University Daily Kansan, March 4, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Earthquake in Chile kills 21
SANTIAGO, Chile - A powerful earthquake struck central Chile last night, killing at least 21 people and injuring hundreds as churches filled with worshippers and houses collapsed, officials said.
The earthquake, which registered 7.4 on the Richter scale, struck at 4.48 p.m. CST and lasted for more than three minutes. The wave flow showed 50 minutes later by anotherstemblade.
The quake, which shook a 1,000-mile region of central Chile, was the worst in the country since 1971, when a temblor killed 85 people and injured 245.
SAN FRANCISCO — A rescue tug caught in high seas and winds surpassing gale force was presumed sunk and its six crew members helped for help, the Coast Guard said yesterday.
Tug crewmen presumed dead
"We are going down in the stern and we
donning survival suits," was the last
message from the rescue tug Williamette
Saturday about 50 miles off San Francisco.
Swiss rescuers stop search
The tugboat had been on a mission to help a loadet barge that had broken loose from the dock.
ZERMATT, Switzerland — Rescuers suspended a search yesterday for victims of an avalanche below the Matterhorn that killed at least eight people in Switzerland's worst mountain disaster in 15 years.
Police said the death toll from Saturday's avalanche may rise to 11 because the passports of three more people were found.
The search was suspended because of fears the operation would trigger new avalanches in the area.
Man gives his all for the GOP
LOS ANGELES — A lifelong Republican, now aged and sometimes incoherent, gave a check to the charity after donating his entire life savings of $4,200 to GOP solicitations.
"Please ignore any more fund-raising letters," Reagan said in a letter to 84-year-old Garald Colf, who couldn't say the narty's pleas for money.
Reagan's letter explained that the president sent Colf a $215 check because two groups to which Colf contributed a total of $215 — Taxpayers for Reagan and the Reagan Agenda Fund — bore his name.
The check was drawn from Reagan's personal account.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
British union leaders vote to end coal strike
By United Press International
LONDON — Union leaders, disheartened by eroding support by miners for Britain's longest major industrial dispute, voted by a narrow margin yesterday to end the bitter coal strike just one week short of its first anniversary.
National Union of Mineworkers President Arthur Scargill, a Marxist, said delegates to an emergency conference voted by the "tightest" majority to send all their members back to work Tuesday despite the lack of agreement with the state-appointed Coal Board.
Television and press reports said the delegates voted 98-91 in favor of an unconditional return to work after a hectic three-hour meeting.
Scargill was greeted with shouts of "No"
and "Traitor, you have sold us out" when he announced the decision to a group of miners who waited in the pouring rain outside London's Trades Union Congress building.
"We are not going back," some cried. "I can only come out here and reflect the decision of the conference, which was taken democratically." Scargill replied.
"THE FEELING of the conference was very clear," he said, "that we go back on Tuesday; we go back together and the union is on fighting for pits, jobs and communities."
Seargill, who promised to continue to fight for the jobs of some 700 miners fired during the dispute, mainly for picket line violence, told me his recommendation to continue the strike.
He vowed the union would continue to fight in other ways "until the aims are completely
fulfilled and . . . there is an amnexity for those that have been dismissed."
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher later yesterday expressed "overwhelming relief" that the strike was over. "We had to make it happen," she said. "The impossible demands could not win." she said.
It was "not right at all" that miners who used intimidation, violence and serious vandalism should get their jobs back, the prime minister said.
Energy Secretary Peter Walker said he was "absolutely delighted this tragic dispute has come to an end. He said he had "no desire to talk of victories or defeats."
THE STRIKE BEGAN March 12, 1984, over plans by the National Coal Board to shut 20 unprofitable mines and lay off 20,000 miners.
negotiated settlement was in sight after a year.
The emergency union conference was prompted by a steady drift back to work by striking miners who were despairing that no
Tuesday's return to work will come just one day before the anniversary of the first unauthorized walkouts of the strike.
Miners in south Yorkshire and some Scottish pits began striking March 6, 1894, as soon as the Coal Board announced plans to cut coal output by 4 million tons in 1895 to stem annual losses of $340 million. The union officially called the strike six days later.
Police said two people died and 1,746 were injured in the strike, the longest major industrial dispute in British history. A total of 9,750 miners and others were arrested, the Home Office said, adding that charges were brought in 7,874 cases.
Israel begins second phase of pullback
The estimated cost of the strike to the nation was $3.17 billion, according to an independent survey.
