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University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Delegates elect U.N. chief; ex-president rebukes U.S.
UNITED NATIONS — The outgoing president of the U.N. General Assembly indirectly rebuked the United States yesterday for "preventing the normal participation" of the Soviet delegation at the new session of the world body.
new session of the world body.
In its first action, the new Assembly elected on the first ballot Panamanian Vice President Jorge Ilieuca as president of the body for the year. The United Nations includes delegates from 157 nations.
the year. The United States includes designated Illueca received 83 votes, and Ambassador Davidson Hepburn of Bahamas, the only other candidate for the post, got 70 ballots. The post this year was reserved for Latin America.
Irreal Holla of Hungary, president of the last Assembly session, said it was "regrettable that obstacles are being raised in order to prevent the normal participation of the delegation of one of the Council's permanent members in the work of the General Assembly."
MANILA, Philippines - Thousands of office workers demanding the resignation of President Ferdinand Marcos broke up a pro-government demonstration yesterday, pelting marchers with coins, rocks, eggs and firecrackers.
Workers break up pro-Marcos rally
Many of the pro-government marchers appeared to be city-employed street sweepers who dropped their "We love Marcos" signs in a mad scramble for the coins thrown by the opposition.
It was the second time in four days the white-collar workers paralyzed Manila's Makati financial district.
Marcos vowed not to step down, saying it would take more than speeches and violence to make him give up power he has held for 18 years, including nearly eight years under martial law.
Beagan says schools fail to do job
COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Reagan, visiting South Carolina to raise campaign money for Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond, told college students yesterday that the nation's schools were failing "to meet the challenges of change."
meet the challenges of change Reagan, in accepting an honorary doctor of law degree from the University of South Carolina, said new technology had spawned a new industrial revolution that U.S. schools were not prepared to meet.
industrial revolution that U.S. schools
"There are many fine schools . . . and thousands of dedicated school teachers and administrators," Reagan said. "But overall, American schools are failing to do the job they should."
Reagan, dressed in a burgundy academic robe and purple stole to receive the honorary degree, departed from the text of his speech at both the beginning and the end to sound patriotic themes.
Cigarette spat spurs prison race riot
ONLY, Tenn. — Refusal of one prison inmate to light the cigarette of another triggered a race riot that left 12 persons injured and caused thousands of dollars in property damage, officials said yesterday.
Correction Department spokesman Dick Baumbach said black and white inmates at Turney Correctional Institute attacked each other with clubs, rocks and knives made in prison Monday night after a fight broke out between inmates over the cigarette-lighting incident.
The medium security prison in a rural area 50 miles west of Nashville was in a lockdown situation yesterday — meaning prisoners were allowed out of their cells only to eat.
The rioters looted the prison commissary and hospital before they were dispersed by guards, who fired shotgun blasts over their heads.
Reagan opposes more drought aid
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration resisted congressional suggestions yesterday that more federal aid was needed for farmers whose crops were devastated in the worst drought in half a century.
Richard Lyng, deputy secretary of agriculture, continued the administration's defense of its response to the drought and said the Agriculture Department had no plans to ask Congress for any new legislative authority.
"I'm not at all sure that the programs we have now will not be adequate." Lyng said in a briefing to the Senate Agriculture Committee. Agriculture Secretary John Block is to present a similar report to the committee today.
Several senators predicted more drought aid would be needed
Court kills plan to cut welfare fraud
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court yesterday killed a plan to use tax files to catch welfare cheaters and accused the Social Security Administration of heartlessly threatening millions of blind, disabled and elderly Americans.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a court order that would have let Social Security check disability benefit applications against Internal Revenue Service tax records to look for fraud.
Congressional auditors say cheating on disability payments costs taxpayers more than $100 million a year. The disability program pays about $9.2 billion a year to 3.8 million recipients.
Million-dollar gold piece uncovered
BRASILIA, Brazil — A giant gold nugget worth $1 million, the biggest ever found in Brazil, was dug up by a prospector using the old-fashioned panning method, a Mines and Energy Ministry spokesman said yesterday.
The 137 pound, 80 percent pure nugget, which looks like a gold-plated meteorite, was found by prospector Julio de Deus Filho.
Deus Filho found the nugget Sept. 13 and sold it to a government bank for the equivalent of $1 million, the spokesman said.
