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University Daily Kansan, April 18, 1983
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India re-enters space race with new satellite's launch
NEW DELHI, India — India rejoined the space race yesterday with the launch of a satellite hurled into orbit by a locally made rocket that experts say can easily be converted to military use.
It was the first successful launch of the 75-foot SLV-3, a four-stage, solid-propellant rocket comparable to the American Scout first
in 1801.
Nine minutes and 22 seconds after lift-off, the 88-pound satellite loaded with sophisticated sensing equipment broke away from the rocket and went into Earth orbit.
The RS-D2 satellite will take pictures and delineate important landmarks of places with well-known coordinates, space officials said
Orbits at the Indian Space and Research Organization said the satellite was healthy and sending signals after every orbit.
Guerrillas wound soldiers, civilians
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Guerrillas wounded 23 soldiers and civilians in heavy combat outside a provincial capital in southeastern El Salvador, military and hospital officials said yesterday.
Rebel forces attacked a security outpost late Saturday in the village of La Joya, some two miles east of the capital of La Paz province 26 miles southeast of San Salvador, officers said.
In the raid that continued until yesterday morning, rebels blew up two power towers and attacked the electricity station serving the capital, blocking out the city of 25,000 people, officers said.
Hospital officials said 23 wounded soldiers and civilians had been admitted.
Nicaragua claims territory violated
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Two Honduran coast guard ships violated Nicaragua's territorial waters yesterday in an attack on a Nicaraguan patrol boat that wounded four soldiers, the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry charged.
"This attack confirms once again the provocative attitude of the Honduran armed forces against the government and people of Nicaragua." said a communique from the Foreign Ministry.
Yesterday's charges were the latest in a series of protests in which both Honduras and Nicaragua have accused the other of attacks on
The ministry said the Nicaraguan boat was "carrying oil tanks of vigilance and patrol" in the Pacific Gulf shared by Honduras. Nicaragua
Begin refuses to freeze settlements
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Menachem Begin vowed in an Independence Day address yesterday Israel would not freeze Jewish settlements in the occupied territories in order to get the Palestinian autonomy talks with Egypt moving again.
Hence before Begin's televised speech on the 35th anniversary of Israeli independence, the families of the 474 soldiers killed in Lebanon joined thousands of bereaved Israelis to mourn the dead of six Middle East wars.
Memorial Day, observed yesterday, is followed by Independence Day celebrations today.
Walesa to meet pro-union leader
certified national society.
The talks between Israel and Egypt on autonomy for Palestinians on the West Bank, which were mandated by the Camp David peace agreement, have been stalled since last year.
GDANSK, Poland — Former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said yesterday that the Polish government's crackdown on the union underground would not affect its strength.
"I am not afraid," Walesa said, reiterating his earlier vow to meet again with the leaders of the underground who are organizing anti-government demonstrations for May 1 — international workers' day.
day. In Warsaw, more than 1,000 Solidarity supporters gathered, despite police pressure, to honor the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis in World War II.
Solidarity activist Janusz Onyskiewicz was detained after reading a statement comparing the Jews' struggle "for freedom, truth and human dignity" with that of Solidary.
Hollings to enter presidential race
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Sen. Ernest Hollings, who has spent nearly a year on the campaign trail, officially declares his candidacy today for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination.
1964 Denver, where presidents of Harvard College and Columbia University holdings. Hollywood's image of a president with his neatly trimmed white hair and ramrod bearing, will make his announcement at the campus of Midlands Technical College near the Columbia Airport.
Other Democrats who have entered the 1984 presidential race are Sens. Gary Hart of Colorado, Alan Cranston of California and former Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida.
Sen. John Glenn will travel home to New Concord, Ohio Thursday to make his formal announcement.
Democrats work to recapture Senate
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are targeting key Republican incumbents in an intensive effort to pick up the five seats they need to recapture control of the Senate in 1984.
The Senate Democratic Campaign Committee hopes to launch a record $8 million effort — nearly half again as big as its 1982 war chest — to win control, according to its chairman, Sen. Lloyd Bentson of Texas.
Bentsen, who is taking over the committee with a more aggressive style than some of his predecessors, is openly optimistic about Democratic chances.
He said Democrats were in good shape because the GOP had more seats at stake than the Democrats. Of the 33 seats up for election, 19 are Republican and 14 are Democratic.
Epton may buy Chicago Sun-Times
buy the Chicago Sun-Tribune, three months after Epton, the Republican candidate defeated by U.S. Rep. Harold Washington, lashed out at the "disgraceful news media" after his loss. He told reporters, "I think you're a disgrace. You make me ill."
CHICAGO — Bernard Epton, who blamed biased reporting for his loss in last week's mayoral election, is trying to put together a syndicate to buy the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday.
Asked about a possible sale to Epton, the Sun-Times told the Tribune that "all reasonable, qualified bids will be considered."
Epton left for Florida immediately after the election. On his departure, he said he was considering lawsuits against local news organizations.
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Senator charges agency with nepotism
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb., yesterday demanded an explanation of plum jobs given relatives and friends of administration officials by the U.S. Information Agency.
Zorinsky, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote USIA Director Charles Z. Wick that refusal to answer questions about the background of some of the employees involved in hearings on money for the agency.
In his letter to Wick, a close friend and former show business pal of President Reagan, Zorinsky asked if the appointments some to high salaries allow him to work with colleagues write the letter or spirit of any anti-poison laws or regulations."
THE APPOINTMENTS IN QUESTION include relatives or friends of such administration officials as national security adviser William Clark, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, White House Communications Director David Gergen, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and others.
One former USIA employee described the hire practice as "the most craven display of nepotism that I have ever heard of in a federal agency."
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An agency memo shows some of the jobs were newly created, ranking critics who recall Reagan's widely publicized signing minutes after his inauguration of an order freezing government hiring. The overseas assignments have upset foreign service professionals.
"Career officers spend 30 years trying to get London or Paris, 29 years to get Bonn," one official complained. He has a negative impact on career people.
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- Monica Clark, daughter of Clark. She is scheduled to become assistant public affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, West Germany. She
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- Barbara Haig, daughter of the former secretary of state, is staff assistant in the office of the USIA counselor. She holds the rank of GS-11, with a salary in the $25,000 range. Sources described her as a good worker.
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- Caspar Weinberger Jr., son of the defense secretary, works in the television section of USIA. He has a GS-15 rating, with a annual salary of about $50,000. He has done television work in California.
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