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University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Japanese military rocked by crash, shooting spree
TOKYO — An army private ran amok yesterday, wounding four fellow trainees with a burst of autumn rife fire, and an amphibious plane crashed on a training mission, killing three crewmen and leaving 10 others missing. Japanese government officials said.
The two incidents triggered an uproar in a country that is wary about Prime Minister Yasuho Nakasone' attempt to build up its defense [premium]
Nakasone, facing opposition challenges over a $12.5 billion defense budget in Parliament, ordered a government investigation as well as "all steps to ensure a similar incident will not happen again," government sources said.
Poland alerts doctors about AIDS
WARSAW, Poland — Acquired immune deficiency syndrome has spread to eastern Europe, striking at least two people in Czechoslovakia and prompting Poland to take precautions against it, the government said yesterday.
Jan Suchowiak, a Polish Health Ministry official, said that 50,000 brochures with detailed information on AIDS were being printed so that almost every Polish doctor would have one.
"Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a serious problem, and that is why we do not want our doctors to be surprised by its symptoms."
Suchowiak had no details on the two cases of AIDS reported in Czechoslovakia, but medical sources said that at least one of the cases was fatal.
Feldstein says deficit is dangerous
WASHINGTON — White House economic adviser Martin Feldstein said Sunday that another recession was much more likely if efforts to reduce the federal deficit failed this year.
Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that if huge deficits continued the outlook was so grim, "I hate to think about it."
"If we and Congress don't make actual reductions in outlays or increases in revenue, the deficit that we forecast at $180 billion for 1985 would be about $210 billion a year," he said.
Feldstein said 1984 was likely to be a good year economically, based on recent performances in the housing market, retail sales and personal income.
Reagan nominates aide to lead GSA
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday said he would nominate White House aide Jack Courtemanche to be the next head of the General Services Administration.
Courtmanche, 48, deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, will be nominated to succeed Gerald Carmen, who submitted his resignation — to take effect tomorrow — more than two months ago. The nomination was made on Monday, and it was given from the White House on another appointment for Carmen.
Reagan named Frank Donatelli, a longtime campaign aide and an assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development, to
Station closings fire up protesters
Courtenanche has been a deputy assistant to the president since last October.
CLEVELAND — About 30 neighborhood activists, including a man who chained himself and his wheelchair to a fire engine, occupied a fire station for the fourth day yesterday to protest its closing. The protesters were arrested as much closed because of budget cuts, until they are assured it will reopen.
"We will stay here until we get our fire station," said Zella Pakish, 64, of Southeast Clevelanders Together, a neighborhood group. "There are many elderly people in this neighborhood. We will be in a bind without it."
Jackson ads cost Pepsi $7 million
NEW YORK - Pepsi-Cola's two commercials starring rock star Michael Jackson and his five brothers cost the company $7 million to make. Pepsi executives said yesterday.
Alan Pottasch, Pepsi's senior vice president in charge of creative services, said that the $7 million investment also included the cost of a planned expansion.
Pottash's accounting at a press preview of the Pepsi's ad campaign represented the first time that the cola company had revealed a price tag on the widely publicized commercials.
The company made 30- and 60-second versions of both Jackson commercials, which feature the brothers singing Pepsi-Cola lyrics to "Bad Times."
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 2-28-84
Today will fair except for some snow in the northern Atlantic Coast, the Ohio Valley and the lower Great Lakes region.
Locally, today will be partly cloudy and cold with a high in the mid-30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tomorrow will be sunny and warmer with a high of 40 to 45.
CORRECTION
Because of an editor's error, a photograph in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly identified the Encore performers in the "sit Sing-Sing." Members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority presented the skat at last weekend's variety show.
CLARIFICATION
In yesterday's Kansas, a story about an auction at Zeigfeld's Ice Cream Parlor and Deli, 106 Massachusetts St., may have inadvertently implied that the restaurant's owner had been forced out of business because of debts. Darrel Stadel, the former owner of the restaurant, said he had made the decision to close the store because business was not "as good as I had anticipated."
Court rules on waste transport
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday rejected New York City's challenge to federal rules allow it to refuse to provide waste to be shipped through cities.
The court also cleared the way yesterday for a mass trial of hundreds of personal-injury suits against the U.S. military herbicide used during the Vietnam War.
The justices dismissed arguments that the environmental consequences and alternative routes must be considered as more relevant to a coactive material through urban areas.
The justices turned down an appeal by Diamond Shamrock Co. , which sought a review of a ruling on a class action suit filed by people claiming they were harmed by exposure to the herbicide.
In addition to Diamond Shamrock, the case — which could lead to damage to the drill bits — has a long shelf life.
The court, saying the case is not in its jurisdiction, let a stand ruling that said the government need not make environment protection measures before shipping radioactive wastes.
Layton is the only member of the defunct religious group facing charges in this country for the slaying of Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif. Ryan was killed at the cult's agricultural commune in South America Nov. 18, 1978.
