Universitv Dallv Kansan, June 8. 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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News briefs from United Press International
Radioactive radon gas linked to cancer deaths
BOSTON — Radioactive gas that accumulates in homes is responsible for lung cancer that kills 10,000 people in the United States each year. said a study released Wednesday.
Radon gas is a natural byproduct of underground uranium, which usually exists in areas high in granite. The gas is dissolved in water and comes to the surface in wells. The gas then accumulates in rocks. Radon is a radioactive element and inhaling particles that lodere in inhabitants' lungs and often causes cancer.
Health officials have said previously that the general population is in danger of increasing exposure to radon because as homes become better insulated, airflow from the outside decreases and indoor radon concentrations increase.
Two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine strongly linked high radon levels in mines to high lung cancer rates in miners. By extrapolating the home data and comparing it with overall lung cancer rates, Naomi Harley, an environmental scientist at New York University, concluded that a large number of Americans die each year from gas-induced cancer.
The Illinois Supreme Court upheld Gacy's conviction and death sentence Wednesday and set a Nov. 14 execution date for the 42-year-old former contractor and part-time clan. Gacy's attorney said he planned to appeal the ruling, which could delay the trial.
Gacy loses death sentence appeal
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — John Wayne Gacy, killer of 33 young men and boys, has lost another appeal and is a step closer to execution.
Eugenia Godikz, whose 17-year-old son, Gregory, was killed by Gaev, said she wondered when the case would finally end.
"He didn't give them the victims) a chance to appeal for their life, he killed them. God in heaven, how many chances does he have
Gacy is among more than 50 men who are on the state's two death rows. No one has been executed in the state since 1962, when the electric chair was used.
Reagan disagrees with daughter
WASHINGTON — President Reagan indicated in an interview released Wednesday that he disapproved of his daughter Patti's
"I'm just sorry that spanking is out of fashion now," the president told Family Weekly, a Sunday newspaper supplement.
Reagan said that he disagreed with his daughter's comments that people should not be arrested for smoking marijuana and that there was nothing wrong with unmarried people living together.
Reagan also complained in the Oval Office session that the news media had been unfair in reporting his infrequent attendance at church. He attributed this to security concerns raised by a March 31, 1981 assassination attempt.
"We became self-conscious about the fact that when we arrived on Sunday morning, we detracted from the frame of mind that people should be in when they go to church," he said.
Las Vegas strike nears settlement
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The costly, sometimes violent 67-day strike against the Las Vegas gambling industry neared an end yesterday.
The Sands, Tropicana, Frontier, Desert Inn and MGM Grand hotels were cleared of pickets Wednesday night when striking musicians announced a tentative agreement with four of the resorts.
Rossie Ralenkotter, an executive of the Las Vegas Convention and Tourism Bureau, said that in the first few weeks of the strike he said there were 152 violations.
Gambling itself was never affected since croupiers, or gambling table operators, are by tradition non-union, but other tourist dollars were lost because of strike violence and because many name entertainers refused to cross union picket lines.
Senator's past affiliation surfaces
WASHINGTON — Sen. Roger Jepsen, R-Iowa., blamed political rivals Wednesday for disclosures that "in a moment of weakness" seven years ago he joined a health club that police later shut down as a house of prostitution.
Jepsen joined Leisure Spa after he left office as Iowa's lieutenant governor and began operating his own business — Agrustural Electronics of Davenport, Iowa.
About a year and a half later, Jepsen, a conservative and born-again Christian supported by the religious right, won election to the Senate with an upset victory over Sen. Dick Clark, D-Iowa, a liberal.
Jepsen is now locked in a fierce Senate race against Rep. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, — a contest regarded as pivotal in the Republican effort to keep control of the Senate.
New cigarette contains no tobacco
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The men who founded the Datapoint Corp. are test marketing a new product that will enable smokers to thumb their noses at righteous non-smokers everywhere.
Called "Favor," the new cigarette has no tobacco, hence no tar, carbon dioxide and most of the other particulate matter that the
"Favor" looks like a regular cigarette, but it has only one element containing nicotine. The cigarette also has tobacco extracts and a mouthpiece covered by plastic laminated paper. When air is inhaled through the cigarette, pressure changes produce nicotine vapors.
even cigarette contains only millionths of a gram of nicotine all that is needed for the desired effect and will last depending on the habits of the individual.
Drinking on the job irks Soviets
"It is considered common knowledge drunkards have their courtesy code: It is indecent to get drunk alone," said Pravda. "Heads of some enterprises do not realize that they promote collective drunkenness just because they do not prohibit it."
MOSCOW — Drunks love company, and the best place to find it is at work, the Soviet newspaper Pravda said yesterday in an editorial calling for an end to drinking on the job.
Pravda cited several police reports of workers who had to be taken from their job to sobering stations by militiamen.
"At 23:15, Skrunkin, P.M., was found on Dovzhenko Street and could keep vertical only because he was holding a tree," one report said. Skrunkin was described as a senior scientist at the All-Union Research Institute for Electric appliances.
