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University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
Rebels, peace council make contact
By United Press International
A U.S. diplomat in El Salvador said yesterday contact had been made between rebels and the Salvadoran government's National Peace Commission, but he would not comment on it. He also had signed a secret agreement to meet.
"Contacts between the two have been made," said the diplomat, who requested that he remain anonymous.
U. S. Special Envoy Richard Stone also will return to Central America within 10 days for a new round of shuttle diplomacy likely to include a visit by the aviador's leftist rebels, a White House spokesman said yesterday.
THE WASHINGTON Post, quoting a U.S. spokesman for Salvadoran rebels, said rebel leaders would meet with Stone in the next few days and that the rebels have signed a preliminary agreement for formal talks with the Salvadoran government's National Peace Commission.
In California, where President Reagan was vacationing, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters that Stone would travel to Central America "probably the latter part of the month."
In keeping with policy, Speaks refused to discuss Stone's itinerary.
However, Speakes said, "It is our hope that he will again meet with the opposition leaders in El Salvador in order to facilitate discussion among all parties on El Salvador."
The Washington Post yesterday quoted Alberto Arene, a U.S. spokesman for Salvador rebelens, as saying Stone would meet rebel leaders in the next few days in a Lahaina town in eastern Peru, which country. Arene also said there would be an "open agenda" for the meeting.
IN OTHER developments, the Cuban news agency, Prensa Latina, said in a dispatch monitored in Mexico City that 12 American veterans of the Vietnam
war were working as mercenaries for the Salvadoran army.
The report cited Robert K. Brown, editor of Soldier of Fortune magazine, as the sponsor of the program.
The Vietnam veterans are training the Salvadoran Atlacat battalion in "counterinsurgency and medical survival," the dispatch said.
Brown told the agency that the magazine was paying for the trainers, who began work Aug. 3, and the program had no connection to the United States government.
A U.S. EMBASSY spokesman in El Salvador said he was aware that a small number of Americans affiliated with the magazine were working with Salvadoran troops, but stressed that they had no connection to the United States government.
The Nicaraguan army claimed yesterday it killed 24 U.S. back-guerrillas, and rightist insurgents said 30 Sandinista soldiers died in some of the heaviest and most widespread fighting in the 2-year-old Nicaraguan war.
FDA to give alert on pregnancy drug
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration plans to alert doctors this week to studies that show increased stomach deformities among children, others took the "morning sickness" drug Bondetin, according to a report.
The notification will be contained in
an FDA publication to be released within a few days, the Washington Post reported in its early editions today, quoting an FDA source.
The Post, which obtained an advance copy of the publication, Drug Bulletin, said it cited findings of two recent studies of Bendectin, the only FDA-approved medicine for the morning sickness associated with early pregnancy.
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc., manufacturer of the medicine, agree in June to disclose the study findings in a "Dear Doctor" letter requested by the FDA.
But on July 20, it refused to send the letter, FDA documents show, and claimed that a third study showed no association between Bendectin and the stomach deformity.
Soviets seek to bar use of space shuttle in war
By United Press International
MOSCOW — A year after the U.S. space shuttle's first military mission, the Soviet Union said it would seek an international treaty to ban the use of manned spacecraft for military purposes.
Pentagon documents leaked to United Press International in January bar the United States from signing any treaty that bans space-based weapons.
The Soviet Union's latest proposal appeared yesterday, when the official news agency Tass released the text of a letter asking that a debate on such a
creat be included on the agenda of the 34th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
The letter, addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, came from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
The proposed treaty included all the points that President Yuri Andropov raised three days earlier during a meeting with nine visiting U.S. Democratic senators but it went a step further.
“In addition, a ban is suggested on the testing and use of manned spacecraft for military purposes including anti-satellite aims.” Gromyko wrote.
"Their use should serve entirely the solution of diverse scientific, technical and economic problems."
Initial U.S. reaction to the proposals by Andropov was cool, and most comment mentioned the difficulty in verification of such an agreement
The Gromyko letter did not address the space shuttle by name, nor did Andropow mention it in his talks with the Democratic lawmakers.
In July, the U.S. space shuttle Columbia carried a military payload into space, the details of which have not been disclosed.
More students mean more hamburgers in Lawrence. And more hamburgers mean more dollars.
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
Tim Hanlon, assistant manager of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, 523 W. 23rd St., said Friday that the restaurant had to nearly double its usual weekly order of 700 to 800 pounds of hamburger meat to 1,500 pounds in preparation for the return of KU students.
"Business is going phenomenally." Hanlon said. "We've made approxi-
When students returned to the University of Kansas last week after summer vacation, they brought with them a set of local restaurants and retailers.
"The students came in more consistently in the two days than they did when they had a whole week. They seem to be buying a little better quality — maybe people have a little more money in their pockets." Jerry Jennings
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FRED MYERS, MANAGER of the McDonald's South, 901 W. 23rd St., said his restaurant had been even busier than expected.
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week before the students returned."
"I couldn't even tell you how many burgers we've sold," he said.
Hanlon said that Wendy's "did some extensive hiring to get ready for the onslaught." Earl Randal, manager of Burger King, 1301 W. 23rd St., said that he hired 18 additional employees for the rush.
Even though this year's shortened Country Club Week caused students to return later in the week than they had in past years, local retailers reported one of their more profitable back-to-school weeks.
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Jerry Jennings of Bud Jennings & Son Carpet Inc., 29th and Iowa streets, said that the shorter Country Club would be the business a steadier flow of business.
"Business has been terrific," he said.
He estimated a 20 percent to 30 percent increase in the store's volume of merchandise.
"The students came in more consistently in the two days than they did when they had a whole week," he said. "They seem to be buying a little better quality — maybe people have a little more money in their pockets."
EVEN WITH THE addition of another department store, none of the department stores reported losses in business.
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"It's a different situation — we have one more store to compete with," said Paul Dickerson, manager of the T G & Y Store. 711 W. 23rd St. "We haven't it yet." Businesses, but businesswise, people are spending more. We're doing great."
"We're showing a nice increase over last year," he said. "We've grown each year 8 to 12 percent. I think we may grow as much as 15 percent this year.
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