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University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Hungry peasants take food from Brazilian government
RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil — More than 2,000 starving peasants fleeing a five-year drought defied armed guards to smash into a government warehouse and loot 59 tons of food, reports reaching Rio said yesterday.
It was the latest in a growing number of food raids across a vast area of northeast Brazil where more than 3 million people are in their fifth year of drought.
Sgt. Eudasio Lucindo, police chief of Senador Pompeu, an agricultural town with a population of 27,000 in the interior of Ceara state, said he was unable to stop Saturday's mass looting.
"First because I only had six men, and second because I'm not so crazy as to open fire on hungry people," he said.
Lucindo said more than 2,000 men used pickaxes and small hand-scymets to break into the corrugated iron warehouse housing 59 tons of food intended for school meals.
French warplanes sent to aid Chad
NDJAMENA, Chad — Ten French Air Force supersonic warplanes arrived in Chad yesterday to bolster defenses against a seven-week Libyan-backed rebel invasion.
The aerial reinforcements for French ground forces in the former French colony came as Western diplomats in Libya reported that Libyan armored columns were moving south from the captured oasis of Fava-Largeau.
Death count from Alicia rises to 16
HOUSTON — The death toll from Hurricane Alicia rose to 16 yesterday, and Coast Guard planes and helicopters searched the Gulf of Mexico for another body.
the body of a man who died after a fire in his home was discovered during cleanup operations, and officials said two more bodies might be classified as storm victims.
The Houston Fire Department had originally said another body was in a car at an underpass that had been flooded. But a spokesman said yesterday that the car had been drained and no body found.
Medical examiners said the death count could rise again when they completed examination of the bodies of two other men found Saturday floating in a bavon near the Houston ship channel.
"Those other two may also be weather related," said a spokesman at the Harris County medical examiner's office.
Walesa says protests will proceed
WARSAW, Poland — Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said yesterday his supporters would proceed with work slowdowns and other protests this week because the communist regime refused talks with the banned union.
Referring to messages circulated by the Solidarity underground, Walesa said: "The instructions are clear: starting Aug. 23 there will be slowdowns in the factories; on Aug. 31 there will be a boycott of public transportation and the press."
"Until Aug. 31 there should not be any protests which could provoke retaliation by the ZOMO (riot police)."
The Solidarity underground has designated today as the deadline for the government to begin talks with union leaders. But Walesa said he expected no movement by the regime.
Five diplomats sent out of Belgium
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Belgian officials said Saturday that five diplomats, reportedly including a Soviet and two Romanians, had been expelled from the country following the arrest of a top government official on espionage charges.
Foreign Minister Leo Tindemans identified the government official as Eugene Michiels, 60, a director in the Foreign Ministry's European coordination service dealing with foreign trade.
He declined to identify the diplomats or say which country or countries they represented. He also refused to say when the expulsions had been ordered or whether the five diplomats had already left the country.
But a Belgian television news broadcast said Saturday the five diplomats ordered to leave the country included at least one Soviet national and two Romanians.
Used car prices rise, sales dip in '82
DETROIT — Used car prices went up 13.2 percent in 1982 to an average $4,773 for each vehicle, but the total number of used cars sold was the lowest since 1976, a Hertz Corp. study showed yesterday.
The annual survey by Hertz, the nation's largest rental-leasing agency, found it cost 10.4 percent more in 1892 to own and operate a used car than in 1900. The study also found that
By contrast, Hertz's survey of new car prices for 1982 found it cost 44.67 cents a mile to own and operate a new vehicle compared to 43.42 cents a mile in 1981.
Hertz told the 6 percent drop in used car sales compared with an 8.2 percent decline in new car sales. Total 1982 new and used car sales were 24.4 million, down 6.8 percent from 26.1 million in 1981.
Scientists find sunken Civil War ship
HATTERAS, N.C. — Scientists looking for the sunken Civil War ironclad Monitor, discovered in 1973 and spotted again four years ago, ran into navigational problems yesterday but finally found the vessel with the aid of a local fisherman.
The scientists, who thought they had pinpointed the location of the Monitor, had hoped to make two dives to the wreck, located in 200 feet of water about 15 miles off the North Carolina coast.
But the first two flights revealed only rock formations and the wreck of a drone airplane used by the Navy for target practice.
The problems resulted from a navigational mistake, but with the help of the fisherman the Monitor was finally spotted on 6:15 p.m. CDT by a research submarine crew. The scientists immediately began to film the vessel.
WEATHER FACTS
UP) WEATHER FOTOCAST
Showers and thundershowers are expected today in the Northern Plains and in the east.
Locally, highs in the mid-90s are predicted for today. Lows in the mid-70s are expected tonight, with a mostly sunny sky and highs in the mid-90s expected tomorrow.
Collapses of Egyptian apartments kill 30
CAIRO, Egypt — Two apartment buildings that were expanded illegally to take advantage of a critical housing shortage collapsed within 12 hours of each other, killing at least 30 people, police said yesterday.
By United Press International
Police said 21 people died in the Cairo suburb of Kubbeh Gardens when an illegally constructed four-story building collapsed at dawn Saturday. Eleven others were injured.
In the second accident, which occurred 12 hours later in Alexandria, police put the casualty toll at nine dead and 10 others injured. Rescue workers said they feared that more bodies would be buried under steel, wood and brick that formed when the seven-story building — also built without permits — collapsed.
Authorities moved swiftly to punish violators held responsible for the accidents, which were the latest in a series of disasters in Egyptian housing
The owner of the Alexandria building was jailed on building violations yesterday. In Cairo, three building inspectors were charged with negligence.
The owner of the Kubbeh Gardens building, his wife and three children were among the dead. Police said the owner was in the process of adding a penthouse on the fifth floor.
A four-story apartment building collapsed Saturday in a low-income residential area in east Cairo.
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