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University Daily Kansan, November 3, 1983
NEWS BRIEFSEs From United Press International Clark attacked for failure to rebuke policies of Watt
WASHINGTON — The most conservative elements in the environmental movement yesterday criticized William Clark for refusing to renounce the policies of Interior Secretary James Watt.
But Clark's confirmation by the Senate appeared certain as the Senate Energy Committee completed two days of confirmation hearings on Clark. The committee is to vote on the nomination tomorrow. The full Senate could vote on the matter next week.
Leaders of the National Wildlife Federation and National Audubon Society — among the nation's most politically conservative environmentalists — repeatedly expressed fears that he would pursue a pro-development agenda.
South Africa votes on constitution
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South African whites voted heavily yesterday on a proposed new constitution that would give political rights to some non-whites but exclude the nation's overwhelming black majority.
Police stepped up security at polling booths after two bombs rocked downtown Durban. Sources attributed the bombings to "militant black groups."
Before the whites-only voting started, liberals predicted that approval of the new constitution would create political chaos, and right-wing proponents of strict racial segregation — apartheid — said it would be the beginning of the end of white supremacy.
Chrysler. UAW far from agreement
TWINSBURG, Ohio — Negotiations in a strike by employees at Chrysler Corp.'s Twinsburg stamping plant recaptured last night with the two sides "quite far apart" in their efforts to avert a possible shutdown of the nation's No. 3 automaker.
Representatives of Chrysler and the 3,200 members of United Auto Workers Local 122 met for about two hours in an attempt to end the two-day walkout, after union officials spent most of the day studying "ongoing contract language."
Contract talks were scheduled to resume at 8:30 a.m. CST today
Contract talks were scheduled to resume at 8:30 a.m. "CST" early.
At this point, it's very strained. Paul Jaumeen, financial secretary for the company, said:
Greyhound stops rolling its buses
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Greyhound Lines, the nation's largest transportation company, decided to shut down its nationwide bus service at 1 a.m. today and asked company employees to reconsider a 9.5 percent pay cut.
The workers, including 7,500 bus drivers, called a strike for the same hour.
The company, whose buses carried 57 million passengers last year, said service would be disrupted for several days.
John W. Teets, chairman and chief executive officer of the parent Greyhound Corp., said buses would stop running at 1 a.m. CST and remain off the roads until the company's 12,000 union-covered employees had a chance to review and presumably vote on the company proposal.
Columbia may be launched Nov.28
WASHINGTON — U.S. and European space agency officials decided yesterday to try to launch the space shuttle Columbia and its instrument-laden Spacelab cargo Nov. 28 despite a reduced scientific return from its experiments.
Adverse seasonal conditions will affect seven of the 38 scientific instruments aboard the European-built orbiting laboratory during the nine-day space flight. The flight originally was set to start on Sept. 30 and has been delayed twice.
The record six-man crew for the mission consists of John Young, Brewster Shaw, Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Byron Lichtenberg and Ulf Merbold.
Case overload of labor board cited
WASHINGTON — An accumulation of more than 1,300 cases has put the National Labor Relations Board on the verge of being a non-functioning federal agency, a House subcommittee chairman said yesterday.
"I am convinced . . . that this thing has nearly broken down," said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Manpower and Housing.
Frank made his comment after union officials complained of delays of up to two years to get final NLRB decisions after administrative hearing decisions were handed down.
Rep John McKernan, R-Maine, added, "People who take cases to government agencies deserve a decision. They deserve a timely decision."
Baker named 2nd-best-dressed man
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Howard Baker, describing himself as a "slob," said yesterday that he was stunned at being named the second-best-dressed man in the government.
"I have absolutely no taste in clothes," Baker told the Senate. "I am a slob."
Baker was narrowly beaten by President Reagan in a poll of best-dressed men in the government. The poll was conducted by the Tenth Circuit Court.
Baker said some of the glory of the award was tarnished by the naming of John Travolta in the film category and Julius Erving among athletes.
He said Travolta was seen only in a T-shirt and Irving was never seen "except in his underwear."
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST 10 7 PM EST 11-3-83
today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Locally, today will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high will be near 65. Tonight will be cloudy with a low near 55. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a high near 60.
