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University Daily Kansan; February 9, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Salvadoran leftists kill 23 in fighting north of capital
SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador — Leftist guerrilla killed 23 soldiers and six militiamen who had surrendered yesterday northwest of San Salvador, where rebels carried out a series of attacks, a Salvadoran army spokesman said yesterday.
Heavy fighting was reported around the village of Atiocuyo, in La Libertad province about 25 miles northwest of the capital, military officers in the area said.
1) another development, Salvadoran rebels told Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme that the number of U.S. military advisers in El Salvador, including those transferred from Honduras maneuvers, had risen "dramatically."
Pierre Schori, Swedish assistant foreign minister, said Palme met with two Salvadoran rebel leaders Tuesday during a visit to Mexico City.
Teamsters officers ousted by judge
NEWARK, N.J. - A federal judge yesterday removed all officers of the nation's second largest Teamsters union local, who he said "engaged in a multifaceted orgy" of crime for a quarter of a century.
U. S. District Judge Harold Ackerman's landmark ruling was a victory for the Justice Department, which sought to wrest control of the 10,000 member local away from a group headed by imprisoned New Jersey teamster boss Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano and his
The government said the Provenzano group used the local as a racketeering vehicle to extort bribes and payoffs.
Ackerman ousted the seven-member executive board and agreed to install a court appointed trustee until "free supervised elections can be held" in 18 months.
Iacocca blasts GM-Toyota venture
WASHINGTON — Lee Iacocca, chairman of Chrysler Corp., told Congress yesterday that the General Motors Toyota plan to build small cars in the United States would be "bad for America."
Rejecting arguments by GM, Japan's Toyota Motor Co. and a divided Federal Trade Commission, Iacocca said that the joint venture would violate antitrust laws, create a monopoly, push 300,000 U.S. autoworkers out of jobs and escalate prices.
"This deal is bad for America, bad for the American people and bad for the American auto industry and its employees." Iacoco told a packed room at a hearing before the House Commerce and Transportation subcommittee.
line r TC, in a 3-2 vote Dec. 23, gave tentative approval to plans by GM and Toyota to build a GM designed subcompact with a Toyota-designed engine at GM's plant in Fremont, Calif.
Pro-life group boycotts United Way
WASHINGTON An anti-abortion group called on abortion opponents yesterday to boycott local United Way campaigns. It charged that the charity had been corrupted by "anti life influences."
A statement from the group American Life Lobby, said: "It has become evident that the United Way itself — the whole structure — has been corrupted by anti life and anti family influences and is no longer deserving of our support."
In the past, the anti abortion movement has directed its criticism of United Way campaigns at the Planned Parenthood Federation, which supports the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion and provides abortion services in many of its clinics.
American Life Lobby is now urging its members to target United Way assisted groups other than Planned Parenthood.
Panel warns about ultrasound tests
WASHINGTON - A government panel recommended yesterday that pregnant women should avoid undergoing routine ultrasound testing for such non medical purposes as determining their baby's sex.
The panel suggested that only people with specific medical problems should bake the tests because of safety questions about the procedure.
sound have the tests because of safety questions about it. It said that in 20 years of use there had been no reports of damage to a human fetus from ultrasound. But studies of animals and tissue cultures exposed to high levels of ultrasound raised enough safety questions for the specialists to recommend that the testing not become a regular part of prenatal care.
Mount Everest eruption expected
VANCOUVER. Wash. — Earthquakes rumbling under Mount St. Helens tapered off yesterday, but scientists still predicted an imminent volcanic display of spewing ash, tumbling rocks and oozing lava.
A giant dome of hardened lava inside the crater was still swelling and cracking from magma within the earth, they said.
"we still expect further activity at Mount St. Helens over the next few days, including rock avalanche, slow lava extrusions and possible small explosions," a University of Washington spokesman said. The university geologists measure earthquake activity at the Southern Washington volcano.
Report criticizes U.S. high schools
The report was written by Theodore R. Sizer, former headmaster of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and ex dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
NEW YORK — The nation's high schools need to be overhaul, admitting only students who have mastered basic skills and who want to be educated, a scathing new report said yesterday.
Compulsory attendance and state laws requiring students attend school until a certain age - 16 or 17 - have been blamed by many analysts for the disruption in the nation's high schools. Eliminating the unwilling students, Sizer said, would straighten out the high schools.
