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University Daily Kansan, October 11, 1983
NEWS BRIEFSEmFrom United Press International
Botanist wins Nobel Prize for work in cancer research
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Botanist Barbara McClintock, whose genetic work on corn led to the discovery of "jumping genes" and a
greater understanding of cancer, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Medicine yesterday. She was the first woman to win the coveted medicine prize individually.
Later, she said she was overwhelmed by the news.
"She's out on her nature walk, picking walnuts. She said she wanted as little fuss as possible," said William Udry, executive director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where McClintock, 81, has worked for 42 years.
"The prize is such an extraordinary honor. It might seem unfair, however, to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years asking the maize (Indian corn) plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses."
Powder burns found on Aquino guards
MANILA, Philippines — Minutes after the resignation of committee members investigating the assassination of Benigno Aquino, a lawyer said yesterday that powder burns had been found on two of the military guards who took the opposition leader into custody.
The tests were revealed shortly after the entire presidential commission investigating Aquino's slaying resigned in another blow to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos, which is under fire for alleged complicity in Aquino's murder Aug. 21.
Deputy General Counsel Amadeo Seno said the previously secret evidence had been uncovered in National Bureau of Investigation ballistics tests on five Filipino guards who took Aquino into custody moments before he was shot at Manila Airport.
Poles step up anti-U.S. propaganda
WARSAW, Poland — Communist authorities yesterday stepped up propaganda attacks on the United States, accusing Washington of waging "psychological war" "and of coordinating a Western campaign of subversion backed by srv rings of American diplomats.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Warsaw declined to comment on the attacks, which came within 12 hours of each other and five days before an important Communist Party Central Committee meeting. The United States opposed of hardline opposition to the government of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski.
Denver pilots seek fines for flights
DENVER — Denver-based members of the Air Line Pilots Association adopted a resolution urging the national organization to impose a $10,000 fine on any ALPA member who flies a Continental Airlines plane after midnight tonight.
The resolution, which passed by a vote of 65-1 at a union meeting Sunday, will be presented this week for discussion at a session of the ALPA Master Executive Council in Houston, union officials said.
One pilot called the measure "a hammer" to get defecting union members to stop fiving and to join the strike.
Continental spokesman Bruce Hicks said that the vote was illegal and that it was a sign that pilots were frustrated because the strike had not stopped Continental from flying.
Stock market soars to record high
NEW YORK - The stock market exploded late yesterday to record heights for the third consecutive session in a Columbus Day rally paced by oil and IBM.
General Motors and issues involved in takeover speculation also moved into the limelight and overshadowed a stunning sell off in Comdisco and some Texas bank stocks.
The Dow Jones industrial average, down nearly eight points at the outset, climbed $12\frac{1}{2}$ points to a record 1.284.65, topping the previous high, set Fridav, of 1.272.15.
Cardinal Cooke praised at funeral
NEW YORK — Cardinal Terence Cooke was eulogized yesterday as a "steady, strong and cheerful pastor of his people" at a stately funeral Mass attended by a host of dignitaries in St. Patrick's Cathedral.
After the Mass of Christian burial, the plain wooden coffin containing Cooke's body was placed in a marble crypt beneath the main altar of the Gothic cathedral.
The Mass, broadcast by radio and television, was celebrated by Archbishop Pio Laghi, the apostolic delegate to Washington.
Caged apes tune in to TV favorites
WASHINGTON — The caged apes at the National Zoo can now spend their lounging time like many Americans, watching sports, news, cartoons and animal programs on their new television sets.
The apes have caught the Redskins Fever that has swept through the nation's capital each fall, with their cage-side sets tuned to weekend football games.
And when the Redskins' "Hogs" and "Smurfs" finish their cavorting on the field, the real gorillas and orangutans can turn to the Smurfs, Munets, Wild Kingdom or the evening news.
Zoo officials recently installed three television sets for the gorillas and orangutans "to relieve their boredom." Oliver Warren, a keeper in the Great Ape house, said yesterday.
WEATHER FACTS
Today the weather will be mostly fair across the nation.
Today the weather will be mostly rain across the nation Locally, today will be cloudy and cool with a 60 percent chance of thundershowers and a high in the mid-60s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be clear and cool with a low around 40.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high around 60.
