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University Daily Kansan, October 20, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Teacher strike fuels fights; police arrest 28 in Chicago
CHICAGO — Twenty-eight people, including a 5-year-old child, were arrested yesterday when they charged a Board of Education office shut down by a teacher's strike in the nation's third-largest school district.
in unrelated incidents, a man waving a gun at a group of about 100 striking teachers was arrested and a teacher, David Wilson, 47, was arrested for jumping onto the hood of an auto, banging on the windshield and shouting obscenities. Police said other striking teachers tried to block their path as they walked Wilson to a paddy wagon.
As the strike entered its 12th day, tying the 1973 record for the longest walkout in the history of Chicago's public school system. Mayor Harold Washington came out with his strongest criticism of the strike to date.
West Germans protest U.S. missiles
COLOGNE, West Germany — About 1,500 demonstrators, protesting the establishment of new U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe, yesterday blocked a West German army headquarters, forcing police to move in and carry them off. About 150 were arrested.
The demonstration remained peaceful and came as anti-missile movement leaders said that one million people took part in other protests across the nation on the seventh day of a 10-day campaign against the deployment of the NATO missiles.
The western alliance plans to begin deployment of 572 U.S. cruise and Pershing 2- medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe in December unless there is progress at the U.S.-Soviet arms talks in Geneva.
Salvadoran army reopens highway
SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador — The Salvadoran army reopened a highway to a key town north of the capital yesterday, officials said, but left rebels attacked a civil defense post in the area, killing four guards and wounding five others.
and wounding five others. Guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front seized the highway to Suchitoto earlier this week, shutting the way to San Salvador for three days.
for three days.
In Tegucigalpa, the Honduran government proposed a new maritime trade route with Costa Rica to bypass the highway through Nicaragua, which will further isolate the country's leftist regime.
which will not be tolerated in the soil. Honduras lets U.S. backed Nicaraguan rebels operate from its soil.
SAN FRANCISCO — James D. Harper, Silicon Valley engineer accused of spying, was ordered held without bail yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Owen E. Woodruff.
Polish spy suspect held without bail
Woodruff said Harper's life had been "a commute between here and Europe," and indicated he feared the suspect might flee, especially because Swiss bank accounts are said to be involved in the espionage case.
Harper is charged with selling U.S. missile secrets to Polish agents who gave them to the Soviet Union.
"Although there are ties with the community, I am particularly persuaded by portions of the affidavit suggesting extensive travel between here and Western and Eastern Europe," Woodruff said.
Female leader vows to oust Reagan
WASHINGTON — A pioneer of the women's liberation movement said yesterday women would retaliate against President Reagan's "declaration of war" against them by using political muscle to knock him out of office.
"Women, for the first time, have the power to elect a president." Betty Friedan told the people gathered in her honor and in celebration of the 20th anniversary of her landmark book, "The Feminist Mystique."
the 20th anniversary of her marriage. The book, a critique of American society's treatment of women as second-class citizens, was credited with having helped begin the women's rights movement.
Friedman, 62, said women have come a long way over the past two decades, but Reagan administration policies threaten their progress.
Doctors treat food-poisoned victims
PEORIA, Ill. - Doctors said yesterday they hoped they could save all of more than two dozen persons believed to be suffering from botulism after eating patty melt sandwiches at a local restaurant.
Doctors said at least nine cases already have been proved to be botulism when the toxin showed up in samples of blood or stool specimens from the patients.
specimens from the pediatrics department.
Health officials said they still were not sure what caused the poisoning, although their investigation centered on pickles served with the rye bread, cheese, grilled onion and hamburger sandwiches.
Patients were treated with an antitoxin to Peoria from New Orleans, Seattle, New York City, and other U.S. and Canadian cities
Search for plane ends in car trunk
SHREWSBURY, Mass — A hospital mechanic locked an emergency locator box for an airplane in the trunk of his car and, unaware that it had started signaling, sparked a global search for a missing aircraft.
Donald Dearie, a mechanic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, had taken the locator box to his house. Somehow, it started signaling.
started signal flashes and was picked up by one American and two Soviet satellites. After a computer narrowed the search area and officials had received no reports of missing aircraft, Civil Air Patrol searchers tracked the signal to the back of Decarie's car at 3:49 a.m. Tuesday.
sign,
"They woke the guy up and told him to shut that thing off," said Shrewsbury Police Chief Robert K. McGinley.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PHI EST 10-20-83
Today will be mostly fair and cool across the nation.
