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University Daily Kansan, September 15, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Democratic leaders touting new jobs and training bill
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders, calling President Reagan's record on unemployment "nothing to brag about," joined yesterday to promote a multibillion-dollar jobs bill they predicted the House would pass next week.
pass next week.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, flanked by House Democratic leaders and Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said their proposed Community Renewal Employment Act would "bring economic hope to those millions of Americans forgotten and ignored by the Reagan administration's economic policy."
The bill's author, Rep. Augustus Hawkins, D-Calif., explained its provisions for jobs and training and expressed confidence that the House would pass it next week.
He said his bill would provide about 500,000 jobs at the minimum wage within 45 days of enactment.
R.I. teachers ordered back to work
Striking teachers kept classrooms closed in five states yesterday and a judge issued a back-to-work order against 600 teachers in Pawtucket, R.I. who walked off the job in a dispute over wages.
The strikes affected 94,000 students in Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Washington state.
Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Ernest Torres issued a preliminary back-to-work order against the Pawtucket teachers whose strike has canceled classes since Sept. 6 for 8,500 students.
In Illinois, Chicago Teachers Union President Robert M. Healey left a negotiating session Tuesday with the Board of Education saying he will urge teachers to strike Oct. 3. The union's 27,000 members are scheduled to vote today whether to strike Oct. 3. Talks are scheduled to resume tomorrow.
Guard's girlfriend arrested in heist
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — On charges of withholding information about the second-largest robbery in U.S. history, police late yesterday arrested the girlfriend of a Wells Fargo guard accused of stealing $7 million.
**billion.**
A police spokesman said Elizabeth Soto, 20, Hartford, was charged with hindering prosecution in connection with the robbery Monday night at a Wells Fargo armored-car garage in West Hartford.
A nationwide search is underway for Victor Gerena, 25, Hartford, who police said turned on two co-workers, bound them at gunpoint and then robbed the garage vault and an armored car of more than $7 million.
million.
Gerena was a part-time guard who earned less than $5 an hour, and state police said it appeared that he had not been properly registered as a security guard under state law.
Release of genetic bacteria feared
WASHINGTON — Three activist groups asked a federal court yesterday to block experiments that would release genetically engineered bacteria into the open, arguing the consequences could be environmentally catastrophic.
The organizations asked the U.S. District Court in Washington to delay experiments approved June 1 by the National Institutes of Health. The experiments, to study a possible way to reduce frost damage to crops, were to begin in the fall.
"This stuff is potentially very dangerous. The consequences could be catastrophic or at least very devastating," said Jeremy Rifkin, a leading critic of genetic engineering and head of the Foundation on Economic Trends, one of the groups filing suit.
Tour-bus crash kills 13 in Austria
FROHNLEITEN, Austria — A tour bus with failing brakes plunged off a winding mountain road and down a steep 600-foot embankment yesterday, killing at least 13 Hungarian vacationers and injuring 33 others.
A survivor quoted the bus driver as saying, "The brakes don't work anymore. I can't brake, I can't brake."
All 46 passengers were from the eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen, and were on a four-day vacation. The bus was on the way to Vienna. The accident took place near the village of Schrems, just outside Frohleiten.
Doctors said only eight of the 33 injured required hospitalization and no one them was in critical condition.
It was the worst bus disaster in Austria since 22 people died in another mountain road accident June 15, 1975.
Deliberations begin in Brink's trial
GOSHEN, N.Y. — A jury began deliberations yesterday in the politically charged $1.6 million Brink's robbery and triple-murder trial of three radicals committed to setting up a separate black nation in the South.
The defendants refused to attend the morning proceeding, extending their boycott of the state's case during the trial.
Donald Weems, 36, David Gilbert, 39, and Judith Clark, 33, were the first to stand trial for the $1.6 million armored-truck holdup and subsequent killings of a guard and two policemen on Oct. 20, 1981. They are charged with three counts of second-degree murder, four counts of robbery and one count of second-degree grand larceny. Two other defendants are to stand trial on the same charges Oct. 12. A sixth defendant is a fugitive.
