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University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Hunger strikers in Warsaw want pro-union priest back
WARSAW, Poland — Hunger strikers demanding the reinstatement of a pro-Solidarity priest who was ordered to leave Warsaw occupied a church yesterday in an unprecedented public demonstration against the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
The 12 men and women said they would continue their protest in St. Joseph's Church until Catholic officials rescinded the transfer of the bishop from the church.
High-ranking church officials said the decision to remove Nowak was irreversible, but the protesters said they would starve themselves if necessary.
French miners strike to protest plan
PARIS — Coal miners went on strike and virtually halted production yesterday, bringing new labor troubles to France where a truckers strike ended.
The coal miners began what they called a two-day renewable strike, the industry's first nationwide coal strike since 1963.
The miners protested the government's announcement of an industrial development plan that called for reorientation of industries in their region.
Union officials said that up to 85 percent of the country's miners stayed away from mines in the northern Lille region yesterday.
Mozambique. S. Africa to sign plan
MAPUTO, Mozambique — The governments of Mozambique and South Africa said yesterday that they would sign a nonagression agreement that is expected to help curb rebel activity in both countries.
In a statement issued yesterday after the latest in a series of meetings aimed at thawing frosty relations, South African Foreign Minister Roelof "Pik" Botha said that both sides were "aware of the urgency of reaching an agreement."
Botha said that he and a high-level South African diplomatic team met Mozambican President Samora Machel yesterday at the offices of the Reserve Bank in the Mozambican capital.
Feminist joins presidential hopefuls
CHICAGO — Feminist Sonia Johnson said yesterday that she was running for president to draw attention to human issues, and that she knew she had no chance of winning.
"If this were truly a democracy, at least half of the presidents in the past 200 years would have been women," Johnson said.
Johnson opened her Illinois campaign in Champaign Sunday night in a speech to about 300 people at a Unitarian church.
Johnson became well known when he was excommunicated from the Mormon Church in 1979 because of her activities in support of the
She was one of eight women who fasted for more than a month at the Illinois capitol in 1982 in an effort to persuade the Legislature to approve the ERA.
Groups seek review of Moon's case
WASHINGTON — A broad range of church groups said yesterday that they had asked the Supreme Court to review the tax-evasion conviction of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
The National Council of Churches and the National Association of Evangelical said that the conviction of Moon, who leads the Unification Church, "severely threatened rights of all religious groups."
The two church agencies, joined by several other church groups, said they filed a brief urging the court to accept Moon's case.
Moon was convicted in May 1982 for not paying $150,000 in personal income tax. The conviction was upheld by a New York appeals court.
2 U.N. resolutions condemn Israel
GENEVA, Switzerland — The U.N. Human Rights Commission passed two resolutions yesterday condemning Israel for violating Arab rights in the occupied territories.
The first, adopted by a 23-13 vote with six abstentions, strongly condemned Israel's policy of settlements on the West Bank and Gaza
Mostly Western countries voted against the resolution, which called the Israeli occupation "in itself a fundamental violation of the human rights of the civilian population."
The second resolution condemned Israel's "inhuman treatment" of the population of Syria's occupied Golan Heights.
It passed by a vote of 30-1 and 11 abstentions with only the United States voting against it.
Students sit in to save fraternities
AMHERST, Mass. — About 300 Amherst College students conducted a peaceful, daylong sit-in yesterday at administration offices in support of their beleaguered fraternity system. Another group of students vowed to fast for five days beginning today.
On Saturday, Amherst College trustees plan to discuss the fate of the eight fraternity houses, which have come under criticism recently for vandalism to college-owned fraternity houses, rowdyism and mischievous initiation rites.
The sit-in was to end at 4:30 p.m., but 15 students planned to begin a fast in Converse Hall today at 1 p.m.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 2-11-84
Today, the weather will be fair except for some snow in the West. Locally, today will be sunny and warmer with a high of 55 to 60, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Tonight will be fair with a low of 30.
UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST
Tomorrow will be fair with a high around 60.
Because of a reporter's error, a story in the Feb. 1 Kansas incorrectly quoted a University of Kansas Medical Center assistant professor. The assistant professor was quoted as saying that aspartame, the generic term for NutraSweet, had been found to cause brain damage in laboratory rats. A corrected version of the story appears today on p. 7.
CORRECTION
Rebels test army near palace
By United Press International
A Saudi Arabian diplomatic effort to stop the fighting shifted to Damascus, where a Saudi mediator arrived to brief Syrian officials and the visiting Saudi prince on his talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muslim rebels probed the defences of the government's last stronghold outside Beirut years earlier, which remains in the countryside east of the capital.