New fighting in Lebanon threatens Geneva talks
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese troops and Muslim gunmen engulfed Beirut's southern suburb and surrounding hills with artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire yesterday in a serious breach of a cease-fire that threatened to unravel peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland.
By United Press International
Army sources reported Drusse Muslim shelled the Defense Ministry in Yarze and the Shouf mountain village of Souk el Gharb, the key army base 8 miles from Beirut that guards the southeast approaches to the capital.
IN WASHINGTON, the house, heeding warnings that it could sabotage the last chance for peace in Lebanon, overwhelmingly rejected a proposal yesterday to pull U.S. troops out of Beirut by March 1, 1984.
State-run Beirut radio said that the nine leaders of Lebanon's warring factions learned of the fighting and began calling from Geneva to their
The House, wrapping up work on a $247 billion military spending bill, defeated 274-153 an amendment that would have prohibited the use of funds for the Marine peace-keeping force after March 1.
Christian and Muslim field commanders to try to silence the guns.
U. S. administration officials said that President Reagan would appoint former Defense Secretary Donald Hummer as his special Middle East envoy today
White House sources said that Rumsfeld, 51, agreed yesterday to take
RUMISFELD, chief executive of G.D. Searle & Co., a Skokie, Ill., drug company, is a former Republican congressman from Illinois who served as head of the Office of Economic Administration before becoming White House chair of staff and, later, defense secretary under President Gerald Ford.
on the delicate diplomatic mission, succeeding Robert McFarlane, who was recently named, the president's national security affairs adviser.
A warning of the terrorist attack on U.S. and French forces in Lebanon was circulated among top government officials three days before a truck bombed the embassy in Beirut. Marine headquarters in Beirut, the New York Times reported yesterday.
The New York Times said that an
intelligence report specified that a pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim group known as "Islamic Amal" and "the Party of God" was planning an attack
THE NEWSPAPER said that the report was distributed Oct. 20 to top government officials and military officials in the region who had been seen by top Marine officers in Beirut.
Unconfirmed reports on the right-wing Phalange militia radio reported more battles on the Galerie Semaan, Beirut's main east-west roadway, and the Tayoune area that separates Christian east from Muslim west Beirut.
The artillery and mortar blasts echoed over the U.S. Marine peacekeeping base sandets between the two nations, but no American said that no Americans were involved.
Lebanon factions reach accord, declare country independent
By United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland — Lebanon's warring factions yesterday reached their first concrete agreement in three days of peace talks, declaring the nation an independent state aligned firmly with the Arab world.
The declaration, contained in a formal resolution, was written by the nine leaders in the talks, who represent the U.S.-backed government, the right-wing Christian militia and opposition Shite. Sunni and Drua Muslims.
A formal text of the resolution was not released, but officials said its
overall direction for the first time placed the future course of the nation
Since Lebanon gained independence in 1943, the identity of the country has been divided between Christians, who have deep financial and political ties to the Syrian government, and spiritual allegiance and political strength with neighboring Arabs.
EXACTLY HOW the definition of Lebanon as an Arab state would be put into effect was not explained. That apparently gave the Christian Phlaion leader, Pierre Gemayel, father of president Amin, and former president Camille Chamoun the leeway to support the measure
Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Drusse Muslims and founder of the pro-Syrian National Salvation Front, said he would insist that the resolution lead to dramatic changes in school texts and control of the radio and television.
Despite the agreement, a morning meeting ended with heated exchanges on the crucial issue of the May 17 vote. The Lebanese government and Israel
Jumblait said he stormed out of the talks because he had been prevented from raising the withdrawal accord for discussion by Gemayel and his father.
PRO-SYRIAN groups, saying that the accord amounts to a peace treaty with the Jewish state, have demanded that Israel should have if he wants to bring peace to Lebanon.
Israel has threatened that its 30,000 troops in southern Lebanon would seal off the area — partition it from the rest of Lebanon, if the accord is abrogated.
The accord provided for a simultaneous withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian troops in Lebanon and provided the United Nations with political and trade relations in the future.
Syria, however, has demanded that Israel withdraw unilaterally.
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