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University Daily Kansan, April 6. 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Soviets should notify U.S. of exercises, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon called yesterday on the Soviet Union to avoid misunderstandings by giving advance notice of large exercises such as the Soviet naval maneuvers off Northern Europe this week, which caught NATO allies by surprise.
Pentagon spokesman Michael Burch said the Soviets did not extend advance notification of what NATO has judged to be the biggest Soviet naval maneuvers ever conducted in the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic.
Navy sources said 100 Soviet vessels, including the 25,000-ton nuclear-powered cruiser Kirov, along with Backfire bombers and long-range anti-submarine and strike aircraft have been participating in the maneuvers.
ANKARA. Turkey — A crack anti-terrorist police squad stormed a hijacked Saudi Arabian jet yesterday and freed all 286 hostages, officials and state-run news media reported. The Syrian hijacker and four other people were injured.
NATO has estimated the number of surface warships at 20, indicating that many of the vessels taking part in the exercises are submarines.
Turkish police free hijacked airliner
A 56-year-old woman passenger was seriously injured and two other women were hurt when they jumped from the exit doors of the Saudi Arabian Airline jet to the pavement at Istanbul's Yesilik airport.
The plane's chief engineer hurt his hand, apparently in a fight with the hijacker, as the heavily armed anti-terrorist team rushed the forward section of the plane and disarmed the man in a dramatic seven-minute operation.
Lava flows 4 miles from Hilo homes
The motive for the hijacking was not immediately known, but Turkey's national news agency UBA identified the man as Hidir Ahmet Mahlei. 25. of Damascus.
HILO, Hawaii — A semi-solid orange and black river of molten lava from the Mauna Loa volcano was about 4 miles from homes on the outskirts of Hilo yesterday, scientists reported.
speaking in Honolulu, the governor said, "I think we have to hope and pray that blockades will keep dividing the flow upslope on the coast."
"I have a deep feeling that things are going to be OK," he said. Mauna Loa is erupting from a vent at the 9,400-foot elevation, about 9 miles down from the 13,680-foot summit.
The snaking lava slab is now 17 miles long.
Water plant proposed for Southwest
DALLAS — A water specialist yesterday proposed a 400-square-mile plant to distill freshwater from Mexican seawater using sunlight, and pump it to cities and cropland in the parched southwestern United States.
"This is a terribly expensive thing, but it's do-able," said Steve Findeiss, a planner with AER Management Inc., a Norman, Okla., consulting firm.
"Due to the volumes needed and the political difficulties of water transfer projects, solar desalinization — even though terribly expensive — may be the only politically feasible solution."
Speaking at a regional water crisis forum, Findeiss said that the rapid depletion of groundwater would force a return to dryland farming and the loss of major industries in the Southwest within 40 years.
Crime panel asks for more clout
WASHINGTON — The head of the President's Commission on Organized Crime asked Congress yesterday for broad powers to issue subpoenas and gain access to court-ordered wires.
Judge Irving Kaufman of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals told a House Judiciary subcommittee that the commission needed the added clout in order to do its job.
"It has become increasingly clear that we will be unable to fulfill our mandate unless Congress acts favorably on our request for subpoena, a process that the Senate has begun to conduct."
The commission was set up last year by President Reagan to take a comprehensive look at organized crime in the United States and come up with ways to deal with it. It is expected to make the most extensive probe of organized crime since Senate hearings in the 1950s.
Church will allow women as priests
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Delegates of the 230,000-member Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints yesterday approved ordaining women as priests.
The revelation of the ordination of women priests by Wallace B. Smith, church president-prophet, was considered by the Orders and Quorums of the Church, then presented to the World Conference of the Revelation. After $2\frac{1}{2}$ hours of debate, the vote was 3-1 in favor of the revelation.
The vote, in the fifth day of their eight-day conference, is now considered "the mind and will of God."
"In accepting its various provisions, the church, I am confident, is entering a significant new era of ministry." Smith said.
"This will be a challenge for leaders and members alike not to allow diversity of opinion to become disunity within the body," Smith said following the vote.
WEATHER FACTS
Today's weather will be mild throughout the western half of the country.
Locally, today will be fair with a high in the mid-60s. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thundershowers and the low in the mid-40s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a chance for thundershowers and the high in the mid-60s.
CORRECTION
Because of a reporter's error, the Kansas yesterday incorrectly identified Kerri Hunter as a member of the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas. She is a member of the Free Speech Movement, a coalition of campus groups.
Candidates talk issues avoid battles in debate
Bv United Press International
PITTSBURGH — Striving to avoid the open clashes that have dominated the last few weeks, the three Democratic presidential candidates last night met in a debate that stressed issues over personal bickering.
"I believe each of us fundamentally share our party's goals." Colorado Sen. Gary Hart said in extending a verbal olive branch to Walter Mondale.
"The great challenge of our party and this nation is to alter the misery index" and help the poor, Jackson stressed, saying the party must "defend our children" and protect their future.
MONDALE, SHOWING few signs of the aggressive debate tactics he used last week before winning the New York primary, repeatedly spoke about one of the basic themes of his campaign — "restoring the fundamental sense of fairness in this country."
The candidates, each standing behind a separate podium, were periodically applauded by different segments of the audience. Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary
As the candidates moved into western Pennsylvania, they were greeted with a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette poll of 741 Democrats that showed the race a dead heat. But when the 55 percent candidate came out, the 29 percent rated out, Mondale got 45 percent, Hart 38 percent and Jackson 8 percent, with 9 percent undecided.
which has 172 national convention delegates at stake.
The survey showed that President Reagan would defeat Mondale 48 percent to 42 percent, but that Hart percent to 37 percent to 38 percent in a general election.
THE POLL WAS taken during the weekend before Mondale's smashing victory in Tuesday's New York primary.
Mondale began his day at a Catholic school where a woman opposed to abortion interrupted his speech by yelling, "What about babies, Mr Brimley?"
"I'll get to that," Mondale told the woman. "I know how deeply you feel. I respect your position. I have a different position. I've prayed over it, and I believe it is the right position. I have said time and time again what it is."
Challenger liftoff expected to be on time despite repair
By United Press International
The technicians replaced the faulty electronic black box with one taken from the newest stusht. Discovery, which is to make its first flight in June. Workers were rested in the unit, and the space was reserved for beginning to fueling Challenger's external tank shortly after midnight.
The weather was the biggest question for the scheduled 7:38 a.m. CST liftoff for the six-day mission intended to prove the shuttle's capability for orbital rescue and repair.
SUNHINE WAS expected at the Kennedy Space Center, but forecasters were worried about wind shears, cross-angled winds that could have been a spacecraft. There also was concern about visibility and winds today at
"Some of the winds do give us some concern," said LI Gen. James Abrahamson, the head of the shuttle program. "There are some questions but we're hoping that we'll be lucky."
Challenger was expected to blaze to an orbit higher than a shuttle has flown before to allow the astronauts to corral and overhaul the broken Solar Max satellite 300 miles above the Earth.
NASA RECALCULATED its launch plans late yesterday to ensure that the shuttle and the external tank, which will be jettisoned once Challenger arrives in space, will not come within 230 miles of the Svalet Syatl 7 space station. Five Russian cosmonauts and a space traveler from India are in orbit in the Salut 7.
On the 10 previous missions, shuttle have gone no higher than 214 miles. To help achieve the extra height, the shuttle's three main horsepower will fire an extra three seconds during liftoff.
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