University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1984
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NEWS BRIEFSEm From United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two gunmen today shot and killed American University of Beirut President Malcolm Kerr outside his campus office, police said.
University president killed in attack on Beirut campus
Kerr, an American citizen in his early fifties, was pronounced dead at the American University Hospital, state-run Beirut Radio and university sources said.
"Kerr was shot as he got out of the elevator on his way to his office. The gunmen apparently were carrying silencer-equipped guns as no one heard any shooting," said a university official who declined to be identified.
The shooting came a day after an unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Saudi Arabian consul in a daring mid-morning ambush on a busy Beirut street.
The fate of the kidnapped Saudi Arabian diplomat still was not known, but embassy officials said they thought the diplomat still was alive.
Andropov may appear in two weeks
NEW YORK — Soviet president Yuri Andropov, who has not been seen in public for more than four months, will probably make an appearance in two weeks. CBS News reported yesterday.
"According to the editor-in-chief of the Communist Party newspaper Pravda, Andropov will make a public appearance in two weeks."
Report says black health a problem
"Victor Afanasey told CBS news correspondent Mike Wlaceau in Moscow today that Andropov has been suffering from the croup and the flu, both of which have complicated treatment of his kidney problems." Rather said.
WASHINGTON — Americans are healthier than ever, but blacks still suffer excessive medical problems that are "an affront to our ideals." Margaret Heckler, secretary of health and human services, said yesterday.
In outlining her department's annual report on the nation's health, Heckler announced the creation of a Task Force on black-minority Health to recommend steps for improving the health of minority Americans.
"The health of all Americans continues to improve dramatically, but a disparity between the majority population and the minorities still plagues us," said Heckler. "As long as this disparity exists, it remains an affront to our ideals."
Man wants WW II violation cleared
PORTLAND. Ore. — A man who was Oregon's first lawyer of Japanese descent has asked a federal judge to overturn his 1942 conviction for violating a wartime curfew.
Minoru Yasiu made his plea Monday before U.S. District Judge Robert C. Belloni.
Yasui told the judge that the case not only involved him but that it affected "all Americans who believe in freedom and justice."
INCEESEY - THE MUSEUM
Yasui was convicted of violating a curfew imposed on West Coast Japanese-Americans by the federal government after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Carter OK after hemorrhoid surgery
ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter was "doing very well" yesterday after minor surgery for hemorrhoids at Emory University Hospital, a spokeswoman said.
Hopper, a college professor at Johns Hopkins University, Jane Simpson, a spokeswoman for Carter's Atlanta office, said the former president underwent the operation Monday morning. She said that there were no complications and that "he's doing fine."
Hospital spokeswoman Sylvia Wrobel called the operation minor surgery.
"This morning I was told he was doing very well." Wrobel said. "They're trying to treat him like they would other patients."
ST. LOUIS — A Roman Catholic nun who has convinced about 120 women to give up prostitution has been awarded the St. Louis Newspaper Guild's annual Page One Civic Award.
Nun honored for work with hookers
Sister Agnes Marie Baer, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, was honored Monday night at a Guild meeting. The Page One award is given to a person whose meritorious or humanitarian service has received little recognition.
Five years ago Sister Baer began a program to help prostitutes start new lives.
Mountain grave was cowboy's wish
Mancini's funeral procession left a Colorado Springs funeral home at midmorning and made its way by car 50 miles to the mountain near Lake George. His plain casket was carried up to a rolling meadow through deep snow on a horse-drawn sleigh.
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo. — The friends of John A. Mancini yesterday laid the Colorado cowboy to rest as he had wished, dressed in his stovepipe boots and blue jeans, pipe in hand and dropped into a "crack" on Deer Mountain.
"I'll ride horseback into the gravesight," said Bert Reissig, supervisor of Swan-Law Funeral Home. "I will to accompany the
Reissig said grave diggers blasted through rock and frozen dirt to form a 6-foot grave.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 1:18-84
UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST
Today will be mostly fair with some rain and snow east of the Mississippi River.
Locally, today will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow and a high around 10. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low of zero to 5 below. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high around 20.
CORRECTION
A story in Monday's Kansan incorrectly reported that the comprehensive downtown plan was a city document. The comprehensive plan is a document of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
Arms-talks report pessimistic
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Arms negotiator Paul Nitze delivered a pessimistic report yesterday on the outlook for reviving arms talks with Moscow, but he added that he will hopes President Reagan's call for a renewed dialogue will bear results.
Nitze, whose mission was cut short when the Soviets broke off negotiations in November, met with Reagan and said afterward that he had not brought "any news of new movement toward resumption" by Moscow of the suspended talks on medium-range nuclear missiles.
Asked if the negotiations might resume this year, he replied: "I hope that the talks will resume and resume progress." He said that the voices are not to return soon.
