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University Daily Kansan, February 2, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Brazilian authorities study charge of herbicide deaths
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Investigators fought tropical rainstorms in the Amazon jungle yesterday as they sought evidence that the spraying of an illegal herbicide smiliar to Agent Orange killed at least 17 people.
The controversy over environmental damage in the Amazon that has killed wildlife through large stretches of virgin mangrove swamp has led to renewed debate.
Brazil's environment chief, Paulo Nogueira, said he would fly to the mouth of the Amazon river next week to investigate reports that the herbicide, Tordon 155, was used in clearing a 140-mile path for power lines.
Last week, health officials in the state of Para began a detailed check on 17 deaths alleged to have been caused by the herbicide, and the Interior Ministry said it would sue the company that had handled the job.
Doctor saves 'heart' will be common
BOSTON — Artificial hearts similar to Barney Clark's may become common in 15 or 20 years but not without great debate, an artificial heart is being tested.
Pierre Galletti, dean of the Brown University Medical School, made his prediction on the basis of a medical report on Clark's operation in the latest New England Journal of Medicine.
The report, written by William C. DeVries, head of Clark's transplant team, said that the results "should encourage further research in artificial-heart transplantation."
Galletti said experience with mechanical devices used to replace human organs indicated that artificial hearts would not be used widely
Proposed taping ban bugs senator
A proposed amendment that would forbid federal employees to tape conversations without permission has hindered a sweep of the aweeping
"I don't know if the purpose is to embarrass the president or what the purpose is," said Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Strom Thurmond, R.S.C., suggested yesterday that a proposal to ban secret taping by government officials was offered by Democrats to embarrass President Reagan.
The amendment was prompted by the revelation that U.S. Information Agency chief Charles Wick taped telephone calls without informing those on the other end of the line.
Iraq says it sank three Iranian ships
BEIIRUT, Lebanon — Iraq said it sank three more Iranian ships in the northern Persian Gulf yesterday.
Teheran denied earlier Iraqi threats that it lost five ships in similar attacks Tuesday in the 40-month-old Persian Gulf War.
Iraq said all its fighter jets and warships returned safely after their mission yesterday to Khor Mousi, a navigational channel leading to the Iranian port of Bandar Khomeini, 40 miles east of the Iran-Iraq border.
The "Iraqi navy and air force attacked enemy sea targets in the Khor Mousa channel," the Iraqi news agency said. "They succeeded in sabotaging an ISIS ship."
Iacocca sees recession by mid-1985
WASHINGTON — Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee lacocca said yesterday that mounting budget and trade deficits were "devastating" to industry and warned that another recession could hit by mid-1985 if nothing was done about them.
The defict situation is "devastating," Iacecca told a House Banking subcommittee on industrial policy. It's screwy, it's out of control. It was a case where the SEC had to intervene.
He said the next recession "may be closer than we think. In the car business, we believe that a recession could start as early as mid-1985 if nothing is done about the $200 billion federal budget deficits and the $100 billion trade deficits that are forecast."
NATO official refuses reinstatement
BONN, West Germany — Chancellor Helmut Kohl yesterday reinstated Gen. Guenter Kiessling, who was fired in a homosexual scandal, but Kiessling said he would not return to his post as deputy NATO commander because of ill health.
Kohl's offer, made at a 45-minute news conference, and Keissling's refusal were considered a compromise to restore the general's honor without sending him back to NATO and to defuse a mounting political crisis for the conservative government.
It will also allow Defense Minister Manfred Woerner, who dismissed the Kiessling from the allied command, to remain in Kohl's Cabinet.
Woman slams punk bands with suit
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A 46-year-old architect who said her leg was broken last summer by "slam-dancers" at a punk rock concert has filed a $115,000 suit against the concert hall and two bands that allegedly incited violent behavior.
Mary Ann Spencer of Irvine said her injury occurred near the end of an Aug. 20 concert at the Pacific Amphitheatre featuring Oingo Boingo
She said she was tossed around by a group of 40 young "slam-dancers" who surrounded her on the lawn of the amphitheater and that she was struck by one airborne dancer.
She was then "tossed around like a human volleyball" on the shoulders of the other dancers until she landed on her head.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 2-84
Today will be fair except for snow in the upper Great Lakes region. Locally, today will be mostly cloudy, windy and cooler with a high around 50, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy with a high in the low to mid-40s.
CORRECTIONS
Because of a reporter's error, the name of State Sen. Joseph Norvell, D-Hays, was misspelled in a story about traffic laws in yesterday's Kansan.
Reagan talks with Yugoslavian president
WASHINGTON — President Reagan assured Yugoslavian President Mika Spiljak yesterday that the United States would be "flexible and realistic" in trying to persuade the Kremlin to talk on nuclear arms reductions.
