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University Daily Kansan, February 23, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Glenn halts Maine effort focuses on New Hampshire
CONCORD, N.H. - Sen. John Glenn shut down his campaign operation in Maine yesterday to concentrate on the New Hampshire primary.
Glenn, who sought to regain momentum after his disastrous fifth-place finish in Iowa, made attacks on Reagan during a swing through Nashua, a prosperous industrial town on the state's southern border.
Glenn told reporters that the "realities of resources made it important to relocate our resources in New Hampshire."
In Augusta, Maine, Glenn's state campaign coordinator, John Diamond, announced that the senator had shut down his campaign organization and would ignore the Maine party caucus in favor of a greater effort in New Hampshire.
Party unity began to unravel in the campaign for the country's first primary when Sen. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina hinted he might not support Mondale if he was the Democratic nominee for president.
Iran's forces continue drive in Iraq
LONDON — Iran said yesterday that its forces pushed into Iraq in a new drive that brought them within artillery range of the highway linking Baghdad to the oil port of Basra. Iraq said it repulsed the thrust and launched air strikes deen inside Iran.
The Iranian operation was launched only six days after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's last ground offensive aimed at settling the 42-month-old Persian Gulf War.
The official Iranian news agency said Iranian forces struck near the villages of Dehloran and Bostan on the central warfront, 150 miles southeast of Baghdad.
The Iranian report said a column broke through Iraqi lines and captured hills from which the highway between Baghdad and Basra could be hit by artillery.
lordan ends Libvan ties over 'arson'
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan severed diplomatic relations with Libya yesterday in retaliation for the "premeditated arson" of its embassy in Trinoli. state-run Jordan television said.
The report said the decision to sever relations with Libya was approved in a Cabinet session that has not discuss the burning of the military base.
Prime Minister Ahmad Obedat said that Libyan authorities ordered up to 250 mercenaries, workers, police and security men to the embassy in Tripoli.
He rejected Libyan statements that the demonstrators were Palestinians and said that Palestine Liberation Organization representatives in Tripoli had sent messages to the ambassador denying any connection with the incident.
Vietnam gives U.S. group MIA data
BANGKOK, Thailand — The highest level U.S. delegation to visit Vietnam since the end of the Indochina war returned from Hanoi yesterday with new information on some of the 2,490 American servicemen still listed as missing.
Ann Mills Griffiths, the only civilian in the delegation led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage, said that Vietnam turned over data that could help determine the fate of several servicemen.
Griffiths, executive secretary of the privately financed American League, families, gave no details but said that the information would be needed.
She said that she still thought that Vietnam may be holding American prisoners of war, although Hanoi denies it.
Central Africans have signs of AIDS
BOSTON — Central African blacks may be especially susceptible to AIDS, the deadly disease that weakens the body's immune system, a team of Belgian doctors said yesterday.
The doctors wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that clinical studies of 23 Central Africans living in Belgium indicated that their symptoms were similar to those observed in the United States among patients suffering from AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
More than 3,450 cases of AIDS have been reported in the United States, most involving homosexual or bisexual men. Other high-risk groups are female sexual partners of men with AIDS, users of intravenous drugs, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Of the 3,450 victims, 43 percent (1,488) have died.
Panel delavs hearing on video law
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel, deluged by consumer protests, yesterday temporarily halted its effort to change copyright laws to give movie studios a share in profits from video movie rentals.
Only two of the seven members of the panel were present at the Judiciary Committee's patents, copyrights and trademarks subcommittee meeting. A majority is needed to vote on the measure.
Drinking age of 21 put before House
WASHINGTON — Rep. Michael Barnes, D-Md., yesterday introduced a bill that sets a nationwide minimum drinking age of 21.
ine proposed legislation would be phased in over a six-year period. States refusing to enact laws raising the drinking age to 21 would lose their federal highway funds.
A similar bill is pending in the Senate.
To date, 20 states have adopted 21 as the minimum age for the purchase of all alcoholic beverages.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 2-23-84
Today will be fair except for rain in the Pacific Northwest
Tonight will be fair with a low of 25 to 30.
Locally, today will be mostly sunny with a high in the low 50s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the low to mid-40s.
