University Daily Kansan, April 15, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Land mines kill six Soviets
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand — Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas said yesterday their land mines had killed six Soviet advisers to Vietnamese occupation troops in two separate attacks in Cambodia.
The clandestine Khmer Rouge radio, monitored in Bangkok, said four Soviets had been killed April 4 when a truck hit a land mine near northwestern Battangbang province, and two others were killed the day before. The land mine explosion in the same province.
The report, which could not be confirmed, said 22 other "enemy soldiers" had been killed in the explosions.
AIDS conference begins today
ATLANTA — The world's first major conference on acquired immune deficiency syndrome. AIDS begins today at the Indiana State University, be spreading into the general population.
The national Center for Disease Control said 9,405 cases of AIDS and 4,533 deaths, a fatality rate of nearly 50 percent, have been reported in the United States as of April 8. Another 1,765 cases have occurred in 36 other countries.
Emotions affect teens' health
AIDS destroys the body's ability to ward off infections. Its victims fall prey to "opportunistic" infections that include deadly forms of cancer and pneumonia.
ATLANTA - Mental concerns can cause physical problems, especially in teen-agers, and physicians should examine the emotional condition of their young patients, an expert in adolescent medicine said yesterday.
Victor C. Strasburger stressed the importance for pediatricians to ask their patients about their needs.
Strasburger will present his findings to the American Academy of Pediatrics today.
U.S. sailor falls into volcano
NAPLES — A U.S. sailor touring Mount Vesuvius with a few buddies yesterday slipped and fell about 650 feet into the volcano's 4,000-foot deep crater and Italian rescue workers said he apparently had died in the plunge.
A spokesman for the Carabinieri paramilitary police identified the victim as Dale Ingle, 20, a sailor assigned to the Apache mariped boat USS McDowell, based in Naples.
The sailor's rank and hometown were not immediately available.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
IRS having problems as tax deadline nears
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans are racing to beat the midnight deadline for filing federal taxes today, perhaps reassured by a new law. Service is having a difficult time of its own.
It has been a bad year, perhaps the worst,
for the beleaguered agency that almost
left behind.
Even if the administration can get Congress to consider a simplified tax system later this year, the current system's headaches are far from over. This year's income will require the same kind of tax accounting a year from now.
Yet, Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., a sponsor of tax simplification legislation before Congress, said yesterday. "I'm very optimistic
said the law system for 1996."
THE INITIALS FOR THE SYSTEM.
The IRS hopes that by then the bugs will be worked out of its new $102 million Sperry Corp. computer system.
MEANWHILE, COMPUTER processing delays, allegations of staff sabotage of tax forms, new wrinkles in the filing procedure and complaints about new business vehicle logging requirements have generated many more calls than usual on IRS toll-free lines.
The lines were kept open Saturday and the last minute decision by IRS officials Friday.
But IRS Commissioner Roscoe Egger said yesterday that no evidence had been found to support the claim.
IRS telephones will be kept open until 6:30 this evening.
TAXPAYERS. FOR reasons no one has yet been able to explain, wait longer every year to file their returns, including those claiming unemployment benefits the last week to file, IRS officials estimate
The computer processing delays and the tax filing procrastination means an even an bigger bulge of returns will be given initial attention before it resumes weeks. Retund, retungs are separated so the
— nearly $65 billion last year — can be returned by June 1. After that the IRS must pay interest, retroactive to April 15.
The new computer system was not ready as soon as HS officials hoped last year and EEM should go ahead in November after being convinced the old system would cause far more delays.
problem, a series of mistakes by one of the 10 IRS service centers that confused the accounts of 29,000 business, five of which had bank accounts seized erroneously.
And not the least of the IRS problems has been the huge number of complaints about new rules requiring daily logs showing how company cars are used. The rules were relaxed somewhat in response to the complaints, but the issue remains alive.
The year began with another unusual
This year's tax form requires, for the first time, that about 10 percent of current Social Security recipients either pay some tax or at least report their income. But the IRS also relaxed its penalty procedure in this case, as long as any errors are limited to any taxable Social Security.
Salmonella spurs consumer caution
By United Press International
An outbreak of milk-related salmonella has had repercussions beyond the suffering of thousands of Midwestern sickened with the intestinal disease.
