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University Daily Kansan, March 8, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from UPI
German city's officials ban reunion of ex-Nazi troops
BAD HARZBURG, West Germany — City officials yesterday banned a reunion planned by 800 former members of Adolf Hitler's infamous Waffen-SS, saying it would provoke mass protest demonstrations and possible civil unrest.
Bad Harzburg town director Horst Voigt said the decision to prohibit the four-day reunion, scheduled to begin May 17 at the town health resort, was prompted by widespread public outrage over the gathering of the ex-Nazi shock troops.
"Despite police assurances, we could provide no guarantee that there would not have been violent counter-demonstrations and civil unrest," he said. "For these reasons we have banned the meeting."
He said he wrote to Albert Stenwedel, the chairman of the Waffen-SS veterans association, and to the directors of the town's health resort to inform them of the ban.
Education official wants better texts
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Terrel Bell urged educators yesterday to give the highest priority to improving textbooks as part of the drive to upgrade education in America.
Bell said publishers too often prepared texts for the bottom of the class, aiming for the widest audience and the most sales.
"This is sometimes referred to in education circles as 'dumbing down' of textbooks." Bell told a news conference.
As part of his campaign to improve schools, Bell also said he planned to award 51 grants totaling $1 million for the development of performance-based pay plans for teachers. He said the grants would go to teachers who would be model master teacher plans that could be adopted by other jurisdictions.
Khmer Rouge says it killed Soviet
BANGKOK, Thailand — Khmer Rouge guerrillas said yesterday that they killed a Soviet radar technician and 40 Vietnamese soldiers in an attack on an airport operated by Hanoi's occupation forces in western Cambodia.
The clandestine Khmer Rouge army radio said that the technician was killed Sunday during an assault on the main airport at Siem Reap.
The airport, near the fabled ruins of Angkor Wat, is a major supply and logistics center for Vietnam's 170,000-member, Soviet-supplied
The Cambodian rebel radio said the technician and 40 soldiers died defending the airport against a Khmer Rouge assault force of 850 guerrillas.
Senate approves Vatican diplomat
WASHINGTON — The Senate, voting 81-13, yesterday approved the nomination of William A. Wilson as ambassador to the Holy See, moving the United States and the Vatican a step closer to full diplomatic relations.
The Senate rejected arguments that the move violated the separation of church and state and ultimately would demean the moral influence of Pope John Paul II by treating him as a political rather than religious leader.
Opponents vowed to continue their efforts to block elevation of diplomatic relations to the ambassadorial level.
Wilson has served as Reagan's personal envoy to the Vatican for the past three years. Most modern presidents have appointed personal envoys to the Vatican.
Documents sav Meese knew of leaks
WASHINGTON — Previously undisclosed documents showed yesterday that Edwin Meese was given memos during the 1980 Reagan campaign saying that Carter administration workers were passing information to the Reagan side.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, asked Meese about the memos in a letter as part of the Senate Judicial Committee's consideration of his
Meese, whose confirmation hearing ended Tuesday, agreed to answer written follow-up questions by committee members.
Meese was not asked at the hearings about the Carter campaign papers, which have been the subject of a House investigation and a
TV writers reject CBS contract offer
NEW YORK - The executive council of the Writers Guild of America rejected a tentative contract with CBS yesterday and ordered the council's negotiators to reopen bargaining with the network or call for a strike.
The action scraps a new contract that negotiators accepted Tuesday and leaves the possibility of a strike by 320 news writers and graphic artists as early midnight tomorrow, said Corrine Notkin, assistant executive director of the union. A strike would affect network radio and television broadcasts, including "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and "The CBS Morning News."
Notkin said the 21 members of the union's local governing body, the East Coast council, voted nearly 2-1 against the tentative agreement.
Study links beer drinking, cancer
BOSTON — A study of Hawaiian men suggests that drinking two or more cans of beer every day may triple the chances of getting rectal cancer. National Cancer Institute researchers reported yesterday.
In addition, they said results of the 14-year study of 8,000 men suggested that drinking more than three pints of wine or whisky a week increased their risk.
Although the results are supported by other studies, Earl S. Pollack, the study director, said the evidence was not strong enough to expect people to stop drinking moderate amounts of alcohol.
The study was conducted at the Kuakini Medical Center in Honolulu and reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Beirut fighting kills 1, wounds 14
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighting between Muslim and Christian factions killed one person and wounded 14 others yesterday as President Amin Gemayel met a Vatican envoy who expressed the pope's "deep desire for peace."
The sporadic clashes did not disrupt planning for the scheduled resumption of reconciliation talks Monday in Switzerland, and Beirut radio said all aid to the war had been delivered by Muslim leader Walid Jumlatt, had accepted invitations from Gemayel.
