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University Daily Kansan, April 27, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Mexican political violence kills five, injures fifteen
ACALA, Mexico — Political violence injured 15 people and left another five dead, including a small town mayor shot to death by a member of the ruling party who also died in the clash, local officials said yesterday.
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Local authorities and a party official blamed activists of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, which has ruled Mexican politics for 54 years, for the three separate, apparently unrelated confrontations.
The clashes were the latest reported since a series of town hall takeovers around the country in December and January left more than 15 people dead.
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The shooting of the mayor occurred in Acala, Chiapas, located some 423 miles southeast of Mexico City. The two other confrontations occurred in Moyotzingo and Alcoauca.
Panel votes to increase foreign aid
WASHINGTON — Despite its chairman's warning against losing vital Republican support in the House, the dominately Democratic Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday voted to boost foreign aid for family planning and health projects by $99 million to $408.4 million.
As the panel began work on the 1984 foreign aid bill, Chairman Clement Zablocki, D-Wis., warned that he would vote against every amendment proposing increased aid and would refuse to defend any such increases on the floor. The administration is asking for a total of $13.2 billion.
The panel put off working on the military aid portions of the bill until after President Reagan's speech tonight on Central America.
WASHINGTON — The Veterans Administration yesterday opposed granting compensation to 3,000 Vietnam vets who have illnesses that may be linked to their exposure more than a decade ago to the defoliant Agent Orange.
VA Administrator Harry Walters told a congressional panel that a bill that would provide compensation for the veterans was "based on theories and hypothesis. It is not based on fact."
But Rep. Tom Duschel, D-S.D., the measure's sponsor, said extensive studies had shown a causal relationship between the herbicide and three illnesses he wanted covered by VA compensation — a liver disorder, a skin condition and a soft-tissue cancer.
Dasenie accused Dow Chemical, which was a producer of Agent Orange, of deliberately withholding information about dioxin, a component of the herbicide.
Offshore oil leasing attracts 40 bids
NEW YORK — Oil companies bid yesterday on only 40 of more than 4,000 East Coast offshore tracts available in the Interior Department's largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history.
largest on oil gas lease in the world. Twelve oil companies placed 53 bids totaling $86.8 million on 40 tracts in the 22.7 million-acre area on the outer continental shelf that extends from Martha's Vineyard, Mass., to the North Carolina border.
The companies bid on just four blocks off New York out of the 936 leases that had been contested by New York, Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey.
New Jersey. Interior officials said bidding met their expectations in the first sale of broad tracts as far as 185 miles from shore under Secretary of Interior James Watt's five-year outer continental leasing program.
Late rally puts Dow over 1,200 mark
NEW YORK — The Dow Jones average soared past the 1,200 mark yesterday and propelled the stock market to record heights in a late rally that produced the biggest day on Wall Street in two months.
Strong earnings reports by high-technology favorite Commodore International and news that Egypt and the Soviet Union had raised oil prices triggered a buying stampede in the final hour.
The Dow Jones industrial average soared 22.25 points to a record 1,209.46, erasing Friday's previous mark of 1,196.30. It was the biggest gain since it jumped 24.87 on Feb. 24, the day it cracked the 1,100 barrier.
The closely watched average has climbed 95.97 over the past 14 sessions and 432.54 since the bull market began on Aug. 13.
Ethiopian rebels kidnap Westerners
NAIROH, Kenya — Ethiopian anti-government guerrillas have kidnapped 10 Western relief workers, including one American, possibly to give aid to rebel comrades in a drought-stricken northern province, officials said yesterday.
Guerrillas of the Tigre People's Liberation Front, waging a war of independence for the Ethiopian Tigre province, overran the town of Korem last Thursday and kidnapped the workers, diplomats in the Ethiopian capital said.
Missing are four Britons and an Indian from the Save the Children Fund based in London, two Irish nurses working for Concern, a relief organization based in Dublin, an unidentified American Roman Catholic priest and two Italian nuns.
In Khartoum, Sudan, a Tigre guerrilla spokesman said the relief workers would be released shortly.
Bishops to debate anti-nuke issue
WASHINGTON — The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are certain to approve a statement that likely will prod church members to active opposition of President Reagan's nuclear weapons policy, a leading bishop said yesterday.
The 150-page, 34,000-word statement is to be debated and voted on during a special session May 2-3 in Chicago of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the policy-making body of the 50-million member U.S. church.
Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit, one of five members of a committee drafting the pastoral letter, also rejected assertions that administration pressure prompted significant changes in the third draft of the statement.
Hitler's 'diaries' fuel for resentment
BONN, West Germany — Historians and intelligence experts speculated yesterday that if Adolf Hitler's "diaries" were a hoax, the persecutors were bent on sowing resentment among NATO allies.
The latest person to doubt the authenticity of the diaries was renowned Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who was interviewed late yesterday in Paris.
"After the (assassination) attack of July 20, 1944, Hiller was stricken with Parkinson's disease and could not hold his hand to sign," Wiesenthal said.
Observers say the West German peace movement has strong anti-American undertoes and it might find in the diaries — hinting at the British and American refusal to negotiate peace — fuel for its campaign against deployment of U.S. medium-range missiles.
