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University Daily Kansan November 11, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Stone enters 'crucial' time in Central American talks
MEXICO CITY, — U.S. envoy Richard Stone, saying that the next three weeks were "vital and crucial" for Central American peace, met yesterday with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, who then held a session with leaders of the leftist Nicaguan regime.
In Nicaragua, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, president of the Nicaraguan Bishop's Conference, said yesterday that the churchmen had issued a blunt warning to the ruling junta in their meeting Wednesday.
In El Salvador, government troops killed 12 rebels and destroyed four guerrilla camps during nearly 12 hours of fighting near the border of eastern San Vicente province, military officials said yesterday.
Ex-EPA workers cleared of misdeeds
WASHINGTON — FBI Director William Webster disclosed yesterday that the bureau, concluding a lengthy investigation, found insufficient evidence to prosecute former acting EPA chief John Hernandez and five other ex-agency officials.
The decision brought to an end eight months of criminal inquiries into the controversy that shook the Environmental Protection Agency last spring. In August, the Justice Department cleared former agency administrator Anne Burford and five of her aides.
Of more than 12 officials who faced criminal investigations, only Rita Lavelle, former chief of the agency's toxic waste clean-up unit, is being prosecuted as a result of sweeping allegations of conflicts of interest and deals with industry.
Immigration bill vote may be forced
WASHINGTON—Two House Republicans said yesterday that they had more than half the number of petition signatures needed to force a House vote on a stalled immigration reform bill.
Reps. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., and Bill McColum, R-Fla., said the petition was intended as a clear message to Speaker Thomas O'Neill to get the legislation out of the Rules Committee.
They said that their discharge petition, a rarely used and seldom successful method to bring a bill to the House, had 112 of the needed 218 signatures.
O'Neill said early last month that the bill, strongly opposed by Hispanic members of the House, would not come up because he feared that President Reagan would veto it to help gain Hispanic support for his re-election campaign.
Confessed killer gets life sentence
DENTON, Texas — A jury yesterday sentenced confessed mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas to life in prison for stabbing and dismembering his 15-year-old girlfriend.
"I expected it," Lucas said. "I am relieved. This is what I asked for." Punishment deliberations took three hours for the 47-year-old driller, whose claims of having killed 150 women in violent attacks while hitherto through 17 states could make him the nation's most prolific mass murderer.
He said he would plead guilty to the eight remaining murder charges against him, seven in Texas and one in Louisiana.
U.S. Steel files subsidy complaints
WASHINGTON — U.S. Steel Corp. Chairman David M. Roderick said yesterday that the company was filing subsidy complaints against steel imports from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, and that it planned legal action against four more countries.
In a speech to the National Press Club, Roderick also called for U.S. quotas on steel imports from abroad. He endorsed legislation to limit steel imports from all nations to 15 percent of the U.S. market for five years.
Roderick said steel imports to the United States had reached "dangerous" levels, rising from 2 percent in the 1950s to nearly 20 percent.
In September, 43 percent of imports came from developing countries.
Medicine found to relieve migraines
CHICAGO — Migraine headache sufferers can find relief with a medicine originally intended for treating heart problems, physicians said yesterday.
Daily doses of verapamil hydrochloride — a calcium channel blocking agent — can cut migraine frequency in half and decrease pain severity
Needs headaches affect 5 to 10 percent of Americans.
"We have shown that verapamil is effective in preventing migraine headaches," said one of the physicians, Glen D. Solomon, of Air Force Medical Center at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. The comments were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Crabby crustaceans foil fishermen
SAN FRANCISCO — Yesterday was the official opening of the crab season, but the crabs didn't cooperate.
It was a disappointing day along Fisherman's Wharf, where Bay Area fishery operators and restaurateurs just shook their heads and hoped
"I would have bought at least 500 pounds of cooked crab if it was available," said Mario Morelo, owner of a seafood restaurant in New York.
Paul Reilly, an associate marine biologist for the California Department of Fish and Game in Menlo Park, said that the area's harvest dropped from 760,000 pounds in the 1978-79 season to 190,000 pounds in the 1981-82 season.
He could buy only 116 pounds at $2.25 a pound wholesale.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 11-11-83
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly sunny with a high near 50. Tonight will be cloudy with a low near 30. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of rain. The high will be near 49.
