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University Daily Kansan, April 20, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Salvadoran rebels release lieutenant, 65 prisoners
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Salvadoran guerrillas clandestine radio Venceremos reported yesterday that the rebels released an army lieutenant and 65 other prisoners captured during fighting Sunday.
After the battle, military sources in San Salvador classified another 49 soldiers as missing.
The fighting occurred at the Siete Joyas Hacienda, 28 miles east of San Salvador.
Five soldiers and a 47-year-old woman died in the guerrilla assault on the garrison at Siete Joyas, officials said.
El Salvador's newly appointed defense minister said he saw a long war ahead against rebels, one that would require a new distribution of top command posts. Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova was appointed on Monday to replace Gen. Jose Guillermo Garcia as defense minister.
Convicts free hostages, surrender
PITTSBURGH — Two pistol-wielding convicts ended a siege that lasted nearly six days at a maximum-security state prison yesterday, surrendering suddenly and freeing two unharmed hostages seized in a botched escape attempt.
"I can finally, thankfully report that this situation is over," said Kenneth Robinson, spokesman for the state corrections bureau.
George Petsock, prison superintendent, said that the convicts were not granted amnesty and that new charges against them would be determined by state police and the state attorney general.
Mudslide swallows tiny Utah town
THISTLE, Utah — The mudslide lake behind an oozing mass of dirt, clay and rocks in central Utah swallowed the last homes of tiny Thistle yesterday and still was rising at about a foot an hour.
A second earthslide that is threatening the town of Payson, 10 miles southwest of Thistle, is holding in place, Utah County officials said. An army of 300 workers remained at the scene of the first flood in Spanish Fork Canyon.
Gary Clayton, director of County Emergency Services, said that the waters behind the slide were backing toward the small community of Birdseye. Thistle's 50 residents have relocated to Birdseye, which is in no immediate danger. The slides were caused by an unusually wet winter.
Senate to vote on abortion issue
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday sent to the full Senate a proposed constitutional amendment to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
The Senate will now have the chance to consider the 10-word amendment, which states, "A right to abortion is not secured by this Constitution." The amendment is sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Uttah.
The measure must be approved by a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress and must be ratified by 38 states.
The vote was 9-9. Then, on a motion from Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del. the committee, by a voice vote, sent the amendment to the floor without recommendation for passage.
Court denies pleas of nuclear foes
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, rejecting pleas of people who live near the closed Three Mile Island nuclear plant, ruled 9-0 yesterday that human fear need not be considered before an atomic power plant starts operating.
Acting in a case tied to the TMI accident, the justices reversed a ruling that would have required "psychological stress" on humans to be considered in nuclear licensing decisions.
Also, in a 5-4 ruling, the justices helped third-party bids for the presidency by overturning Ohio's early filing deadline for independent presidential candidates.
The ruling was a victory for John Anderson, a former Republican congressman from Illinois who ran for president in 1980. Anderson brought the case to court because he said Ohio's rules were biased in favor of Democrats and Republicans.
Pro-U.S. coalition wins in Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand's ruling coalition of three moderate political parties won a solid majority yesterday in the nation's new Parliament and asked Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda to remain in office.
The Interior Ministry announced that the three coalition partners won 222 of 324 seats in the lower house of Parliament, giving them a 68 percent majority.
The Social Action Party of former Prime Minister M.R. Kukrit Pramoj], the Chart Thai Party and the Democratic Party were expected to form a pro-American government after bargaining with several factions of the military.
Politburo member drops from view
The two possibilities were raised yesterday by Western diplomats after Cherenko failed to appear at a meeting of Communist Party leaders on Monday.
MOSCOW — Konstantin Cherenko, beaten by Yuri Andropov in the power struggle to succeed Leonid Brezhnev, has dropped from public view for two weeks, touching off speculation that he may be ill or in political trouble.
Chernenko's name has not appeared in the official media since Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, published a dispatch written by the official Soviet news agency Tass. The report, released April 5, was about his latest book.
Chernenko was named a full member of the Politiburo in 1978. His rapid rise through the party ranks was largely due to his mentor, the late Brezhnev.
