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University Daily Kansan, June 29, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Colorado dams boost flow; six dead in heavy flooding
PARKER, ATL. — More water was thrust through the Colorado River dam system yesterday returning the swollen river to previous flood levels and officials said they would be forced to increase the flow even more next week.
Additional releases were let through the Glen Canyon Dam, Utah, and the Parker Dam, Ariz., to make room in their reservoirs for water speeding downstream from the record snow melt in the Rocky Mountains.
Regional director Bill Plummer said Hoover, Davis and Parker dams would boost releases 11 to 20 percent above the present level. He said this would produce a total increase above normal at Yuma, Ariz., of up above 12 feet.
Parker upped its release to about three times the normal flow and to the same level that produced millions of dollars in flood damage last week. The new crest was expected to hit Yuma downstream Friday and Mexico during the weekend.
Thirty families were evacuated yesterday, but the estimates of the number of people who might be forced to leave their homes ranged up to
The rise in the river has contributed to six deaths in the last week. A man died in a boating accident in the Grand Canyon and five persons 1800drowned in flooding in Mexico.
PLO rebels vow to 'punish' Arafat
Palestinian rebels backed by Syrian and Libyan troops yesterday captured control of most of Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley from supporters of guerrilla chief Yasser Arafat, killing 15 guerrilla loyalists and wounding 20 others.
"We will continue our uprising," rebel leader Nimr Saleh said in Damascus, vowing to "punish" both Arafat for pursuing peace under President Reagan's Sept. 1 initiative as well as PLO moderates for trying to mediate the 2-month mutiny.
trying to meet the needs of the Libyan people.
The Libyans have more than 1,000 troops in Lebanon behind Syrian lines. An attempted negotiation meeting between Arafat and Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy appeared to have failed.
Sudan terrorists take five hostages
NAIROBI, Kenya — Guerrillas kidnapped five Western aid workers, including two Americanians, in southern Sudan and threatened to kill them July 6 if demands for cash, clothes and propaganda airtime are not met, sources said vetted day.
The kiddapped Americans were identified as John Haspels, 36, of Lyons, Kan., an employee of the Across relief agency, an umbrella organization for missionary agencies, and Ron Pontier, 29, of Clermont, Fla., a missionary with the African Inland Mission.
The embassy spokesman said they were kidnapped Thursday by guerrillas who said they belonged to the Southern Sudan Liberation Front.
The SSLF is believed to be a black secessionist group struggling for independence for the south of Sudan from the predominantly Arab and Moslem north.
Shultzsavs Vietnam holding MIAs
BANGKOK, Thailand — Secretary of State George Shultz accused Vietnam's communist authorities yesterday of withholding the remains of "several hundred" Americans killed in the war in Indochina.
A senior official said the United States had no indication that any Americans listed as missing in action in Indochina were still alive.
The U.S. official speculated that Vietnam was using the remains as a possible "bargaining chip" in its relations with the United States.
Shultz appealed to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations — the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand — for help in locating American MIAs. He called it "a matter of highest national priority for President Reagan and for the American people."
Protesters march on Marcos' palace
MANILA, Philippines — Hundreds of chanting demonstrators including nuns and priests attempted to march on President Ferdinand Marcos' palace yesterday but were turned back several blocks away by police wielding riot sticks.
No arrests or injuries were reported.
No arrests or injuries were reported.
About 700 demonstrators shouting "release all political prisoners" tried to walk to the downtown Malacanang Palace following a five-hour protest in front of the Philippine Supreme Court.
The demonstrators were protesting the so-called Presidential Commitment Order under which Marcos can jail without bail anyone who disobeys his orders.
Lawyers estimate about 500 Filipinos are being held without bail as "public order violators."
Peruvian miners strike nationwide
LIMA, Peru — Thousands of miners began a strike yesterday to press for an end to the nationwide state of emergency and nine months back pay for unemployed colleagues.
At Lima's National Palace, President Fernando Belaunde Terry swore-in Patricio Rickett to replace liberal Alfonso Grados, who resigned Monday. Rickett is expected to launch a crackdown on union militants.
Spokesmen for the Federation of Mining and Metallurgical Workers said preliminary reports from their affiliates indicated that between 20,000 and 30,000 workers at small- and medium-sized mines said they would join the strike.
Israel greets Soviet Pentecostalists
9 Ptoy Vashchenko and his wife, Augustina, and their 13 children, ages 32 to 32, begin their quest to leave the Soviet Union in 1963 when they sought American help in emigrating from a nation they charged did not allow them to practice their fundamentalist faith.
TEL AVIV, Israel — A family of 15 Siberian Pentecostal Christians, who spent five years in the U.S. Embassy basement in Moscow as part of a two-decade struggle to emigrate to the West, arrived in Israel yesterday to a warm welcome.
