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University Daily Kansan, September 14, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
court to end teacher strike
WARWICK, R.I. — A Rhode Island school district requested a court order yesterday to force striking teachers back to work, arguing that teacher strikes are illegal under state law. Another district planned similar action today.
Teacher strikes in Rhode Island, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
New Jersey and Washington affected more than 105,000 students.
Nearly 21,000 students have been out of school for about two weeks in the Rhode Island districts of Warwick and Pawtucket.
The School Committee in Pawtucket went before Superior Court Judge Ernest C. Torres seeking an injunction. Both sides presented arguments and the hearing was adjourned until today.
In St. Louis, teachers returned to work yesterday.
Wages were the issue in both strikes.
Pope seeks prayer for jetliner casualties
ROME — Pope John Paul II returned to Rome yesterday, ending a four-day visit to Austria with a plea to the world to pray for the 288 people killed in the Soviet attack on a South Korean commercial jetliner.
The pontiff's 90-minute flight to Rome aboard a special Austrian Airlines jet marked the end of his 20th trip outside Italy since his election to the nancy in October 1978.
The pope's first public comment on the Korean Air Lines attack came in a surprise ad libbed speech at the end of a mass before 20,000 people, including priests, monks and nuns in the picturesque square of Mariazell, Austria.
John Paul urged prayers for the victims of hunger, hatred, terrorism and rivalry between nations.
Federal anti-leak plan draws attack
WASHINGTON — An administration plan to require government employees with top-secret clearance to submit speeches and articles for review would gag even top policymakers, a former White House lawyer warned yesterday.
Lloyd Cutler, President Jimmy Carter's White House counselor, told a Senate hearing that the national security directive was far too broad in requiring advance review of written material and policies for dealing with the news media.
But former CIA director William Colby, who defended the directive, said that similar rules implemented for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1980 have caused him few problems in publishing a book and many articles. He suggested that unauthorized leaks be punished with criminal sanctions.
Sale of Fort Union coal leases starts
WASHINGTON — The Interior Department begins selling coal leases on the North Dakota-Montana border today that a congressional committee sought to block, an agency spokesman said yesterday.
Secretary James Watt has challenged the constitutionality of a resolution seeking to block the sale, basing his position on a June Supreme Court ruling that struck down the right of either house of Congress to veto an executive branch action, said the spokesman.
Objections to the sale of the leases in the Fort Union area on the border of the two states were raised by the House Interior Committee, chaired by Arizona Democrat Morris Udall.
Poll says America is more religious
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Fifty-six percent of Americans responding to a George Gallup survey said they relied on God more now than five years ago, the pollster said yesterday.
years ago, the pastor said yesterday.
Four in 10 adults also said they are involved in some kind of religious activity and six in 10 adults they are more interested in religious or spiritual matters than they were five years ago, Gallup said.
"We are seeing a rising tide in religious involvement and interest," Gallup said. "People say religion can answer the problems of the world and they are turning away from science toward religion for the answers."
The poll, commissioned in July by the Christian Broadcasting Network of Virginia Beach and released yesterday on CBN's "The 700 Club," also said that religious involvement on college campuses has grown in five years from 39 percent to 50 percent.
Judge halts spraying of pot fields
WASHINGTON — A federal judge yesterday temporarily barred the Drug Enforcement Administration from spraying the controversial herbicide paraquat on illegal marijuana growing on federal lands.
U. S. District Judge June Green issued a temporary restraining order against the program, saying it appeared the government should have obtained an environmental impact statement before acting to wipe out the domestic marijuana.
The DEA began spraying the herbicide last month in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia and the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky.
Cinderblock used to steal paintings
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Police yesterday said the same crude method of entry — a cinderblock thrown through a glass door — was used to steal two Picasso paintings from a museum this week as in a previous theft of rare gems.
On March 28, a thief broke into the Corpus Christi Museum and took $175,000 worth of jade carvings and rubies. Police said they had a suspect in the March 28 theft.
The paintings, worth $10,000, were taken at 4 a.m. CDT Monday from the Art Museum of South Texas.
suspect in the murder Police Ll. Richard Lewinski said the thief or thieves both times threw a cinderblock through a glass door to gain entry, and in both cases even more valuable items were ignored.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 9-14-83
Today, the weather will be mostly fair across the nation, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Locally, today's weather will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thundershowers. The high will be around 75.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thundershowers. The low will be near 55.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The high will be near 60.
Nicaragua says U.S. impeding liberation in Central America
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua told a session of the U.N. Security Council yesterday that the United States was seeking to "blindly destroy" liberation movements in Central America and warned that the policy could ignite a “conflagration” in the region.
In Managua, the Nicaraguan government said that foreign aircraft had violated its airspace more than 130 times in the past three months. More militia operations have been by sophisticated U.S. spy planes, the government said.
The U.S. Embassy denied the charge. IN NEW YORK, Nicaragua Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Tinoco had asked the Security Council to meet after rebel planes had bombed Nicaragua on three separate days last week
The leftist Nicaraguan government accused the United States of financing and training the insurgents, who said the Sandinistas had broken promises of
holding free elections and establishing a pluralistic society.
While speaking to the council, Tinoco provided copies of an immigration permit, a social security card and credit cards showing that a dead rebel pilot named Augustin Roman, who was arrested on the Managua airport last week, was a Nicaraguan living in exile in the United States.
Diplomatic sources said Nicaragua seemed content to lodge its complaint and would not press for a resolution condemning the rebel actions.
TINCO SAID THAT the policies of
the administration threatened
all of Capital Region.
"They do not want peace or dialogue, they want to blindly destroy the aspirations for justice and national independence of the Central American people," he told the council "The spector of a generalized conflagration against the United States is result of this policy of war and aggression, is our region's most realist feature."
News Agency, citing Defense Ministry sources, said that RC-138s, U.S. reconnaissance planes, had conducted "33 radio-electric explorations in Nicaraguan air space between June 1 and Aug. 31."
The Nicaraguan Defense Ministry also said its country's air space was violated on 101 other occasions in the past three months, and said all the flights came from either the direction of Honduras or Costa Rica.
The government's New Nicaragua
IN TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, teachers and high school students marched to protest the growing American military presence in their country, and to demand peace in Central America.
In El Salvador, the Central Election Commission said it would have new voter registration lists prepared mid-February. The presidential election could be held as soon as Feb. 15, the commission said. A final decision on an election date rests with the Constituent Assembly, which must first approve a new constitution for the civil war-wracked country.
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