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University Daily Kansan. March 23, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Iraq is using mustard gas in war, magazine reports
LONDON — A British science magazine said yesterday that allegations that Iraq is using nerve gas in the Persian Gulf war do not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
But the New Scientist magazine said despite Iraqi denials, there could no longer be any doubt that Iraq was using cruder chemical weapons in "a relatively simple, if unsavory, example of a third-world state flouting international law."
"All the available evidence suggests that the chemical is locally manufactured mustard gas," it said. "This is probably sulphur mustard, which could account for symptoms and effects reported from chemicals."
The magazine quoted a battlefield report that cited use of nerve gas in the war. The report also said that the dead Iranian soldiers "looked as though they had fallen asleep in their foxholes."
Man wields sword at White House
WASHINGTON — A man walked up to a White House gate last night and pulled a $3½-foot Samurai sword as French President Francois Mitterrand was being honored at an elaborate state dinner inside.
Guards with drawn guns took the man into custody after he voluntarily placed the sword back in its sheath and surrendered, witnesses said. The man, who was not immediately identified, never entered the White House grounds and no one was injured.
Witnesses said that the man, in his 20s, walked toward the fence surrounding the White House complex, pulled the sword and asked to enter the grounds. He was immediately approached by guards who drew their service revolvers.
Mitterrand and his wife Danielle are on a weeklong state visit.
Irish man charged in Harrod's blast
LONDON — A Belfast man was charged yesterday with a series of Irish Republican Army bombings that killed nine people. The bombings included a Christmas blast at Harrod's department store.
Anti-terrorist police captured Paul Kavanagh, 28, an unemployed laborer, in northern Ireland on March 16 and whisked him to London's Paddington Green police "fortress," built to withstand bomb and gun attacks by IRA gunmen.
For yesterday's brief hearing in Lambeth Magistrates Court, Kavanagh was brought under heavy police guard in a black armored
Kavanagh and a second man from Belfast, Paul Quigley, 28, were charged with plotting an Irish nationalist bombing spree on Britain in 1981 that killed three people and crippled the commandant general of the Royal Marines.
Getter savs he might seek damages
DALLAS — Lenell Geter said yesterday that he was no longer bitter but did not rule out seeking a bounty over his conviction and 18 months in prison.
Geter, 26, a black engineer, ended his legal battle Wednesday when District Attorney Henry Wade decided to drop the charge for which Geter was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1982. Wade said another suspect had been found.
Geter was freed on bond last December to face a retrial brought about by national publicity. The retrial was to have begun April 9. Geter said throughout that the Dallas judicial system was racist and that police work was sloppy.
Tents shield Soviet quake survivors
"About the 18 months I served in jail." Geter said, "how can I reclaim something that is lost forever?"
MOSCOW — Thousands of homeless families huddled in a rain-soaked tent city in a Soviet republic in Central Asia where a powerful earthquake razed buildings and left more than 100 people injured, a state-run newspaper said yesterday.
An airlift continued to supply food, medicine, warm clothing and tents to the residents of Gazli, the epicenter of the quake that rocked the republic of Uzbekistan on Tuesday, the government youth-league newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.
Many of the buildings withstood the earthquake that registered 7.1 on the Richter scale but crumpled under the aftershocks.
"The tent town is growing, a total of 2,800 tents and 48 mobile kitchens have been delivered to Gazl," the newspaper reported.
Orders for durable goods decline
WASHINGTON — New orders for durable goods dropped 1.2 percent in February — more evidence that the economy slowed down after January's exceptional strength, the government said yesterday.
But the backlog of unfilled orders for "big ticket" factory goods kept growing as shipments leveled off, supporting busy production schedules
New orders "despite the decline . . . stand 3.5 percent above their fourth quarter average and remain in a strong upend," Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge said.
Many analysts were encouraged that orders for the factory equipment needed to modernize operations kept climbing, up 1.7 percent on top of January's 3.6 percent increase.
19th Amendment ratified—at last
JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi Legislature yesterday ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
Almost 64 years after the amendment was adopted nationally, the Mississippi Senate unanimously approved a resolution ratifying the women's suffrage resolution.
The Amendment was adopted nationally on Aug. 25, 1920. Only two states — Mississippi and Delaware — had never gotten around to ratifying it.
Sen. Howard Dyer, a backer of the resolution, was asked whether the action might be a little late. Smiling, he replied, "We gave it due consideration."
WEATHER FACTS
Today will be cloudy throughout most of Kansas. The northern edge of a band of rainstorms stretching as far south as Louisiana will mudge the southern tip of the state. A chance of snow of up to 50 percent is forecast for today for parts of western Kansas.
Locally, today will be mostly cloudy. The high will be in the mid-40s. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, and the low will be around 30. Tomorrow will be party cloudy, and the high will be about 50.
Knesset vote forces early elections
JERUSALEM - The Israeli parliament handed Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's government a stinging defeat yesterday by voting to force early elections that could take place by November.
Re United Press International
Shamir said after the vote that "the Knesset decided and its decision will be carried out." But he noted a long legislative procedure was ahead before the bill to dissolve parliament could become law.
Ine vote was 61-88 on three motions to dissolve the 120-member Knesset and call new elections ahead of election day.
ELSEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Druse militiamen crushed a rival militia yesterday in fierce house-to-house fighting for control of West Beirut that pitted Muslim against Muslim. In London, Druse leader Wadlum Walfal fought with the Muslim peace was wounded while taking pictures of the fighting.
"When the process is over and a date is set for the elections, we will ... go to the voter, explain our position, and ask for his support," he told Israel Radio
Shimon Peres, chairman of the opposition Labor party, called the Knesset vote 'an important step' but 'not necessarily so'.
"We lost the battle today," said Ehud Olmert, a deputy of the ruling Lakud coaition. "It is clear we are
heated procedural squabbling over a decision by the Knesset's Ways and Means Committee to submit the
The opposition Labor party circulated a petition signed by 60 members demanding an open roll-call vote. Speaker Menachem Savior ruled against secret balloting after ordering a recess for consultation.
The vole capped four hours of filibustering and
THE BILL TO DISSOLVE THE KNESSET may not come to fruition for weeks. It has to be debated in committee and then pass through three additional votes or readings in parliament.
Although the government coalition can bury the new law in committee, at least two ruling Likud bloc deputies said Shamir was planning to call elections no later than November.
Shamir would like the time to try to revive Israel's faltering economy. Recent polls put the opposition Labor party well ahead of Likud in public popularity. Olmert said elections probably would be held in
Shamir fought for the last three days to persuade Tami to drop its bid to force elections over Israel's economic crisis, but party leaders held out for elections in May.
The three-deputy Tami party, a member of Shamir's fractions coalition, joined forces with two opposition parties, the Labor bloc and the Hadash Communist faction, to sponsor the motions.
But Christian Phalange radio reported that 125 people were killed or wounded, and hospital officials said 30 wounded Druse and Mourbaiton fighters were dead. The attackers also Scores of Mourbaiton militia were taken prisoner.
In fierce house-to-house battles, Jumbaïli's Drune fighters drove the Libyan-backed Mourabi from town.
IN LEBANON, GOVERNMENT POLICE said five people were killed in the fighting between the Druse and the Sumi Muslim's Mourabitur militia, which erupted at dawn and raged into the afternoon.
"It seems that the Mourabitoun has been wiped out," said a resident of Barbir, the scene of the heaviest fighting. The Mourabitoun is the only Sunni militia in Beirut.
Jumbblat, who met in London with British government official Richard Luce, said afterward he feared the breakdown of peace talks between faction leaders and officials in the country, more heavy fighting and the breakup of his country.
Jumblatt said about any hope for peace. "No hope at all."
"Lebanon will have to be partitioned into spheres of influence," said Jumblatt, who blamed the failure in Lausanne "generally speaking on the right-wing side." The insatiable faction leaders and President Amin Gemailw
UPI PHOTOGRAPHER LEIGHTON MARK, a Teopkaena patient, was shot and wounded while taking pictures of the fighting. Mark, 32, underwent surgery on his right shoulder with an incision to remove the bullet and shrapnel from his chest.
Mark was listed in good condition after surgery, hospital officials said. He is a graduate of Washburn University.
Meese seeks review by special prosecutor
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — White House counselor Edwin Meese called for the appointment of a special prosecutor yesterday to settle allegations stalling his confirmation as attorney general — a process that could take months.
President Reagan also dug in his heels, pledging he would not withdraw his nomination of Meese — "my trusted colleague for 17 years" — and expressing confidence that an independent inquest would clear his top aide.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed its hearings on Meese's selection as the nation's top law enforcement official, and it has approved preliminary Justice Department investigation of possible financial irregularities involving Meese.
In a letter to Attorney General William French Smith, the man he hopes to succeed, Meese asked Smith to immediately seek court appointment of a special prosecutor under the Ethics in Government Act.
THE PROBE WAS sparked by disclosure of a $15,000 interest-free loan to Meese, which was not included in his financial disclosure.
vindication of my name, the honor of my family, and the confidence of the president of the United States in nominating me."
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Delaware,
ranking Democrat on the Judiciary
Committee, said he expected the
Justice Department to file papers
seeking a special prosecutor "in the
next day or so."
MEESE' AND HIS wife, Ursula, accompanied un邪趣 by the controversy as they attended a black tie state dinner in Paris. The French President Francois Mitterrand.
In a statement issued after a 20-minute meeting with Meese, Reagan said, "I know that an impartial, prompt and thorough inquiry will demonstrate the high level of integrity and dedication of our staff to Ed's long career of public service."
Meese, in a statement issued at the White House, vowed "to pursue the
Reagan said Meese would stay in his $69,900-a-year White House job until he is confirmed for the Cabinet post. His house spokesman Larry Speaks said
Meese would not be involved in any Justice Department matters until the judge had been removed.
Senate leader Howard Baker, R-Tem., who met privately with Meese on Wednesday, predicted the Senate could still confirm Meese, even though the nomination "is carrying a lot of baggage."
The Justice Department opened a preliminary inquiry this week into Meese's finances, specifically his failure to disclose the $15,000 loan, to determine whether to seek a court-appointed special prosecutor.
THE LOAN ALSO is controversial because Edwin and Gretchen Thomas, who lent the money to Meesee's wife, had deployed government jobs in San Francisco.
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