IN ANOTHER CASE, the court said that prosecutors could use recordings of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones exhorting his followers to commit mass suicide as evidence in the murder conspiracy trial of a cult member.
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The justices let stand a lower court ruling letting the government to use recordings made during the 1978 mass suicide at the cult's settlement in Jonestown, Guyana, in the conspiracy of former security man Larry Lavon.
SOON AFTER THE attack, Jones exhorted his followers to commit suicide by drinking a cyanide-faced vodka from a bottle and piled in the center of the compound.
The government charges that Layton conspired with Jones and other cult loyalists to murder Ryan and U.S. diplomat Richard Dwyer as they were
Ryan, three journalists and a temple defector were killed in the attack. Dwyer, several journalists and members of Ryan's congressional staff were
In another case, the court refused yesterday to intervene in the case of Walter Polovchak, a Soviet youth who sought political asylum in the United States rather than return to the Ukraine with his parents.
THE JUSTICES LET stand an Illinois Supreme Court rulings requiring him to remain a ward of the state until he is 18 and allowing his parents to regain custody if they return to the United States.
A lawyer for Walter argued that the court's order leaves open the possibility that the 16-year-old could be forcefully removed from the United States by his parents.
departing from a jungle airstrip with several defectors from the cult.
But lawyers for the boy's parents denied they intended to "determine their child's future by force and not by law."
In 1890, the Carter administration gave the youth political asylum after he refused to return to the Soviet Union with his parents.
Namibian freedom plan reported
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The governments of South Africa and Angola have agreed on a nine-month timetable for Namibian independence that calls for the Marxist Angolan regime to send home about 25,000 Cuban troops, a newspaper said yesterday.
But new fighting between soldiers and anti-Marxist guerrillas seeking to topple the Lauanda government could threaten the reported U.S.-mediated truce between South Africa and Angola over the Namibian border.
The Johannesburg Star reported yesterday that an internationally acceptable timetable was set for U.N. supervised Namibian independence after 55 years of South African rule.
Quoting diplomatic sources, the Star said that the nine-month timetable hingeed on South African military disorder during Angolan governmental intervention in Namibia.
THE NEWSPAPER reported that Angola would re-establish sovereignty over the eastern parts of the country.
estimated 25,000 to 30,000 Cuban troops whose presence has been a major obstacle to agreement on Namibian independence.
South African Foreign Minister Roofol 'Pik' Botha said that the report on the timetable was "not an accurate statement" and warned by South Africa and the United States.
The report followed an emergency weekend meeting in the battle-ravaged southern Angolan town of Cuvelai in which the two countries agreed to begin on-the-scene monitoring of the truce signed Feb. 16 in Zambia.
The meeting was called when South Africa charged that 800 guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization, backed by Angola since 1975, had violated the truce by moving into the territory, also known as South West Africa.
An Angolan guarantee to keep SWAPO out of the cease-fire zone was part of the truce. SWAPO has waged a battle against South Africa for Nauruian independence.
The Star said "independence for Namibia is attainable within nine months to coincide with President Reagan's bid for re-election."
In a statement released in Lisbon, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or UNITA, claimed to have shot down a Cuban-piloted reconnaissance plane hovering over Laos in a helicopter holdout 77 foreign hostages in Lauda province.
BUT OBSERVERS IN Lisbon, Angola's former mother country, said that escalated fighting between anti-Marxist guerrillas and soldiers during the past week could threaten the Namibian border truce.
UNITA, which has been backed by South Africa, seized the hostages last week after overrunning the northeast diamond mining center of Kafunfo. The guerrillas gave no further details of the hostages yesterday.
Though there was no indication that Pretoria had promised to lessen its support to UNITA in the cease-fire framework, Luanda had demanded it do so in exchange for restricting the events operating from Anudan bases.
UNITA, whose forces operate in about two-thirds of Angola, also said that it killed 205 soldiers, including a Belgian and three spread fighting during the past week.
The appointment was seen as an indication Chernenko would be named to the office of president, giving him all the authority he did by his predecessor, Yuri Andropov.
No official announcement has been made, but the diplomat said that Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov referred to Chenkeno as chairman of the Defense Council at a reception to celebrate Armed Forces Day last Thursday.
MOSCOW — Konstantin Chernenko has consolidated his grip on power quickly by adding the post of commander-in-chief of the Soviet armed forces to his leadership of the army, a Western diplomat said yesterday.
"It been kept a secret, but it seems that Ogarkov definitely wanted us to know that Cherenko was head of the Defense Council," the diplomat said.
Soviet sources said that the Supreme Soviet would convene in a special session soon after elections Sunday and that the president would be announced then.
But another Western diplomat said the military job did not guarantee Chernenko would become president and added that the office could go to Mikhail Gorbachev, 52, or Grigory Romanov. 61, both members of the Politburo and Chernenko's rivals for party chief after Andropov's death Feb. 7.
The move indicated that Chernenko could be consolidating power in the Polubtoru which is thought to be divided from the older members and new members.
Soviet leader's ascent to power almost complete
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