University Daily Kansan, March 26, 198f
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
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Justice resumes court duties
WASHINGTON — Justice Lewis Powell returned to the Supreme Court bench yesterday after a three-month absence to recuperate from surgery for cancer of the prostate, and took part in oral arguments on cases awaiting decision.
Powell, who is reed-thin, looked frail and thinner than usual. But he took copious notes on the arguments of lawyers in four cases debated yesterday. He is expected to hear eight more arguments today and tomorrow.
Although he had been working a limited amount at home since his operation at a Rochester, Minn., hospital, he was unable to participate in cases argued in January and February.
Savings and loans reopen
COLUMBUS, Ohio — All 70 save and loans closed by Ohio's governor in a financial crisis were allowed to reopen yesterday and offer at least limited
Eighteen of the 70 associations closed March 15 by Gov. Richard Celeste were operating under federal clearance to resume offering full services with no limit on withdrawals. The remainder were allowed to offer depositors only with withdrawals of $750 a month.
The crisis began after the state closed Home State Savings Bank in Cincinnati on March 6, following a three-day run by depositors. Home State remained closed yesterday.
Archbishop pleads guilty
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Archbishop John Roach, asking forgiveness from the 500,000 Roman Catholics he leads, pleaded guilty to drunken driving yesterday and must spend one night in jail.
Chisago County District Judge Linn Stattenreng fined Roach $40, ordered him to pay $45 in legal fees and sentenced him to three years in jail (wounded all but two days of the sentence).
The archbishop will be given credit for the one night he spent in jail Feb. 21, the night he was arrested after driving up to a convenience store in Lindstrom, about 35 miles north of St. Paul.
Bills redefine term 'pay TV'
SELLERSVILLE, Pa. — The price of cable TV has gone up $40,404 for each of 14,500 customers who received erroneous data month from their local cable company.
The huge balance statements in the bills, which were mailed to all the customers of Suburban Cable TV, were attributed to a computer glitch.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
U.S. soldier dies in East Germany
By United Press International
HEIDELBERG, West Germany — A Soviet soldier shot and killed an American Army major without warning in East Germany in an incident President Reagan yesterday called an unwarranted tragedy.
But the Soviets accused the officer of sving and said he was caught red-handed.
The Sunday shooting was the first line-of-duty fatality involving a member of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission in Potsdam, East Germany.
The Army identified the dead officer as 16-year veteran Maj. Arthur Donald Nicholson Jr., 37, a Russian linguist. Originally from West Redding, Conn., Nicholson was assigned to the mission in 1982 and lived in West Berlin with his wife Karen and their 8-year-old daughter.
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as a spy
BUT HE ALSO said the Soviets had expressed their regret over the shooting and maintained the incident would make him
eager to meet with new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
U. S. Army and administration officials said Nicholson had been shot in the chest Sunday afternoon in Ludwigslust, 85 miles northwest of Berlin and near Scherwiner, where a number of Soviet military installations are located.
The U.S. Army in Europe, based in Heidelberg, first announced the incident and details were released later in Washington.
Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt said at a news conference that Nicholson had been accompanied by his partner Sgt. Jess Wheeler, who also had been shot at but not injured.
injured. Burt said Nicholson and Schatz, both unarmed, had been in a marked U.S. military vehicle wearing Army field camouflage uniforms when they had been shot at without warning.
According to Burt, Nicholson had left the vehicle when a Soviet soldier suddenly emerged from a nearby wooded area at
HE SAID THEY had been near but not in a permanently restricted area at the time of the attack
about 3:50 p.m. local time and started shooting.
The Americans were not warned before the shots were fired, he said.
The first shot was directed at Schatz, who was still in the vehicle, but Nicholson was hit in the chest by one of about three shots fired, Burt said.
A Soviet soldier arrived with a first-aid kit at 4:20 p.m. but, still the Soviets made no effort to help Nicholson. Burt said. At 4:50 it was determined that Nicholson was dead
When Schatz rushed to Nicholson's side, he was ordered back into the vehicle at gunpoint by a group of Soviet soldiers who appeared in front of him, administering medical assistance. Burt said.
U. S. officials were not informed of the shooting until 6:30 p.m., and the first American official was not allowed to reach the scene until 2 $ _{1/2} $ hours later, Burt said.
Reagan, awakened early yesterday with the news by national security affairs adviser Robert McFarlane, said later. "We're resentful and feel it's an unwarranted tragedy."
