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University Daily Kansan, October 13, 1983
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From United Press International
British official says protests won't halt plan for missiles
BLACKPOOL, England — Defense Secretary Michael Heselite warned the Soviet Union yesterday that Britain had "nerves of steel" and would stick to distribution of U.S. cruise missiles despite anti-nuclear protests planned across Western Europe.
"HI Mr. Andropov still hopes that the protest movements of Europe will unnerve us, he makes a serious mistake." Heseltine said of Soviet President Yuri Andropov at the annual convention of the ruling Conservative Party.
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His tough speech received an ovation from the delegates and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who is considered President Reagan's closest ally on defense and East-West relations.
Heseltine condemned as naive and foolish the peace movements that plan multi-national protests for next week.
EPA sets policy for waste settlements
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency, moving to prevent new allegations of negotiating sweetheart deals with corporate polluters, issued guidelines yesterday for settling toxic waste cleanup cases out of court.
The agency, which was engulfed in controversy earlier this year over charges of mismanagement and political favoritism in hazardous waste dump cleanup, tentatively announced a 10-point set of guidelines to be followed by EPA officials and lawyers involved in enforcement actions against such polluters.
The guidelines are designed to assist officials involved in actions under the Superfund toxic waste cleanup program for more than 500 of the nation's worst chemical dumps.
Ten die in crash of commuter plane
PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. — Federal investigators yesterday examined debris of a twin-engine commuter plane that crashed and scattered debris over southern Illinois countryside, killing all 10 people on board.
Air Illinois Flight 710 was traveling to Carbonbale when it slammed into a wooded area at 9.10 p.m. CDT Tuesday about 78 miles southeast
There were no survivors among the three crew members and seven passengers on board the British Aerospace Hawker Sidley 748. The flight recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered and sent to Washington for examination.
Wreckage from the twin-engine plane was strewn over a half-mile area.
Chinese to purge Communist Party
PEKING - China's Communist Party launched a massive three-year campaign yesterday to reform or expel millions of party members, including Maoists who still oppose the policies of Deng Xiaoping.
A communique by the Communist Party Central Committee, issued at the conclusion of a two-day meeting, said the national "rectification campaign" would begin this winter and end in three years with re-registration of all 40 million party members.
A 13,000-word document, setting the guidelines for the campaign, said that corrupt officials and radical leftists who joined the party during the 1966-76 cultural revolution launched by the late Mao Tse-tung would be targets for reform and that, if this failed, they would be expelled.
Inmate criticizes death preparations
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — James Autry, saved from death by a last-minute stay of execution, said yesterday that he was upset because prison officials had left him connected to intravenous death needles for more than an hour. He said he had almost had a heart attack waiting for death on a prison gurney.
Autry said he thought that it was unnecessary for officials to put him on the gurney and connect the needles for lethal injection a full hour before his scheduled 12:01 a.m. CDT execution Oct 4.
He said also that he thought it was unnecessary to leave him there nearly an hour after the Texas Department of Corrections got word of the stay by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White.
the stay by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sylvan White.
But he didn't protest. "I was just too happy that I got a stay." he said.
Hansen leaves race for Watt's post
WASHINGTON — Former Sen. Clifford Hansen, R-Wyo., one of the top prospects to succeed Interior Secretary James Watt, took himself out of the running for the position because of health reasons, the White House said yesterday.
House said yesterday.
President Reagan said that he regretted Hansen's decision and that he had been "under most active and serious consideration" for the $80,000-a-year job, spokesman Larry Speaks said.
80,000 year job, sponsored by a company.
Speaks declined to say who else was being considered.
Speakers decommissioned the Watt resigned Sunday. He is staying on until a successor is nominated by the Senate.
He said, however, that he would not promote new legislation before he leaves office.
Divers to seek coins on sunken ship
NEW YORK — Divers located Cornelius Vanderbilt's luxurious steamship that sank more than a century ago, and a researcher said yesterday that "absolutely nothing" would prevent the divers from recovering silver coins worth $105,000 that are thought to be aboard the sunken wreck.
sunken wreck.
The Lexington, a passenger and cargo steamer considered to be the finest and fastest ship of its time, was headed from New York City to Stonington, Conn., on Jan. 13, 1840, when it caught fire and sank in 150 feet of water, said the researcher, Clive Cussler of the National Underwater and Marine Agency.
The legendary steamer, known as the "White Lady," was found by divers between Port Jefferson and Stony Brook, N.Y., about three miles offshore, Cussler said.
or one. He said that divers first began probing the wreck Sept. 24 and worked through last week.
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New contract prevents Eastern attendants' strike
MIAMI — Eastern Airlines and its unionized flight attendants agreed on a new contract yesterday 18 hours before a threatened strike that could have forced the financially-troubled carrier into bankruptcy.
By United Press International
The flight attendants, who had worked without a
"We also won on the Latin American routes and to us. that's toob security." he said.
When Eastern took over Branifac's Latin American routes last year, it agreed to hire Latin American attendants on those flights, but the new pact requested that for union members to take one-third of their plots.
Eastern has agreed to pay $3,000 to each of 200 union members who had bid on the Latin American routes but were prevented from getting the money by the Brannif-Eastern agreement. Hunziker said
contract for 19 months, had wanted a retroactive raise for 1882 but did not get it, he said.
Terms of the pact were not formally announced, but Mark Hunziker, coordinator of the union's information center, said the flight attendants had won a 16.5 percent raise for 1983 that will be retroactive to Jan. 1, 1983 — plus a 6 percent raise for 1984
"We are extremely happy that the company and
the flight attendants have reached a tentative agreement," Frank Borman, Eastern chairman, said. "I think the settlement made here, coupled with the forward, will insure the stability of East Airlines."
Both union and airline officials said that the agreement puts at least a temporary end to the crisis at Eastern that began $2^{1/2}$ weeks ago and that threatened the survival of the 55-year-old carrier.
Eastern's financial troubles are not new, but Borman said they had reached a crisis point. Since 1979, when it made a net profit of $2.7 million, Eastern's main airline in America, has lost more than $300 million
Continental accuses union of threatening pilots
By United Press International
HOUSTON - Continental Airlines, fighting for survival in bankruptcy court, yesterday filed a $50 million lawsuit that accused the Air Line Pilots Association of threatening working pilots and of violating anti-trust laws.
However, ALPA's Houston chapter, which directly represents Continental pilots, was not named in the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston.
The lawsuit said ALPA had refused to bargain in good faith before the carrier's petition for bankruptcy Sept. 24.
The lawsuit said that ALPA had violated the Railway Labor Act by threatening to implement $10,000 fines against non-striking pilots. The airline said it considered ALPA's actions to be "interference, influence or coercion" of non-striking pilots.
In addition, the lawsuit accused ALPA President Henry Duffy of price fixing for allegedly stating that the union would cooperate only with airlines whose pricing it approved.
Union representatives were unavailable for comment.
Continental, once the nation's eighth largest airline, filed for Chapter 11 reorganization Sept 24 and has been trying to keep flying as a smaller, lower-cost carrier under bankruptcy court protection.
Meanwhile, a federal bankruptcy judge took Continental and its creditors behind closed doors to discuss whether to continue an order requiring creditors to keep doing business with the airline.
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