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University Daily Kansan, October 4, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Kirkland defends decision by labor to back Mondale
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — AFL-CIO leader Lane Kirkland yesterday defended organized labor's decision to back Democratic presidential contender Walter Mondale, saying that "arrogance and indifference" were Reagan administration trademarks.
In his keynote speech to nearly 1,000 delegates at the federation's 15th biennial convention, Kirkland rejected suggestions that the 13.7 million-member group "sit meekly on the sidelines while other elements of society . . . define the choices of candidates and issues."
"If we do not do what we propose to do, we shall be reviled as toothless and irrelevant," he said. "If we succeed, we shall be condemned for daring to aspire to a share of power in our society."
Shamir faces holdout by mavericks
TEL AVIV, Israel — Six maverick members of Parliament yesterday warned Prime Minister-designate Yitzhak Shamir that they would withhold support unless he renewed efforts to form a government with the opposition Labor Party.
Without the six votes, Shamir may have to rely on the votes of his ailing predecessor, Menachem Begin, who has been at home in seclusion the past month, and parliamentary deputy Aharon Ehrenreich, who serves as chairwoman of a 90-day sentence for stealing a government allotment to charity.
Shamir is expected to present a new government for parliamentary approval this week.
Weinberger says missiles to push talks
ROME – Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said yesterday that the deployment of U.S. medium-range missiles in Europe was the only thing that could make the Soviet Union negotiate seriously at the Geneva disarmament talks.
Israel Radio said Shamir was furious over the decision by the six and feared that it could have the way for a Labor-led government.
"The negotiations can and will proceed after the first deployment, and indeed if we are unable to reach agreement before the scheduled first deployment, the only thing that will keep the negotiations going is the deployment." Weinberger said at a news conference.
Speaking in Rome's 17th Century Palazzo Barberini, Weinberger said going ahead with NATO's planned deployment of 572 U.S. made cruise and Pershing missiles "will be the only thing to make the Soviets realize that they indeed should negotiate."
Settlement sought for teacher strike
CHICAGO — Negotiators searched for a quick settlement to a strike by public school teachers who set up pickets yesterday in their battle for a pay raise, keeping classrooms empty for 435,000 students in the nation's third largest school district.
Chicago Teachers Union President Robert Healey said that the strike could be a short one if the Board of Education dropped its demand that salary increases be tied to concessions.
salary increases for the union. Healey said that board negotiators offered the union a half-percent raise after the strike was called Sunday. Further increases in salary would be tied to union concessions, Healey said.
"If we only talk about a salary increase, it could be a short strike," he said. "If Schools Superintendent Ruth Love insists on pre-conditions, he said." "It could be a long strike."
Polish government attacks church
WARSAW. Poland — The Communist Party renewed its attack on the church yesterday, accusing clergymen and parents of illegally encouraging children to hang crucifixes in schools across heavily Catholic Poland.
"We have to say openly that these are lawless actions," said Trybuna Lada, the party's daily newspaper.
Trybuna, which along with other papers has carried a number of such attacks over the past two weeks, said that the Polish constitution strictly divided church from state and that education was a matter of laity.
"But in recent years attempts to violate the lay character of schools have been recorded, reflected in the hanging up of religious emblems on school walls," Trybuna said.
America's Cup flown to Australia
PERTH, Australia — International yachting's most coveted trophy, the America's Cup, was flown under armed guard yesterday to its new Australian home.
"We've won a cup but we've also created a monster," said Royal Perth Yacht Club Commodore Peter Dalziell, unpacking the trophy in front of reporters at Perth airport.
The ornate, 44-ounce silver trophy was captured by the Australia II last week from the New York Yacht Club, which had held it during a 132-year winning streak.
"Now we're going to sit back and take a deep breath for six months," Dalzell said.
The prized trophy probably will be exhibited when the crew of the
Navy jiai M. gatherers in Porth at the end of the month.
Porpoises find drowned boy's body
COROLLA, N.C. — A Virginia man who tried in vain to save his drowning son watched as three porpoises located the teen-ager's body and nudged it to shore, authorities said yesterday.
Gene Austin, a Currituck County deputy sheriff, said the body of Kevin Cherry, of Chesapeake, washed up Saturday, nearly at the feet of his father, Marshall Cherry, 39.
