NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 4, 1983 Page 10
Navy spots lame Soviet sub off U.S. coast
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A late model Soviet nuclear attack submarine lay crippled and bobbing on the surface of the Atlantic 470 miles off the U.S. yesterday — stranded by unknown mechanical difficulties, the Navy said.
The 6,000-ton late model Victor III Class boat, which does not carry intercontinental nuclear missiles, was spotted at 2 a.m. CST Wednesday by a propeller-driven U.S. P-3 Orion reconnaissance plane while on routine patrol, a Navy announcement said.
Other P-3s continued surveillance and took photographs from every angle of the stricken sub, whose disability gave the Navy its first long look at a Victor III Class boat, Navy officials said.
"We'd like to get as much information as possible," one official
said. "This affords us an opportunity to do that."
"We're all over that sub, believe me," another official said. "We finally got it."
THE NAVY PUT the position of the sub in international waters at about 282 miles west of Bermuda and 470 miles east of Charleston, S.C., which is a major base for U.S. missile-carrying submarines.
Though the sub surfaced in one of the most heavily trafficked seaslanes in the world, Navy officials said its presence in the area was part of routine patterns of Soviet surveillance of Charleston and a new base under construction at Kings Bay, Ga., for the Trident missile-equipped subs.
Attack submarines, both Soviet and American, are designed in part to hunt and kill subs armed with intercontinental range nuclear missiles that can be launched from below the surface.
Navy officials, who spoke on condition that they not be identified, said that
a Soviet intelligence-gathering trawl was in the vicinity and that a Soviet submarine tender was on the way to the bases (assays) and probably would arrive Friday.
THE TENDER WAS expected to tow the sub to Cuba for repairs, they said.
The 341-foot sub, which carries a crew of 90, was seen bobbing in
4-to-6-foot swells, which "makes life miserable for the girls aboard," a Navy official said. He said it was in no apparent danger of capsizing.
There was no sign of any radiation leakage from the boat, the officials said. They said they did not know the technical failure that crippled the sub.
The Victor III, first built in 1978, is the latest model of the Victor Class submarines that joined the Soviet fleet in 1967. It can attain speeds of 30 knots while submerged and carries six torpedoes and nuclear-tipped SSN-15 anti-submarine rockets with a range of 35 miles.
THOSE SHORT-RANGE nuclear weapons are similar to the submarine-launched rockets carried aboard U.S. attack subs.
The submarine was in its normal patrolling pattern in the Atlantic when it was stricken, the officials said, indicating U.S. intelligence-gathering equipment is able to track Soviet subs off the American coasts.
FCC asked to change phone-access fee plan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A House committee said yesterday that the Federal Communications Commission should scrap a plan to charge phone customers an "access fee" to call. The commission said the issue was not properly studied.
In a report that recommended reopening the hearing process on the plan, the House Committee on Government Operations said the FCC had no idea how the charges would affect customers.
The plan would allow local phone companies to add $2 to residential phone bills and $6 to business phone bills each month.
Commerce committees in the Senate and House have passed
legislation that would substantially change the FCC plan
many people would be forced to cancel their phone service due to the charges, or how many businesses would set up their own long-distance networks to bypass the phone company.
THE HOUSE VERSION is expected to be debated next week.
The report was the result of an investigation by the subcommittee on government information, justice and civil affairs. The FCC could not estimate how
FCC staff members said the agency received a copy of the report, 'Leap Before You Look.' The Federal Communication Commission's Access Charge Decision' late Friday had no immediate order.
Studies cite advances in research on cancer
By United Press International
CHICAGO — The removal of large gallstones — whether or not they cause gallbladder problems — may help prevent cancer of the gallbladder, a doctor said yesterday.
Another doctor said that the pain of cancer victims could be eased by continuous infusion of narcotics in the spine.
The studies of both doctors were reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Andrew K. Diehl of the University of Texas in San Antonio warned that the risk of surgery to remove a kidney can be the benefits of cancer, prevention.
