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University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Solidarity presses groups to support jailed activists
WARSAW, Poland — Underground Solidarity leaders urged international human-rights groups yesterday to press the Polish government to grant political-prisoner status to jailed union activists on hunger strikes.
The appeal to human rights organizations came in a statement signed by Zhigin New bujak, Tadeusz jedynak, Bogdan Lis and Eugeniusz Szumiejk — four Solidarity leaders in hiding since martial law was imposed in December 1981.
The four said their jailed comrades were pressing for political prisoner status by staging hunger strikes but did not specify where the protests were taking place.
Underground Solidarity sources put the number of jailed activists at about 300 but it was not known how many were fasting.
Reagan savs he won't betrav elderly
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, campaigning from the White House, promised elderly voters yesterday that he "will not betray" them on Social Security or Medicare in further attacks on federal spending.
Speaking to leaders of the conservative National Alliance of Senior Citizens, Reagan complained that Democrats had unfairly accused him of cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits during the last three years.
"I have to tell you that whenever I hear that, it sort of touches my temperature control," Reagan said. "Nothing could be further from the truth."
With poll showing his approval rating is highest among voters 50 years of age and older, Reagan zeroed on in a face of what his strategists call "the fairness issue" by disputing charges his budget cuts have hurt the elderly.
Diet formulas pose threat to health
BOSTON — Very-low-calorie diet formulas sold in supermarkets may not be as bad as their predecessors — which killed 60 people in 1977 — but remain dangerous and should be more closely regulated, nutrition expects warned yesterday.
Food and Drug Administration reports have attributed six deaths to use of the new diet formulas, which are believed to cause abnormal heartbeats and problems with blood vessels.
The new formulas, which provide between 330 and 500 calories a day, contain higher-quality protein and vitamin supplements earlier formulas lacked. But the safety of the diets has yet to be proven, according to an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine.
S. Africa, Mozambique to start talks
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Negotiations aimed at a non-aggression pact between South Africa and Mozambique will soon begin. Foreign Minister Roelof "Pik" Botha said yesterday.
The remark came as South African and Angolan forces, which have been locked in a state of enmity for eight years, prepared to monitor jointly their recently agreed cease-fire.
The foreign minister has been at the center of a drive to ease tension between South Africa, which is run by a white minority government, and black nations in the region, chiefly Angola and Mozambique.
South African and Angolan officials met in the Zambian capital of Lusaka Feb. 16. After American mediation, they reached a cease-fire agreement under which South African troops would pull out of southern Angola.
Gulf Oil considering merger offers
NEW YORK — Gulf Oil Corp., the nation's sixth largest oil company, confirmed yesterday that it was holding preliminary negotiations with several potential merger suitors.
Gulf refused to identify the companies involved, but industry sources said Standard Oil Co. of California was studying a possible takeover offer that would challenge Atlantic Richfield Co.'s expected bid for the Pittsburgh-based oil giant.
Gulf announced last week that it was up for sale to ward off a hostile acquisition move by Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr.
Industry sources said that if Arco or Socal bid for a complete takeover of Gulf, the价搪 could run as high as $13 billion to $15 billion, by far the largest acquisition in U.S. corporate history. Texaco Inc. recently bought Getty Oil Co. for a record $10.1 billion.
Blackout darkens 6 Western states
LOS ANGELES — A major blackout, apparently caused by a malfunction in a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. power line in northern California, struck six Western states stretching from the Northwest to Texas at dusk yesterday.
Plexus are dotted throughout the city. Although lights only flickered in many districts, some areas, including parts of Los Angeles and other major cities, remained without service for more than an hour.
Other states affected were Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona. A spokesman for the California Office of Emergency Services said the outage was caused by the breakdown of a major power line.
Yearbook staff files censorship suit
BETHESDA, Md. — The editors of a high school yearbook filed a federal lawsuit against school administrators who have barred photographs of students holding beer cans, officials said yesterday.
The student editors of the Windup, the yearbook at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, a suburb of Washington, claim that school officials' attempts at censorship are a violation of their First Amendment rights.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Student Press Law Center are representing the students, who are seeking a restraining order blocking the administrators' action.
The yearbook faculty adviser and the school principal prohibited the editors from publishing about 10 pages of photographs showing students holding beer cans.
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Soviets veto U.N. plan for Beirut
By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — The Soviet Union, demanding an end to the bombardment of Lebanon by American warships, yesterday vetolied a move to send it peacekeeping troops to such an replacements for the multinational force.
The Security Council voted 13-2 to approve a French-sponsored draft resolution that would have established the U.N. force and that also appealed for an immediate cease-fire throughout Lebanon.
U. S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick responded by accusing Moscow of "sowing hate" and "harvesting violence."
