University Daily Kansan, June 6, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from United Press International
Egyptian minister dead; funeral to be held today
CAIRO, Egypt — Prime Minister Fuaid Mohiedin, who led the ruling National Democratic Party to victory in May 27 parliamentary elections, died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 58.
Mohieddin, whose health worsened during the grueling election campaign, collapsed after arriving at his office in Cairo shortly before noon and died within minutes. government officials said
His body was taken to the Armed Forces Hospital in Maadi, south of Cairo. A government announcement said Mohieddin, whose political career spanned 25 years, would be given a military funeral today.
As secretary general of the ruling party, he orchestrated the party's successful election campaign in which it won 390 seats in the
Salvadoran rightist leader Roberto of Aubuisson, the defeated presidential candidate accused of involvement with death squads, has received a U.S. visa and entered the United States, embassy officials said yesterday.
Salvadoran rightist enters U.S.
Before his appointment as prime minister in January 1982. Mohieddin served as first deputy prime minister and, as such, chaired cabinet sessions.
The U.S. Embassy said that itd gave d'Aubusson a visa last week that would allow him to enter the United States one time for tourism in Asia.
The rightist leader lost the May 6 runoff to moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte of the Christian Democratic Party.
In an interview, Sen. Jesse Helms, R.N.C., said part of the reason for d'Auburn's trip was to refute charges of involvement in death sensitization.
Utility workers strike in Detroit
Officials of d'Aubusson's Nationalist Republic Alliance, known as ARENA, said d'Aubusson went to Miami over the weekend, where many of his rightist supporters live in exile.
DETROIT — More than 3,500 workers walked off their jobs at Detroit Edison Co. in a contract dispute Tuesday, and company officials warned that a prolonged strike could affect service to its 1.7 million customers.
Members of Local 223 of the Utility Workers Union of America set up picket lines when their three-year contract expired shortly after midnight. Local 223 represents more than a third of the utility's total workforce.
Company spokesman Laurie Kessler said hundreds of administrative and supervisory personnel were placed on 12-hour shifts to maintain essential services to Detroit Edison's 1.7 million electric customers.
Navy to bury reactors in U.S. soil
WASHINGTON — The Navy, bvying to congressional and environmentalist opposition, said Monday it had abandoned plans to dispose of radioactive submarine nuclear reactors at sea and will bury them on federally owned land instead.
In a final environmental impact statement, the Navy said it prefers to bury the defused reactors on sites in South Carolina or Washington state instead of in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans within 200 miles of the U.S. coast.
The statement was completed in May after three years of study and hearings during which the seabed disposal plan met stiff opposition. It insists that disposal of the reactors at sea or on land would be safe, with leakage resulting in a dose of one ten-thousandth of the radiation humans receive from natural background radiation from the sun, cosmic rays and rocks.
House OKs missing-children bill
The legislation, which goes next to the Senate, extends programs to combat juvenile crime until 1889. The programs — including help for parents of juveniles — are set forth in a bill that passed on January 30.
WASHINGTON - The House approved by voice vote Monday a measure financing a toll-free telephone line and national clearinghouse to help parents track missing children.
Included in the bill is $10 million for next year and amounts increasing through 1989 to operate a clearinghouse to track children, whether abducted by strangers or by divorced parents. Nearly 2 million children disappear from home each year.
Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont., said juvenile crime was decreasing and the federal programs under consideration Monday deserved some credit.
Chicago corruption trial goes on
CHICAGO — The government rested its case in the latest "Operation Greylord" corruption trial yesterday after an undercover investigator testified that he planted bogus cases so weak that judges in the nation's largest court system felt comfortable taking bribes to fix them.
Prosecutors rested their case following a lengthy cross-examination of undercover FBI agent Terry Hake, who posed as a crooked attorney during a 3 1/2-year investigation of courtroom corruption in Chicago.
Hake said he was personally involved in concocting at least five phony cases, which were designed to flush out corrupt judges in the nation's largest court system.
Associate Judge John M. Murphy, who ended up hearing some of the phony cases, is the first judge to go on trial as a result of Grevlord.
Murphy, 68, was charged with mail fraud, extortion and racketeering for allegedly accepting $3,000 in bribes between 1981 and 1983. So far, 17 people have been indicted.
The high scores were recorded by students in 12 classes in four schools on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, whose results are part of the criteria to determine teacher bonuses under the district's incentive-pay plan.
DALLAS — An investigation is under way to determine whether teachers helped some third-graders cheat on achievement tests to enhance the teachers' chances for salary bonuses, a school district spokesman said yesterday.
