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University Daily Kansan, October 12, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Poland claims Nobel Prize part of Western conspiracy
WARSAW, Poland — Poland, issuing its third attack against the United States in three days, yesterday accused Washington of espionage and said Lech Walesa's Nobel Peace Prize would not change the policies of Warsaw's communist government.
Government spokesman Jerzy Urban told reporters at a news conference that the Nobel Peace Prize and honorary American university degrees given to Walesa were proof of a Western conspiracy against Poland.
"A hundred such degrees, a thousand such awards will not change matters in Poland," Urban said.
Walesa, reached by telephone in the northern port city of Gdansk, said he still had not decided whether to go to Oslo. He fears he will not be able to return to Poland if he leaves.
Negotiations stop in teachers' strike
CHICAGO — Striking teachers and the Chicago Board of Education yesterday broke off contract talks, and the union vowed not to return to the bargaining table until teachers were offered more than a 0.5 percent salary increase.
The board has said throughout the week-long strike that the union must make concessions in order to finance a larger wage hike. The union initially asked for a 10 percent salary increase but has signaled it would be willing to accept a 5.5 percent hike.
Yesterday was the first time negotiating teams adjourned talks without setting a date for another bargaining session. The strike has kept 424,000 students out of the classroom in the nation's third largest school system.
Rocket genius of Nazi Germany dies
COCOA BEACH, Fla. — Kurt Debus, a rocket genius from Hitler's Nazi Germany who later helped build America's space program, died recently of an apparent heart attack at the age of 74.
Until his retirement in 1974, Debus was the first director of the Kennedy Space Center, where he was in charge of 295 rocket launches.
Along with rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and 100 other scientists, Debus surrendered to American authorities at the end of World War II. The ship was brought to the U.S. to start the space program.
Debus always marveled at his influence on U.S. history.
"Only in the United States could a former enemy become a citizen and have the opportunity which the Army and NASA gave me," Debus once said.
Love Canal residents doubt accord
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Former Love Canal residents who sued Occidental Petroleum over chemical dumping said yesterday that they were sketched about a tentative $20-million out-of-court settlement
"We just don't know enough about the proposal," said Debbie Cerillo, former vice president of the Love Canal Homeowners Association. "I haven't been able to talk to my lawyer to see what's really going on."
haven't been able to talk to my lawyer to see what's really going on.
The chemical dumping forced more than 1,000 families to relocate
Officials of Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles, the parent company of Hopker Chemical Co., and attorneys representing about 1,400 former and current residents of the Love Canal, announced the agreement Monday in the five-year legal battle.
Decision on library may be delayed
STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford University should put off deciding whether to allow Ronald Reagan's presidential library to be located on campus because the decision might be viewed as political, a committee said yesterday.
The decision should be deferred until after the election or until the president announces that he does not intend to run, the committee said.
Reagan has offered his presidential papers to the Hoover Institution an independent operation within the university.
Prince William sets off castle alarm
ABERDEEN, Scotland — Fifteen-month-old Prince William pushed the panic button at Balmoral Castle in London last week.
A London newspaper reported yesterday that Prince William, tucked away in a nursery and momentarily unattended, found a security alarm button on the wall.
He pushed it.
He paused. That touch sent a direct signal to Aberdeen police headquarters, and police and castle security guards quickly sealed off the grounds.
Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and the queen
mother were baby-sitting while Prince Charles and Lady Diana, Prince William's parents, attended royal duties in London.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 10-12-83
30 MAI 2014
Today will be mostly fair across the nation, with scattered thunderstorms.
Locally, today will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-50s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Tonight will be clear and cold, with a low in the mid-30s. Tomorrow will be sunny and a little warmer, with a high near 60.
CORRECTIONS
Because of a reporting error, the name of the space shuttle scheduled to fly on Oct. 28 was incorrectly identified as Challenger in yesterday's Kansan. The correct name of the shuttle is Columbia.
Because of an editing error, a statement in yesterday's Kansan was incorrectly attributed to Layne Pierce, chairman of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association. Pierce was quoting from a letter from David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, that explained the administrative need to round off rent figures for Stouffer Place.
Gulf war continues as Iraq bombs Iran
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An Iraqi statement on the raid, distributed by the Iraqi News Agency, said its forces had killed two Iranian soldiers and had destroyed a military base.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iraqi warplanes bombed targets in northern Iran yesterday in the latest fighting of a three-year war.
