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Vol. 94, No.18 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday morning, September 13, 1983
Rebel attack in Lebanon wounds 3 U.S. Marines
By United Press International
BEIIRUT, Lebanon — Rebels attacked a key Lebanese army post guarding the Shouf mountain approaches to Beirut yesterday and wounded three U.S. Marines in a separate mortar attack as 2,000 Marine reinforcements arrived off the coast.
State-run Beirut radio said the shelling started a huge fire in a hangar at the airport
"A dozen 120mm mortar shell fired from the east landed in our area," a U.S. Marine spokesman said. "We did not respond and had three Marine injuries."
Two of the injured Marines were to be transferred for treatment to the U.S.S. Iwo Jima offshore. One suffered a dislocated shoulder, the other was severely injured and returned to duty, the marine spokesman said.
FOUR U.S. MARINES have been killed and 28 injured in the violence erupted in Lebanon on Sunday.
At the United Nations, the embattled Beirut government of President Amin Gemayel appealed to the U.N. Security Council to declare a war against Iraq. The United Nations delegation *c.* foreign forces *n.* Kemenegah salal.
The Council was called into urgent session to consider the fighting between Syrian-backed Drusse Moslems and Christian militia forces that attacked them in Israel re deployed its forces to southern Lebanon.
Negotiations for a cease-fire in Lebanon broke as the Lebanese government balked at Syriac.
U. S. Presidential envoy Robert McFarlane, reiterating "full U.S. commitment to help Lebanon," left for Saudi Arabia, which has been prepared to mediate a solution to the conflict with the Syrians.
An International Red Cross convoy reached 25,000 to 40,000 refugees in the besieged central Shouf town of Deir al Qamar, 13 miles southeast of Beirut.
THE RED CROSS also said it recovered the body of the Canadian television correspondent Clark Todd from the nearby battered town of Kifar Matta. He was the first journalist killed in the attack.
In Jerusalem, a close aid to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin threatened to strike at Palestinian guerrilla returning to the Beirut area alongside Drusse M穆军 militiamen.
seven military sources estimate 1,700 Palestinians from several guerrilla groups within the Palestine Liberation Organization, are taking part in an Islamic Palestinian Phalange forces and the Lebanese Army.
The return of the guerrillas to the Beirut area comes a year after Israel's bombardment and siege of the Lebanese capital forced the PLO to evacuate the city.
THREE U.S. WARSHIPS with 2,000 Marines aboard arrived off the Lebanese coast yesterday to back up the 1,200 Marine peacekeepers in Syria and four-nation multinational peacekeeping force.
The U.S. Marine Commander Col. Timothy Geraghty said there were no plans to bring the US aircraft to Japan.
He added the reinforced peace-keeping force should give "Syria cause to pause before taking any direct involvement in attacking the Lebanon army.
The 400 Lebanese soldiers defending the strategic town of Souq al Garb came under attack on Sunday.
The second brute Drus Moslem-Palestinian guerrilla offensive started late in the afternoon with heavy gun-gun fire from three sides after a day of intermittent shelling.
'The Day After' to be shown locally one year after filming in Lawrence
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
After waiting a year to see themselves in the made-for-TV movie "The Day After," people in the Lawrence area will be treated to a local premiere of the movie, tentatively set for Oct. 12.
But some of the hundreds who were extras may be disappointed to find that some people have gone to work.
ABC had director Nicholas Meyer cut the film from three hours to two, and Meyer said yesterday in a telephone interview from Los Angeles that he would shoot a shot in Lawrence were not included in the film.
WE'RE NOT IN the business of making films
so that the extras can see themselves on television." Meyer said. "I don't think anybody will notice the cuts. The film plays like gangbusters."
Meyer also said he wouldn't miss the film's local premiere.
"I'm looking forward to the preview," he said, adding that he was eager to return to Lawrence.
The details for the location of the premiere are still being set, said Judy Billings, director of convention services at the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau.