High test scores bring questions
Spokesman Rodney Davis said the district first identified 28 classes with unusually high test scores and that upon retesting, only 16 classes did well. Students in the other 12 classes scored lower than they had on the first tests, he said.
WEATHER
Tonight, the forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Evening temperatures will hit
Locally, skies today will be mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs will be in the low to mid-80s. Winds will be out of the southwest, blowing 15 mph to 25 mph.
Tomorrow, temperatures will rise slightly to the middle to upper gas with partly cloudy skies. There will be a slight chance of
The extended Kansas forecast calls for a chance for rain on Friday and Saturday. Highs will be in the 80s in the state with lows in the 50s and 60s.
Court OKs juvenile pretrial jail
By United Press International
The justices left undecided for now, however, whether adults considered dangerous also may be held in custody while awaiting trial — a policy supported by the Reagan administration adopted in the District of Columbia.
WASHINGTON — Police may jail accused juvenile offenders before trial to protect the community from crime, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a New York City case.
The court upheld, 6.3, a New York law allowing pretrivial detention of juveniles if there is a risk they will commit another offense. Most states allow this.
liam Rehquist said the statute is not "used or intended as punishment," which would make detention unconstitutional.
It reversed an appeals court decision to strike down the law on grounds that it amounted to punish a youth before he was found guilty.
THE STATE OFFERS adequate procedural safeguards to guarantee a juvenile's rights, the court said. That includes detention "strictly" and a hearing to determine if there is a reason for continued jailing.
Writing for the Supreme Court majority, conservative Justice Wil-
Justice Thurgood Marsshall, dissenting, argued that preventive detention is not "merely a transfer of justice from a parent or guardian to the state."
A juvenile, like an adult in the same situation, "suffers stigmatization and severe limitation of his freedom of movement."
Joined by Justice William Brennan and John Paul Stevens, Marshall also said there are no meaningful guidelines for judges to decide which juveniles should be incarcerated pending trials.
Youth Law Center in San Francisco, predicted the decision "will lead to more extremely wasteful practices, whereby children who don't need to pay their taxes will be exposed, oppressive institutions, at very high costs to the taxmakers."
MARK SOLER. DIRECTOR of the
He said children have been held for offenses such as "skipping school, disobeying parents and taking a candy bar from a 7-11 store."
Lawyer Martin Guggenheim, who argued against the state on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Monday's decision might encourage states to pass preventive detention laws for adults.
"Preventive detention is prohibited for adults in every state except the District of Columbia," he said. "One has to wonder if (the district) would be willing (for attempting in the adult scheme to utilize preventive detention)."
IN OTHER ACTION Monday, the court:
- Voted 6-3 to tell New Jersey
voting officials they must use a Republican-backed voter redistricting plan approved by a three-judge federal court.
*Decided 8-1 that Colorado may not pump water out of the Vernee River, which is now used exclusively by New Mexico residents.
- Handed a blow to consumer groups in a 8-0 decision that said they do not have a right to challenge a manufacturer for setting the price of milk products.
- Upheld a ruling requiring Ohio to redraw congressional districts because the population differences are too large.
- Rejected a bid by St. Louis for speedy review of its appeal of a ruling requiring up to $500 million be spent over 10 years to bus black city students to white suburban schools. The high court will decide whether to hear the case as part of its normal routine.
Overdue student loans to be collected
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The government will begin taking a substantial bite — up to 15 percent — out of the salaries of 27,000 federal workers next month to pay off their long overdue student loans and agencies announced yesterday.
The Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Education said in a joint statement
that beginning in July and August,
"about 27,000 individuals will begin
having up to 15 percent deducted
from each paycheck until the debt
+ plus interest, penalties and administrative cost — is repaid."
While in school, the debtors borrowed money either from the National Direct Student Loan program or alternatively insured student loan program.
THE DEPARTMENT OF Education said that as of August 1983 an
estimated 46,860 federal employees had been identified as having defaulted on their student loans. They are about $30 million, a spokesman said.
Since August, the department said, 9 percent of the debtors have paid off their debts and another 10 percent have begun making voluntary payments after being warned of impending deductions.
The remaining 10,500 defaulters borrowed money under the Guaranteed Student Loan program that is the responsibility of state agencies, and the federal government cannot make deductions from their paychecks.
THE AGENCIES SAID the Department of Education overall is owed about $2.7 billion in delinquent student loans. The government is seeking to collect from the nonfederal workers through various methods including warning letters and collection agencies.
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