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U.S. and Egypt agree on peace priorities
CAIRO, Egypt — Secretary of State George Shultz and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak agreed yesterday that the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon, including 10,000 Palestinian guerrillas, was the first priority in Middle East peacemaking.
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"The emphasis was on the urgency of all foreign forces to be withdrawn from Lebanon," Shultz said after he and Moharak met for four hours.
MUBARAK'AK' VIEWS on the withdrawal of Israel, Syrian and Palestinian forces were identical to those of the Reagan administration, Shultz said.
Shultz also said he expected Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas to "honor the commitment that I understand they have given to the government of Lebanon that they will withdraw."
Mubarak concurred, saying Egypt agrees "to the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. This is a principle we declared."
A senior American official said that the Israelis and the Lebanese were near to agreement on a withdrawal of forces from Lebanon, but the withdrawal would take some time.
In Beirut, Lebanese President Amin Gemayal said he wanted maximum security arrangements in southern Lebanon to protect Israel's border but again ruled out any Israeli troops remaining in a Lebanese security zone.
ISRAEL'S DEMAND to maintain security patrols in south Lebanon to protect against the return of Palestinian guerrillas has been an obstacle to an agreement with Lebanon on troop withdrawals.
Shultz's second day of talks in Egypt coincided with an attack by Syrian forces on an Israeli army tractor that
wasbuilding fortifications in Lebanon in the no man's land between the two forces.
There were no reports of casualties but both sides accused the other of a military build-up and preparations for an offensive.
Shultz interrupted his talks with Egyptian officials to attend a memorial service for the 17 Americans killed in a bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy.
"on behalf of those who fell in Beirut we pledge never to flag in our search for peace," Shuitz told reporters in a heavily-guarded U.S. Embassy compound in Cairo.
U. S. AMBASSADOR to Lebanon Robert Dillon, a survivor of the blast, stood for a moment of silence for those who were killed.
In one of the prayers, a Christian chaple pointedly reminded the embassy employees and the U.S. Marine guards, "We are so aware of our vulnerability."
Shultz arrived in Egypt Monday to personally take charge of U.S. efforts to get the deadlocked Lebanese troop withdrawal talks moving again.
The Israeli agreement is to set the stage for a parallel withdrawal by the 40,000 Syrian troops and by the PLO forces.
He is scheduled to head to Jerusalem today and to make it his base for a series of shuttle trips to Beirut, Damascus and other Arab capitals while he seeks to put together a final plan, by the terms of the Israel withdrawal.
The diplomatic shuttle, the first that Shultz has undertaken since becoming Secretary of State last June, could take on the responsibilities and the complications that may arise.
Trapped spelunkers emerge after perilous rescue
By United Press International
MOUNT VERNON, Ky. — After wading out of a flooded cave with little more than their noses sticking out of the water, eight spelunkers said they sang and huddled for warmth daring to face the heat that were confident about being rescued.
An enthusiastic welcome from friends and relatives greeted the cave explorers when they made their watery exit about midday yesterday and they quickly returned to their homes in the Cincinnati area. A state police spokesman said they may have had mild cases of hypothermia but refused hospital treatment, saying they were in good condition.
THE GROUP, which huddled together to ward off a piercing chill in the cave, managed to get along fine after
becoming trapped Saturday while on a mapping expedition, members said.
"I wouldn't want to be stuck with any other people," Jacques Ramey said. "The only medical worries were fear of hypothermia because it was cold, damp and we all had wet clothes. It was a warm day, and we almost shivering all the time and we all bundled up together to try to stay warm."
"I always knew we'd get out," said Jeff Gardner, 27, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cincinnati. "I just didn't know when."
Mary Grasph sang one of the songs the group made up — a take-off on a number done on the television show "Hee-Haw":
"Where, oh where were you last night? Why did you leave us here all alone? We searched the stream over and we thought we'd found friends;
we found a hand line and — ppphtt — you were gone."
"WE ALWAYS KNOW" the group would be rescued, saidill Vetters. They and raitened their food until they contact Monday with the rescue team.
"Then we ate everything we had," said the barefoot Marey, 30, who like the others, emerged from the cave dripping wet. "We really pigged out."
With the food supplied by the rescue team and the knowledge that their plight was known to the outside world, they were stayed in there (longer), be said.
Once they noticed the water had risen dramatically in the cave, the speelunkers "hightailed it back" to a ledge to wait for the spring rain runoff to recede, Ramey said. Late Monday divers found a note the cave explorers had left on a ledge and responded by leaving them food and supplies.
When the spelunkers returned to the scene and saw the food "our spirits just soared." Ramey said, "We were just estatic."
Even though the rescuers used powerful pumps, the water did not drop much. Early yesterday, rescue crews abandoned hope of creating a 3-inch air bridge on the dam. They stranded explorers back with only $ \frac{1}{4} $ inches of space to breathe.
TO MANAGE THE TRICK, the spellkuners had to twit their heads sideways and push their noses against the ceiling of the cave to catch their breath through the grueling last 125 feet of the 2,000-foot trip out of the cave.
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