NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 10, 1983 Page 12
British women protest at U.S. military bases
By United Press International
LONDON — Thousands of women held a 24-hour protest vigil at more than 100 U.S. bases around the country yesterday, and a poll revealed that 94 percent of Britons mistrust President Reagan's control over the firing of nuclear missiles in Britain.
The protests coincided with the filing of papers in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by 12 British women attempting to stop the scheduled deployment of 160 cruise missiles in Britain next month.
THE WOMEN, JOINED by Reps. Ted Weiss, D-N.Y., and Ron Delums, D-Calif, filed their civil suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. They named President Reagan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and the heads of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army as defendants.
A federal court judge rejected the request, saying the plaintiffs failed to show that irreparable harm would result without an immediate order
A poll in London's Daily Mail newspaper said 94 percent of British voters want their government to
Asked if they thought Reagan would fire cruise missiles from Britain against the wishes of the British government, 68 percent said yes. Only 10 percent answered no. The remaining 32 percent, voters, 38 percent, believe Reagan's policies have made nuclear war more likely.
have control over the firing of the missiles.
THE POLL CAME as thousands of women gathered at 102 bases used by U.S. forces around Britain.
The women peace protesters sang, held candle in a peace vigil and huddled against the cold throughout the day. A four-hour vigil began Tuesday evening.
Nine women were arrested at two bases for obstruction but police said the demonstrations were generally peaceful.
More than 100 protesters gathered outside the NATO communications center near London.
The U.S. led invasion of Grenada apparently has swayed Britons against U.S. policies. Seventy-two percent of those polled said they did not accept Reagan's claim that the United States would collect the lives of U.S. citizens there.
Simple gases composed Earth's air, scholar says
By United Press International
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Recent research indicates Earth's primitive atmosphere was nothing like the exotic gases long assumed to have existed, scientists new clues to how life began. NASA researcher reported yesterday.
The revised scenario for the childhood of the 4.6 billion-year-old planet suggests the early atmosphere consisted of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water vapor — not methane, ammonia and hydrogen as generally believed.
Joel S. Levine, senior atmospher scientist at the space agency's Langley Research Center at Hampton, Va., said the new picture of the first several hundred million years of the atmosphere comes from computer analysis of recent geological, geochemical and radioactive data and also profile the gradual change to today's nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere, said Levine.
AT A CONFERENCE at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, he said the carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water vapor in the early atmosphere came from gases trapped in Earth's interior and formation and released through volcanoes.
Once the water vapor from wide spread volcanic activity saturated the atmosphere, rains started and the
occurs formed. This began the process that led to a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere.
The carbon dioxide in the primitive atmosphere largely went into the oceans and precipitated out as carbonate rocks such as limestone. Levine said that without the oceans, Earth would resemble Mars and Venus — lifeless bodies with mostly carbon dioxide atmospheres.
He said that since Venus is closer to the Sun, its water apparently was boiled off by solar heat. Mars is farther from the Sun than earth and its water is too cold to drink. Mars' ice, never existing in liquid form long enough to take up the carbon dioxide.
THE IDEA THAT Earth's primitive atmosphere consisted of methane, ammonia and hydrogen was first proposed in the early 1950s. Levine said such an atmosphere would have been impossible to obtain because we have lasted more than 200 million years.
Levine said other new research has shown that the gases in the earth's atmosphere, when energized by lightning or radiation from the sun, can form formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide — molecules needed for life.
Other research suggests that even before the beginning, of life on Earth, oxygen started to form in the atmosphere. In contrast to previous scientific thought,
Cubans leave; Scoon names election panel
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Governor General Sir Paul Scoon named a nine-member advisory council yesterday to govern the formerly Marxist-led island of Grenada until elections can be held within a year.
Twenty-four Cuban diplomats,
including Ambassador Julian Torres
Rizzo, flew from Point Salines airport
to Barbados in a U.S. Air Force C-130
plane. In Barbados, they boarded a
Cubana Airlines jet bound for Havana.
By United Press International
Residents of a St. George's neighborhood reported hearing several rounds of gunfire late yesterday that the police had shot a sniper fire against American troops.
NO FURTHER DETAILS were immediately available and there was no immediate comment on the report from U.S. officials on Grenada.
Just two Cubans, embassy First Secretary Gaston Diaz and a communications technician, remained in Grenada, in accordance with an order by Scoon for Cuba to reduce its diplomatic representation.
Grenadian officials originally said there were 27 Cuban diplomats on Grenada.
Speaking outside his residence, Scaire said he had asked Alister McIntyre, a 51-year-old Grenadian economist who had been tapped by political observers as the leading candidate for the job, to head Grenada's advisory council.
SCOON, CONSTITUTIONAL head of state as the queen's representative in the former British colony, said one of the ways he prepared for elections within a year.
Among McIntyre's duties will be security matters, finance, trade and
The 24 Cubans left as arrangements were made to transfer to Havana the bodies of 42 Cubans reported killed in an explosion, which ousted the Marxist regimes.
"Politicians will be barred from membership in the council and I have avoided asking people with vested interest in our country," Scoon said.
United Press International
PETITE CALIFIGNY, Grenada — U.S. Army soldiers carry a body from a mass grave. The body was one of three or four removed near a former Grenadian military camp. Officials suspect that the remains of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop may be in the mass grave. A U.S. military forensic team flew to Grenada to try to identify the bodies.
Patrick Emmanuel, a senior research fellow at the University of the West Indies, will be responsible for foreign affairs.
Scoon said McIntyre, deputy secretary general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, must obtain permission from U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar for a leave of absence.
A U.S. military pathology team headed for Grenada to try to identify four burned bodies found in a shallow grave.
Farmer, who earlier said the 42 bodies were in morgues in Grenada, bestowed his statement to say the body might eight different gravesites on the island.
A MILITARY OFFICIAL, said they might be Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, Foreign Minister Unison Whitman, Education Minister Jacqueline Crift and Housing Minister Norris Bain.
The four were among 17 people killed on Oct. 19 when Grenadian army troops fired into a crowd of 3,000 people. The crowd had freed Bishop from house
The spokesman for the U.S. mission on Grenada, Guy Farmer, said all but two of the diplomats at the Cuban Embassy on the island, including Ambassador Julian Torres Rizzo, were heading home yesterday.
The bodies will be exhumed by U.S. Army and International Red Cross officials and sent to Barbados, 150 miles northeast, within the next two days to be examined by Cuban pathologists, Farmer said.
Scoon and Cuban officials resolved an impasse over the evacuation of 42 bodies U.S. military officials said were Cubans killed during the invasion.
U. S. troops and forces from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada Oct. 25 to restore order and democracy and rescue the Americans on the island, most of whom attended a private medical school.
arrest where he had been held since
Oct. 13, count by more militant Marsei
IN BRUSSELS, Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam briefed NATO allies on the U.S. intervention in Grenada
FARMER SAID FIRST Secretary Gaston Diaz and a communications technician would remain on Grenada
"The main point he made was to explain the legal justification for the U.S. action, which Washington felt had been misunderstood in Europe," one NATO diplomat said.
Diaz said Tuesday they would not leave until every Cuban, "died wounded," as he told reporters.
Washington had been disappointed about the reaction of some allies to the intervention and wanted to make its mission absolutely clear, diplomats said.