Today, usually, today will be cloudy with a 60 percent chance of rain with a high near 65, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Tonight will be cloudy with a low in the mid-50s. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a high near 60.
BEIRUT - Lebanon — A car-bomb blasted wounded four U.S. Marines yesterday amid fierce factional violence that forced postponement of a peace conference and threatened to evacuate Lebanon back into all out civil war.
Peace talks delayed amid new violence
But early today, the thud of exploding shells and rockets, presumably south of Beirut, again echoed through the capital.
The postponement of the talks briefly reduced exchanges of mortar and rocket fire between army troops and Druse Muslim and Shite Muslim rebels along front lines in the hills overlooking Beirut and the city's southern suburbs.
By United Press International
In Washington, President Reagan said at a televised news conference that the United States will not change its policy on Lebanon despite the violence
"We're going to keep on what we have been doing," he said, adding "we're doing everything we possibly can to make the situation for them (the Marines) safer."
Syrian-backed opposition leaders refused to attend today's planned session aimed at ending eight years of factional violence.
that has taken the lives of six Marines since August.
"Some objections to the site were made on security grounds," official Beirut Radio said, announcing the indefinite postponement of the meeting between the country's warring factions.
Later, the radio said that Amin Gemayel,Lebanon's president, and Saudi mediator Rafi El Hariri met to consider ways of breaking the deadlock.
experienced a serious propellant leak Sept. 9, knocking out half of the station's control jet system
MOSCOW — The flight of two Soviet space station cosmonauts is continuing normally despite last month's launch failure of a Soyuz spaceship to bring them home, an official said yesterday. A Western expert said another Soyuz was expected to be sent up soon.
Cosmonauts are OK Soviet specialist says
"Their transport ship Soyuz can bring them back to Earth. There is no leakage in the transport ship." Tabakaev said, referring to Western reports that the cosmonauts were in trouble."
By United Press International
Evgeni Tabakave, an Academy of Sciences space specialist, said reports that cosmonauts Vladimir Lykahov and Alexander Alexandrov were stranded in space aboard Salyut 7 were "absolutely untrue." He said the crewmen were in no danger.
AVIATION WEEK & Space Technology said that the cosmonauts prepared at the time for an emergency return home in their attached Soyuz but were allowed to continue in orbit.
In addition to the Sept. 27 launch pad explosion, an authoritative American magazine last week that the Salyut 7 space station
Jim Oberg, a U.S. authority on the Soviet space program, said in Huntington Beach, Calif., that two other cosmonauts were to have been launched in the new Soyuz last month to relieve Lyakhov and Alexandrov.
By United Press International
Reagan against nationwide drinking age
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration, while acknowledging that a uniform drinking age of 21 would save lives, told Congress yesterday that it opposed a proposal that would do just that.
Diane Steed, acting chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said that setting the drinking age was a matter for not the federal government, to decide if she added, the change could be costly.
drinking age to 21 will save lives, and that we should continue to encourage the states to raise the drinking age." she said.
obstry
"It is our view that raising the
BUT SIE TOLD a House subcommittee reviewing the bill to set the nationwide age "Enactment of a federal drinking age could impose substantial enforcement costs on state governments." The committee underscore from the federal level.
"While we believe these enforcement costs are well worth the investment, we believe these choices are more appropriately made at the state level." Steed
man of the subcommittee and a sponsor of the legislation, asked, "Do I understand this is the administration's position?"
Rep. James Florio, D-N.J., chair-
country."
"Drunken driving is now the leading cause of death for the 16 to 21 age group." Steed said. "This is clearly a problem of tragic proportions for America's young people and one that deserves our best preventive efforts."
JIM BURNETT, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said that raising the drinking age to 21 would save 1,250 lives annually. He called drunken driving "the most pervasive form of lawlessness in this
"Yes." Steed replied.
Former Transportation Secretary John Volpe, chairman of the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving, told the panel that the states should be given a chance to set the drinking age at 21, but eventually "the federal government could step in... perhaps by January 1986."
Voila said the panel, during a recent hearing in Atlanta, added its recommendation that a new federal law "should be enacted, providing that each state enact and/or maintain a law requiring 21 years as the minimum legal age" for buying or possessing alcoholic beverages.
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