University Daily Kansan, February 12. 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Syrian leader hails re-election
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian President Hafez Assad yesterday called his reelection to a third seven-year term "the greatest common stand" that underscored his opposition to the United States and Israel.
The final results were announced on state-run Damascus radio, and 6,522,262 ballots were cast in the single-candidate race. Of those, 56, received 99.7 percent of the votes.
Iranians celebrate revolution
Thousands of Iranians shouting "Death to America and the U.S.S.R." marched in Teheran yesterday to celebrate the shah's end of power six years ago, but rebels used the date to claim an attack on what they called the nation's main torture center.
The march marked the Feb. 11, 1979, revolution that toppled the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and led to the rise to power of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his fundamentalist Islamic regime.
President Ali Khameni looked on from the main review stand as the son of a prominent American government from his father pledging to continue fighting the war against Iraq until victory.
Phone lawsuit may ring a bell
LOS ANGELES — A $50 million class action lawsuit filed yesterday charged that cordless telephones, which ring through the earpiece instead of a base unit, have caused permanent hearing loss to thousands of people.
Attorney Steven Schumauer of St. Louis said the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, charges the sharp sound produced in the earpiece of cordless phones can reach 140 decibels, a sound "equal to a jet engine two feet away from you."
Ugliies raise money for charity
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The ugliest bartenders in the nation work in Columbus, according to results of a fund-raising effort by members of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The Ugly Bartender Contest is an annual drive to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis society, and the bartenders who receive the most donations for the society are considered the ugliest. The drive ended Sunday.
William R. Bell, chairman of the national drive, said the Columbus total, taken at about 125 bars and restaurants, is more than totals of competitors in 50 other cities.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Reagan, Saudi king voice peace ideals
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, signaling a reluctance to raise the U.S. profile in the Middle East, told King Fahd of Saudi Arabia yesterday that the key to peace lies in "direct negotiations" between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
Voicing optimism that a “just and lasting settlement” of turmoil in the Middle East is within reach, Reagan deflected an appeal by telling the US to lead to revive the long-stained peace process.
Despite the differences, the two arranged a second meeting for this morning. A black tie state dinner at the White House last night capped Fahd's first full day in Washington.
In statements delivered as Faidh began the official portion of a five-day state visit, the two leaders voiced a shared commitment to ensure that the mission describing how the peace effort should proceed.
DURING A COLORFUL welcoming ceremony for the Saudi monarch, Reagan portrayed the responsibility for Middle East peace as one requiring the efforts of the United States, Saudi Arabia and other key players in the region.
"Together, our considerable influence and moral sassion can, at the very least, decrease the threat of war," Reagan said. "If the Saudi and the American governments agree that military pressure can be made, especially in the lingering dispute between Israel and her neighbors."
It was Fahd, however, who touched a sensitive nerve by pressing Reagan to endorse self-determination for the Palestinians — an issue the United States wants to see resolved by Israel and its Arab neighbors.
The Saudi monarch called the plight of the Palestinianians of "paramount concern to the whole Arab nation" and "the one problem
that is the root cause of instability and turmoil in the region."
"I HOPE THAT you will support the just cause of the Palestinians in the region," Fahd said. "We only ask for a just position with the ideals of your country."
Reagan, advancing a position echoed in his private talks with Fahd, said, "The security of Israel and the legitimate rights of the United States should be addressed in direct negotiations."
A senior administration official said there was no disagreement that the interests of the Palestinians must be represented in any peace negotiations, nor any change in the political and social life of Iraq and other Arab leaders could do more to create a climate favorable for such talks.
"There's a lot due from all parties," the official said. "It's not just the Americans whose activity is needed and whose dedication to peace is needed."
The official said Fahd wanted the United States to persuade Israel that conditions in the region may increase tensions if the peace process is not revived. However, he added, "We, for our part, would like some of the parties on the Arab side to understand that."
