University Daily Kansan, March 29 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Tire linked to bus accident
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A double-decker high school bus that plunged into a lake and sank, killing 42 students, may have been out of control because of a blown tire, authorities said yesterday.
Another 28 students were injured, some critically, in the Wednesday accident.
The bus went out of control as it passed the wall of the Westside Dam, about three miles southwest of the bridge.
A motorcycle behind the bus said it began to swerve across the road and then plunged into the dam, falling on its side. The water was moving in and into the water and rescued eight children.
Plane hits mountain; 40 dead
BOGOTA, Colombia — A commercial airliner whose pilot ignored warnings of bad weather slammed into a fog-shrouded mountain in southern Colombia during a storm yesterday, killing all 40 people aboard, authorities said.
Civil Aeronautics chief Guillermo Penagas said the wreckage of the Satena Airlines Fokker 28 — a twin-engine turboprop plane — was found near San Vicente de Caguan, about 250 miles southwest of Bogota.
Pentagon halts GE business
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon barred the General Electric Co. yesterday from conducting future business with the Defense Department pending the outcome of a federal fraud indictment against the vice president contractor and home appliance company.
The suspension stems from an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury Tuesday charging that the company defrauded the government of $800,000 between January 1980 and April 1983 in work on nuclear warhead systems.
Artist Marc Chagall dies at 97
ST. PAUL DE VENCE, France — Mare Chagall, the last surviving artist of the school that included Picasso and Matisse, died from an undisclosed illness at his home in this Mediterranean village, police said yesterday. He was 97.
Chagail, who was born in the small Russian town of Vitebsk, was considered one of the great colorists of the 20th century. Mythical colors, whimsical folk songs and an irreverent disregard of perspective were the hallmarks of his style.
"When Matisse dies," Picasso once said, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is."
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Congress approves more MX missiles
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congress gave President Reagan final approval yesterday for 21 more MX missiles, and Reagan said America can now stand united before the Soviets and the world during superpower arms talks in Geneva, Switzerland.
Geneva, Switzerland.
However, the final 217-210 House vote still may not mean Reagan will get everything he wants.
Four Senate Democrats who supported
Reagan on releasing money for producing the 21 missiles said they will try to cut total deployment to less than half what Reagan has proposed.
The House gave Reagan his fourth and decisive victory in his drive to free $1.5 billion for the missiles, held in limbo since last fall. He had to win all four votes, two in the House and two in the Senate over the past two weeks, to get the missiles.
sixty-one Democrats joined 156 Republicans voting for the missile while 187 Democrats and 23 Republicans opposed it in
yesterday's final tally. Five members, three previous "no" votes and two previous "yes" votes, were absent or did not vote.
Reagan's string of victories began last week with two 55-45 wins in the Senate, where several Democrats warned their votes this time would come at the expense of much of Reagan's fiscal 1986 request for $4 billion for 48 missiles. They made good their promise yesterday just an hour after the House tally was announced.
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd and Sens. Sam Sunn, D-Ga. Dive Boren.
D-Dokla, and Albert Gore, D-Tenn, said at a joint news conference they would offer legislation allowing deployment of 40 MX in the 31 sites instead of the 100 proposed by Reagan.
The only new MX missiles that would be authorized under this plan would be a "small number" needed for testing and spares, including 12 in fiscal 1996.
Gore said the administration agreed in 1981 that it could accept 40 or 50 missiles instead of 100. "We told them we would not go that high," Gore said.
Acid rain is threat to nation, report says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Acid rain is now a nationwide problem that threatens five western national parks and that will cause long-term harm unless strong pollution controls are adopted, a research group said yesterday.
yesterday.
"We no longer have only suspicions," said Gus Speth, president of the World Resources Institute, explaining a report to be released Friday. "Acidos in the West's snow, fog, rain and dry air pose disturbing and increasing threats to the West's valuable commercial and recreational resources."
The areas already affected by acid rain include Yosemite, Sequoia, Mount Ranier, North Cascades and Rocky Mountain national parks, said the study by scientists from the institute and the University of California at Berkeley.
