University Daily Kansan, June 20, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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Solidarity's boycott call keeps Polish voters home
WARSAW, Poland — The Communist regime admitted yesterday that a low voter turnout in national elections showed that the Solidarity underground's call for a boycott was at least partly supported by Poles.
"The authorities are far from a tone of triumph" in assessing elections, said government spokesman Jerzy Urban at a news conference for foreign reporters.
Final results of Sunday's election showed voter turnout was below 75 percent, by far the lowest recorded in 40 years of Communist rule in Poland. Urban said.
He said elections would be run again in 85 of the country's 82,314 constituencies because less than 50 percent of the voters turned out.
Urban denied Solidarity's claim that the results showed the government faced more than 5 million active opponents.
After polls closed Sunday night, the government had announced a high turnout
Urban said the discrepancy occurred because about 1 percent of the ballots cast were invalid, mostly because some voters dropped empty envelopes into ballot boxes.
WASHINGTON - Moderate Republicans, including former national chairman Mary Louise Smith, said yesterday they were forming the Republican Mainstream Committee to keep the GOP platform from swinging too far to the right.
Iowa Rep. Jim Leach, committee chairman, and other leaders, said the platform should appeal to the majority of voters.
Leach said the group would present ideas on a nuclear freeze, on upgrading the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and on restraining military spending. He said the platform probably would be "no-procurement but not necessarily (for) federal funding" of abortion.
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Smith, a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, said she doubted that he could be included in the platform. She said she was also against the FIA trials.
CHICAGO — Air bags in all cars could save 5,000 lives and $4 billion each year, the American Medical Association said yesterday, renewing its 14-year-old call to make the automatic safety devices mandatory.
The air cushions, which inflate automatically during a crash to protect riders from hitting the dashboard or flying through the windshield, have been opposed by the auto industry for years because of the additional car cost.
"The people that get in the most severe accidents are the ones who don't use the seatbelts," Edward Press, of the American Association of Public Physicians, said. "Whereas, if you had an air cushion, it would be there to give them a little protection."
Siamese twins stable after surgery
Press said that the vote was especially important because it came just weeks before Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole's expected decision on whether to make the devices mandatory in all U.S. cars.
PHILADELPHIA — Surgeons said yesterday it was "touch and go" during a 14-hour operation to separate 4-month-old twin girls who were born joined from the chest to the pelvis.
The brown-haired, blue-eyed girls were in critical but stable condition, the surgeons said.
Claire and Emily Taylor, born Feb. 12 and joined in a facing position, had separate hearts and separate lungs. However, their individual livers and parts of their digestive systems and urinary tracts were joined together by a team that designed the complex surgery at Children's Hospital.
In addition, the twins had only three legs between them. Emily received one leg and most of the other, while Claire received the third leg.
Breakdancing can cause injuries
CHICAGO — Doctors warned yesterday that the flashy fad of breakdancing can push the body beyond its limits, causing torn ligaments, broken bones and more serious injuries.
In the worst injury reported, a tourist, Efrain Arreola, 25, broke his neck and was left a quadriplegic after trying a difficult stunt without training, said Nadine Filipiak, a spokeswoman for Chicago's St. Marv of Nazareth Hospital.
Arreola was in Chicago visiting his brother's family for the summer. During a June 10 picnic, he saw a group of breakdancers performing and decided to join in.
Arreola started out with a complicated move — a flip to a handstand, followed by a headpin.
"When he hit the ground, he became an instant quadriplegic," Filipinak said. "He will probably never walk again."
Student regretful of beer can toast
DEARBORN, Mich. — Doug Cutler Jr. is back in the National Honor Society after apologizing for toasting his classmates with an emmy beer can during commencement exercises.
Cutler, 18, one of three senior speakers at the school's commencement exercises last Thursday, was booted out of the National Honor Society for incorporating a line from a Budweiser beer commercial into his address.
"Before I go," he told his classmates, "I would like to leave you with an age — old metaphor. We are all like budding flowers just waiting to blossom in this magnificent world of ours."
Then he put on a pair of sunglasses, extended an empty beer can to the audience and said, "And so to the senior class of 1894, I just told them that my class was over."
Soviets aren't thrilled by Jackson
His classmates got a kick out of it, but school officials were less than amused.
MOSCOW — The Kremlin has denounced Michael Jackson as a singer who has sold his soul for profit and is serving the Reagan administration by keeping the American public's mind off the country's problems.
The official Soyetskaya Kultura (Soviet Culture) newspaper accused Jackson of ignoring racism in the United States and having plastic surgery in order to look more like the white men who are his true masters and in order to make a profit and be a full member of the consumer society."
A Soviet official who saw Jackson's "Thriller" video privately in a foreigner's apartment said he was horrified by what he called a "fascist" film.
Today, temperatures should reach the mid to upper 80s under partly cloudy skies. There is a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms in the daytime and a 20 percent chance of rain this evening. The lows will be in the mid to upper 80s this evening. Winds will be blowing from the south to southwest at about 10 to 20 mph.
blowing from the wind. Temperatures tomorrow also will be in the 80s during the day with lows dipping to the high 60s or low 70s. Skies will be partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain.
