University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1984
Page 10
NATION AND WORLD
Jackson apologizes for slur
By United Press International
CONCORD, N.H. — The Rev. Jesse Jackson campaigned in the northern part of New Hampshire yesterday, a day before he used an ethnic slur to describe Jews.
He apologized for the remark Sunday night and said he hoped his comments would open a dialogue between blacks and Jews
But the remark continued to plague Jackson on the final day of the State
"Even a Baptist minister can't claim perfection," Jackson replied. "On Tuesday, people have the option to reject me."
The other candidates accepted Jack-
ness, but said he should not have
were aged.
Front-runner Walter Mondale left last-minute campaigning to an army of 700 workers yesterday as his seven Democratic rivals combed New Hampshire on the eve of the first presidential primary.
A CBS-New York Times poll released yesterday showed Mondale ahead with 57 percent, and Jackson in an unexpected second place with 8 percent of the vote. Sens. John Glenn and Gary Hart shared third place with 7 percent
Mondale's lead is the largest a nonincumbent has ever held at this time.
Glenn, who finished fifth in the Iowa caucuses, said he would not drop out of the race regardless of his finish in Iowa.
The other contenders — former Sen.
George McGovern, Sens. Alan Cranston of California and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina and former Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida were all thought to be trailing the others.
And another unknown was the effect of a drive by a conservative group backed by New Hampshire's only statewide newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader, to get Democrats and independents to write in President Reagan's name on the Democratic ballot.
United Press International
CLARKSBRUG, Pa. — Workers clear wreckage from a three-train Contrail wreck. One train rammed another from behind Sunday, causing an explosion and fire that spread to a third train nearby. An investigation on the wreck has begun. Four people were injured, including one engineer who was trapped under an engine for four hours.
GM to recall 7,200 laid-off workers
By United Press International
"These steps indicate our confidence in the employment picture for the industry. McDonald said at the meeting of Automotive Engineers convention,
DETROIT — About 7,200 laid-off workers will be back on the job this summer at four General Motors Corp. plants, bringing the company's number of returning workers to 90,000 in the fourth quarter. James McDonald announced yesterday.
GM is adding a second shift at its Lakewood, Ga., Chevette plant, which will mean the recall of 1,350 workers on June 11.
will reopen April 2. Yesterday, a first shift of 2,000 workers returned to the job site.
The plant, closed since September.
GM also is adding a second flight at its 18:30am station on an airbus. This will back a new flight to the UK.
GM's heavy duty truck plant at Pontiac, Mich., will recall about 100 workers on May 21. McDonald said GM plans to train them from 72 trucks a day to 89 trucks a day.
The Pontiac division will add 80 employees at the Fiero sports car plant in Pontiac starting April 2, when it will produce from 24 an hour to 30 an hour.
McDonald said GM hoped to reopen its Wentzville, Mo., assembly plant by the end of this week. The new plant, which builds luxury front-wheel drive Oldmobile 98 and Buick Electra models, has been closed for two weeks, forcing the temporary layoff of 2,000 workers.
About 600 of those workers returned to their jobs yesterday, but GM spokesmen previously said they had no idea when the plant would reopen.
The total number of returning workers to the assembly plant is 1,900. The other 4,300 returning workers will be at parts plants.
McDonald said it was hoped the new Orion Township, Mich., plant would go back into production next week as announced.
About 1,200 workers returned to jobs at Orion Township yesterday, where they work on construction projects.
By United Press International
Rebel leader calls vow for vote 'empty words'
A Nicaraguan rebel leader yesterday dismissed a pledge made by the ruling Sandinista Front to hold elections in November as "empty words," promising renewed fighting and a possible peace with another major guerrilla group.
The group, comprised of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama, has been meeting since January 1883 to find a way to end the threat of a Central American war and avoid U.S. military intervention.
"The only way that elections could be held in Nicaragua would be for the Sandistas to hand over power to a provisional democratic government of conciliation," said Adolfo Calero Porfirio, head of the Nicaraguan Democratic Front.
The leftist Sandinistas have announced that elections for a president, vice president and Constituent Assembly will be held Nov. 4. But legal opposition and Washington officials question whether the opposition will be free to campaign.
IN PANAMA, foreign ministers of the peace-seeking Contadora group opened a meeting yesterday to discuss efforts to get the five Central American nations to sign a projected peace treaty before April 30. Four nations are participating in the meeting which should last for two days.
Also the Nicaraguan defense minister said that the number of soldiers in the nation's militia had doubled in the past year to 60,000.
Calero said FDN would maintain military operations in the mountains of northern Nicaragua, despite the elections.
ARDE leader Leiden Pastora, also known as Commander Zero, was a top Sandiista war leader but left the US embassy now disenchanted with its Marxist drift.
"The military battles will keep increasing because this Sandinista announcement isn't worth anything." Calero said.
"There are only a few details to be formalized to arrive at a definite agreement." Calero said. "We are offering AROE equality and deserved confidence that what happened with the dinastias in 1979 won't happen again."
Calero said efforts were still under way to coordinate battle the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, ARDE, and Guajuan guel group based in Costa Rica.
IN NICARAGUA, Defense Minister Cmdr. Humberto Ortega said that the government was not holding elections to please the United States.
Man sinks teeth into the law
By United Press International
NEW YORK — A man shouting Bible passages bit four of seven police officers during a struggle try harder, including biting one severely on the face, police said. Stg. Thomas Dunleave said Officer Arthur Ruddick would need plastic surgery for the wound to his head inflicted in a struggle to subdue the man who was shooting in the street.
Dunleave, one of the officers involved, said the man, Lamar Twine, 30, of Tuckahoe, N.Y., "clamped his tooth on the fleshy area just above Officer Ruddick's left eye."
Dunleave said police received a call about 8:30 a.m. from a store that "a psycho was harassing people inside the store."
"When the police officers arrived, the man shouted passages from the Bible," Dunleave said. "He did not, as far as I know, respond in any other way."
Twine was outside the store when Ruddick and another officer arrived, Dunleavy said.
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