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University Daily Kansan, April 25, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
24 Salvadoran soldiers die in fighting with guerrillas
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — At least 24 soldiers died in fighting with guerrillas near the country's main hydroelectric dam, Salvadoran military officers said yesterday.
military officers and yesterday.
In other fighting, government forces shelled and bombed guerrilla positions on the slopes of the Guazapa Volcano, 15 miles north of San Salvador.
Military officers said the 24 troops were killed in fighting near the Cerron Grande dam in northern Calatenang province. The guerrillas' Radio Venceremos said 30 soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting Friday and Saturday. At the height of the battle, the leftist guerrillas captured two towns within a mile of the dam.
guerrires captured two bombs. In another development, El Salvador's auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez said 156 killings were reported to the church's rights office during the past week.
$7 billion planned for defense study
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department plans to spend more than $7 billion in the next five years on research into "Star Wars" weapons that could become the backbone of an anti-missile defense President Reagan proposed last month.
Nearly another $1 billion has been earmarked for research and development into countering chemical and biological weapons.
The proposed allocations for these defensive systems is outlined in the Pentagon's budget for research and development in the fiscal years 1984 through 1988. The document recently was made available to UPI by sources familiar with defense issues.
Pentagon officials have described the new generation of weapons as directed energy weapons — using lasers, particle beams or high-power microwaves.
Vets to testify about Agent Orange
WASHINGTON - A House committee this week hears testimony on a bill that would provide compensation to Vietnam veterans with alliments that may be linked to the battlefield defoliant Agent Orange.
that may beink to the battered defense. The House Veterans Affairs Committee scheduled the hearing for tomorrow and Wednesday on a bill sponsored by Rep. Thomas Daschle, D-S.D.
Under his bill, the compensation would be paid to an estimated 3,000 veterans who have one of three illnesses that have a "strong correlation" with Agent Orange — a liver disorder, a skin condition and a soft-tissue cancer.
a soft tissue cancer.
Two of 10,000 veterans have requested VA compensation for they contract were caused by Agent Orange.
Vietnam denies massacre charges
BANGKOK, Thailand — Vietnam accused China yesterday of clashes on the Sino-Vietnamese border and denied charges that Vietnamese troops occupying Cambodia massacred civilians.
Radio Haiwei said Chinese militiamen crossed into Vietnam late last week "living the local people" and destroying farmland.
The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry also issued its first statement on accusations that Vietnamese troops massacred civilians caught in Vietnam's offensive against Cambodian guerrillas along the Thai border. Cambodian resistance leader Son Sann charged two weeks ago that the soldier massacred hundreds of civilians.
The Vietnamese statement said the charges were "sheer fabrication."
Detonator found in Embassy rubble
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Investigators examining the wreckage of the U.S. Embassy found a shattered detonator and twisted metal thought to be from the van used in the bombing that killed 61 people, security sources said yesterday.
sources said yesterday.
The sources said their investigation, together with the findings of U.S. experts, supported the theory that an van packed with explosives sped into the embassy driveway and blew up next to the building.
The bodies of 16 Americans killed in the bombing last week were flown back to the United States Saturday. The body of the 17th American victim was to be buried in Lebanon.
victim was to be. Police killed 4 other people died in the blast, but some of the mutilated bodies remained missing in the rubble.
Iceland conservatives gain slim win
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Voters angered by rampant inflation left Iceland's next government in doubt yesterday, handing dominant conservatives a fragile victory in parliamentary elections.
Official results gave the conservative Independence Party 38.7 percent of the vote, far less than party leaders and pred had predicted.
percent of the vote, far less than party leaders and poins had predicted. Showing discontent with Iceland's 80 to 100 percent inflation rate and a weak economy, two new protest parties captured 12.8 percent of the vote.
vote.
Because ruling minority coalition members did not seek re-election together, there was no immediate indication as to how the parties would align to form a new government.
BankAmerica to buy Seattle bank
SEATTLE — Directors of the largest bank-holding company in the Pacific Northwest have signed an agreement to sell Seafirst Corp. to BankAmerica Corp., contingent upon passage of legislation required to complete the deal.
