University Daily Kansan, July 13, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from United Press International Taiwan closes coal mines after 102 die in disaster
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Authorities shut down all of Taiwan's coal mines yesterday, as search teams at a collapsed mine in northern Taiwan removed the last of 102 workers killed in the worst mine disaster in the island's history.
A fire erupted in the Mei-Shan mine after the underground shafts collapsed. Only 22 of the 124 miners trapped by the fire and cave-in survived.
The Mei Shan disaster was the second major mine disaster in Taiwan in three weeks. On June 20, an explosion in another northern Taiwan coal mine killed all 74 workers.
The government ordered the closing of the nation's 120 mines for "at least one day," but it is believed many of the mines may never resume operations.
Because of low profits, most of Tatwin's mine owners have been unwilling or unable to invest in modern safety equipment.
Tuesday's disaster may have been averted if the mine's overheated airpump had an automatic device that would have switched off power before the fire started, preliminary police investigations showed.
Discovery flight reset for Aug.24
Jesse Moore, head of the shuttle program, said Discovery would be moved this weekend from its launch pad back to the assembly building at Cape Canaveral, Fla., so two more communications satellites could be added to the ship's cargo bay.
WASHINGTON — In an attempt to salvage its launch schedule, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration yesterday postponed until Aug. 24 the maiden flight of the shuttle Discovery, combining its aborted June mission with what was to be its second flight.
The cause of the engine failure that halted Discovery's June 26 launch attempt just four seconds before liftoff remains a mystery, but Moore said engineers were confident it was a one-time-only occurrence, probably caused by contamination in a valve mechanism. The failed engine has been replaced.
MILAN, Italy — A senior Vatican bank official and 21 other people were sentenced to a total of 122 years in prison by an Italian court yesterday on fraud and other convictions linked to the 1974 collapse of an Italian bank.
Vatican Bank official sentenced
The Milan court sentenced Luigi Mennini, the managing director of the Institute for Religious Works, or Vatican Bank, to seven years in jail on a charge of aggravated fraudulent bankruptcy of the Banca Privata Italiana.
State prosecutor Guido Viola told the court in his summation that at the time of the bank's collapse, the Vatican Bank was used to illegally export the Banca Privata's capital abroad.
Mennini, a member of Banca Privata's board of directors, was appointed managing director of the Vatican Bank by Pope Paul VI in 1963.
L.A. smog won't stall Olympics
LOS ANGELES — The head of the Olympic Organizing Committee said yesterday that Southern California's record-breaking siege of smog this month would not force postponement or cancellation of any events during the Summer Games.
first-stage smog alerts have been called for 11 of the last 12 days this month — the first time that has happened in at least 10 years. During first-stage alerts, health officials advise residents to reduce physical activity.
The most worrisome events — the men's and women's marathons — have been scheduled early or late in the day when pollution levels are lowest, Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, said. The Games will be held July 28-Aug. 12.
Chrysler pays executives bonuses
DETROIT — Chrysler Corp.'s Board of Directors yesterday approved the payment of 1983 bonuses to 1,400 top executives, but the firm refused to disclose what Chairman Lee Iacocca and others received.
The bonuses are the first awarded to Chrysler officials in the United States and Canada since 1977. Chrysler lost more than $3 billion in the intervening years and was forced to turn to Congress for federal loan guarantees.
However, the firm since then has made a remarkable turnabout and posted record profits in 1983 of $700.9 million.
The firm set aside $51.3 million from its record profits to be paid out as retroactive bonuses to executives. Chrysler spokesman Baron Bates said the full amount was not paid out how, ever.
Some analysts have said Iacocca, whose annual salary is $450,000, and other top executives could receive bonuses approaching $1 million each.
Two year old unharmed after fall
SANFORD, Maine — A 2-year-old baby plunged 20 feet out an apartment window to the concrete sidewalk below but suffered only scratches when a beach ball she was clutching broke her fall, police said yesterday.
Jennifer McFarland, who weighs about 30 pounds, was held overnight at Henrietta Goodall hospital for observation with only a bruise over her right eye and minor scratches. She was released yesterday.
"She's full of spunk," said her mother Patricia McFarland, 23, who was sleeping when the baby fell from the second-story window. The girl was holding a 12-inch diameter beach ball that had been thrown to her by her 4-year-old brother.
"She's a tough kid," her mother said.
Sole's a tough kid, her mother said. Authorities said the baby was sitting on a windowsill when the ball thrown to her by her brother pushed her back against the window screen, which popped out.
'Elephant man' to sell GOP goods
DALLAS — Ray Bayse has elephants on the brain. Pincushion elephants, rubber elephants, brass elephants — pachyderms in assorted colors, shapes and smells.
