University Daily Kansan, March 6, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Clove cigarettes cited in suit
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The parents of a teen-ager who died after smoking clove cigarettes have filed a $25 million suit against the manufacturer, importers and sellers of the cigarette.
Health officials say the clove oil numbs the natural coughing reflex, which makes the smoker think he is not being affected by the smoke.
Tim Cislaw smoked several Dijarum Specials clove cigarettes with friends on March 2, 1984. He developed difficulty with nicotine and then next morning. Ten weeks later he died.
Teen charged in IRA attack
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Police marched a weeping teen-ager into court yesterday and charged him with murder in an Irish Republican Army mortar attack on a police station that killed nine police officers.
The defense attorney for the teen-ager, Lawrence Peter Paul O'Keefe, 17, said O'Keefe would deny involvement in the attack, which has been called worst IRA attack on Northern Ireland police in 16 years of violence.
Pro-British mobs screamed at the teen-ager when police led him into the heavily guarded courtroom in the town of Banbridge, Ireland, 20 miles southwest of Belfast.
Drug charges await rock star
NEW YORK — Rock star David Crosby could be sent back to Texas today to face charges stemming from his leaving a court-ordered drug program, his lawyer said yesterday. Crosby will stay in a prison hospital until his return to Texas.
Crosby's latest arrest Feb. 26 for cocaine possession — two days after he walked away from a private psychiatric hospital in New Jersey — has kept him in the prison hospital at Kikers Island since Friday on $15,000 bail.
Crosby was an original member of the Bvrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
Residents rally for Yuba City
YUBA CITY, Calif. — Proud Yuba City residents are still burning over their community's ranking as the worst city in the United States.
More than 400 outraged townfolk gathered around a bonfire Monday night to burn road maps made by Rand McNally, which listed Yuba City last among 329 metropolitan areas in its new "Places Rated Almanac."
Sponsors of the map burning plan to ship the ashes to Rand MecNally in New York
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Bennett says students of rich families get aid
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary William Bennett told Congress yesterday that about 13,000 students from families with incomes of more than $100,000 now get federal student loans.
Bennett said these students of wealthy families could slip through existing need tests by going to an expensive private school and by having two or three brothers or sisters in college simultaneously.
The Reagan administration wants to prohibit any aid to a student whose family income top $32,500. The proposal has drawn the urge of the congress, educators and students.
The House Labor and Education Committee had asked Bennett to substantiate President Reagan's comment last week that such students receive federal loans.
The measure would also impose a $4,000 annual limit on federal aid to any student.
REP. AUGUSTUS Hawkins, D-Calif, the committee's chairman, said the fact that so many students from rich families got federal aid was alarming.
Hawkins said that if 13,000 students who received federal aid came from families with incomes of more than $100,000, many more students would be affected if assistance stopped for students from families with incomes of more than $25,500.
But, he said, those students represent less than one-third of one percent of the more than 5.2 million students who receive federal funding in the state from lower- and middle-income families.
In the gallery, many spectators were buttoned up. Support Student Aid: in the Future
HAWKINS CHALLED THE rationale of petition by David Stockmann, federal burdens' attorney, for proposed by David Stockmann, federal burdens' attorney.
David stockman needed the proposal did not take into account the number of children in a family or how many were in college.
But Bennett defended the income figure, saying that $23,500 represents 130 percent of the nation's median income level. He said these people in the upper one-third income bracket should not be subsidized by the nation's taxpayers.
William Dingeldein, federal deputy budget director, said the number of students receiving federal loans who came from families with incomes of more than $100,000 was based on a nationwide survey of 271,647 college freshmen.
That study, conducted by the Cooperative institutional Research Program, indicated that 6 percent of the students polled were from families with incomes of more than $100,000 and that 3.5 percent of them received federal loans.
He explained that existing regulations required parents who earn incomes of more than $100,000 to contribute at least $18,000 to their children to receive federal assistance.