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Astronauts ready for 2nd walk
Because of a reporter's error, Sally Sedelow's name was misspelled in yesterday's Kansan. Sedelow is an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
CORRECTION
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Challenger's astronauts were set yesterday for the second spacewalk of their flight, this one an attempt to use the jet-propelled backpacks in a final rehearsal for a satellite rescue mission
While the spacemen prepared for the maneuvers today to link up with a twirling instrument pallet that will simulate the malfunctioning Solar Max satellite, forecasters worried about the delays scheduled Saturday landing in Florida.
Just before bedtime yesterday, astronauts Vance Brand, Robert "Hoot" Gibson, Ronald McNair, Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart reported a crash while testing the bulky control rockets in Challenger's tail assembly and a backed-up toilet.
MISSION CONTROL told Brand that
technicians would monitor the rockets, to fine tune Challenger's position in orbit, and no major problems were expected. The space agency said the rocket problem did not threaten the planned spacewalks.
McCandless and Stewart will practice docking with a spinning instrument package dangled from the shuttle's 50-foot mechanical arm in a simulation of the free-flight maneuvers that will be mounted on the Solar Max mission in April.
"With the latter problem, we all flipped coins and Hoot lost." Brard said. He said Gibson used a pry bar to clear the toilet.
ON THAT MISSION astronaut George Nelson will fly from the shuttle about 100 yards to dock with the malfunctioning Solar Max satellite. After he stabilizes the satellite, the shuffle will飞 over and the robot arm will be used to bring the satellite into the cargo bay for repairs.
NASA officials said that they were still preparing for a landing at Cape Canaveral Saturday. But forecasters were watching a storm front over that, what was expected to make Saturday morning cloudy with a chance of showers.
If the Solar Max could not be repaired it would cost $250 million to repair.
They said the predictions for Sunday looked good. The space agency said before the flight that Challenger would stay up an extra day if necessary to get a chance at the Cape landing to next flight scheduled to start April 4.
A landing at Edwards Air Force
Cailf, could force delay in that
schedule.
Meanwhile, at the Space Center in Houston, the 3M Co. announced a research deal with NASA yesterday someday soon lead to a space factory
Arab ambassador dies in shooting
By United Press International
PARIS — A gunman shot two bullets into the head of the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates yesterday as he left his home on the Left Bank. It was the second fatal attack in 24 hours on the Middle Eastern connections, police said.
Ambassador Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz at Mubarak died from his hospital.
The Arab Revolutionary Brigades said it was responsible for the killing in Syria by a U.S. drone.
An anonymous Arabic-speaking caller, who said he was speaking from Bucharest, Romania, said Mubarak had been "condemned to death"
because the United Arab Emirates "had expelled Palestinian and Arab residents and was linked with American imperialism."
THE BRIGADES FIRST surfaced in April 1982 when they said they were responsible for the killing of Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Paris. Later that year they said they were responsible for a bomb attack against a Russian base at UAE Air base Gulf Air, which left 111 dead when it crashed near Abu Dhabi.
Police described the attack as "almost identical" to the fatal shooting Tuesday of the former military governor of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, his eldest and his brother, Gholam Hossen.
Responsibility for the attack was acknowledged in anonymous calls to United Press International in London and the fundamentalist Islamic jihad group.
Mubarak was shot twice through the temple as he left his ground-floor residence, in a neighborhood near the Eiffel Tower.
THE FRANCO-ARAB Association said the attack was "targeted against a group of 18 members."
and realistic attitude of the Arab Gulf states."
The same group said it was responsible for the Oct. 23 truck bombings in Beirut that killed nearly 300 French and American peace-keeping troops.
Relations with Iran have soured following Parts' refusal to extradite Iranian oil to the U.S.
FBI prepares for terrorists this summer
Since 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, "elaborate security measures for (Olympic) events have become obligatory," Webster said.
By United Press International
"They are major events that provide major opportunities for groups trying to be upon the world's stage." Webster said.
Webster told a House Judiciary subcommittee that the FBI, as "the lead federal agency in combating terrorism," also is busy planning coverage of this summer's national political conventions in Dallas and San Francisco, and a world's fair in New Orleans.
The FBI has been planning security for the summer games for five years, he said, and at least 700 FBI agents will be on hand, including a special 50-member hostage rescue team.
WASHINGTON - The summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles is only one of four special events in the United States this year that could attract terrorists, FBI Director William Webster said yesterday.
The layout for the California Olympics posed special security problems, he said. Events will be struggle over 135 miles up the coast from San Diego to Santa Barbara, and up to 15,000 athletes and officials will be staying at three separate villages.
"Every reasonable precaution" is being taken, he said.
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