Fifteen years later, five of the Vashchenkos left their home in Chernogorsk, Siberia, and went to Moscow with an invitation to immigrate from a U.S. pastor.
The Vashchenkos, including the eight children who remained in Chernogorsk, were finally granted visas.
Newspaper Guild approves merger
CLEVELAND — Delegates to The Newspaper Guild's 50th anniversary convention yesterday approved by a 96 percent margin a proposed merger with the printers' union to create the largest organization of newspaper employees in North America.
The merger between the Guild, which represents reporters, editors, photographers and clerical staff, and the International Typographical Union, which represents printers, must now be approved in a vote by rank-and-file members of both organizations in September.
The new union would be called the Media Workers International Union and would have 70,000 members.
Senate rejects anti-abortion amendment
By United Press International
AFTER THE VOTE, Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., leader of the opposition, told reporters: "The right to life forces have crested and are on the decline. Today, the Senate said, 'Enough. You've been at it for 10 years.' The Senate will nowurt twist. You've had your day in the office and other times. And that's it."
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have forced the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., a stump foe of abortion, entered a vote of present, but informed the Senate that he supported his own anti-abortion bill proposal.
The vote was 50-49 against the amendment — 18 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority. The Senate also approved the amendment is not secured by this Constitution."
But Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utha,
sponsor of the amendment, said,
"What's important is that in essence,
it was a 50-50 vote. I would say, it sends a message to the courts and the country
that is an issue that has to be resolved."
Both Hatch and Packwood said the vote to defeat the amendment was a
benchmark in the decade-long debate on abortion. Most of the previous 50 votes were on amendments to unenrollment; this one was a vote on the issue itself.
In the final arguments of the 10-hour debate, Hatch said 2 million abortions a year were "demoralizing" the country. Packwood said approval of the amendment would have meant that the debate would go on in every campaign in every state legislature for a generation.
NORMAN BENDROTH, of the anti-
abortion Christian Action Council, said,
Abortion is not dead in the 98th
Celebration of Life. It will be just
the first of a series of votes the
House and Senate will face on abortion."
Frances Kissling, executive director of Catholics For a Free Choice, said, "This is a clear indication that legal abortion is no longer a political issue."
Backers of the amendment charged that more fetuses were lost through abortions than lives in all of the nation's wars. Opponents claimed the amendment would interfere with a woman's fundamental right to privacy.
The amendment would have required a two-thirds vote of approval in both chambers of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states to become
Polish church, government to aid poor economy
By United Press International
VATICAN CITY — The Polish church and government agreed before Pope John Paul II's homecoming to establish a church-run foundation that would channel millions of Western dollars into loans and grants to boost the depressed Polish economy, sources said yesterday.
In Washington, President Reagan said he would consider lifting sanctions against Warsaw if the Communist government followed the pope's plea and permitted the formation of "a free union that is not subject to government control."
ADDED REAGAN: "If they did that,
I think we would review what we are
doing."
Reagan apparently referred to U.S.
sanctions against Poland, which include a cutoff of agricultural credits and loss of its favorable tariff status and airline landing rights.
The agreement appeared to be part of a larger deal struck by the church in which informed sources said the Vatican agreed to urge former Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa to step aside in return for a pledge from the government to lift martial law and enact reforms.
Sources said the church-supervised foundation was expected to handle millions of dollars in loans or grants from the West and funnel the money into the sluggish Polish economy, which is into agriculture and small businesses.
A DIPLOMATIC SOURCE said the money would come from some major Western foundations, Polish ethnic
communities in the West, European Common Market countries and wealthy European cities.
Plans for the foundation, which reportedly was formulated by Polish Primate Cardinal Jozef Glemp, allow the church to receive the money from the Western sources and administer it together with the government.
The sources said the agreement could be a prelude to the lifting of martial law, imposed Dec. 13, 1981, and later, with international waters, and western economic sanctions.
THE SOURCES SAID the pope, Glemp and Polish leaders Gen. Wojciech Junzulowski and President John Jahnke formed a foundation during the poffist's visit.
The sources said the United States and other Western governments were not involved in the negotiations, which took
place in Poland, but that one or more prominent American philanthropic foundations, as well as Polish-American organizations in the United States, would be involved in the fund raising.
Another agreement which arose from the pope's trip, sources said Monday, was that the church would work with the government to create a new trade union founded on the lines of Solidarity but most probably with a different name and led by someone other than Wales.
VATICAN AND OTHER church sources said several top Vatican officials persuaded the pope to ask Wales to step out of the public eye — at least temporarily. In return, they said, the government promised to grant amnesty to many dissidents and to lift martial law.
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