The study identified six other national parks as sensitive to acid rain damage: Yellowstone, King's Canyon, Devil's Posthole, Olympic, Crater Lake and Glacier.
Information gathered in the 18-month study indicates that acid rain, previously believed to pose a greater danger only in the Northeast, is a national problem. Soeth said.
But the director of the institute's acid rain program said that the West still had the
opportunity to avoid the same kind of damage that had already occurred the East.
Scientists said that sulfur and nitrogen oxide pollutants caused acid rain. But the new report said that the cause was composed of different elements in the West, where nitrogen oxides emitted by cars and trucks were more damaging and where industry — not electric utility power plants — generated the most sulfur dioxide.
The problem plagues not only Western wilderness, but also major coastal cities, the (Pacific) coast.
As an example, researchers cited fog in the San Francisco Bay and around Los Angeles. Researchers have also found that fog
comparable to those of concentrated sulfuric acid.
Researchers also reported heavy ozone damage to California forests and acidification of soils and water in the Colorado Rockies and the Washington Cascades, where soils of higher elevations have little capacity to neutralize acid.
The report's recommendations included reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from vehicles and ending the exemption of olean's copper smelters' from the Clean Air Act.
Drinking water taken from sensitive mountain areas could contain high levels of mercury.
Shultz, Gorbachev disagree on 'Star Wars' U.S.takes strong stance Soviet leader skeptical
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Bush said yesterday the administration was willing to meet the Soviet Union halfway at the arms control table but would not give the Kremlin a veto power over "Star Wars."
Shultz gave a strong defense of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the $2 billion research program into a non-nuclear, space-based defense shield known as "Star
Shultz said the results of arms control talks that began in Geneva, Switzerland, March 12, 2003 were not conclusive.
In remarks prepared for delivery to the Austin (Texas) Council on Foreign Relations, Shultz denied the United States was starting another arms race or seeking nuclear superiority with the program. He denied it and in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
would maintain U.S. and allied security and lessen the risks of war.
"We are prepared to be flexible, however, about ways to achieve our objectives. We will meet the Soviets halfway in finding a mutually acceptable approach," he said.
The talks are broken into three categories of weapons: long-range strategic nuclear weapons; intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe; and space weapons. The first point has been Soviet objections to "Star Wars" as a bid by the United States for nuclear superiority.
"SDI is not a bid for strategic superiority; on the contrary, it would maintain the balance in light of the rapid Soviet progress in intensive and offensive systems." Shulzt said.
He also noted Reagan has directed that the program be carried out in keeping with the ABM treaty, which prohibits deployment of an anti-missile defense system, and that any decision to deploy be negotiated with the Kremlin.
By United Press International
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev accused the United States yesterday of using the Geneva arms control talks as "a screen" for carrying out a huge military buildup that threatens world peace.
In a written reply to questions from a West German peace group, the new Kremlin chief criticized congressional financing of 21 new MX missiles, President Reagan's "Star Wars" anti-missile plan and deployment of U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
The Geneva arms talks, which began March 12, "have given rise to many hopes" but "things accompanying the beginning of war" but put one on guard." Gorbachev said.
"One gets the impression from statements by high-ranking representatives of the S.A. that they need the talks as a screen for caucus activities," he said in a letter to the Peace Council of
Heilborn that was published by the official news agency Tass.
Garbache criticized Congress for approving funding for another 21 MX interchange.
Gorbachev, who was elected secretary general of the Communist Party on March 11 after the death of President Konstantin Chernenko, also condemned Reagan's Stragetic Defense Initiative known as "Star Wars."
Reagan proposes spending $26 billion over the next five years on research for the building of a systems that could shoot down incoming missiles. The Soviet Union has repeatedly criticized the U.S. position that "Star Wars" research is open to discussion in the Geneva talks but will not be halted.
Gorbachev also said the American military threat to peace was particularly evident in Western Europe, where 572 U.S. Pershing 2 and cruise missiles are being deployed under a 1979 NATO program.
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