Page 2
University Daily Kansan, April 25, 1984 *
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from UPI
Chernenko has new ideas to end East-West impasse
MOSCOW — President Konstantin Chernenkov yesterday floated some new ideas to end the East-West deadlock on nuclear weapons in Europe, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti said after meeting the Soviet leader.
Before Returning to Rome, Andreotti said that Chernenko had made some informal proposals, but he declined to go into details of what had been discussed.
Saying he was "fully satisfied" with his discussions, Andreotti added, "there now exists an opportunity for dialogue and a search for understanding.
"Maximum efforts must be made toward maintaining and strengthening peace, and the talks in Moscow obviously contributed to this," he said. "I believe that our duty now is to seek cooperation rather than the creation of factors leading to friction and tension."
Japanese, U.S. steel firms forge deal
PITTSBURGH — Japan took a giant step into the U.S. steel industry yesterday as Nippon Kokan bought 50 percent of National Steel Corp. in the largest joint venture ever between a Japanese and U.S. steelmaker.
The $322 million deal came about a month after National Steel, a subsidiary of National Intergroup Inc., called off a plan to merge with U.S. Steel Corp. because of anticipated antitrust objections.
The deal between National, the seventh-largest U.S. steel producer, and Nippon, Japan, second largest in February, included a merger of Nissan Steel Corp. and Nishin Steel Corp.
Nippon will acquire 50 percent of National Steel for $273 million in cash, a $19 million three-year note and assumption of a $30 million note between National Steel and its parent company.
India, Bangladesh exchange gunfire
NEW DELHI, India — Indian frontier guards traded gunfire with soldiers from Bangladesh yesterday, and Bangladesh officials said that 30 civilians were wounded during the six-hour exchange.
Both sides accused the other of firing first. India said at least one member of its paramilitary Border Security Force was wounded in the cross-border conflict in Assam, where India is trying to build a fence to keep out illegal immigrants.
An Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Bangladesh troops fired on forces escorting a survey party building the 2,500-mile-long fence at Sonahat in Assam. 800 miles southeast of New Delhi.
The shooting began a few miles from where a similar border clash broke on Friday, killing a Bangladesh soldier.
Soviets to be at Olympics, IOC says
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The Soviet Union has the "firm intention" to compete in the Los Angeles Summer Games if the United States upholds the Olympic Charter, the International Olympic Committee said yesterday.
"Both parties showed a desire to safeguard the Olympic movement," IOC President Juan Antonio Samarranch said. "The black clouds which have accumulated in the Olympic sky have vanished or are very soon to vanish."
Soviet officials said before a meeting of the IOC that the United States had conducted an anti-Soviet campaign, not provided adequate security for Soviet athletes and commercialized the games. The Soviets also complained about the smog in Los Angeles.
Boy fleeing gav father goes to court
"I'd like to at least live with my mom until this is over," said Brian Batey, a slender, quiet and well-groomed child who is the center
DENVER — A 12-year-old boy surrendered to a court yesterday, ending a 19-month "underground" flight with his fundamentalist Christian mother. She bitterly opposed his living with his homosexual father.
Of living with his father, Frank Batey, 39, in Palm Springs, Calif., the boy said, "I ain't go back."
A judge, who will decide whether Brian is returned under authority of a California court order, said he would hear the boy's arguments, but not for several days.
Agent swears De Lorean made deal
LOS ANGELES — John De Lorean, desperately trying to save his ailing car company, offered half his firm's assets to an undercover drug agent in return for $60 million in narcotics profits, an FBI agent testified yesterday.
Benedict Tisa, an FBI agent who played the undercover role of a crooked banker, said he had received a phone call from De Lorean on Sept. 28, 1982, directing him to open a trust for the automaker and John Vicenza, the cover name for an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
Tisa, testifying during the fourth day of De Lorean's federal court trial, said he had handled all financial arrangements stemming from De Lorean's meetings with government agents and William Morgan Hetrick, a major drug trafficker, who was also under investigation at the time.
Judge bans sex segregation in soccer
Chief U.S. District Judge William Stuart extended until May 4 an order that had been due to expire this week that required Cedar Rapids School District soccer teams to compete against the Iowa City West High boys' team and its female player, Amy Chu.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A federal judge extended an order yesterday that Cedar Rapids boys soccer teams would have to compete in games against a squad with a girl player, even though that contradicted the school's policy of sex segregation in athletics.
