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University Daily Kansan, February 16, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from UPI
Iranian air raid kills three wounds 18 near Baghdad
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iranian warplanes hit targets on the outskirts of Baghdad and in a nearby city yesterday in retaliatory strikes that left three civilians dead and 18 others wounded.
The official Iranian IRNA news service said the air raids were followed by a bombing attack by four of its fighter bombers on "Iraqi military positions" near its disputed border with Iraq, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad.
IRNA said the fighter bombers inflicted heavy damage.
A short Iraqi military statement said three people died and 18 were injured in strikes by two Iranian jet fighters on the western outskirts of Baghdad and the city of Bagabuh, 32 miles to the northeast.
The Iraqi statement did not mention the bombing raid on its border positions reported by Iran in the latest round of fighting in the
Nurse convicted of child's murder
GEORGETOWN, Texas — Nurse Genene Jones was convicted yesterday of murder in the drug injection of a 15-month-old girl.
The jury of seven woman and five men deliberated 4½ hours before finding the 33-year-old mother of two guilty of killing Chelsea McChellen with an injection of the powerful muscle relaxant, succinylcholine.
Jones clenched her teeth and cried when the verdict was read.
Jones einfachen Teil des Testimoniums war built. Jones was testified in the trials, faces a sentence of up to life in prison. Sentencing was set for 10 a.m. CST today.
Prosecutors contended that Chelsea's death and injuries to six other Kerrville, Texas, children were part of a scheme by Jones to show a need for a pediatric intensive care unit at the Hill Country town's small hospital.
Singer Ethel Merman dies at age 75
NEW YORK - Ethel Merman, the brassy first lady of the musical stage who made the song "There's No Business Like Show Business" part of America's heritage, died yesterday, 10 months after undergoing brain surgery. She was 75.
months after undergoing brain surgery. She was 75's. Merman died of natural causes at 5:30 a.m. in her apartment, and she was later in Manhattan. Medical Examiner Elliot Gross said Her son Robert Levitt was at her side.
Mermian rocketed to fame in 1930 with the song "I Got Rythm" and starred in a string of musicals
Until last April, when she underwent brain surgery at Riverside Hospital in New York, she
Merman
worked at the hospitalas a volunteer, cheering patients and logging 880 hours in 10 years despite her hectic schedule.
Candidates vie for women's votes
WASHINGTON — President Reagan and Democratic rival Walter Mondale used the birthday of suffragist Susan B. Anthony yesterday as a common rallying point to vie for support from women, whose votes could prove decisive in the presidential election in November.
Women's groups and the two major parties seized on the 164th birthday of the famed political crusader to focus attention on efforts to register millions of additional women to vote this year and to elect more women to office.
Red Brigade murders U.S. diplomat
ROME — Red Brigade terrorists yesterday killed the American director-general of the Sinai multinational peacekeeping force as he returned home from work. police said.
The killing of the diplomat Leamon R. Hunt, was only the second attack in Italy on a high-ranking U.S. official. The attack came two years after the kidnapping of Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier.
Police said two gunmen riddled Hunt's chauffeur-driven armored limousine with bullets as it stopped outside the small villa where he lived with his wife. The villa is a few blocks from his office, on Rome's southern outskirts.
Hunt was killed by a bullet fired through the rubber between the window and the body of his car, police said.
The military wing of the Red Brigade said it was responsible for the attack less than a half hour after it occurred.
'Monkey trial' expelled from school
OAKVILLE, Mo. — The administration at Oakville Junior High School has forbidden a teacher from showing the 1961 film "Inherit the Wind," a fictionalized version of a court battle over creationism and evolution.
James Dickerson, the teacher, said the incident started in November 1982 when he said he would show the film to science classes to supplement class material on the subject. When Superintendent Duggan directed the film, he went to the community teachers association, which has filed for arbitration.
The movie is a fictionalized account of the 1925 incident in which John T. Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution.
FCC order raises long-distance rates
WASHINGTON — The government issued final changes in its telephone access charge order yesterday, revealing a new pricing formula that will raise rates up to 50 percent for long-distance companies such as MCI and Sprint.
The order, by the Federal Communications Commission, formalized a number of earlier revisions to the access charges.
