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University Daily Kansan, June 17, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Sirhan's freedom denied; he says he's done his time
SOLEAD, Calif. — Sirhan Sirhan begged forgiveness from the American people and the Kennedy family yesterday in an interview with reporters after the California parole board again rejected his request for freedom.
But the Jordanian assassin insisted he did not intentionally kill Robert F. Kennedy and said he thought he had served long enough in prison. He has served 15 years.
Siran nevertheless blamed Robert Kennedy for "provoking" him to the murder.
"The Kennedys had power, money, prestige in society. I am a nobody ... However regrettably, he did provoke it in the sense that he wanted to kill my countrymen by giving airplanes and bombs to Israel. I felt a sense of betrayal when he did that."
Sirban said keeping him in prison would not deter other possible assassins.
"My imprisonment did not deter John Hinckley."
Andropov wins Soviet presidency
MOSCOW — Communist Party Chief Yuri Andropov yesterday sealed his control of the Kremlin with election to the presidency of the Soviet Union, accumulating in seven months the power it took his predecessor 13 years to assume.
The former KGB chief was elected unanimously by the Supreme Soviet, or legislature, but his stuff, pained appearance and failure to return to the session after a break raised serious questions about his health.
Andropov's election gave him the three top titles held by Leonid Brezhnev at the time of his death in November — president, Communist Party chief and chairman of the Defense Council.
Europeans send satellite into space
Ariane, launched by the European Space Agency, carried a satellite named Eutelsat which will open up 10,000 more telephone circuits in 28 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and a smaller satellite for educational and research purposes.
KOUROU, French Guiana — The Ariane rocket hurled into space yesterday pushing two satellites into orbit and successfully challenging for the first time the U.S. dominance of the lucrative commercial space launch market.
Meanwhile, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., the countdown began yesterday for the second flight of the shuttle Challenger and ran smoothly toward a blastoff Saturday that will rocket the first American woman into space.
Three of the crew members, mission specialists Sally Ride, John Fabian and Norman Thagard, went joy riding in jet trainers to experience some of the sensations of spaceflight.
Chilean regime fires striking miners
SANTIAGO, Chile The military government, facing its strongest opposition in 10 years of rule, fired 550 militant copper miners yesterday who staged an illegal strike in the nation's third largest copper mine.
The powerful Copper Workers Confederation ordered a nationwide walkout of its 22,000 members for Friday after the government jailed union president Rodolfo Seguel because he led nationwide protests demanding an immediate return to democracy.
Representatives of four other opposition unions which make up the National Workers Command, failed to agree on a general strike in support of the copper miners. No decision on a nationwide strike will be made until Monday, the representatives said.
UMKC could get new grad program
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An officer of United Telecommunications Inc. Wednesday said his firm was interested in helping set up a new graduate program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City from which both the company and university could reearn research benefits.
Under the proposal United Telecom would donate $2.5 million to UMKC over a five-year period, Don Forsythe, vice president for corporate communications, said. The money would be used to establish a new campus and enhance telecommunications grid set up a basic research program.
In return, United Telecom would receive the commercial right to any new products developed by the university and the firm.
Senate compromises on pay raise
WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected a pay raise to $100,000 yesterday and bitterly accepted a compromise increase to $89,800, effective immediately, and a a limit on outside income to 30 percent of their pay, effective Jan. 1.
Senators now make $60,662.
The action could affect about half the Senate's members who earned more than the 30 percent limit last year — a group headed by Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, who made $135,000 from speeches in 1982.
The amendment increased Senate pay to the same income received by House members, who already have a limitation on outside earned income.
Student petitions Reagan for freeze
Although the approved amendment limits income on speeches and articles, senators may collect unlimited amounts of unearned income—such as interest and dividends on investments—and make only the most general of disclosures.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday accepted a high school student's petition for a nuclear freeze, but she said she was terrified by his insistence that peace will come only through U.S. military buildup.
"I was terrified even more to hear in person than to hear over national TV that he so strongly believes that the way to reduce is to build up." Ariela Gross, 17, said after their private, 20-minute meeting in the Oval Office.
Reagan's session with Gross, of Princeton, N.J., ended a controversy that flared when a Department of Education official threatened to revoke her $1,000 scholarship if she insisted on giving Reagan a letter urging an immediate nuclear arms freeze.
Congress argues welfare programs
WASHINGTON — Senate-House negotiators haggled yesterday over the amount of money allocated to the Medicare and Medicaid programs next year, the last major stumbling block to a compromise on a 1984 federal budget resolution.
Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speaks said that the compromise is "not very much to our liking," because it increases military spending only 5 percent and raises up to $12 billion in new taxes
He said administration officials will try to persuade the negotiators to move closer to President Reagan's 1984 budget proposal.
The Senate-House conference committee, tentatively agreed late Wednesday to increase taxes between $9 billion and $12 billion next year and to increase defense spending 5 percent.
Correction
The hours of the documents department of Spencer Research Library were incorrectly reported in Wednesday's Kansas. The correct hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Government may compensate Nisei
Bv. United Press International
WASHINGTON — A (federal commission recommended yesterday that the government pay $1.5 billion in compensation to the surviving 60,000 Japanese-Americans, or Nisei, who were interred after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This compensatory payments of $20,000 to each survivor.
The commission, issuing its final report, also recommended putting the rest of the sum after individual payments into a special education foundation for the Japanese-American community.
"NO AMOUNT OF money can fully compensate the excluded people for their losses and sufferings" "Warranty Relocation and Interment said.
Bernstein told reporters. I consider it to be a response in the usual manner in which a character's story is told.
"I do not consider it to be guilt money," commission Chairman Joan
"The commission recommended "the appropriation of $1.5 billion to provide a one-time per capita compensatory payment of $20,000 to each of the approximately 60,000 surviving persons from their homes on the West Coast."
IT ALSO SAID Congress should set aside $5 million to be used for Aleuts evacuated from the Aleutian and Privilibol Islands during the war, and a payment of $5,000 to each of the few hundred surviving Aleuts.
The commission was established by Congress in 1980, nearly four decades after 120,000 Japanese-Americans were put in internment camps for most of World War II under Executive Order 6135 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"A grave personal injustice was done to the American citizen and resident
aliens of Japanese ancestry who, without individual review or any probative evidence against them, were excluded, removed and detained by the United States during World War II," the commission said.
"THE EXCLUDED PEOPLE suffered enormous damages and losses, both material and intangible," it said.
The commission reported Wednesday that a consulting firm, ICF Inc., of Washington, had estimated that the Japanese Americans suffered property damage to $2.1 billion to $4.2 billion in 1983 dollars, adjusted for interest and inflation.
Rep. Daniel Lungren, R-Callif., who represents a district in which many Japanese-Americans live, opposed the compensatory portion of the report because he was not sure it could pass in the current economic climate in Congress.
"WE ARE DEVELOPING a thought
that unless something has money attached to it, any action taken by government or private individuals is of no use. "Lungreen told reporters."
He said what the government did in World War II was wrong, and something must be done to make amends, but many American taxpayers today were not even alive when the internment occurred.
"I don't know how you relate that to guilt when they had nothing to do with it," Lungren said. "Most of the major actors have long since left the scene. I wonder, frankly, if individual reparations would affect future actions."
The commission also recommended the president pardon the 15 to 25 Japanese-Americans convicted of violating the curfew imposed on them, and recommended Congress rebuild and restore churches destroyed in the Aleutians and clear away debris remaining on the islands from the war.
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