University Daily Kansan, April 17, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Military takes cut of taxes
WASHINGTON — Fifty-one cents of every federal income tax dollar this year will finance military programs, including payment of interest on the national debt related to past defense spending, a study released yesterday said.
The 14-page report was compiled by the Defense Budget Project of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-profit research and analysis group.
"This 1990 expenditure would represent the highest military share of income taxes reached since the Vietnam War years," it said.
Neves' condition called grave
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Doctors used a respirator and a kidney machine yesterday to keep President-elect Tancredo Neves alive after seven operations in less than a month, and his sister summoned a faitha healer to try to save him.
Nevens' first abdominal surgery prevented him from taking office as Brazil's president.
A neurosurgeon said Nees J., probably a sufferer of irreversible brain damage and stroke, is a leading expert.
"At best we are talking about a very, very remote chance of recovery," a press release reads.
U.S., Poland to resume flights
WARSAW, Poland — The United States and Poland agreed yesterday to resume commercial flights this month for the first time since 1981, when Washington suspended landing rights to protest Poland's imposition of martial law.
The first Pan American World Airways flight will land April 28 at Warsaw's Okeakei Airport, under the agreement signed at the Polish Ministry of Transport. A Polish airlines LOT aircraft will fly to New York on the same day.
Blind man's drive arresting
CHESAPEAK, Va. — Police arrested a 24-year-old blind man yesterday who apparently had decided it was safer for him to drive than his intoxicated female
Patrolman RL, Farney stopped a car that was weaving across three lanes of highway. Inside were Mark Daniels, 24, of Portsmouth, who was wearing dark glasses, and his passenger, Kelly Pelton, 20.
Daniels was charged with drunken driving, reckless driving and driving without a license. The officer said Daniels told him Pelton had been directing him as they drove home from a Virginia Beach tavern at 3 a.m.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Discovery crew ready to rescue satellite
By United Press International
CAPE CANERAL, Fla. — Two astronauts strapped makeshift skis to the end of space shuttle Discovery's robot arm yesterday in a flawless, unrehearsed space wall, setting the stage for today's attempt to lift a damaged Tissue fuse on the disabled Suncom satellite.
"Stand up and take a bow," Rhea Seddon said to spacewalk Jeffrey Hoffman and David Griggs just before they returned to the safety of the shuttle's air后 spending three hours working in the ship's open cargo bay.
They lashed a "fly swatter" and a "lacrosse stick" to the end of the 50-foot arm, using straps that on board to tie down loose equipment. The impromptu space walk was executed while the shuttle was 43 miles from Symcom, at an altitude of more than 190 miles.
ARM OPERATOR Seddon was set to take center stage today after pilots Karol Bobkok and Donald Williams track down the slowly spinning, 15,200-pound communications satellite during three hours of maneuvers.
They will fly Discovery within 35 feet of the 14-foot diameter satellite, keeping it hovering above the payload bay, its ICBM-type
rocket motor pointed down at the 122-foot-long shuttle.
Then as the two spacecraft cross the equator over the Atlantic Ocean at 8:09 a.m. CST, Seddon, watching from the rear windows of Discovery's cabin, will carefully move the arm in to flip up a 4-inch lever on the side of Syncom.
"I think we have a very good probability of transporting the flight director Randy Stengel westward."
Stone also said the crew might land tomorrow if the Florida weather was good and if Seddon was able to pull the lever on her first few tries.
THE SNARES HOFFMAN and Griggs
attached to the end of the mechanical arm will be sweep along the glittering blue solar panels on the satellite to try to snag the lever and vank it fully open.
The other two members of the crew — McDonnell Douglas engineer Charles Walker and Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah — do not have roles in the salvage operation.
There had been five previous space walks from shuttles, but this was the first time space walkers had ventured out without specific pre-launch training. Every crew carries two space suits for emergencies and two crewmen always have some training for emergency procedures, but not procedures like yesterday's operation.
Court allows CIA to withhold documents
By United Press International
The justices, in a unanimous decision, said the intelligence agency legally denied a request for data about the experimental drug Rifabat. The Court, which was conducted between 1953 and 1966
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday gave the CIA sweeping power to withhold documents from the public, even if the information was sensitive with national security.
Little is known about the research project, begun in response to U.S. concern about Soviet and Chinese advances in brain research. Most of its records were destroyed in 1973.
