University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Retail sales rise 0.7 percent
WASHINGTON — Retail sales climbed a healthy 0.7 percent in January after a disappointing December. Stronger automobile sales made up for big reverses in department and clothing stores, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
The sales increase was the strongest since November's revised 1.5 percent gain despite cold weather that discouraged some shopping in many parts of the country. Sales were down 0.5 percent in December.
Gang poisons candy in Japan
TOKYO — An extortion gang that has terrorized Japan for almost a year placed cyanide-laced sweets on store shelves in two large cities on the eve of Valentine's Day, police said yesterday.
the elusive "Man with 21 Faces" gang, which threatened to scatter candy laced with lethal doses of cyanide across the nation to press its demands for payoffs from confectioners, ridiculed the custom of buying candy for a sweetheart.
Police said they had found 12 packages of candy marked with warning messages in Tokyo and Nagoya, the nation's third largest city, 200 miles west of Tokyo. Police said the contents of seven were laced with the poison.
Fumes endanger nonsmokers
LONDON — The potential damage to nonsmokers from exposure to other people's cigarette smoke may be greater than has been previously suspected, a team of U.S. cancer researchers said in a study published yesterday.
study published yesterday.
In a report in the medical weekly "The Lancet," the researchers said they had found that:
"Overall cancer risk rose steadily and significantly with each additional household member who smoked over an individual's lifetime. Cancer risk was also greater for individuals with exposures during both childhood and adulthood than for individuals with exposures during only one period."
Rice may not be for the birds
HARTFORD, Conn. — A state legislator has proposed a bill that would outlaw tossing uncooked rice at weddings because, she says, it kills birds.
"I kills the birds who ingest it." Rep. Mae Schmid said "They can't ingest it."
She suggests that people instead throw birdseed, which would feed the birds and at the same time eliminate cleanup work for the churches.
Alan H. Brush, professor of biology University of Connecticut, disputed Schmidt's argument yesterday.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Israeli troops withdraw from Lebanese port
By United Press International
JOUN, Lebanon — To the cheers of celebrating residents, Israeli troops pulled out of the port of Sidon yesterday in the first phase of a military withdrawal, and Lebanese police patrolled the city for the first time since Israel's 1982 invasion.
time Since Israel's invasion at the Awali River bridge near the village of Joun, Israeli forces still manned one of their last checkpoints in an area of southern Lebanon that they are scheduled to leave by Monday.
Monday.
"You could be shot if you try to cross," an Israeli officer told a reporter who was denied permission to cross the bridge for the 1½-mile walk south into Sidon, an ancient port city 24 miles south of Beirut.
Less than 10 miles to the north, Lebanese troops waited for orders to move into Sidon to
provide security after the departure of the Israeli, who came under guerrilla attack again yesterday in two towns a few miles inland.
IN JERUSALEM, AN army spokesman said Israeli troops had captured four suspected guerrilla attacks after a chase over the Awali. Lebanese residents said the soldiers had "tortorized" people with random gunfire before returning to their lines.
Military sources estimated that the Israelis still had 50 Merkava tanks and 60 armored personnel carriers in the Sidon area.
Lebanese reporters in Sidon said Israeli forces withdrew to positions outside the city in the first stage of a three-part withdrawal from their 2/3-year occupation of southern Lebanon. In the first stage, scheduled for completion by Monday, Israeli forces will withdraw from 200 square miles of territory
to new lines 19 miles south of Sidon along the Litani River.
"THE CITY IS in a jubilant mood," said one reporter. "In fact, hundreds of residents were out during the night celebrating."
political and religious leaders in Sidon toured the streets to cheers from residents and inspected positions vacated by Israel's Israeli South Lebanon Army, or SLA, witnesses said.
Lebanese police patrolled the mostly Sunni Muslim city unchallenged for the first day since Israel forces invaded Lebanon to expel Palestinian guerrillas in June 1982. An estimated 10,000 Israelis remain in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese army units moved to the key Alman bridge over the Awali hours after the SLA abandoned it, but Israel troops backed by tanks returned yesterday to secure the
southern end and stopped people from crossing.
"THE ISRAELIS FIRED to disperse people who were trying to cross the Alman bridge this morning," a Lebanese reporter said. No casualties were reported.
The Israeli pullback has raised fears of factional fighting in the Sidon area, but Lebanese army officers said they could cross the Awali and reach the city within six hours.
