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University Daily Kansan, August 31, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS
From United Press International
New orders for goods drop; July lags 1.7% behind June
WASHINGTON — New orders for manufactured goods shipped 1.7 percent in July, the government said yesterday, but administration spokesmen said the reversal did not mean economic recovery was running out of steam.
New orders for the month amounted to $175.5 billion, the Department of Commerce said, still the second-highest monthly total for new orders.
July's slowdown followed a strong 5.1 percent surge in orders in June. After the latest revisions, June's total of $178.5 billion is the highest monthly total recorded. Durables goods orders, when measured alone, climbed a revised 7 percent in June.
Arab hijackers vow to blow up jet
Four Arabic-speaking gunmen threatened yesterday to blow up a hijacked Air France jet and their 17 hostages in the air after forcing the plane to refuel for takeoff by seizing an interpreter and warning they would kill him.
French diplomats and Iranian officials in the control tower tried to bargain by radio with the hijackers about their demand for concessions from Paris, including an end to French aid to Chad and Iraq.
During the negotiations, the hijackers fired shots past a male hostage whom they paraded outside the Boeing 727 in an apparent attempt to intimidate the negotiators.
"The hijackers brought one of the male hostages out of the plane while he was asked to keep his hands over his head. Then the hijackers fired toward him." Tehran Radio said. It said the hostage was unarmed and returned to the plane
Heat cited in Oklahoma prison riot
HOMINY, Okla. — Heat-aggrativated tempers and an argument over a ham sandwich apparently sparked a riot that killed one inmate, injured 23 people and reduced a crowded prison to ruins, officials said yesterday.
About 750 inmates were in buildings designed to hold 400 when violence erupted Monday evening at the medium-security Conner Correctional Center about 40 miles northwest of Tulsa.
One inmate died of gunshot wounds, and 23 inmates and law officers suffered a variety of injuries.
John Reid, a spokesman for Gov. George Nigh, expressed relief that none of the unarmed guards was taken hostage.
"There was a time when they could have held hostages real easily." Reid said. "Thirty guards were boxed in and the inmates let them go
Navy pav should be OK,study says
WASHINGTON — The Navy, which has embarked on an ambitious plan to expand its fleet to 600 ships, should be able to attract enough career personnel to run them if the pay is adequate, the Congressional Budget Office said yesterday.
If the fleet expands as planned, the Navy will need about 626,000 active duty personnel, 66,000 more than on now on duty, the study said.
"This would be slightly below the level of the early 1980s — a period when the active fleet included more than 900 ships with an average speed of about 245 knots," it said.
The Navy's recruiting efforts will be primarily concerned with the supply of enlisted personnel, since "increasing the number of officers, reserve personnel or civilians does not appear to present a big problem at this time," the study said.
Chemist finds possible test for AIDS
The finding was reported as the Red Cross confirmed it had recalled more than 5,500 vials of a special plasma product used by hemophiliacs because one donor of blood for the product had died of AIDS.
WASHINGTON — A chemist reported yesterday that she had found an abnormality in the blood of AIDS victims, but it was too soon to tell whether her findings could be used as a test for the incurable syndrome in patients and donated blood.
Chemist Vene Dayal told reporters at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society that she had found abnormally elevated levels of a protein in the blood plasma of AIDS victims and certain hermophiliacs.
nephropathy. Dayal, of St. Michael's Medical Center in Newark, N.J., said she hoped the protein could be used as a marker in a test for AIDS in both suspected victims and in donated blood.
1st-of-kind embryo transfer goes well
CINCINNATI — A wildlife researcher who hopes to develop reproductive methods to save endangered species said yesterday that all was well following the first non-surgical embryo transfers between different species of exotic animals.
betsy Dresser, who supervised the transfer of embryos from a rare bongo antelope at the Los Angeles Zoo to more common eland antelopes in Cincinnati, said the potential surrogate mothers were in good condition
Columbia Dresser collected the embryos from the bongo in Los Angeles Sunday morning, transported them by plane to Cincinnati and transferred them into four lends and one bongo at the Cincinnati Zoo that night.
Earth's population now 4.7 billion
WASHINGTON - The Earth's population swelled by 82 million in the past year and now stands at 4.7 billion, up nearly 1 billion in a decade, the Census Bureau reported yesterday.
the Census Bureau report. The gain in the 12 months that ended June 30 was the greatest numerical leap in history, the bureau said, although the annual growth rate remained basically steady at 1.75 percent for 1982-83.
The world population stood at 3.7 billion in 1970 and was officially estimated at 4.7 billion at the end of June, up more than 800 million from the 1972-73 figure. In 1980, the global population was just less than 4.5 billion; it was 3.1 billion in 1960.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 8-31-83
Today, thundershowers are expected in the North and Central Pacific Coasts, the Plateau Region, Alabama, Florida and the Ohio Valley.
Locally, today will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid-90s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tongn will be clear with a low in the mid-90s.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid-90s.
Santiago military leader killed by guerrillas
according to the National weather service in Topex
Tonight will be clear with a low in the mid-60s.
The government said four men and a woman opened fire on retired Maj. Gen. Corr Urzua as he left for work from his east Santiago home. Police, however, said there were 12 attackers, including gunmen wearing wigs.
SANTIAGO, Chile — Leftist guerrillas firing submachine guns killed Santiago's military governor and his two aides yesterday in a blazing ambush.
By United Press International
The left-wing guerrilla group Revolutionary Left Movement, or MIR, claimed responsibility for the attack, its second murder of a top military officer since the armed forces overt
"The combat command of the MIR claims responsibility for this death. This is how we avenge our martyrs." Santa Clara caller told Santiago radio stations.
hrew the elected Marxist government of Salvador Allende in 1973.
Urzua's death came as the government was beginning talks with opposition leaders on returning Chile to democracy.
A statement issued by the Interior Ministry expressed the government's firm determination to continue unattendance at the constitutional path it has fixed."
The statement said the government would not give in to the "climate of chaos that fanatic minorities seek to
Admiral Jose Toribio Merino, commander in chief of the Chilean navy and a member of the ruling four-man military junta, said after meeting with the government, would push ahead with its plan for a political liberalization.
create, nor will it renounce its advance towards full democracy."
INTERIOR MINISTER Sergio Jarpia Reyes would not affect plans to speed up the return to democracy and there was no reason to reimpose the state of emergency, lifted last week after 10 years.
the military officer's car. Urzua managed to fire two or three shots with his service pistol before he died inside the car, one police report said.
Police said the gunmen, some wearing wigs, awaited Urzaa in a yellow jacket.
But Alfonso Marquez de la Plata, the acting interior minister, said the 57-year-old governor "was assassinated by a group of extremists made up of four men and a woman" armed with submachine guns.
Marquez said the general's chauffeur and bodyguard were killed in the attack.
"They defended themselves and got down from the car firing their weapons. But they were already injured and could not do anything," Marquez said.
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