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University Daily Kansan, February 8, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Shultz travels to Grenada for its Independence Day
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Secretary of State George Shultz landed on Grenada's Cuban-built runway yesterday to help celebrate the country's 10th Independence Day and the revival of democracy in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion.
Nicholas Brathwaite, chairman of the interim advisory council that is running Grenada, greeted Shultz at the Carribean island's airport, where the secretary of state also met unexpectedly with five American medical students.
During his brief visit, Shultz also was to open the new U.S. Embassy and meet with Grenada's governor-general, Sir Paul Scoon. Shultz was to attend celebrations marking the island's 10th anniversary of independence from Britain.
Shultz was expected to discuss Grenada's precarious economy, which has been helped by a U.S. pledge of $17.2 million in aid, of which $9.5 million has already been spent on repairs of roads and utilities.
Reagan says school reform working
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — President Reagan said yesterday that his back-to-basics policies have stemmed the decline of public schools, and he belittled Democrats for saying progress depended on increased federal spending.
In speeches to a convention of school principals and at a GOP luncheon, Reagan said that Republicans "are the ones with courage enough to call for basic reform."
The president stopped in Las Vegas on the way to his ranch, where he planned to stay through the weekend.
"We've traveled far in improving our schools, but I don't believe there is one principal in this room who wouldn't agree our journey has just begun," he told the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
Man beaten by Klan in '61 wins suit
KAL-AMAZOO, Mich. — A federal judge yesterday awarded $50,000 to the nine Freedom leaders beaten in an Alabama bus station by members of the police force.
The judge determined that the federal government failed to prevent the Klan attack at the Anniston, Ala., terminal in 1961.
Walter Bergman, 84, sued the FBI for $2 million, claiming that the beating led to complications during a routine appendectomy four months later which left him confined to a wheelchair
Bergman asked for $1 million for himself and $1 million for the estate of his wife. Frances.
But both Bergman and his attorney said they were satisfied with the award.
Iranian exiles shot to death in Paris
PARIS - Two Iranian exiles, one a former military governor known as the "Butcher of Teheran," were shot to death yesterday by a gunman, and the Islamic extremist group blamed for the Beirut suicide bombings claimed responsibility.
Gen. Gholam Ali Ovessi, the 66-year-old former military governor of Teheran, and his brother, Gholam Hossein, were shot through the head minutes after they left the general's house in Paris's fashionable 16th District.
Both died immediately, police said. The general's driver, who accompanied the pair as they walked, was not hurt.
Police sources said the two apparently were followed on foot by a gunman who escaped with an accomplice in a car waiting nearby.
Hunger strikes continue in Poland
WARSAW, Poland — Inmates of a prison near Wroclaw ended a two-month hunger strike, but political prisoners at two other jails continued similar protests, the government said yesterday.
The communist regime's chief spokesman also confirmed reports by solidarity underground sources that one of the Wrocław hunger strikers was killed in a prison attack.
The 35-year-old prisoner took part in a hunger-strike protest that began last Dec. 1 at the Strzelin penitentiary outside Wroclaw. He is identified as Janusz Palubicki, an art historian from Poznan arrested by martial-law authorities last year and convicted of organizing and leading an underground group.
Jackson wants primary reinstated
NEW ORLEANS — Supporters of the Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson said yesterday they thought he had an "excellent" chance of forcing Louisiana to hold a presidential primary this spring.
The state canceled its April 7 primary because of budgetary trouble, but Jackson supporters asked the Justice Department to prevent officials from suspending the election.
Under the Federal Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department must approve any change in a state's electoral procedures, said William Quigley, a New Orleans lawyer who drafted the complaint filed Monday in Washington.
Gardener is found guilty of murder
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A 23-year-old lawn caretaker was convicted of the first-degree murder of a woman yesterday, despite his claim that he was under the influence of pesticides at the time.
"Now we've got you, you sucker," screamed a man across the courtroom after the jury of six men and six women returned the verdict against David Garabedian of Chelmsford.
The man said he was a member of the family of Eileen Muldon, 34, who was killed March 23 after an argument over whether Garabedian
Robert Mardiosian, Garabedian's defense attorney, said that Garabedian was so intoxicated by the chemical fumes at the time of the murder that he was unable to know right from wrong.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST 10 7 PM EST. 2-8-84
Today will be generally fair with some rain on the Pacific Coast and the west Gulf Coast.
Locally, today will be mostly cloudy with a high in the upper 40s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain or snow. The low will be in the mid-30s.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and a high in the low to mid-40s.
Real-life Buck Rogers frolic in jetpacks
By United Press International
SPACE CENTER, Houston — Two elated astronauts donned "Buck Rogers" jetpacks, cast off their lifelines and zoomed from the shuttle Challenger like science fiction heroes yesterday, soaring 175 miles above Earth on the first free flights in space.