"I've seen nothing that they've said — no direct indications — other than that they are serious about having broken them off." Nitze told reporters.
Reagan, in his speech, set the stage for the Shultz-Gromyko meeting — the first since September — when he urged the Soviets to resume arms control talks and foster "a constructive working relationship." Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said earlier yesterday that Reagan hoped his words would have "a beneficial impact" on the meeting.
Nitze and Reagan conferred for about 20 minutes on the status of the arms talks and a broader revival of East-West dialogue that Reagan advocated in a speech Monday.
SPEAKES TOOK NOTE of charges by the Soviets and Reagan's domestic political critics that the speech was intended to derail the ideological powers' and rejected the idea.
"It is the president's view that international problems cannot be suspended in election years," he said. "He believes that the U.S. government must maintain an active role as solve problems with the Soviet Union. We cannot afford to wait until 1985."
THEIR OVAL OFFICE meeting came on the eve of pivotal talks in Stockholm between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
Speakes said Reagan expects the Saakas leadership to give careful consideration to the speech.
"As for a formal Soviet response," he said, "that will take time. When it
NITZE SAID THE administration is focusing "a great deal of attention" on steps that might induce a Soviet return to Geneva.
The question, he said, is "whether there is anything we can do which requires you to pay attention."
comes, it is unlikely to come via news release."
Reagan had rejected the one condition put forth by Moscow: the removal of U.S.-built medium-range missiles from Europe.
Nitze ruled out merging the missile talks with separate negotiations, also suspended by the Soviets, on strategic arms. He indicated the administration did not favor any change in the format of missile negotiations, such as moving them to the hinsight of the bargaining table into more private channels.
Speakes seemed to open the door to back-channel diplomatic movement while discussing the administration's efforts to reward the direction with the Soviets."
Speakes described the existing forum the setting in Geneva as "an aquatic chameleon, but not a fern. If there were to do that it's more effective, we have no objection to that."
U.N. offers to hold Mideast summit
Bv United Press International
CASANLANCA, Morocco — United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar offered yesterday to convene a U.N. sponsored Middle East conference to help mediate solutions to the complex problems of the region.
The initiative, made in an interview carried by the official Moroccan news agency, reflected the dismay felt among delegates at the Islamic Conference Organization summit over a split between moderate states led by Saudi Arabia and radical states such as Syria and Libya.
The proposed conference would provide a forum for trying to resolve the differences in the many plans and proposals made to find peace in the world.
U. N. Security Council," Perez de Cuellar said.
"There is no better forum than the
The U.N. leader said countries "concerned in the Middle East" and members of the Security Council would participate, but the interview left many unresolved questions among members of the Council would take part or just the permanent members.
Perez de Cuellar said he would report
bear to March 13 to the Security Council on
peacekeeping.
The U.N. chief was in Morocco for the summit of the 45-member Islamic Conference Organization, which met for a second day yesterday.
IN THE SEARCH for a unified position on a Middle East settlement, moderate leaders moved to reinforce the so-called Fez plan, which gives the Palestine Liberation Organization full say in a proposed Palestinian administration on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The plan, approved at an Arab summit in the Moroccan city of Fez, is being promoted by moderates led by Saudi Arabia, but the recent split between the PLO and Syria has made it difficult for most of the more militant nations.
The Moroccan news agency said PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halm Khadam would meet privately during the
Only 25 heads of the 44 nations in
conference — the PLO is the 45th
member — are attending the summit.
Most radical Arab states sent ministers
or other lower ranking officials to
show displeasure at the conservative trend
The summit is aimed at a consensus among Asian, African and Arabelege.
Labor, liberals criticize report from Kissinger
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Kissinger Commission report on Central America had its good points but "blew the whole thing" by advocating more military aid, a group of liberals and labor leaders said in a statement.
In its report to President Roagan last week, the bipartisan commission recommended the United States provide $8.4 billion in general economic aid to Central America over the next five years and "a significantly larger program of military assistance."
The report was "riddled with a lot of truths," but "they blew the whole thing" by recommending more military aid, said Patricia Derian, who was an assistant secretary of state under President Carter.
"I fear we're talking about military activity to the bitter end
said former Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y. "The enemy in that area is not communism or Marxism. The enemy is poverty."
Dieran, Abzug and most other speakers at a joint news conference endorsed the commission's proposal for more economic aid to Central America, but they had a variety of criticisms as well.
"The United States should support a negotiated settlement before it's too late," said Jack Shenkman, of the National Law Office of *Thothing* and *Textile Workers Union*.
He said the report "recommends more of the same policy, which will not work."
Sheinman said he did not think the AFL-CIO would support further U.S. military aid without substantial improvements in human rights in Iraq.
All the speakers criticized El Salvador's human rights record.
Arnoldo Torres, of the League of United Latin American Citizens, wrote in *basically a regurgitation of the present policy in Central America*
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