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University Dally Kansan, April 26, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Congressmen investigate role of CIA in Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Five U.S. congressmen investigating charges of illegal use of CIA funds yesterday were shown arms and documents allegedly proving the intelligence agency is backing insurgents in Nicaragua.
Leaders of Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government met privately with the members of the House Intelligence Committee who stopped for several hours in Managua as part of a three-day swing through Central America to investigate charges that the CIA was aiding rebels trying to torment the Sandinistas.
Authorities in Managua say the insurgents have staged frequent raids into Nicaragua from training camps in Honduras. News reports disclosed the rebels have received about $19 million in U.S. government backing.
Socialists win Portuguese election
LISBON, Portugal — Portuguese voters swung to the left in general elections yesterday, bringing the Socialist Party back to power after a five-year absence.
Television projections after the polls closed gave the socialists of former Prime Minister Mario Soares between 36 percent and 39 percent of the vote — a 10 percent gain from their total in the last election in 1990.
President Antonio Ramalho Eanes was expected to designate Soares, 58, as prime minister.
Most politicians and analysts said Soares, an supporter of U.S. bases in Portugal and an active NATO role, was likely to invite the Social Democrats to form a coalition government.
Soares has repeatedly said he would not bring the Soviet-line Communists into the government.
U.S. backs Salvadoran election plan
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — House subcommittee chairman Clarence D. Long met yesterday with Salvadoran officials to push a plan to include leftist guerrillas in upcoming presidential elections.
Long, chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that controls aid to El Salvador, said he was proposing a "super ambassador" to negotiate the involvement of rebels in the elections scheduled for December.
The Maryland Democrat said he supported the Reagan administration's position that the left should not be brought into negotiations on El Salvador's future.
Beagan wants trade unit, aide says
WASHINGTON — President Reagan wants to create a new Cabinet-level Department of Trade to meet the challenges of foreign competition, a ton aide announced yesterday.
Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge, detailing the decision at a White House briefing, said his department's trade functions and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative would be combined to form the new unit.
"We need a stronger, more consolidated voice for free trade . . . if we are to meet the challenges of foreign competition," Baldridge said. The Export-Import Bank also would become part of the new department under the legislation.
Senate re-evaluates spending plan
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders, rejecting the 1984 spending plan adopted by their own budget committee, sought yesterday to draft a substitute that would increase defense spending more, but raise taxes less.
Senate Republican leader Howard Baker told reporters that Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., would try to increase defense spending for 1984 by 7.5 percent from the 5 percent rate called for in the committee-approved blueprint.
for all the committee applicants.
In addition, Baker said the Republican leadership would attempt to significantly scale down the $30 billion in new tax revenue that is recommended in the committee budget.
Reagan honors 2 nuclear scientists
WANHINGTON — Calling them explorers who helped to discover a new world, President Reagan yesterday presented the Energy Department's Enrico Fermi Award to two scientists whose research aided the development of America's first nuclear weapons.
Honored were Herbert Anderson, senior fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and Seth Neddermeyer, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Washington. Each received a presidential citation, a gold medal and $25,000.
Reagan went to the Energy Department to present the awards and stressed the need for continued research in atomic energy, especially in view of the changing world situation since the first nuclear chain reaction 40 years ago.
Divers find trapped cave explorers
MOUNT VERNON, Ky. — Divers found eight explorers safe late last night on a dry ledge 1,800 feet from the entrance of a flooded cave where they were trapped for three days and waited for the water level to drop so they could walk them out.
"They are all fine," said Tom Staubitz, chairman of the Greater Cincinnati Grotto Club, who was in contact with the cavers by field telephone. "They are a little cold but are fully able to get out on their own power."
The two divers were led to the ledge by a note they found in the eastern Kentucky cave in a previous search for the explorers, missing since Saturday morning.
The eight speliologists entered the cave on a routine underground cave-mapping trip, and were trapped inside when underground streams rose quickly and flooded the corkscrew-like entrance area.
Walesa goes back to job at shipyard
GDANSK, Poland — Former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa returned to work at the Lenin shipyard yesterday, but a government nervous about possible May Day protests kept up its campaign of harassment against him.
Walesa completed bureaucratic formalities in preparation for resuming his $306-a-month electrician's job and was cheered by fellow workers, but said he feared arrest for participating in May Day protests.
The Gdansk newspaper Glos Wyrbrzeza, continuing a series of charges against Walessa, reported he was under investigation in connection with Solidarity's spending in 1981, before the union was suspended by martial law.
The newspaper, citing official government auditors' reports, charged Walesa did not give full explanations to investigators' questions last week.
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Denver EPA chief quits amid complaints
WASHINGTON — Steven Durham, chief of EPA's Denver regional office, resigned yesterday in the face of sweeping allegations that he reversed staff environmental findings and failed to push for Surefund cleanups.
Durham, who operated an amusement park in Colorado Springs, Colo., before assuming the EPA post, said he was resigning effective June 25 to pursue interests in the private sector and to spend more time with his family.
A coalition of citizen and environmental groups has scheduled a news conference for later today in Denver to lambast Durham's "disastrous record" as regional administrator. They alleged he filled his staff with political appointees, shuffled veteran scientists out of key jobs and stalled enforcement actions.
By United Press International
"WHILE I HAVE enjoyed my tenure with the agency and found the job tremendously challenging, I feel it is best for me and for my family that
Durham was among the few high-ranking survivors of the recent EPA purge that resulted in Burford's resignation as agency administrator as well as the departures of a dozen other political appointees.
Numerous agency officials have said, however, they expected Durham and several other top EPA officials to be replaced.
IN HIS LETTER of resignation,
Durham said he had increased prod.
activity in EPA's regional office, citing a dramatic increase in the number of hazardous waste inspections in the region. EPA officials, however, have learned cannot create such a strict inspection system as small staff could not do the job well.
According to the environmentalists and agency staff, Durham has reduced from 10 to one the number of officials assigned to the environmental evaluation branch, whichresses the environmental effects of federal programs.
I return to the private sector at this time." he said in a statement.
Gonorrhea vaccine tested on military personnel
By United Press International
PITTSBURGH — The first promising vaccine against the venereal disease gonorrhea, which may strike up to four million Americans yearly, is being tested on 3,500 military personnel in area, a medical expert said yesterday.
Initial U.S. testing on more than 200 volunteers showed the vaccine to be
"Gonorrhea (bacteria) has tiny protein hairs called pili that stick to human cells and tissues, and that's the first step in infection," Brinton said. "If you can stop that step, you can stop all the other steps."
safe and effective, said Dr. Charles Brinton, who helped develop it over the past decade in his microbiology laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh.
"You interrupt the chain of disease," said Brinton, who jointly developed the vaccine with doctors from Washington's Walter Reed Army Institute. "We hope to eradicate the disease through vaccine, like smallpox has been eradicated."
THE VACCINE contains these pills,
and its injection prompts the development of antibodies that prevent the bacteria from latching onto host cells, he said. Gonorrhea affects only humans.
Tests on military personnel in Korea are only part of a worldwide testing program. If tests are successful, Brinton hopes to have the vaccine on the market in two to four years.
He said the initial results of the Korean tests, conducted by the Army, were expected in about a month. Cultures and smears are being studied at Walter Reed, but full results will take at least a year.
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