University Dally Kansan, February 28, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Gromyko, Pope discuss peace
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met for almost two hours yesterday to discuss world peace and the status of the Roman Catholic Church in the Soviet Union, the Vatican said yesterday.
The pope has expressed interest in furthering world peace and fighting religious repression. Gromyko is openly secreting his name as President Reagan's "Star Wars" defense plan in preparation for U.S.-Soviet arms talks opening in Geneva next month.
Court bolsters EPA's powers
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday bolstered the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to decide how best to enforce water pollution laws — even if it means dumping toxic waste in the nation's waterways.
Under the 5-4 decision, the EPA has more flexibility in granting individual industrial plants exemptions from the standards established under the Clean Water Act, which limits the discharge of hazardous pollutants.
The administration and the chemical industry had challenged a lower court's finding that the Clean Water Act does allow the EPA to grant variances that allow certain plants to meet less stringent standards.
Schroeder's release delayed
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Artificial heart patient Bill Schroeder's pending release from the hospital has been delayed for one to two weeks because he is suffering from disorientation, hospital officials said yesterday.
Seven small areas of Schroeder's brain were damaged by a stroke he suffered on Dec. 13, and he has had difficulty with coordination and speech ever since.
Schroeder occasionally stares vacantly to his surprised face, his doctors have said.
Citv pins diapers on donkevs
NAIRIOB, Kenya — The town council of Lamu island has launched a design competition for a diaper to be fitted on donkeys to catch their droppings before they litter the streets, the Kenya News Agency said yesterday.
A shortage of city street sweepers and an outbreak of cholera has led to adoption of a new method.
Last month the town council said it was considering adopting a law requiring donkey owners to put diapers on their hounds to burden to keep the streets of the town clean.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
City guide calls Pittsburgh best place to live
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Rand McNally, best known for making maps, published a guide to cities yesterday declaring Pittsburgh, best known for football, and football, as the nation's best place to live
In its "Places Rated Almanac," Rand McNally rated the areas by climate and terrain, housing, health care, transportation, the arts, recreation and economic outlook.
The rest of the top 10 were Boston; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; San Francisco; Philadelphia; Nassau-Suffolk on New York's West Coast; and Cleveland, Ky. Norwalk, Conn., and Seattle.
The book rated 329 metropolitan areas and came to some surprising conclusions, its results are astonishing.
The worst were Yuba City, Calif., and Pine Bluff. Ark.
Harbor, Mich.; Gadsden, Ala.; Casper,
Wov.; Rockford, Ill.; and Anderson Ind.
The 10 worst metropolitan areas after yuba City and Pine Bluff were Modesto, El Paso, Tucson, and New York.
THE NEWS WAS greeted with happiness in Pittsburgh.
"Why, I am really glad to hear it," said City Controller Thomas Flahery. "This will be one more giant step to change the city's image that it's a smoky steel town ... Pittsburgh is not utopia, but where is utopia?"
Officials of Northern California's Yuba City weren't at all impressed with the report. "We like where we're at," said Mary
Knapp, executive director of the Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce. "We're proud of our community. The almanac doesn't particularly impress us."
This is the second edition of the almanac, which was first published in 1981. Authors Richard Boyer and David Savageau said the book is an important guide to rapid changes in metropolitan areas.
Boyer, a mystery novelist, said the most surprising result of the study was that most of the best cities continued to be in the Northeast rather than in the Sunbelt.
Statesman Henry Cabot Lodge dies at age 82
By United Press International
BEVERLY, Mass. — Henry Cabot Lodge,
former U.S. senator, ambassador and
unsuccessful Republican vice presidential
candidate, died yesterday at his home after a long illness. He was 82 years old.
He died about 5:10 p.m., his son George said.
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 and captured a Senate seat at the age of 34. He left in 1943, the first U.S. senator since the Civil War to resign to go war.
Lodge, the descendant of sea captains who tasted war, peace, politics and diplomacy through 40 years of American history, bucked a national landslide for President
He attended the Republican National Convention in Kansas City in 1928 as a newspaperman, watching the GOP turn to Herbert Hoover months before the stock market crash that began the tumble into the Great Depression.