Riding school closed after outbreak
Erwin Rothensteiner, Agriculture Ministry spokesman, said the virus was detected in blood tests taken from the stallions.
VIENNA, Austria — The Spanish Riding School has closed its stables to tourists after tests revealed seven of its famous "dancing" Lippizaner stallions carried the herpes virus that killed 39 horses at its stud farm, officials said yesterday.
"But the horses are not infected," he said, adding that the tests showed only that the horses have come into contact with the virus at some time and that they have developed an immunity to it.
He said that none of the 82 riding-school stallions had been in contact with the horses on the stud farm and that the source of the virus in the stallions was a mystery.
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Viet troops plan assault despite losses
By United Press International
But despite the pressure on Vietnam's forces on two fronts 600 miles apart, Vietnamese troops continued preparing to launch a potentially devastating assault on two camps housing 100,000 refugees in Cambodia.
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thai gunners blasted Vietnamese forces in Cambodia yesterday and China said it would not lose its "artillery strikes on Vietnam"
China, which supports the Cam-
bodian rebels that the Viole in
Taiwan is fighting against, is a 30-age-old
offensive, complained of new attacks from northern Vietnam and warned they must stop "immediately."
Xinhua said the Vietnamese attacks forced more than 3,000 residents to flee their commune in Guangxi province, one of two bordering Vietnam.
"The fire was returned by Chinese frontier guards." Xinbu said.
Six hundred miles south of the
Sino-Vietnamese artillery duel, army officers in the Thai border town of Anranayamatre reported intensifying Thailand and Cambodia conflict between Thailand and Cambodia.
THE OFFICIAL CHINESE news agency XINHua said Vietnamese artillery blow up a primary school, a hospital and several other civilian buildings in the day of what diplomats call the worst border clashes in at least two years.
Thai gunners fired harmless tracer rounds into Cambodia as a warning, but Vietnamese artillery fire continued to land in Thailand, the sources said.
The sources said the Thai army opened up with artillery and mortars after about 50 Vietnamese artillery units attacked a village landed on a mule inside Thailand.
THEY SAID AN intense artillery and mortar barrage by Thai forces killed at
least 20 Vietnamese and silenced their artillery.
Col. Kitti Buddibhoun, commander of Task Force 80, a Thai army unit in charge of border security, said Vietnamese forces continued massing for an expected attack against two giant refugee camps at Nong Samet and Ban Sa-ngae housing about 100,000 Cambodian refugees.
Elements of two Vietnamese divisions backed by heavy artillery and at least 15 Soviet-built T-54 tanks were reported near the two border camps and Cambodian guerrilla sources said an attack was imminent.
Polish officials interrogate Walesa for third time
By United Press International
GDANSK, Poland — Police interrogated former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa for the third time in seven days yesterday, and an ex-official spokesman for the outlawed union was interrogated for planning May Day protests.
The official news agency PAP said police agested Janusz Onyszkiewicz Sunday, moments after he addressed an unofficial ceremony marking the Warsaw ghetto in which Jews fought the Nazis 40 years ago.
The announcement of his arrest came late yesterday, near the end of the 48-hour limit for his detention without formal charges.
No criminal violations were specified. PAP said police found "detailed instructions" about the underground's plans for demonstrations on May 1 and 3 during a search of Onyszkiewicz's apartment.
IN A RELATED development, the Communist Party. Pulitoburo and the government issued a joint statement warning Poles not to take part in any May Day protests. It said pro-Solidarity "extremists" were trying to
stop the normalization process in the country and thus the lifting of martial
Earlier, Walaes emerged from the Gdarsk militia headquarters after being interrogated and told reporters that she was charged at refusing to answer their questions."
Walesa was intercepted by police Monday while driving from his home in the Baltic seaport to Warsaw for reporting victims of the chetto unrising.
Following his release after nine hours, Walesa said he and his wife, Danuta, would stay home May 1 and
would not participate in any demonstrations.
"People will go regardless, whether I am there or not." Wales said.
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WALESA SAID HE still planned to meet with foreign reporters today to give a full explanation of his recent secret talks with fugitive activists of the banned Solidarity union.
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