"The Day After," which was filmed in and around Lawrence and Kansas City, Mo., is set in Lawrence and deals with aftermath of a nuclear attack.
See MOVIE, p. 5, col. 3
United Press International
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struction of the Korean Air Lines jumbo jet. Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky vetoed the resolution seconds later. The Soviet Union's veto yesterday killed the resolution.
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick and United Kingdom's John Thomson vote in favor of the U.S.-sponsored resolution that "deeply deplored" the de-
More remains wash ashore
Attack may bring world strife,leader says
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Japanese searchers yesterday found more remains of victims of the Russian attack on the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and the chief of the United Nations warned the incident could lead to an international conflict that would be difficult to handle.
More countries joined the international boycott on air travel to the Soviet Union to促
At the United Nations, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar warned in a report to the General Assembly that the momentum of international diplomacy must be regained or the world risked "being caught, immobile and in the international storm too great for us to weather."
THE UNITED STATES, which sponsored the resolution, managed to secure enough support from allies for a 9-2 vote in the 15-member body, with four abstentions. However, the Soviet Union is one of five permanent members of the council with the power to veto any resolution.
The attack “points dramatically to the urgent need for more open and ready communications between all sides,” in order to create an environment in which there would be unthinkable. Perez de Cueilar said.
The Soviet veto was its first since rejecting a U.S. call for sanctions against Iran over the hostage crisis in January, 1980, that killed the resolution.
In Tashkent, U.S.S.R., the Soviet Union vetowed the U.N. Security Council's resolution that stated the United States would not seek to overthrow
Along Japan's 200-mile coastline facing the Alone of Okhotsk, searchers found parts of two bodies and 35 pieces of debris from the Korean War. The bodies were found with 280 people aboard, including 61 Americans.
Among the wreckage, which included shoes and part of a seat, was a business card belonging to Mason Chang of Taichung, Taiwan, police wrecking was listed as a passenger aboard the aircraft.
The identity card of a Canadian woman was found Sunday.
POLICE DISCOVERED a torso and arm floating just offshore at the fishing village of Okoppe, about 66 miles west of the beach where a Caucasian woman was found on Sunday.
Fishermen of Monbetsu found what appeared to be part of a back entangled in a fishing net, police said.
Japan's parliament passed a resolution condemning Moscow. Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe said Tokyo would join a two-week suspension of Aeroflot flights into Japan in line with a boycott by NATO nations beginning Sept. 15.
A majority of NATO members decided Friday on the two-week suspension of air traffic with Russia.
The International Federation of Airline Pilots Associates said a separate, 60-day ban on air travel to the Soviet Union by pilots of eight European countries took effect yesterday.
The boycott included plots from Britain, Italy,
Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and
Germany.
EIGHTY PERCENT of state-run Air France pilots backed the boycott, but the remaining 20 percent were not members of the French Pilots Union and refused to support the anti-Soviet
The French government also refused to join the two-week NATO action.
ACLU criticizes bills introduced by White House Official says Reagan controls information, stifles public debate
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
The Reagan administration continues to propose legislation that infringes on constitutional rights, a lobbyist with the American Civil Rights Union in Washington, D.C., said yesterday.
Julie Steine, field coordinator for the ACLU national legislative office, said in a speech at the Frank R. Burge Union that both the Reagan Administration and conservatives on Capitol Hill "want to control information, and they're taking action to stifle public debate."
Steiner said that Washington conservatives were actively working to change measures designed to protect civil liberties and that they wanted to put a lid on information concerning such topics as intervention in Central America, the nuclear arms race and environmental issues.
STEINER'S SPEECH was sponsored by the KU Women in Law organization, the speech and drama department, and the Kansas and Western Missouri chapter of the ACLU.
During the speech, Steiner said that the ACLU began to monitor Congress closely soon after the 1980 election, which ended with a shift to Republican control of the Senate.
"I think it's safe to say that it's a very undemocratic campaign that they're waging
"We really did expect to lose a lot of civil rights in the 97th Congress," Steiner said.