CORRECTION
Because of a reporter's error, the Kansan incorrectly reported yesterday that Barbara Boeckmann was a former KU student. Boeckmann is a former nursing student but is now majoring in micro-biology.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Mortar shells killed one French soldier and wounded another yesterday as Lebanese soldiers who had refused to fight Muslim rebels moved into position to take over the camp of withdrawing U.S. Marines.
Lebanese ready to take U.S. camp
In Israel, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir faced a possiblerift within his Cabinet yesterday over Israel's vow to send more armored patrols north across Lebanon's Awali River in search of Palestinian guerrillas.
By United Press International
Israel Radio said that four Cabinet officials, including Shamir's deputy, David Levy, opposed further forays into central Lebanon because they
involved in factional Lebanese fighting. Saudi Arabian mediator Rafik Harari brought Lebanese President Amin Gemayel a response to his request for Syrian concessions in return for the release of three Israeli troops-withdrawal accord. No details were immediately available on the session in Gemayel's palace.
feared that Israeli troops could become involved in factional Israeli fighting.
Shamir returned to Israel late yesterday from a four-day trip to Belgium and the Netherlands where he met with European Common Market leaders.
accord with Israel, Israel "will have to ensure our security by taking the
Factional fighting continued into the night in the mountains southeast of Beirut and along the "Green Line" on the east bank West Beirut from the Christian cast.
In the Hague, Shamir said that if Lebanese President Amin Gemayel followed through on his intention to cancel the May 17 troop-withdrawal
By United Press International
The Druse radio station said that two Beirut hospitals reported eight dead and 37 wounded in shelling of the southern suburbs of the capital yesterday.
Small groups of Marines packed up and were lifted by helicopter to the 6th Fleet ships offshore, but most of the combat troops remained at their positions.
Court permits firms to void contracts
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt a blow to organized labor yesterday, giving firms facing bankruptcy the power to void labor contracts without consulting union representatives.
"It's the most outrageous goddamn thing I ever heard," said William Winpinger, president of the Machinists and Aerospace Workers union, when informed of the decision. "We didn't even get our friends on that one."
The court ruled 9-0 that firms filing for bankruptcy could unilaterally cancel union contracts. The ruling allows such firms to void labor contracts before winning the bankruptcy court's approval to do so. But the justices said
the move must eventually be approved by a bankruptcy judge.
Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan said he feared that the ruling "could lead to some terrible abuse and put a formidable cloud over the free collective-bargaining system that has served this country so well."
Owen Bieber, president of the United Autoworkers union, said the decision would discourage efforts by unions to employers threatened by bankruptcy.
"In many cases, it won't make much sense for a union to grant adjustments to an allying employer on Monday merely to have that revised agreement torn up on Tuesday on grounds that costs are 'bardensem.' Bieber said.
Though the ruling was unanimous, the justices split 5-4 on whether firms
must go to bankruptcy court before repudiating union contracts.
The majority held that the National Labor Relations Board could not find a company guilty of an unfair labor practice if the firm, in filing for damages, had invaded union contracts before winning bankruptcy approval of the action.
The court, however, left open the possibility that unions could have some say in what happened to their contracts during bankruptcy proceedings, saying "a somewhat stricter standard should govern the decision of the Bankruptcy Court to allow rejection of a collective-bargaining agreement."
Writing for the court, Justice William Rehnquist said Congress knew how to exempt collective bargain agreements and could have done so if it wished.
Nominee gets nod for Vatican post from Senate panel
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday approved the nomination of William Wilson to be the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican in 116 years.
On a 9-12 vote, with only Sen. Jess Helms, R-N.C., dissenting, the committee sent the nomination to the full Senate and dealt a blow to efforts by Protestant groups to stop establishment of full control over the Holy See. The city-state that is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.
Helms, who is a Southern Baptist, read a statement from his church's executive committee calling the upgrading of relations a dangerous precedent that may to reopen religious divisions in the United States.
Wilson, 68, a convert to Catholicism and member of Reagan's "kitchen cabinet," is currently the president's personal envoy to the Vatican and has argued strongly for upgrading relations.
Helms earlier blocked one committee vote on Wilson to allow opponents time to register their disapproval.
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