University Dallv Kansan, June 15, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from United Press International
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Soviets put prerequisites on summit with Reagan
MOSCOW — President Konstantin Cherenkov is willing to meet President Reagan, but not until "problems arise" that make a superpower summit necessary and the session is properly prepared, a top Soviet official said yesterday.
Communist Party spokesman Leonid Zamyatin, at a news conference following the end of an economic summit of 10 communist trade partners, would not elaborate on what type of problems would require a summit.
Reagan this week rejected appeals from Senate Republicans to hold yearly summits with Chernenko — whether or not any such summits were possible.
The 10-member summit ended with a pledge to resist a "dangerous test of strength" instigated by the United States.
Chernenko, in a speech to heads of state at the final summit session, accused the United States of using economic sanctions "as a means of political pressure and intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states."
Trudeau's successor to be chosen
OTTWA - Pierre Trudeau, whose tumultuous, 16-year reign as prime minister is coming to an end, yesterday called on delegates to a Liberal Party convention to use "good conscience" in choosing his successor.
The new Liberal leader will be sworn in as prime minister within the next few weeks. after Trudeau officially resigns.
The delegates tomorrow will select Trudeau's successor from a seven-man field led by John Turner. 55, a Toronto corporate lawyer and former Trudeau finance minister, and Jean Chretien, 80, a cancer specialist who almost every major Cabinet post during his 21-year political career.
Under the Canadian parliamentary system, whoever is chosen to lead the governing Liberals will immediately become prime minister. But the winner must face the public in a general election spring and will probably seek a mandate before the end of the year.
Angolan rebels hold Americans
LISBON, Portugal — Eleven people, including an unspecified number of Americans, have been captured in fierce fighting between Angola's anti-Marxist guerrillas and government troops, the rebels said yesterday.
The National Union for Angola's Total Independence (UNTA) said a group of Americans, Colombians and Portuguese was seized Tuesday in an attack on a kev highway junction.
The rebel statement repeated warnings for foreigners to leave "war zones," which UNITA said covered two-thirds of the oil and diamond-producing country.
Several diplomats said that if UNITA followed past practice, it would march and truck its captives some 500 miles to southeastern Kuando Kubang province, site of its major bases. There the prisoners would be released in chartered Red Cross flights through
Sex-spy inquiry grounds colonel
LONDON — A colonel who hoped to fly aboard a U.S. space shuttle as Britain's first man in space was replaced because his army unit was implicated in a Soviet sex-spy network on Cyprus, the government announced yesterday.
The decision surprised Lt. Col. Anthony Boyle, 43, who was picked in March as one of four candidates for training at Britain's Air Force.
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Defense officials said he was withdrawn only because British investigators felt he should be on hand for consultation during a continuing investigation into alleged security leaks by men of his regiment.
London newspaper reports earlier this year said British intelligence believed a Soviet spy network had used sexy female agents in Cyprus to try to blackmail young soldiers into divulging secret information.
Safer overdose treatment found
CHICAGO — Feeding a charcoal mixture to drug overdose patients can cleanse the drug from their bloodstreams without the dangers posed by other treatments, two studies showed yesterday.
The oral charcoal treatment is cheaper, easier and safer than hemoperfusion, a treatment similar to kidney dialysis, reported in several studies.
In hemoperfusion, the overdose patient's blood is pumped out of the body through a machine that contains charcoal or another resin which picks up toxins from the blood before it is returned to the body.
Hemoperfusion is very expensive and can lead to several complications, such as the formation of clots. Pond said.
Using charcoal orally is a slower and gentler process, Pond said. The oral charcoal treatments work when the blood passes by the intestine.
Mummy reunited with its coffin
BOSTON — Padiilsheers, a 2,500-year-old mummified Egyptian stonecutter, was reunited with his coffin yesterday after the two had been separated for 53 years because of an administrative mix-up.
The smell of old glue filled Massachusetts General Hospital's Ether Room, where the mummy has been exhibited since 1823, as well as the faint scent of an ivory chest.
Around the turn of the century, the mummy and its coffin were loaned to the Smith Museum. In 1931 the museum returned Padihershef, but the hospital told the museum to keep the coffin.
Bear's execution hearing set back
The 6-foot, 350-pound male Himalayan Sun bear bit Dorothy Airehart on the right hand and arm Sunday night while the woman, who had already had five beers herself, tried to share a beer with her dog was in good condition yesterday at Arlington Memorial Hospital.
FORT WORTH. Texas — Puppy the bear survived another possible date with death yesterday with the postponement of a court hearing to decide whether the pet should be destroyed for biting a woman who tried to share a beer with him.
"State law requires that wild animals that bite a human — no matter why they bite a human — be killed and their heads be examined for rabies," Charles Vaught of the Fort Worth Health Department said.
WEATHER
Temperatures today should range in the mid to high 90s under partly cloud skies. It will be humid with a 20 percent chance of afternoon thunderstorms. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph.
Skies tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Temperatures will drop to around 70 degrees.
The extended forecast calls for a chance of rain Saturday through Monday. The highs will be in the upper 80s to mid 90s and the lows will range in the 50s to 60s.
Reagan will meet 'any time'
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that he would be willing to "meet and talk any time" with the Soviet leadership, but that the Kremlin was the stumbling block to a summit.
"Yes I am willing to meet and talk any 'yes you' Reagan said in a nationally televised news conference that have been the ones not responding."
Reagan opened his 25th news conference with praise for the Western economy in light of the London economic summit from which he had just returned. He called on Congress to pass his plans to cut taxes, expand the debt and to pass his nuclear arms plans.