IN 1976, 48 years later, Lodge returned to a GOP convention, this time as a Massachusetts delegated pledged to Gerald Ford.
"There's always a certain amount of sentiment in returning to something you did in your youth," Lodge said at the time.
He returned to the Senate but devoted so much time to the Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952 that his own Senate campaign suffered. A little-known three-term congressman named John F. Kennedy won.
Lodge served during the 1960s as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and built a reputation as an ardent anti-communist. Lodge refused on his first day at the United
Nations to pose with the Soviet representative, snapping at the photographer, "Don't you know there's been a change of administration in Washington?"
Goetz confession released at pretrial hearing in N.Y.
Lodge was widely remembered as America's ambassador to South Vietnam.
Lodge is survived by his wife, Emily Sears Lodge, two sons, Henry Sears Lodge and George Cabot Lodge; 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; a sister, Helena deStreel of Brussels, Belgium; and a brother, John Davis Lodge, U.S. ambassador to Switzerland.
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz told New Hampshire police at his surrender that he had leaned over one of his wounded victims and said, "You don't look so bad; here's another," and shot at the youth again.
The quote was part of Goetz's confession, which was released yesterday at a pretrial hearing in state Supreme Court in Manhattan Goetz faces charges of illegal weapons possession in the subway shooting of an teen-agers who allegedly asked him for $5.
Goetz, 37, who had been mugged before the incident has said he heared that their request was to have him killed.
make sure the jury had acted properly and the weapons charges were appropriate.
During the hearing, Justice Stephen Crane ordered a hearing March 19 to consider a request from Goetz's lawyers to dismiss the charges against his weapon Goetz fired was used in self-defense.
CRANE SAID HE would review the minutes of the grand jury's deliberations to
The confession, made to several New Hampshire police when Goetz surrendered on New Year's Eve, indicate that Goetz gave him the chance whether he was afraid of the four teen-agers.
After standing up and shooting each of the youths once, Goetz bent to over check each of his victims, the confession said. One of the youths was arrested in a subway seat, and no blood was visible.
Goetz then told police he said, "You don't look so bad; here's another," and fired at him again. That shot missed, police said.
Crane told Goetz, who is free on a $5,000 bond, that he did not need to appear at the March 19 hearing but reminded him that he would himself available at the request of the court.
As Goetz and his attorneys left, two women seated in the court rose and screamed, "Racist Scum! Racist Scum! Remember Darrell Cabei!"
Cabey, one of the wounded teen-agers,
remains in a coma.
New Agent Orange plan denounced by attorneys
By United Press International
NEW YORK — A court master yesterday proposed a plan that would pay only 5 percent of the Vietnam veterans who are asking for aid from the makers of Agent Orange and put a $25,000 limit on the awards the veterans receive.
Attorneys for many veterans affected by the plan bitterly denounced the "grossly inadequate" proposal in a 623-page report released on Monday. A hearing on the plan is set for March 5.
"What the court master has done is to trivialize the sacrifice of these brave young men and woman and cast their children who must live with birth defects into some kind of limbo of social welfare," said attorney Victor Yannacone.
Yannacne represents many of the 16,000 disabled veterans who originally filed the suit against the chemical companies.
IN THE REPORT to U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein, the special master,
Kenneth Weinberg, estimated that out of 20,000 Vietnam veterans or families who have requested benefits, only about 7,000 with long-term disabilities, and the families of about 3,000 others who died would be eligible for cash under the plan.
The 10,000 represent only 5 percent of those claiming benefits.
The most qualified claimants, he said, should receive significant compensation — $25,000, if possible. Payments for death, he said, should be substantially lower than payments for long-term total disability, which has a limit of $5,000.
Yannacone said the plan was an "obscene disability lottery" and called for the judge to reject the plan.
The recommendations need to be approved by Weinstein before they become final, but the judge has said he will review them. The recommendation of the court master.
The $180 million settlement, the largest class action agreement in history, was reached in May with seven chemical companies that produced Agent Orange.
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