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Dispute over West Bank policy hinders Likud-Labor coalition
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Israel's two largest political bails failed to reach agreement yesterday on a national unity government because of "deep disagreements" about Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
The leaders of the incumbent Likud coalition and opposition Labor Party scheduled new talks for today. But Labor chief Shimon Peres said chances of a joint administration were not very good, "very serious differences of views."
Prime Minister-designate Yitzhak Shamir, who met with Peres for more than two hours said he was still convinced that Israel would unity government desiccate difficulties.
Labor has reportedly demanded a pullout from Lebanon and a halt to settlements on the occupied West Bank as a price for joining with Likud in a government under Shamir to replace administration of Menachem Begin.
"As far as the settlements are concerned, we have reached deep
disagreements concerning the timing, the area method and the consequence of the intervention.
Shamir, who serves as foreign minister in the outgoing Begin government, has 18 more days to complete the formation of his coalition and seek a 21-day extension from Herzog or give up.
BUT IN accepting Shamir's overture, PERES said he wanted a complete change of policy on key issues, including Israel's rejection of President Reagan's Middle East peace plan, and perhaps he could join a national unity government.
Begin, 70, resigned Sept. 15 bringing in six-party coalition government
He has said that he would try to forge a joint plan of action with Labor in the political and economic fields, and give the rival party its pick of three key Cabinet posts: defense, foreign affairs and the treasury.
Without its coalition partners, Likud has 46 votes in Parliament. Labor has 50 votes. So a Likud-Labor government would have a large majority of 96 Knesset votes.
Federal court rules that rights not violated in rape cover-ups
By United Press International
ATLANTA — Police officials who cover up rape reports to protect their town's image are not violating the constitutional rights of women, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
A three-judge federal panel upheld a lower court's dismissal of a suit brought by a rape victim who said that she would not have visited a dimly lit trailer park in Ozark, Ala., if she had been raped. The woman was raped Dec. 29, 1981, and said that there had been a series of similar attacks in the area.
"We assume that all facts alleged in the victim's) complaint are true," said the court, adding that she "alleged a conspiracy on the part of the defendants to withhold from the public
The victim that city officials had covered up the rapes, not wanting to hurt the town's commercial image. She joined a group of women of equal protection of the laws.
and the press information that a number of rapes had occurred in Ozark during 1890 and 1891, including one that raped a month before she was raped.
Circuit Judge Gerald Tjofil, writing the circuit court's opinion, said the woman could not prove that the police were deliberately neglecting the part of town where the attack occurred and that they had been forced to be protection from a raist."
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Generally, the court said, city officials may not be held liable for damages sought by a crime victim unless they negligently fail to help a person they know to be in danger. Toflat wrote that "even if the defendants purposefully compromised to the victim's reckles disregard of (the victim's) well-being, they breached no constitutional duty owed to her."
He said she "alleges not one fact from which a purpose to discriminate either against her or against women or against any other class could be inferred, thus, her equal protection allegation tails."
Harvey Boyd, a Facilities Operations employee, rolls some paint on the curbs near the Kansas Union. The curbs, which received the fresh coat of paint yesterday, needed repainting because Jayhawk Boulevard was repaired over the weekend.
Disaster loans available to Mo. farmers
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Farmers in 101 of Missouri's 114 drought struck counties, where a lack of rain and torrid heat during the summer devastated crops, may apply for federal disaster loans that were announced yesterday.
U. S. Agriculture Secretary John Block in Washington designated the counties agricultural disaster areas. Officials indicated that the state's 13 remaining counties might be designated later after more information is received on the extent of the drought damage.
Those 13 Missouri counties are
Barry, Butler, Callaway, Cedar, Copper
Jasper, Madrid and Osage
Jasper, Madrid and Osage
Agriculture leaders say this year's drought hit Missouri's farmers especially hard, because five of the last 10 years have been drought years.
Block, during a brief inspection of two Missouri farmers earlier this month, told farmers he had never seen a drought so widespread or more devas-
In August, Gov. Christopher S. Bond sent Block a telegram asking for his assistance in declaring Missouri's grain crops a disaster. Bond has earned the extended drought has held to Missouri farmers about $1.4 million.
$1 billion dollar debt prompts bankruptcy filing by Baldwin
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Baldwin-United Corp., the giant piano and financial services company struggling to survive under more than $1 billion in debt, filed for bankruptcy yesterday to ward off creditors.
Baldwin's voluntary filing of a Chapter 11 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan came minutes after three of Baldin's unsecured creditors filed a petition in Cincinnati federal bankruptcy court seeking to force the company into involuntary bankruptcy proceedings.
In July, 40 major Baldwin creditors approved a 90-day "standstill" agreement postponing repayment of more than $1 billion of the company's debt.
BALDWIN'S bankruptcy petition does not cover any of its subsidiaries except for the D.H. Baldwin Co. and Baldwin-United Leasing Co.
Baldwin's creditors range from large banks to the many thousands of individuals across the country who have been affected by Baldwin's insurance subsidiaries.
Victor Palmieri, president and chief executive officer, said in an affidavit accompanying the bankruptcy petition that "Baldwin had no viable alternative other than protection under Chapter 11 in order to avoid the potentially
disastrous consequences of independent creditor action against Baldwin and its assets."
"Baldwin expects that the protection afforded under Chapter 11 will give it and its affiliates the time to create the environment necessary to effect a total debt and business restructuring which will benefit all parties," Palmieri said.
UNDER Chapter 11, a company continues to operate, but with court protection against creditors' lawsuits you work out a plan for paying its debts.
Baldwin's debt problems stem from a series of acquisitions and increases in reserve funds backing up the company's life insurance policies.
Under pressure to raise cash, Baldwin this summer sold several small subsidiaries and earlier this month announced plans to put its MGIC Investment Corp. subsidiary up for sale.
Proceeds of the sale of MGIC, which Baldwin purchased in 1982 for $1.2 billion, were to be used to pay off part of Baldwin's $1 billion in short-term debt and also to pay holders of Baldwin annuities. But the sale was not expected to cash to pay off everyone. Thus the stage battle among creditors and state insurance regulators on the side of annuity holders.
Grandmother wins $1.8 million in lottery
By United Press International
CLEVELAND — A grandmother yesterday claimed a $1,784.29 Ohio Lottery jackpot and said that she might quit her grocery store clerk job and use the money to pay her husband's medical bills.
Marilyn Blankenship, 48, of Cleveland, bought a ticket on which she correctly selected six numbers, including Saturday night's Lotto game drawing.
Blankenship said she will pay for repairs on the roof of their 100-year-old house.
The mother of five, who has five grandchildren and said she used no system to pick the numbers, heeded counsel of friends and relatives who told her to hide the ticket until she went to a lottery office to claim the fortune.
"I did it in the vacuum cleaner," she told reporters of a news report.
Blankenship, who noted that the
family has no medical insurance, said of her husband, Basil, who was injured in a 1977 highway accident. "Now he can go to the hospital."
Blankenship has been out of work for more than a year and the company that employed him fled.
Despite her joy, the woman does see her good fortune becoming a problem
"I'm happy but a little scared," she said. "It has to mean some disruption until we get ourselves balanced again."
Blanketing also said she may quit be job as a part-time grocery store clerk.
"I'd like to work for a few more weeks," she said with a smile, adding, "I'd like to work for you."
She will receive 20 annual installments of $71,372. Lottery director Thomas Chema noted that the Internal Revenue Service requires the state to withhold 20 percent of the winnings.
He said the woman had one chance in 1.9 million to win.
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