The program became a subject of congressional concern in the 1970s when it was reported that several MKULTRA projects involved experiments in which researchers
administered dangerous drugs, such as LSD,
numbing numbers, or the substance people
could mistake for solvents.
YESTERDAY'S DECISION reversed the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had ruled that information from or about intelligence sources could be withheld only if that the sources would have provided information to the CIA without a promise of secrecy.
The ruling will hamper efforts by the public to obtain CIA documents, said Mark Lynch of the American Civil Liberties Union national security project.
“One of the most alarming things about this case is, even if information doesn't qualify for classification, the CIA can hold on to information it said it is a source of intelligence,” he said.
The court said difficulty in obtaining records was a necessary price to pay because the courts often have to wait.
seemed insignificant, "often can tell our adversaries something that is of value to them."
WRITING FOR THE CIRT in the CIA case, Chief Justice Warren Burger said the CIA had "very broad authority to protect all sources of intelligence information."
"The reasons are too obvious to call for enlarged discussion," he said.
The dispute over the CIA records began in August 1977, when an attorney and a public research group filed a request, under the Freedom of Information Act, for names of researchers and other information associated with the drug program.
The agency released grant proposals and contracts, but refused to disclose names of institutions and individuals that performed research because of a provision of national security law authorizing the CIA director to protect intelligence sources.
Judge requests fund for Bhopal victims
By United Press International
NEW YORK - A federal judge yesterday urged union Carbide Corp. to immediately set up an emergency fund of $5-101 million for the 200,000 people injured by a deadly gas leak at the company's pesticide plant in India.
Union Carbide's attorney countered that the lawsuit would be a quick-appointment, complicated
Seeping methyl isocyanate gas killed at least 1,700 people and injured 200,000 Dec. 3 at Union Carbide's plant in the central Indian state of Bihar for no official death estimates range up to 2,500.
More than 100 lawyers from the United States and India flocked to a federal court in Manhattan for the first hearing on more than
60 suits they have filed against Union Carbide on behalf of the Indian victims and their families.
U. S. DISTRICT Judge John Keenan briskly opened the hearing with the statement that "fundamental human decency" required Union Carbide to immediately create a fund to help the hundreds of thousands maimed by the poisonous fumes.
"The situation is still critical there." Keenan said. "As an indication of good will, it is possible for Union Carbide to offer a truly significant sum — $5 or $10 million — to be immediately funded through the Red Cross?"
The fund would not be an admission of wrongdoing, the judge said, and could be counted towards any eventual settlement of the case.
Danbury-based chemical conglomerate, said that Union Carbide already had donated $1 million to the Indian government and that its Indian subsidiary had offered to donate another $1 million to the Indian province in which its plant operated.
Attorney Bud Holman, who represents the
"WE'RE TRYING very hard to help the victims." Holman said.
The chief obstacle to a settlement, he said, was a lack of definitive information from the Indian government about the number of dead and injured.
Outside the courtroom, Holman said that once Union Carbide had that information, the judge's recommendation would be "favorably considered."
The competing lawsuits filed in the United States ask for more than $15 billion in compensatory and punitive damages for the victims.
Opponents of apartheid are arrested
By United Press International
BERKELEY, Calif. — Police arrested 161 anti-apartheid demonstrators at the University of California yesterday, touching off a violent scuffle and prompting a call from former student activist Mario Savio for intensified protests.
The mass arrests were the largest on the campus since 1964, when about 600 people sprinted across a street at the time, were dragged out of Sproll Hall, an administration building
The outbreak of violence on Bancroft Avenue just outside the campus was the first in a weeklong camp-in on the steps of Sproul to protest the school's $1.7 billion investments with companies doing business in South Africa.
While the arrests were being made on the campus at dawn, 21 members of the student government went to University Hall, headquarters for the nine-campus UC system, and blocked the entrance, meeting with staff and employees to use a back entrance.
A university spokesman said only 87 of those arrested identified themselves as students. All were charged with trespassing and illegally camping on the campus. Most of those arrested went quietly, but about 20 were charged with resisting arrest, including one who bit an officer on the hand.
Students involved also face discipline by the university.
Demonstrators put new anti-spartheid signs on the walls of campus buildings, defying campus rules.
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