University Daily Kansan, March 27, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
U.N. nominee announced
WASHINGTON — Vernon Walters, assured he will have a voice on national security matters, agreed to accept nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations even though he may have less experience as ambassador, it was announced yesterday.
Administration officials said Walters, a retired general, was not expected to play as influential a role as his predecessor Girkpatrick, who is returning to teaching.
Massacre of Afghans reported
NEW DELHI, India -- Soldiers murdered more than 900 Afghan civilians and hauled their bodies off in cattle carts in one of the bloodiest massacres since the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, a Western diplomat said yesterday.
No details on the date or nature of the conflict were immediately available, but it was thought that Soviet or government forces had attacked recently somewhere in northern Kunduz province, which overshadowed the Soviet Union, the diplomat said.
An estimated 500,000 Afghanis, many of them civilians, have been killed since the invasion.
Singer banned in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Singer Steven Wonder was banned yesterday day from South Africa's air waves after she posted a tweet of her band Mendela, a jai black nationalist leader.
The state-owned South African Broadcasting Corp. said in a television news report that Wonder's music would be banned from its radio and television
Wonder, who received an Oscar for his song "I Just Called to Say I Love You," accepted the award on behalf of Mandela, a founder of a life sentence for treason and sabotage.
Court allows gay advocacy
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a lower court decision that overturned an Oklahoma law that allowed the firing of teachers for "advocating" homosexual activity.
Gay rights activists contested the law on grounds it unconstitutional muzzled the free speech rights of homosexuals. They won in appeals court in Denver.
The Oklahoma City school board, saying students have a right to learn "traditional, fundamental, cultural values," appealed that decision.
Compiled from United-Press International reports.
MX missile survives House test by six votes
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House handed President Reagan a narrow six-victory on the MIX missile yesterday, accepting the argument that U.S. negotiators need to warhead weapon in their hands pry from the Soviets at the Geneva arms talks.
The House voted 219-129 to authorize $1.5 billion this year to build an additional 21 missiles. The Pentagon can get the money after a final vote to appropriate the money later in the week. The missile survived two identical 55-45 votes in the Senate last week.
Reagan immediately hailed the victory as a vote for success in Geneva in the recently reopened arms talks with the Soviets. Reagan lobbed intensely for the missile, calling members to the White House by the busload and bringing chief arms
Sixty-one Democrats crossed the aisle to win the president and only 24 Republican oppositions. (NY)
negotiator Max Kampelman home from the talks to help with the arm twisting.
HOUSE SPEAKER Thomas O'Neill, Mass., among the leading opponents, said the fight wasn't over and vowed to lobby hard to make up the six votes by which his side lost.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, D-Wis., a leader of the pro-MX forces this year and instrumental last year in the missile's survival, was hissed by Mr. Bush for his colleagues when he argued that a negative vote in effect would give some help to the Soviets.
"Every missile, every weapon on both sides is on the table," said Aspin. "Why should Congress unilaterally remove something from the table? It would be crazy for the Congress to take something away from our negotiators."
Just minutes after the vote was announced, Reagan declared in a statement that Congress had sent an important and powerful message of unichronian unity and resolve" to the rest of the world.
"AMERICA HAS SENT a message, loud and clear, that we back our negotiators and we will continue to do so," he said. "Today's vote was a vote for peace, for a safer future and for success in Geneva. And it is now essential that the House reaffirm today's vote for the MX-Peacekeeper by a second positive vote to release annotations."
Making the final pitch for the anti-MX forces was House Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas, who drew loud applause and a standing ovation with his challenge to both Reagan and the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.
"The time has come for sanity." Wright
says. "The time has come for both countries to quit war."
ductive instruments of destruction. The time has come to stop the hot harangues and heated rhetoric that betrays us halfway, Mr. Gorbachev, Gorbachev, and we'll walk the path of peace together."
MX opponents argued that House members should not buckle to intense White House pressure.
Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Wash., said the missile would not provide real defense, telling his colleagues the missile was a bullet and "Come hit me. Come knock me out."
The 21 missiles that would be produced with fiscal 1985 money would be in addition to 21 approved in the prior fiscal year.
