University Daily Kansan, March 25, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Soviet guard kills U.S. officer
HEIDELBERG, West Germany — A Soviet guard shot and killed a U.S. Army officer attached to the U.S. military liaison mission to East Germany, the headquarters of the U.S. Army in Europe announced today.
"U.S. officials are discussing the seriousness of the incident with the Soviet authorities," the announcement said.
"Further information will be furnished as it becomes available."
The name of the officer was withheld until his family has been notified.
"According to information received by the U.S. Army in Europe on Sunday, March 24, a Soviet guard shot and killed a U.S. Army officer of the U.S. military liaison mission to East Germany," the statement said.
The United States, Britain and France under post-war agreements with the Soviet Union have military missions in East Germany and there are headquarters in Potsdam, outside Berlin.
The Soviets in turn have three missions in West Germany accredited to the U.S., French and British forces.
40% of rapes not reported
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department study released yesterday showed that nearly half the raps from 1973-1982 were not reported because victims feared reprisal, public identification or an insensitive justice system.
The report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics said 40 percent of the estimated 479,000 women raped in the period did not report the crime.
The information comes from data collected annually by the bureau, which questions 123,000 people 12 years and older in 60,000 households every year about their use of spatials. The responses then were used to estimate the number of rapes nationwide.
Mourners bury 6 in S. Africa
UTENHAGE, South Africa — About 30,000 mourners yesterday peacefully buried six victims of racial violence near where police opened fire on crowds of blacks last week in the worst racial clash in South Africa in 25 years.
Witnesses said the mood around the gravesides was tense. No trouble was reported, however, and police stayed from the funeral to avoid confrontations.
The six men who were buried were killed in rioting in Uitenhage's black townships during the past week. At least 44 people have been killed in the townships since March 15.
Compiled from United Press, International reports.
MX faces close House vote this week
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The MX missile comes up for showdown tests this week in the House with opponents and supporters alike predicting an extremely close vote.
White House chief of staff Donald Regan, interviewed yesterday on NBC's "Meet the Press," said the vote had become "very, very close" because the House Democrats lead the charge to transform MX debate into a partisan issue, has suddenly started lobbying against the MX."
"And that's made our job a lot more difficult" Reagan said.
Max Kampelman, the chief American arms negotiator, was summoned back from the negotiations with the Soviets in Switzerland to meet with members to approve the MX.
House Speaker Regan said Kampelman "has a very credible position" on Capitol Hill and could advance the administration's arguments in a
PRESIDENT REAGAN, in lobbying for the MX in both the Senate and House, has repeatedly argued that defeat of the weapon would sabotage the Geneva negotiations.
persuasive manner. "We think and he thinks he needs that MX in his discussions with the Soviets," Regan said.
Debate in the Democratic-controlled House opens today and the chamber will vote tomorrow on authorizing $1.5 billion for 21 of the missiles.
Should the missile make it past tomorrow's hurdle, there will be a second vote Thursday, a procedure identical to that used in the previous week, where the MX passed 54-45 twice last week.
Some senators who did not support the MX on its merits went along with the president because they didn't want to be blamed for jeopardizing the arms negotiations.
That argument also could sway votes in the house, where 15 to 20 members are said to be in favor.
'AS LONG AS the talks are just starting, if
Congress votes against that missile and takes that away from the bargaining table, we would in effect be helping the Soviets out." House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, D-Wis., an MX supporter, said in an interview yesterday.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass, an opponent of the weapon who will meet today with Kampelman, conceded that Reagan's powers of persuasion are mighty, and Aspin's decision to keep backing the missile is a "tremendous factor."
But he said, "It's very close, within a half dozen (votes) either way."
Opponents argue the weapon is virtually useless in the silos where Reagan wants to house it and thus, a wasteful, vulnerable and destabilizing proposition.
"We have all types of missiles out there. This is an unnecessary missile," said O'Neill. Another opponent, assistant Democratic leader Tom Foley of Washington, termed the "bargaining chip" argument "perhaps the weakest argument for the missile" but the
one opponents must work hardest to overcome.
Rep. Joseph Addabbo, D-N.Y., defense appropriations subcommittee chairman, argues the missiles already approved by an earlier Congress provide enough of an inducement to the Soviets to engage in meaningful negotiations and thus, "Then the government to provide more 'bargaining chips' when we have already provided an ample number."
Publicly, opponents and supporters have said the outcome will be close but privately, opponents have not spoken of victory.
One pro-MX analyst suggests the MX will win with a majority of 20 or 30. The analyst noted the margin of victory last year was about seven congressmen.
That, coupled with Republican gains in the House during the last election and Democratic nervousness about suggestions the party has been weak on defense should add to the margin, the analyst suggests.
Women, blacks make gains in employment
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Women and minorities made significant gains in employment during the 1970s due largely to affirmative action programs, which should be continued despite criticism from the Reagan administration, a study released yesterday said.
The study found, for example, that blacks' share of the job market increased by 15 percent during the decade and that most of those jobs were in higher paying categories. Women increased their share in the job market by 19 percent, the report said. The Hispanic share of the market jumped 50 percent.