Tonight will be clear and cool with a low around 40.
CORRECTIONS
Because of a reporter's error, the Rascals were said to have won last year's women's football Hill Championships. The Scouts won last year's title by defeating Alpha Gamma Delta, 13-0.
New leader vows to start austerity program Yitzhak Shamir sworn in as Begin's successor
JERUSALEM - Yitzhak Shamir was sworn in yesterday as Israel's seventh prime minister and vowed to initiate an attack on the Gaza Strip, the nation's worst economic chaos in years.
By United Press International
The 120-member Knesset voted 60 to 53 to approve the new government, replacing the coalition headed by former Prime Minister Menachem Begay. Both contained in seclusion in home and congratulated his successor by telephone.
and spymaster at the Mossad, was sworn in by President Chaim Herzog.
THE NEW PRIME minister, a member of the Herut Party, the key party in the governing coalition, is the leader of Founding fathers to govern the nation.
Shamir, 68. Polish-born former underground fighter, foreign minister
His predecessors as prime minister include David ben Gurion, who served twice in the office, Mose Shareit; Levi Ben-Gurion; Yitzhak Rabin and Menachem Begin.
Shamir vowed to cut Israel's standard of living to cope with the economic crunch and promised a continuation of Begin's hardline policies on Lebanon and Jewish settlement in occupied territories.
The opposition Labor Party called for immediate elections. The new government faces a growing economic crisis that required police to take precautions against possible civil violence, posting guards at banks across the country.
Labor leader Shimon Peres said continuation of those policies would "create fertile ground for a renewal of war on the part of the Arab world."
"Stop wasting billions of shekels on rilking the West Bank." Bilal Abdullah
villas in the West Bank," Peres said.
IN A LENGTH address, Shamir reaffirmed the "relations of trust, friendship and close cooperation" with the United States and praised President Reagan's "commitment to Israel's security."
But in an unexpected move, Shamir invited the Soviet Union to renew diplomatic relations with Israel. Moscow severed ties 16 years ago.
"We call on Soviet authorities to reassess their attitude to the State of Israel and the Jewish people," he said. "We are convinced such an assessment has to histories, justice and strengthen the chances for peace in the Middle East."
The Tel Aviv stock exchange was closed for the second straight day, as government officials made hectic efforts to complete a package that would save Israeli commercial banks and private investors from heavy losses.
Volcker warns bankers about international debts
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HONOLULU — Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker warned yesterday that the international debt problem was likely to persist for years and that the world financial system would be endangered if smaller banks failed to continue to cooperate in working out solutions.
"We had better shake off any sense of complacency that the problem is over, or that we can leave it to others to solve," Volcker told the annual convention of the American Bankers Association.
Volcker warned that no one would be able to escape the fallout if the world financial system were to collapse, in a reference to smaller banks' reluctance to comply with agreements worked out by their larger counterparts to give debtor nations more time and money to pay their debts.
"It IS AN illusion to believe that any of us — managers of larger or small banks, domestic borrowers, or citizens generally — could escape scot-free in an environment impLIED by a breakdown in international credit flows," he said.
Volcker acknowledged at a press conference that some banks were resive about going along with new lending agreements worked out by a relatively few large banks. But he said no matter how the problem would affect all banks.
He told the bankers, who as a group are owed some $100 billion by developing countries, that the debt
problem would take years of continuing efforts to solve.
"WE MUST APPROACH the debt problem with the knowledge that extraordinary cooperative efforts will be required for some time before more normal lending patterns can be restored." Volcker said.
Volker reiterated the need for Congress to approve legislation increasing the U.S. contribution to the Monetary Fund by $8.4 billion
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In another speech to the 6,000 bankers attending the five-day convention, Walter B. Wriston, chairman of Citibank, the nation's second largest bank, said bankers needed to stop fighting among themselves and unite as an entity to lobby for regulatory changes that would allow them to compete.
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A DELEGATION FROM Brazil, the largest foreign debtor, was scheduled to talk with regional bankers at the convention this week in hopes of persuading them to go along with an agreement. The last week to provide the country with $6.5 billion in new loans and extended time to repay their existing debt.
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