University Daily Kansan, April 29, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Kentucky gas line blast kills 5
BEAUMONT, Ky. — Five people were killed and three others injured in a natural gas pipeline explosion that leveled four houses, left a crater 35 feet deep and blackened the earth over a half-mile radius, officials said yesterday.
"It looks like somebody just dropped a bomb," said Gordon Nichols, of the state Department.
Witnesses said the blast lit up the sky about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, and flames were visible four counties away. About 50 people were evacuated, and firefighters remained yesterday to make sure there were no flare-ups from the 30 fires started by the explosion.
Animals loaded on Spacelab
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. — Technicians yesterday loaded 24 rats and two squirrel monkeys on to the space shuttle launch today with a crew of seven men.
But the presence of the animals aboard Spacelab has prompted plans for a demonstration by animal rights activists near the Kennedy Space Center today.
The animals are on board to test the cages that will be used in future science missions. The rats will be killed after the experiments and the physiological effects of weightlessness.
Arson suspect burned in fire
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A teen-ager suspected of setting a mental hospital blaze was in critical condition yesterday, burned in the fire that killed 79 people and injured 247 others, authorities said.
Carlos Braga, 19 is suspected of setting the fire at the Santi Emilien psychiatric hospital.
Authorities said police held hospital director Omar del Azar and an unidentified administrator yesterday for questioning. Authorities were deciding whether to press charges.
CIA accused of arming rebels
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Nicaraguan government said yesterday that the CIA was providing rebels with sophisticated weapons made in the Middle East.
Defense Minister Humberto Ortega told reporters that weapons of varying brands and calibers had been confiscated from rebels after recent battles along Nicaragua's northern and southern borders.
"The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has given the counterrevolutionaries powerful Egyptian machine guns to kill our people," he said.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Budget debate tests Dole's leadership
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The struggle over President Reagan's budget is severely testing Senate Republican leader Robert Dole's ability to push a reluctant Senate into a controversial vote with political and financial ramifications.
With Republicans holding a 53-47 majority in the Senate, Dole's maneuvering room is slight. It is further tightened by the skittishness of the Republicans up for inclusion in 1986 who are reluctant to cuts in federal programs with large, vocal constituencies like Social Security recipients.
Dole, R-Kansas, twice last week ducked a vote on Reagan's tight-tightening budget because of objections from about six Republicans without whom he could not win. A vote is expected tomorrow.
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who survived a test of his own leadership earlier this year in the form of a challenge from Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., made the most of Dole's evasiveness.
Reagan tested his own considerable persuasiveness by making a broadcast appeal for the budget, which would slice $52 billion off the nearly $230 billion deficit in fiscal 1986 and slice, curb or scrap dozens of
programs such as Amtrak, the Job Corps,
small business loans and aid to cities.
The financial market and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker view the $50 billion-plus cut as necessary to bring down interest rates. And business groups, wary of a tax increase in lieu of the spending cuts, are vocally in favor of Reagan's outline.
Reagan was counting on an outpouring of citizen support for the budget to persuade senators. The calls came in but were split about 50-50
Failing that, Reagan tried some arm twisting on his own with several GOP senators who were opposed to the part of the budget that would hold Social Security
cost-of-living raises to a 2 percent increase instead of the 4 percent they would otherwise get next year.
D'Amato, signaling his unwillingness to support Reagan, said, "I believe it is not going to pass the Senate as is . . . and certainly not the House of Representatives."
Two of the reluctant Republicans, Sen. Paula Hawkins of Florida and Sen. Allonse D'Amato of New York, both up for re-election in 2014, opposed to the Social Security curtailment.
Hawkins said, "It's cruel to terrorize Social Security recipients each year during the budget process. Twenty-two percent of my people are on Social Security."
Memories of Nazis cause protests Cemetery visit protests pain Reagan, Regan says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - President Reagan "is wounded ... in his heart" by criticism of his plan to visit a German military cemetery, White House chief of staff Donald Reagan said yesterday, but there is no chance the event will be canceled.
