University Daily Kansan, March 5, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Civil rights march re-enacted
SELMA, Ala. — A re-enactment of a civil rights march that 20 years ago led to passage of the Voting Rights Act dwindled from Sunday's huge throng to only 75 participants yesterday, but its leaders said they were not discouraged.
An estimated 5,000 people showed up Sunday for the first eight-mile leg of the 50-mile trek from Selma to Montgomery, but only 50 marchers were bused to the march route to resume the walk yesterday.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. *Sr.* the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. *Sr.* the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. *Sr.* Jesse Jackson led the marchers.
Ex-official enters guilty plea
WASHINGTON — Paul Thayer, former deputy defense secretary, and Billy Bob Harris, a Dullas stockbroker, yesterday dropped $2.5 million in illegal stock profits.
Thayer attended the University of Kansas from 1909 to 1941
Charles Richey, Federal District Court judge, accepted their pleas to one count each of obstructing justice and giving false testimony. They will be sentenced April 18. Each faces a $5,000 fine and up to five years in prison.
Thayer and Harris were accused of lying to Securities and Exchange Commission investigators looking into inside trading tips Thaya gave Harris.
Shot hits Blackmun home
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackman said yesterday that he was shot at through the window of his home last Thursday night.
Blackmun, who wrote the high court's 1973 ruling — Roe vs. Wade — legalizing abortion, has received numerous death threats.
A statement issued by Blackmun's office confirmed that one shot had been fired through the front window of his Arlington, Va. home, and the FBI is investigating the incident.
Beach strip prompts brawl
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - A woman removed her bikini top on a beach Sunday and started a brawl that involved about 400 young men, mounted policemen and dozens of reinforcements in riot gear, police said.
The incident began about 3 p.m. on Crandon Beach, police said, when an unidentified woman took off her top near a window where 12 young adults of about 12 youths who had been drinking.
Police arrested three youths and escorted the topless woman from the beach. Compiled from United Press International reports.
ANZUS council meeting delayed
By United Press International
CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Bob Hawke postponed indefinitely the 1985 ANZUS council meeting yesterday, saying the defense alliance between Australia, the United States and New Zealand is now a treaty in name only.
The decision by host nation Australia to postpone July's scheduled meeting was made because of a rift between New Zealand and the United States over New Zealand's policy of banning all nuclear-powered and armed warships from its ports, Hawke said.
New Zealand Prime Minister Davide Lange, in London to meet Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, condemned the decision and said it was a "mistake." The prime minister and Wellington to thrash out their differences.
"I regret the announcement of the postponement of the next ANZUS council," she said. "The State last week concerned that they, like us, saw no need for a decision to be taken yet.
"THE IMPORTANT point about a long-standing alliance is that the members must
ne able to talk out their differences. Postponing the July meeting does nothing to help this," he said.
The U.S.-New Zealand rift developed when New Zealand last month refused permission for the USS Buchanan to visit Wellington. The crew had to choose whether a ship is carrying nuclear arms.
In retaliation, the Reagan administration pulled out of several joint military exercises, withdrew invitations for New Zealand to participate and curtailed intelligence exchanges.
Washington maintains Wellington's ban jeopardizes the alliance but New Zealand insists it does not affect. New Zealand's islands have been a traditional defense cooperation with allies.
HAWKE STRESSED the 34-year-old ANZUS alliance "remains" but added, "It was not an unfair description to say that as a tripartite agreement, it was a treaty in name
In Washington, State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said the Reagan administration endorses the postponement of the budget debate and discussed whether to hold the meeting and
agreed that access to ports and airfields for alliance partners was essential.
"In that light there was mutual agreement that unless New Zealand changed its position on port access, a meeting would not be productive.
"Recent high-level discussions with the government of New Zealand indicate that it has not yet changed its position on port access and that it rejects the essentiality of access . . ." he said. "Accordingly, the United States endorses Australia's postponement of the ANZUS council meeting."
Hawke said Australia will develop separate defense relationships with the United States and New Zealand "while present circumstances prevail."
He did not say when, if ever, the council meeting might be rescheduled. ANZUS council meetings, held annually, are usually attended by the secretary of state and the foreign ministers of the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
In Wellington, New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer said the postponement was regrettable but understandable in the circumstances.
Aftershocks follow Chilean earthquake
By United Press International
SANTIAGO, Chile — Powerful aftershocks rocked central Chile yesterday, and police patrolled major cities to prevent looting in the ruins left by the nation's worst earth-earthquake in more than 152 people died, almost 2,000 were injured and more than 150,000 remain homeless.
