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University Daily Kansan, September 16, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International Begin paves way for Shamir by submitting resignation
JERUSALEM — An ailing and secluded Menachem Begin resigned yesterday as prime minister of Israel, clearing the way for Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir to become the new leader of the Jewish state
Begin's chief of staff, Mattyahu Shmuelevitz, said the prime minister's decision to resign nearly three weeks ago was "due to his physical weakness."
The 70-year-old Israeli leader broke with tradition and sent his Cabinet secretary with a two-sentence letter of resignation to President Chaim Herzog, who was expected to start the process of choosing a successor on Sunday.
"According to section 23(a) of the Basic Law: The Government, I hereby submit my resignation from the office of prime minister," the letter said. "Yours respectfully, and with all good wishes to you and your family for a Happy New Year, Menachem Begin."
U.S. trade deficit reaches new high
WASHINGTON — The nation's international trade difficulties reached an all-time high from April to June, with a record $9.7 billion deficit in the balance of payments, the government said yesterday.
Leading administration officials predicted the rest of 1933 would be worse, accelerating the erosion that the government says is costing more than 300.000 U.S. jobs a year.
The nation's merchandise trade is suffering despite a nearly 19 percent decline in the cost of imported oil in the second quarter. The United States set another record and came out $14.7 billion behind from April to June.
Trade in the traditionally strong services area, including engineering and insurance, turned in a $6 billion surplus, the same as the last two quarters.
brady loses suit against psychiatrist
DENVER — White House press secretary James Brady and two others who were wounded in an attempted assassination of President Reagan lost their multi-million dollar lawsuit yesterday against John W. Hinkle Jr.'s psychiatrist.
Saying that "human behavior is simply too unpredictable," U.S. District Judge John P. Moore dismissed the suit. He said there was no way the psychiatrist could have known Hinckley would attempt to kill Reagan.
Brady and two law officers, who were shot with Reagan outside a Washington, D.C., hotel March 30, 1981, sued Dr. John J. Hopper Jr. of Evergreen Colo., for negligence in his treatment of Hickle.
Hinckley, now confined to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where he is receiving medical and psychiatric care, underwent treatment by Hopper from late October 1980 until March 1981. Hinckley was found not guilty in the shootings by reason of insanity.
Brazil sets tougher economic goals
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil signed a letter of intent yesterday that set tough new economic targets that would allow the debt-ridden Central American nation to qualify for foreign loans backed by the International Monetary Fund.
Brazil has the world's largest foreign debt, at about $90 billion, and is far behind in repaying the loans.
The severe measures could trigger more food riots in a country that has been hit by supermarket looting in its two biggest cities, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and attacks on food depots in the northeast.
The letter was signed by Finance Minister Eranene Galveas and Central Bank President Affonso Celso Pastore and sent to Brazil's permanent delegate at the IMF in Washington, Finance Ministry spokesman Pedro Luís Rodrigues said.
Strikes leave 90,000 students idle
CHICAGO — Striking school teachers in six states left their classrooms for the picket lines yesterday, idling more than 90,000 students, and Chicago teachers voted overwhelmingly to strike Oct. 3 if the city refuses to raise their pay.
the city to help it resist the attack. Robert Healey, president of the 28,000-member Chicago Teachers Union, said the membership voted 92 percent in favor of the strike in the highest turnout in the union's history. The vote was 21,714 to 1,820.
Chicago is the nation's third largest school district with 447,660 students.
Teachers have already gone on strike in the Crete-Monee, Grayslake
'Teachers have already gone on strike in the Crete Moei', Graysake and Blue Island, Ill., school districts, affecting 8,660 students.
In Michigan, the largest school strike in the state ended yesterday
Tampon use has risks, doctors sav
CHICAGO — Some women using tampons risk developing recurrent vaginal and cervical ulcers, doctors said Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The ulcers can result in abnormal discharges, urinary problems and pain during intercourse.
