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University Daily Kansan, February 3, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI Official letter calls Walesa a corrupt publicity-seeker
WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government denounced former Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa yesterday as a corrupt and lazy publicity-seeker in a 19-page open letter published in newspapers nationwide.
in the sharpest and most detailed attack against Walesa since he rose to international prominence three years ago, he was accused of violating Polish law and becoming a millionaire at the expense of the workers he represented.
In the northern port of Gdansk, Walesa said the government was engaging in "senseless nolemics."
The letter, which was signed by Zdizsiwil Jurek, an aide to Jaruzelski, said that the former Solidarity official's meetings with underground leaders were "statements contrary to the interests of the state." It hinted that Walesa eventually might be prosecuted.
Guerrillas overrun U.S. oil complex
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Secessionist guerrillas overran the U.S. operation Chevron Oil Company complex at Bentiu in southern Sudan yesterday, killing three foreign workers and wounding at least seven others. Western diplomats said.
The dead were identified as a British oil worker, a Kenyan and a Filipino. One American was also slightly injured in the attack that took place just after a1 a.m. in Bentiu.
About 20 guerrillas crept into the lightly guarded drilling area, 500 miles southwest of the capital of Khoumart, and stowed houses from which they fled.
The predominantly Christian guerrillas are seeking independence for southern Sudan from the Muslim-dominated government.
Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiri contends that the guerrillas are armed by Libya.
New jobless claims lowest since '79
WASHINGTON — The government will not release the January unemployment rate until today, but the administration received good news yesterday when the weekly report of unemployment benefits showed that new claims dropped to 340,000 during the third week in January, the lowest total since June 1979.
Saturday, the lowest total for the week
The Labor Department said the seasonally adjusted total for the week
ended Jan. 21 was 65,000 less than the previous week, and the lowest
since June 2. 1979, when the total was 335,400.
Although the budget that President Reagan proposed to Congress this week predicts further declines in unemployment in 1984, it still predicts unemployment will stay above the 7.4 percent rate which existed when Reagan took office.
The budget projected average unemployment of 7.8 percent in 1984, with a 7.7 percent level in the final quarter.
Researchers develop fast herpes test
CHICAGO — A seldom-used test can positively confirm the presence of herpes simplex in two minutes, University of Michigan Medical Center.
The procedure — a Tzanck smear — can be done in a doctor's office. A positive Tzanck smear had a 94.1 percent correlation with positive cultures confirming the presence of herpes simplex in skin lesions, researcher Alvin R. Solomon and colleagues said.
"Our study suggests that a positive Tzanck preparation is a helpful, accurate, economical device for the early diagnosis of herpes simplex," they said in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
It slices, it dices, it goes bankrupt
CHICAGO — Ronco Teleproducts Inc., producer of such household gadgets as the Veg-O-Matic and the Pocket Fisherman, has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws, the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday.
Besides the Veg-O-Matic kitchen aid and the Pocket Fisherman, a mini fishing kit, Ronco also manufactures such gadgets as Mr. Microphone and a device that mixes eggs inside the shells. The products are heavily advertised in low-budget television commercials.
Study links bone disease to exercise
SAN FRANCISCO - Young women who exercise heavily and stop menstruating risk developing a crippling bone disorder, results of a study indicated yesterday.
Reporting in the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists from the University of California in San Francisco said the surprising results showed women athletes who stopped menstruating risk developing osteoporosis — bone mineral loss.
Osteoporosis can cause curvature of the spine and can be fatal if bones become susceptible to fracture. Osteoporosis kills about 20,000 Americans each year. It was previously associated with women past menopause.
Reporters will find no free lunch
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The New Hampshire Democratic Party is charging reporters $25 each to attend a news briefing tomorrow on delegate selection and the campaigns of the Democratic presidential candidates.
State Democratic Chairman George Bruno defended the fee Wednesday. "There's no such thing as a free lunch. If you want a free lunch, so visit the Republican Party," he said.
All eight Democratic presidential candidates have been invited to the Feb. 7 briefing, but were not asked to pay because they are considered panelists, narty officials said.
New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner, a Democrat, had been scheduled to speak at the session, but withdrew when he learned reporters would be charged.
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats, hoping to defuse charges they are playing politics with foreign affairs, yesterday moved to tone down a resolution calling for the prompt removal of U.S. Marines from Leba-
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan about the Kansas Integrated Personnel Payroll System incorrectly reported that the School of Journalism was missing two payroll checks. One check was missing from the payroll of the University Daily Kansan.
Democrats tone down on pullout
Rep. Steven Solarz, D-N.Y., said Democrats on the Foreign Affairs Committee planned to rewrite the resolution to take out "gratuitous" partisan criticism of the administration and make clear that U.S. air and naval forces should remain in the area to support the Beirut government.
By United Press International
CORRECTION
He said the "bottom line" would still
Solarz said the Democrats did not want the withdrawal resolution to be seen "as a particularly partisan endeavor," and did not intend that the United States abandon the government of Lebanese leader Amin Gemelav.
IT APPEARED THERE would be
surrounded during the few days
on the lampshade, the result
be a call for President Reagan to
marine the Marines "from
the end of Lechner."
