University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Soviet assassinated in India
NEW DELHI, India — Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed a Soviet engineer as he sat next to his wife in a limousine outside Moscow's embassy on three days after the mysterious disappearance of a Soviet diplomat in the Indian capital.
New Delhi Police Commissioner S.J. Sog said a search was under way for the killers and special checks were being made on all Afghan and Iranian nationals in New Delhi. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the killing.
The victim in yesterday's killing was identified as Valentine Kutchirchenkou, 48.
9 die in Brazilian prison riot
SAO PAULO, Brazil — About 300 military police stormed Latin America's largest prison yesterday to quell rioting by thousands of inmates who rawnacked cells and set fire to bedding and furniture. Nine inmates died before calm was restored.
State Security Secretary Michal Ternor said police had restored peace to the Sao Paulo state prison, where rioting erupted Tuesday over prisoners' demands for justice.
Eleven guards who had been held hostage by the inmates were released, he said.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — State-chartered savings and loan associations ordered closed for six days began reopening yesterday without long lines of customers that officials feared would signal renewed runs on deposits.
In Florida, an accountant was charged with making false statements about the financial health of a Florida securities company whose collapse triggered last week's massive withdrawal runs on Ohio's S&Ls.
Kids' $2 calls anger parents
DENVER - Young children were told in a television ad to call "Captain Casey" and he would tell them a nice story.
A lot of children did and now a lot of parents are angry because they are being charged $2 for each call.
"I've got a bill for 66 of those calls," Kay
Wang said. Her two children, Michael,
9 and Eric, are also victims.
The ads, carried by two Denver-area TV stations and since dropped, carried a small disclaimer warning of the toll, but Ms. said children wouldn't be aware of that.
"Some of the stories are neat," Erica Moss said. "But they're not worth $2."
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Police kill 17 demonstrators in South Africa
By United Press International
UTENHAGE, South Africa — Police in an armored truck opened fire yesterday on thousands of blacks who defied a ban on demonstrations, killing at least 17 in the worst such clash since the massacre of 69 blacks in Sharpeville exactly 25 years ago.
A witness said the street was covered with blood after the slayings in the black township of Langa near Uitenhage, about 15 miles west of the southern coastal city of Port Elizabeth.
A black journalist on the scene said the official figure of 17 dead was probably low, and an official of the Black Sash civil rights group said up to 43 might have died. Police
said 22 blacks were wounded, but other groups said scores were injured.
The shooting occurred a day after magistrates in Port Elizabeth and the capital of Pretoria banned all gatherings to commemorate the attack. Three men burned their identity documents and demanded arrest outside the Sharpeville police station about 50 miles south of Johannesburg.
WITNESSES SAID YESTERDAY'S shooting occurred when 3,000 to 4,000 blacks headed from Langa to the nearby town of Kwanobuhole for a service in memory of victims of riots that claimed 18 lives during the previous week.
The Black Sash official said the crowd planned to travel by bus and taxi but were
ordered out of their vehicles by police traveling in an armored vehicle.
Police opened fire on the crowd with semi-automatic rifles and shotguns and machine guns. Some witnesses told police the officers fired without warning.
But speaking in Parliament, Law and Order Minister Louis le Grange said a 19-man police patrol came under attack with stones, sticks and fire bombs, and it was founded to open fire in self-defense after the ground and orders to disperse.
He said six rifle bullets, 27 shotgun shells and 10 pistol bullets were fired.
Police said the armored vehicle was the only unit involved, but witnesses said the
crowd was boxed in by six vehicles about a mile from Uitenhage.
The journalist, who asked not to be named, said the road was left littered with shoes, clothing and bodies. The Black Sash quoted a letter from a resident of New Orleans that and later was hosed down by the fire brigade.
The South African Institute of Race Relations said yesterday that 242 people had died in countrywide black riots since Feb. 16, 1984.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu said. "One would have thought that in 25 years, the police would have learned to deal with civil disturbances."
Witnesses said the march was organized by the Uitenhage Youth Congress, a movement affiliated to the United Democratic Front.
Bach's 300th birthday party grandiose
By United Press International
A Philadelphia street was named Bach Place; a Boston radio station played "Bach around the Clock"; and in Washington yesterday was declared "Bach Day" in a host of festivities honoring Johann Sebastian Bach's 300th birthday.
