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University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Hawaiian volcano erupts after nine years of silence
Hilo, Hawaii — Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the largest volcano in the world, erupted yesterday for the first time in almost nine years, reddening the sky with a curtain of fire and spewing a steady flow of lava.
Hawaii County Civil Defense Chief Harry Kim described the blast from the 13,680-foot volcano as "major," but he said it posed no immediate threat to life or property.
Because the summit is far from populated areas, there would be no threat of danger unless the eruption developed into a major blast, which would have been catastrophic.
Mauna Loa is 30 miles from the island's major coastal town of Hilo, which has a population of 35,229.
The volcano last erupted in July 1975—for just one day. That outburst ended a 25-year period of quiet, before which eruptions had occurred every 3.7 years on the average.
Bodies of U.S., Korean troops found
SEOUL, South Korea — A joint search party recovered the remains of all 18 U.S. Marines and 11 South Korean marines killed when their helicopter crashed in bad weather and burned, a U.S. military spokesman said yesterday.
Identification of the bodies, the spokesman said, would take at least several days because many had been dismembered and severely charred in the crash and fire that followed.
All the Americans involved were from the Marine Amphibious Force of the 3rd Marine Division based in Okinawa.
The tragedy occurred before dawn Saturday when a U.S. CH-5D "Sea Stallion" helicopter crashed onto a rugged mountainside 24 miles north of the southeastern coastal town of Pohang, 170 miles southeast of Seoul.
Police seeking dangerous escapers
CHICAGO — Four inmates who used guns smuggled in by a paramedic to break out of the Cook County Jail were again in custody yesterday, but police were still searching for two of the city's "baddest of the bad."
Authorities say the 21-year-old paramedic was paid $75 to smuggle in the two pistols the prisoners used in the daring jailbreak Friday night. The inmates handcuffed guards to the jail bars, donned the guards' uniforms and bluffed their way out of the jail.
One of the escapees was captured yesterday as he entered his girlfriend's apartment. Three others were captured within an hour of the jailbreak.
Japan wants investments protected
PEKING — Visiting Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasome, pressured yesterday to increase Japanese investment in China, said Peking must first offer his nation's enterprises better protection for their investments and copyrights.
In a nearly two-hour meeting with Nakasone, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said that Japan was far behind the United States in terms of investment in China, but that no other problems existed between the two countries.
Nakasone, ending three days of talks in Peking, said at a news conference that China should create more favorable conditions by formulating laws to protect patents, copyrights and investments.
Report lists additional fire fatalities
SAO PAULO. Brazil — At least 508 people — most of them young children — died last month in a gas fire that razed a swampland shanty town, a prosecutor's report said yesterday.
The report, given to major newspapers, revealed that the scope of the Feb. 25 disaster was far greater than originally announced.
Only 88 bodies were recovered after the fire swept through Sao Jose, a slum built on wooden stilts over a coastal swamp in the industrial district of Cubatao, near Sao Paulo.
The blaze broke out after midnight when gasoline from a ruptured pipeline ignited, setting off a firestorm so intense that it hurled wooden shanties high into the air and swept across a half-mile area.
Gasoline in creek forces evacuation
MISSOURI CITY, Texas — A thousand residents of an affluent subdivision of a Houston suburb returned to their homes yesterday after work crews repaired an Exxon pipeline that leaked gasoline into a creek in their neighborhood.
Exxon Pipeline Co. spokesman Perry Smith said the 8-inch pipeline, which carries motor fuel from Baytown refineries to terminals in San Antonio and Austin, was discovered leaking at about 5:30 a.m. yesterday.
Workers repaired the leak shortly after 3 p.m. and all but two of the 240 evacuated families had returned home by 5 p.m.
Smith said the company shut down the flow of unleaded premium gasoline through the pipeline at about 6 a.m. and dispatched emergency crews to the scene. Officials had not determined how much gasoline leaked.
Rock singer flees onslaught of fans
PORTLAND, Ore. — With the aid of 16 police cars, rock musician Orzy Osboreue escaped from the crush of more than 2,000 fans at an album-signing session at a record store, authorities said yesterday. One injury was reported.
Osbourne, a "heavy metal" rock star known for such outlandish acts as biting the heads off live animals, was whisked away about 25 minutes after arriving Saturday afternoon.
A 14-year-old girl suffered minor injuries when she apparently fainted and shopped under the feet of other fans, police reported.
Osbourne was described by a member of his entourage as "pretty mellow about the whole thing."
WEATHER FACTS
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Today will be fair across most of the country, with snow in the Rockies.
