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University Daily Kansan, August 29, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Terrorists bomb buildings seek French exit from Chad
Paris — An outlawed, left-wing terrorist group set off two bombs yesterday at the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party and the nearby Defense Ministry and demanded that French troops pull out of Chad.
The wooden door of the Socialist Party building in Paris' Latin Quarter was blown off its hinges by the first explosion.
There were no injuries in the two dawn blasts but damage was extensive, police said.
Minutes later, a second bomb badly damaged the main entrance to the Defense Ministry about 30 yards away.
the Defense Ministry about 300 prisoners. The left-wing anarchist group Direct Action said in two statements to the national French news agency that it staged the blasts to demand "the immediate withdrawal from Chad of the French soldiers and mercenaries" and the "immediate liberation of militant mercenaries" held in French prisons.
U.S. envoy flies to Central America
through the region.
The U.S. Embassy in Honduras said Stone, special U.S. envoy to Central America, was meeting in Tegucigalpa with top officials of the Foreign Ministry.
President Reagan's Central American troubleshooter Richard Stone flew to Honduras yesterday on the first leg of his fourth diplomatic shuttle through the region.
Foreign Ministry.
Salvadoran sources confirmed that Stone would visit El Salvador today with representatives of the government's Peace Commission, which has arranged the first meeting with Salvadoran leftists for this week.
Mississippi blacks lose key run-offs
The State Department said Stone, whose immediate task is to try to persuade the left to participate in Salvadoran elections, would travel through the region for seven to 10 days.
JACKSON, Miss — Blacks turned out in record numbers in Mississippi's primary elections this month, but a statewide movement to elect new black officials was frustrated by losses in several key races.
races. In rural Quitman County, only one of five black candidates seeking county offices won the Democratic nomination in run-off elections, although the county is more than 55 percent black.
although the Figgs, chief chairman of the county's Democratic Executive Committee, called the outcome "frustrating and disappointing."
interes, called the outcome by Jesse Jackson, NAACP Director Ben Clements, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, black candidates failed in other races — even in some areas such as Quitman County where black voters outnumber whites.
Brush fire kills Nevada firefighter
CARSON CITY, Nev. — A 3,000-acre brush fire that killed one firefighter, injured two others and destroyed four mobile homes was contained yesterday.
contained yesterday. Sheriff Hul Dunn said his officers and the fire department were investigating the origin of the fire. He said a man was sighted in the area shortly before the fire was reported about one mile east of the city.
Winds in excess of 30 miles an hour fanned the flames and pushed them eastward, forcing evacuation of an estimated 1,000 homes for several hours. U.S. Highway 50 was closed temporarily during the height of the blaze.
Bob Goodman, spokesperson for the Bureau of Land Management, said the firefighter killed was Keith J. Lennons, 27, Portland.
Pope agrees to kidnappers' demand
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy — Pope John Paul II bowed yesterday to the bizarre demand of presumed kidnappers of a schoolgirl by referring to the papal assailant Mehmet Ali Agca only as a "person."
Speaking during his weekly address at the papal summer retreat south of Rome, the pontiff for the eighth time appealed for the release of Emanuela Orlandi, 15, the daughter of a papal messenger, who has been missing since June 22.
missing since the attacks sent by the presumed kidnappers to an Italian news agency this month said they would free Emanuela if the pope publicly declared Turkish terrorist Agca "a human being like Emanuela Orlandi."
Report warns of volcanic eruptions
**FEIRANCISCO** — A new report on volcano hazards in the United States lays out a grim scenario of potentially cataclysmic eruptions that could devastate large areas of the West and spread ash across half the country.
Government scientists report signs of renewed life under more than 30 volcanoes in the United States. They say the best way to predict eruptions is by looking at the previous "schedule."
Some volcanoes — such as Mount St. Helens, Mount Shasta and Mount Baker — historically have erupted every 100 to 200 years and were last active more than 100 years ago.
active more than 600 years ago. Long Valley records significant explosive activity every 700,000 years or so, and its last blowup, which was 2,400 times as big as Mount St. Helens', occurred 660,000 years ago.
WEATHER FACTS
Today, rain is expected from portions of the northern Pacific coast, Northern Plains region, Gulf Coast states and Southern Atlantic states. Locally, today will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid- to upper 90s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tenight will be fair with a low ahead. Tomorrow will be fair with a high in the mid- to upper 90s.
$i$, according to the National Weather Service,
Ponight will be fair with a low around 70
Because of a reporting error, information about the price of student bus passes was omitted from a story and an editorial last week in the Kansan. The passes, which cost $30, are $5 cheaper than they were in the spring semester.
CORRECTIONS
Marines in Lebanon battle Amal militia
BEIRUT, Lebanon — U.S. Marines serving in Beirut's multinational peacekeeping force took a step closer yesterday to involvement in Lebanon's burgeoning civil war with their first battle in a year of duty.
By United Press International
For one and a half hours, U.S. Marines battled with the Shite Amal militia near their Beirut Airport near their spokesman Manuel Bob Jordan said.
LBANESE ARMY TROOPS also fought the Shiite Moslem militiamen in south Beirut. The Beirut airport was forced to close after being hit by artillery, mortars, rockets and gunfire. Beirut radio reported.
The clash was part of the worst fighting in Beirut since the Israeli invasion a year ago. Battles between the Lebanese army and the Amal
militia group, run by Shites, fought from about noon until after midnight
according to the department.
U.S. Marines suffered no casualties,
Jordan said, and the Amal gunmen were forced to retreat.
Ten people were killed and at least 28 wounded in the clashes, according to Beirut reports.
The U.S. troops came under fire at 4:30 p.m. at a joint U.S.-Lebanese military checkpoint. Two rocket-
In Santa Barbara, Calif., assistant White House press secretary Anson Franklin said President Reagan had been informed and would continue to be
"They defended themselves," Jordan said, adding that the Marines mostly used automatic weapons and light arms.
propelled grenades struck a building near the Marines in the exchange.
Yesterday's clash was the first time U.S. troops had become directly involved in fighting in Lebanon, although four warning flares were dropped over Druse Moslem artillery positions Aug. 10.
Since being in Lebanon, the Marines
have suffered a variety of casualties
FOUR MARINES WERE wounded in two shells of the airport on July 22 and Aug. 10. On March 16 a man hurled a grenade at a 12-man Marine foot patrol, injuring five of them.
A Marine was injured by a car bomb Nov. 1 Twice Marines have come under sniper attack; once at a checkpoint on April 17 when one man was injured, and again on Aug. 3 when a machine gun was fired at a group of Marines who were jogging. None were hit.
have suffered a variety of casualties.
ATTENTION! PRE-MED STUDENTS
A MEETING FOR JUNIORS AMD SENIORS INTERESTED IN APPLYING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL
Accidents have also taken their toll. A Marine shot himself in the leg Aug. 4, and Sept. 30 a Marine killed himself while handling a cluster bomb.
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at
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- Representatives from KU Medical Center will be in attendance
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