Yesterday's vote, however, does not mean the MX fight is over. The administration still has pending before Congress its fiscal 1986 request for $4 billion to build 48 missiles, a figure many said would have to be trimmed as a condition of support for the 21 this year.
Iraq used chemical weapons, U.S. savs
By United Press International
WASHINGTON The State Department condemned Iraq yesterday for using chemical weapons against Iranian troops in the latest fighting of the Persian Gulf war.
Meanwhile, Iraqi warplanes bombed Teheran yesterday, killing nine people and wounding 30 in the ninth air attack on the Iranian capital this month, Iran said. Iraqi jets fired missiles also hit at least one ship in the Persian Gulf.
State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb issued the second condemnation of Iraq for use of chemical weapons in a year, and other department officials said that Secretary of State George Shultz had bluntly told
raiqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to stop the practice
Shultz met at the State Department Mondav with Aziz.
"We condemn the use of chemical weapons in violation of international law and conventions whenever and wherever it occurs, including this latest instance."
"Reports of the examination of victims by West European doctors complement other indications available to us, which I will not detail," Kalb said. "Based on this preliminary evidence, we conclude that Iraq used chemical weapons against the recent Iranian invasion attempt.
The United States has maintained a position of neutrality in the war between Iraq and Iran, which has intensified in recent weeks.
An official who wished to remain anonymous said Iraq was on the record as forswearing the use of any lethal chemical weapons.
But the United States and Iraq agreed late last year to restore full diplomatic relations, which Iraq broke off following the 1967 Arab-Irabil war. The Reagan administration opposed the new fundamentalist regime, led by the Ayatollah Khomeini, a threat to U.S. interests.
In the latest fighting, invading Iraqi planes swept over the Iranian capital at 1:30 a.m. and fired at least one rocket into the city of Kirkuk. The Islamic Republic News Agency reported
IRNA, in a dispatch monitored in Beirut,
said nine people died in the air raid and 30 men
were injured.
Arms talks continue in spite of shooting
By United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland — U.S. and Soviet arms control negotiators held their first detailed talks on space-based weapons yesterday despite heightened tension between the superpowers over the killing of a U.S. Army major by a Soviet guard in East Germany.
Three negotiators for both superpowers met at the Soviet mission in Geneva for three hours on defensive anti-missile space systems, a concept envisioned by President Reagan's "Star Wars" research program.
Although Washington and Moscow blamed
each other in Sunday's fatal shooting of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson by a Soviet sentry in East Germany, officials said the control talks would continue as scheduled.
In a brief statement issued after yesterday's session, the American and Soviet delegations said separate sub-groups would meet as planned today and tomorrow for sessions on intercontinental and medium-range nuclear weapons.
The Soviets have demanded that Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative program be halted and all weapons be banned from space for progress to be achieved on reducing existing offensive nuclear weapons.
Max M. Kampelman, the U.S. delegation leader and head of the space-weapons sub-group, returned from Washington yesterday just as the talks moved into a discussion on specific weapons, American officials said.
In an official statement on Nicholson's murder, the official Soviet news agency, Tass, said yesterday that a Soviet sentry shot Nicholson after he had opened the window of a restricted Soviet installation and had begun taking pictures.
Secretary of Defense Capler Weinberger, in Luxembourg for a NATO meeting, said the shooting was "totally unjustified."
239 arrested in S. Africa during march
By United Press International
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Police officers yesterday stopped a march called to protest the police killings of 19 black mourners last week and arrested 239 demonstrators who prayed and sang near South Africa's Parliament building.
Journalists on the scene said police warned the Rev. Allan Boesak, leader of the march in Cape Town and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, that his demonstration was illegal. The men gave the crowd five minutes to disperse.
Walking three abreast with linked arms, the protesters knelt in prayer and sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers" before being led away by police.
The decision to march to Parliament was made during a memorial service for 19 black mourners who were killed by police Thursday in the nation's worst incident of racial violence in 25 years. The shootings occurred as a crowd of blacks charged with kidnapping and shooting victims at Langa, a black township outside the city of Uitenhage.
Anglican churchman Syd Luckett urged the crowd of about 300 black and white Christian yesterday to remain calm and orderly
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