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University Daily Kansan. October 14, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Firefighters battled a huge blaze on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter last night that ruined a three-story building containing a T-shirt shop and damaged two other buildings.
New Orleans fire destroys building on Bourbon Street
One fireman was overcome by smoke in the usually crowded tourist block where witnesses estimated that less than 100 people were eating in a half dozen restaurants. "It was a typical Thursday night," said Jim Wangler, owner of the Trader Emporium, across the street from the six-alarm blaze. "Wings were just beginning to warm up, and not many people were around."
Three hours later, only the facade remained of the Mad, Mad World of T-shirts at 231 Bourbon Street. The Blue Angel, a restaurant next to the shop, also was believed to have been damaged.
Wangler said that he had just finished dinner at Tony's, a restaurant next to his shop, and had stepped onto Bourbon Street when "flames shot about 10 feet out of the door, and about 30 people just jumped out of the way."
NEW YORK — Three-fourths of Americans are in debt and nearly half have less than $5,000 in savings. Yet, most are satisfied with their financial circumstances. a nationwide survey said yesterday.
Fire officials would not comment on rumors that arson was the cause of the blaze, but Wangler said a customer "saw a woman walking away from the children's section with a lighter in her hand shortly before they noticed the T-shirts were on fire."
U.S. debtors optimistic, survey savs
The financial profile that emerged from interviews with 2,333 adults in a study sponsored by Money Magazine revealed that the majority of Americans worry about money, have not made out wills and believe they are better off than their parents.
Despite having financial worries, nine out of ten American men and women are confident about their economic future. However, Americans owe an average $32,000. Mortages account for 77 percent of the dollar volume, the survey said.
Retail sales increase in September
WASHINGTON — Consumer spending bounced back after an August decline and raised retail sales 1.6 percent in September, with every category except building materials reaping the benefit, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
September would have shown a 0.9 percent improvement even without the sharp 4.5 percent increase in auto sales. August's sales dropped a revised 1.6 percent, mostly because auto sales plunged 9.8 percent.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the new figures showed that "consumer confidence is as strong as the economic recovery."
September's sales were 10.7 percent higher than the same month last year
WASHINGTON - The FBI gave 65,000 pages of previously secret files on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the Conservative Caucus yesterday.
Secret files on King released by FBI
Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. set a hearing for Monday on a motion by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who opposes a national holiday in honor of King, seeking to open sealed FBI files on the late civil-rights leader.
Larry Straw, an attorney for both Helms and the conservative group, said the heavily censored information acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request only hints at what remains sealed in the National Archives concerning King's alleged ties to communists.
Tests find insect bits in ground beef
WASHINGTON — Two insect fragments with "no human health significance" have been found in a ground beef sample that was stored in Tuscaloosa, Ala., for use in school lunches, the Agriculture Department said yesterday.
The sample was produced at Cattle King in Denver, a meat-processing firm that is under investigation for possible violations of the federal Meat Inspection Act.
The latest announcement represented the seventh instance in which insect fragments were found in meat from Cattle King in testing that began after Agriculture Secretary John Block impounded 6.4 million pounds of meat from two processing firms.
U.S.. Italy agree on extradition pact
ROME — Attorney General William French Smith yesterday signed a new U.S.-Italian extradition treaty aimed at cutting off the Mafia's $1 billion-a-year flow of heroin from Sicily to the streets of the United States.
At a ceremony in the Ministry of Justice, Smith said the treaty "embodies a commitment that fugitives from justice will not find a safe haven in our respective countries."
One provision opens the way for Italy to extradite Sicilian financier Michele Sindona for trial in Milan with 27 other defendants on fraud charges in the collapse of the Banca Privata Finanziaria, which left $170 rallies in debts.
Under the old treaty, he would not be surrendered until he finished the 25-year prison sentence he is serving.
Radio station apologizes to UFOs
MUSCATINE, Iowa — A radio station has begun broadcasting greetings into space with apologies if its transmission tower gets in the way of low-flying UFOs.
