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University Daily Kansan, December 5, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International Common Market countries debate subsidies at summit
ATHENS, Greece — Common Market leaders yesterday opened a crucial summit conference by debating the 10-nation trading group's agricultural subsidies, which swallow up most of its resources and have caused a bitter internal dispute.
"The resolution of these problems is necessary and urgent if we are to avoid an untimely crisis which might jeopardize the cohesion of the community," Greek President Constantin Karamanlis told government beads in a welcoming speech.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tried to open the summit with a discussion of the community's budget imbalance, which is Britain's main concern because that nation pays millions of dollars more into the community than it receives in subsidies or other taxes.
Cambodia awaits annual offensive
Outside the summit meeting, more than 15,000 left-wing protesters defied a police ban and demonstrated against installation of U.S. missiles in Europe and against the declaration of independence by Turkish Cyprisriots.
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand — Vietnam's annual offensive is only weeks away, but Cambodian guerrilla units lack a joint strategy for fubbing back, a Khmer Rouge commander said yesterday.
That military intelligence said Vietnamese troops armed with Soviet weapons were massing in western Cambodia for their annual thrust against the three guerrilla groups in the ruling body of Cambodia, now officially known as the Coalition Government of Democratic
Cambodia has been controlled by the Vietnamese since 1979.
In preparation for Hanoi's offensive, That authorities have begun moving some of the more than 200,000 Cambodian refugees from the
Sandinistas offer amnesty to rebels
MANAGA, Nicaragua — The leftist Sandinista government, in a move to end rebel attacks, offered a sweeping amnesty yesterday to most guerrilla fighters and other exiles, and invited them to participate in elections.
The army will cover an estimated 10,000 armed insurgents, plus thousands of other opponents — mostly businessmen — of the Sandistas now exiled in the United States. It will not include leaders of the rebel movement.
The amnesty decree also provides for the return of land or just compensation to people whose holdings were expropriated by the
The decree set a deadline of Feb. 21 for rebels and other exiles to return to Nicaragua.
Nader says stock deals not reported
WASHINGTON — Consumer activist Ralph Nader said yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission was allowing business executives to avoid their duty to report personal buying and selling of their companies' stock.
Nader released a survey of the SEC filings of 20 of the nation's largest firms that he said showed that half of their executives did not report such transactions as required.
The SEC requires prompt disclosures of so-called "insider trading" to enable it to enforce rules that protect stockholders not privy to closely held information.
Cause of high blood pressure found
BOSTON — A team of scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital has isolated what it thinks is a simple chemical compound in the brain that causes high blood pressure, physicians say in a report to be released today.
If the finding provides correct, the scientists say, a cure for the "silent killer", which physicians think is a major cause of premature death from stroke.
A report for release today in the MGH News, a hospital publication, says the substance is also considered to be a natural diuretic and may help many people with water retention problems, such as those with congestive heart failure, some kidney disease and cirrhosis of the liver.
Taiwanese ruling party wins seats
TAIPEI. Taiwan — The ruling Nationalist party founded by the late Chiang Kai-shek won an overwhelming 87 percent of the seats in the country's parliament, final returns showed yesterday.
About 7 million people voted Saturday in the election for some seats in Taiwan's 354-seat parliament, called the Yuan. About 63 percent of the island's eligible voters cast ballots.
Washington's troop farewell marked
NEW YORK — In a small Revolutionary War-era tavern dwarfed by skyscrapers, the 200th anniversary of Gen. George Washington's emotional farewell to his officers was celebrated yesterday with fives, fiddles and theatrics.
Washington appeared at Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan on Dec. 4, 1783, nine days after British troops withdrew, to say goodbye to about 40 officers of the Continental Army after winning the war to overthrow British rule of the colonies.
After Washington said his goodbyes, he took the ferry at Whitehall to New Jersey and rode to Annapolis, Md., where he resigned his commission. He was 51 at the time. Five years later he was elected president.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST 10 7 PM EST 12-5=83
Today, rain is forecast for portions of the upper Great Lakes region, the Ohio Valley, the Southeast and the central Pacific Coastal states.
Today, rain is forecast for portions of the upper Great Lakes region, the Ohio Valley, the Southeast and the central Pacific Coastal states. The weather is cool and wet, cold with a 50 percent chance of light snow, according to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka. The high will be in the mid-20s.
Tonight will be cloudy, windy and cold, with a 30 percent chance of light snow. The low will be in the teens.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high of 25 to 30.
Space handymen fix furnace and camera
By United Press International
SPACE CENTER, Houston — Two handyman astronauts fixed a broken furnace and freed jammed film in a sleeping bag "darkroom" aboard Spacelab yesterday, and an X-ray telescope found the first evidence of iron in a collapsed star called Cygnus X-3.
Operation of another instrument was completed during the day and Marcel Ackerman of Belgium said at mission control that the experiment's data on gashes in the impact zone "will have the impact on the traditional thinking of atmospheric chemistry."
Scientists Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg and pilots John Young and Brewster Shaw aboard the shuttle Columbia neared the end of their first week in space. They already have covered 2.5 million miles around the globe.
The new landing date is Thursday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., but a Wednesday return is possible if conditions are expected to be bad the next day.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR CHUK Lewis said planning had started for the extra day that was added to the mission Saturday. But a Pacific storm heading toward California will be watched closely in the next few days.
Garriott took advantage of some free time early yesterday to talk by ham radio with another ham operator. Jordan's King Hussein, in Amman
"We're very, very proud, very happy indeed to send you and your colleagues from all my countrymen and myself all our very, very best for a most noble cause," said Hussein, whose call is Juliet Yankee One.
GARRIOTT HOPED TO talk with another ham operator, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., in Washington at 7 a.m. CST today.
Merbold, a West German physicist, was to talk by shuttle radio at 4:18 a.m. CST with German Science Minister Heinz Riehsenbauer in Bonn, Merbold, Young and Lichtenberg were scheduled at 9:45 a.m. to talk with President Ronald Reagan of the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who is attending a meeting in Athens.
Parker and Merbold spent much of their morning shift yesterday fixing things. Mission scientist Charles Chapman, a graduate student, selfs as "repairmen extraordinaire."
Merbled worked on a furnace that uses two powerful halogen lamps to heat silicon and other materials up to 3,700 degrees F. to grow crystals that might be useful in the electronics industry.
HE TOOK A panel off a power source used for that furnace and rewired the gas supply.
Parker, who earlier had fixed a crucial data recorder, freed a stuck computer.
mapping camera. He took the magazine, which had enough film for $50 9-inch square pictures, to a sleeping compartment in the lower deck of the shuttle, turned off all the lights and climbed inside to keep to walk away from the shuttle.
After Parker cut away jammed film and replaced the magazine. Wubbo Ockels in science control said that Robert and Merbelt "did a marvelous job."
"You saved probably more than one half the science of the metric system."
Chappell reported the results of the X-ray astronomy experiment. He said that a Dutch instrument examined the X-ray spectrum from (Cygus X3, a part of the constellation Cygus) that comprises a flying swan in the northern sky.
CHAPPELL SAID DIETER Andresen of the European Space Research and Technology Center in the Netherlands found the telltale evidence of iron in the X rays coming from the highly compact star. Although there had been hints of iron in Cygnes X-4 but it is the first concrete evidence for it.
iron, said Chappell, "tells you something about the composition or the surface nature of the neutron star."
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