Because of an editor's error, the Kansan incorrectly reported yesterday that the Board of Regents had made a proposal to allow its universities to change their open admission policies. The proposal was made by the Legislative Educational Planning Committee.
CORRECTION
Democrats press for limit on Marine stay
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democratic senators, saying Congress was wrong to give President Reagan the go-ahead to keep Marines in Lebanon for 18 months, pressed yesterday for quick action to repeal or reduce that authority.
"By its vote last September . . . the Congress unwise and prematurely excused itself for the foreseeable future from further participation in policy on Lebanon, Sen Edward Kennedy, President of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
A resolution backed by Kennedy and Sens. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., and three other members of the three-thirds authorization, allowing Congress to approve additional extensions after reviewing the current situation in Lebanon. A House delegation has been sent to review circumstances surrounding the recent attack on the militant forces left behind than 200 Marines dead. The last of those Marines' bodies came home vesterday.
KENNEDY SAID that if the committee failed to act, the resolution could be attached to legislation to raise the national ceiling or to a stopgap which must be voted on before Congress's scheduled Nov. 18 adjournment.
Kennedy was among those who opposed the 18-month extension, which was approved by the Senate Sept. 29 on a hard-fought 54-46 vote The Oct. 23 move was defeated in the ment in Lebanon, killing 239 men, rekindled the opposition and several
Eagleton noted comments by administration officials about possible retaliation for the terrorist attack on the Marines. "What new violence, what new escalation of our involvement in Lebanon will that entail?" he asked.
resolutions have been introduced to repeal or reduce the authorization under provisions of the War Powers Act.
SEN. CLAIBORNE PELL, D.R.I., ranking Democrat on the committee, attempted to place the Democrats' resolution on the committee calendar as the officially pending business, but was unable to do so before the panel was required to adjourn because of pending business on the Senate floor.
Reagan might veto any change in the 18-month authorization, forcing opponents to seek a two-thirds vote in both houses to override the president.
Under terms of the 18-month authori-
zation resolution, which President
will accept at his request, the
resolution must be considered by the committee within 15 days and would have to be voted on by the full Senate in days of being reported out of committee.
The committee did not have time to hear from the scheduled administration witness, assistant secretary of state Richard Murphy, but his prepared testimony urged it not to change the 18-month authorization.
THAT MEASURE "was part of a carefully balanced package which protected executive and legislative powers, but not to be reopened," his statement said.
Syria-U.S. confrontation possible over jet attacks
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian troops fired on U.S. reconnaissance jets over Lebanon for the first time yesterday, raising the specter of a direct American confrontation with Damascus. No planes were hit.
Muslim gunmen again strafed the eastern portion of the Marine peace-keeping base at the Beirut airport for two minutes, forcing troops to strike back with M. 16 automatic rifle fire, Marine Capt. Wayne Jones said.
In another incident, two Israeli jets drew anti-aircraft fire over the eastern Beka Valley on their return from a reconnaissance flight over Tripoli; the
scene of an eight-day battle between rival Palestinian factions.
PALESTINIAN rebels continued to pound Tripoli and its nearby refugee camp of Bedawi as part of what PLO
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chief Yasser Arafat feared was a prelude to a final blitz on his trapped fighters.
Officials estimated that 1,000 people had been killed in the rebel drive to expel Arafat from his remaining Lebanese stronghold and end his 14-year reign over the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The Israeli jets were attacked close to where Israeli Kfir fighters last week
bombed suspected Palestinian bases in reprisal for the killing of 28 troops in a suicide truck bombing of the military headquarters in south Lebanon.
The attack on the U.S. Tomcats was the first time Syria said that its forces, rather than the Syrian-backed militias that ring Beirut and the Baqla Valley, would be the first to do so.
NONE OF THE U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats was hit and they safely returned to the nuclear-powered air carrier Eisenhower off the coast of Beirut.
But the incident heightened tension between the two nations in the wake of the Oct. 23 bombing of the Marine base at Naval Base San Diego, a general military mobilization in Syria.
U. S. officials have cited circumstantial evidence of Syrian involvement in the bombing that killed at least 237 U.S. servicemen and vowed to retaliate once the culprits were identified
The F-14S have flown at least three reconnaissance missions since the Oct. 23 bombing, and a U.S. spokesman in Beirut described them as routine.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger dismissed the incident as "nothing special — nothing different than there was any other day."
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