Steve Bridges, operations manager for KFMH radio, said yesterday his station had begun sending its message Wednesday night and planned to broadcast it in 13 languages once a week for the next two months.
Bridges said he had become interested in UFO sightings after KFMI's tower fell last year. He said numerous reports of UFO sightings had been made around the Muscatine area at the time.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 10-14-83
Today will be fair across most of the nation.
Locally, today will be cloudy with a high in the upper 60s, according to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
The low will be in the upper 408.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the low 70s.
Israeli official quits position as finance head
By United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — Finance Minister Yoram Aridor resigned yesterday in the midst of an angry national outure against his plan to resolve Israel's economic crisis by linking the shekel to the U.S. dollar
Aridor resigned less than an hour into an emergency meeting of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Cabinet.
The session was called to debate the finance minister's proposal — dubbed the "Dollarization Plan" — to make both the dollar and the Israeli shekel legal tender. The shekel was devalued 23 percent Tuesday.
"In the circumstances, I will no longer be able to make any contribution to the government as finance minister," Aridor told reporters in a brief statement. "It is clear that after its premature publication, it is no longer feasible to carry out the plan." He did not elaborate.
THE PLAN, PUBLISHED first in an Israeli newspaper and headlined around the world, jolted the nation and sparked criticism from both the opposition Labor Party and Shamir's Likud coalition.
The Labor Party said it would call for a no-confidence vote in Shamir's government next Monday, and would introduce legislation to dissolve the Knesset, or parliament, and call early elections.
ISRAEL : INFLATION AND THE SHEKEL
"What he means is we will become the 51st state," said Haim Bem Shachar, a Tel Aviv university eco- professor and Labor Party activist.
Equally critical, Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i said the plan was tantamount to changing Israel's flag and national anthem.
ULTRANATIONALIST legislator Geula Cohen of the Tehiya party called the plan a blow to Israel's independence.
"We might as well put Abraham Linecoln on the shekel, replace the Star of David with a star and start teaching Jesus in the American Revolution in schools," she said.
Anti-U.S. protest halted by West German police
By United Press International
BREMERHAVEN, West Germany — Riot police used water cannons yesterday to disperse thousands of anti-American extremists who tried to blockade a U.S. Army supply depot to an army base in North Korea. The U.S. nuclear missiles in West Germany
The clash opened a 10-day campa-
gion of civil obedience, rallies, marches,
demonstrations and blockades to halt
the introduction by the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization of U.S. cruise and
Pershing-2 medium range missiles.
They are scheduled to be deployed at
the end of this year if no agreement is
reached in the Soviet-U.S. nuclear
arms talks in Geneva.
FIVE THOUSAND POLICE dispersed the demonstrators to keep roads open to the vital North Sea harbor at Bremenhaven and the headquarters of the U.S. Army's Sea Lift Command, one of the largest American supply depots in Western Europe.
Police carried away 1,000 protesters, who sat in the road to block traffic. About 250 demonstrators were taken into custody but all were released after their identities were checked, police said.
The demonstrators — police said they numbered 3,000, but anti-nuclear organizers claimed 6,000 — managed to slow traffic into the army base and the harbor through which most supplies pass for the 260,000 American service
people in West Germany. Traffic never was stopped completely.
Police used three water canons to disperse 150 demonstrators blocking a road to the harbor so a convoy of 35 German trucks could enter it.
ALTHOUGH THE Bremerhaven demonstration was generally peaceful except for the brief use of water canons, police representative Ekehard Naumann told reporters earlier that there had been reports of 300 extremists, some of them armed, going to the port from West Berlin and other cities.
Similar demonstrations were planned today, tomorrow and Sunday at the U.S. Air Force's European headquarters at Ramstein Air Base, outside Ramstein hiltern, and tomorrow in West Berlin. U.S. Army's Andrews Barracks in West Berlin.
A representative for the anti-missile movement told a Bonn news conference that 3 million people would take part in demonstrations throughout the country.
Walter W. Tieshnause, spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats, denounced the blockades as illegal and said they were designed to expose the impression that the American Army was in hostile territory.
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