Cherry had tried to save his son, who drowned while paddling a small raft through the breakers off the Currittuck Outer Banks.
"There were three big porpoises right in the shallow water, right behind the body," Austin said. "They were part of a school of about 15 porpoises, and they had been circling around just off the beach where the boy disappeared. We all saw them."
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 10-4-83
Today the weather will be mostly fair across the nation.
Locally, today will be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be fair with a low in the upper 40s.
Tomorrow will be sunny with a high around 80.
blankets, towels and food to the 22-square-mile island of Miyakejima that also was hit by an earthquake five years ago. The scale seven hours after the eruption.
TOKYO — The Mount Oyama volcano erupted yesterday for the first time in 21 years, burying a village in lava, setting fire to forests and forcing thousands of people from their homes. Japanese Maritime Safety Agency said.
Long-dormant Japanese volcano erupts, causing frightened residents to evacuate
By United Press International
All the residents of Ako, a town of 1,300 south of Mount Oyama, were evacuated to shelters as lava and fires continued to burn. Some 800 houses were destroyed, police said
No injuries were reported, although police said an elderly man was missing.
the government rushed water, 1,500
"When I looked back at the village, I saw lava engulfing everything," said Mackenzie. "It was a big explosion."
POLICE SAID THOUSANDS of residents fled their homes on Miyejima, and the Maritime Safety Agency sent nine vessels to the island to evacuate all its residents if necessary. About 4,300 people live on the 22-square-mile island, the Kyodo News Agency said.
Mount Oyama erupted previously on August 24, 1962, injuring 31 people.
The 2,500-foot volcano began to spout smoke and lava in the afternoon, a maritime agency spokesman said. The volcano said they expected the activity to continue.
Several weak earthquakes rumbled a warning of the latest eruption to residents before molten lava started to flow in flyi riverains down the mountain.
Billows of smoke reached 18,000 feet, according to the maritime agency. Other reports said thick clouds of fire about 30,000 feet, or almost six miles.
Relief centers were set up for the evacuees, Kyodo reported.
U.S. Marine compound in Beirut fired at
Fighting erupts amid Lebanese cease-fire
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Mortar fire slammed into the U.S. Marine compound near Beirut airport yesterday and the Lebanese army battled rebel militias in the most severe fighting the nation's civil war eight days ago.
No Marine casualties were reported in the incident, which occurred after a six-hour battle began between the Lebanese army and rebel forces to the north and south of the American position.
President Amin Gemayel started a diplomatic drive to block what government officials feared was an attempt to establish a Drusse Muslim
mini-state in the mountains east of the capital.
UNOFFICIAL REPORTS carried by state-run Beirut radio also indicated that Gemayel planned to hold the first peace talks between Lebanese warfare factions Thursday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The fighting broke out when the Lebanese army tried to stop Shiite Muslim rebels from setting up roadblocks in an area north of the Marine base on the island's rocket-propelled grenades and artillery fire could be heard for two hours.
At about the same time, the army clashed with Druse Muslim rebels in the village of Shweifat south of the Marines...
MARINE WARRANT OFFICER
Charles Rowe said one platoon of Marines at the southern end of the bunker, where they came into its bunkers for about 30 minutes.
compound and the Americans were forced into their foxholes for the first
About 1,200 Marines have been stationed in Beirut for the past year as part of the 4,800 man multinational peacekeeping force.
Several mortal rounds from the fighting crashed into the Marine
It was the worst fighting since the civil war, fire that stopped 22 days of civil war.
The airport remained open throughout the fighting.
Druse leader Walid Jumblatt said he was setting up a separate civil administration in the area.
Under orders from Gemayel, the foreign ministry summoned the American, French and Italian ambassadors and the charges d'affaires of the Soviet Union and Britain for urgent consultations on the issue
Gemayel's diplomatic initiative against creation of a Drusue-controlled mini-state in the Shouf Mountains east of the capital came two days after
FAROUK JAMBRE, an adviser to Gemayel, said the government hoped Jumblatt's moves were only tactical in nature and that concessions at-hoped for peace talks.
Even if peace talks were held, a senior Christian militia leader told reporters, his followers would make no concessions to Muslim demands for more power in Lebanon's central government.
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