Spilak, the first East European leader to meet with Reagan, called for U.S. steps to expand dialogue with Moscow and revive the stalled arms talks. The discussion at the White House lasted nearly two hours.
Bv United Press International
A senior administration official said Spilak, who has been scheduled to meet with Soviet leader Yuri Andropov
BUT THE OFFICIAL also said that Spilak believed progress was jeopardized by a "great distrust between both sides" and a "deep distrust between the two" by historical differences as well as Reagan's policies and rhetoric.
in Moscow, told Reagan that he detected "a general, gradual and difficult improvement" in East-West relations.
"In a very cautious way, there are some positive signs on the horizon," the official said. "However, both sides in today's talks were cautious about that. Both underlined that it will not be easy and quick."
In departure statements to reporters on the South Lawn, Spiljak voiced
"deep concern over the continuation of the arms race)" and emphasized "the release of international tension in negotiation has no alternative."
"WE SHARE THE concern over the present dangerous developments and further deterioration of the situation in the world." he said.
Reagan, who began the year by trading his harsh anti-Soviet tone of the past for a call for a "constructive, working relationship" with Moscow, and then embarking on deeper commitment to reach agreement with the Soviets on arms reductions.
"Such agreements would be in our interest, the Soviet Union's interest and in the interest of all mankind," he said. "We're flexible and realistic in pursuit
of this task, and share the president's hope that the negotiations will resume.
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, published yesterday, Reagan said, however, "it is questionable" whether he would be able to "achieve a better achiever in improving relations with the Soviet Union by the end of his term.
REAGAN TOLD THE Tribune the rhetoric from Moscow 'sounds harsh,' but said, "They're waging a propaganda campaign that's all a part of their negotiating strategy. I'm not sure there's a deep freeze on between us."
Top Soviet to visit Peking after Reagan's trip
By United Press International
PEKING — China has invited a top Soviet official to Peking this spring soon after President Reagan's visit a significant gesture aimed at improving its strained relations with Moscow, Western diplomats said yesterday.
Soviet First Vice Premier Ivan Arkhipov would be the highest-ranking Soviet official to visit China since the two communist giants drifted apart more than 20 years ago in an ideological rift.
Chinese and Soviet sources confirmed that "discussions" are under way concerning a visit by Archipov, Kuznetsov, and Boris Reagan's planned trip to China in April.
OFFICIALLY, BOTH SIDES have refused comment. But Chinese sources confirmed the visit was "under disguise" and that Chinese sources leaked word of the invitation.
Western diplomats said they have been informed by "infallible" Chinese sources that the invitation was extended. They said Vice Premier Li
Peng, a Soviet-educated engineer, will serve as Akhipov's host.
The two vice premiers are likely to confine their talks to fairly routine trade and scientific exchanges first discussed when Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Mihail Kapisa visited Pele last September, the diplomats said.
But given Arkhipov's rank, the visit is much more important as a symbolic gesture, they added. It was Arkhipov whom the Kremlin sent to France this week after French President Francis Mittertand signaled that he hoped to
EPA wants no asbestos in schools
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency may force schools to eliminate cancer-causing asbestos, a top official said yesterday, because local authorities in many cases voluntarily to remove the hazard.
Deputy EPA Administrator Alvin Alm said an agency study found its rule calling for voluntary action against asbestos has been largely ineffective.
Since last June, the EPA has required schools to inspect buildings to
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"THE IDEA BEHIND that was that you would get enough pressure from the parents and workers to clean up." Alm said.
But, Alm said, "What our program showed is that a lot of school districts weren't even doing the inspections, or were not informing the parents."
HE SAID. HOWEVER, there are
technical problems in deciding what asbestos is dangerous. Microscope fibers pose the health danger, so if it is cut off it is not considered dangerous.
The EPA study showed few schools had plans to get rid of asbestos, and most that did were in rich districts.
Paul Salmon, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, said schools are aware of the "enormous danger" of asbestos and do not have the estimated $100,000 per building it takes to eliminate it.
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"IF ARKHIPOV COMES, it won't be to do anything so much as it will be just to come and be seen as having come," one Western diplomat said.
Several sources said they believed the idea for the visit originated with the Soviets and that China obliged as "a gesture of equivalence" following President Zhao Ziyang's visit to the Straits last month and Reagan's return trip.
Although there has been some improvement in trade and cultural exchanges, Chinese-Soviet relations remain blocked by what Peking calls three "major obstacles" — the Soviet invasion, the fighting with the Chinese-Soviet border, its occupancy of Afghanistan and its support of the Vietnamese in Cambodia.
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