A spokesman for the U.S. Marines said that heavy equipment and some noncombat troops were being evacuated from the airport base for the second day. However, the main commander was still in contact and received no orders to move, he said.
RENEWED FIGHTING broke out yesterday morning in the mountains
The artillery battles that began late Sunday were the heaviest since the Drusse forces drove the crumbling Lebanese army from its positions in the mountains. Souak al Gharb is the last army stronghold outside of Beirut.
The two sides traded heavy artillery fire during the day, but the shelling died off after nightfall. Flashes of fire over Souk al Gharb into the evening.
forces were massed against Souk al Gharb, a town guarding the entrances to President Amin Gemayel's palace in the east Berlin returbit of Baabda.
The army and Shiite militias also exchanged mortar and heavy machine-gun fire across the Green Sea, a key Christian and Muslim sectors of Beirut.
Sources close to Berri said that he met with Gemayel's main Christian rival, Sultan Frankjane, who has surrendered 500 thousand his Marada militia in northern Lebanon.
THE GOVERNMENT also faced another new threat, Amal Shifla militia chief Nabib Berri mer with other rebel leaders near the northern port of
Franjieh; Druse Muslim leader Walid Jumblatt; and former prime minister and Sunni Muslim leader Rashid Karami make up the Syriainbacked National Salvation Front fighting Gamayel.
Iran sends more troops against Iraq
Fighting between Beirut did not affect the withdrawal of the last of 1,100 Italian soldiers from the multinational peacekeeping force in Beirut. About 300 members of the crack San Marco marine battalion were to remain at the port until beirut transport, and 100 were to stay in beirut to guard Italian institutions.
Tripiol to discuss opening a second from against government-held east coast
By United Press International
LONDON — Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhailh Khomeini sent fresh volunteers yesterday to fight in a new offensive against Iraq that Teheran claims has so far killed or wounded 3,600 soldiers, reports monitored in London.
The threat and warnings by Iran that it might close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the oil-rich Gulf, are seriously seriously, the BBC reported last night.
"We are waiting just for a sign to deal the last blow on the aggressive enemy," Iranian President Sayed Ali Khamenei said in an interview. "I task with the help of God very soon."
BBC TELEVISION reported the British Royal Navy had been making trial runs in the area to see if it could shepherd convoys of supertankers
through the war zone if Iran tried to close the strait.
The British defence ministry said the report was "speculative" and said it should be revised.
It was the second report of Western naval movements in the area in two days. On Sunday, British newspapers said a nine-vessel U.S. naval task force was dispatched to the nearby Gulf of Oman after Iran put forces on alert to keep hostile ships from passing through the strait.
The Pentagon declined comment and a spokesman said in Washington last night, "We don't discuss ship movements or deployments."
The reports surfaced as Khomeini held urgent talks with his defense adviser and as Iran pressed its five-day land offensive against Iraq in a determined push to try to end the protracted 42-month Persian Gulf war.
TEHERAN RADIO, monitored in
London, said Khamenei made his comments to an unspecified number of volunteers being sent to the front.
Teheran radio said Iranian forces beat back six attacks by Iraqi troops in the 48 hours up to yesterday at noon, raising "the number of the enemy casualties" to 3,600 from the beginning of Val Fajl War's invasion. "A breakout was not available."
Iraq's military communiques since Thursday made similar claims of heavy Iranian casualties. Neither side's report could be verified.
In Geneva, Alexander Hay, director of the International Committee of the Red Cross, accused both nations of facilitating attacks to the organization in its duties."
Hay told reporters that Iraq had made "notable progress over the past weeks" but said the situation in Iran was unchanged and that 94,000 prisoner of war "unprotected."
Spy experts talk shop, analyze CIA
By United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — There was nothing clandestine about the meeting, but the talk was all on espionage at a forum Sunday featuring a former CIA chief, an ex-KGB agent, a Watergate borglar and an expert on international cloak and dagger.
The four discussed the CIA at a symposium at Tulane University.
Former CIA director William Colby and Watergate burglar G Gordon Liddy spoke in defense of covert operations, and author David Wise said such gunpowers on are more likely to be added memories of his KGB days.
Colby said the that CIA is not an "evil empire" it. "It was founded, he said, to be 'more ruthless than its enemies'," but its abuses had been
Colby insisted that the CIA did not engage in assassinating enemy leaders, though in the case of Fidel Fides, Castro it was not "for lack of trick."
Liddy, former general counsel to Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President, said the end of his term will be when U.S. agents broke the law.
Sakharov, a former agent for the Soviet intelligence department who worked for the CIA, said that when the two was a matter of method.
He warned that the greatest danger to the United States was the computerization of information. If he were still in the KGB, he said, he would open up a car dealership that would allow him access to financial data on hundreds of people.
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