A Persian Gulf radio, monitored in Beirut, said the Iranian planes had struck the northern city of Marivan. 300 miles away, an Iraqi helicopter killed three civilians and wounded 20.
The Iraqi statement also said its attackers had killed more than two Iranian soldiers and had destroyed a radar and a rocket launcher in the central battlefront region near the Iranian frontier town of Mehran.
THE IRAQI STATEMENT also accused Iran of shelling the town of Manduli, 75 miles northeast of Bagh-e Jahangir, in damage to some civilian property."
Even as the fighting erupted, Iran warned it would close down the Gulf to all petroleum shipments if there was any attempt to interrupt its own crude oil traffic out of the strategic waterway.
"The Persian Gulf is secure as long as Iran carries out the normal activity of exporting its oil through the water; it has no effect on Rafsanjani told reporters in Tehran.
"But if any power — Saddam (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) or the superpowers — tries to prevent Iran from exporting its oil, then the Persian Gulf has no importance to us." Rafsanjani said. "Any time we feel
"We have taken the decision on the closure of the Persian Gulf on the very first day of the imposition of war on Iran," the Iranian official said.
necessary, we can put the Persian Gulf out of use.
ASKED ABOUT REPORTS that the United States had plans to reopen the Gulf by force if Iran closed it, Rafsanjani said:
"When Iran closes the Persian Gulf, no power in the world, not even World War II, can reopen it without the consent of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
Much of the West's oil comes from the Gulf region and is shipped aboard tankers that must pass through the Caribbean. Hormuz Strait to reach their markets.
The renewed fighting came as Iraq prepared to take shipment of five new
rrench-made Super Etendard fighter-bombers to add to its Soviet-supplied air force of MiG21 and MiG23 fighters.
The Super Etendards are equipped to fire France's deadly Exocet air-to-ground missiles that proved effective against the British in last year's war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.
THE GULF WAR started Sept 22, 1980 when Iraqi forces crossed the Shaat al-waterway at the head of the Sinai Peninsula and captured Iran's giant Abadan oil refinery
Iran's military is equipped with the latest U.S. equipment, including F-14 fighter-bombers. But its war effort has been hampered by a lack of spare parts due to the embargo on U.S. equipment imposed after Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini's followers took American diplomats hostage in November of 1979.
Ex-Japanese leader fined, jailed for taking bribes
By United Press International
TOKYO — Former prime minister and political kingpin Kakuei Tanaka was convicted yesterday of accepting $2 million in bribes from Lockheed Corp. and was immediately sentenced to four years in prison and fined $2 million.
Three former executives of Lockheed's Japanese agent, Marubeni Corp., also were convicted for their role in the scandal and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to 2 ½ years each. Tanaka's secretary was sentenced to a year in jail for delivering the bribe.
The secretary, Toshi Eonomoto, and the three former executives of Marubeni Corp. testified they delivered the money to Tanaka to increase Lockheed's chances of selling its L-1011 jets to Japan's All-Nippon trains.
THE FORMER EXECUTIVES Were Maruben board chairman Hiro Hyama and managing directors Toshihari Okube and Hiroshi Itoh.
Tanaka, who commands the largest faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, bowed slightly to Chief Judge Mitsunori Okada as the verdict was read in Tokyo District Court. He pressed pressureless as he returned to his seat.
His attorney, Kisuke Kimura, filed an appeal and a request to release the former prime minister on bail.
About 200 people outside the building shouted "Banzai" when the verdict was announced and 450 police surrounded the courthouse to control thousands of people who wanted to hear the verdict firsthand.
Tanaka was accused of accepting the bribes from Lockheed in 1975. He was forced from the nation's highest office in 1974 after charges of shady land deals surfaced. He was held his party under the锁头 in 1967 when he was indicted in the Lockheed bribery.
THE FORMER PRIME minister maintained that he was innocent
despite polls showing that a majority of Japanese believe he is guilty.
Opposition parties have united to demand that Tanaka, 65, resign his seat in the Diet or Parliament, but the ruling party, led by Tanaka's 119-member faction, has so far resisted the pressure.
A guilty verdict was expected to throw additional weight behind the opposition plea but will not necessarily lead to Tanaka's resignation.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasao, who rose to power in November 1982 with a large boost from Tanaka, said he would keep Mr. Saitama's resignation if he was found guilty.
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