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Soviet leader criticizes U.S. policy
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MOSCOW — The Soviet Union's new leader, Konstantin Chernenko, attacked U.S. policy in Central America and the "aggressive intrigues of U.S. imperialism" in meetings yesterday with the leaders of Cuba and Nicaragua.
The official Tass news agency, reporting on Chernenko's meeting with Nicaragua junta leader Daniel Ortega, said "both sides strongly denounced Washington's intention to whip up tension, to interfere in the internal affairs of countries in that region and to impose its writ on them."
Senate Republican leader Howard Baker yesterday urged President Reagan to hold a summit meeting this year with Konstantin Chernenkov, saying the new Soviet leader showed no
"innate hostility" toward the United States.
BAKER HELD A news conference on his return from Moscow where he and Vice President George Bush attended the funeral of Yuri Andropov. After the funeral, the two met for 30 minutes with President Obama to exchange a letter from President Reagan.
The contents were not disclosed, but Reagan has said the note "makes ... plain that the time has come, or has long since passed, for talking about a number of contentious issues between us."
In his meeting with Ortega, whose leftist regime is under attack from U.S.-backed rebels, Chernenko reiterated Moscow's support for the "Nicaraguan people, defending the freedom and independence of their homeland," Tasa said.
Yuri Andropov Monday as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, then met with Cuban President Fidel Castro and reiterated Kremlin hopes for Havana's opposition to "the aggressive intrigues of U.S. imperialism."
CHERENNOKO'S ATTACK on the United States came less than 24 hours after he met with Vice President George Bush, who said the new Kremlin leader agreed that "construc- tion is necessary" to瓦立 the decline in U.S.-Soviet relations.
"We felt the spirit of the meeting was excellent," Bush said Tuesday after the first session between a top U.S. official and a Soviet leader since Bush met Andropow at Leonid Brezhnev's funeral 15 months ago
Cherpenko, who succeeded the late
Andropoy, who died last Thursday at the age of 69 after a prolonged illness.
Bush was in Moscow at the head of the U.S. delegation to the funeral of
Baker said the Soviet leader's remarks during their meeting were noticeably different in tone and content when he was speaking to the Soviet people on assuming office.
HE REFUSED TO describe the differences or to "guess which was the real" Cherenko.
He said he would urge Reagan to hold a summit meeting this year with Cherenko, saying the two probably would "get along very well." He said no definite plans for such a meeting were made during the visit.
Baker said, however, "Right now things look better than I had expected them to look when I left Miami for Moscow. I don't think he (Chernenko) has an innate hostility toward the United States."
Reagan delays action on anti-leak orders
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has suspended anti-leak orders that would have subjected government employees who see classified information to lie detector tests and lifetime censorship, a White House spokesman said yesterday.
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The unpopular secrecy provisions, designed to stop leaks of classified information, are part of a national security directive issued by the Agenda March 11 but appealed by Congress from taking effect until this April 15.
An aide said that Mathias hoped the administration would "lay (the entire proposal) to rest, give it a decent burial."
"THE PRESIDENT is convinced
Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., who sponsored legislation blocking the pre-publication provisions, had scheduled hearings Feb. 23 before a Judiciary subcommittee on Rangan's role in the hearing it not made whether the hearing will take place.
that there are insufficient safeguards and national security is jeopardized." Speaks said about Reagan's reasons for ordering the tight controls.
"While the conversations are taking place," Speakes said, "the president has agreed not to implement" the portions of the order that would have subjected 128,000 government workers to the risks of a life-long requirement that they submit any writings or speech for prepublication review.
"The president has not withdrawn or canceled the order," deputy press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters. "However, we're working with Congress to develop a bipartisan solution."
The aide said a study done for a Senate panel indicated that in five
years at the Pentagon, State and Justice departments, only one case was found “where it could even be suggestive of any breach of security had been made.
Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas, chairman of the House Government Operations Committee, has introduced a bill to restrict use of the graphite tests and prohibit pre-publication review of works by ex-government employees.
DESPITE REAGAN's action, Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., chairman of a House Post Office and Civil Service board, is among those with hearings Feb. 29 on Brooks bill.