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University Daily Kansan, April 24, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from UPI
Angolan officials say blast killed 14 Cubans, 10 troops
LISBON, Portugal — Anti-communist rebels rammed a car packed with explosives into a building housing Cuban advisers in Angola last week, killing 14 Cubans and 10 government troops. Angola's official news agency said yesterday.
A further 30 people were injured in the town, ANGOP added.
The guerrillas contended that the blast Thursday killed 200 people, including three Soviet and 37 Cuban officers.
The attack in Huambo, the largest town of central Angola, destroyed a building housing Cuban civilian advisers, the state-run news agency ANC.
A further 30 people were injured in the town, ANGOP asked.
Fourteen "internationalist Cubans working in health, education and construction" and 10 Angolans were killed when a car packed with explosives rammed the building, ANGOP said.
The government death toll was below figures released by the rebels and the official Soviet and Yugoslav news agencies.
Photographer Ansel Adams dies
MONTEREY, Calif. — Photographer Ansel Adams, who captured the splendor of the rugged American West in unforgettable portraits, died Sunday at the age of 82.
Mr. Adams had been in a hospital for three days with a recurring heart problem, a spokesman for the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula said.
Mr. Adams, considered the photographer laureate of America, lived in nearby Carmel in a home overlooking the northern California coast. He had worked until he entered the hospital.
Mr. Adams was born in San Francisco on Feb. 20, 1902 and grew up in a house overlooking the Golden
His books sold in the millions, and his original prints number more than 30,000. A large Adams print was sold two years ago for $71,000.
Missile protests end in W. Germany
MUTLANGEN, West Germany — At least 100,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators marched throughout West Germany yesterday, some of them staging a token blockade at the U.S. Pershing 2 missile base at Mutlangen, to wind up five days of Easter protests.
Demonstrators turned out in all of West Germany's 11 states for demonstrations yesterday, climaxing the protests staged by trade union, student, religious and political groups.
Organizers said that 75,000 people took part, but police estimated the crowd at 100,000. Police said about that 15,000 protesters were in Dortmund, 6,000 in Hanover and 10,000 each in Heilbronn, West Berlin, Cologne, Munich and Nuremberg. Authorities said the protests were peaceful, and no incidents were reported.
Groups want PAC decision delayed
WASHINGTON — Conservative political groups yesterday argued against immediate Supreme Court review of regulations limiting presidential campaign spending by political action committees.
The court last week agreed to hear the case. The Democratic Party asked for a decision before the campaign begins.
Both the Federal Election Commission, which gave its support to the case Friday, and the Democrats are appealing a lower court ruling that struck down a $1,000 limit on PAC spending for presidential candidates.
Talks begin for coal, postal workers
WASHINGTON — Contract negotiations for the U.S. Postal Service and the soft coal industry open today with leaders of 602,000 mail deliverers and postal workers and 160,000 miners prepared to take strike action.
United Mine Workers President Richard Trumka has thrown a new twist into talks with the coal mine operators by preparing for selective strikes against individual companies rather than an overall strike.
Letter Carriers President Vincent Sombrotto said he would call an illegal strike against the nation's mail system this summer if an acceptable agreement was not reached.
3 to be tried in deaths on movie set
LOS ANGELES — Director John Landis and two associates were ordered yesterday to stand trial in the death of actor Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese children killed by a falling helicopter during filming of the "Twilight Zone" movie.
Municipal Court Judge Brian Crahan said the defendants "created an unreasonable exposure to harm" for the victims in setting up the scene in which Morrow and the children were killed.
Craban ordered the men to appear May 8 in Superior Court for arranging on three counts each of involuntary manslaughter. Landis, special effects expert Paul Stewart and helicopter pilot Dorcey Wingo face maximum penalties of six years in state prison if convicted.
Disney channel is called 'harmful'
Cartoons on the Disney channel are almost as violent as Saturday morning cartoons on the networks, which show an attempted murder every six minutes, the coalition said.