In Ashdod, Israel, a hand-grenade time bomb planted by Palestinian terrorists yesterday destroyed a bus filled with shoppers in the port city of Ashdod, killing three people and wounding nine others, officials said.
backed Abu Nidal Palestinian guerrilla splinter took responsibility for the
IN DAMASCUS, SYRIA, the Iraqi
Beirut radio said the agenda for the reconciliation talks was divided into two parts — political reconciliation of Christian and Muslim factions, and military matters, including consolatorial fire-fire and control of the Lebanese army.
"The conferees will only be expected to set the broad lines of changes needed," the report said. "They will decide on the formation of a national unity government which will implement those decisions."
ARCHIBISHOP MARIOBrini met with Gemayel at the presidential palace in the east Beirut suburb of
"I have delivered a message to the president from the holy pod, expressing his deep desire for Lebanon's unity," Brini told reporters after his talks with the Maronite Christian president.
Brini, 75, former secretary of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Eastern Rite Churches, planned to fly to Damascus today to deliver a message to Syrian President Hafez Assad, who backs the Muslim insurgents fighting for more political power in Lebanon.
Baada and conveyed a message of support from Pope John Paul II.
SAUDI ARABIAN mediator Rafik Hariri also arrived for talks with Gemayel and Foreign Minister Elie Widmer, all details of the discussions were disclosed.
The Ashdod blast wrecked the red-and-white vehicle of the Egged bus between Daphne and Katy.
outdoor market to the residential section of Ashdod a port city of 64,000.
Most of the victims were sitting in the central section of the bus. Two were killed immediately and a third died later. All three injured were released after treatment.
Shmuel Pinsker, the bus driver, said 15 passengers were aboard the bus, and one of them could have been the assaultant.
"I think I saw the person who placed the bomb," Pinsker said, recalling in particular one passenger, carrying a fire extinguisher, that had gotten on the bus "by mistake."
Pinsker said he was slammed against the bus window by the force of the blast, but he continued to drive a little farther.
The army radio said a hand grenade attached to a timer was used in the attack.
Iraq says it shot down Iranian helicopters
By United Press International
BAGHAD, Iraq — Iraq said it shot down two Iranian helicopters in a second day of intensive battles to recapture oil-rich Midnano Island amid reports that Baghdad last week attacked foreign ships in the Persian Gulf.
Iran's official news agency, IRNA, said the Iraqi counterattack was "firmly checked," with Iranian defenders killing 850 Iraqi troops in a battle it called "large-scale suicide" by Baghdad's forces.
Sources in Baghdad said Iraqi helicopters shot down two Iranian helicopters in attacks to recapture the island.
Official Iraqi statements gave few details except to say the battle was "wonderful."
Tuesday in the first bid to recapture the island in the Hor al Hoveizeh marshes that has an unattapped oil field with a capacity of 400 barrels. Iranian troops captured it Feb. 24.
In London, Roger Lowes of Lloyds shipping intelligence said the British ship Charming and the Turkish ship Khazan during Thursday, apparently by Iraqi missiles.
Eight Iranian soldiers and two crewmen were reported killed in the attack on the Turkish ship, Lowes said. Substantial damage was caused to the British ship but there were no deaths, he said, and neither vessel sank.
TEHRAN SAID IT killed 1,000 Iraqis
tacks was slow getting out because ships operating in the Gulf often operate in radio silence to avoid detection.
Although Apeejay Lines in Bombay said Sunday its APJ Ambika had also been hit by an Iraqi missile in the Gulf, the Lloyds report was the first Western confirmation of Iraqi action against foreign shipping.
Confirmation of the attacks came after London insurance underwriters doubled war-risk coverage rates in the Gulf area.
Ira's navy commander, Commodore Abed Mohammed al Abdullah, said Saturday that Iraq had hit 15 ships in recent fighting.
Agents said information on the at-
WORDF OF THE, sea strikes came less than 24 hours after the United States again warned Iraq and Iran against action that would close the Gulf's Strait of Hormuz gateway, through which 20 percent of the Western world's oil passes.
The boys, all aged 14 and 15 and only about $4^{1/2}$-feet tall, appeared before newsmen in the Ministry of Information.
In Baghdad, six teen-eagle Iranian soldiers captured by Iraq said yesterday that they quit school to join Tehran's army and entered combat
The young captives, unwashed and subdued, stared at the poor as Iraq of their own.
within weeks of finishing basic military training.
Iraqi officials would not say how many other young soldiers had been captured.
"THESE BOYS HAVE been brought here to give a lie to Khomeini's claim that no children are fighting in his army," said an Iraqi official when asked if the insurgers were not obliged to undergo questioning under the Geneva conventions.
Western diplomats said the display of the boys could be a diplomatic counterblast to Iranian charges that Iraq was using chemical weapons.
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