Locally, today will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and a high of 45 degrees.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance for snow and a low of 30 degrees.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high of 40 degrees.
Meese had Carter notes, files show
WASHINGTON — Edwin Meese, who denies taking an important political role in the 1980 Reagan campaign, was provided details of President Carter's final election-eve television appearance. Meese's campaign files show.
By United Press International
MEESE, WHOSE NOMINATION as the new attorney general is embroiled in a controversy over his financial dealings, has denied in writing that he knew he began campaign obtained material genetics for Jimmy Carter's re-election bid.
Also among files recently turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee by House investigators are several memos in which Robert Garrick, director of political development for the Reagan campaign, describes materials picked up from sources in or close to the Carter camp.
said he handled only issues and policy for the Reagan cannamen.
Meese told investigators for a House subcommittee recently that he remembered few of the memos found in his campaign files that referred to tips or other information flowing from the Carter campaign or White House.
Garrick reported to Meese, who has
officials, "I've just learned that Carter's 20-minute presentation on election will consist of a preamble with Henry Foeda as the narrator-host."
The Nov. 1, 1880, campaign memo from Peter Dailey, an advertising man for the Reagan campaign, advised Meese and seven other campaign
Dailey said the ad, which ran as scheduled, would include "approximately three minutes of Henry Fonda setting the stage . . . segments of political types such as (House Speaker Thomas) 'Tip' O'Neill and others endorsing Carter . . . segments feature a famous presidents with the narrator (giving advice) to these presidents . . . Carter in the Oval Office in a cardigan sweater making a five-minute appeal to voters" and a closing scene showing "Harry Truman
beseeching people to vote the Democratic Party."
THE MEMO AND others found in Meese's files rekindled questions, which are being investigated by the House Post Office and Civil Service subcommittee, about how the Reagan came accustomed inside information from Carter's office to the House investigation began with detailed last summer that material from Carter's debate briefing book reached the Reagan camp.
Rep. Donald Albosta, D-Mich., chairman of the panel, asserted last fall that his months-long inquiry had turned up evidence of an "organized effort" by the Reagan campaign to obtain Carter materials.
Hart captures rural vote. wins Montana
By United Press International
Colorado Sen. Gary Hart captured Montana's Democratic county caucuses yesterday, taking most of the state's rural areas and splitting the vote with Walter Mondale in several labor强holds.
Officials said Hart would receive 11 of the 19 delegates at stake and Mondale would receive eight. The former vice president's overall delegate total would increase to 673 and Hart's to 393.
With all 35 caucus reporting, Hart received 6,810 votes for 49 percent, Mondale received 4,942 votes for 35 percent, Jesse Jackson received 714 votes, and 9 percent of the caucus participants, or 1330, had no preference.
Although Mondale's organization started early in the state, Hart recently added money and manpower to his effort.
Montana Democratic Party officials said at least 7,000 people were expected to participate in the caucuses, which were conducted in sites ranging from schools and hospitals to hotels and civic organizations.
MONDALE AND HART both devoted yesterday to courting New York Democrats for that state's primary. The two rivals engaged in such traditional campaign tactics as going on walks tours of New York City. Mondale yesterday received the endorsement of Mayor Ed Koch.
Church in Harlem, in an attack on President Reagan
"I think discrimination and despair is a 'iin.」Mondale told 350 members of the party in the French Senate."
"We need to have a president who knows that the deadliest of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit," he said, before going to a Manhattan delicatessen to woo voters as he strolled under rows of salamis and cheeses suspended from the ceiling.
Hart took his campaign to a working-class neighborhood in Queens, telling patrons of an Irish tavern that he favors a "united Ireland."
Later, he used a Young Israel dinner in Manhattan, also attended by Mondale, to criticize the former vice president for his readiness to commit troops to the Persian Gulf to keep oil supplies flowing.
"THIS APPARENTLY means he is prepared to continue the United States"
reliance on oil supplies from the unstable Persian Gulf and be subject to foreign policy blackmail that entails." Hart said.
JACKSON BEGAN A three-day campaign swing through Connecticut yesterday, telling a university audience in Bridgeport he would put pressure on South Africa to end its policy of racial segregation if he is elected president
He hopes to generate a record number of minority voters in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven. the state's three largest cities. "Our campaign has been from the people up, not the endersors down," he said.
Hart lost to Monday in the Kansas caucuses on Saturday and was trailing both Monday and Jackson in the race. Kentucky, in states, which will be completed today.