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University Daily Kansan, July 1, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Court rules strikebreakers can sue after being fired
WASHINGTON — Strikebreakers won a legal victory yesterday when the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that they can sue to recover damages in state court if they are fired after a strike is settled.
Upholding a Kentucky appeals court's decision, the ruling gave 12 strikebreakers the option to sue their employer for $6 million for promising that they would be hired as permanent replacements for their members, but then discharging them when the strikes were recalled.
In siding with the strikebreakers, the justicees rejected arguments that the right to sue was an unacceptable attempt to strip an employer of one of his primary weapons during a strike — the right to hire permanent replacements.
The strikebreakers sued Belknap Inc., for misrepresentation and breach of contract after a 1978 strike in Louisville was settled and they were discharged to make way for returning Teamsters' union workers.
NOW says it won't support Reagan
WASHINGTON - The National Organization for Women yesterday launched a campaign to defeat President Reagan's bid for re-election in 1984.
Judy Goldsmith, president of NOW, said the campaign would include a "truth squad," to publicize Reagan's record on women's issues, and picketing of the president wherever he traveled and at the White House every weekend during the summer.
Goldsmith said polls indicated fewer women than men supported Reagan. She predicted the gender gap would have a major impact on
Goldsmith said she expected NOW's political action committee would make contributions to candidates in excess of the $3 million it spent on the 1982 elections.
She said NOW was not ready to endorse any of the six Democratic candidates for president.
Sudan rules out hostage rescue raid
NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudan yesterday ruled out a military rescue operation to save five Western hostages, including two Americans, held under threat of death by guerrillas in a remote mission station.
The two American hostages are John Haspels of Lyons, Kan. and Ron Pontier of Clermont, Fla.
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The guerrillas said they would kill the captured aid workers Wednesday if they were not given $189,000 and 150 sets of clothing, plus radio time on the Voice of America and the BBC World Service to broadcast their protest against the government of the east African nation.
The hostages were captured June 23 by 15 guerrillas saying they belonged to the Southern Sudan Liberation Front, be able to be demanding autonomy for the mainly Christian and black southern section of Sudan, splitting it from the predominantly arab, Moslem north.
Withholding tax decision delayed
WASHINGTON — Uncle Sam has put on ice some changes in federal law and practice, including tax withholding on interest and dividends, that were to mark the middle of the fiscal year on July 1.
The controversial tax withholding law was to take effect on that date, but a flood of protest orchestrated by bankers lead Congress to move toward repeal of the rule that financial institutions hold back 10 percent of income from interest and dividends for tax purposes.
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan authorized a delay in the withholding rule until Aug. 1, pending congressional action on a compromise between House and Senate versions of the repeal.
Officials predict end of martial law
ROME - Polish church leaders visiting Pope John Paul II predicted yesterday that martial law might be lifted in their homeland next month.
Cardinal Jozef Glemp, the Roman Catholic primate in Poland, when asked whether he thought the military government would end martial law July 22 — the Polish national day — as a result of the pope's recent visit, said. "We think so."
Asked whether Lech Walesa was being eliminated from the scene, Glemp said, "No", but was non-committal about what role Walesa might have.
One high-ranking member of the clergy with Glemp said the church was talking with the government about "establishing some kind of new union based on the 1980 Gdansk accords" but said the church would not run the government.
Arrests on rise in Peruvian unrest
LIMA, Peru — More than 7,000 people have been arrested halfway through the government's 60-day anti-guerrilla crackdown. Many of them were grabbed off the street or hauled from their homes by masked government gunmen at midnight, witnesses and police sources said yesterday.
Judges, students, union leaders, journalists and even the Peruvian representative of the Amnesty International human rights group have been taken into custody since the two-month state of emergency began.
Civilian President Belaunde Terry ordered the crackdown a month ago to curb the Maoist "Shining Path" guerrilla group which has campaigned to overthrow the government.
The state of emergency suspends many civil rights, including that of free assembly, and gives police broad powers of arrest, search and seizure.
Greek leader wants U.S. bases out
Referring to the deadlocked U.S.-Greek negotiations over the U.S. bases and 16 other U.S. installations on Greek soil, the demonstrators carried banners which read, "Stop the negotiations, begin the closure of the bases."
