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University Daily Kansan, November 4. 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Officers quarantine towns after earthquake in Turkey
ERZURUM, Turkey — Military officials quarantined dozens of villages Thursday to stem the spread of disease from animal carcasses killed in an earthquake that killed at least 1,333 people and left 30,000 others homeless.
The death toll was expected to rise even higher because many other villagers still were missing, officials said.
Military officials said that the villages were quarantined because medical teams suspected that carcasses of farm animals could spread disease.
Recovery crews sprayed the rubble with disinfectants and poured chlorine into wells after pulling out bodies in some villages.
Congressman assails crop payments
WASHINGTON — A California congressman, releasing names of 15 large U.S. farms which have gotten commodities worth more than $23 million for not growing crops this year, yesterday threatened to file a lawsuit to recover large sups paid to farmers.
The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, has issued a non-binding opinion stating that payment-in-kind payments in excess of $50,000 per farm were illegal.
So Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif, chairman of the Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures subcommittee, said he is "considering filing a suit on behalf of the taxpayers to recover these millions of dollars of illegal payments."
A Kansas farm, Hughes Livestock Inc., Syracuse, appeared on Stark's list, Stark reported that Hughes received $333,388 in sorghum money.
Israel tests mobilization of reserves
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel, for the first time in five years, set in motion Thursday a test mobilization of 400,000 reserve troops and demanded that the Palestine Liberation Organization guarantee the safety of six prisoners held in a Syrian-besieged base in Lebanon.
A senior army official said that Israel's Arab neighbors were informed about the mobilization drill "through certain channels" to avoid misunderstanding that the test was a preparation for war.
The exact date of the exercise was not disclosed
The officer said the exercise had been planned for five months and was intended to reevaluate emergency call-up procedures.
Computer hacker pleads not guilty
LOS ANGELES — A college sophomore described as an outstanding and law-abiding student pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges he used his home computer to penetrate a Pentagon international computer network.
Bail for Ronald Austin, 19, was set at $2,000 by Municipal Court Judge Michael Tynan, who told the defendant to stay away from computers and return to court on Dec. 2 for a preliminary hearing.
Austin, a UCLA physics major, faces 14 counts of maliciously accessing information at universities and institutions doing research work under Department of Defense grants. He also faces single counts of theft and receiving stolen property.
Indian officials arrest Sikh terrorists
NEW DELHI, India — Police arrested 1,700 people in the northern state of Punjab in a government crackdown on militant members of the Sikh faith demanding political and religious autonomy, officials said yesterday.
Moderate leaders of the popular Sikh Akali Dal Party have tried to keep protest against the central government peaceful, but a handful of terrorists has killed security officers, derailed trains, planted bombs and robbed banks.
The government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi hopes to stop the violence because Punjab is also at the center of India's grain-producing region.
Chevron official predicts oil surplus
SAN FRANCISCO — Uniess supplies are cut off by Mideast turmoil, consumers should enjoy oil surpluses and stable prices for the next decade, an oil industry executive said Wednesday.
Chevron U.S.A. President Kenneth T. Deer, speaking to the Society of Automotive Engineers, said he does not forsce "another dramatic boom cycle in the oil business anytime soon."
"To the contrary, our industry's recovery is likely to be gradual." Deer asserted. "After 1990, supply and demand should tighten enough to cause oil prices to once again increase faster than inflation — although not by the quantum leaps experienced in the '70s."
Not until the 21st century will "reliance on oil as our primary source of energy begin to fade." Deer said.
Dog mauls 3-year-old boy to death
HOLTON, Mich. — A 3-year-old boy was mauled to death yesterday by one of an estimated 25 large dogs his parents kept at their home, officials said.
The child, Mason Scurlock, was attacked by a 60 pound Malamute and was pronounced dead a little more than an hour after the attack, Muskegon County Deputy Michael Prow said.
The animal was confiscated by the Muskegon County Animal Control unit, Prow said.
Mason became the fourth victim of a dog attack in the last three weeks
Mason was found lying near the dog by his mother, Pamela Scurlock. The boy t father, Michael Scurlock, guesses that the child was attacked by a dog.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 11-4-83
Today will be rainy over parts of the lower Plains and over many of the northeastern states.
Locally, today will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid- to upper 60s, according to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka.
60s, according to the National Gazette. Tonight will be fair with a low around 50.
Tonight will be rain with a low tide.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-60s.
Arafat leads troops against leftist forces
By United Press International
ARAFAT, WHO HAS Failed to control a growing leftist revolt against his leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization, appealed to Arab, non-aligned and East bloc leaders to halt "this dangerous situation."
The fighting erupted at dawn in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, with tanks and 100 artillery pieces firing 70 rounds a minute into the besieged Arafat compound in the Baddawi and Bared refuge camps.
Yasser Arafat led 5,000 troops in a fight for survival yesterday against an all-out tank and artillery blitz by Syrian, Libyan and PLO rebels seeking to drive the embattled guerrilla chief from his last Lebanese stronghold. Police said at least 60 people were killed.
The rebels, in a broadcast from Damascus, claimed that they took the heights overlooking the refugee camps under the orders of Arafat's forces had deserted.
He also urged Syrian President Hafez Assad to halt the attack before the 40,000 Palestinian refugees in the camps were massacred and the rebels fulfilled what Israel failed to achieve in its invasion of Lebanon 17 months ago.
"We are surrounded on all sides," he told the Lahese Press News. He
asked Assad to personally intervene to halt the "meaningless" onslaught and urged Arab leaders to "prevent a Sabra and Shatila style massacre," referring to the killing of 160 people by Christian Lebanese in two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut.
Arafat said his supporters were "tied up with being treated like rats" and told London's Daily Express newspaper that the terrorist cried that Syria was to kill him.
He said they acted like "packs of hunting dogs . . . with a taste for the kill."
POLICE SAID AT least 60 people were killed and more than 100 others were wounded. Rescuers were prevented from reaching most of the embattled camps, and police said they expected the death toll to swell.
Damascus radio claimed that its forces were not involved in the fighting, but Lebanese police said at least one of the killed was a regular Syrian army soldier.
News reports said that terrified women and children fled down the coastal road to shelter in the center of Triolii.
The fighting centered in the two refugee camps north of Tripoli, Mount Torbal overlooking the camps from the southern side. The oil tanks exploded after being shelled.
Muslims agree to put Israeli accord on hold
By United Press International
GENEVA. Switzerland — Lebanese Muslims, softening their stand in peace talks, agreed with the Christian government yesterday to freeze the Israeli security accord and to withdraw 30,000 Israeli troops.
The agreement removed a key obstacle that threatened to doom the talks among the nine major Lebanese political and religious rivals and represented a major Muslim rupture with their Syrian advisers who wanted the accord scrapped outright.
A unanimously adopted resolution temporarily set aside implementation of the May 17 Israel accord and urged President Admirin Gemayel to visit Washington and Arab Israel to ensure "to end the Israel occupation."
GEMAYEL SAID HE would suspend the peace talks Saturday.
travel to Washington next week, and then reconvene the reconciliation conference in Geneva to report on his diplomatic appeals
In Washington, a State Department spokesman reached before the freeze decision was announced, said that the U.S. would stand by the existing 'excellent' freeze decision, meeting after the news, said that the freeze 'sounds reasonable, since it was frozen anyway.'
There was no immediate response from Israel, but it warned earlier that its 30,000 troops would seal off Lebanon up to the Aawari River and — in essence — partition the nation if the accord was canceled.
The accord, signed May 17 by Gemayel, calls for an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in exchange for guarantees of security on its northern border and normalized trade and trade relations in the future.
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