But no games are scheduled between the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City school districts until after May 10. Therefore, the order does not prevent Cedar Rapids school officials from canceling the district's three remaining games against Iowa City West.
WEATHER FACTS
Today will be mostly fair across the western half of the nation.
Today will be mostly fair across the western half of the nation. Locally, today will be mostly sunny, windy and warm. The high will be in the mid-70s. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. The low will be in the mid-50s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the mid-60s.
Powerful quake rocks San Francisco area
MORGAN HILL, Calif. - A powerful earthquake rocked central California yesterday, swaying skyscrapers in San Francisco, knocking houses off foundations and cracking walls and windows. No serious injuries were reported.
By United Press International
The state Office of Emergency Services said 12 people, including four school children, were injured but none seriously, near the center of quake in Morgan Hill, 60 miles south of San Francisco.
The quake, which hit at 1:15 p.m.
PST, measured from 5.8 to 6.2 on
It was the strongest earthquake to hit the quake-prone California since a 6.5 earthquake struck and demolished much of Coalina on May 2.
Richter scale, and was felt throughout eastern "California" and far east as far as Tennessee.
In San Francisco, plate glass windows on high-rise office buildings shuddered and bent but police reported no damage or injuries in the city.
At a restaurant where executives were finishing lunch, the earthquake brought conversation to a standstill. Then the piano player played playing the rousing song, "San Francisco," from the mid-1900s Clark Gibale film of
Morgan Hill, a suburban farming community of 16,000 people, was hardest hit by the 20-second quake, which rippled along the Calaveras Fault. The Calaveras Fault is an offshoot of the notorious San Andreas Fault, the crack in the earth that devastated San Francisco 78 years ago with a quake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale.
the same name about the devastating Anrill 18. 1906. earthquake.
"We have cracked buildings, houses off foundations and broken windows," said Amy Jacobs, a Morgan Hill telephone operator. "My house is completely wrecked inside. All my dishes are broken."
An attendant at a gas station said,
"There are a bunch of windows all along the street that were blown out."
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office said four children received minor injuries in elementary schools in Morgan Hill and nearby San Martin
The state emergency office said the injured were all in Santa Clara County. Five homes sustained major damage. The county is set up an evacuation center in the town
Police in San Jose said telephone service was interrupted for 10 minutes and there were reports of people stuck in elevators, burglar arrains ringing and cracked plaster in the City Hall, which was temporarily evacuated.
Iran may be nearing completion of nuclear bomb
Bv. United Press International
The weekly, published by an organization recognized as expert on all kinds of weapons systems, said construction of a bomb would follow completion of a nuclear power plant being built with the help of West German experts.
LONDON — Ayatollah Ruhailah Khomeini's Iranian regime is in the "final stages" of making a nuclear bomb likely to be ready within two years, Jane's Defense Weekly said today.
Jane's Weekly editor Robert Hutchinson said Iran, now at war with Iraq, could carry out full production of a nuclear device only when the power plant was finished. Bomb-building material can be extracted from spent
"Iran is engaged in the production of an atomic bomb, likely to be ready within two years, according to press reports in the Persian Gulf last week," said Jane's, adding that it had checked out the reports.
*Work is continuing at the 1300 MW (megawatt) nuclear power plant in the
southern Iranian city of Boushahar." Jane's said.
In Washington, a source familiar with Iran's nuclear program appeared to doubt that Iran was near construction of a nuclear device.
The source said that Iran started construction of two reactors under the regime of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi but work at the site was halted in 1979 amid the turmoil of the Islamic revolution and had not resumed.
Even if work were resumed immediately, the source said, it would take several years before the reactors were
Jane's, however, quoted the Gulf press reports as saying that a West German company had sent 40 experts to resume work on the plant.
The reports cited by Jane's also quoted West German intelligence sources as saying that production of a bomb "is now entering its final stages."
completed and possibly several or
weapon could be made.
By speaking of "final stages," Hutchinson said, the reports meant that "the Iranians are developing the needed technology."
GAMMONS PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE EARLY REVIVAL OF A SUMMER TRADITION...
ALL YOU CAN DRINK FOR A MEASLY THREE BUCKS FROM 8 'TIL 11 TONIGHT!
ALL OF YOU SENIORS WHO'LL NEVER EXPERIENCE A HOT NIGHT IN LAWRENCE AGAIN, AND ALL THE REST IN SEARCH OF A GOOD (AND CHEAP) TIME THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!