a different response.
"I never questioned whether the war was right or wrong, but I know my father is gone and I feel cheated," said Christine Hess whose father, Air Force Maj. Frederick Hess, was shot down on March 28, 1969, when she was just 1.
"I never got a chance to know him," said Christine, 17, of Arlington, Va. "But my mom told me I'm very much like my father. He always knew what he did. And he loved us very much."
The high school senior was accompanied by Jeff Smith, 18, two of his brothers — twins Patrick Smith 21, and Michael Smith, 21, all of Arlington.
Mine explosions rock S. African businesses
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Three Soviet-made mines exploded yesterday at the headquarters of two giant gold mining companies that recently fired about 17,500 black mine workers for staging an illegal strike.
Authorities said racial unrest continued late Monday and early yesterday in eastern Cape Province and in black townships surrounding Johannesburg and Pretoria. About 150 people have died in the protests this year, at least 10 in the past week.
A police spokesman said three Soviet-made limit mines that adhere to metal surfaces exploded in the entrances to the buildings, killing 10 people causing extensive damage but no injuries.
The street in Johannesburg's downtown financial district was littered with glass and shattered masonry and a number of broken windows. That came within 30 seconds of each other.
THE BLASTS CAME two hours after mine officials and the National Union of Mineworkers agreed that the dismissed men would be given preference in the recruitment of a new work force for the mines, as only if they returned to distant tribal lands.
The Anglo Vaal company fired 3,000 men.
at the Haartbeebestfonnite last last Friday and Anglo American dismissed 14,500 black miners at the Vaal Reefs mine Saturday after illegal wage strikes.
A committee of 31 black trade unions, formed to organize May Day celebrations in South Africa, said in a statement the group was the largest mass firing in South African history.
Demanding the right to strike without fear of reprisals, the committee said. "We will not take these dismissals sitting on our desk in any way form of action they contemplated
POLICE INVESTIGATED the bombings of the Anglo Vaal and Anglo mine companies in Johannesburg and a mining company in Sasol, obviously were linked to the mass firing.
"The timing of the attacks and the precise targets leave little doubt about a motive to unsettle any peace initiatives." the official said.
A police spokesman in Pretoria, meanwhile, said unrest continued Monday and early yesterday in the recession-striken industrial eastern Cape Province and in townships near Johannesburg and Pretoria
Houses, a school and a garbage truck were torched and the lives of black policemen were threatened in the Linguez town. The eastern Cape Province town of Cradock.
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