The largest reported outbreak of the disease in the United States has led consumers to question the safety of the food they buy in supermarkets.
Dairy industry officials are worried.
"THIS IS AN extremely had situation," said Lynn Oller, manager of Prairie Farms in Peoria. "We've had a number of calls asking us whether our product is safe to drink. This could hurt the entire industry's sales."
Once foods are contaminated, salmonella bacteria may grow at an alarming rate, medical experts say. But the presence of the
bacteria does not affect the appearance, the smell or the taste of the tainted food.
Salmonella, related to typhoid fever, is among the most common food poisoning in developed countries. The Midwest outbreak of salmonellia in Maryville in the Chicago area owned by Jewel Inc.
An epidemiologist for the Arizona Department of Health Services, who studied a three-month Salmonella outbreak in Phoenix in 1983 linked to raw milk, speculated that the milk contained a malfunction during pasteurization or contamination after the milk had been heat-treated.
the disease, which causes cramps, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, chills and fever. By last week there were nearly 4,000 reports of salmonella poisoning in Illinois, more than five confirmed. Cases also were confirmed in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The outbreak reported April 1 by the state's Department of Health initially was traced to Bluebrow brand 2 percent milk with a March 29 expiration date. Bluebrow is produced by Hillfarm Dairy in Melrose Park and distributed by Jewel.
Three deaths also may be linked to the salmonella.
And while the health department was holding press briefings and issuing warnings, the agency's director, Thomas B. Kirkpatrick, was on vacation in Cancun, Mexico. On Thursday night, Gov. Thompson fired him.
Jewel, with 30 percent of the grocery market share in the Chicago area, voluntarily removed its products from grocery shelves and closed the Hill farm dairy for an indefinite period while investigators tried to locate the cause.
Initially about 50 people came down with
Peru voters go to polls despite violence
By United Press International
Unofficial returns showed Alan Garcia, 35, of the Popular American Revolutionary Alliance, or APRA, holding a strong lead in precincts across the country, including the capital of Lima, where 35 percent of Peru's 8.2 million voters live.
But the early returns indicated he probably would not get the 50 percent of the vote
LIMA, Peru - a center-left congressman took the early lead yesterday in Peru's presidential election that drew some 8 million voters despite political violence and bombings by leftist rebels demanding a boycott. At least one person was killed.
needed for outright victory and thus would face a run-off in June against the secondplace finisher.
Security was tight throughout the country for the election, following a call for a boycott by the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group, which has been fighting for five years from bases in the Andes mountains to topple the government. The guerrillas led for a boycott of the election, labeling it a force designed to keep the wealthy Peruvian ruling class in power.
Running behind Garcia was Lima's Marxist mayor, Alfonso Barrantes, 57, the candidate of the United Left coalition of the communist parties, the returns showed.
In third place was right-wing candidate Luis Bedoya and a distant fourth was Javier Alva, nominee of the conservative Popular President of President Fernando Bejaulue Terry.
The election for a successor to Belaudne Terry was the first transfer of power from one democratically elected head of state to another in 40 years in Peru. Belaudne Terry is prohibited by the constitution from seeking a second five-year term. His successor will be sworn in on July 28, Peru's Independence Day.
Peruvians also were voting yesterday for two vice presidents, 60 senators and 180 congressmen.
Officials ask the president to visit camp
By United Press International
MUNICH, West Germany — the mayor of Jerusalem and the head of West Germany's Jewish community said yesterday President Reagan should honor World War II concentration camp victims during his May visit to West Germany.
In a statement in Bonn, Werner Nachmann, chairman of the Executive Council of West German Jews, praised Reagan's planned visit, but said it would be a fitting tribute to victims and the safety of terror if the leading representatives of American people would remember the Jewish victims during his visit."
In Munich, Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek told West Berlin Mayor Eberhard Dieppen it was "perfectly natural" for Reagan to set aside May 5 to visit a cemetery at Bittburg where German World War II soldiers are buried.
But he added that Reagan would be better advised were he also to visit a conference.
The Reagan administration earlier rejected a proposal that the president visit the Dachau concentration camp near Munich during his stay.
Some American Jews and veterans groups have attacked Reagan's plan to honor Nazi war dead during the state visit. The Americans are a decade anniversary of the end of the war in Europe.
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