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University Daily Kansan, October 18, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Columbia launch delayed, rescheduled for November
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Technicians moved the space shuttle Columbia from its oceanside launch pad back to its assembly hangar yesterday to replace part of a potentially defective rocket booster. It was the first "rollback" in 11 years.
The Columbia, carrying the $800 million European-built Spaceclab in its cargo bay, had been scheduled for launch Oct. 28, but now will fly no earlier than Nov. 28 and could be grounded until late February.
it was the second recent long delay for the Columbia's six man crew — mission commander John Young, copilot Brewster Shaw, and scientists Owen Garrriott, Robert Parker, Byron Lichtenberg and Ulf Merdan, a West German physicist.
With its mobile launch platform riding atop a giant land crawler, Columbia began its 3 $ \frac{1}{2} $-mile journey from Pad 39A shortly after dawn and arrived at the Vehicle Assembly Building about 5 $ \frac{1}{2} $ hours later.
New Israeli finance minister named
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir averted the defection of a key group in his week-old coalition yesterday and named a rightist ally who favors West Bank settlement as the new finance minister.
Yigal Cohen-Orgad, a right-wing Knesset member from Shamir's Herut Party, was named to replace Yorum Aridor as finance minister. Aridor resigned four days ago.
The 120-member Knexet must confirm the choice of Orgad, 46, the senior Herut member of the Knexet finance committee who opposes free-spending economic policies and demands a cut in government spending and the standard of living.
Orgad also favors West Bank settlement. His business centers on investments in the area. In foreign policy, he voted against the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt.
Prime minister of Grenada replaced
ST. GEORGE'S. Grenada — the head of Grenada's army said yesterday that Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, who favors even closer ties with the Soviet Union, had taken over control of the ruling New Jewel Movement.
Gen. Hudson Austin said Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was under house arrest and accused him of letting "power and authority whittle his head."
"The struggle of Comrade Bishop has been a struggle of one man to exercise unlimited power, and that our party cannot and will not permit it."
Austin said the majority of the New Jewel Movement's membership agreed Thursday to expel Bishop from the party and its central church.
Hincklev's father abandons claim
DENVER — The father of presidential assailant John W. Hinckley Jr. yesterday ordered the family's name removed from an administrative claim accusing the Department of Energy of harassing the Vanderbilt Energy Corp.
John W. "Jack" Hincley Sr., who owns about $6\%$ of the Denver-based energy company and is its chairman of the board, said that previous reports indicating that the claim was filed to stop government harassment of the Hincroy family were distorted.
"It's hard to imagine how this thing became so distorted," the elder Hincley said. "To wipe the slate clean, I have asked that this particular action be dropped and possibly another one filed solely on behalf of the corporation I represent."
Workers strike McDonnell Douglas
LONG BEACH, Calif. — About 7,000 aircraft assembly workers struck McDonnell Douglas Corp. plants in California, Georgia and Arkansas yesterday, accusing the firm of proposing a return to "the Dark Ages."
No new talks were scheduled as pickets went up just after midnight at the huge aircraft plant in Long Beach, where DC-9 and DC-10 jetliners are made, at 5,000 United Auto Workers production line employees walked off their jobs.
Another 2,000 UAW members struck two McDonnell plants in Tulsa, Okla., and about 85 walked out in Melbourne, Ark.
A company spokesman said management and non-striking personnel would operate the assembly line at Long Beach and attempt to maintain production.
lurors questioned for extortion trial
CHICAGO — Prospective jurors were questioned yesterday in the extortion trial of James Lewis, accused of demanding $1 million to "stop the killings" during the hysteria of last year's seven Tylenol cyanide-poisoning deaths.
Jury selection began after attorneys for both sides met with presiding S. District Judge Frank McGarr. Assistant U.S. Attorney Cynthia Gornick joined the jury on July 26.
Lewis, gaunt, clean-shaven and dressed in a blue suit, sat silently and attentively throughout the proceedings.
McGarr emphasized that Lewis, 36, is not accused of lacing Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules with deadly cyanide that killed seven people in the Chicago area just over one year ago.
Court order bars anti-Hitler plaque
VIENNA, Austria — A court injunction has blocked plans by local authorities to mount a controversial plaque denouncing fascism on the house where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born, a government spokesman said yesterday.
City officials in Braunau, a town of 18,000 about 150 miles west of Vienna, wanted to fix a marble plaque on the three-story house to emphasize the town's abhorrence of the Nazi leader, he said.
The plaque, which loosely translated from German, says "Fascism never again — Millions of dead remind us of peace, freedom and democracy," has been under heated debate by liberal and conservative factions of the town council and was due to be unveiled Oct. 8th.
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Today the weather will be mostly fair across the nation.
Locally, today will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and a high around 60, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of showers and a high around 60.
Reagan names national security adviser
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday named Middle East envoy Robert “Bud” McFarlane to succeed William Clark claims his national security affairs adviser, lawyer the 40-year-old Marine is “darely qualified” for the job.
By United Press International
McFarlane, whose appointment is effective immediately, won out for the key foreign policy position over U.N. and United States officials, who was backed by conservatives.
Clark was named last week to replace the controversial James Watt as secretary of the interior.
REAGAN REJECTED REPORTS that Kirkpatrick was angry over being passed over and said she "is continuing as ambassador to the United Nations" and "as far as I know she's happy."
He said the reports were based on "faceless and nameless sources."
the join General Assembly"
The aides confirmed that she has told White House officials that she wants to quit her U.N. position and return to Washington. "The president is solicitous of her views and wants her in an advisory capacity in his administration if she's interested," one said.
