University Daily Kansan, December 1, 1983 Page 12
NATION AND WORLD
Opening of Hanukkah season marked by lighting of candle
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Israel's chief Ashkenazic rabbi lit the first Hamkukh candle at the Western Wall yesterday, opening the eight-day holiday that marks the capture of Jerusalem from three occupiers more than 2,000 years ago.
New recruits of the crack Golani infantry brigade, whose soldiers have been involved in tough battles against the modern day Syrians in Lebanon, took their oath of loyalty to the state of Israel during the ceremony.
The dramatic ceremony at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem led by Rabbi Avraham Shapiro, religious leader of the Israel's Ashkenazi Jews, of European origin, to celebrate Jewish homes throughout Israel.
Each night during the eight-day holiday, another candle will be added to the lighting ceremony until on the last night the special eight-branched lamps, called menorahs, will be completely filled.
IN MANY ISRAELI homes, friends and relatives gather to exchange Hamukah gifts and eat traditional foods of the jewish Feast of Lights, such as "lakes," or fried potato dishes, and "sugafan" or "jelly doughnuts."
That episode spawned the modern-day candle lighting tradition.
Tradition has it that only a cruse of oil sufficient for one day was found at the site, but miraculously burned for centuries, and ceremonies marking the victory.
It also led to children using four-sided tops during the holiday season, which is a tradition of Israel and the Hebrew initials for the phrase: "A great miracle happened here."
Long a symbol of Jewish defiance and heroism, Hanukkah commemorates the successful popular revolt led by Mattiash and his five sons against Antiochus Ephiphanes of Syria in 166-164 B.C.
Judah the Maccabee, one of Matthias's sons, captured and rededicated the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
Soviet Union urges sanctions to support Namibia's struggle
By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — The Soviet Union called yesterday for sanctions against South Africa and urged guerillas to continue the struggle for independence in Namibia until a complete victory had been won.
Soviet ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky, speaking in the General Assembly, accused the "Pretoria and Washington axis" of presenting the situation in the mineral-rich territory as an East-West conflict.
“This is a false thesis,” Troyanovsky said. “The question of Namibia is a difficult one.”
"It is only the constant strengthening of pressure on South Africa and its protectors that will make it heed the will of the people of Namibia.
the arms embargo imposed on South Africa by the Security Council is
"It is important to make certain that
TROYANOVSKY CALLED FOR council "measures to stop South Africa from acquiring any nuclear weapons."
He said that the United States and other Western powers would have to be persuaded to give up their opposition to imposing comprehensive sanctions on South Africa and that until such a time, "the people of Namibia will have no choice but to continue their struggle until complete victory."
Troyanovsky reaffirmed earlier Soviet rejection of linking any plan for Namibian independence with the withdrawal of 25,000 Cuban forces stationed in neighboring Angola. He said the "Cuban internationals" have been in Angola at the request of its Marxist government.
--despite the storm created by the allegations, described Public Prosecutor Johannes Wilhelm's announcement of the charges Tuesday as perticulary.
United Press Internat
LIVINGSTON, Texas — A Traailways bus lies overturned in a creek after hitting a truck and catapulting down a 40-foot hill early yesterday. The crash killed six people and injured six others.
Trailways bus crashes into truck, killing six
By United Press International
LIVINGSTON, Texas — A Trailways bus that an investigator may have been speeding rammed the rear of a flatbed truck and crashed into a sidewalk. The creek bank early yesterday, killing six people and injuring six others.
Witnesses said the badly injured driver, who had been at the wheel less than an hour, thought that the bus had baked a tire, but a passenger said he thought the driver might have fallen asleep.
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said that the official cause was undetermined, but that U.S. 59 was rain-slicked and DPS Trooper David Sandlin at the scene said, "There was an indication of excessive speed."
The DPS said 12 people were aboard, and all were killed or injured. Three of the dead were children with young children who survived
THE CRASH OCCURRED at 5:15 a.m. CST about 75 miles north of Houston.
The truck driver, Richard Palomio Garcia, 43, said he had just left home, traveling at 40 miles an hour in the right lane, when the southbound bus hit his truck. He said most of the damage was to the left side of his trailer, indicating the bus veered away from him.
The Shreveport, La., to Houston bus carneered across one lane on the divided highway, crashed through a guardrail, became airborne briefly and landed on the creek bank 31 feet below, investigators said.
"I parked across the bridge and ran back. I knew something went down off the bridge. When I ran back, I saw the bus down there. It hollered and I answered me. I hollered and one lady, answered there were people hurt.
"I never saw it, I don't know where it came from," said Garcia, who was unhurt. "That bus hit me and then there, there was nothing I could do.
German official denies tax scandal charge
GARCIA RAN TO his house a half mile away to call authorities. He and his wife Dale returned and gave aid to the victims.
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Economies Minister Count Otto Lammbsdorf denied yesterday allegations that he took bribes in a $1.7 million corporate tax scandal, and was supported by the authority of Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Lambsdorff said that while serving as Economics Minister he had "never received, asked for or procured a single mark" from the Giant Flick industrial conglomerate that is the target of a two-year government investigation.
Government spokesman Peter Boenisch, making it clear that Kohl's government would stick by Lambsdorff
purely a weak boxer with "Some people are of the opinion that the prosecutor did not have the courage to drop the charges."
Boenisch said there was no discussion of the scandal at a Cabinet session yesterday and would not be against Lambdordff were served on him.
"I can only repeat my statement that Count Lambsdorff remains innocent of any charge until proven guilty."
Roenisch added.
Kohl has made no comment on the charges against Lambsdorf, who was appointed in 1977 by Kohl's predecessor Helmut Schmidt, when Lambsdorf's Free Democratic Party was a coalition partner. His minority partner in Kohl's coalition
Wilhelm, who said he had charged four other people in the scandal, two of them former top politicians, has asked Parliament to lift Lambsderrf's immunity to criminal prosecution so he can be formally charged. A parliamentary committee will consider the issue today.
prosecutor during the two-year investigation of how the Flick firm got $175
HE SAID HE was told of allegations against him from accepting inducements from Flick but not the additional and more serious corrupt practices announced Tuesday.
Lambdossboro, accused of taking $80,000 in bribes, complained bitterly that the commissioner was
The charges arose from a 1973 deal in which Flick sold its 29 percent holding in the Daimler-Benz car company to the Deutsche Bank for $17 million
Flick did not have to pay any capital gains taxes on the deal after the Economics Ministry ruled the profits had been reinvested in projects beneficial to the nation. It was alleged that he in fact invested mostly in foreign firm.
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