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University Daily Kansan, June 8, 1983
From United Press International
Salvadoran elections face possible two-year setback
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The U.S.-backed presidential elections in El Salvador, scheduled for December, could be delayed up to two years by the civil war and political squabbling, officials said yesterday.
The officials said a long-delayed constitution has not been finished, party infighting over an updated voter list and the continuing guerrilla violence have contributed.
Christian Democrats say the rightist parties want to delay the vote because they fear Jose Napoleon Duarte, a Christian Democrat who served as president from 1980 to 1982, would easily win an election this year.
Interim President Alvaro Magana wants to discuss postponing the elections when he meets with President Reagan later this month in Washington, said officials.
In March 1982 elections for a Constituent Assembly, more than 1 million Salvadorans went to the polls, despite a rebel call for a boycott and guerrilla attacks on election day.
Transport crash kills 38 in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A propeller-driven military transport plane caught fire and crashed into the Taiwan Strait minutes after takeoff, killing 38 people, the government said Tuesday.
The government said preliminary investigation showed the failure of the right engine was the cause of the accident. The plane gained only 300 feet before it crashed two minutes after takeoff en route from the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy to Taipei.
Civilians are allowed to ride military planes between Taiwan and Quemoy but must sign papers waiving any claims against the government in case of accidents. Nonetheless, the government said it would not send them into the hands of the civilian victims "an appropriate amount of compensation."
The Taiwan government has used the American-made C-119s as its main air transportation between Taiwan and Quemoy for many years.
NEW DELHI, India — Moslem rebels attacked government troops conducting a sweep against guerrillas in eastern Afghanistan, killing 200 members of a crack commando unit, a Western diplomat said yesterday. The attack occurred in Paktiya, a province bordering Pakistan.
Afghan rebels, fighting to oust Soviet-backed President Babrak Karmal, frequently cross into Pakistan from Paktiya to acquire weapons.
weapons. Karmal, installed in a Soviet-backed coup in December 1979, is supported by 105,000 Soviet troops fighting alongside some 30,000 Afghan soldiers, according to Western estimates.
In Islamabad, Pakistan, Western diplomats said fighting in the Afghan capital of Kabul had escalated, lending credence to claims that the rebels were intensifying their attacks to increase pressure at talks on the Afghanistan crisis set to resume in Geneva later this month.
NRC reveals possible sabotage
WASHINGTON — Eleven acts of sabotage against vital areas of nuclear power plants may have occurred over the last three years, warned a report that Congress released yesterday.
The results of the study, conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, were released by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass. He urged the agency to give high priority to reducing the chance of sabotage by workers at U.S. commercial reactors.
The study revealed that because there were no indications of unauthorized entry to the sabotaged plants, the incidents "are thought to have involved insiders."
Efforts to limit access to vital parts of reactors have not significantly reduced the number of plant and contractor personnel who have complete access to most areas of the plant.
There was no significant health or environmental damage as a result of the incidents, the report said.
House panel votes to clear Burford
WASHINGTON — A House panel voted yesterday to throw out the contempt of Congress citation against Anne Burford, the former Environmental Protection Agency chief who refused on presidential orders to turn over EPA documents.
While no opposition to the resolution was expressed in the subcommittee, it faces strong opposition in the full House Public Works Committee. An aide said committee Chairman James Howard, D-N.J., opposed the resolution and has no plans to schedule a vote on it.
Even if passed by the committee, the House would have to approve the resolution before it would be effective.
Tuesday's action honored an agreement between the White House and Rep. Elliott Levitas, D-GA., the subcommittee chairman, which gave the panel access to the files in return for its support for dropping the contempt citation.
Former Nazi receives life sentence
BERLIN — An East German court Tuesday sentenced a former Nazi SS officer to life imprisonment for war crimes, including the systematic murder of 642 French villagers in World War II.
Heinz Barth, 62, had been sentenced to death in abstention by a court in Bordeaux in 1953 for his part in the 1944 massacre in a French village, but he eluded arrest until 1981 by faking his personal documents.
The court also convicted Barb of organizing and taking part in the 1942 killing of 92 people in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Judge Heinz Hugot called for a life sentence rather than the death penalty because Barth had cooperated with police during his interrogation.
During the trial that began two weeks ago, Barth admitted organizing and taking part in the two massacres.
Medicaid granted for transplant
PITTSBURGH — An Ohio woman was denied Medicaid funding for a life-saving heart transplant until top state officials intervened on her behalf.
Ruth Buchanan, 45, was reported in critical condition after five hours of surgery Monday.