Diehl found in his study that patients with stones 3 centimeters — 1.2 inches — or larger were 10 times more likely to have cancer than
patients with stones smaller than 1 centimeter.
IN THE OTHER cancer research, Dennis W. Coombs of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H., and colleagues studied to patients — five cancer and five pain patients — with pain not easily manageable.
The patients were treated for 12 weeks with continuous intrasphral morphine delivered by catheter from implanted reservoirs.
However, there were poor results in the five other patients with malignant disease and had no unresponsive to past treatments.
Five patients with bowel cancer reported relief of pain, Coombs said. They were able to reduce their intake of oral narcotics and improve their performance on tests of cognitive function.
Bell announces national forum on public schools
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Terrel Bell announced yesterday that he would hold a national conference next month for state, local and federal officials to exchange and possibly form plans on how to best upgrade America's schools.
Bell told a news conference that chances were good that President Reagan would attend the Dec. 6-8 National Forum on Excellence in Indianapolis which is expected to draw about 1,200 participants.
The secretary said that as a result of what might be learned at the summit, the department might seek certain unspecified new federal initiatives.
BUT HE QUICKLY reiterated the administration's position that states and localities — not Washington — had responsibility for public education.
"We feel our job is to help states, local communities, private institutions," he said. "For too long, failures at state and local levels have given rise to a chorus of demands for federal action."
The forum is an outgrowth of a report last spring by Bell's National Commission on Excellence in Education that helped trigger an unprecedented movement to improve schools and education into a hot political issue.
The report, "A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform," found schools engulfed in a "rising tide of mediocrity" and offered a host of recommendations, such as higher pay for teachers and a return to the basics.
education groups and Democratic presidential candidates, have called on a reluctant administration, which is seeking funding of schools, to increase funding of schools.
Bell said that much could now be done within existing financial restraints. Polls have shown, he said, that the public is willing to pay more for education, provided the money is well spent.
BELL SAID THAT in recent months 36 states had initiated curriculum reform, 40 had started to raise high school graduation requirements and 11 were moving ahead on various merit pay plans for teachers.
He said that the forum would provide an opportunity for state and local educational and political leaders to swap their blueprints for action.
proposed legislation and education budgets to state legislators in January and February, we need to provide a forum where states can share copies of draft legislation, master plans and financing proposals," he said.
Bell last month completed the last of a series of 12 regional forums on the commission's report and said in an Oct. 3 news conference in Seattle that he would hold a national forum in Indianapolis in early December.
"With governors presenting their.
Bell said that among those being invited to the Indianapolis forum were state and local school superintendents, teachers, leaders, governors and congressmen.
At the same time, many financially strapped states, along with several
Doctor uses penknife to save teen-ager mauled by shredder
By United Press International
Steven Bednas, 19, remained in a deep coma and in critical condition at Ottawa General Hospital, nearly a day after incident last Friday at a shopping mall.
OTTWAIA — A doctor used a penkine to open the chest of a teenager whose heart stopped after he lost both legs in a garbage shredder and then performed open heart massage to save his man's life, officials said yesterday.
Doctors said he lost massive amounts of blood and his heart stopped for six minutes, an often fatal time lapse, when he took it to free him from the shredder.
Bednas, who worked at a Consumers Distributing store, was apparently
AN AMBULANCE CREW arrived with Dr. Trinjat Maloney and began working to free Bednas, whose legs were trapped in the shredder.
hailing trash out to the shredder and "pushing boxes in with his legs"—but it is so slimy he must have slipped," said Allen MacMillan, 19, a co-worker.
Dr. Barry Armstrong, a Canadian army doctor who lives three blocks from the mall, was called to help by his wife, who was shopping. He rushed to the other doctor. Capt. Charles Buckley of the National Defense Medical Center.
While they worked on the bleeding teenager, his heart stopped and the doctors decided to amputate his legs to be free from the injuries carried Bednas to a stretcher and an ambulance attendant began closed-chest heart massage.
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