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University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Indian anti-Hindu fighters kill 8 in bus, train attacks
NEW DELHI, India — Anti-Hindu extremists have killed eight people in northern India's Punjab state in separate attacks on a bus and a train, police said yesterday.
Late Wednesday night officers blamed the killings on extremist members of the Sikh religion who were fighting for autonomy in Punjab state, where they outnumber Hindus.
Police said two Sikhs with a machine guns hijacked a New Delhi-bound bus near the Sikh holy city of Amritsar and picked out six Hindus from the 25 people on board.
In another incident, three Sikh extremists attacked the Calcutta-Amritsar express train and killed two people in a shootout aboard a crowded second-class car, police said.
Reagan OKs start of '84 committee
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has given tacit approval for aides to set up a campaign committee Oct. 17 and is expected to become a formal candidate for re-election sometime in December, White House officials said yesterday.
The officials, who emphasized that Reagan had yet to pass final word of his intentions to anyone outside his family, said the Reagan-Bush re-election committee would be situated in an office building on Capitol Hill
After the re-election committee is registered with the Federal Elections Commission, which clears the way for fund-raising, Reagan has 15 days to disavow the committee. His failure to do so would make him an apparent candidate, although formal status is not recognized until Reagan himself declares his intentions to seek re-election.
vote on civil-rights nominees delayed
WASHINGTON — For the fourth straight week, the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a vote Thursday on President Reagan's three nominees to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and left the controversy daneling.
The delay threatened to leave the fate and membership of the commission unresolved through Congress' 10-day Columbus Day recess, which starts today.
Explaining the postponement, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Uttal, said the White House was at an impasse with Democrats and some renegade Republicans on the Judiciary Committee over how many of Reagan's nominees should be put on the commission.
"The White House is irritated. The Democrats are irritated. Frankly, everyone is upset." Hatch said.
Columbia blastoff may be delayed
CAPE CANANAVERAL, Fla. — The scheduled Oct. 28 blastoff of the space shuttle Columbia could be delayed by a month if further tests show that nozzles on two booster rockets are faulty, officials said yesterday.
The tests are to be conducted this weekend and should help engineers decide whether the boosters' exhaust nozzles need replacing. A booster change would require rolling the shuttle back from its seaside launch pad to an assembly building.
A final decision is expected by late next week, said National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Jim Ball.
The ninth shuttle mission will mark the first flight of Spacelab, a scientific laboratory tucked into Columbia's cargo bay.
Sex scandal rocks Thatcher's party
LONDON — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative party ran into a major sex scandal yesterday involving a key cabinet minister who got his former secretary pregnant.
The disclosure by Trade Secretary Cecil Parkinson, 52, of his long-running affair deeply embarrassed the Conservatives following Thatcher's frequent public references to the sanctity of family life.
Parkinson said Sara Keays, 36, was expecting his baby in January. But he said that he was patching up his 26-year marriage instead of buying a new one.
Despite the embarrassment, Thatcher made it clear she did not want Parkinson to resign over a "private matter."
Oregon official rules against guru
SALEM, Orc. The incorporation of Rajneeshpuram, a city founded by an Indian guru's followers, violated state and federal constitutional guarantees of separation of church and state, the Oregon attorney general ruled yesterday.
The opinion was requested by State Rep. Mike McCracken. Attorney General Dave Frohmayer said in his opinion that Rajneeshpuram could not be a city or receive state funds.
Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 51, moved to central Oregon in 1981 from Poona, India, with several hundred followers and founded a commune on a 64,000 acre ranch that once was the setting for a John Wayne movie.
WORCESTER, Mass. — A $1 million lottery winner who waited until his preliminary divorce was settled before claiming his winnings may not be out of the woods yet.
Divorcee seeks share of lottery pot
Jonny r. radzik, 47, waited until last week to collect his $10,000 in installment after winning the Massachusetts Megabucks Lottery
When he picked up his check in Boston, he said his 16-year marriage had ended four weeks before his winning number was drawn.
but ins estranged wife, Nancy R. Radzik, of Spencer, filed a "complaint of modification" Tuesday in Probate Court to force Radzik to increase the terms of the couple's preliminary divorce decree.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 10-7-83
NOAA
Today's weather will be mostly fair across the nation.
Today's weather will be mostly fair across the nation.
Today will be partly cloudy, with a high around 80, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Tonight will be cloudy with a low in the mid-50s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high near 75.
Negotiations advance on accord for Lebanon
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Secretary of State George Shultz met yesterday with the foreign minister of Saudia Arabia, and a senior U.S. official said that progress was being made toward agreement on the peace process in Lebanon.
The official said that the cease-fire in Lebanon was holding well, giving negotiators time to agree on its observers and setting up political reconciliation talks on the future of the embattled country.
The negotiations are currently snagged on Syria's objection to Saudi Arabia as the host country for the talks between Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, the Syrian-backed Druse as well as Shitte and other factors.
a car bomb killed a pro-Iraeli Muslim militia commander in southern Lebanon yesterday in an attack that the Palestine Liberation Organization said had been carried out to eliminate traitors to the Arab cause.
The attack in the Shiite Muslim village of Adloum came as negotiators in Beirut said that there could be a 10- to 12-day delay in convening peace talks between Lebanon's Christian and Muslim factions.
Gemayel's government also has suggested that U.N. troops monitor an 11-day-old soldier, but Damascus does not support soldiers from neutral nations to observe the truce.
Drusen leader Walid Jumblatt said in Rome, however, that his priority was to topple the U.S. backed government of Iran in a more equal distribution of power.
The 11-day cease-fire between the factions held despite sporadic sniper fire in southern Berut, where the Islamic State had closed close to Shiite Muslim purity units.
In Beirut, the Saudi Arabian mediator who negotiated the cease-fire in Lebanon said after a meeting with President Amin Gamayel that the long-awaited peace talks between the government and the warring Christian extremists may not begin for 10 or 12 days. They had been expected to start this week.
The main stumbling block to arranging the talks has been Syria's rejection of Saudi Arabia as the site of the peace negotiations.
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it planned to sell Lebanon 253 more armored personnel carriers.
Strategic arms talks resume amid doubts for early accord
By United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland.- U.S. and Soviet negotiators resumed strategic arms negotiations yesterday, but officials said that an early breakthrough on reducing the number of nuclear missiles was not imminent.
The two sides agreed to meet again on Tuesday.
Chief U.S. negotiator Edward Rowney met with Soviet chief delegate Viktor Karpov, along with other U.S. and Soviet officials, for nearly three hours, ending a access talks in the Strait of Magellan. Talks of almost two months.
Rowyn, a retired army general, said earlier that the most that could be expected from the latest round of negations was a "narrowing of differences." He said an agreement between him and Kristmas was "just not in the cards."
WESTERN OFFICIALS SAID privately that the superpowers were
far apart even on deciding what kind of weapons should be included in the negotiations.
THE START negotiations are closely linked to the stalled Intermediate range Nuclear Forces (ICF) and the intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe.
Moscow has warned that Western deployment of 572 new missiles in Europe in December will directly affect the talks.
Soviet negotiators consider America's new medium-range cruise and Pershing 2 missiles "an extension" of U.S. intercontinental strike capabilities, a U.S. negotiator said.
Rowny met privately with Karpow Wednesday to present a new START proposal authorized by President Reagan
The proposal, known as the "build-down" approach, would have both the U.S. and the Soviet Union shipboard warships or beads as new ones are deployed.
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