University Daily Kansan, February 8, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Senate confirms head of EPA
WASHINGTON - Lee Thomas was confirmed by the Senate yesterday as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency after his nomination was described as a step toward restoring confidence in the agency.
President Reagan named Thomas, 40,
after the resignation of government
trouble-shooter William Ruckelshaus.
Thomas officially will take over as soot as
he is sworn in.
The Senate confirmed Thomas, currently the acting administrator of the State Department.
U.S. and Australia affirm ties
WASHINGTON — Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke and President Reagan said yesterday their mutual defense commitments under the ANZUS alliance were firm but there were doubts about U.S. ties to New Zealand.
The two leaders, concluding a round of meetings at the White House, reaffirmed the strength of their bilateral relations, although the 34-year-old treaty has been criticized for lacking access to U.S. warships because they might be carrying nuclear arms.
The building in the hiltop village, hometown of movie legend Rudolph Valentino, crumbled about 4 a.m. Fourteen hours later, authorities said they had recovered 25 bodies and feared that at 30 people were still buried in the debris.
CASTELLANETA, Italy — An apartment building weakened by heavy rain collapsed yesterday, leaving at least 25 dead and dozens more buried in the rubble.
Apartment collapse kills 25
A spokesman for the regional governor in nearby Taranto said that members of 18 to 20 families were buried under the rubble.
Chinese capture 'Wild Man'
PEKING — A "wild man" who reportedly likes to tease long-haired women was captured alive in the mountains of central Brazil, a report that arrived in Pekong yesterday.
The newspaper reported that local peasants trapped the brown-haired, 3-foot-8, 55-pound man as he teased and killed a woman in Human's Chengdu County.
This is the first report of a successful capture of China's legendary "Wild Man," although people have claimed to have seen the creature best for thousands of years, the paper said.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
4 convicted in slaying of Polish priest
By United Press International
TORUN, Poland — Four secret policemen were found guilty of the kidnap-murder of a pro-Solidarity priest and given jail terms of 14 to 25 years yesterday at the end of a trial that provided an unprecedented look at official misconduct in the Soviet bloc.
Judge Artur Kujawa, who presided at the 43-day trial, rejected prosecutors' requests for the death penalty for Capt. Grzegorz Piotrowski, the ancknowledged leader of the Oct. 19 killing of the Rev. Jerzy Popeluzko.
Kujawa sentenced Piotrowski to 25 years in jail. His accomplices, Lls. Leszek Pekala, and Waldemar Chmielewski, 29, were given 15- and 14-year terms respectively. Prosecutors had sought 25-year terms for the pair. The fourth, defended, Col. Aidie Pie
truska 47, was convicted-of inciting the slaying. He was given a 25-year sentence.
KUJAWA ALSO ORDERED Piotrowsi and Pietruszka to be stripped of their civil rights for 10 years after completing their sentences.
All four defendants have the right to appeal their sentences to the Polish supreme court and seek clemency from Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski.
"On behalf of People's Poland, I find the defendants Pliotrowski, Pekala, Chiemielew and Pietruszka guilty of depriving the Reverend Popielusko of his life," Kujawa declared as the four defendants stood at attention.
Piotrowski wiped his eyes with a handkerchief as the sentence was read. Chimielewski, who has suffered from a nervous
twitch since the trial began, shook and
sobbed. Pekala bowed his head and wept.
PIETRUSZKA, WHO pleaded not guilty, paled as Kujawa told the court that "without his inspiration this crime would not have been possible."
An autopsy determined he died of suffocation from the gag.
Popieluszko was kidnapped at gumpet from his car near Torun. He was clubbed and hit at least 14 times before being bound and gagged. His body, weighted by a sack of stones, was thrown into a reservoir on the River from which it was retrieved Oct. 30.
Government opponents said he was killed in a plot by Communist Party hardliners to discredit Jurzakuski's efforts to strengthen ties to Poland's powerful Roman Catholic church. But the trial said there was no evidence the conspiracy went beyond the four defendants.
Populizsko was known for sermons critical of the communist regime and in support of the banned Solidarity union. He was a target of government harassment.
Jaruzelski has described the murder as a provocation aimed at Poland.
TASS, THE OFFICIAL Soviet news agency, called the priest's death "the consequence of a combination of tragic circumstances" and said the verdict was justified because the killing could have led to dangerous unrest in Poland.
"The killing of the clergyman was a political provocation," Tass said, adding that "such actions are dangerous since these might lead only to violation of tranquility in Poland, to conflicts and clashes."