U. S. officials hoped to persuade Fahd during his visit to use his influence in the Arab world to promote an arrangement under which Jordan's King Hussein would enter the peace process on behalf of the Palestinians.
In Amman, Jordan, a senior Jordanian official said Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and Hussein al-Jamal join to force in pursuit of a peace settlement.
The accord calls for Jordan and the PLO to seek a settlement based on U.N. resolutions calling for Israel to give up occupied territories in exchange for peace and recognition of its right to exist, the official said.
Black youths riot in South Africa
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Thousands of black students roided in Orange Free State province yesterday, burning down shops and offices and torching cars in the streets.
Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to suppress the unrest, and they arrested at
Capt. Johan Fouche said police had restored order about six hours after more than 3,000 students left classes and rampaged through Seisowville, about 125 miles southwest of Johannesburg in Orange Free State Province.
Fouche said at least 20 youths had been arrested in Seisoville and 10 others had been detained in nearby Wesselsbron.
No injuries were reported, but damage was extensive.
Police said it was not immediately clear what sparked the riots, the worst since students rampaged in black townships the last year to protest corporal punishment.
Two private homes and a schoolmaster's
barn are burned. Damage was
estimated at $190,000. Floods
Groups of children destroyed 27 shops and offices and damaged 12 more, he said. At least 18 vehicles were destroyed by riots, while the cars and delivery trucks on fire in Seiseville.
The unrest came a day after jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela said he would remain in prison rather than renounce violent opposition to white-minority rule in South Africa.
Opposition groups in Johannesburg yester day praised the decision.
The United Democratic Front, South Africa's largest legal opposition movement, issued a statement that said. "We are proud that Mandela remains so absolutely committed to a meaningfully negotiated settlement."
Albertina Sisulu, wife of another jailed African National Congress leader, said,
"Mandela's words are our feelings exactly."
Prime Minister Fierter Botha last month offered to release Mandela from his 1964 life sentence for treason and sabotage if he would reject violence as a political weapon.
In a message read by his daughter, Zindzi, at a rally Sunday in the black township of Soweto outside Johannesburg, Mandela said, "I cannot and will not give any undertaking."
Stockman criticized for pension remarks
WASHINGTON — Defenders of military pensions yesterday lashed out at budget director David Stockman for criticizing the system, saying retirement benefits are second only to patriotism in drawing potential soldiers.
caused a flurry of protest in Washington last week.
A spokesman for the Reserve Officers Association also invited Stockman to address the group's annual meeting next week in Washington to further detail the views that
Stockman — offering a personal opinion — last week told a Senate committee he considered the military pension system and the way it was protected a scandal and an outrage. He said the "institutional forces of the military" were more concerned about pensions than national security.
His comment brought a defense from the Pentagon and President Reagan, who said he did not consider the pensions bloated.
By United Press International
Robert Spiro, a rear admiral in the naval reserve and the 120,000-member Reserve Officer Association's executive director, said military morale had been substantially damaged by Stockman's comments and said "further erosion (of pensions) could be very hurtful to retention."
Since 1980, Spiro said, pension system changes have cut the lifetime value of a military pension by about 20 percent.
U.S. officials offer reward in abduction
3y United Press International
GUADALAJARA, Mexico - U.S. officials yesterday offered a $50,000 reward for information that could help them track down a veteran U.S. narcotics agent who was kidnaped midday Thursday by suspected drug traffickers.
U. Drug. Enforcement Agency agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, 37, was abducted moments after leaving his office with his girlfriend. He met his wife for lunch, U.S. officials said,
Two hours later, authorities said, a close friend of Camaraña, the pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar, was abducted as he walked along a city street.
U. S. officials said the relationship between the two kidnapings was not clear. Zavala Avelar, a Mexican, was a pilot for agriculture and Hydraulic Resources Miners'
Security was increased at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara to guard against possible attack, and armed guards were posted around the building and its vicinity. Officials said one entrance was closed for security reasons.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Mexico City said authorities had few clues in Camarena's abduction.
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