Administration officials and Republicans on the panel have charged the Democrats with playing politics and warned that the withdrawal demand included Syria and other factions opposed to the Lebanese government.
Rep. William Broomfield, R-Mich, ranking Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said earlier he would offer an alternative when the resolution came to the floor.
"O'Nell aid Christopher Matthews said, "Aiding and abetting is legal language for being a traitor it wasn't an accident."
MEANWHILE, O'NEILL's chief spokesman accused the White House of branding Democrats as traitors. He noted that presidential spokesman Larry Speakes had declared that efforts to persuade the president to withdraw the Marines from Lebanon "aid and abet" Syria and "others bent on a destructive role in the Middle East."
Challenger, crew prepare for lift-off
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Ground crews last night started the final checklist for today's blastoff of the shuttle Challenger that will carry five astronauts on a flight to the Buckley Observatory and will be needed to build a space station.
The countdown rolled along flawlessly and forecasters predicted "super weather" for the scheduled launch time of 7 a.m. CST.
Technicians rolled back the shuttle's launchpad scaffolding and started final preparations for filling Challenger's external tank with a half-million gallons of supercoal liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
ASTRONAUTS VANCE BRAND,
Robert "Hog" Gibson, Robert Stewart,
Jeremy
Bruce McCandless and Ronald McNair had a medical checkup, dined on steak and potatoes and turned in early. They were to be awakened at 2:45 a.m. CST to get ready to board the shuttle for their eight-day mission.
Challenger will have six other passengers — white rats named Debra, Alfred, Alice, Ben, Kawasaki and Willard. Three have been injected with an arthritis-causing serum in an anticoagulant device that provides relief from severe arthritis.
The highlight of the 10th stuttle mission will be the unethered spacewalks that McCandless and Stewart will make with the $10 million jetpacks. La Gen James Abrahamson, the backpacker, yesterday the backpacks — called manned maneuvering units — will be used to capture and repair a crippled
sun-watching satellite in April, and are among the tools that will be needed to assemble a permanent space station
"We'RE LOOKING REAL good for tomorrow," said Gene Thomas, shuttle project engineer, who praised the ground crew for being able to stay on schedule despite earlier problems with the shuttle's auxiliary power units, which are crucial for launch and landing.
Two of the turbines caught fire during the landing of Columbia on the last shuttle mission.
In addition to the daring spacewalks, the Challenger astronauts are to launch communications satellites for Indonesia and Western Union and rehearse rendezvous maneuvers to be used on the next shuttle flight to repair the broken satellite called Solar Max.
Shells kill 9 wound 35 in Beirut
A French member of the multinational peacekeeping force was among the wounded in the fighting which sent shells crashing into the windows of the U.S. Ambassador's residence in suburban Burabba.
By United Press International
There were no reports of American casualties and U.S. Marines were not involved in the clashes, although U.S. military advisers were present. Ministry near suburban Baadab which it came under bombardment.
The clash, accompanied by army and Christian militia skirmishes with Shite Muslim militiamen in the slums of south Beirut, sent thousands of civilians in Christian and Muslim sectors into bomb shelters with thunderous booms echoing through the capital.
Druse Muslim rebels in the Shou mountains and the army began trading heavy artillery fire around 1 p.m., killing three Druse villagers and a man in Christian east Beirut, reports from both sides said.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Government troops and Muslim rebels engulfed southern Beirut in fierce artillery attacks on the city, killing nine people and wounding 35.
A broadcast by state television called the fighting "a wide-scale military escalation" and state radio warned citizens to stay indoors.
HALF PRICE FOR KU STUDENTS!
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Concert Series Presents
PULOBOLIS DANCE THEATRE
Thursday, February 16, 1984 8:00 p.m. Hoch Auditorium
Thursday, February 16, 1984 $ 18.00 m. Roche Addisonian
$ 75.00 & $ 12.00 $ 10.00 *D* & $ 5.00 *S* & $ 4.00 Senior Citizens
& Other Students $ $ 7.75
*KU students must show ID at time of purchase and at the door the night of performance
MOLLY'S NOT DEAD, 1978
MOLLY'S NOT DEAD, 1978 intermission
INTERMISSION SCRIBBLE. 1983
This performance is part of the 1984 University Arts Festival, partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee. Swarthout Society and the KU Endowment Association, this program is made possible by support from the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Arts Council through their participation in the Mid-America Arts Alliance. a regional arts organization.
STABAT MATER, 1983
intermission
DAY TWO, 1980
WSU-KU SPECIAL HOT SPOT SUNDAY
WATCHING THE GAME AT GAMMONS ON OUR FOUR BIG VIDEO SCREENS IS BETTER THAN BEING THERE! WE'VE GOT A MID-COURT SEAT WAITING FOR YOU AT THE HOT SPOT.
- FREE BEER AT GAME TIME FOR HALF HOUR OR UNTIL THE KEG RUNS DRY.
- WIN OR LOSE, HALF PRICE FOOD AFTER THE GAME UNTIL 5PM.
- WHEN THE JAYHAWKS WIN (AND WE KNOW THEY WILL) A FREE KEG WILL BE FLOWING UNTIL IT'S GONE—STARTING ½ HOUR AFTER THE GAME IS OVER.
SEE YOU THIS SUNDAY
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