Kirkpatrick met earlier in the day with Reagan and Clark, aides said. She later issued a brief statement saying that she would be attending United Nations through the current
THERE ALSO HAVE been reports that McFarlane's appointment was initially opposed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and CIA director William Casey on grounds that he would not have the same access to Reagan as Clark, the president's longtime personal friend, has enjoyed.
session of the 38th General Assembly
The national security affairs adviser prepares foreign policy options for the president and coordinates the flow of information on intelligence and interdepartmental activities, from arms control to regional peace; he also provides advice on early morning world developments. As assistant to the president, he makes $69,800 a year.
But McFarlane said he sees his role primarily as a "coordinator" and he will have all the access he needs to the Oval Office.
"BUD BRINGS A treasure of experience and talent to this new post.",
Reagan told reporters. "A decorated Marine, a scholar, adviser to three presidents, a veteran of Capitol Hill, counselor of the Department of State, deputy to the NSF, the most recently my personal representative to the delicate negotiations in the Middle East."
"He is ideally qualified to assume these new responsibilities," he said. "I was looking for more than experience in filling this post. I also wanted someone of strong principle, someone of keen judgment, someone who could effectively manage the affairs of the NSC."
Reagan said McFarlane "shares my view about the need for a strong America and an effective bipartisan foreign policy based on peace through trade, justice and environmental affection of my other principal advisers in the national security community.
IN A STATEMENT, Weinberger called McFarlane's appointment "splendid." The defense secretary said that reports he did not favor McFarlane because of concern the new adviser would not have free access to Reagan
Richard Viguerie, a leading conservative fund-raiser and publisher of Conservative Digest, complained that as a protege of Henry Kissinger, McFarlane's "views are probably very compatible with those of the moderates and liberals who run the State Department."
were "off the mark."
"It is becoming more and more apparent that conservatives have next to no influence on the major decisions in the Morgan administration." Vigier said.
McFarlane said Rear Adm. John Poindexter, 47, a Naval Academy classmate who is now Clark's military assistant and serves as his deputy on NSC staff.
"I look forward to doing whatever I can to help the fulfillment of the promise of President Reagan's goals in national security affairs," he said. "They have stemmed the tide and they have set us on a course which I believe deeply will prove that Spengler was right." He has also defined its interests, defend them, demonstrate freedom, democracy, tree enterprise is the hope of future."
Women's groups join protests in West Germany
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Women's groups turned out yesterday to join a 10-day protest against new U.S. nuclear missiles, dumping toy guns at the family affairs ministry and demanding children not be brought up to wage war.
The only arrests reported in the day of demonstrations by women's organizations were 27 marchers briefly detained in Dortmund.
The 10 days of nationwide demonstrations, which began Thursday, are designed to protest the scheduled
NATO deployment of S72 U.S. cruise
in western Europe beginning in December
President Reagan said in Washington that the United States and NATO "have no plans to change the scheduled deployment" unless agreement is reached in arms control talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva.
SVOIET FOREIGN MINISTER Andrei Gromyko said during a visit to East Germany that it was "still possible for a solution" in the talks but only if Washington ended "its destructive attitude."
rocket outside the defense ministry and marched through the streets carrying other replicas of Pershings and Soviet SS-20 missiles.
They displayed banners reading "women should not raise children to fight wars" and "we need new men, not new weapons."
Other women collected plastic guns and "militaristic" toys and dumped them at the Ministry of Youth, Health and Family Affairs in protest.
In Bonn, about 300 women took apart a cardboard model of a Pershing-2
Eva Quistorp, leader of the Women For Peace organization, told a news conference the women's demonstration had shut down. Berlin, Nuremberg, Cologne, Munich
and other towns.
"AN IMPORTANT THEME of the resistance day of women is the connection between daily violence, the discrimination against women in the media, the family, schools, science and medicine, the battle with war preparations," Quistorp said.
IN DORTMUND, several hundred marchers stood stumbling their feet rhythmically on the ground in the Middle Ages, warning of plague in the Middle Ages.
About 250 demonstrators blocked an entrance to the West German 5th army corps and were removed by police, who arrested 27.
Belgium will be site of nuclear missiles, prime minister says
By United Press International
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Prime Minister Wilfred Martens said yesterday that NATO's medium-range nuclear missiles would be stationed in Belgium even if Parliament rejected the deployment and his government was forced to resign.
"I aspire to peace as much as many other people, but it is not certain the pacifists are right. The Soviets will only negotiate seriously if the West shows
itself to be firm," Martens said in a statement published by local newspapers.
He said that under an international treaty, Belgium had committed itself to NATO's 1979 decision to start medieval war in Western Europe at the end of the year.
RULING OUT ANY possibility of holding a referendum on the deployment, he said Belgium was firmly committed to deploying 48 American aircraft missiles on its airfield if the U.S. Soviet arms talks in Geneva failed.
Should Soviet and American negotiators reach a partial agreement, Martens said Belgium's deployment commitment would also be partial.
Belgium is also committed to seeking an agreement with the Russians for the elimination of all intermediate-range nuclear forces in Europe, he said.
"Any deployment decision will be communicated by the government to Parliament where it will be put to a vote. If the decision is turned down, the government will
Ant-nuclear protesters plan to hold a big demonstration Sunday in Brussels.
resign. But the decision taken on the missiles will stand."
DEPLOYMENT IN BELGIUM is not scheduled before 1986. Other countries who will receive the new missiles are France, Italy, Britain, Italy and the Netherlands.
The cruise missiles were to be installed at the Florennes Air Base, about south of Brussels, where they are already stationed. An estimated 400-600 US personnel
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