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University Daily Kansan, October 27, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Trans World directors vote for airline's independence
SAN FRANCISCO — Trans World Corp. directors voted yesterday to separate its Trans World Airlines subsidiary from the corporation and make the airline an independent, publicly owned company.
In the plan, Trans World's stock in the airline, which has lost over $33 million this year, would be distributed to shareholders for whom the directors have tentatively scheduled a special meeting in December to vote on the proposal, said spokesman Jerry Cosley.
Industry analysts think that independence might hurt TWA because the airline would no longer have capital assistance from Trans World Corp. Other analysts said that spinning off TWA would enhance the airline's bottom line, and it should include Hilton International, Canteen Tarn, and Century 21 real estate.
Manila protesters decry U.S. bases
MANILA, Philippines — More than 500 demonstrators marched on the U.S. Embassy yesterday and demanded the dismantling of America's largest overseas military bases. The march was Southeast Asia's first anti-nuclear protest.
The marchers, led by an American Indian and a drum-beating, saffron-robed Japanese monk, assembled peacefully outside the embassy gate for a two-hour rally against foreign military bases and nuclear weapons.
Police estimated that about 500 people attended the rally
The demonstration was the highlight of a three day international conference attended by 34 delegates from six countries.
Gunmen wound Jordanian official
ROME — Suspected Arab gunmen wounded the Jordanian ambassador to Italy and his driver with a burst of submachine gun fire yesterday, a day after Jordan's envoy to India was critically wounded in a similar attack.
A group calling itself the "Syrian Struggle Front" said it had committed the latest attack.
Police said one of the gunmen had stepped from behind a billboard and fired as Ambassador Taysir Alaedin Toukan's car rounded a corner on the short drive from his embassy to his home.
Toukan, 57, was hit at least seven times in the shoulder, thigh, elbow and right hand. A spokesman at Policlinico Umbero hospital said the attack occurred in a courtyard in Palermo.
Chrysler recovers with record profits
DETROIT — Chrysler Corp., continuing its comeback from near bankruptcy, yesterday reported record third quarter profits that jumped a thousand percent to $100.2 million from $9.1 million the same period last year.
The automaker's profit translated to 72 cents a share of common stock, compared to last year's 3 cents a share profit.
Analysts had been expecting a Chrysler profit of about $70 million in the third quarter.
Chrysler's previous third quarter record was $76 million set in 1976. In the first nine months of the year, Chrysler had surpassed its annual profit record of $423 million set in 1976.
Reagan mav still accept airbag rule
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's nominee for the government's top highway safety job said yesterday that she thought the administration would accept mandatory airbags for new cars if a compelling argument for them could be made.
Diane Steed, chosen to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said that officials of the Transportation Department agency had an open mind on the issue despite earlier administration efforts to kill the automatic restraint regulations.
Two years ago the Reagan administration tried to kill the rules that would have made airbags or automatic safety belts mandatory for new cars. The Supreme Court ruled last summer that the administration had acted improperly.
New artery bvpass procedure proposed
WASHINGTON — The most comprehensive study yet indicates that 25,000 Americans undergo unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgery each year, adding $500 million to the nation's annual health bill, physicians reported yesterday.
Leaders of the 10-year, federally supported study said their findings suggested that people with mild to moderate symptoms of hardening of the arteries would pay no penalty in ultimate survival for postponing surgery and receiving drug treatment instead.
In fact, such patients would probably come out ahead in the long run because they can have bypass surgery later if their symptoms worsen.
Burger King told to hold the Spanish
MIAMI — Burger King employees have been told to hold the Spanish, "Communications among managers and/or crew members in the Spanish language is not be tolerated," a memo dated Aug. 17. "We had complaints that employees were speaking Spanish and not getting the orders right."
The memo was sent by Pedro Garcia, a Cuban-born district manager who supervises restaurants in Miami Beach, downtown Miami and
A Miami Hispanic civil rights group is upset about the language memo and is urging Burger King customers to take their business to the competition.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST TO 7 PM EST 10-27-83
Today will be fair across most of the nation.
Locally, today will be sunny with a high in the lower 80s, according to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka.
Tonight will be fair with a low in the low to mid-40s
Tomorrow the high will be around 30.
CORRECTION
Because of a reporter's error, Jay N. Smith and Eric Wynkoop were incorrectly identified in Tuesday's Kansan in a story about filing for next month's Student Senate elections. Smith and Wynkoop are members of the Freedom Coalition, not the Momentum Coalition. Also, Reggie Estell of the Priority Coalition filed for a Nunemaker seat. His name was omitted from the story.
Reagan's military plan gains support House approves Pershing-2 buildup
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan won support from the House yesterday to keep building the nuclear-tipped Pershing-2 missile, which is scheduled for deployment in West Germany in December.
