University Daily Kansan, February 20, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Israeli chief meets with pope
VATICAN CITY - Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told Pope John Paul II yesterday that Jerusalem would remain uninhabited and welcome a papal visit to the Holy Land.
Peres said he did not ask John Paul to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel. However, a Vatican spokesman accused him of complicit recognition of the existence of Israel.
U.S. cars safest,study says
It was the first time a pope received an Israeli prime minister since Pope Paul VI met Golda Meir in 1973.
WASHINGTON — American-made cars, which are generally larger than foreign automobiles, have a better insurance collision claims record than the imported vehicles, a study released yesterday said.
The Highway Loss Data Institute, a private research organization, said the automobile with the best record among 1984 models was General Motors' Chevrolet Caprice, a four-door model, with a result 43 percent better than average.
The study covered nearly 200 of the 1984 models.
Vietnam attacks guerrillas
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand — Vietnamese troops, accused by Thailand of using toxic chemical weapons, yesterday pelted one of the largest remaining pockets of Khmer Rouge rebels in Cambodia.
The Vietnamese attack hit about 600 communist guerrillas who were in an area opposite the Thai village of Klong Nam Sai
Thai Foreign Ministry officials said the Vietnamese rockets contained hydrogen-cyanide and phosgene gas, both deadly gases.
Frisbee tossers catch record
HAVERHILL, Mass. — Two exhausted young men said yesterday that they had established the world's record for the continuous throwing of a Frisbee. The men said they had tossed the Frisbee back and forth in a gymnasium for five consecutive days.
Brian Scott and Doug Dement, both 21 and of Salem, N.H., ended their marathon at 2:39 p.m. after 120 hours of tossing the plastic disk, taking only short rest breaks.
The old world record was set in 1881 by Jamie Knerr and Keith Biirth, who threw a ribbon赛跑 to the Hancock School in Hawthorne, Allelton, Pa., according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
151 killed in plane crash in northern Spain
By United Press International
BILBAO. Spain — A Spanish jetliner yesterday clipped a television tower and slammed into a mountainside, bursting into flames and killing all 151 people aboard in the third fatal airliner crash in Spain in less than 15 months.
Among the dead were an American, Bolivia's labor minister and a former Spanish foreign minister. Unofficial reports from the airline and embassies in Madrid said two other Americans might have been killed.
The Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727, traveling from Madrid to the northeastern city of Bilbao, was descending and preparing to land at Bilbao's Sondia airport 18 miles away when it hit a TV transmission tower atop Mount Oiz, civil aviation authorities said. The plane was flying at about 3,000 feet.
FLIGHT 610 then smashed through trees and crashed into the mountainside, bursting into flames on impact in the northern Basque region of Spain, officials said.
Police, soldiers and civil guards were able to reach the crash site, in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains, only by tractors and helicopters.
"It was like Dante's Inferno," a local government spokesman said at the scene.
Ideria flew more than 200 grieving
literals of a victim to help to
identify her at Wednesday.
Officials at the airport lost contact with the jet five minutes before the crash occurred at 9:20 a.m. The plane was scheduled to land at 9:35 a.m.
Initial reports from Iberia, Spain's national airline, said that some of the 144 passengers and seven crewmembers might have survived. However, all were reported dead when rescue workers arrived at the scene.
"Some might have survived the impact but none could have escaped the explosion alive," said the mayor of Marquina, a village near the crash site.
A spokeswoman for Iberia in New York identified an American known to have been
killed in the crash as John Steigerwald, 28, an employee of General Electric Co.
ALSO KILLED WERE Gonzalo Guzman, Eguez, Bolivia's labor minister, and Gregorio Lopez Bravo. Spain's foreign minister Carlos del Rosario of Panama, Francisco, civil aviation authorities said.
Rescue workers recovered both black box recorders from the site, and officials said the boxes would probably help explain the cause of the crash. All commercial planes carry visibility, which is often painted orange for visibility, that record instrument readings and sounds in the cocktail.
Carlos Espinosa de los Montes, Iberia's president, said the jet was飞ing at about 1,000 feet below its normal altitude when it nicked the television tower. He said that neither he nor officials at the Bilbao control tower could explain why.
Officials said skies were clear, although fog later blanketed the hillside and hampered rescue work over the 2-mile area where the blackened wreckage was scattered.
ESPINOSA SAID the aircraft was in
perfect condition and complied with all security measures. He said pilot Jose Luis Patino had logged 13,400 hours of flight.
Spain has been plagued by three fatal air crashes in less than 15 months.
"An official committee will be charged with determining the causes of the accident and making an investigation."
On Nov. 27, 1983, a Colombian Avianca Boeing 747 flying from Frankfurt to Bogota caught fire and crashed near the Madrid airport, killing 181 of 192 people aboard.