County with a single extended forecast calls for rain on Friday and Saturday. Temperatures will range in the 80s to mid 90s and the lows will be in the 60s.
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Indian army to leave temple
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — The Indian army has begun pulling troops out of the Golden Temple shrine and will withdraw completely when the government of explosives and arms, a government spokesman said yesterday.
Control of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest shrine, will be returned to Sikh priests, the highest authority in the religion, after the army withdraws, Federal Minister Bata Singh said.
SINGH LATER CONTRADICTED himself and said the army would not be withdrawn today. He said he had been misquoted, although two Indian reporters used the same quotes in their stories.
Before the government statement, Singh said at a news conference in Amritsar, 250 miles northeast of New Delhi. He said that he would be withdrawn from the temple today.
"There are still large quantities of explosives and arms within the temple complex, which are being recovered daily, and until the temple is completely clear of these. it will not be safe to allow large numbers of visitors into the temple," the government spokesman said.
After Prime Minister Indira Gandhi met with the Cabinet, however, the government spokesman issued a statement that the military of Singh's remarks and said the troops would remain through the clean-up operation.
About 1,500 troops stormed the Golden Temple June 6 to flush out militant Sikhs, who had converted it into an armed headquarters for a terrorist campaign aimed at winning more rights for the religious group.
THE SPEOKESMAN SAID some troops had already been withdrawn from the temple, but most would remain until the complex was cleared of weaponry and explosives.
The army gained control of the complex following the bloody assault, which killed 492 Sikh militants and 83 troops according to official estimates. The assault sparked protests by Sikhs across India and the desertion of thousands of Sikh soldiers from the army.
In addition, the spokesman denied the Indian government had accepted most of 14 suggestions made by the five Sikh head priests on how to return the troubled Punjab state to normal.
Singh was quoted at the news conference as saying that Indira Gandhi had authorized the acceptance of most of the priests' suggestions. He later denied making that statement.
Details of the Sikh proposals were not immediately available.
There were no indications when the army would withdraw from the rest of the northern state of Punjab — sent in earlier this month to counter the militant Sikhs' violent campaign for autonomy.
Mondale forces shaping platform
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Envoys for Walter Mondale dominated efforts to shape the Democratic Party platform yesterday, frustrating his rivals and prompting the head of Gary Hart's contingent to complain that the platform lacked "new ideas."
Using its eight votes on the 15-member drafting committee, the Mondale forces repeatedly rebuffed amendments by the Hart and Jesse Jackson camps —including a bid to create a job training fund and a ban on the Persian Gulf to maintain the flow of oil. Both were rejected 8-7.
In other action, the Mondale delegates accepted a Jackson proposal that called for a 15 percent minimum tax on corporations, the first substantive proposal accepted so far.
The most heated exchange centered on a Hart call for creation of an Individual Training Account — allowing employers and workers to contribute voluntarily into a contingency fund. The money would be
THE PANEL ALSO voted 13-2 against a Jackson call to cut the military budget 20 percent a year during the next five years. Mondale and Hart favor a call for reducing the budget of increase in the defense budget.
In Washington, Jesse Jackson won agreement yesterday from the chairman of a special panel studying Democratic convention delegate selection rules that there was "some chance" in the 1894 selection process.
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But there was no official indication following a 2 $ \frac{1}{2} $ -hour closed-door meeting between the panel and Jackson of any remedy the panel
might recommend to address Jackson's complaint he got 20 % of the popular vote and only 9.8 % of the convention delegates.
Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz., said,
"There was some unfairness, it appears, in a number of these places.
It was not intended. The rules were not written with this in mind, but that was the impact in some of the cases."
UDALL AND JACKSON told reporters there was an agreement not to discuss the specifics of the meeting, with Udall saying the panel was charged with making incorrect rules changes for the 1988 convention.
But Repts, Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., and Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said there was a discussion of various options for addressing the selection of delegates to the 1984 convention being held next month in San Francisco.
Supreme Court antitrust ruling a Reagan victory
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Companies with corporate ties do not break U.S. law when they conspire to shut a competitor out of the market, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 yesterday in a major antitrust victory for the Reagan administration
In efforts to revamp federal antitrust law, the administration has said anti-competitive actions by a corporation and subsidiaries should not be penalized. The administration has argued that such penalties actually harm consumers because they discourage businesses from finding ways to compete more effectively.
Financially, the ruling was an even more important victory for the Pittsburgh-based Copperweld Corp. and its subsidiary, Regal Tube Co., which had appealed a lower court decision. The lower court had upheld a $9 million award against the companies for pricing activities that violated federal antitrust law.
The Supreme Court decision reversed an appeals court ruling in Chicago that upheld the antitrust award. It also overturns 35 years of Supreme Court rulings that such concerted activity by commonly controlled businesses was liable to antitrust scrutiny.
CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN Burger, delivering the court's opinion, said, "there can be little doubt that the operations of a prosecutor must be judged by into divisions must be judged as the conduct of a single actor."
The ruling provoked a vigorous dissent from Justice John Paul Stevens, who said that the majority should have asked "why two corporations that engage in a predatory course of conduct which involves a murder restrain competition should be immunized from liability because they are controlled by the same god-father."
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