Addabbo, head of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, said Congress had approved money for 112 missiles. Only 108 are scheduled for
The House rejected an amendment by Rep. Joseph Addabba, D-N.Y., to delete $432.8 million for acquisition of $247 billion in 1984 military funding bill.
in West Germany, while 464 on the slower cruise missiles are to be deployed in five Western European nations, including West Germany.
"We have voted on the issue of Pershing 2- time after time, and the Congress has voted to carry it forward for every good reason," said Rep. Jack Kohlberg. "We are going to add Daddabo's subcommittee." "We simply must go ahead with this program."
THE PERSHINGS, which take an estimated 6 to 11 minutes to reach Soviet targets, are to be deployed only
The Senate Appropriations Committee began work yesterday on its more expensive version of the spending bill itself to non-controversial amendments.
The Senate bill would provide $252.2 billion for military spending in 1984. The includes about $2 billion for a military pay raise and another $1 billion for various programs that are not included in the House figure.
THE HOUSE REJECTED by a wide margin a move to restore funds cut by the Appropriations Committee for several Navy ships, then adjourned without discussing some of the more controversial items, such as funding for the B-1 bomber and MX nuclear missile.
The House is not expected to discuss the bill again until Tuesday.
Earlier, in a victory for supporters of President Reagan's military buildup, the House voted 219-192 to restore $81.7 million for buying more Air Force aircraft.
The bill contains funds for most military functions of the Defense Department, including procurement, research and development, operation and maintenance, and military personnel salaries and retirement benefits.
The bill does not include any funds for pay increases.
Rebels accuse Sandinistas of torture
By United Press International
U. S.-backed rebels said yesterday that Nicaraguan government troops had tortured and killed a guerrilla pilot in the capital city of Granada, but Nicaragua denied the accusation.
A communique by the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, known as the FDN, accused the Sandimista regime of the "atrocious murder" of Hugo Reinado Aguilar Mendez, one of five FDN rebels captured when their plane made a forced landing in Matagalpa province Oct. 3
"AGUILAR MENDEZ AND Roberto Amador, together with mechanic Jaime Lau Ramos, appeared on television after they had been severely tortured," said the communique, which was released in Honduras.
Lopez Jimenez have also been assassinated," the bulletin said.
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Official sources in Managua denied the claims and maintained that Aguilar Martinez fought on his plane and was found after his plane was shot down at Blanco by heat-seeking missiles.
He appeared at the news conference in a wheelchair.
In another FDN bulletin, the rebel organization said it killed 33 Sandinista
In El Salvador, Robert Block, a Florida journalist employed by the Reuters news agency left the country after a suicide bombing death, threats, media sources disclosed.
IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS, the president of the Salvadoran Constituent Assembly, Roberto d'Aubusson, attacked charges that "dethreat squaws in the Salvador are composed of officials and soldiers from the Salvadoran army."
D'Aubusson has sent notes to the head of the National Bipartisan Committee on Central America, Henry Kissinger, asking the committee to visit the country to clear up declarations attributed to him.
The charges were first published in a New York Times article during the war.
The Nicaraguan press slammed the U.S. led invasion of Grenada and Chief of State Daniel Ortega warned some Americans to ready to shoot" a U.S. invading force.
"They invade Grenada and make plans against Nicaragua," read one headline in the official newspaper. "They invade Grenada and make plans against Nicaragua," read one headline in the official newspaper. "They invade Grenada and make plans against Nicaragua," read another.
Thousands of demonstrators marched on a square in Managua, Venezuela ("Mass" and placards that read "Death to the yankees! Long live Grenada."
Budget deficit reaches record of $195 billion
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The fiscal 1958 federal budget deficit reached a record $195.4 billion, slipping just below the long-predicted $200 billion mark, the government said yester- day.
The red ink for the fiscal year, from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, was far beyond the previous high, 1982's $110.7 billion, and underscored the federal budget just as Congress couds new spending cuts and taxes.
The Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget said the government spent $79.6 million during the year that ended Sept. 30.
The last administration projection was that the 1983 deficit would be $209.3 billion.
Meanwhile, Senate Republican leaders met to discuss the defect problem for the fiscal 1984 year that began Oct. 1.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole, R-Kan., floated his idea of a $110 billion plus deficit reducing package split between spending cuts and tax reforms.
There is no indication that the administration would support any package that includes major tax increases.
"The fact that 1983 came in less than the mid-session estimate was not attributable to the brisk recovery, "budget office spokesman Ed Dale said yesterday. "There was a whole list of reasons."
Consequently, there is no way to know what the effect of the recovery will be on the 1984 test, last projected to be $179.7 billion, he said.
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