Reagan, until now, has rejected calls for a summit with Soviet leaders unless "tangible results" could be assured in advance.
INSTEAD, REAGAN HAS urged the Soviets to return to talks on reducing long-range and intermediate missiles. They abandoned those talks late last year when NATO began installing U.S. Pershing 2 and nuclear cruise missiles in Western Europe.
"To aim new U.S. missiles at the Soviet Union and its allies ... and at the same time to urge talks — is this a good idea?" Chernenko said in a Prvaya报。
*A 1980 Carter campaign briefing book itself "was never in our possession." The Justice Department and the FBI are satisfied
History of U.S.-Soviet Summits
- "I" would look forward to a debate" with Democrat Walter Mondale.
History of U.S.-Soviet Summit
1945: Truman and Stalin
1972: Nixon and Brezhnev
1955: Eisenhower and Khrushchev
1973: Nixon and Brezhnev
1959: Eisenhower and Khrushchev
1974: Ford and Brezhnev
1961: Kennedy and Khrushchev
1979: Carter and Brezhnev
1967: Johnson and Kosygin
On other subjects, Reagan said:
Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko said Wednesday that election-year politics were behind the arrest, a return to the arms-control talks.
that "there was no criminal intent of any kind."
- Affirmative action was not killed by the Supreme Court's decision in a Memphis case that cities cannot lay the groundwork for hiring women to the jobs of recently hired minorities.
"I think the Supreme Court was interpreting what the law actually says," Reagan said. "As a matter of fact, back when it was being discussed, Hubert Humphrey said in the Senate that the law did not provide for quotas, that it was to prevent discrimination . . . and this is what the Supreme Court said in that case."
-He would sign a bill with tax increases "only if I had assurance
that the spending package was coming along."
- He can understand the concern and fear of Hispanic opponents to pending immigration legislation, but the government will work to make certain that there is no discrimination. "But the simple fact is ... we've lost control of our own borders," he said.
- In the upcoming Republican platform, he would prefer that there be not a call for arms superiority over the Soviets, but a call for parity.
- **Asked if it was true that he had considered the possibility of not serving another full term, he said,**
* **I am a very young fellow like me do if I quit?**
House changes immigration bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House voted in a surprise move yesterday to create a program to allow foreign "guest workers" to harvest American crops despite criticism it could lead to the same exploitation of migrant workers that occurred in the 1940s.
The program was approved 228-172 as an amendment to a bill intended to stem the flow of illegal aliens into the country by imposing sanctions against employers who knowingly hire them.
The amendment, offered by Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calf., and appointee to the Committee, would help farmers find replacements for illegal aliens who
are needed in the West and Southwest to harvest perishable crops.
The winning margin was provided by Republicans. California congressmen from agricultural districts had said passage of the immigration control bill would deprive small farmers of needed temporary help.
Approval of the amendment came as a surprise because Rep. Romano Mazzoli, D-Ky, the chief sponsor of the immigration bill, had succeeded in rolling off all of what he had called "killer" amendments for four years.
THE BILL WOULD grant amnesty to millions of aliens now illegally in the country, and it seeks to stave off the entry of more in search of work in the private sector. The employers who knowingly hire them, Panetta and other Californians.
mostly Republicans, told the House the "guest worker" program was vital to thousands of small farmers on the West Coast and in the Southwest to harvest crops that ripen suddenly and unpredictably — and which now are often harvested by illegal aliens.
The amendment, Panetta said, would require only three days advance notice by farmers of their need for workers to harvest their crops.
He explained that the bill would require agricultural employers to demonstrate to the Labor Department that no "able, willing and qualified" domestic workers were available.
THE HOUSE IS expected to complete action on the bill next week.
POWs ask to sue Japan's industry for slave labor
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Survivors of Bataan and Corregidor, detailing atrocities suffered at the hands of their captors 40 years ago, yesterday asked Congress to let them sue Japan and its giant industries for forcing them to work as slaves.
Lee Padilla, 64, said the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor had not calculated a damage figure for the labor they performed as Japanese prisoners of war after their capture in the Philippines, but the amount could total as much as $70 million.
"I'm not hungry after the money," said Padilla, a retired Albuquerque, N.M., businessman. "I didn't do anything against Japan but I paid for it. I had to pay for all of us."
The fact that it was Flag Day and a week after the anniversary of D-Day was not lost on the e-POWS, who said they are pressing their claims "because we need them to get back into industries that profitted from their labor today are rich companies, such as Mitsubishi."
THEY DETAILED BEATINGS,
starvation and conditions so inhumane the prisoners broke each others' limbs to try to keep from being forced to return to working in condemned coal mines and other industrial sites for 11-hour days, 10 days at a time.
"I land approximately 3,000 other American expirons of war are living evidence of the atrocities, humiliation, starvation and forced deportation, Japanese caused us to endure," said Agapito Silva, 64, of Albuquerque.
Rep. Manuel Lajan, R.N.M., said his bill would allow the survivors to take their case to court despite the 1951 peace treaty countries and not the United States and Japan pledged to sue each other for reparations.
"My bill does not grant any awards, monetary or otherwise," he said. "It only permits survivors to petition the claims court. It will determine whether the court to determine if an apology reparation should be awarded.
"It is incomprehensible to think that these survivors have never been allowed to take their case to the court, or their inherent inert to American citizens."
ALTHOUGH THERE WERE no witnesses representing the Reagan administration or Japan, a government spokesman said yesterday that the administration "takes the view that the peace treaty ended the war with Japan.