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University Dalv Kansan. February 15. 1984
News briefs from UPI
NATION AND WORLD
Retail-sales figures reach highest level in 9 months
WASHINGTON — Retail sales, led by a bell-ringer increase in department-store spending, climbed a hefty 2.2 percent in January, the best performance in nine months, Commerce Department officials said yesterday.
Sales of all goods reached $104.4 billion after seasonal adjustment,
$2.3 billion more than consumers spent during December's Christmas rush. The January figures were the best since Mav.
Department-store sales alone were up 5.5 percent in January, a figure topped only by those recorded in the sorings of 1972 and 1976.
The improvement in auto sales, 1.2 percent, was substantial enough to lift total car sales to $2.1 billion, a new record for any month.
"Department stores really had a bell-ringer month," said Robert Ortner, the department's chief economist."
University students riot in Zambia
1. USAKA, Zambia — More than 2,000 students rampaged through Lake Kivu, stoneizing pedestrian and overturning ears to protest the killing of a woman.
Police said several passers-by were injured and seven vehicles were badly damaged in the riot, which capped several weeks of tension between students and staff at the University of Zambia.
One young child riding in a car was seriously hurt by thrown rocks and underwent emergency surgery at the University Teaching Hospital,
Student sources said students were incensed by the arrests of several union leaders at dawn, but police said the students were demonstrating against a new meal-card system on campus, which prevented visitors from eating in the university restaurant.
Cranston. Hart plot Iowa strategies
DES MOINES, Iowa — With Walter Mondale heavily favored to win the Iowa caucuses and Sen. John Glenn of Ohio expected to be second, Alan Cranston and Gary Hart may have the most to gain — or lose — when 100.00 Iowa Democrats vote in 2,491 precinct caucuses Monday.
The senators from California and Colorado approached the closing days of the Iowa campaign with opposite strategies that they hope will work.
Cranston's battle strategy for finishing third in the caucuses was to let his organization do the job, while Hart, his chief rival for the spot, prepared to return for a five-day blitz.
Cranston, he will spend $848,000 in the state, will leave the state tomorrow. Hart will return Thursday for a final stretch drive.
Cigarette makers fight smoking ban
WASHINGTON — The tobacco industry urged the Civil Aeronautics Board yesterday to reject a plan to ban smoking on most domestic flights, arguing that current rules provide adequate protection for all passengers.
but an anti-smoking organization said that people had no legal right to light up up airplanes because smoking was a fire hazard and could cause death.
Richard Kingham, counsel to the Tobacco Institute, told the board that present rules requiring airlines to provide no-smoking sections were fair and reasonable and accommodate the interests of both smokers and nonsmokers.
Stiffer rules now before the board, Kingham said, would effectively "ban smoking on most commercial flights in the United States."
Reagan library will be at Stanford
STANFORD, Calif. — The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library will be located on the campus of Stanford University, Stanford officials announced Tuesday.
The officials said they had completed an agreement with the White House under which the library would be located at Stanford, whether or not a controversial public affairs center was located there.
Stanford's administration and faculty contend that the public affairs center must be under academic control.
But presidential adviser Edwin Meese had insisted the center and the library were so linked that one was not acceptable without the other.
Reagan's gubernatorial and presidential transition documents are already at Stanford's Hoover Institution. It is estimated that the privately financed library will cost about $45 million.
Elton John struck by Cupid's arrow
SYDNEY, Australia — British pop singer Elton John married his girlfriend yesterday in a St. Valentine's Day ceremony as hundreds of screaming fans stood in the rain outside the church.
The bride, Renate Blauel, 28, wore John's wedding gift to her — a heart-shaped pendant of 63 diamonds.
The wedding march was drowned out by John's hit song "I Want To Kiss the Bride."
Riot police manned wooden barriers surrounding the church to control the fans. Many had waited for more than four hours outside the church, St. Mark's Anglican of Darling Point, a Sydnev suburb.
John declared several years ago that he was bisexual. But Miss Bluel, in an interview published Sunday in the Sydney Telegraph, said, "I've heard all sorts of stories about Elton and that he's supposed to be bisexual but that doesn't worry me."
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST. 2-15-84
Cooler weather will pass through the nation's midsection today.
Cooler weather will pass through the radar on Monday.
In Lawrence, today will be cloudy and not as warm with a 40 percent chance of showers and possibly thunderstorms. The high will be in the mid-50s. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. The low will be in the low 30s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and cooler. The high will be in the low 40s.
CORRECTION
Because of a reporter's error, yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported that Russ Ptacek was chairman of the Student Senate's Minority Affairs Committee. Ptacek is co-chairman.
Reagan is urged to talk with Arafat
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged President Reagan yesterday to negotiate with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat on Middle East peace issues. But senior officials conceded that the "no breakthrough" between the United States, Egypt and Jordan.
Reagan met with Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein at the White House yesterday. But the administration quickly rejected any change in its policies over the past two direct dealings with the PLO until it recognized Israel's right to exist.
However, Reagan said yesterday in an interview with Knight-Ridder Newspapers that the United States had not abandoned Lebanon. He insisted that the United States was 'not bugging' the Iranian nation and Macipes from Heirat to ships offshore.
United Press International
Mubarak and Hussein met later in Mubarak's hotel suite, where Mubarak said that U.S. willingness to talk to the PLO was essential to Hussein's efforts to mediate peace in the region.
The White House also disclosed that as the Marine presence in Beirut was reduced, additional Army personnel were deployed for the training of the Lebanese armed forces.
In the interview, Reagan said some of these additional advisers would be trained in specialties such as counter-terrorism. Officials said the expanded contingent would be larger than those of the military but would be significantly smaller than the 1,500-member U.S. element of the multinational peacekeeping force.
WASHINGTON—King Hussein of Jordan, left, and President Hosni Mubarek of Egypt, right, walk with President Reagan from the Oval Office to the White House residence for lunch. Mubarek yesterday urged Reagan to negotiate with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat on Middle East peace issues.
"I am asking to help the peace process, to help the Palestinians to make good coordination with his majesty in Jordan so as we push the Israelis forward, as much as we could. That's the main conception," Mubarak said.
Hussein declined comment.
Mubarak said, "I think we have the same feeling. No worry."
Asked whether he thought the United States would soften its stand and become willing to join in some kind of talks with the Palestinians, the Egev-
tian president replied sharply, "Ask them, ask them."
Then, he said, "They oppose that, of course."
Reagan met with the two moderate Arab leaders to discuss the situation in Lebanon and the prospects for Middle East peace.
Calling Arafat "a responsible leader who has demonstrated tremendous courage under the most difficult circumstances," Mubarak said Reagan must deal with the Palestinians if he overcomes a primary obstacle to peace.
Reagan insists that negotiations with the PLO can be handled through Hussein, who failed to win a mandate from the PLO last year. Hussein is scheduled to renew his talks with Arafat soon.
A senior U.S. official says Mubarak is convinced Arafat "has opted for a political solution and can deliver a message" if brought into the peace process.
But Mubarak says the United States must be willing to join talks with the Palestinians if Hussein is to be an effective mediator.
The call for direct talks with the PLO came as Reagan concluded two days of intensive discussions on how to resuscitate peace, which has been at a standstill in the region since the June 1982 Israel invasion of Lebanon.
"It's the only way we have to support this . . . to make this coordination with his majesty so the peace process can find its way and its proper channel." Mubarak said at his hotel after the White House session.
Reagan praised Mubarak and Hussein as peacemakers, but offered no