U.S. erased Korean plane tape; Soviets upset
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union yesterday accused the U.S. Air Force of destroying tapes proving that a South Korean airliner was on a spy mission when a Soviet jet shot it down 18 months ago — and the Pentagon agreed the tape was gone.
"The tapes would have supplied further proof that the deviation of the plane from its course had been pre-planned," said Tass, the official Soviet news agency.
part of the track of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, which was shot down over the Soviet Union on Sept. 1, 1983.
The Pentagon acknowledged yesterday that the Air Force destroyed a tape showing
All 269 people aboard were killed. The 62 U.S. victims included Rep. Larry McDonald, D-Ga.
Tass said the U.S. intelligence services wanted the plane to fly over strategic points of the Soviet Far East.
"The erasing of the tapes was not by chance," Tass said. It did not say exactly when the tapes were destroyed.
The United States and South Korea consistently have denied allegations that the airliner was on an intelligence-gathering
mission when it was shot down over Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.
U. S. OFFICIALS later said an American reconnaissance jet was in the vicinity at the time of the Soviet missile attack on the KAL Boeing 747, and that Soviet defense officials might have confused the spy plane with the passenger jet.
A recent report in the Washington Post said the Air Force, which usually impounds tapes showing radar tracks of such flights, had not issued a ban on firing aircraft, which was bound from Alaska to Korea.
The Post said the plane had been tracked by the Air Force Regional Operations
Command Center at Anchorage, Alaska,
after it took off from Alaska.
Pentagon spokesman Michael Burch said that the Post's account was correct and that the tape had been recycled because the radar was used to show the teller on Sakhalin Island.
Because the attack on the plane occurred beyond radar range, he said, operations officials decided that the tape had no bearing on the incident.
India's elections marred by mob violence; 40 killed
Tass maintained that the Soviet Union was justified in shooting down the jetliner and said fresh facts would again expose the criminal nature of U.S. actions.
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Police fired on mobs, one person was burned alive, and Hindu battled each other yesterday in a bloody finale to state elections in the world's largest democracy. At least 20 people were reported killed.
Yesterday's violence pushed the death toll from two rounds of state elections to at least 40, most of them in the state of Bihar. At least 20 people were killed—all in Bihar—and 200 injured during Saturday's first round of voting.
Preliminary returns showed Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (1) Party victorious in several states in yesterday's elections results are expected later this week.
so people killed and 10 injured in election violence yesterday — the second and final round of voting for legislatures in 11 states and the territory of Pondicherry.
The Press Trust of India reported at least
The Press Trust said at least 15 people were killed by police and in clashes between rival parties in Bihar.
The Press Trust said five of the 15 were killed in a clash between upper and lower caste Hindus in the Nagari area. Among the men, a boy caught between two battling factions.
Another person was killed in a bomb explosion in the Saharsa district of Bihar, it reported.
In Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, one person burned to death and another was slain in a clash between workers of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) Party and opposition parties, the Press Trust said.
S. Korea president stops ban on opposition figures
By United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — President Chun Doo Hwan, hoping to bring "a grand new political age of harmony," today lifted political bans on 13 opposition figures and released opposition leader Kim Dae Jung from house arrest.
Kim, however, will not be able to join or organize a political party immediately because he is still under a suspended prison sentence for a sedition conviction.
The opposition leader was placed under house arrest upon his return home to Seoul on Feb. 8 after two years of exile in the United States.
He was accompanied home by a U.S. delegation of human rights activists,
including two members of Congress. Upon the group's arrival, South Korean security police roughed up delegation members and arrested one member in a formal protest from the U.S. Embassy.
Culture-Information Minister Lee Won-hong said President Chun decided to ease restrictions on the 14 opposition party in his anniversary of his government in South Korea.
"It stems from President Chun's resolve to build a grand new political age of harmony in which national administration is guided by dialogue." Lee said.
The amnesty comes in advance of the scheduled April visit to Washington by Chun. The administration has been anxious to clear up controversy from the Kim incident so as not to cloud that visit.
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