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University Daily Kansan, February 10, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Strike by longshoremen shuts down 2 Eastern ports
Nearly 6,500 longshoremen in four East Coast cities went on strike yesterday after rejecting local versions of a proposed three-year contract. Ports in two of those cities were shut down.
At issue in Baltimore, one of the two cities shut down, was a contract provision exempting members of the International Longshoremen's Association from working in the rain.
The strike also closed down the port of Boston. In Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del., the striking ILA members unloaded only perishable goods.
Shippers said a lengthy strike could have a disastrous effect on East Coast shipping.
The parts rejected Wednesday were local versions of a three-year master contract for East Coast longshoremen reached Jan. 26 that
Senate trims death-penalty debate
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 65-26 yesterday to cut short the emotional debate that has been blocking passage of legislation to create a federal death penalty for treason, murder and attempts to kill the president.
The final vote on the proposed death penalty will not occur until after Congress reconvenes following a 10-day recess, which begins today.
Death penalty supporters filled their speeches with details of ghastly murders they said deserved retribution.
Sen, Carl Levin, D Mich., responded by describing "abominations" he were said committed by criminals who were later found not guilty.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, said, "It is sad to see the Congress of the United States being urged to return to lynch-mob justice and the dark ages of law enforcement by reinstating the death penalty for federal crimes."
Nazi hunter takes quest to Paraguav
ASUNCION, Paraguay — Nazi-hunter Beate Klarfseld arrived in Paraguay yesterday to search for war criminal Joseph Mengle, the "Angel of Death" accused of conducting bizarre experiments on concentration-camp inmates.
Klarsfeld was arrested twice in Chile this week as she tried to convince the government to expel another Nazi fugitive, Walter Rauff, allegedly responsible for the deaths of 97.000 Jews during World War II.
"I have come to promote the ideas of the Jewish people and clear up this history of Nazi war criminals Latin America," Klarsfeld, the German wife of French Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, said on her arrival at the Presidente Stroessner airport.
Agency blacklists Cronkite, others
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Information Agency blacklisted 84 people, including former CBS newsaster Walter Crankite, consumer advocate Ralph Nader and Cornetta Scott King, who were suggested for the government's overseas speaking program, an official said yesterday.
USIA Deputy Director Leslie Lenkowsky, who joined the agency in September, said he was told the list was started in 1981 and contained names of a number of prominent liberals as well as others who apparently had displeased agency officials.
Lenkowsky said that he had destroyed the list when he learned of its existence, and that neither he nor USIA director Charles Wick had any
Others on the list included ABC News broadcaster David Brinkley,
tenninist Betty Friedan and economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
Plot on school in Grenada reported
WASHINGTON - The former Marxist government of Grenada made plans to monitor or sabotage communications at the medical school in St. Georges, captured documents released by the State Department showed yesterday.
The papers also give details of agreements with the Soviet Union, Cuba, Libya, Nicaragua and East Germany to deliver military, technical and economic assistance to the island nation, which was invaded by the United States and other Caribbean nations Oct. 25.
More than 1,900 U.S. Marines and Army Rangers stormed onto the island six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several other officials were shot and killed by militant Marxists who said Bishop's policies were too moderate.
high levels of EDB found in oranges
WASHINGTON — Toxic levels of ethylene dibromide, up to 70 times higher than the government standard for ready-to-eat grain products, have been found in the pulp of imported citrus fruit, a Food and Drug Administration spokesman said yesterday.
FDA spokesman Emil Corwin said the pulp of oranges shipped from Mexico to Texas had residues of the cancer-causing pesticide EDB as high as 2,173 parts per billion. The peel had EDB as high as 41,590 parts per billion, he said.
Italian oranges sold in New York showed 1,730 parts per billion in the pulp and 9,380 parts per billion in the peel, Corwin said.
Pigs run amok in Florida surburb
AOPPKA, Fla. — A group of pigs went hog wild in a well-to-do suburb yesterday, rooting through lawns and flower beds. Police used dogs to teach down several that were still on the loose.
Damage from the domesticated pigs' four-day outing totaled about $1,200. Police Chief Tom Collins said. An anonymous caller had reported that a dog was attacking the
Pig farmers with dogs trained to track errant hogs helped capture three pigs, but about six remained at large, police said.
"The dog started barking and my wife looked out of the bedroom window and there these two big hogs in the corner of our flower beds with people and dogs going after them," said Wally Ornberg, one of four homeowners in a subdivision of $80,000-$150,000 homes victimized by the wild pigs.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST 10 7 PM EST 2-10-84
Today will be fair across most of the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly sunny and warmer, with the high around 55 degrees.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with the low in the mid-30s.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of rain and a high around 50 degrees.
Astronauts, jetpacks soar through tests
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart soared and tumbled yesterday through orbital gymnastics that provided their $10 million jetpack spaceworthy for rescue and repair. President Reagan saluted them for opening "a new era for the world."
United Press International Astronaut Bruce McCandless hovers over Challenger's tail with Earth as a backdrop. Yesterday's space walk was a simulation of an approach to a multifunctioning satellite
After McCandless and Stewart wrapped up their tests in Challenger's open cargo bay on a second day of untested flight, NASA said their shuttles would be ready for an April mission to retrieve and fix a broken satellite.
A SPACE AGENCY spokesman said that NASA was somewhat disappointed that the shuttle's 50-foot mechanical arm went lame yesterday, forcing some of the planned rehearsals for the April flight to be canceled.
United Press International
But flight director John Cox said that was offset by the success of an unplanned "rescue scenario" in which McCandless retrieved a piece of equipment that had not been battened down and began drifting into space.
McCandless, Stewart, Vance Brand,
Robert "Hoot" Gibson, and Ronald
McNair turned in early last night to get
ready for their last full day in orbit.
They were to hold a news conference
from space before they started packing.
Forecasters said weather predictions were improving for Cape Canaveral, where Challenger is supposed to set the first landing site for the first stuttle landing in Florida.
MCCANDLESS AND Stewart took a
break from their second day of spacewalks to receive a telephone call from Reagan that was radioed up 168 miles above Earth.
"We believe . . . we're literally opening a new frontier for what man can do in space," said McCandless, who was floating with one of the jetpacks in the middle of the payload bay. "We'll be paving the way for many important operations on the coming space station."
Reagan responded. "You've really opened a new era for the world in space
with this mission."
the computers and driver is wrapped on the backpacks for the second time in the flight to rehearse some of the maneuvers that will be used on the mission to rescue and repair a broken satellite known as Solar Max.
UNLIKE THE FIRST backpack tuesdays Tuesday, McCandless and Stewart did not venture far from Challenger. They warmed up with a few cups of coffee and talked about their tasks to verify that astronauts will be able to dock with Solar Max.
The 50-foot arm was to have dangled a spinning instrument package to simulate the rotation of the Solar Max. McCandless with his jetpack was going to match the rotation and dock with the satellite stand-in, using a device mounted on the jetpack's arms to make the linkup.
Frank Logan, deputy project manager for the Solar Max repair mission, said the failure of the wrist joint in the shuttle's robot arm was not expected to affect plans for the April flight.
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