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University Daily Kansan. April 2. 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
News briefs from UPI
Vietnam denies intrusion civilian attack in Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand — Vietnam yesterday rejected as "slander" the charges that its forces crossed into Thailand last week to attack Cambodian guerrillas.
"Over the past few days, the Thai authorities have repeatedly spread the slander that Vietnamese army volunteers in Kampuchea (Cambodia) had intruded into Thai territory and attacked civilians," a Foreign Ministry statement carried by the Vietnam News Agency said.
The Vietnamese statement came as Supreme Commander Gen. Arthit Kamlang-kel of Thai armed forces said the last of a battalion-strength Vietnamese force was pushed back into Cambodia Saturday by Thai troops and Air Force A-37 fighter iets.
Thailand protested formally to Hanoi and the United Nations last week over what it said was a series of cross-border forays by Vietnamese troops trying to attack Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge guerrillas led by their military commander, Pol Pot.
Three die in grenade attack in India
NEW DELHI, India — Terrorists on bicycles three hand grenades at Sikh reformists leaving a religious meeting yesterday in the northern state of Punjab, killing at least three people and injuring 23, the domestic Indian news agency said.
Three attackers lobbed three hand grenades at a group of 50 Nirankari Sikhs as they were ending a weekly gathering in a religious building in the town of Rayya, near Amritsar, the Press Trust of India said.
The incident was the second in Punjab in less than a week involving Nirankaris, a reformist breakaway group of the Sikh religion considered heretical by mainstream Sikhs.
Avalanche in Swiss Alps kills four
GENEVA, Switzerland — An avalanche swept four British skiers to their deaths yesterday in the Swiss Alps, bringing the total killed in three days to 10.
Police said that the avalanche cascaded down a slope above the winter resort of Saas-Grund in the Valais region of the Swiss Alps, burying at least four skiers.
Two women and two men were pulled out of the snow but died shortly after.
Some children were buried in the avalanche, but all were rescued safely.
Italy to look at Vatican Bank loan
ROME — Italian authorities have notified the American president of the Vatican Bank, Archishop Paul C. Marcinkus that he is under attack.
The reports said Marcinkus, 62, of Cicero, Ill., and Vatican Bank officials were under investigation for the suspected embezzlement of Italian real estate company Italmobiliare.
In 1979 Italmobiliare repaid more than three times an original $30 million loan to the Vatican Bank.
The president of Italmobiliare says the loan carried a clause indexing repayment to variations in the value of the Italian lira with respect to the Swiss franc.
Volcano's heat causes explosions
HILO, Hawaii — Mauna Loa was rocked by methane explosions that sent up mushroom clouds yesterday. The volcano's 16-mile-long flow of lava has steamed to within 5 miles of homes outside Hilo, authorities said.
The natural methane explosions were triggered by the heat of the lava flow and prompted worried residents to call Civil Defense officials and ask whether the front of the flow was being bombed in an effort to divert the lava flow.
The volume of lava was down about 25 percent compared with earlier amounts, officials said.
Cigarette smoking down 7% in '83
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Americans are smoking billions fewer cigarettes, and the rate of increase in lung cancer deaths for men is slowing down slightly, the president of the American Cancer Society said yesterday.
Gerald Murphy, a physician who is also director of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., said per capita consumption of cigarettes dropped 7 percent in 1983, the largest drop ever recorded.
"It represented a decline of 31 billion cigarettes smoked during a 12-month period — an average drop of more than $2\%$ billion cigarettes a month."
Murphy said that as cigarette consumption drops, the "death rate for all cigarette-related diseases will also decline."
MONTROSE, Iowa — A beagle named Murphy, who grabbed headlines worldwide because of a lawsuit alleging that he got a neighbor's dog eregnant, has died, his owner said Saturday.
Murphy failed to come home from a walk Thursday and his owner, E.M. Chadwick, found his pet dead Friday night.
"We miss Murphy pretty much," Chadwick said. "We mostly remember about how happy he was, except for a period when he was despondent about his romance."
Murphy was accused in a lawsuit last summer of breaking into a nearby home and abducting a Scottish terrier that became pregnant.
The terrier's owner went to court and asked that Chadwick pay $30 to repair the damage Murphy did to a screen door in abducting the terrier. Money to finance an abortion for the terrier was also requested.