Thousands of people forced into streets and parks were shaken as at least two tremors per minute continued to shake the capital and Chile's central region. On Sunday night, a three-minute earthquake hit along a 1,000-mile stretch of Pacific coastline.
the Richter scale. Its epicenter was beneath the Pacific Ocean, about 25 miles off the central Chilean coast.
A government spokesman said at least 132 people were known killed and 1,945 were injured in the attack.
The earthquake measured at least 7.4 on
There were no immediate reports of casualties among foreigners.
The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said it detected at least 20 aftershocks yesterday, ranging in intensity from 5.0 to 6.4 on the Righter scale.
A midnight-to-dawn curfew was imposed by the military government of President Augusto Pinochet, and troops patrolled the streets of Valparaiso and Valparaíso, Chile's second-largest city.
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS after the quake, the government said 4,901 houses were destroyed and 21,238 homes damaged, leaving 152,326 people homeless.
THE QUAKE SHOOK small Pacific coast resort towns the hardest, opening large cracks in the town of Cartagena and severely damaging the roads leading to the seaside resort of Santa Domingo.
Pinocho, touring disaster areas near the port of Valparaiso and nearby seaside resorts, called for calm and asked Chileans to assist quake victims.
It was Chile's worst such disaster since May 1960, when two successive earthquakes killed 5,700 people. Chile's worst earthquake, in 1939, killed 30,000 people.
EPA orders reduction in gasoline lead
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The administration yesterday ordered a 90 percent reduction in gasoline lead content by next year and said it is considering a ban on leaded gasoline as
The action is needed because "lead in the environment is still a major public health problem," said Lee Thomas, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
blamed for a variety of ailments, including behavior disorders, anemia, mental retardation and permanent nerve damage.
Elevated levels of lead in the blood are
The EPA's new rules call for the first reduction in gasoline lead content on July 1, when no more than 0.5 grams of lead will be current standards allow 1.1 grams per gallon.
Under the regulations, lead content must be reduced further to 0.1 grams per gallon by
Environmentalists said they are pleased by the EPA's announcement.
"It looks good to us," said Norris McDonald of the Environmental Policy Institute. "Of course, we would like to see a complete ban, but this is a good second."
"Leaded gasoline is a major contributor to lead exposure." Thomas told a news conference at EPA's headquarters. "Our goal today is to reduce this threat to the health of Americans everywhere, especially our children, as quickly as possible."
The EPA continues to consider a ban on fuelled gasoline possibly as early as 1988. Those states
Agreement ends buyout of company
Bv United Press International
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — New York financier Carl C. Icahn and Phillips Petroleum Co. management yesterday reached an agreement that will end Icahn's $8.05 billion takeover bid for the nation's 10th largest oil company.
Icahn Group Inc. will withdraw the $60-a share tender offer for 70 million shares of Phillips stock, or 45 percent of the company, and will not attempt a takeover for eight years, said Phillips spokesman Dan Harrison.
Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., Icahn's investment banks, agreed not to finance any attempted takeovers of Phillips during the same period. Harrison said.
In return, Philips agreed to reimburse Icahn for his litigation and financing expenses up to $25 million with both parties dismissing lawsuits. Harrison rallied.
Phillips late Sunday conceded that stockholders had rejected an $8 billion recapitulation plan, which would have given employee control of Phillips and its customers. The company shares. Wall Street analysts had valued the failed plan at between $47 and $50 a share.
Phillips yesterday sweetened the offer with a new $4.5 billion package of debt securities for half of the company's 154.4 million outstanding shares. Analysts estimate the Phillips offer is worth $1 to $3 a share more than the defeated plan.
Phillips proposed the recapitalization late last year to end an acquisition attempt by maverick ollman T. Boone Pickens. If he did, the plan would have derailed Icahn's bid.
"Many of our shareholders wanted a different type of transaction and our new proposal is designed to deliver the value of their business," said Phillips Chairman William C. Douce.
Phillips said its new offer, which started yesterday and will expire March 15, was for 72 million shares, about half of the company's common stock. The plan would give shareholders a package of debt securities with a face value of $82 for each share and would seek a 3-for-1 stock split on the remaining outstanding shares.
The plan still calls for sale of $2 billion in Phillips' assets. However, Douce said that was less than the amount by which Phillips' assets increased in the last year.
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