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University Daily Kansan. October 3. 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Senate awaits bid by Helms to block King holiday bill
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders, under immense pressure to establish a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., are bracing for a filibuster by Sen. Jesse Helms, R.N.C., when the bill comes up today.
Passage in the Senate is certain, a GOP leadership source said, but there will be plenty of attempts to modify the legislation. Among them are proposals to substitute Martin Luther King Jr. Day for another of the nine federal holidays or commemorate King on a Sunday.
The Senate GOP leadership source said Republican leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn., hoped to get the Senate to vote Wednesday to limit debate against the King holiday by Helms. But that would not stop Helms from delaying passage by offering numerous amendments.
Helms calls a new national holiday "shutting the country down" because it would give federal workers a day off.
Pilots', attendants' strike continues
HOUSTON — The pilots' and flight attendants' strike against Continental Airlines entered its second day yesterday with both sides vowing a fight to the finish.
Continental said it was keeping many of its flights on schedule, while striking pilots claimed legal limits on flight time and dwindling manpower would slowly ground the airline.
More than 100 pilots and flight attendants manned picket lines in Houston. Picket lines were set up in several other cities, including Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, San Antonio and Austin, Texas, an union spokesmen said.
Bruce Miller, a Continental Airlines spokesman in Houston, said the strike was having minimal effects early yesterday.
Wales native will head Labor Party
BRIGHTON, England — The Labor Party elected Welsh socialist Neil Kinnock yesterday as its new leader to spearhead the opposition to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the recovery from a disastrous election performance.
Kinnock, 41, received 71.2 percent of the vote.
Kinnock replaces Michael Foot, who resigned the party leadership within a week of Thatatcher's landslide victory June 9 when Labor polled
Kinnock already has said that he plans major changes in the party structure and organization away from the left-wingers, whose divisive policies make him a radical.
Court to rehash video controversy
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opens its annual term today with a rerun of a controversy that reaches into the living rooms of millions of Americans — the copying of television programs with videotape recorders.
The high court originally reviewed the case during its 1982-1983 term. Then on July 6 Justice Warren Burger announced that it would be acquitted.
urged again that Sony and the electronics industry argue that the public's right to receive television for personal use in the home approaches the status of a First Amendment right.
The Hollywood studios charged that it was unfair and illegal for AAmericans to copy movies and television shows without paying royalties to the producers.
Bankruptcy law abuse angers union
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The AFL-CIO, citing actions by Continental Airlines, yesterday condemned in a draft policy statement the misuse of federal bankruptcy laws to undermine union contracts.
"Freeing financially troubled corporations from the basic social responsibilities stated in public law is too high a price to pay to compensate for the mistakes of inept managements," the labor federation said.
The statement, approved by the federation's Executive Council, will come before the 15th biennial AFL-CIO convention, which opens today for approval by delegates.
A main topic of the four-day convention will be the current labor crisis in the airline industry.
Reagan plans terrorism crackdown
WASHINGTON The Reagan administration is preparing anti-terrorism legislation in a reward fund for tipsters, and placing Capitol Hill as the headquarters.
Officials said it also would expand federal jurisdiction over conspiracies to kill, kidnap or injure certain foreign government officials in their own countries when the scheme was hatched in the United States.
In addition, the official said the administration was considering a provision to bar military and other assistance to any foreign governments supporting international terrorism or harboring terrorist groups.
Police ask stores to ban Co-Tvlenol
LEWISBURG, Pa. — A man was found dead in bed after taking Co-Tylenol cold tablets, and local police yesterday asked drug stores across Pennsylvania to remove the product from their shelves.
A spokeswoman for the firm that makes Tylenol said it seemed unlikely that use of the drug caused the death of Randall Hummel, 34. Hummel was found dead about 12:30 p.m. Saturday by his 12-year-old daughter.
boss Penny Williams to remove the provide link she added to it.
A spokeswoman for the firm that makes Tylenol said it seemed
"We're not trying to put a panic throughout the nation, and we're not trying to blame Tylenol. Viera said. "We're just taking precautions here."
"We think Co-Tylenol cold medication was used before the death occurred," Rivera said, stressing that police did not know whether there was a connection use of the drug and the death.
WEATHER FACTS
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of understorms according to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka. The weather will be 88°F.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thundershowers. The low will be in the low to mid-50s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the lower to mid-70s.
Six presidential hopefuls make promises to NOW
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Six Democratic presidential candidates pledged yesterday to consider a woman for vice president and one of them said he would be willing to run in the second spot with a woman at the top of the ticket.
Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., got a rousing cheer from more than 1,000 delegates to the National Organization for Women's annual convention when he said, "I would be proud to run with a woman on either end of the ticket."
The issue of a woman on the Democratic ticket caught fire at the convention after its president, Judy Goldsmith, opened the three-day meeting Friday by declaring that a woman vice presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket should be a goal for 1984.
WITH PRACTICALLY NO debate, the delegates overwhelmly approved a resolution declaring that NOW would endorse a presidential ticket in 1984, would advocate a woman 'dedicated' to her cause, would preside, and would not accept any vice presidential candidate who does not represent the feminist viewpoint.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, Sens. Alan Cranston of California, John Glenn of Ohio and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, and former Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota aka Ellen Holmes. He also asked to a woman on their tickets, but Hart trumped their ace in making his pledge
It was a sharp contrast to last summer when he was hissed at a National Womens Political Caucus conference in Washington. A unit set for candidate's speeches
Former Gov. Reubin Askew of New Democratic candidate, did pot arrest.
Glenn ran into some loud hoots of derision when he said, "I think we all loafed on the ERA and let opponents out-hustle us."
GLENN MET WITH Goldsmith and former NOW President Eleman Smeal later in an effort to clarify the remark that angered some of the delegates. Greg Schneiders, Glenn's press secretary, said he "they knew what he meant (on the Equal Rights Amendment), but it was a poor choice of words."
For the most part, Glenn was a hit, especially when he ended his formal speech with a quotation from subfragile Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to the effect that women should settle for less than their full rights as citizens
Mondale's best moment came when he declared "I am a feminist," and said of a possible woman vice presidential candidate, the contenders righteh here in this room.
Mondale was fresh from weekend campaign triumphs of endorsement from leaders of the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association and a victory in a Maine Democratic straw poll.
HOLLINGS WAS HISSED by several delegates when he called for a rebuilding program for conventional military sources, but cheered when he noted that more than 18 months ago he suggested former Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas as a good vice presidential candidate.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale holds a baby as he meets with people attending the National Organization for Women Conference. Six male presidential candidates spoke during the third day of the conference yesterday, and each pledged to consider a woman for vice president.
In addition to answering the question about a woman on their tickets, all six
candidates gave ringing support for ratification of the ERA; supported the right of choice to have an abortion; called for an end to inequities by sex in salaries, Social Security and private pension benefits and backed action to fight child abuse, pornography, and violence against women.
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