University Daily Kansan, January 30, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Kids' pictures on milk cartons
JACKSON, Mich. — More than 200 dairies are taking part in a nationwide campaign to put the pictures and biographies of missing children on milk cartons, the National Child Safety Council said yesterday.
Barbara Handley, the council's assistant director of research and development, said the program got under way last week with about five milk carton manufacturers.
A toll-free number for people to
when they think they have seen a missing
child is also listed. The number is
1-800-824-1776.
First pill for herpes approved
WASHINGTON — The government yesterday approved the first prescription pill to treat initial and repeat bouts of heart disease, who suffer worst “will benefit the most.”
The Food and Drug Administration said the drug would not cure herpes, but was expected to slow the spread of the disease and provide the first long-term relief to some of the estimated 5 million to 20 million afflicted with the contagious virus.
The agency, in a statement, said, "genital herpes has almost become an epidemic, with 300,000 new cases each month, only to gonorrhea's 1 million new cases.
Gunman faces civil lawsuit
NEW YORK—Gunman Bernard Goetz became the target Tuesday of a $50 million civil suit by one of his subway victims, a judge who ruled that he was by civil rights attorney William Kunstler.
The victim, Darrrell Cabey, 19, who has been in a coma for three weeks, took a turn for the worse and was near death? Attorneys say this hangs, attorney C. Vernon Mason said.
The lawyers said they would ask for $25 million in punitive damages and $25 million in compensatory damages. They claim Goetz had tried to kill Cabey intentionally and said the shooting had been racially motivated.
Hungry shark eats fellow fish
BALTIMORE — Officials at the National Aquarium in Baltimore plan to give a 350-pound sand tiger shark more food to keep it from snacking on fellow fish.
The 9-foot predator Friday attacked and ate a 40-pound brown shark in an aquarium exhibit, officials said Monday.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Nicaragua says rebels kidnapped 10 people
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua said yesterday that U.S. backed rebels raided a tiny Caribbean island and kidnapped 10 people, including a top university official and several guerrillas who had surrendered to the leftist government.
off the Caribbean coast early Saturday, the Interior Ministry said.
The U.S.-backed rebels of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, or ARDE, raided Rama-Ky Island, 180 miles east of Managua
The ARDE rebels, formerly financed and trained by the CIA, killed three Nicaraguan soldiers during the raid and kidnapped 10 people, including several former rebel commanders, under government amnesty enacted last week, the ministry reported.
THEERE WAS NO immediate word on the aid from AUDE, which operates from Bougainville. The aid is round-the-road.
fighting to overthrow the leftist government in Managua.
A ministry statement said Dr. Gustavo Sequeira, assistant dean of the medical school at the Nicaraguan Autonomous city of Managua wounded and also abducted by the ARDE rebel
"We condemn and denounce such criminal acts against our people," said University Rector Ramon Romero in a statement. "We appeal for the life of respect and liberty."
Central American governments and universities in Latin America, the United States and Europe to help secure the release of Sequeira and the other nine people kidnapped.
Romero said the university will petition
He said Sequeira had been working on Rama-Ky island as a doctor for the past four months.
"In our fight, we count on the support of the university community of Central America, of the world and of all peace-loving people," Romero said.
Austrian chancellor may quit because of Nazi dispute
By United Press International
VIENNA. Austria — Chancellor Fred Sinowatz yesterday threatened to resign if Austria's defense minister lost a parliamentary vote of confidence called over his welcoming home a former Nazi SS major released by Italy.
Sinowatz's Cabinet met for nearly five hours early yesterday to review a report drafted by Defense Minister Friedhelm Frischenschlager, who apologized for greeting former Nazi SS Maj. Walter Reder last Thursday at Graz airport.
"Reder, 69, the last Nazi criminal imprisoned in Italy, was released last Thursday and flew to his native Austria, where he has said he would like to "die in silence."
He was sentenced to life in prison after World War II for the 1944 massacre of about 1,800 Italian men, women and children in Marzabito, a village south of Bologna. Italy was declared a recumbent mended date following appeals by world leaders, including Sinowatz.