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Israel's Cabinet agreed yesterday to begin immediately the second stage of withdrawing Israeli occupation troops from southern Lebanon, and state-run radio said the pullback began even before the vote was taken. In Beirut, the Lebanese military command began meeting at the army headquarters to arm the army to move into positions being evacuated by Israeli troops, an army spokesman said.
Even before the Cabinet decision, Israel radio said the Israeli army had dismantled some installations from the Bekaa Valley and transported them to a new line south of the Litani River, 18 miles north of the Israeli border.
was ready for the evacuation to start but did not provide further details.
Lebanon's Muslim Mourbahot radio in Lebanon said Israeli soldiers evacuated some positions in the Beka just hours after the Cabinet ordered the pullback.
THE SECOND PHASE of the three-stage withdrawal plan, initially approved by the Cabinet Jan. 14, will bring Israel from positions facing Syrian troops in the Bekaia Valley in eastern Lebanon to new advance lines south of the Litani.
ministers who had previously opposed the pullout plan, gave unanimous approval to implementation of the second phase. No timetable was given but estimates say it will take about three months for all the installations to be dismantled and moved.
Israeli military sources said everything
Israel completed the first phase of its pullout plan Feb. 16 by withdrawing from the Aawali River and the port of Sidon, 24 miles south of Beirut, to the vicinity of the port of Damascus. In the next stage, expected by summer or fall, will bring Israel back to its northern border.
The decision to bring home the Israeli troops has come amid increasing attacks on the occupation army by Moslem guerrillas. Even as the Cabinet decision was announced, three attacks were reported on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
Israeli Cabinet Secretary Yossi Bellin said a committee, including several Bluk染 loe
Since Jan. 14, guerrillas have killed 12 Israeli soldiers and wounded 86 others, raising to 622 the number of troops killed in airstrikes against Hamas in crush the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Israel has responded by raiding a string of Shiite Muslim villages, killing 16 suspected guerrillas, wounding 22, detaining more than 200 and bulldozing numerous houses.
30 cities to see job growth, report says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Half the jobs created in the United States by the end of this century will be in just 30 metropolitan areas, most of them in the South and West, a planning group said.
The National Planning Association list ranged from large metropolitan areas such as Houston, Denver and Los Angeles to rapidly growing smaller areas such as Austin, Texas; Tucson, Ariz.; and Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
No cities in Kansas made the top 30.
The non-profit economic research group said Houston is expected to see the largest increase in jobs, 1,268,700. for a total workforce of 2.9 million people by the year 2000.
Four other Texas cities also are among the 30 metropolises, Dallas with 698,000 new jobs; Austin with 333,600; San Antonio adding 238,700 and the Fort Worth-Arlington area experiencing an increase of 218,300 jobs by the year 2000
The planning group, which based its projections on an economic growth model reflecting historical and ongoing trends as well as the projected state of the national
economy, said seven California cities and five in Florida will experience particularly large workforce increases.
The seven cities in California, the largest number for one state, included Anaheim-Santa Ana with 1,004,300 new jobs; Los Angeles-Long Beach, 841,300; San Jose, 643,900; San Diego, 543,900; San Francisco, 643,900; Rio Grande, 200 and Riverside-San Bernardino, 217,300.
The five Florida cities are Tampa-Pet-
Pensburg, 457,290; Fort Lauderdale-
Hollywood, 450,610; Miami-Hialeah, 332,800;
St. Louis, 319,100 and West Palm Beach-Boca
Raton, 227,300.
Spring break hits beaches in Florida
By United Press International
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Thousands of college students on spring break yesterday began their annual migration onto the beaches and into the bars of this vacation mecca.
Fort Lauderdale is where the boys are—and of course the girls — every year at this time as northern colleges and universities begin closing for spring break. By the time Easter rolls around, thousands of young women will have visited the city's beaches.
Thousands more will invade such places as Miami, Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Daytona Beach. The peak period will be in August when the new North's college students will be on vacation.
Fort Lauderdale police said this year's early crowds were orderly, quiet and
One small section of Route A1A was closed off for a brief time Saturday as a crowd poured onto the beachfront road and entered in minor auto accident outside Perpined's bar.
Further north, some unwelcome guests on Saturday invaded Palm Beach County.
Lifeguards cleared the waters in Boca Raton, Riviera Beach and Carlin Park in Jupiter because of shark sightings, but no attacks on bathers were reported.
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