WEATHER FACTS
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly clear and cool with a high near 65,
according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be cool, with a low in the 30s.
Tomorrow will be cool, with a high in the 60s.
Because of a copy editor's error, Alexandra Mason, head of special collections at Spencer Research Library, was incorrectly identified as Gary Mason in a story in yesterday's Kansan.
CORRECTIONS
Nicaraguan rebels said to gather air fleet
MANAGUA. Nicaragua — Nicaraguan rebels said yesterday that they had assembled a fleet of 15 small airplanes and 25 pilots to carry out a new wave of air attacks against targets in Nicaragua.
Inside Nicaragua, residents of a salt marsh inlet on the Pacific coast said the military had been smuggling weapons and ammunition to leftist Salvadoran rebels from an island for three years.
By United Press International
it was the first testimony that the Marxist-led Sandinista government had been supplying the Salvadoran
THE ARMS TRAFFIC was the primary reason given by the Reagan administration for its support of Nicaraguan rebels. The Nicaraguan government has consistently denied it supports the Salvadoran insurgents.
In a further sign of how the fighting is spilling over borders, a Costa Rican official said the rebel plane that bombed the airport in Maramu Sept. 17 took off from Costa Rica and went to a nearby military base before the attack.
rebels, who are fighting the U.S.-backed government.
In San Jose, Costa Rica, the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, or ARDE, announced that a fleet of 15 small airplanes and a command of 25 pilots are carrying out air raids against the Nicaraguan government.
Spokesmen for the army and President Alvaro Magana said they had no comment on the report.
According to the ARDE, most of the 15 Cessna Baron aircraft, which are equipped with rocket and bomb launchers, were bought in the United States and donated by friends of Eden Pastora, former Sandinista assistant defense minister, known as Commander Zero.
PASTORA, WHO LEFT the Sandinistas in 1981 because of the government's Marxist drift, is now head of the ARDE.
The rebel group said that most of the 25 pilots had been trained to fly at low altitudes to avoid being detected by the radar — a tactic used in the September 8 bombing of Managua's international airport, the rebels claimed.
In Honduras, the army announced it killed 31 leftist rebels who had been trained outside the country and infiltrated in August and September.
In Managua, People's Tribunals began the trials yesterday of 11 anti-Sandinistas in 1979.
The army has formed a close alliance with the United States, claiming Nicaragua has also targeted a takeover of Honduras by leftists.
U.S. firms to be able to work with S.African nuclear plants
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — The State Department said yesterday it would approve an application for American companies to bid on a contract to provide training and maintenance for South Africa's nuclear power plants.
The department said the U.S. participation would not involve the transfer of any nuclear fuel or sensitive technology.
The services, according to the State Department, are available from other nuclear-supplier countries. If American firms were forbidden to bid on the contract, a non-American firm would be chosen and the United States would lose any ability to influence the
direction of the South African nuclear program.
SOUTH AFRICA IS suspected by the United States of being capable of producing a nuclear weapon, and some intelligence sources believe South Africa may have already set off one secret nuclear test in the South
Some members of Congress have also
protested the nuclear maintenance contract to South Africa, which practices aparthied, would violate the spirit of the U.S. law banning the sale to South Africa of either nuclear reactors or fuel.
The State Department said, "The review indicates that approval of these requests would not involve an increase in the risk.
Freshmen
All interested in filing for freshman class officers pick up applications at BOCO office 110B Union. Filling Deadline 5:00 September 22.
KU CRITERIUM BICYCLE RACE
Sunday, September 25 8:00am - 2:00pm
on the KU campus
OLYMPIC CLASS CYCLING BY THE COMPETITORS FROM
THROUGHOUT THE MIDWEST
CHANCELLORS CUP BIKE RACE
WILL BE HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE
CRITERIUM with race time at 10:00am
A 2-lap and 4-lap race will be held with
divisions for men and women; students,
faculty and staff of KU. Entries due
by 5:00pm, Friday, Sept. 23 in
208 Robinson.
SPECTATORS WELCOME!
KU CRITERIUM sponsored by M. Oread
Bicycle Club: CHANCELLORS CUP sponsored
KU CRITERIUM sponsored by Mt. Oread Bicycle Club; CHANCELLORS CUP sponsored by Recreation Services.
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