Police beat South Korean dissident
By United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean dissident leader Kim Dae Jung—returning to his homeland after two years in exile — today was hit and kicked by police trying to separate him from U.S. officials who were also caught in the mlee.
Former U.S Ambassador Robert White was thrown to the ground and former State Department official Patricia Derian was repeatedly hit. The two and other U.S. officials had accompanied Kim on his flight from Tokyo.
Derian said, "A wedge of thugs tried to separate Bob White, who was holding Mr.
"They cut off the majority of our delegation. They cut off and three me"
"While White."
Kim's arm, and he was thrown to the ground."
Derian said she was "covered with black and blue marks."
Amm and his wife, Lee Hee Ho, with arrived a 38-member delegation including two U.S. congressmen and 22 other Americans who come to assume the dissident leader's safety.
Rep. Tom Foglietta, D-Pa., one of two congressmen accompanying Kim, said police tried to force the 59-year-old opposition leader into an airport elevator alone.
"When he refused to leave without us, they bodily picked up Mr. Kim and threw him into the elevator. They kicked and punched him." Fogliitta said. "It was a disgraceful exhibit of unnecessary force and severe brutality that I never expected to see in Korea."
his home in western Seoul. White, Dierian,
Foglietta and Rep. Edward Feighan, D-Ohio,
arrived there a few minutes later but were
denied entrance by police.
Kim was later taken under heavy guard to
Kim, a former presidential candidate, was condemned to death for sedition 1980 but the sentence was commuted to a 20-year term. He was permitted to leave South Korea in 1982 to receive medical treatment in the United States.
The South Korean government of President Chun Doo Hwan, under heavy U.S. pressure and concerned about its image abroad, has technically faced 17 years of his prison term.
at least 20 opposition leaders who had planned to greet Kim at the airport were under house arrest, dissident sources said. They included Kim Young-sam, South Korea's most prominent opposition leader.
Lung cancer tops list as killer of women
NEW YORK — For the first time, lung cancer will top breast cancer as the number one cancer killer of U.S. women in 1985, the American Cancer Society said yesterday. The group blamed cigarettes for 75 percent of the deaths and called for congressional help in the war on smoking.
By United Press International
THE SOCIETY, IN its annual publication.
In 1950, lung cancer, seventh among female cancer death causes, was responsible for 3 percent of the deaths; in 1985 as the No. 1 cancer killer, it will cause 18 percent of the deaths — the same percentage as breast cancer but numerically 200 ahead.
"Cancer Facts & Figures," said 38,600 women will die of lung cancer this year and 38,400 will die of breast cancer.
A total of 144,000 Americans — 98,000 men and 46,000 women — will be diagnosed as having lung cancer this year, and 125,000 people will die of it, making lung cancer "the unchallenged leader in cancer deaths in the United States," said Lawrence Garfinkel, ACS vice president and head of cancer prevention.
Dr. Robert J. McKenna, ACS president, issued a call for a congressional investigation of certain cigarette advertising and marketing practices, saying the aim was to eliminate the glamorization and promotion of cigarettes to women and teenagers.
The society said 29 percent of adult U.S. women smoked and 21 percent of adolescents, male and female, smoke daily.
"Gigarette ads suggest that women who smoke are sexy, athletic, independent, in control and healthy," said Virginia L. Garcia of epidemiology at the University of California.
"Unlike many other cancers, victims of lung cancer have only a 10 percent chance of surviving five years." Ernster said.
She complained about an announcement by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company of its intention to introduce another cigarette aimed at women, the first brand with a designer name: Ritz cigarettes with the Yves St. Laurent logo.
By United Press International
Aid to schools may be slashed if plan passes
WASHINGTON — An administration plan to simplify tax laws could complicate matters for America's schools, costing them more than $16.5 billion, a study released yesterday by a teachers union says.
Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said the plan might bring the "largest slash in federal aid to education in our history," which would mean an average loss nationwide of $271 per year per student.
Taxpayers who now itemize deductions on federal income taxes are permitted to deduct the amount they pay to state and local governments for property, income and sales tax.
However, a proposal before Congress drafted by Donald T. Regan, the former treasury secretary and now the White House director of staff, would eliminate these deductions
THIS WOULD RESULT in an increase in federal taxes as well as pressure to reduce state and local taxes, said Shanker, joined at a news conference by Sen. Daniel
"Since so much of all property taxes collected goes directly to our schools, elimination of this deduction would produce this choice — higher taxes or less education." Moynihan said.
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