Gunmen kidnap foreigners in Lebanon
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Gunmen yesterday abducted a French official in the northern port of Tripoli and a British U.N. employee in Beirut, the eighth and ninth foreign taken in a wave of kidnappings in Lebanon's Muslim areas in the past two weeks.
The abductions came as government troops moved into place to separate rival militiamen who duled for nine hours Sunday along the Green Line dividing Christian east Beirut and the mainly Muslim west of the capital.
minutes before it was set to explode outside a supermarket in a Christian suburb loyal to President Amin Gemayel. Nobody was injured.
Lebanese police identified the latest kidnapping victims as Gilles Dinkey Peyrolle, 32, director of the French cultural institute in Tripoli, and Ace Collett, a brition in his onda on three annual assignment as a UN relief worker. And Works Agency for Palestinian refugees.
capital
In east Beirut, police defused a bomb 15
Agency
In New York, U.N. spokesman Francois Giuliani said it was the first case of a U.N. official being kidnapped in Lebanon.
the kidnappings were seen as part of a heightened effort by fundamentalist, pro-
Iranian Muslims to drive all Westerners out of Lebanon.
Three French Embassy workers — including a woman — were seized in west Beirut Friday and American reporter Terry Anderson was kidnapped in the same area on March 16. Two Britons were abducted in the two days before Anderson was taken.
A police source in Tripoli, 42 miles north of Beirut, said unidentified gunned gunmen Paycelors' house around midnight, singled out from his roommates and took him away.
An extremist group called the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions claimed responsibility for the abduction.
Worker drug use costs firms $30 billion
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Drug abuse by employees costs American businesses more than $30 billion a year, and nine of 10 drug abusers are high on the job at times, a New York researcher said yesterday.
Arnold Washton, director of substance abuse research and treatment at Regent Hospital, said a survey showed that 17 percent of drug abusers go to work high and that an additional 75 percent use drugs while
at work. Almost half of those who use drugs sell them on the job to support their habities
Washinton is also research director of the 800-COCAINE helpline at Fair Oaks Hospital, Summit, N.J.
A federal survey estimated that lost productivity, poor public image, accidents, overuse of health benefits, tardiness and absenteeism because of drug use cost companies. $30 billion, Washton said.
For many users, the only thing limiting their drug use is money. Washton said.
drug hotline, 39 percent said a promotion or raise would increase their drug use.
Speaking at a two-day conference about drug use in the workplace, Washout reported that 83 percent of the callers surveyed said they used cocaine; 39 percent, alcohol; 33 percent, marijuana; 13 percent, prescription pills; and 10 percent, narcotics.
The survey showed that drug use was common in all types of jobs, particularly in those that were boring or stressful or in those that required vigilance and alertness for long hours.
'Amadeus' tops Oscars as best film
By United Press International
HOLLYWOOD — "Amadeus," a musical extravaganza based on the life of Mozart, was named best picture of 1984 yesterday, while F. Murray Abraham, who played the musician's jealous nemesis, and Sally Field, a struggling farm widow in "Places in the Heart," won Oscars for best actor and actress.
"Amadeus" was based on the Tonyaward winning play by Peter Shaffer, who won the Oscar for best screenplay adaptation. The movie had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won eight.
Milos Forman was named best director for "Amadeus," which also won for best screenplay, sound, makeup, art direction and marketing. The 57th annual Academy Awards competition
Abraham, who portrayed Viennese court composer Antonio Salieri, won the Oscar for his first major film role.
Field, who struggled to keep her family together in Dust Bow Texas in "Places in the Heart," is two-for-two in the Oscar sweepsstakes. She won best actress in 1979 for her gritty portrayal of a union activist in "Norma Rae."
Robert Benton, who wrote and directed "Places in the Heart," won an Oscar for his original screenplay based on his father's experiences in Waxahachie, Texas.
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, who played a British dowager unhappy with English colonial rule in "A Passage to India," and Dr. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian refugee who portrayed a reporter forced to flee his country in "The Killing Fields," won as best supporting actress and actor.
Ngor, a physician who was also forced to escape from his war-torn homeland, won the supporting actor statuette for his first film role — a first in Oscar history — during the 57th annual Academy Awards competition.
Actress Lansbury accepted the award for Aschroft, who was in London to attend to the funeral Tuesday of Sir James Grave, a personal friend of many years.
Rock star Prince won the best original song-score Oscar for "Purple Rain." Stevie Wonder won for best song with "I Just Called to Say I Love You."
"Dangerous Moves," made in Switzerland, was named best foreign-language film.
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