NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 21, 1983
Page 11
Germans protest stationing of nuclear missiles
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Thousands of students and teachers skipped classes and took to the streets yesterday to demand that NATO cancel nuclear missiles in Europe. Protesters and police clashed briefly in Bremen.
In Bonn, Defense Minister Manfred Woerner warned the peace movement that the Soviet Union represented the triumph of a new era, had designs on all of Western Europe.
The protests in West German schools and universities came on "school
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resistance day, the eight day of a 10-day campaign against NATO's plan to base 572 medium-range U.S. nuclear missiles in western Europe unless agreement is reached at U.S.-Soviet arms talks in Geneva.
UNDER THE PLAN, beginning in December, 108 Pershing-2 missiles and 96 cruise missiles will be stationed in West Germany.
Peace movement organizers claimed more than 70,000 teachers and pupils across the country cut classes, held
workshops and protested. Police estimates were lower.
The only incident reported was in the northern port city of Bremen, where police said more than 6,000 teachers and pupils carrying banners reading "no battlefield in Germany" and "after rearmament comes war" ended classes two hours early to attend a march in the city center.
Police said three people were arrested after 150 masked and helmeted "troublemakers" joined the peaceful protest, smashed headlights on two police cars and damaged a civilian vehicle.
Officers moved in and broke up the group.
In West Berlin, more than 1,400 teachers struck for 30 minutes and several thousand pupils took to the school after school to attend demonstrations.
AT ONE ELEMENTARY school, 600 students gathered in a schoolyard around a poster reading, "Ami (American) get out of Berlin," a city education department spokesman said.
Officials in the southern city of Ulm said teachers at one school played the sound of machine gunfire over public address systems and scrawled the
slogan "turn tanks into beer barrels"
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Movement organizers said some teachers halted lessons to hold debates on disarmament. In Hanover, they said, 10,000 people paraded in city center and 1,000 pupils at five schools with班级 classes to watch an anti-war film.
Woerner, at a news conference held to release a government white book on defense policy, said he did not fear Moscow would start a war because of the risk of retaliation.
the rise of rebellion.
But he said the Kremlin lanted tremendous military superiority to gain political control of Europe.
"YES, I FEEL threatened," he said, answering a question by a Soviet reporter. "The Soviet leadership does not shy from the use of force if it considers the risk is not too great. Afghanistan is a perfect example. I could name many more."
The white book was issued on the eve of blockades of two government ministries and of a U.S. Army installation in Neu Ulm near Stuttgart where the movement says Pershing-2 missiles will arrive.
The movement also plans tomorrow to form a 67-mile human chain between the barracks and the headquarters of the European Command in Stuttgart.
FREIBURG, GERMANY — About 5,000 pupils stage a lie-in in the center of the university city of Freiburg to protest the deployment of U.S. cruise and Pershing-2 missiles. Thousands of school teachers and pupils throughout the country conducted peace rallies on 'school resistance day.'
Hurricane Tico causes state of emergency in Oklahoma
By United Press International
Oklahoma declared a state of emergency yesterday and put the National Guard on standby alert to fight relentless, flooding rains that hurried through the southern plains by the Mexican Hurricane Tico.
The floods that washed Texas and Oklahoma were blamed for at least three deaths and drove close to 200 people from their homes.
Rains of more than 10 inches soaked parts of Oklahoma. Gasoline tanks floated away, a nursing home where a man with at least one grado was cited.
THE HURRICANE DROVE 25,000 people from their homes on Mexico's Pacific coast, ruined 1.1 million acres of farmland and in damages, authorities said. Thirty people were missing at sea.
On Wednesday morning, the hurricane, with winds clocks up to 180 mph, and torrential rains hit the Pacific resort of Mazatlan in the
state of Sinaloa and other coastal towns
The hurricane raged for at least three hours before breaking up against the Sierra Madre mountain range inland. At least 14 people were killed and many more smashed into Mazatlan, located City city, north west of Mexico City.
THE RAINES AND HIGH winds cut telephone lines, tore off roots, damaged crops and caused the flow of water. Mazalan was without electric power.
WASHINGTON — The everyday burning of America's garbage is sending cancer-causing toxins into the atmosphere, but experts are not sure the extent of the public risk, federal officials said yesterday.
An Environmental Protection Agency survey of city incinerators nationwide show that common organic garbage is being mixed with chemical plastic bottles, bread wrappers, record albums and tires.
Garbage incineration causes cancerous toxics, EPA reports
The study said the combined combustion was producing cancer-causing
By United Press International
Fred Kutz, head of the EPA's Field Studies Branch, said tests showed that municipal incinerators were allowing the toxins to escape into the atmosphere and settle on the ground. He said, however, a study to determine the risk to the public would not be complete for another month.
uoxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans, known as furans.
Karen Shapiro, part of an incinerator research team at Queens College in New York, said that the presence of dioxins and furans in the body significantly lowered the body's resistance to all other cancer-causing agents.
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