ATHENS, Greece — Prime Minister Andrea Papandreou insisted yesterday the four U.S. bases in Greece should be closed and 10,000 demonstrators marched through Athens to protest the U.S. military presence in their country.
the bases. Speaking to reporters, Papandreou said Greece did not want the bases on its soil but would give the U.S. government "a reasonable period of time to move their bases somewhere else."
Sources close to the Greek government say Papandreou has proposed a five-year limit on any new agreement and an 18-month period following expiration of the accord to close the bases.
Asbestos found in 10,800 schools
WASHINGTON — About 10 percent of the nation's public schools have crumbling asbestos insulation that is a potential cancer risk to 4 million pupils and school employees, a union survey released yesterday showed.
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The study by the Service Employees International Union also found that at least 20 states are in violation of federal regulations that require records on what schools have inspected for asbestos, a known carcinogen. Kansas was included in the list of states.
In addition, the union noted, a government task force to monitor state asbestos detection efforts in schools has not met since shortly after it was established in 1980.
The task force said 3.2 million pupils and 648,000 employees could be affected by dangerous asbestos insulation in an estimated 10,800 schools nationwide.
Not only the University of Kansas Alumni Association have a new building, it will be getting a new dearest building. B. Williams takes care in mid-August.
Alumni Association names new director
Dolph C. Simons, Jr., retiring alumn association president, said that Williams was offered the job yesterday as an adjunct in evidence for the final selection process.
strong, enthusiastic choice of the members of our executive committee," Simons said.
Williams is now director of alumni affairs and development at Slippery Rock State College, Slippery Rock, Pa.
"WILLIAMS EMERGED As the
"I'm sure he'll do a first class job." Williams will succeed Dick Wimotem, who resigned yesterday to become special projects director for Kansas University Endowment Association and the Alumni Association.
SIMONS EXPRESSED regret at losing Winternote, who has been director of the Alumni Association since 1963.
"He's done a tremendous job and played a significant role in helping to develop the Alumni Association to its mission of national stature." Simons said.
Williams received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., in 1970. He also received his master's degree in college personnel administration in 1972 and
his doctoral degree in higher education administration in 1977 from Indiana.
His wife, Linda, is also a graduate of
Indiana University with undergraduate and graduate degrees in elementary education. They have one son, Christopher, 18 months.
While at Indiana University, Williams was assistant to the executive secretary of the Indiana University Alumni Association from 1972 to 1977.
After leaving Indiana he became executive director and then director of alumni relations and development at George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
City leaders tour downtown development area
By GENE HUNTER
Staff Reporter
City leaders yesterday took a walking tour of downtown and later discussed the proposed plan for the redevelopment of downtown area.
The plan, called Scheme Four, was discussed by members of the Downtown Improvement Committee, the Lawrence City Commission and representatives of the city's developer, Sizer Realty Co. Inc. of Kenner, La
The redevelopment plan will cover a four-block area from Seventh to Ninth streets and from Massachusetts to Rhode Island streets.
An agreement to proceed with
Scheme Four will be discussed further
at tuesday's City Commission meeting. But according to Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, the agreement cannot be given final approval until the city staff draws up a proposal.
THE COMMITTEE ANDcommission also gave tentative approval for Sizeret to find a major retailer to occupy a proposed department store on the northeast corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
Members of the improvement committee and commission told Sizelier representatives that they preferred a department store as part of the shopping center.
Sydney Lassen, chairman of the board of Sizeler, said most large
department store chains had a set format for their stores' designs.
He said a major retailer probably would not build a two-story department store.
SIZELER AGREED, however, to offer retailers only a two-story department store, which the committee prefers. Then, if no one accepted the order, it would be able to offer a one-story structure, provided the commission approved.
Members of the committee and the commission debated with Sizerel about the department store companies' audits; choose the final design of the structure.
Lassen said Lawrence was not in a position of power in dealing with the issue.
"We are not the ones who will decide the criteria for the building," he said. "The department store will."
Lassen said JCPenney officials had already told him they did not think Lawrence would go ahead with the project.
Commissioner Ernest Angino agreed with Lassen that Lawrence should be flexible.
"WE NEED THEM a hell of a lot more than they need us," he said.
But Mayor David Longhurst disagreed.
"Lawrence is unique. We don't have to roll over and say, 'Do whatever you want,' because we want their department store," he said.
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