WASHINGTON — Most cartoons on the Walt Disney cable TV channel contain acts too violent for children, the National Coalition on Television Violence said yesterday.
"You can't trust Disney," said coalition Chairman Thomas Radecki. "Disney is not all good entertainment. Some of it is quite harmful."
In 50 hours of Disney programming during the past two months, the group found an average of 19.3 violent acts an hour.
WEATHER FACTS
Included were such events as Donald Duck fastening his nephews' bills shut with clothespins and three little pigs pouring boiling water on the Big Bad Wolf.
Today rain will fall in the northern Atlantic States and some snow will fall in the Rockies.
Locally, today will be partly cloudy with a high of 65 to 70, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with the low 20 to 30 °C.
Tomorrow will be fair with a high in the mid 60s.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 35 to 40.
CORRECTIONS
Because of a reporter's error, the Kanans incorrectly reported Friday that atrazine is a pesticide. It is a herbicide.
U.S.-China nuclear pact is called likely
HONOLULU — The United States and China have negotiated a nuclear cooperation agreement and are expected to announce the breakthrough during President Reagan's visit later this month, his administration officials said yesterday.
Rv United Press International
The officials, traveling with the presidential entourage to China, indicated that the pact was all but signed and sealed, despite an earlier impasse over the handling of any atomic fuel used in U.S.-built nuclear reactors.
White House spokesman Rob Sims declined to confirm the nuclear breakthrough, but emphasized that "what alone has to be consistent with U.S. law."
Administration sources indicated earlier that Reagan might be in a position to announce an agreement in principle, which would permit additional negotiations with the Chinese and Japanese, and consent rights contained in U.S. law.
The disclosure came as Reagan and his wife, Nancy, spent time in the sun.
resting up for the next leg of their trans-Pacific journey — a 3.138-mile flight today to Guam — and their scheduled arrival Thursday in Peking.
Sims said that such an agreement, which would clear the way for U.S. companies to compete for up to $20 billion in estimated outlays for an ambitious commercial nuclear power plant," is the interests of both sides.
A senior official said that considerable progress was made during a
Under U.S. law, Washington must approve the reprocessing of any fuel used in reactors purchased from the United States. The Chinese have long viewed this "consent rights" issue as a government on their national sovereignty.
round of talks that began in Peking on April 15, and concluded during in the past few days.
for an agreement, has been limited in its ability to circumvent the law, which was aimed largely at countries that are nuclear fuel to produce atomic weapons.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said that the U.S. delegation, headed by Richard Kennedy, had left China. But he had little to say about the outcome of the negotiations, which were convened at the invitation of the
The White House had hoped for a breakthrough to counter suggestions that Reagan's visit to China — the first by an American president since 1975 — was to be heavy on symbolism and ceremony but short on substance.
Democratic contestants resume all-out drive
By United Press International
Walter Mondale received more high-powered endorsements yesterday, including that of Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste; Jesse Jackson got a qualified pledge in his search for more Democratic delegates and Gary Hart waged a new attack on old-style politics.
After a pre-Easter week of limited
Texas, Maryland and Ohio, all choosing delegates the first week of May, are the focus of the renewed campaigning.
activity, all three Democratic contenders were on the road and in full cry as the crucial early May primaries and caucuses approached.
Celleste, Ohio's Secretary of State Sherrod Brown and state House Speaker Vernal Riffe, one of the most powerful politicians in Ohio, all had committed to Sen. John Glenn before his campaign folded.
The former vice president piled up several endorsements in Maryland and Ohio during the day, but bagged the biggest catch in a later meeting with
Attorney General Anthony Celebrezze Jr. already has endorsed Mondale in the Ohio primary, where 154 delegates are at stake.
Celeste in Columbus, Ohio.
Mondale standing at his side, Celeste said, "The central question in this primary is who will be the best president for Ohio and for the nation?
Earlier, Mondale lined up some heavy hitters in Maryland — Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer and Rep. Parr Mitchell, a member of a politically powerful black family in Baltimore.
In my own mind, it is clear it is Fritz Mondale."
In his endorsement, with a beaming
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