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University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from UPI
Fighting along Thai border forces Vietnamese retreat
BANGKOK, Thailand — Anti-communist Cambodian guerrillas said they had killed more than 100 Vietnamese soldiers Wednesday, while forcing them to retreat after the Vietnamese had attacked a key rebel base along the Thai-Cambodian border.
Maj. Kon Saruen, commanding a battalion of the Khmer People's National Liberation Front, said that his men had repulsed a Vietnamese infantry charge on the fringes of Ampil, 25 miles northeast of the Thai town of Aranyapathet.
Ampli, which serves as the field headquarters of the KPNLF and is the largest guerrilla base in Cambodia, is a key target of a Vietnamese offensive against the Chinese-backed rebels along the Thai-Cambodian border.
Unrest continues in northern India
The incident was the most recent outbreak of Hindu reaction to Sikh violence in northern India, where 150 people have died in nearly nine weeks of religious violence in Punjab and neighboring areas.
AMRITSAR, India — Rioters protecting the killing of a Hindu leader by Sikh militants burned buses, attacked Sikh shops and clashed with police yesterday in the Punjab capital, leaving at least 30 injured, officials said.
Two bomb victims returned to U.S.
More than 30 people, including 11 policeman, were injured during the rampage by several hundred members of a local Hindu protection society in the Punjab capital of Chandigarh, 150 miles north of New Delhi, the officials said.
WASHINGTON — The bodies of two Americans, killed "in the pursuit of peace" by a terrorist bomb in South West Africa, were greeted with somber ceremony yesterday on their return to U.S. soil.
somber ceremony just before the end of a month.
The bodies of Dennis Keogh, a career Foreign Service officer, and Lt.
Colonel Ken Crabtree, a military attache in South Africa, arrived in the United States at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.
Reign and Creatree were killed Sunday in a bomb explosion at a gas station near Oshakati while on a mission to help supervise the disengagement of South African forces from Marxist Angola.
Personal income up 0.5% in March
WASHINGTON — The personal income of Americans rose a moderate 0.5 percent in March and spending declined in main areas, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
Economists said the figures were another sign that the economy was slowing to a more moderate expansion from what many had feared was an inflationary pace at the start of the year.
"Most Americans should find these comfortable statistics," said Robert Ortner, chief economist of the Commerce Department. "They mean the economy is not overheating and in fact is settling back to a more moderate rate of expansion."
Personal income, which includes wages, rents, interest and Social Security payments, rose to $2.9 trillion in March.
Blood on Shroud real, expert savs
DURHAM, N.C. — Apparent bloodstains on a cloth that may have been placed on the face of Jesus Christ shortly after his crucifixion came from the same person whose impression is on the Shroud of Turin, a Duke University researcher said yesterday.
Alan D. Whanger, a shroud expert, also said he thought an explanation is close as to how the impression on the shroud could have been made.
The shroud, which carries the impression of a man, is thought by some to be the burial cloth of Christ. It has been kept in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, for more than 400 years.
The supposed face cloth, called the Sudarium, has been kept in a cathedral in Oviedo, Spain, since the 9th century.
Man has 2 transplants in one day
PITTSBURGH — Doctors at Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh announced yesterday that they have performed the first double transplant of a heart and kidney within a 24-hour period.
The operations were performed Saturday and Sunday on Timothy Johnson 45 of Altoona Pa. Johnson was listed in serious condition.
Johnson underwent a 4½-half hour heart transplant Saturday and a two-hour kidney transplant Sunday.
Thomas Rosenthal, the surgeon who headed the kidney-liver transplant team, said, "The kidney functioned promptly, and both the heart and kidney are now working well."
Jackson's laser surgerv is a success
CULVER CITY, Calif. — Pop superstar Michael Jackson underwent an 80-minute bloodless laser surgery yesterday to repair his damaged scalp, burned during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola commercial.
"Michael is doing fine," plastic surgeon Hoefelfin said. "We were able to cover the area using his own hair. He did not need any were able to cover that."
Hoefflin told reporters after the surgery at Brotman Medical Center that Jackson's scalp should be completely healed in several months and that he hadn't yet recovered.
The medical center has been deluged with hundreds of calls from Jackson's fans since he checked in Tuesday.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 4-19-84
Today will be fair to partly cloudy across the Great Plains, but colder weather will dot the rest of the West.
Locally, today will be partly cloudy, with the high around 60. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with the low tonight around 40. The high tomorrow will be in the 60s.