The 106-page study, "A Decade of New Opportunity: Affirmative Action in the 1970s," was written by Herbert Hammerman, a private consultant and former staff member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and was published by the Potomac Institute, an independent research organization based in Washington.
"Ironically, this positive evidence comes at a time when the critics of affirmative action — including the president, the attorney general, and other high government officials — are waging a campaign to strip the program of basic elements," said Harold C. Fleming, president of the Potomac Institute.
win.麦赛 III said on CBS "Face the Nation" that the Justice Department would continue to oppose quota remedies for civil rights.
"The Justice Department and this administration are very much in favor of affirmative action." Meese said.
But the department will oppose "impermissible quotas, which in effect discriminate against certain classes of people" and will work to have those court decrees modified.
YESTERDAY, ATTORNEY General Ed.
In addition, the Justice Department is entering court cases opposing judicially ordered remedies to carry out affirmative action programs.
According to the report:
- Women's share of the job market rose from 34.4 percent to 41 percent, an increase of 19 percent. The biggest increases were in the top three white collar categories of officials and managers, professionals and technicians.
- Blacks' overall share of the job market rose from 10.1 percent in 1970 to 11.6 percent in 1980, an increase of 15 percent, with the increase concentrated in higher paid jobs. Officials and managers rose from 1.9 percent to 4 percent, up 104 percent in 10 years while the number of black professionals rose from 2.3 percent to 4.3 percent, an increase of 72 percent.
- Hispanics' overall share jumped from 3.6 percent to 5.4 percent, an increase of 50 percent.
Tutu upset with pope for meeting S.African
By United Press International
ROME — Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tumil, in remarks published yesterday, criticized Pope John Paul II for meeting with South Africa's prime minister and urged the Vatican to give support to bishops fighting apartheid.
The leftist I Tuti Manifesto newspaper quoted Tutu as saying the audience the pope granted to South African Prime Minister Elisabeth last June 13 was an insult to blacks.
"We would have hoped that his holiness would not have received Mr. Botha when he came (to Rome) because that seemed to be a slap in the face of the victims of aparthied." Tutu said.
- The newspaper said it interviewed the bishop by telephone in Johannesburg for a special supplement on apartheid — whitied-ruled South Africa's policy of racial segregation — that appeared in yesterday's editions.
TUTUS' COMMENTS came amid increased violence in South Africa, where weekend clashes between police and blacks left 10 people dead. Last Thursday, police killed at least 19 blacks in the worst single racial flareup since 1960 when 69 died in Sharpeville from police gunfire.
Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent approach in his struggle against apartheid, said the Vatican had condemned certain aspects of South Africa's racial policy but should raise a stronger voice in protest.
"I think on the whole the Vatican has been very strong in its condemnation, for instance, of the forced population removal," he told the newspaper. "But we would hope that it would come out far more strongly in its support of the actions of and the position of the Catholic Bishops Conference here."
Whether John Paul should visit South Africa—as U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has urged "depends on who he was going to see," said Tutt.
John Paul is expected to travel to southern Africa this year but Vatican sources say it is unlikely he will go to South Africa.
"It is impossible for him to come and not meet with the government, but I think if he insisted on seeing the authentic representatives of the black people and he went to resettlement camps and places of that kind, yes," Tutu said.
"But I will say that maybe at the present time the authorities could very well want to use such a visit as if it were a condoning of the situation."
LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES Undergraduate ENROLLMENT PROCEDURES FALL-1985
1. Enrollment Card & Folder Handout MARCH 27 and 28 9:00-4:30 Kansas Union Ballroom—Picture I.D. Needed
2. Advising: 2 weeks only APRIL 1-12
3. Dean's Stamp:
APRIL 1-12 Only!!
8:30-12:00 & 1:00-4:30
102 Strong Hall
Make it a Date at House of Hupei 2500 W.6th
STARTING TODAY,
THE Dodge DAYTONA turbo
BEGINS IT'S 1985
$500
TREASURE
HUNT
1. Yesterday, the Dodge Emblem shown here was hidden on campus.
2. Everyone at KU with a current KUID is eligible for the contest.
3. Each school day, Monday thru Friday:
A question will be asked about the Dodge Daytona. A clue will give directions to find the treasure.
4. There will be easy questions about the main attributes of the car and a series of clues such that the probability to find the treasure increases each day.
5. Questions and clues to the treasure's location will be available:
—In the classified ads of the University Daily Kansan.
—Inside the Dodge Daytona parked in front of the Kansas Union, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m..
6. The winner will be the first person who will bring back the Dodge Emblem and the correct answers to the questions concerning the Dodge Daytona. (The reward for finding the Emblem and answering the questions is $500 cash.) This will be the
7. The treasure can be found without disturbing anyone's private property. It is not necessary to dig or to use any special tools.
only prize.
8. Persons are cautioned not to damage any public or private property, and assume full responsibility for their own actions.
9. Directions where to present the treasure and collect the reward will be noted on the treasure itself.
10. All Kansan staff members shall be ineligible
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