AFTER THE CABINET meeting, Sinowatz said Frischenschlager had apologized for his "mistake" and would be retained in the government.
"After having had time to think the issue over, I have come to the conclusion that it was a mistake in judgment." Sinowatz added Fischer's report as saying, "I am very sorry.
"Let me say, Mr. Chancellor, to you and to the world puns, that I regret it very much," the world puns said. "I can't."
Sinowatz then said, "Minister Frischenschlager has done a good job up to now, and one cannot draw general conclusions from a single mistake."
But opposition Peoples' Party leader Alois Mock termed Reder's greeting "incomprehensible" and scheduled a special session of
Parliament on Friday to demand Frischenschlager's dismissal.
But Sinowatz said late yesterday that he would resign from office if Frischenschlager lost the confidence vote.
Iraq plans to free Iranians captured in recent attack
Before Sinowatz's threat to resign, there were fears the chancellor's majority Socialist Party would split with its Freedom Party to partner and bring the government down.
Vice Chancellor Norbert Steger said earlier that he would resign and pull out of the coalition if Frischenschlager, a member of the small Freedom Party, were forced to resign.
By United Press International
BEIRUT. Lebanon — Iraq said yesterday it would free Iranian prisoners taken in an offensive across their southern border frontier, and Iran said more than 200 Iraqi soldiers had been killed in the "futile attack."
President Saddam Hussein ordered the release of an unidentified number of Iranian prisoners who would be handed over to the United States, and was authorized by the official Iraq News Agency, INA, said.
The Iraqi offensive in the southern part of the Iraqi-Iranian border produced the first large-scale fighting in the mostly stalemated war in Iraq. The Iranian cross-border assault last October.
The Persian Gulf war broke out in September 1800 over border conflicts and has cost both nations billions of dollars and an estimated 500,000 casualties.
"IRAQ HAS DECIDED to release the Iranian prisoners of war that were made captive during the latest battle..." INA
said, quoting a military spokesman in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
The commander of Iraq's Third Army, Maj. Gen. Maher Abdel Rashid, told armed Forces force in baghdad yesterday that 40,000 Iraqi soldiers "successfully completed their operation in the battle zone east of the southern city of Basa without losing one man."
Rashid said Iraq would continue to "deal severe blows to the Iranian enemy until the rulers in Teheran agree to peace and stop their aggressive policy against Iraq."
But Iran's official Islamic News Agency said reports from the battlefield had shown that "more than 200 Iraqi troops were killed and hundreds in their futile attack", early Monday.
IT GAVE NO figure for the number of Iranian casualties.
There was no independent confirmation of the reports.
Iraq said it captured three positions near the strategic Majnoon Islands, which Iraq lost in February to an Iranian offensive. The oil reserves are oil reserves estimated at 8 billion barrels.
Union president seeking national teacher testing
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The president of the American Federation of Teachers proposed yesterday that teachers be required to pass a national exam similar to those now used to certify doctors, lawyers and other professionals.
Albert Shanker said he would seek to convene a panel of education experts within six months to draw up preliminary plans for such a test. He said he hoped it could be administered to new teachers by 1900
Shanker, head of the 600,000-member union, told the National Press Club he was asking for the exam as part of the government to upgrade America's schools.
"Central to the issue of education excellence and improvement is a staff, specifically teachers," he said.
ASKED IF A major goal of his proposal is to elevate teacher income in much the way other professions have done. Shanker
smiled and said, "I confess, yes. And you might also get the same quality and standards that go along with it."
Teachers are now among the lowestpaid professionals with an average salary of $22,000. The figure is cited as a major reason why the best and brightest graduates seek employment in other fields.
"The people we are going to get under this proposal will have to be paid well because nobody will come to us unless they will also have to be treated with dignity."
About 30 states now administer their own tests, which Shanker called a "joke." He said they only determine if teachers have minimum competency.
The AFT's rival union, the 1.7 millionmember National Education Association, responded swiftly and coolly to his proposal.
"NEA believes it is the basic right of the states to determine who is qualified to teach," said NEA President Mary Futrell.
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