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs will be in the upper 80s to low 90s. Winds will be from the southwest at 15 to 25 mph and will be gusty. The low tonight will be about 60 degrees and skies will be overcast*
The extended forecast calls for partly cloudy skies on Saturday with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. The highs on Saturday will hit 80 to 85 degrees.
Temperatures will be cooling to about 70 on Monday with the lows in the 50s and 60s. There's a continuing chance for showers throughout the weekend.
Funding, drinking age tied
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — In a bid to save some of the 5,000 teenagers killed each year in drunken driving accidents, the House approved a bill yesterday to cut highway money for drivers who does not raise the driver age to 21.
the drinking-age amendment, passed by voice vote, has become so politically popular that fewer than five congressmen spoke in opposition. Twenty-three states already permit the drinking age to 21 voluntarily.
The highway bill was approved 297-73.
The New York Assembly, however,
defeated a similar proposal last week,
and Assemblyman Vincent Graber,
who led the opposition, said,
"It is evident that the Congress of
the United States has not researched the
New York have researched it. It's overkill,
it's oversimplification."
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., plans to offer an identical proposal of percentage cuts in highway funding the Senate highway bill which was voted out of committee Wednesday as yet unscheduled for Senate action.
Two years after enactment, any state that does not have a drinking age of 21 will have highway funds cut and percentage of the second year
REP. JAMES HOWARD, D-N.J.
public works committee chairman,
attached the restriction to a bill
passed by Congress that allows
highway construction in 1984-85.
The movement to raise the drinking age grew out of lobbying across the country by groups of parents whose children have died in alcohol-related accidents. Howard said he once believed it was up to the states to set drinking ages, but statistics convinced him otherwise.
The House bill contains money for local roads, mass transit and bridges — many of them pet projects of individual congressmen. The money comes from a trust fund fed mainly by gasoline taxes.
The legislation changes the formula for distributing federal funds to states for their highway projects, placing less emphasis on the miles of
highway in the state and more emphasis on how many cars travel those roads.
"THE STATISTICS ARE so overwhelming. I have changed my position on it," he said.
He said it is more important to toughen penalties for those convicted of drunk driving
Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., however, warned: "It is not so simplistic. I don't think we should fool ourselves that this legislation is going to get to the form of the problem. It is a form of discrimination against young people."
Rep. Roy Rowland, D-Ga., said, "I think it's wrong for us to do this."
Reagan proposes oil-sharing plan
By United Press International
LONDON — President Reagan called on leaders of industrialized nations at the 10th annual economic summit yesterday to map out a plan for sharing oil reserves in the event of a Persian Gulf emergency.
A senior American official said that Reagan also was pressing for a statement on East-West relations and arms control to be included in the joint declaration to be issued tomorrow at the end of the three-dayumple.
The official said the East-West statement, if included, probably would urge the Soviets to return to Russia and join them in their walks they walked away from in Geneva at
the end of last year.
Reagan raised his oil contingency plan at a series of pre-summit meetings between heads of state and governments, saying, "We all recognize that we can act together" if we had a crisis in the Persian Gulf.
Asked if that meant the United States would supply oil to other nations if there was a cutoff, he left empty. "We would all probably mutually share."
A British official, who said Britain took the view that "we should be fairly calm about the situation," said Iraq had sent a message to the seven summit participants. The British official and other spokesmen declined to disclose the content of the message.
But conference officials said Iraq had appealed to Western leaders to initiate Persian Gulf peace talks, warning there would be a "major escalation" in the 44-month-old gulf war unless the talks are speedily arranged.
BESIDES THE REAGAN proposal for contingency oil-sharing, the summit agenda included the massive $220 billion Third World debt and a new round of global trade negotiation to combat rising protectionism.
The six other countries at the summit — Britain, Canada, Japan, France — voted Germany and Italy to form a new prime interest rate of 12.5 percent
U.S. companies paid Viet Cong, CIA report says
WASHINGTON — Truck drivers making deliveries in South Vietnam for U.S. oil companies routinely avoided sabotage by paying off the Viet Cong guerrillas with fuel that was then used in the war. The Vietnamese and American troops, a declasified CIA report shows.
By United Press International
The previously top-secret study was prepared in 1966 for former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and was recently released for Gen William Wallace's fight against CBS Inc. The study appears to partially confirm reports of navaloffs during the war.
These reports have been long denied by Exxon, Mobil and Shell the U.S. oil companies supplying oil to major Asian country during the war.
A Shell spokesman said Wednesday that there was "no way to know" what the truck drivers did. Mobil had no immediate comment and an Exxon spokesman said his company was aware of the problem but denied any complicity.
A Vietnam expert at the Army Center of Military History; how ever, disagreed
"They all (independent contractors) paid a tax, and the oil companies, to stay in business, colluded with them," said the expert, who asked not to be named. "The oil companies may not admit it, but if you want to stay in business, you cooperate."
Exxon spokesman Phil Wetz said that the company "takes strong exception that we in any way supported or gave any complements" to the efforts of any of our employees from operating with the Vivip Cong."
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