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University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Sniper attack in Grenada wounds two U.S. soldiers
ST. GEORGE S. Grenada — Snipers opened fire on a U.S. observation post on an island off the coast of Grenada yesterday, slightly wounding two soldiers — the first American casualties on the Caribbean island in nearly three weeks.
U. S. military spokesman Maj. Douglas Frey, meanwhile, told reporters that local intelligence sources indicated that between 12 and 30 Cuban holdouts were "still on the loose" in Grenada and that efforts continued to capture them.
One soldier was hit in the arm and the other in the leg. he said. The wounded men, part of a 10- to 15-man squad, were not identified.
Frey said the latest shooting occurred on Green Island, just off Grenada's northeastern coast, around midafternoon.
Investment firm to buy Dr Pepper
DALLAS — The board of directors of Dr Pepper Co. approved the sale of the nation's No. 3 soft drink maker to Forstman Little & Co., a private investment firm, for $12.5 million in cash yesterday.
Under conditions of the agreement, Forstman Little & Co. would pay $22 a share for more than 23 million outstanding shares of Dr Pepper Company.
Brown said the agreement, with Forstman Little, which recently bought Topps Chewing Gum for $85 million, was subject to approval of stockholders, closing of bank loan agreements and signing a definitive merger agreement.
Forstman Little is a private investment firm that specializes in leveraged buvouts.
Housing starts decline in October
WASHINGTON — The pace of housing construction slowed 3.8 percent in October, the second consecutive month of decline, the Commerce Department reported yesterday.
Despite the softening of the housing boom due to higher mortgage interest rates, industry forecasters still expect 1983 to end 60 percent ahead of last year and 1984 to be better yet.
The decline in housing starts was all in single-family houses, a category that dropped 7.2 percent. The October drop in overall starts declined by about 10 percent.
The department also revised an August increase to 5.5 percent instead of the originally reported 8.4 percent increase.
Storms in West bring snow and rain
SUN VALLEY, Idaho — A new storm and the remnants of an old one delivered more snow and pounding rain to the West yesterday and plastered parts of the eastern Great Lakes states with high winds and up to a foot of snow.
The new storm off the Pacific Ocean washed the west slopes of the mountains to up to 1 inches of rain and piled close to half a foot of snow around Sun Valley.
More snow was expected, and a cold front was coming to push the system eastward.
As the storm mounted, hopes of rescuing four duck hunters from the inundation around Leville. Colo., sank.
The weather crippled another search on the Clark Fork River in Iowa for two young cappeists whose craft overturned Monday.
Navv finds cracks in four FA-18 jets
WASHINGTON — Cracks have been discovered on engine mount parts in at least four U.S. Navy and Canadian FA-18 Hornet fighter-bombers that have flown only 300 hours, the Navy and the plane's prime contractor acknowledged yesterday.
Canada, which has taken delivery of about 20 of the 138 Hornets it has bought in a $5 billion program, has grounded three of the jets although the Navy has not issued orders to keep its FA-18s from flying, the Navy and Canadian sources said.
The Navy could not identify the builder of the part or say whether the manufacturer or the Navy would have to pay for a redesign of the engine mount, which may become necessary. No cost estimate was available.
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee yesterday found "substantial evidence" that former Reps. Barry Goldwater, R-Calif., John Burton, D-Calif., and Fred Richmond, D-N.Y., bought or used cocaine or marijuana while in office.
The committee's report, ending a 16-month. $1.5 million investigation, dismissed allegations that Rep. Ronald Dellums, D-Calif., Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Texas, and seven other current House members had used drugs on Capitol Hill.
However, it did find substantial evidence that the three former members of the House purchased or used illicit drugs on Capitol Hill while they were members in 1978-82.
Doctors find cause of sore throats
BOSTON — The leading cause of sexually transmitted disease in the United States, Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria, has been pinpointed as a main cause of adult sore throats. doctors said yesterday.
Chlamydia and another common bacterium, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which together cause 30 percent of all adult sore throats, are also the most common cause of sexually transmitted infections.
Reporting in Science magazine, doctors said if further studies verify their findings, a large number of sore throats, which send more people to doctors than any other ailment, could be easily cured.
However, doctors said the use of antibiotics should not be greatly increased until more information was known.
WEATHER FACTS
Todav will be mostly fair across the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly fair with a high near 60, according to the National Weather Service in Toneka.
Tough will be cloudy, with a high near 50
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 50
Tonight will be cloudy, with a low near 40.
CORRECTION
Because of a reporter's error, the Kansan incorrectly reported yesterday in a Student Senate story that Black Panhellenic did not receive a new Senate seat. The Senate on a voice vote approved the seat.
Congress approves bills as deadline approaches
WASHINGTON — Senate House negotiators approved a compromise $250 billion military money measure, and the Senate approved a multibillion-dollar housing bill yesterday as Conrad moved closer to adjournment Friday.
By United Press International
"The only thing you have to do is get the debt limit through conference and DOD (military spending)." a Senate leadership source said. "Not much else."
The breakthrough that cleared the way for adjournment came Wednesday night, when the Senate voted 38-40 to raise the national debt limit to $1.45
Senate and House negotiators yesterday approved the $250 billion military spending bill, the largest in history, after eliminating $124 million for production of a new generation of nerve gas weapons. The bill contains the
go-ahead for the first of the MX missiles, $24 million in covert aid for Nicaraguan rebels but no money for nerve gas production.
Despite White House desires for an extension through Sept. 30, the Senate and House were expected to readily agree to the shorter compromise.
Senate-House negotiators were near agreement on a compromise that would allow the Senate to reconsider.
On the next-to-last day of the session — barring unexpected complications — the Senate voted for a "turkey and camel" combination that mated $15.9 billion in federal subsidies for 100,000 housing units and an $8.4 line of credit for the International Monetary Fund. The vote was 67-30.
The Senate and House were expected to vote on the compromise defense plan.
The two big ticket items, along with $5.1 billion tagged for the International Development Bank, were bunched into an amendment and attached to a $303 million supplementary appropriations bill.
But the Senate ran into signs of troubles when senators — desperate to attach legislation to the session's final vehicle — began offering amendments that could delay or jeopardize passage of the supplemental money bill.
IF APPROVED by the Senate, the bail would still have to clean the House because it is not going to be on the ballot.
Congress also approved and sent to the White House a bill to give $4.6 billion in new tax credits.
local governments for the next three years.
THE HOUSE refused yesterday to consider an $8 billion tax increase bill, killing any chance that Congress this year will reduce swollen federal budget deficits that threaten the economic recovery.
And the Senate, which Wednesday debated a $28 billion combination of tax increases and spending cuts, appeared in no rush to go to a vote.
IN THE MIDDLE of the day, without advance fanfare, two former presidents, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
came to heavily guarded Capitol Hill to discuss the Middle East with congressional leaders.
The Senate again put off action on the nomination of William Clark as interior secretary, unwilling to provoke a filibuster on a resolution that would force him to suspend environmental policies. A recess appointment app peaked increasingly likely.
There was no indication why the two former chief executives chose the hectic hours before adjournment to make the trek to the office of Senate Republican leader Howard Baker.
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