CORRECTION
Because of an editor's error, the caption under the picture on page five in today's Kansas Relays section is incorrect. The woman pictured is Denise Buchanon, a KU shot-putter.
Work at Seabrook reactor is halted
By United Press International
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, on the brink of bankruptcy, temporarily stopped work on a second Seabrook nuclear reactor yesterday and laid off 5,200 workers until it can get its order.
The construction halt comes as Public Service Co. — Seabrook's principal owner — stood on the brink of collapse. New Hampshire's largest employer was to give additional credit or it will have to file for bankruptcy by the end of the month.
All but 1,000 of the 6,200 workers at Seabrook were to be laid off immediately. William Derrickson, the project manager, said.
Work was stopped on the first reactor at Seabrook, which was 75 percent complete. Seabrook's second reactor is also being tested, but it was halted on that unit last September.
"We are today implementing a temporary suspension of work due to financial pressures on Public Service New Hampshire." Derrickson said.
The Seabrook cancellation is the latest in a series of major difficulties, including cancellations, for multibillion dollar atomic reactor projects in the past year.
NO MAIN ELECTRIC utility has ever gone bankrupt in the United States.
Other nuclear power plant projects recently canceled include Marble Hill Units 1 and 2 in Indiana, Washington Public Power Supply System Units 4 and 5, and Zimmer near Cincinnati, plants being converted to a coal-fired plant.
in Michigan, Shoreham on Long Island, N.Y., and Nine Mile Point in upstate New York. Many other plants have had to be transplanted, stretched or out of intermittent deltas.
Seabrook was first proposed 12 years ago at a cost of just under $1 billion. Since then, it has been the focus of massive anti-nuclear demonstrations
OTHER PROJECTS threatened by possible cancellation include Midland
Derrickson said the construction halt will save $750,000 a year for the 16 New England utilities that own the seacoast nuclear plant.
Derrickson also released a new $6.9 billion cost estimate for Seabrook's twin reactors. That figure is considerably less than the $9 billion figure released March 1 by a consultant hired by Public Service. It is still more than $1 billion over Seabrook's 1982 cost estimate.
Derrickson called the work stoppage *unfortunate* but said it was tempered with the promise of a longer term.
The new cost and construction estimates project an earlier start-up date for Seabrook's first reactor. Derrickson said the future of Seabrook's second reactor was "uncertain at best."
Nicholas Ashoo, a spokesman for the utility, reported "no new developments on the financial aspects" of the utility."
LAST MONTH, the joint owners agreed to conditionally cancel Seabrook's second reactor if Public Service can get a share of the savings from inexpensive hydroelectric power. There has been regional opposition to the proposal, which must be approved by New England utility regulators.
Public Service and the other owners have also sought a new ownership arrangement for Seabrook to ease the heavy financial burden on Public Service, which owns 35.6 percent of the plant.
Bush promotes inspection of weapons
By United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland — Vice President George Bush challenged the Soviet Union yesterday "to go the extra mile" and accept open international inspection to police a global ban on chemical weapons.
Bush, presenting a U.S. draft treaty to the 40-nation Conference on Disarmament, said the treaty proposes "unprecedented" measures to verify that states are not secretly producing chemical weapons.
Bush said that if the Soviets accepted
such sweeping inspection provisions,
such acceptance would represent un-
certainty.
"It's unprecedented for the Soviet Union, it's unprecedented for the United States it is unprecedented for every country we have this kind of openness," he said.
"But there's a tremendous, elevated concern of the use of chemical weapons. The concern is so great that this moment in history might well be the moment for all societies to say, 'Who are going to go the extra mile?' be said
Israeleyan, speaking after Bush had already left the conference room, indirectly repeated earlier Soviet allegations that President Reagan was using the chemical weapons issue as election-year propaganda.
"We oppose talk about a dialogue for the purposes of propaganda and interest."
CHIEF SOVIET negotiator Viktor
Israeelyan said afterward that his delegation would "naturally study" the U.S. proposals.
REACTION IN MOSCOW, however,
was much stronger. The official Novosti news agency called the chemical ban proposal a "ploy to gain access to
intelligence material" and dismissed the "insincere Madison Avenue type approach of the United States."
The Soviet Union has said it would be willing to accept international inspections in principle but would flatly reject inspection anywhere at any time.
"Let's face reality," Rush said at the news conference. "Chemical weapons are not difficult to hide and not difficult to produce in a clandestine manner."
"For this reason, the U.S. government is putting forward this unprecedented 'open invitation' verification proposal."