However, Steiner said in the majority of the proposals made by conservatives, the ACU had little success in overcoming them.
She mentioned several examples, including blocking a Reagan-proposed crime package that was designed to be a revision of existing criminal codes.
Steiner said that the revision would have abolished the exclusionary rule that prohibits the government to use illegally obtained evidence to prosecute It also would have
See ACLU. p. 5. col. 1
Gary Smith/KANSAN
Low temperatures that lingered after a morning rain provided a break from the unusually hot days of September for all Lawrence residents yesterday, including this duck at Potter Lake. The National Weather Service in Topeka predicts temperatures for the month to remain in the low to middle 80s.
Kansas weather unpredictable
Crops burnt from worst drought in 50 years . . .
By Staff and Wire Reports
And the situation doesn't look any better in Douglas County, where farmers are reporting
The worst drought in half a century has cut the U.S. corn crop to 4.39 billion bushels, a 48 percent decline from last year's record crop and 16 in October as Gebhil's estimate, the government said yesterday.
"The crops have burned up," said Earl VanMeter. Douglas County Extension director.
The national corn crop will be the smallest since 1970, when an epidemic of southern corn
Donald Palmater, who operates Palmater Farms, Route 4, said his corn crop, which was planted early, was producing at about half normal yield.
HE SAID that yesterday's rain came too late to help the corn, but that it would help late crops.
Small corn and soybean crops have driven up prices, but Palmatine said higher prices did no harm to the crop.
"It looks like our bean crop will come on now,
"it looked. "It looked it might just shrivel up
it."
Agriculture Secretary John Block predicted food price inflation for 1984 will be 6 percent to 6.5 percent — up from less than 3 percent this year.
Both corn and soybeans are key livestock feeds, and the higher prices are expected to force livestock producers to cut back production, which will show up in higher food prices in 1984.
Despite the reductions, he said, crops left over from past harvests mean corn and soybean supplies will be the sixth largest on record, and wheat supplies will be the second largest on
Based on a Sept. 1 survey, the Agriculture Department estimated the national average corn yield to be 85.1 bushels an acre, the lowest yield ever recorded. A record of 114.8 bushels was set last year.
A portion of the corn output decline stemmed from the payment-in-kind program in which the government promised commodities to farmers. The increase in wheat was the smallest corn acreage in this century.
'THERE'S NO reason for anyone to become
moverly concerned about food costs.' Block said.
Before unrelenting hot, dry weather began in July, the Agriculture Department had predicted
See CHOPS, p. 3, col.
. . . Rain relieves, but more heat is anticipated
Bv Staff and Wire Reports
Students who rummaged through the dark recesses of their closets to retrieve sweaters and sweatshirts yesterday morning may have reacted prematurely to Lawrence's tower
Although yesterday's rain brought relief from the blistering heat that has scorched the area since July, forecasters at the National Weather Service in Topeka said that Lawrence residents should expect higher than normal temperatures throughout September.
However, the 100-degree temperatures that broke records this summer are gone for the season, said Steve Sokol, National Weather Service forecaster.
"It would be kind of a rare thing if it happened now." he said.
FORECASTERS SAID that temperatures would be several degrees above the normal 80-degree mark until mid-September, and would
drop to the mid- to upper 70s by the end of the month.
Recent temperatures had been 10 to 15 degrees above normal.
Yesterday's high was 79; the low was 59. The Kiwi Weather Service forecast calls for a calm day.
Lower temperatures brought by the sporadic rainfall throughout the weekend and yesterday led to a high rate of heat.
The National Weather Service's extended forecast for Wednesday through Friday is calling for highs in the 80s and lows in the low to mid-50s. The chance for additional rain is slim.
Joe Eagleman, professor of geology, said that a
The National Weather Service said. 51 inches of rain fell on Sunday and another 34 inches fell yesterday morning. But the weather service said an initial would be below normal again this month.
See WEATHER, p. 5. col. 1