Yes, sirens.
"Ever handled an elephant chip?" asked Bayse, 34. "We checked out a sample. We figured the stuff would sell, but we didn't want to be the ones to sell it."
Yes. smells.
Bayse is no zoologist. He's a businessman, an entrepreneur whose company has been designated the "official merchandiser" for the Republicans at their national nominating extravaganza Aug. 21-24 in Dallas.
Bayse's political affiliation?
"Just call me an independent," he answers tactfully. "I'm not much for politics, but I love, just love conventions."
WEATHER
Today will be mostly sunny with temperatures ranging in the low to mid 90s. Winds will blow from the south at about 10 to 20 mph. Skies tonight will be clear with the low reaching around 70.
On Sunday, the forecast calls for a slight chance of thunderstorms. Skies will be partly cloudy with highs ranging in the high 80s to low 90s. The lows should be in the high 60s.
Tomorrow should be partly cloudy. The highs will hit the mid 90s and the lows will be in the high 60s.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — The Reagan White House, which has had its share of friction with the news media, instituted new rules for coverage of presidential travel yesterday that reflect a campaign season in full swing.
Reagan's campaign restricting press
The scene of a candidate plunging into a crowd of cheering supporters is hardly strange for an election year, but when President Reagan — the victim of an assassination attempt — does it, it's news.
By United Press International
Reagan did just that yesterday, working a crowd of cheering, flagwaving military families at Fort Campbell Army Air Base as he arrived for what was billed as an official — that is, non-political —
As reporters, cameramen and sound technicians were held at bay some distance away, Reagan, whose brushes with the public have been limited since the March 1981 shooting in Washington, made his way along a rope line.
visit to talk about his environmental record.
THE RESTRICTIONS imposed on the press pool assigned to be with Reagan led to a sometimes heated exchange between reporters and White House spokesman Larry Speakes, the third in as many days.
ANALYSIS
"When did this start?" shouted one reporter.
single reporter to watch Reagan work his way along the roped-off crowd and rotated waves of still camera and a single television camera crew
"Today," Speakes replied.
Speakes eventually permitted a
"Today," Speakes replied.
White House officials later told reporters the arrangement was the product of discussions with the Secret Service, which wanted the press kept a safe distance from Reagan.
Reagan has tested a variety of themes and settings for use on the campaign trail during the last week, while the White House denied his activities — a visit to a stock car race in Florida, a speech to auto workers in Michigan and a three-day drive to blunt criticism of his environmental record — were political.
dispel the notion of a Rose Garden campaign and show Reagan in the open.
HIS APPEARANCES have been designed and stage-managed to
At the same time, the White House image-shapers have persisted in their efforts to shield Reagan from reporters, concerned that an errant question might catch the president off-guard and provoke a troublesome response that detracts from the day's events.
This week, the issue was the environment. Next week, as the Democrats meet in San Francisco to nominate Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, Reagan will lay low the first few days, then, on the day that Monday makes his acceptance speech, he will fly to South Carolina to spotlight his invasion of Grenada at a conference of Caribbean leaders.
Dissidents accused of attempted overthrow
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — An underground union leader said yesterday the entire banned Solidarity movement would stand trial with four prominent dissidents who were accused of trying to violently overthrow Poland's communist government.
In an interview with an illegal union paper published yesterday, underground Solidarity leader Zhigini Bujak said Friday's "political" trial was one of the most important in the history of Poland.
Jacek Kuron, Adam Michnik, Henryvk Wujec and Zbigniew Romaszewski, all former leaders of the dissident Workers Defense Committee that helped form Solidarity in 1980, are charged with attempting to forcibly overthrow the state.
The official indictment, leaked by defense lawyers, accused the four of pursuing their "aim to overthrow by force the (political) system and to weaken the defensive power of Poland by breaking the alliance with the Soviet Union."
THE FOUR, who have been in
prison since 1981, have been offered their freedom in exchange for a promise to withdraw from political activity for $2 \frac{1}{2}$ years or leave the country for an undetermined period.
But the dissidents, former advisors to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, refused to negotiate for the freedom they said was rightfully theirs and chose instead to risk up to 10 years in jail in order to challenge the system in a military court.
Only representatives from official state-run media were allowed to cover the trial.
THE FOUR are among the most prominent of an estimated 500 people said to be in Polish jails for political activity. There have been indications that some will be released to mark the 40th anniversary of communist rule in Poland on July 22.
Bujak said the confrontation between Solidarity and the state had remained "stalemated" since 1981 when the government, seeing the union's growing power as a threat to its authority, suspended the labor organization and imposed martial law. Solidarity was banned in 1982
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