University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Heads of divided Cyprus meet
UNITED NATIONS — Leaders of divided Cyprus met for the first time in six years in an effort to reunite the island's Greeks and Turks under one government.
President Spyros Kyprionan, representing the island's half a million Greeks, and Rauf Denkhtak, leader of 120,000 Turkish Cypriots, said they would refuse on the talks at UK headquarters until they ended, probably in three days.
The task of the summit is to agree on the framework for a united Federal Republic of Cyprus.
U. N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who succeeded in bringing the two bitter adversaries together after months of preliminary talks last fall, supervised the ceremony.
Studv savs VDTs cause stress
MONTEREY, Calif. — Women involved in some kinds of clerical work using video display terminals may be more prone to heart problems related to stress and strain, two researchers said yesterday.
Suzanne Haynes, chief of medical statistics for the National Center for Health Statistics, and Andrea Lacroix from Johns Hopkins University reached that conclusion on the basis of long-term data in Massachusetts and North Carolina.
Haynes said at an American Heart Association meeting that a survey of 518 members of the Communications Workers of America in North Carolina showed that twice as many women using VDTs suffered the chest pain of angina.
Unrest spurs Mitterrand's trip
PARIS — President Francois Mitterrand left yesterday for New Caledonia in an effort to quell two months of unrest caused by disputes about whether the colony should become independent or retain French rule.
A peaceful solution seemed likely until last weekend when police shot down a railing at a home.
Mechanical arm aids surgeons
LOS ANGELES — The world's first application of robotics in diagnosing and treating brain tumors — a computer-aided mechanical arm — was unveiled yesterday in a demonstration showing how its accuracy aids surgeons.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Dr. Yik San Kwoh of Memorial Medical Center of Long Beach developed the computer program.
Thai, Chinese armies battle Vietnam troops
Bv United Press International
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand — Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas clashed with Vietnamese troops yesterday in advance of an expected large, new offensive by Hanoi against Cambodian rebels, rebels said.
lsewhere, sources in Peking and Hanoi said Vietnamese and Chinese troops battled for a third straight day alone under order, deriding the other's attack, they had repelled the other's unprovoked attack.
Relief officials prepared to move 62,000 Cambodian refugees away from the Thailand-Cambodian border area and out of the country's artillery in anticipation of the new fighting.
Vietnam was reported to be moving Soviet-built tanks and 1,000 troops toward the Khmer Rouge strongholds south of Aranayaprathet for what Thai military sources said would be a large new offensive against the rebels.
THE KHMER ROUGE, whose leaders ruled Cambodia until the Vietnamese takeover in 1979, is the largest of three rebel
groups fighting the 160,000 Vietnamese occupation troops supporting the Hanoi-backed government in Cambodia.
Two Vietnamese artillery shells landed yesterday near the Thai border village of Kok Sabang. 12 miles southwest of Monyi city caused no damage, Thai military sources said.
The Khmer Rouge said its men destroyed a bridge over Highway 5 that leads to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh during a preemptive strike against Hanoi's forces.
In other fighting, the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, said yesterday that Chinese frontiers guarded on Wednesday repelled eight attacks into the Loashang area in Yunnan Province.
But Radi Hanoi, in a broadcast monitored in Bangkok, said Vietnamese forces had wiped out hundreds of Chinese invaders and artillery on vines of artillery rows on Vietnamese villages."
Western diplomats think the latest round of fighting may be an attempt by Peking to relieve pressure on beleaguered Cambodian forces. The Cambodia's army's troops along the Thai-Cambodian border.
Thomas Long/KANSAN
It may be winter, but Tom Jaimez, 1000 New Jersey St., figures he can save himself "a couple of bucks in drying money" by hanging his laundry out. He said yesterday that it took about 24 hours for the laundry to dry.
Abortion clinics fearing increase of violence
By United Press International
Abortion clinics, many already operating under a near state of siege, are increasing security this weekend because of fears more violence may mark the 12th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
"I'm one of those people who looks in the rear view mirror every day," said Wanda Rock, a coordinator at a family planning clinic. "The 'anti' campaigns are very effective.
"I took a night class a while back and people would put anti-abortion information under the windshield wiper of my car almost every night. They knew who I was and what looked like. To get a phone call at 2 a.m. and they say, 'You're next, that's scary.'"
Concern about possible violence before Tuesday's anniversary has been heightened by the escalating rate of attacks on abortion clinics. The government reports that of the 30 bomb and arson attacks against abortion clinics since May 1982, 25 have occurred in the past year.
THEERE HAVE BEEN many lesser incidents.
For example, vandalism has been common at the Fox Valley Clinic in Grand Chute, 30 miles south of Green Bay, Wis., the state's only abortion clinic outside of Madison and Milwaukee. On one occasion, gunshots damaged a clinic window.
Demonstrators have carried signs in front of the clinic some days each week for the past year. The Outagamie County Sheriff's Department announced that "extra precautions" were planned to protect the rural clinic during the anniversary period.
THE REV. NORMAN STONE of the Valley Christian Center, leader of an area anti-abortion group, said he opposed violent abortion and called for a ban on "the intensity of frustration" of opponents.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which investigates bombings and arson, warned the National Abortion Federation to tell its members to take extra security precautions for the anniversary. Some clinics have hired extra security guards and local police departments have stepped up patrols.
Birmingham, Ala., officials attempted to
limit confrontation by denying a march permit for anti-abortion groups to picket an abortion clinic. The abortion opponents criminalized the first Amendment rights.
THE ANNIVERSARY ALSO will be observed with marches in many state capitals and Washington by both supporters and opponents of legal abortion.
A group in St. Paul, Minn., will gather this weekend to mark the anniversary by hearing the recollection of women who had to seek justice before the 1973 Supreme Court rulings.
Because of the bombings, the National Organization for Women plans vigils at abortion clinics in more than 20 states.
NOW President Judy Goldsmith said yesterday she would join a weekend vigil at an abortion clinic to 'stand up to terrorists who have recently attacked many clinics.
Goldsmith will join the vigil at an abortion clinic in Washington, D.C., while women stay overnight or for shorter periods in NOW-sponsored vigils at 25 clinics in 18 states.
The vigils are to protest the escalating
number of bombings and arson attacks on clinics.
"WE SERVE NOTICE that women are activated, mobilized and absolutely determined not to go back home," injury and even death to terminate a pregnancy." Goldsmith said.
"Neither will we tolerate the continuation of a situation in which women are accosted, followed, intimidated and harassed when they are not constituted right to abortion," she said.
Goldsmith said the harassment suffered by those at the clinics went beyond First Amendment rights of expression. She said it was unreasonable for people to receive bomb threats and threatening calls in the middle of the night at their home.
NOW volunteers will be present at the Women's Clinical Group in Bridgeton, Mo., where they will likely find themselves confronting anti-abortion demonstrators. Nine anti-abortion demonstrators were arrested Saturday in front of the suburban St. Louis clinic and Loretti Wagner of Missouri Citizens for Life said that "all the abortion clinics are going to have picketers" for the anniversary.