"The more serious, and fortunately rarer, association of tampon-ulcers with fever, vomiting and other symptoms of toxic shock syndrome has also been reported," Drs. Steven M. Weissberg of Memorial and Melvin G. Dodson of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
They estimated ulcers — some observed as large as 2 by 5 centimeters — may occur in one-fifth of menstruating women using tampons.
Parthenon restoration to last 10 years
ATHENS, Greece — Greek archaeologists, architects, engineers, seismologists and chemists will begin a decade of restoration work on the 2,400-year-old Parthenon by the end of the year, said experts.
The project was decided at a three-day International Meeting for the Restoration of the Acropolis Monuments that ended recently.
The experts said the $15 million project would focus on replacing the temple's rusted iron clamps and dowels with rustproof titanium, reassembling displaced marble blocks, and studying ways to prevent further damage through air pollution and earthquakes.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 P.M. EST 9-16-83
Today will be mostly fair across the nation
Locally, today will be mostly sunny, with a high in the mid-70s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be clear with a low around 50.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny, with a high in the mid-80s.
Democrats aim to invoke war powers act
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats voted yesterday to force President Reagan's hand and require him to formally request congressional approval under the War Powers Resolution to keep U.S. Marines in Lebanon.
By United Press International
The 29-0 vote by the Democrats came as congressional and administration leaders continued to try to negotiate a compromise on the 1973 war powers.
"The possibility of reaching a cease-fire agreement is closer than ever before," state run Beirut radio said. "The next 24 hours will show if actions will respond" in a "last chance to abut a nation catastrophe."
The talks occurred as U.S. presidential envoy Robert McFarland held five hours of talks with President Amin Gemayel and Saudi mediator Prince Bandaar Bin Sultan at the Barbada palace, three miles from the combat.
GOVERNMENT SOURCES SAID Saudi proposals included a fourmember committee of Lebanese militias to ensure a withdrawal of Syrian
The Democrats voted to introduce a resolution declaring that the act had been triggered by the increased hostilities in Lebanon. Such a resolution, if passed by the Congress and approved by keagan, would require that the troops be withdrawn within 60 or 90 days unless Congress votes to extend their stay. This resolution would follow the war powers act.
and Palestinian fighters from the Shouf mountains after a cease-fire.
"The executive branch and the people of the United States are put on notice that we intend to see the war powers act upheld and that it is followed because it is for the protection of the American people."
"We have made our position clear that we intend that Congress be able to make an extension of time." Senate Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia said.
Byrd said the Democrats were still prepared to negotiate with the president on an extension of the Marines' deployment, but only after he requests the extension and explains their mission.
SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER
Howard Baker said after Byrd formally introduced the resolution that he shares "the hope that we can still excercise a
degree of cooperation" in reaching a bipartisan solution to the Lebanese issue.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill put off House action on a resolution asserting Congress's power under the war powers act to decide the future of the Marine contingent of the multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon, giving the administration and lawmakers time to work out an agreement.
O'Neill said he expected an agreement would be reached. But some positions appeared to be hardening as the delay continued.
OPPOSITION TO AN extension was reported among some House Democrats, and their Senate colleagues were on record with a demand that Reagan comply with the War Powers Resolution.
The administration has attempted to skirt the issue, arguing the Marines are not in combat, even though four soldiers have been killed in recent weeks.
O'Neill told reporters Congress backed the Marine peace-keeping force in Lebanon and "any other message that than would be sacrilegious."
But he emphasized Congress was united in its refusal to simply rubber-stamp Reagan's policies, partly out of fear that a resolution of support would be used in the same manner that President Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to expand the Vietnam war.
The U.S.-trained and equipped Lebanese army is holding up well in its battle against Syrian-backed Druse Moslem militiamen who are trying to take a strategic mountain town near Beirut, a Western military source said yesterday.
THE MILITARY SOURCE also suggested the possibility of an air strike by U.S. F-14 Tomcat jets assigned to protect the U.S. Marine peace-keeping troops if the Lebanese army was being overrun in the mountains.
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