East of Sidon, Lebanese guerrillas attacked the Israeli army liaison office in the Shite Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Israeli military reported. There were no casualties.
State-run Beirut radio said guerrillas also attacked an SLA barracks near the village of Ansar, capturing 10 militiamen and weapons. An Israeli army spokesman said he had no information about the report.
Practices, abuses noted in global human rights
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON - The State Department chronicled human rights abuses by foreign friends and foes yesterday, and one official said the most significant trend was toward democracy in the Western hemisphere.
The department's exhaustive annual report to Congress on human rights practices around the world found "pervasive discrimination" against blacks in South Africa and serious human rights violations in the Philippines — two countries President Reagan has been reluctant to pressure publicly.
The bleakest picture seemed to be painted of conditions in the Soviet Union and its allies. The Soviet Union, the 1,453-page report said, fails to meet acceptable international standards.
"It's been a bad year for human rights in the Soviet Union, starting off from a terrible base," said Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for human rights. "Nevertheless, it has been a year of crackdown."
Nicaraguan government while pointing to progress in El Salvador.
NOWHERE WAS A contrast more apparent than in Central America, where the Reagan administration is supporting El Salvador in its fight against a leftist insurgency and aiding right-wing guerrillas battling the Nicaraguan regime. The report found "intimidation and the restriction of basic human rights" by the
Abrams told reporters that they did not deride any regimes but painted an accurate picture through reports complied by embassies and department experts.
He said the report found no cases where there was "an extremely drastic downward trend" on them, more than number of countries won their mention which have taken significant turn for the better."
"WORLDWIDE, I THINK I would say that the only significant overall trend is the trend toward improvement in the Western hemisphere. In the last five years, I think we are now up to nine countries that have gone from military dictatorship to democracy." Abrams said. "Zero countries have gone from democracy to dictatorship. That's a very impressive trend."
Abrams said Chile, where President Augusto Pinochet has resisted international pressure to lift a state of siege, was "the greatest disappointment where, it appears, as the report states, that the movement against government has been stalled and the degree of political repression has grown during the year."
For the Soviet Union, the report cited reliable information that prisoners in labor camps are subjected to isolation, extreme cold, poor diet, malnutrition, compulsory hard labor and other measures. Dissidents are subjected to drug treatments in psychiatric hospitals that are "in reality a form of torture," it said.
Solidarity leaders arrested after meeting with Walesa
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — Secret police arrested seven leading Solidarity activists engaged in a clandestine strategy meeting in the Kraków district, the outlawed union, Walisa said yesterday.
Walesa, who was allowed to return home, said in a telephone interview from his home in Gdansk that more than 20 security police had broken up the secret meeting yesterday afternoon in an apartment in the northern city.
He said the seven activists, including Wroclaw regional union leader Wladsylsw Frasyniuk, top underground union leader Bogdan Lis and leading Solidarity adviser Adam Michnik, were put in separate cars and driven away.
"I was allowed to go home. The police were very polite, but they told us the meeting was illegal," he said.
"The cars took them to an unknown destination," Wala said.
In another development, a court sentenced jailed Solidarity leader Andrés Gwizarda to two more months for failing to show his identity card to police, family sources said.
Gwiazdza, a former deputy to Walesa, was jailed December 17. for three months for taking part in a prosecular demonstration in Cork on the day of 14th anniversary of rots on the Baltic coast.
Fire blocks rescue in hotel
By United Press International
Manila Fire Superintendent Col. Alfred Garcia said it was possible the death toll would go even higher once rooms on the upper floors of the five-star hotel were
MANILA, Philippines — Dense smoke and scattered fires still raring in the gutted Regent of Manila blocked rescusers from searching for more victims of a blaze that killed at least 23 people yesterday.
He said the bodies of 19 people, including at least two Americans, had been recovered by yesterday and that he knew the locations of four other bodies. Earlier, state-run
television and government radio said 26 people had been confirmed dead.
The blaze was the fourth to hit a major hotel in the Philippines in as many months. The three earlier fires killed at least 42 people.
Heavy smoke and fires that continued to erupt more than 24 hours after the blaze hampered rescue efforts and delayed the search for victims at the Regent of Manila.
About 300 guests were registered at the hotel when the blaze broke out early yesterday, officials said. Many waited for hours to be rescued. Others died — most often of smoke inhalation — on ledges and in emergency exits.
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