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University Daily Kansan, September 8, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Official version of slaying of Aquino receives backing
MANILA, Philippines - A controversial presidential panel opened its inquiry yesterday into the killing of Benigno Aquino, and a government pathologist gave testimony that supported the official version of the murder.
Bienvenido Munoz, 46, a pathologist from the National Bureau of Investigation who conducted the autopsy on Aquino, said the murder weapon was apparently pointed upward when it was fired. The official version of the murder was that a lone gunman shot Aquino at close range with a .357 Magnum revolver.
When asked by Deputy General Counsel Amadeo Seno if it was possible that Aquino was shot by a man standing in a stair two rungs from the ground, Munoz said that, judging from the trajectory of the bullet, "it would be improbable."
The panel, appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos, has been criticized in the Philippines for being one-sided.
Lobby faults nursing-home reviews
WASHINGTON — Government methods of checking on nursing homes fail to ensure that patients receive good care or that taxpayers' money is well spent, a group lobbying for changes in nursing home regulation said yesterday.
The National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform called on the Department of Health and Human Services to develop new standards more sensitive to patient needs.
standards more sets the tone. The system does not succeed in meeting these goals." Elma Holder, executive director of the coalition, told a news conference. "Often criticized by regulators, providers and consumers, the system is fragmented and misfocused."
Irish vote on proposed abortion ban
DUBLIN, Ireland — Half of Ireland's electorate voted yesterday on an amendment to add an abortion ban to the Irish constitution, but opposition leaders said widespread voting irregularities had occurred.
opposition to abortion. Abortion, along with divorce and birth-control devices, already is illegal in Ireland, where 94 percent of the population is Roman Catholic. But anti-abortionists want to write an abortion ban into the constitution to prevent future challenges by liberals or the European Court of Justice.
The issue — described by a British newsman as one "of stunning complexity" — split the country as seldom before. Yet the turnout in the nationwide referendum was low, with only an estimated 50 percent of the 2.4 million eligible voters casting ballots.
Jackson praised at funeral
EVERETT, Wash. — Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., was eulogized yesterday as a strong supporter of national defense and human rights who served his country and home state for 43 years in Congress with unswerving integrity.
Three platoelands of national leaders, including Vice President George Bush and nearly half the members of the Senate, flew from Washington to Jackson's hometown for his funeral!
Washington died at his home on Thursday.
Jackson died at his home on Thursday.
Jackson died at his bedside on Friday July 31. An autopsy showed that Jackson died from a burst artery near the heart, not a heart attack as earlier believed, Clayton Haberman, the doctor who performed the autopsy, said Tuesday.
Eugene McCarthy changes hospitals
WASHINGTON - Former Minnesota senator and three-time
WASHINGTON — Former Minnesota senator a presidential aspirant Eugene McCarthy was transferred to Georgetown University Hospital yesterday for treatment following a mild heart attack.
"His vital signs are stable and he is conscious," hospital spokesman Mary Beth Corrigan said.
The 68-year-old McCarthy was listed in fair condition as he entered the hospital for "routine follow-up tests," she said.
McCarthy complained of chest pains late Sunday and early Monday. Friends took him to Culpeper Memorial Hospital near his rural northern Virginia home, said his son Michael.
Census Bureau predicts big 3 states
WASHINGTON — Florida will squeeze New York out of the big three states in population by the year 2000, while Vermont will slip below Alaska and become the smallest state, the government predicted yesterday.
yester day. California, already the largest state, will retain that distinction at the turn of the century, with Texas moving up to the No. 2 spot, the Census Bureau said.
The West as a whole will continue as the fastest growing region and Nevada, keeping up its dramatic population boom, will approach 2 million residents at the turn of the century, the bureau said.
Author wins $150,000 in slander suit
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Thomas A. Harris, author of the international best seller "TM OK – You're OK," has been awarded $150,000 in a slander suit. In the suit, religious speakers said that the author had killed himself.
The settlement, signed by U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karton on Tuesday, involved the filing of a lawsuit. Aia. Larry Tczewak of Saskatoon Sacramento radio station said
the two speakers and the radio station were sued by Harris and his co-author and wife, Amy, three years ago.
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CORRECTIONS
Because of a reporter's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan about the KU chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom incorrectly identified two of the club's officers. Stephen Bergstrom is a Winnetka, Ill., junior. David Graham is an Overland Park second-year law student. The organization, according to Graham, has 500 chapters across the country.
U.S., Israel criticized at U.N. conference
GENEVA, Switzerland — The controversial U.N. Conference on Palestine ended yesterday in the adoption of resolutions that condemned Israel and the United States for prolonging the Middle East crisis.
A separate action program called for states to stop supplying Israel with assistance that "encourages it to recognize its aggression and occupation."
By United Press International
A conference declaration said that the Middle East crisis was due to "the denial by Israel, and those supporting its expansionist policies, of the malen-
The United States was not mentioned by name but the references to it were clear.
able, legitimate rights of the Palestinians people."
Israel and the United States boycotted the 10-day conference by saying
MAJOR WESTERN NATIONS sent only observers to the meeting so the nations could retain the right to speak in the meetings, but the expected anti-Iraqi resolutions.
that it was a one-sided forum for anti-Israeli arguments.
"The whole thing quite frankly was blased from the start with no attempt to look at the Israel point of view," one analyst said. "The results were known beforehand."
Switzerland is precaring to dismantle
today the huge security operation it set up for the conference, complete with helicopters, tanks, armored personnel carriers and more than 2,000 soldiers.
Neutral countries like Austria and Finland, against Arab objections, forced a reference to Security Council resolution 242.
The declaration and the plan of action called for Israel to withdraw from all territories occupied since 1967 and ended a Middle East peace conference.
Reagan 'education blitz' wraths Democratic ire
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt accused President Reagan yesterday of staging a "fraudulent education blitz," and called on him to "put up or shut up."
put up or shave up.
Manatt told a news conference that while Reagan has talked for several months about the need to upgrade America's schools, he has failed to offer any specific remedies.
"The rank hypoherisy of this administration's education hype has disturbed thinking Americans who know the wretched record of the Reagan administration in undercutting assistance to the nation's schools," he said.
EDUCATION EMERGED as a major issue last spring after the National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report that described public schools as engulfed by a "rising tide of mediocrity."
Since then Reagan, who earlier sought to reduce federal funding to
In recent months, Democratic presi-
dential candidates have proposed the pro-
posal that the Supreme Court will
education, has traveled across the nation calling for widescale reforms, including a system of merit pay for teachers.
their human education programs. Even though there have been suggestions that the administration that Reagan may propose a modest increase in funding, he still maintains that the primary responsibility for financing schools lies with states and localities, not Washington.
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The president also has argued that federal funding of education has increased during his administration, rising from $14.1 billion in 1980 to $15.3 billion this year.
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DEMOCRATS NOTE, however, that Reagan sought to cut the figures and that the increases came from Congress: "Today millions of teachers, students administrators and parents are being called on to ask the president of the United States to put up or shut up on education," Manatt said.
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