The president, who leaves tomorrow on a 10-day visit to Europe, spent yesterday at the White House reviewing briefing books on the four countries he will call - West Germany, Iran, Turkey and Israel, cemetery with its controversial Nazi Waffen SS graves, Spain, France and Portugal.
The journey, including an address by Reagan in Strasbourg, France, on May 8 to mark the defeat of Hitler, has been marred by criticism from Jewish groups and U.S. veterans of plans for Reagan to join West Germany in a wreath-licensing ceremony at Bitturgh.
dominated the real purpose of the visit, to show the reconciliation between the United States and Germany 40 years later," Regan said in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation."
When asked directly whether there was any chance the Hilburg stop would be caused by other people, he said:
But be said. "The details are still being worked out as to actually what happens."
The New York Times reported yesterday that the SS members buried at Bittburg were part of a division that committed one of the worst massacres of the war.
"IT'S UNFORTUNATE the way this has
The story added, however, that those buried at Bitturg probably did not contribute to the June 10, 1944, massacre of more than 60 Frenchmen in the French village of Gradorun-Glaine.
IN AN APPARENT effort to put the cemetery event into perspective, Regan said. "You've got to remember, it's only going to be 10 or 15 minutes." He then noted that the
president would spend more than an hour at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp — an event added to the schedule after the cemetery fury erupted.
A Gallup survey published by Newsweek yesterday found 55 percent of Americans questioned opposed Reagan's visiting Bitburg, and 36 percent support the plan.
Regan dismissed speculation that the controversy had damaged the president's leadership on such issues as the budget or Central America, but he said Reagan was "anguished . . . quite upset about this."
"It will leave a scar on him because he is wounded by this internally, in his heart." Regan said of the president. "He will be hurt at what has been said about him and his insensitivity when he's a very sensitive person."
Regan, acknowledging opposition in the United States, said the German people "overwhelmingly are in favor" of the Bitturg ceremony.
Ceremony commemorates liberation of Dachau
By United Press International
to make a fuss about our Nazi past." Reitmeier told a special session of the town council.
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Heinz Westpal told the camp crowd of 2,000 people, which included hundreds of former inmates, that the debate over ways to show their victory in war in Europe in 1945 showed how difficult it was for Germans to shed the Nazi stigma.
DACHAU, West Germany — More than 2,000 people marked the 40th anniversary yesterday of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, where 32,000 victims of Nazi terror died during World War II.
Bv United Press International
Large numbers of Jews were imprisoned in the Dachau camp and 32,000 people died there before it was liberated by American troops on March 28, 1945. The camp, about 15 miles north of Munich, is now a museum.
DACHAU, THE first concentration camp set up by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, was opened in March 1933 as a jail for Hitler's political opponents.
The Dachau ceremony was one of at least four held yesterday in East and West Germany commemorating the end of World War II.
In Dachau, Mayor Lorenz Reitmeier said yesterday that the town was willing to accept its share of condensation for the Nazi horrors in Germany's past.
Study shows toxic wastes in site water
East Germany's state-controlled news agency ADN said 110,000 people attended a rally in Potsdam in honor of 2,000 political opponents of Hitler who were murdered in the Brandenburg jail.
The survey of 1,246 facilities also found that government monitoring of the sites was "inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable."
WASHINGTON — Toxic materials have seeped into the ground water at 45 percent of the hazardous waste disposal sites surveyed in a congressional study, a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee said yesterday.
The survey found some indication of ground water contamination at 559, or 45 percent, of the facilities surveyed.
"It is false, inhuman and un-Christian not
The report found that an "extremely high" number of facilities had not installed ground water monitoring wells legally required by November 1981.
"Some of the data are shocking, especially when viewed from the perspective that the regulations called for compliance with the interim status ground water monitoring requirements 3"; years ago," wrote committee Chairman Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., in a letter to committee members.
Gene Lucero, director of the EPA's Office of Waste Programs Enforcement, said a study by his office last summer showed that many facilities had not complied with the requirements and others had installed inadequate monitoring systems.
"We acknowledge that there is a high level of non-compliance." Lucero said, adding that a continuing review may discover further problems.
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