BankAmerica has agreed to absorb Seafirst for $400 million and provide $150 million to shore up Seafirst's principal subsidiary, Seattle-First National Bank. The deal was announced Saturday night.
Seattle First National Bank's first enterprise until the collapse last summer of Oklahoma's Penn Square Bank, Seafirst wrote off $186 million in bad loans in 1982, many of which were made to the oil drilling industry through Penn Square. Seafirst lost $133 million in the first quarter of 1983.
Rio Grande Zephyr makes final run
DENVER — The Rio Grande Zephyr, last of the nation's privately owned passenger trains, slipped away like a silver ghost yesterday on its final run through the Colorado Rockies, with railroad buffs steeped in the lore of an era lost.
the lore or an artifact, suspended in time. It could be 30 years ago," said Lee Morris of Denver, one of the more than 400 passengers aboard, most of them railroad aficionados. Photographers stood on bridges and along dirt roads all along the 275-mile route from Grand Junction to Denver.
The Zephyr, operated between Salt Lake City and Denver since 1949 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, will be taken over today by Amtrak. The Rio Grande had been operating the railroad at a loss in recent years.
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Austrian chancellor keeps pledge, quits
By United Press International
VIEBNA. Austria — Chancellor Bruno Kreisig's Socialist Party lost its parliamentary majority in general elections yesterday, and Kreisig, 72 and in ill health, said he would resign after 13 years in office.
"Yes, I stick to my words," Kretsky said at a news conference after the results of the election became clear. "I will retire as chancellor."
He said, however, that he would remain head of the Socialist Party and lead negotiations to form a coalition government.
WITH NEARLY 100 PERCENT of the votes counted, the socialist had 90 seats in parliament — a loss of five from their present total and two short of the 92 needed for an absolute majority in the 183-seat body.
in the conservative People's Party, led by former Education Minister Alois Mock, won 81 seats, a gain of four, and the liberal Freedom Party increased its representation from 11 to 12 seats.
party do not get an insurance majority.
"I'm a 72-year-old man and I've always said the end had to come, and this has been my signal," he said.
The vote will force the formation of a minority government or coalition for the first time since Kreisky won his first term in 1970.
Kreisley had vowed to step down if his party did not get an absolute majority.
IF A MINORITY GOVERNMENT under the socialists does emerge, analysts said it could take the form of the "grand coalition" between the socialists and People's Party, which ran the country from 1945 to 1966.
Despite attempts by the People's Party to challenge the socialists on domestic controversies, the election campaigns on both sides focused sharply on Kreisky's personality and record.
The opposition has concentrated on Kreisky's weaknesses - his age and kidney failure.
Kreisky has charged his opponents with running "the most despicable election campaign in the history of Austria."
Polish police arrest leader of Solidarity
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — Police have arrested Joex Foim尔，a member of the five-man Solidarity underground leadership that met this month with Leach Wales, the official PAP news agency reported yester-
Pinier's arrest in Wroclaw dealt a big blow to Solidarity just one week before May 1, when the outlawed separatist leader and militant strations against the government.
Polish television broadcast pictures of Pinior in custody, walking with bowed head between two police guards. The national news also showed stacks of U.S. 50-dollar bills and hundreds of thousands of Polish zioty, allegedly taken from his apartment.
apartment.
IN GDANSK, WALESA SAID
Pinior's capture was "worrisome
Pinior's capture was "worthless ... unpleasant news." He refused to say whether Pinior was present
during his talks with the underground leadership two weeks ago.
Wales attended mass at Bridgida's Church in Gdansk and was cheered by about 1,500 people after the service.
He said he was preparing for his return today to the Lenin Shipyard. He was summoned back to work as an electrician, and he isStore owner formed in 1890.
The government charged that Pinior withdrew 80 million zlotys — then worth $2.4 million at official exchange rates — from Solidarity's bank accounts in December 1981, before martial law was imposed.
During the search of the apartment in which Jozef Pinier stayed numerous documents were found which prove his anti-state activity." PAP said, "along with evidence of his conduct and a considerable amount of money, including Western currencies."