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University Daily Kansan, February 29, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Cambodians report killing soldiers, Chinese adviser
BANGKOK, Thailand — The Cambodian government said yesterday, in a rare battlefield report, that its soldiers killed a Chinese adviser and rebels claimed that they killed scores of Vietnamese soldiers in fighting in northwestern Cambodia.
The clashes came as Vietnamese artillery pounded the outskirts of the Nong Chan refugee camp, on the Thai-Cambodian border, 145 miles east of Bangkok. Thai military officers said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties among the 20,000 Cambodian civilians living at the camp but the intense, three-hour bombardment rattled windows and frightened villagers on the Thai side of the border.
The Heng Samrin government said that its forces killed a Chinese adviser last week in the province of Battambang.
Austrian wants better East-West ties
Reagan welcomed Kirschchaelager, the first Austrian head of state to make an official visit to the United States, with a greeting in German, "Wir heissen Sie herzlich Willkonnen" — "We bid you a warm welcome."
WASHINGTON — Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschlaeger told President Reagan yesterday that he hoped a stepped-up dialogue between the United States and the Kremlin's new leadership would improve East-West relations.
A senior American official said the two leaders talked for about one hour, most on superpower relations and Central America.
An elaborate welcoming ceremony had to be held indoors because of rain, but Kirchschlaeger was the guest of honor for a gala state dinner last night.
YUCCA FLAT, Nev. — A nuclear weapon of 20 to 150 kilotons will be detonated 2,100 feet underground tomorrow at the Nevada Test Site, not far from where 14 people were injured Feb. 15 after a smaller nuclear blast
Nuke test scheduled for tomorrow
The Department of Energy said yesterday that a nuclear weapon would be triggered at 10 a.m. CST tomorrow about 12 miles from where the accident happened
The blast will go off at the bottom of a shaft in Yucca Flat about 70 miles from Las Vegas. Officials said the blast might be felt outside the 1,800 square mile test site. A DOE spokesman cautioned people working in high-rise buildings, such as those in Las Vegas, that earth motion is magnified in such buildings.
Justice Marshall ill with bronchitis
WASHINGTON — Justice Thurgood Marshall, 75, is being treated for bronchitis at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the Supreme Court information office said yesterday.
But Marshall called his chambers to say he is fine, court spokesman Toni House said.
Freeman Cary, the attending physician at the Capitol and who has treated Marshall, said the justice appeared to be suffering from a viral bronchitis, which is not serious. Cary said he expected the justice to remain in the hospital overnight for tests.
Marshall entered the hospital Monday for tests related to his bronchitis. House said.
Thatcher's union views spark strike
LONDON — Thousands of workers went on strike yesterday to protest Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's bid to outlaw union membership at a sensitive government security installation.
Commuter and intercity rail and bus travel was disrupted partially in several cities. Government offices closed down, and stoppages spread to some auto plants, docks, hospitals and shipyards during the one-day job action.
Engineers on Fleet Street also walked out unexpectedly, forcing publishers of Britain's national newspapers to cancel today's editions.
After stoppages also occurred at simpyarso on the Merseyside. In addition, gravediggers in the Southwark district of London refused to handle two burials and six cremations.
ANGOLA, La. — Convicted killer Johnny Taylor, caught in what death penalty opponents labeled "a nightmare come true," died in the electric chair this morning, the state's second execution in three months.
The Supreme Court late yesterday afternoon refused to block the execution of the 30-year-old father of six, convicted in the 1980 stabbing death of David Valger Jr. 28, of Kenner, La.
Taylor's new attorney, Frank Sloan, had asked the Supreme Court justices to stop the execution to give him a chance to track down and interview people who might have convinced jurors to impose a less severe penalty.
The justices denied the stay of execution without comment.
Feminists award 'pigs' to sexist ads
NEW YORK — National advertising that showed a policewoman in hot pants, heavily made-up young girls in provocative poses and a naked woman putting on her underwear were singled out as sexist and degrading by a feminist group yesterday.
WAP said the ads portrayed women as "eternally young, thin, white, passive, wealthy and heterosexual, as self-hating and asking for abuse, as mere bodies and body parts."
Nine national advertisers were given plastic "piggies" - annual awards bestowed by Women Against Pornography, a Manhattan feminist group.
Jordache jeans was cited for the "ultimate in advertising misogyny." The ad shows a young woman walking on a deserted, dark beach wearing tight jeans and tank top and being confronted by an automobile.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 2-9=64
Today will be fair except for snow in the northern Atlantic Coast states, the lower Great Lakes region and the Ohio Valley.
Locally, today will be warmer with a high in the low to mid-40s,
according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tomorrow will be cloudy and warmer with a high in the upper 40s.
Tonight will be fair with a low in the lower 20s.
Jackson sets record with eight Grammys
Bv United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Superstar Michael Jackson won an unprecedented eight Grammys, including album and record of the year, but was beaten twice by the Police ballad "Every Breath You Take," the year's top new song, last night.
Jackson's hit album "Thriller," which spawned seven top-10 singles that dominated the airwaves throughout 1983 and has sold nearly 30 million copies worldwide, was named the year's top LP over rivals including "Synchrony," by the Police, and the "Flashback" soundtrack.
Jackson's "Beat It" was named record of the year and his "Billie Jean" was chosen best new rhythm and blues song.
Jackson picked up three best male vocalist awards — "Beat It" for rock, "Billie Jean" for R&B and "Thriller" for pop.
He was also named producer of the year, along with Quincy Jones, for best children's recording in his non-musical narration on "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
"Of all the awards I've gotten, I'm proudest of this one," Jackson said of the children's Grammy. "It's not just for children, it's for everyone."
The singer, wearing a blue commodee's coat with gold braid and sporting a sequined white glove on his right hand, sat in the front row of the Shrine Auditorium next to his dba Brooke Schmidt. Also his companion at the American Music Awards, which he dominated earlier this year.
Jackson's eight' Grammys topped the
previous record of seven, won by Paul Simon with "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in 1970, and the six collected by Roger Miller with "King of the Road" in 1965. No other artist has won more than five in one year.
Jackson, nominated for a record 12 Grammys, had to sweep the final two awards of the telecast after being upset twice earlier in the evening by "Every Breath You Take," which was named best new song and also defeated "The Saturdays" at Beate Paul McCarthy, for best pop performance by a duo or group.
"I just want to thank you, and I love you all," Jackson said.
The Police won a third Grammy, for best rock performance by a duo or group, with "Synchronicity", Sting, the group's lead singer, won a fourth Grammy for instrumental performance on the "Brimstone and Treacle" movie soundtrack.
Jackson's triumph overshadowed Sir Georg Soltis, whose four classical awards gave him a career total of 23. The winner of the 1964-65 as all-time Grammy winner.
The "Flashdance" soundtrack won three Grammy's — for Irene Cara as best female pop vocal, "Love Theme" as best instrumental composition and the entire album as best original score Tony-winnings "Cats" by Andrew Lloyd Webber won for best original cast show album.
Chaka Kahn also won three awards—for best female RB performance for "Chaka Kahn," best RB performance by a duo or group for "Ain't Nobody," and best best wear arrangement for "Bea Bop Medley with Arif Mardin."
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson holds some of the Grammys he won at the 1984 Grammy Award ceremonies at Shrine Auditorium last night. Jackson won eight Grammys, more than any other solo artist in one year.
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