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University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Typhoon Forrest in Japan leaves 21 dead in its wake
TOKYO — Four days of rain spawned by Typhoon Forrest left at least 21 dead and 17 missing in floods and landslides across Japan yesterday.
The Meteorological Agency said that Forrest dropped as much as 20 inches of rain in parts of southern and western Japan after slamming into the archipelago Sunday. The storm weakened to a tropical depression Wednesday and entered the Pacific north of Tokyo.
A National Police Agency spokesman said that 21 people were evacuated dead and injured during storm flooding waters and other landslides also left 17 people missing.
Overflowing rivers and broken dikes flooded more than 40,000 homes, seriously damaging 141 of them, a National Police Agency spokesman said.
Rains crumbled mountains and cliffs in 1,063 locations around the country, police said. In addition, 67 bridges and 818 roads were damaged.
Senate passes stopgap spending bill
WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday quickly approved a simple stopgap spending bill that was needed to fund most federal agencies past midnight today.
"For the first time in years we won't have to face the midnight hour or face the possibility of shutting down the federal government." Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Mark Hatfield, R-Ore, said. "It's rather remarkable."
By voice vote, the Senate approved a bill that would keep the government operating from Saturday, the beginning of fiscal 1984, until Nov. 10. Without such a stopgap measure, the government would technically run out of money at midnight today.
House extends unemployment plan
WASHINGTON — Despite the threat of a presidential veto, the House of Representatives yesterday voted to expand and extend for 45 days the federal program that provides benefits for long-term unemployed people.
The program is due to expire today.
The brief but generous extension, approved 327-92, would allow Congress to consider the program again in November.
It would both expand the benefits available under the current program and allow about 1 million people who have exhausted their benefits to collect up to eight additional weeks of compensation.
Britain expels Soviet trade official
LONDON — Britain yesterday ordered the expulsion of a Soviet trade official for "activities incompatible" with his position — a phrase which is diplomatic jargon for spying. He was the sixth Soviet official kicked out of Britain this year.
The Soviet Embassy immediately denied the official was a spy and described the ouster as a "clearly unfriendly action" that will harm British-Soviet ties.
A Foreign Office announcement said trade official Vasiliy Ionov "was asked to leave the country because he was engaged in activities incompatible with his position at the trade delegation."
Talks on media merger confirmed
ATLANTA — Ted Turner confirmed reports yesterday that far-ranging talks were under way between Turner Broadcasting Systems Headline News subsidiary and Satellite News Channel, but no agreement had been reached on purchase of SNC operations.
Turner said discussions have taken place between his company and Westinghouse Electric Corp. and the American Broadcasting Co., joint owners of Satellite News Channel, in an effort to settle out of court a Satellite News channel presently pending between Headline News and Satellite News Channel.
At Turner's request, trading in Turner Broadcasting System Inc. steel was scheduled Wednesday following a price run-up on speculation that the merger would be complete.
Tylenol deaths prompt legislation
WASHINGTON — Exactly a year after the first of seven victims died from cyanide-laced Tylolen, the U.S. House of Representatives, without dissent, yesterday passed a bill to severely punish anyone who tampers with consumer products.
The measure, which is expected to receive quick Senate passage, provides up to a $100,000 fine and life imprisonment for those convicted of meddling with products and endangering consumers' lives.
Rep. Bill Hughes, D-N.J., said the House's vote is especially appropriate on the first anniversary of the Tylenol scare, in which seven Chicago-area residents died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules containing cyanide.
Indian officials open treasure chests
SRINAGAR, India — After 50 years in chests, the fabulous treasure of Kashmir's ancient maharajahs — worth $1 billion and including diamonds, pearls and emeralds the size of a fist worth — has been uneased. Inquiries fear they may have opened a Pandora's box and that!
Kashmir's Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said Wednesday that the treasure chests had been opened and appraised and told reporters that a museum would be built in the state capital in Srinagar to house the board.
"We will build a good museum where all these articles, comprising gems, jewelry, diamond-studded robes and crowns left behind by ancient Dogra rulers of the state, will be preserved," he said.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST TO 7 PM EST 9-30-83
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Locally, today will be fair with a high in the mid-80s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the mid-80s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-80s.
Congress votes to allow forces in Lebanon
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congress agreed yesterday to let President Reagan keep Marines in Lebanon for another 18 months, a verifying constitutional clash between the two branches of government over the War Powers Resolution.
The Senate passed the resolution, 54-46, following the defeat of Democratic amendments that would have limited the Marines' deployment to two or six months and despite fears by some lawmakers that the United States might be getting involved in another Vietnam-type "quagmire."
The House, which passed the resolution Tuesday, then agreed to minor Senate changes by a vote of 253-154 and would now work to effort by some Democrats to scuttle it.
"WHAT WE'RE DOING, truly, by this resolution is to give the president a blank check." Rep. Ted Weiss, D-N.Y., said just before the vote.
But Rep. Clement Zablock, D-Wis,
chairman of the House Foreign Affairs
 Committee, was re-elected.
abide by even tighter restrictions than those included in the resolution, reporting to the congressional leadership on the situation in Lebanon every two days and Congress as a whole every 60 days instead of the 90 days required in the bill.
Democrats voted solidly against the resolution in the Senate, but Republicans held their own to pass it.
"I still have grave doubts about the wisdom of American troops in the Middle East, but they are there." Senate Republican leader Howard Baker told colleagues just before the final tally on the compromise package worked out with the White House. "It would be a mistake of tragic proportions if the Congress were to withdraw them."
Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ak., said during an emotional debate, "The people in this country do not want another 55,000 dead sons for something they do not understand."
OPPONENTS OF THE compromise
argued that the American people want the U.S. troops out of Lebanon, where four Marines have been killed and more than 30 wounded during the last month. A Washington Post-ABC News poll published yesterday found that 58 of those who were wounded in Marine should be brought home in six months or less.
The 18-month deployment would leave the Marines in Lebanon past the November 1984 presidential and congressional elections.
In Lebanon, gunmen kidnapped two U.S. Army soldiers and held them for two hours yesterday when the Americans got lost in a Beirut suburb controlled by a rebel Muslim militia.
The incident came shortly before the government, taking advantage of the cease-fire that took effect Monday, reopened Beirut airport. The airport had been closed for 32 days by fighting with rebel factions around the capital,
ALTHOUGH THE ARMY said it considered the cease-fire still in force.
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the official Beirut radii said government troops and rebel rudel Muslim militiamen exchanged light and medium weapons fire at Qabr Shamoun, 9 miles southeast of Beirut on a strategic mountain ridge overlooking the capital.
In Washington, the Senate gave final approval to a measure allowing President Reagan to keep U.S. Marines in Afghanistan and allow them to engage a multi national peace-keeping force.
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The two American soldiers, members of a Army radar unit working with the U.S. Marine peace-keeping contingent at Beirut airport, drove their jeep by mistake into a south Beirut neighborhood controlled by the Shiite Moslem militia and were abducted by masked men armed with submachine guns, Marine spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan said.
A spokesman for the Shite militia denied that its members kidnapped the two Americans, saying that militiamen were inside their buildings and they were in was stopped at a roadblock
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