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Today will be generally fair with snow and rain falling on the central part of the country.
Locally, today will be cloudy with an 80 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms and a high of 47 degrees.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 70 percent chance for rain or snow and a low of 35 degrees.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance for light rain and a high in the 40s.
Honduran officials hope for peace
said gave the 2-year-old civilian government greater freedom to conduct peace negotiations with its leftist neighbor, Nicaragua.
By United Press International
"The removal of Gen. Alvarez Martinez has given the sundan Cordova government more space to maneuver," he said. "Now we have more capacity to negotiate."
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — the sudden military shakeup in Honduras has strengthened the civilian government's authority to pursue peace negotiations, an official, which met the opportunity, officials and observers said yesterday.
Gen. Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez, chief of the Honduran armed forces, and three other top military commanders were forced to resign Saturday after what President Suzano Cordova said was their involvement in politics.
In Managua, the head of the leftist Nicaraguan government's ruling three-man junta, Daniel Orga, also said yesterday that the shakeup offered hope for dialogue between the two governments.
IT WAS NOT immediately clear what effect the changes in the military might have on the large U.S. military presence in Honduras or on U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels fighting the leftist regime in Managua from base camps in Honduras.
Alvarez, a hardline supporter of U.S. policy in Central America, was forced to leave the country.
"Gen. Alvarez was the principal agent that the United States had in Hawaii, and he is hope for the Nicaraguan government's policy of dialogue," Ortega said.
In one sign that the government intended to maintain close relations with Washington, new U.S. maneuvers had harder I began as scheduled yesterday.
The exercises will include the participation of about 1,000 U.S. servicemen in the construction of two airstrips and counter-insurey practice.
With Alvarez at the helm of the armed forces, Honduras allowed a large U.S. military presence in the country, including the installation of a
regional training base manned by 120 Green Berets on the Caribbean coast
ABOUT 10,000 AMERICAN troops participated in the largest military maneuvers held in Central America, a 7-mile stretch called Big Pine II ended Feb. 8.
In a radio and television address to the nation Saturday, Suzoo Cordova said the military shakeup was aimed at getting the military out of politics and strengthening the authority of the civilian government.
"The military should not dip their hands in political affairs," Suzio Cordova said. He said the changes were aimed at "consolidating internal defenses against terrorist groups and human dignity and vouching for our constant fight as flagbearers of peace."
Senators to try to reshape Reagan policy
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A band of Senate liberals, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is prepared to renew what will likely be an unsuccessful effort to restrict President Reagan's Central American policy.
In two attempts last week, Kennedy failed to attach restrictions to legislation providing emergency military aid to El Salvador and money for CIA-sponsored rebels fighting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
Kennedy plans to offer amendments this week attaching several conditions to the aid. The planned amendments would specify the role of suspects in the trial of suspects in the 1980
slayings of four American church-women and prosecution of suspects in the 1981 murders of two U.S. labor advisers.
Kennedy also wants to require that the Salvadoran government begin unconditional negotiations with opposition forces.
THE EMERGENCY AID package was passed last week as an amendment to a bill providing $150 million in emergency food relief for dough-striken African nations. The bill has since become something of a catechil, with amendments that have nothing to do with food aid or Central America.
If the bill clears the Senate, as expected, it will almost certainly run into trouble in the House, where
Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. has suggested that Central American aid provisions might be stripped away.
Or a House-Senate conference committee could be appointed to try to
Kennedy's efforts to amend the bill to demonstrate significant opposition to Reagan's policy have been hampered because the Central America aid plan was a compromise backed by Senate Democrats.
REAGAN HAD ASKED FOR $83 million. The compromise, written by Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and approved by Senate Republicans and the administration, cut the amount to $62 million. Inouye said that that amount would be enough to keep the Salvadoran armed forces supplied
through September, the end of the 1984 fiscal year
Kennedy and his allies want more drastic cuts. Kennedy is seeking to limit the emergency aid to $21 million — enough to last until the end of May when the winner of the Salvadoran presidential election will be known.
Moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte and rightist Robert d'Aubusson were the top two finschers in the first round of the 2014 French fourth and face each other in a run-off
SEN, DALE BUMPERS, D-ARK,
said Friday that he would offer an amendment that would immediately cut off the El Salvador money if a duly elected president is prevented from taking office or deposed by the military.
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