The request for Medicaid coverage for the $80,000 operation was denied earlier because a welfare department rule barred funding for such "experimental" procedures.
such expatriate Buchanan's pledge to the attention of Rep. Donald Pease, D-Ohio, whose office checked with the federal government to see whether allowing payment for the transplant would break any federal rules. When Pease's aides discovered it would not, Gov. Richard Celeste waived the state regulation.
Area residents have raised $11,000 to help the woman's family pay hospital expenses not covered by Medicaid.
Arafat saves PLO rebellion quelled
Palestine Liberation, Organization chief Yassar Aasser fafted, backed by a strong expression of support from Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, said Tuesday he had the rebellion in his guerrilla organization "under control."
Abu Iyad, Arafat's deputy in the Fatah guerrilla group, the largest faction in the PLO, told reporters in Moscow, "Arafat not only is now but always will be the outstanding leader of our organization and of the Palestinian nation."
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DURING A WEEK of talks with Kremlin leaders, Abu Iyad said Andropov sent two messages to the beleaguered Palestinian chief, expressing Soviet support for the PLO under his leadership.
Minister Indira Gandhi, the head of the non-aligned movement, a spokeswoman for the Indian Foreign Ministry said.
Arafat was in New Delhi Tuesday, he met with Indian Prime
"The PLO chairman told Gandhi that reports about dissension within the PLO are greatly exaggerated" and "that the situation is under control," spokesman Hamai Kapadia told reporters.
As he left the Indian capital for South Yemen, Arafat repeated his charges that Libyan leader Moammar Khadjady was responsible for the terroristists in the guerrilla organization
"COL, KHADAFY had tried to interfere in our internal affairs . . . but failed," Arafat told reporters. "The rank and file of the PLO cadres and our fighters are totally determined to fight this conspiracy."
In a tour aimed at gathering support for his leadership, Arafat has visited many countries.
The PLO mutiny began a month ago in Lebanon's eastern Beka Valley, with extremist rebels claiming Arafat had grown too moderate. They opposed any move to evacuate PLO guerrillas stationed in Lebanon.
whose leaders reportedly have been working behind the scenes to quell the protests.
IN AN AGREEMENT with Lebanon, Israel already has agreed to pull out its estimated 30,000 troops from the country but the move is conditional on Syria's removal of its 40,000 soldiers and Turkey's removal of its 10,000 guerrillas.
There were no new reports of clashes in eastern Lebanon where two opposing PLO factions fought last weekend and said 16 people were killed in the battles.
In Lebanon's southern town of Sidon, 24 miles south of Beirut, the Israeli army briefly detained several shop-
owners who staged a strike on Monday in the Israeli Gaza Strip, official Radio station
"Merchants of the Sidon Chamber of Commerce protested, demanding the release of those arrested," the radio said. Official Beirut television said most of those detained later were released.
IN ISRAEL, a newspaper report said Prime Minister Menachem Begin was in an "extremely gloomy mood" over the drawn-out war in Lebanon.
Israel has lost more than 140 soldiers in Lebanon since the PLO left Beirut in September, and 492 have been killed since the invasion June 6, 1982.
Poor runways hurt training, officials say
"A sharp downward turn in the prime minister's mood has been evident recently," a source, who has met with the 69-year-old leader several times lately, told the Ha'aretz newspaper.
By United Press International
WICHTIA - Seriously deteriorated runway conditions at McConnell Air Force Base restrict the training of jet aircraft. A federal Guard, officials said Tuesday.
One runway has cracked and deteriorated to the point where pebbles and small debris are in danger of being sucked into F-4 fighter jet engines, a
problem which results in overhauls costing $35,000 to $50,000, Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan., testified in Washington Monday.
"WHEN A PERSON first gets into the F-4, the first thing we do is to take them out and teach them to land it." Col. John McMerty, commander of the Air National Guard's 184th Tactical Fighter Group, said Tuesday, "On every flight, you might make five or six touch-and-go landings."
"When you've only got one runway, with five or six airplanes in the pattern at any one time, and you have to make five or six landings a day . . . you have to take longer time between trans-formation definition that means fewer tracers."
Deterioration caused one of the two McConnell runways to be restricted to landings only. McMeyt said McConnell's decision to accept by KC-15 tanker aircraft, the F-48.
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"IT COULD GET very much more serious as time goes on. If somebody decided today to fix the problem, it would probably take two years to fix it," McMery said.
In addition to engine problems, tires also are regularly cut up by the runways, he said.
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