"IN ITS PRESENT form, the draft is unacceptable to the Soviet Union," Troyanovsky said, adding that negotiations on the draft were broken by offen the "unseemly maneuvers of Western delegations."
Although only two negative votes were cast — the Soviet Union and the Ukraine — Soviet Ambassador Oleg Trovansovsky's 'no' killed the proposal
under the veto power held by the five permanent members of the council.
"The United States should end its crude military blackmail against Lebanon," and remove not just its troops but all its warships, he said.
Kirkpatrick said that the United States had voted in favor of the draft "because we hoped that such a resolution would contribute to an end of the violence that maims and kills us." He regard group, group, religion or social condition.
"The United States has paid a high price for its efforts in Lebanon," she said. The Embassy has been deployed, nearly 60 Airwars were murdered as they slept."
saying "the Soviet representative has spoken today, sowing hate, watering it with lies and harvesting violence, refusing to cooperate and attacking others precisely for refusing cooperation.
Kirkpatrick attacked Troyanovsky,
THE SOVIET UNION wanted the draft to demand that aerial and naval bombardment by the United States be halted, diplomatic sources said.
Instead, the document merely requested that all parties "refrain from any intervention in the internal affairs of Lebanon and any action, in particular military action that might jeopardize our re-establishment of peace and security in Lebanon."
"The United States is sick of these calumines addressed against it."
The draft called for the immediate formation of a U.N. force from member nations but excluding troops from the permanent representatives of the council — the United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China
Mondale says Hart writing off South
By United Press International
"THIS MORNING SENATOR Hart said he might actively contest only one
ATLANTA — Walter Mondale yesterday accused Sen. Gary Hart of writing off the South, and a top Democratic party leader said that Hart could not win the Democratic presidential nomination without some support from the South.
Mondale, going on the offensive a day after the surprise upset in the New Hampshire primary, tore into the backfield, sending a swing through Georgia and Alabama.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, his hopes spurred by Mondale's defeat, promised a "major political battle" in Alabama, Georgia and Florida, which hold their primaries on "Super Tuesday." March 15 saw the Mississippi caucuses four days later.
Southern state," Mondale told an Atlanta news conference. "That's not enough. In my opinion, a potential presidential nominee of the Democratic party cannot write off a major part of our country.
"I believe that winning across the South is the key to winning the Democratic nomination, and winning in the South in the general election is key to winning the presidency." Mondale said.
But while Mondale, Hart and the rest continued to battle, Sen. Alan Cranton, the first Democrat to enter the race, became the first to drop out of the race. Cranton told an audience of his supporters in Concord, N.H., that he knew the difference "between reality and dreams."
Cranston said at a news conference that he would continue his fight for a nuclear freeze and help in the party's
efforts to oust President Reagan from the White House.
"THE RACE IS over for me," said the 69-year-old senator from California. "I know when to dream and when and how to count votes."
Cranston got 2,087 votes in New Hampshire, or 2 percent of the total. He finished seventh. He came in fifth in the Iowa caucuses last week.
Throughout his campaign, Cranston concentrated on a nuclear weapons freeze. On Tuesday, he insisted he would stay in the race and campaign for Sunday's caucuses in Maine.
But yesterday, Cranson described himself as "a man of down-to-earth pragmatism," and said other candidates have picked up the nuclear arms issue. "I have helped raise the nuclear consciousness of all the Democratic candidates and of the American people," he said.
Iranian jets bomb Iraqis; war goes on
By United Press International
Iran's air force bombed Iraqi infantry and armored forces on the southern front of the Persian Gulf War yesterday, a day after an Iraqi air raid that reportedly killed 31 personnel in a bombing attack on 200 others in an Iranian border city.
The Islamic Republic News Agency, in a dispatch from Tehran monitored in London, said several Iranian air force jet fighters bombarded Iraqi military forces in the southeastern city of al-Qurma and the provinces of al-Amara, about 100 miles inside the Iranian frontier.
The Iraq air air raid Tuesday on the Iranian border city of Bakhtaran, 130 miles northeast of Baghdad, killed 31 civilians and injured more than 300 residents in the hospitalized, the Iranian agency said.
Algeria, a mediator in the Iran-Iraq war, made a new call for negotiations to avoid further escalation of the conflict.
Warning that the war "gravely compromises the unity of the Muslim world," a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Algiers called late Tuesday for "the imperative opening of negotiations."
In London, British oil executives said they were investigating a report that Iran was stockpiling crude oil on tankers outside the Gulf, which Teheran has repeatedly said. In his visit to its 3-1 two-year war with Iraq
A spokesman for the Lloyds of London insurance company could not confirm that Iran had been storing crude oil outside the 40-mile Strait of Hormuz, gateway for 20 percent of the West's oil supply.
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