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University Daily Kansan, June 10, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Arms agreement delayed Soviet news agency says
MOSCOW — An arms agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union is not sight because Washington still seeks military superiority and unilateral Soviet disarmament, Tass radio, the Soviet government news agency, announced yesterday.
The announcement came despite President Reagan's offering broad changes in the U.S. position at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in
Reagan also emphasized flexibility of the U.S. position at the talks.
Without giving details, Reagan said he had directed U.S. chief negotiator Edward Rowney to raise a proposed limit of 850 intercontinental missiles and to shift the focus of the talks to counting warheads.
According to Tass, however, the new directives are aimed at bringing the U.S. position in line with recommendations made by a committee comprised of former U.S. defense secretaries.
The 40th round of the START talks, which took place yesterday, lasted two hours and 40 minutes. Few details about the talks were available.
O'Neill delays vote on MX missile
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Thomas O'Neill yesterday agreed to postpone a vote on the MX missile until after the July 4 recess at the request of liberals who want President Reagan to further explain his new arms control proposals.
Liberal Democrats who oppose the MX persuaded O'Neill to make it the last major item of consideration in the defense authorization bill
The three-part recommendation calls for basing 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos in Nebraska and Wyoming, developing a smaller, mobile, single-warhead missile by the 1990s, and counting warheads instead of missile launchers in arms control talks.
earthly instead of missile launchers in arms count of tanks.
An aide said a vote is not expected before July 11 at the earliest.
Hangings in South Africa protested
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Black nationalists protested the hanging Thursday of three African National Congress guerrillas, vowing the white-ruled South African government would pay for the "crime."
Thelle Simon Mogoeeran, 23, Jerry Semane Mossoloi, 25, and Marcus Thabo Motaung, 27, were hanged at dawn, after being guilty of murder.
The government refused appeals for clemency from the United States, the United Nations, the European Common Market, anti-apartheid groups worldwide and church and union groups in South Africa.
Policemen sentenced for beatings
DALLAS — A federal judge yesterday sentenced three former New Orleans policemen to five years in prison without parole "for beating and torturing witnesses" during the investigation of a fellow officer's slaving.
John McKenzie, 40, a former sergeant, and former detectives Dale Bonura and Stephen Farrar, both 24, received five-year terms for their felony conspiracy convictions and maximum one-year terms for violating the civil rights of Robert Davis.
The three men, all white, were hustled from the courthouse by other New Orleans policemen who shielded them from reporters. Davis and his son, Jeremy, were held in custody.
The trio remained free on bond pending appeal, which defense lawyers said would be filed immediately with the 8th S. Circuit Court
More earthquakes rock north Japan
TOKYO — Two major earthquakes rumbled across northern Japan within minutes of each other yesterday, causing panic among residents recovering from a quake that killed about 100 people two weeks ago.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or the extent of damage. Although officials issued tidal wave warnings along the Japanese coast, where water levels rose about 2 feet, the warnings were lifted an hour later.
National Railway officials halted local trains to check for track damage. The tremors cracked a water supply pipe in the port city of Noshiro, leaving about 2,000 houses without water, police said.
Senators limit their outside salaries
WASHINGTON — The Senate, in an angry debate about personal wealth, refused yesterday to increase members' $60,662 salaries but agreed to clamp a 30: percent limit on speech fees and other outside-earned income.
The Senate voted 51-41 to impose the limit, which would amount to about $18,200, after it had rejected two attempts by Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., earlier in the afternoon for a cap on outside earned income.
The votes came on a series of amendments to a $15.6 billion supplemental appropriations_bill that provides money for several agencies, including the EPA.
The appropriations bill eventually will go to a joint conference to work out differences between the two chambers.
NRC says Indian Point to stay open
WASHINGTON — A split Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday allowed the Indian Point atomic plant 24 miles north of New York City to stay open, as new plans to protect 288,000 area residents are tested in the next two months.
Before voting, the NRC cited a Federal Emergency Management Agency report that said substantial progress had been made in solving problems with emergency evacuation plans at the Hudson River site.
On May 5, the NRC said the Indian Point plants should be ordered close June 9 unless problems with emergency evacuation were eliminated. The two main deficiencies were a refusal by officials to participate in a general evacuation plan and a lack of assurance that bus drivers would participate in an evacuation.
Satellite sends star's photo to Earth
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to reach the outer edge of the solar system, aimed its antenna toward Earth Thursday and transmitted a picture of a bright star six trillion miles away.
Scientists said the photograph of Altair - 10 times as bright as the sun — was beamed 2.8 billion miles to Earth in an exercise to check the accuracy of Pioneer's camera equipment before it passes on Monday the last known planet and travels virtually forever through the universe.
The spacecraft carries a greeting from Earth to any intelligent life that might find the spacecraft. The gold plaque describes Earth's location and includes a depiction of a man and a woman.
Reagan, Mondale mix it up on education
By United Press International
MINNENAPOLIS — President Reagan and former Vice President Walter Mondale, in a possible preview of the 1844 election, sparred yesterday over what is emerging as a hot campaign issue — education.
MONDALE, THE front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, held a news conference four hours before the president's arrival to declare Reagan "has failed the test of national leadership" in education.
Reagan flew to Mondale's home state to promote his policy of improving education with a minimum of federal help, but Mondale beat him there.
Reagan has not said whether he will seek re-election but is making a concerted effort to speak out on education, which his political strategists believe will be a major political issue in 1984.
Reagan arranged to participate in the second of 11 public forums on the recent National Commission on Excellence in Education report that found a "rising tide of medicoity" in the nation's educational system.
The focus was on how local school boards can implement the presidential agenda.
"APPARENTLY REAGAN plans to
make education a campaign issue," Mondale said. "I don't intend to let him whitewash his own record."
Reagan, said the former Minnesota senator, has "pursued a policy of slippage and decline in education and has failed the test of national leadership."
Although Reagan has promised greater support for math and science instruction, a funding area that earlier was cut at his direction, he has not proposed additional federal initiatives to improve graduation proposals. Most problems, he maintains, "can be corrected without money."
In his speech yesterday, Reagan conceded that making recommended improvements will cost money, but that state and local governments, not Washington, must bear the burden of improving the nation's educational system.
MONDALE SAID the federal government should spend an additional $11 billion on education.
Mondale said the president has done little except urge better discipline of students and suggest merit pay for teachers while cutting out federal dollars for graduate programs in science.
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