Kennedy Jr. to combat drug problem
WASHINGTON - Robert Kennedy Jr., son of the former senator, said that he admitted himself yesterday to a hospital for treatment of a drug problem.
problem.
A statement by the 28-year-old Kennedy was issued by the office of his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. The office declined to reveal the name of the hospital.
"I deeply regret the pain which this situation brings to my family and to so many Americans who admired my parents and the Kennedy family," he said.
WEATHER FACTS
Today will be fair to partly cloudy across the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the mid-70s.
thunderstorms. The high will be in the mid-40s.
Twintight will be clear with a low around 50
Friday will be mostly sunny with a high in the low to mid-70s
McNamara opposes arms retaliation against first Soviet nuclear attack
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said yesterday that the United States should not retaliate against a first or even second attack, saying until conclusively determining the Kremlin's intentions.
Ironically, it was McNamara who in 1962 proposed the "flexible response" reply to a possible Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe as a substitute for the then-existing doctrine of "massive retaliation."
Namara recommended against NATO's first use of nuclear weapons in Europe to halt a concerted Soviet conventional assault.
Instead, he urged a policy in which NATO allies would "never initiate, under any circumstances, the use of nuclear weapons."
In an article in the quarterly Foreign Affairs, the 67-year-old defense chief under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson issued a statement of his present policy of "flexible response."
HE RECALED THAT both sides refrained from using nuclear weapons during the volatile Berlin and Cuban missile crises.
He went further at a pre-publication news conference Monday, saying a U.S. or NATO retaliation to a Soviet first or even second nuclear strike should be intended until we know what our opponent intends to do . . . what's likely to follow."
IN AN EARLIER Foreign Affairs article co-written by three former officials in past administrations, Mc
Writing alone this time, the former Pentagon chief said, "I do not believe we can avoid the serious and unacceptable risk of nuclear war until we recognize — and until we base all our military plans, defense budgets, weapon developments and arms negotiation on the recognition — that nuclear weapons serve no military purpose whatsoever. They are totally useless — except only to deter one's opponent from using them."
(then Soviet leader Nikita) Khrushchev authorize a launch but that a second lieutenant act and launch." McNamara said.
"There's a strong argument against my position," he said. "I'm sure it will stir up controversy. I know of it better than I should and of a nuclear war once it has started."
There was a great danger — not that
He said there was plenty of time to take the time to find out Soviet intentions through use of a more sophisticated Washington-Moscow hot line to avoid misunderstandings or explain possible accidents.
McNamara also said about 3,000 of the 6,000 NATO tactical nuclear weapons and mines in storage relatively near West Germany's eastern border should be removed, because they could be overrun in a Soviet conventional attack and NATO forces might be able to use them rather than risk their capture.
And he opposed deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe because there is "no need for them."
New report on education full of errors
By United Press International
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A new 472 page report ballyhooing the Florida Legislature's accomplishments this year — including its strides in education — is turning into an embarrassment than a promotion.
Somehow — nobody knows exactly how — the report titled "Year of Education" is loaded with misspellings, bad grammar, typographical errors and incorrect punctuation.
The report discusses students' "scholarship" and "financial issues" — much to the chagrin of the staff that compiled it.
"A lot of people are going to look at this report and say, maybe quality education ought to start in the Legislature," Jim Helms, staff director of the House High Education committee, said angrily
Women & Weights
There will be a Women & Weights Clinic on Tuesday, September 20 from 7:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m. The weight room in Robinson Center will be open only to women attending the clinic. Learn how to use the Universal Weight Machines and the free weights. Learn programs designed to tone your muscles, to increase strength or to increase endurance.
READING FOR COMPREHENSION AND SPEED
(Six hours of instruction.)
September 19, 26 and October 3 (Mondays)
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Register and pay $14 materials fee at the Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall. Class size limited.
Class size limited.