Less than two weeks later, on Dec. 7, 1983, 93 people were killed and 42 survived when an Iberia Boeing 727 collided on takeoff with an Airbus UC-9 at Madrid's Barajas Airport in thick fog.
The world's worst aviation disaster occurred in Spain on March 27, 1967, when 382 people were killed in the collision of a KLM Boeing 747 and a chartered Pan American Airways 747 on the runway at Santa Cruz de Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands.
Supreme Court to hear case on prayer groups in school
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday said it would decide whether high school students may meet in classrooms to pray and discuss the Scriptures without violating the First Amendment's ban against entangling church and state.
By United Press International
The Court will hear an appeal by a group of Williamsport, Pa., high school students. They are appealing a ruling that says religious clubs meeting during school time violate the Constitution's prohibition against the government establishing religion.
The outcome of the case, which is expected to be heard in April and decided by July, will help settle the constitutionality of a federal religious club to meet during the school day.
THE ADDITION of the case to the court's docket means the nine justices will be conducting a thorough examination of the relationship between church and state in society. Already on their agenda is the election of a new pastor to pray in schools, a state-protected day of worship, and state and federal aid to private schools.
The school principal, Wayne Newton, initially agreed to the proposal. But the school's superintendent and lawyer decided such meetings were improper, and 10 club members and their parents sued the school district in June 1982.
The Williamsport case involves a group of students, who in 1981 asked to read and discuss the Bible and to say prayers during the high school student activity period two mornings a week.
A federal district court ruled that equal access to school facilities for the religious club was simply accommodating, not advancing, religion.
Last July, a divided appeals court reversed the ruling on grounds that allowing the religious clubs to use the school advanced religion.
As a result, the school turned down the students' request to meet during the 1984-85 school year. The same summer, Congress passed the Equal Access Act, which bars public high schools from denying equal access to students who wish to meet for "religious, political, philosophical, or other speech."
In other business, the Court
*Let stand a ruling striking down a New York law that imposes a mandatory death sentence on a prisoner who commits murder while serving a life term.
- Agreed to consider, in two related cases from New Jersey and New York, whether the trustee of a hazardous waste dump can avoid cleaning up the site by filing for bankruptcy.
Israel leaves options open for new Lebanon invasion
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said yesterday that the Israeli army would invade southern Lebanon a second time if terrorist organizations are allowed to operate freely after Israeli occupation troops withdraw
Meanwhile unidentified gunmen killed a French cease-fire observer late yesterday in the southern slums of Beirut, the fourth death from the conflict this year, Lebanese military sources said.
The killing came only hours after another band of Lebanese gunmen shut down the southern port of Sidon, defying pleas for the army to secure the city that Israeli occupation troops evacuated last week.
"AN ARMY UNIT interfered and took care of the incident," Beirut radio said. But Sidon residents who declined to be identified said Lebanese troops only moved into the area and began patrolling after the gunfire stopped.
In Sidon, businesses closed and residents hid as three carloads of gunmen sped through the streets for 30 minutes, firing guns into the sky in the most prolonged shooting incident since Israeli forces pulled out of the city Saturday.
Rabin made his declaration to the World Council of Synagogues one day after two Israeli soldiers were killed in guerrilla attacks that have accompanied Israel's pullout.
A front-page editorial in an Israeli newspaper said, "Lebanese gangs and authorities are murdering our men. We should get our men out of there immediately, today, and not stay there even one minute more."
The Israeli army invaded southern Lebanon in June 1982 partly to stop Palestinian guerrillas from attacking him, a military command often with Soviet-made Katzus rockets.
About 10,000 army troops have remained in the area but are now returning home in the fall.
"I won't promise that not one Katyusha will fall in a settlement," Rabin said. "However, as for a terrorist organization taking over Lebanon, we will prevent this even if it will require entering back into the area temporarily, bombing the area, shelling it."
Rabin blamed Lebanon's lack of a strong central government and army for helping create a terrorist paradise in Lebanon.
The Shiites account for more than 90 percent of the terrorist actions against Israelis, Rabin claimed.
COGBURNS and B.O.C.O.
present a pre-game party with the Hawks! Wed., Feb. 20th from 1 til 7 p.m. $3 at the door or $2 with class cards. All the beer you can drink, and pizza available. Bus ride to and from the game. Special appearance by Larry Brown and the KU basketball team.
COME SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!
GO HAWKS!
COGBURNS and B.O.C.O. present KU vs KSU Pre-game Celebration
1 til 7 p.m.
Wed., Feb. 20th
$2 with class card
$3 without class card
Includes all the beer you can drink and a bus ride to and from the game.
Pizza furnished by Pizza Shuttle
TEAM WILL MAKE APPEARANCE BEFORE GAME
Tonight 25¢ draws
$2 for one pitcher and one game of pool everyday from 3 til 7pm
Wed. Ladies night pay $1 from 8 til 11p.m.
Thurs. You know our famous special!