"It looks like we sure have a nice flying machine here," astronaut Bruce McCandless said as he flew the $10 helicopter from Challenger without a lifeline.
The breathtaking show provided part of the U.S. space program's possible vision.
"NOW YOU HAVE a tool that enables the structural act of building space stations," said Bill Bollendork of Martin Marietta Aerospace, builder of the devices that NASA calls Manned Maneuvering Units, which most people are getting to know as the "Buck Rogers" jetpacks.
During the spacewalks that covered three sunrises and sunsets across four continents, McCandless and Robert Stewart shifted hand controls like video game joysticks to fire lots of nitrogen into the air, while in their gleaming white pressure suits.
"That may have been one small step for Neil but it's a heck of a big leap for it. He said McCandless, referring to Amanda, that he stepped on the moon in 1969.
"When you consider both crewmen flew it without any unknowns and no problems, that's an outstanding achievement . . . We're certainly thrilled at the performance of the system." he said.
NO SPACEWALKER — American or Russian — had ever flown before
without a lifeline, and McCandless and Stewart were aided by the vivid scenes passing far beneath their boots.
Americans watched live coverage of the historic spacewalks via the four manned lifts.
"It it was better than we ever hoped for," Cox said.
NASA flight director John Cox said the backpacks exceeded expectations.
Taking turns using one of two jetpacks stowed aboard the Challenger, McCandless and Stewart at times stood out starkly against the darkness of space in their white pressurized spacesuits.
OT AT OTHER TIMES, the astronauts—with white lights flashing like airplane beacons from the top and bottom of the planet—coupled against the blush-white Earth.
Flying alongside Challenger as it circled the Earth at 17,000 kmh, commander Vance Brand told McCandless, "You may get the name of the world's fastest human being going along there at 4 miles per second."
"You going to want the windows washed or anything while I'm out."
Before he took off his jetpack,
McCardleann offered to do some down-
side work.
THE SUCCESS OF the backpacks also was an important checkpoint for an April flight to rescue and repair the broken Solar Max satellite. Jetpacks also may be used someday by space hardtails to build a permanent orbiting space station proposed by President Reagan.
the astronauts will try out the jetpacks again tomorrow. They are scheduled to finish their eight-day mission with an unprecedented landing at Cape Converaal Saturday.
SPACE CENTER, Houston — Astronaut Bruce McCandless flies free of the Space Shuttle Challenger during the first flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit jetpack. McCandless and Astronaut Robert Stuart tested the jetpack yesterday for use later in the year in repairing a satellite.
New Soviet missile buildup worries Japanese
By United Press International
TOKYO — Moscow is rapidly completing installation of new SS-20 missiles in the far eastern Soviet Union, increasing the number of medium-range nuclear weapons aimed at Asia and administering Minister Shintaro Abe said yesterday.
The Soviet SS-20 buildup, long anticipated by U.S. intelligence sources, was revealed by Abe at a talk in Washington, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
day after he blamed the "recent buildup of the Soviet military in the Far East" for growing tension between the two countries.
Abe's report to the Cabinet came a
IN WASHINGTON, Paul D. Wolfowitz, assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Congressional committee Monday that two new Soviet missile sites were already operational.
The Foreign Ministry official said Abe did not say when the additional intermediate-range missiles would be distributed.
the Asian theater to 144, the spokesman said.
According to the Pentagon, the Soviets have at least another 243 SS 20s aimed at Western Europe from the western Soviet Union.
Abe told the Cabinet session the Soviets would soon finish a third launch site in the eastern half of the Soviet Union, bringing the number of the mobile, multiple-warhead missiles in
A U.S. Defense Department report released last December said that the Soviets were building three SS-20 launching sites in Siberia. Each launching site reportedly contains nine triple-warhead SS-20 missiles.
INTELLIGENCE REPORTS until then had indicated that the Soviets distributed 117 SS-20s in the Far East.
Abe, in a foreign policy address Monday, also deplored the continued Soviet occupation of four islands off of the coast of the northern island of Hokkaido.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasome told a government-sponsored gathering of nearly 2,000 people in Tokyo the government would continue to negotiate the territorial dispute, which has prevented the signing of a peace treaty to formally end the war status between the two countries.
INTERESTED PRE-MED STUDENTS:
Representatives from the University of Kansas School of Medicine will be coming to K.U. to visit with students on an individual basis on the following dates:
Mon., Feb. 27th
Mon., Feb. 27th
Mon., March 5th
Mon., March 19th
Mon., March 26th
Mon., April 2nd
Mon., April 9th
Mon., April 9th
Appointments, which are for 20 minutes, are to be made through the Pre-Med Secretary, 106C Strong, during office hours posted.
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