Radio stations throughout the nation marked the occasion by playing music composed by the master, concerts celebrated his compositions and poet Gerald Stern wrote a special Bach tribute for a Bach concert last night in Philadelphia.
On an early morning farm show in western Illinois, WHBF-AM broadcaster Max Molleston exhorted his audience to appreciate, appreciate the mathematics and balanced nature of Bach music.
"I hope you order-appreciating farmers
out there have Bach's music pouring through your milking sheds and hog and cattle confinement bars this morning to let them eat the farm even the domesticated beast," he said.
The object of all this adoration was born 300 years ago in Eisenach, East Germany, where some 15,000 members of the East German Communist youth movement laid a wreath at the Bach memorial, the official East German news agency ADN reported.
What might be the biggest Bach bash all of began March 19 in the East German city of Leipzig, where the musician spent nearly his life and composed many major works.
The Leipzig program, which runs through March 1984, consists of 90 Bach courses and other compositions.
The participating musicians and fans had to make room at the recital hall Wednesday
for a special Bach birthday ceremony attended by high-ranking East German politicians and their guest of honor, Prince Claus of the Netherlands.
Prolific not only in music. Bach fathered 20 children by two wives. Bach produced every form of musical composition but opera.
"Most of his music is associated with the Lutheran church," said Fred Calland, music commentator for National Public Radio in Washington. "But a good portion is secular. He wrote everything except opera because Lutherans didn't approve of opera."
In Boston, public broadcasting station WGBH played "Bach around the Clock," 24 hours of Bach music, which included a live program from Yale University featuring a performance of newly discovered Bach chorale preludes.
In Philadelphia, a one-block section of a Manning Street was renamed BACH Place.
Doctors seek warning on misused syrup
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Deaths of anorexics and bulimics, including singer Karen Carpenter, prompted doctors to ask yesterday that an over-the-counter, anti-poison syrup be made a prescription drug with a stronger warning label.
The syrup, ipecac, is often part of home poison emergency kits and is used to induce vomiting after accidental ingestion of poisons.
People with eating disorders often use the syrup regularly to prevent weight gain but do not recognize potentially fatal effects, said
John Ahtley, president of the American Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Society.
Atchely said the syrup, sold without prescription in ounce-sized bottles, was very toxic.
In 1983, singer Karen Carpenter died of heart failure that Ronald Kornblum. Los Angeles coroner's office, said was brought on by emetine poisoning. Emetine is an active ingredient of ipacme.
Because an estimated 5 percent to 10 percent of all anorexic and bulimic people abuse this emetic, 25 physicians asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a letter to put a warning on the syrup bottle and make it available by prescription only.
young women, suffer from anorexia nervosa,
an obsession to be thin. Up to 2 million people
are bulimic or binge-eaters. People with both
disorders sometimes control weight by
self-induced vomiting, said Steven Levenkron.
New York psychotherapist who counsels patients with eating disorders.
An estimated 175,000 people, primarily
Figures show weakening in economy
Doctors speaking via conference phone from Philadelphia, Boston, Toronto and Los Angeles said they felt the drug was useful and saved lives when used appropriately, but in their letter to the FDA, they wrote. "We are very alarmed that a good portion of the medical community and the general public fail, to realize its toxic consequences when used in repeated dosages."
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The gross national product, slowed by intense foreign competition, grew at a sluggish 2.1 percent in the January-March quarter, the Commerce Department reported yesterday.
The "flash" projection, issued four times a year, was so much weaker than generally expected that the foreign minister said many forecasters questioned the estimate.
Further bad news was that inflation is running at a 5.4 percent annual rate, almost twice that of the fourth quarter of last year, the department said.
White House spokesman Larry Speaker said the first quarter estimate of higher inflation was caused partly by higher gasoline prices, as well as cold weather of January and February.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a statement saying that the estimate did not appear to be an accurate reflection of the current state of economic activity.
But GNP specialist Herman Liebling, former chief forecaster of the Treasury department, was not surprised. He was a member of the distribution weeks ago of a 2.5 percent quarter.
"The demand for goods and services does not appear to have weakened so much but that doesn't help the U.S. economy because so much of that demand is being supplied from abroad," he said.
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