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University Daily Kansan, October 26, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Indian police seek gunman who shot Jordanian official
NEW DELHI, India - A gunman "connected" with the Middle East critically wounded the Jordanian ambassador to India with bursts of submachine gun fire yesterday and escaped in a taxi, authorities said.
Ambassador Mohammad Ali Kourme, 55, was rushed to a nearby hospital and underwent emergency surgery for seven gunshot wounds. He was in critical condition.
we suspect it is part of the overall terrorism connected with the Middle East situation," said a spokesman for the Indian Foreign Ministry.
The Indian government increased security around all Arab embassies and checked airports, trains, buses, and hotels for suspects, specifically foreigners who recently had arrived in New Delhi.
Auto. housing. food prices increase
WASHINGTON — Auto and housing costs led a 0.5 percent increase in September's consumer prices, the biggest inflation jump in five months, despite an improvement in back-to-school expenses, government officials said yesterday.
oricals said yesterday.
A 1.4 percent decline in tuition costs and the absence of an increase in the price of clothing, the other big back-to-school expense, offset much of the stiffening elsewhere in the index.
Food prices climbed 0.4 percent in September — more than in any month since April. The damage from the summer drought spread to supermarket aisles while the benefits, mostly lower meat prices, began to diminish.
Trial sought for Salvadoran soldiers
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador's attorney general called yesterday for the prompt opening of the long delayed trial of five former national guardsmen accused of murdering four American churchwomen in 1980.
A lawyer for the family of one of the women said he did not think a trial of the guardsmen was imminent.
Maryknoll sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline nun Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan, a social worker affiliated with the Ursuline order, were raped and shot in the head after being kidnapped Dec. 2, 1980.
1864. Six national guardsmen were arrested in connection with the case May 9, 1981. Charges against two were dropped, but another guardsman was arrested.
Clark seeks out-of-court settlements
WASHINGTON — William Clark told environmental leaders yesterday that he was troubled by the many lawsuits pending against Interior Secretary James Watt's policies and that he wanted to settle as many as possible out of court.
Clark, President Reagan's nominee to succeed Watt as head of the Interior Department, made the comment in a private session with leaders of seven national conservation groups and Sens. John Chaffee, R-R.L. and Paul Lauxalt, R-Nev.
Watt's controversial pro-development policies during his 2 $ _{1/2} $ -year term prompted a barrage of lawsuits against the Interior Department from environmental groups and state officials.
Court rules against Marcos regime
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines Supreme Court ruled against the government of President Ferdinand Marcos for the first time in 11 years yesterday, granting the opposition permission to stage a demonstration against U.S. military bases.
dehorsists against US militants.
Also in Manila, military agents had a secret television system that may have been used to videotape the assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino, officials said.
Aquino, the chief rival of Marcos, was shot to death Aug. 21 seconds after he stepped off a plane after three years of exile in the United States. The assassination has triggered almost daily demonstrations against the government and demands for Marcos' resignation.
Newscaster shot on his way to work
LOS ANGELES — Police searched yesterday for four gunmen who shot and wounded anchorman Jerry Dumphy and his companion at a stop sign as the popular newscaster approached a Hollywood TV station in his silver-blue Rolls-Royce.
in his silver sword Tomb of Kiev. Detectives said they had not determined whether Dunphy was the target of a premeditated attack or the victim of a random street shooting.
sabotining. Dunphy and a station makeup artist were in stable condition at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center recovering from gunshot wounds suffered Monday night.
would suffer more Monday night. Dunphy, 62, was driving to the KABC-TV studios with Sandra Marshall for his 11 p.m. newscast when the attack occurred about 10:20 p.m.
Poles use rented plane to flee home
BERLIN — Five Poles unhappy with conditions in their homeland rented an airplane from a sports club and flew to West Berlin yesterday undetected by Soviet bloc fighters, a police spokesman said.
Four men, aged 16 to 29, and the 4 year old son of one of the men fleed in a four seat, Soviet built Yak 12 to the U.S. Air Force's Tempelhof Air Base. It was the seventh airborne escape involving Poles since December 1981 when martial law was proclaimed in Poland.
The men told West Berlin security officials they left because they were dissatisfied with political and economic conditions in Poland and wanted to live in freedom.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 10-26-83
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Today will be mostly fair across the nation. Locally, today will be sunny and mild with a high around 70, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Tonight will be clear with a low around 40. Tomorrow will be sunny with a high around 75.
Because of a reporter's error, Jay N. Smith and Eric Wynkoop were incorrectly identified in yesterday's Kansas in a story about filing for next month's Student Senate elections. Smith and Wynkoop are members of the Momentum Coalition, not the Freedom Coalition. Also, Pat Levy of the Priority Coalition filed for an off-campus seat. His name was omitted from the story.
CORRECTION
Chicago teachers end longest strike ever
CHICAGO — Nearly 27,000 teachers went back to their classrooms yesterday, some of them bitter about the results of their record three-week strike and others satisfied that a 5 percent pay raise was the best they could get.
does not take effect until January, the
percent for the year will total only 2.9
percent.
By United Press International
Teachers in the nation's third-largest school district approved the $81 million contract by a vote of 73 to 27 percent Monday. Since the 5 percent pay raise
"The 2.9 percent effective pay increase is chicken feed," said Bill Maloney, a teacher at Brian Piccolo Middle School.
THE FIVE-MEMBER Chicago School Finance Authority, created by the Illinois Legislature in 1890 after the bankrupt school system shut down because of lack of money, still has to approve the contract.
Authority attorney Wayne McCoy said that before approval is granted,
Even though many of the teachers were bitter, most said the 5 percent increase was the best they could hope for. The financially strapped Board of Education.
the school board must submit a revised revenue estimate, a revised budget and a revised financial plan. There was no word on when the authority would rule
Schools Superintendent Ruth Love said the pact will not upset the board's budget, although projected deficits will remain high and raise and trigger the walkout on Oct. 3.
IT HAS BEEN estimated the contract will raise the deficit by up to $17 million, raising the projected 1984-85 deficit to about $100 million.
Along with setting with the Chicago Teachers Union's 27,000 members, the board also reached an agreement late Monday with 18 blue collar unions representing 11,000 employees.
More than 14,500 teachers did not participate in the ratification vote; making it the smallest majority to represent a student in any of the union's six strikes.
Reagan fires three liberals from civil rights panel
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, in a surprise power play, formally fired three liberal members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights yesterday to clear the way for nominees more sympathetic to his views.
"The issue is the responsibility of the president to exercise the power given to him by law."
The abrupt action, muted by a flurry of activity over the U.S.backed invasion of Grenada, crushed a lengthy
effort to reach a compromise with Congress on the makeup of the panel. Civil rights activists have accused Reagan of trying to pack the commission with members more closely aligned to his conservative positions on such issues as affirmative action and school busing.
Members of the 26-year-old watchdog group are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate to serve "at the pleasure of the president." The three members dismissed by Reagan are all Democrats.
Following yesterday's action, Reagan's nominees may take over the
"AT STAKE in this matter is not the removal of certain individuals or the Civil Rights Commission itself," said deputy press secretary Larry Speakes.
commission slots on a temporary basis pending Senate action. If they are confirmed, he will have named five of the six panel members.
The commission is facing a Nov. 29 shutdown date unless its authority is extended, but that process has been entangled in the battle over the proposed to expand its size to accommodate the new Reagan nominees.
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