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University Daily Kansan, April 12, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Rivers receding in South but more rain on the wav
NEW ORLEANS - High water from rain-swollen rivers that deluged the South the past week began to recede yesterday but remained high enough to require beefing up of sandbaggings operations.
Additional rain was expected to blow in from the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday.
The Pearl River, which created at almost twice its flood stage Sunday, drenched homes in southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi, forcing 3,000 residents to abandon their homes in the hard-hit Slidell, La., area.
State officials estimated flood damage had reached $400 million in Mississippi and Louisiana, and the toll was expected to increase. Federal inspection teams yesterday began surveying the widespread flood damage.
WASHINGTON — A special commission advised President Reagan yesterday to put the new MX missile in old silos and shift more of the burden of America's nuclear deterrent toward smaller, single-warhead weapons.
Put MX in existing silos, panel says
The presidential Commission on Strategic Forces said the plan would redress a "serious imbalance" with Soviet nuclear forces while improving incentives for arms control. President Reagan is expected to endorse the panel's recommendations next week.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan met last night with thousands of survivors of Hitler's Holocaust and pledged their security, "here and in Israel, will never be compromised."
In another arms decision, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has decided to go ahead with production of laser-guided, tank-killing "Copperhead" artillery shells at a cost approaching $1.7 billion. Pentagon sources confirmed yesterday.
Reagan and his wife, Nancy, went to suburban Landover, Md., where survivors of the Nazi death camps opened their first reunion in
Reagan promises to support Jews
In prepared remarks, Reagan said freedom carried with it a tremendous responsibility.
OTTAWA - A record 12.6 percent of Canada's workforce was out of work last month, triggering angry opposition party demands yesterday for speedy budgetary relief.
Jobless rate in Canada highest ever
Canada's jobless rate increase 0.1 percent in March. The increase meant that 1.66 million people, an addition of 73,000, were out of work.
You, the survivors of the Holocaust, remind us that, 'he said. More than 9,000 people registered for the reunion, which was billed as a way to express thanks to the United States for providing a homeland to victims of Nazi oppression.
The government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau conceded the figures did not include the estimated 475,000 Canadians who dropped out of school.
Finance Minister Marc Lalonde, under mounting pressure to create jobs, will present a new budget April 19.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico has virtually no land left to distribute to 3 million peasants who have pending claims for land because of the country's agrarian reform law, officials said yesterday.
Mexico suffers land dispersal crisis
A spokesman for the agrarian reform secretariat said that more than half of all arable land in Mexico has been distributed through the agrarian reform program, which limits most private holdings to no more than 500 acres.
"It's logical that the amount of land available (for distribution) is limited. There are (480 million acres) and 100 million have been distributed. We can't increase the amount of land." he said.
Spokesmen for several peasant groups said they knew of 580 estates that exceeded the legal acreage limit of individual property holdings.
LANSING — House majority leader Joe Hoagland, R-Overland Park, said yesterday he had asked the Legislative Post Audit Committee to look into the installation of cable TV at the state penitentiary. A prison spokesman said "not one iota" of state money was used for the project.
Faith Ministries, a Tulsa, Okla., religious group, is donating $54,000 to have the system installed at the Kansas State Penitentiary, said prison spokesman Dale Bohannon. In addition, $12,000 from the Innate Benefit Fund is earmarked for the project. The benefit fund gets its money from the profits of the prison store.
PITTSBURGH — Unemployed steelworkers, prompted by the president's help for a laid-off millhand who gave him a resume, began a "Resumes for Reagan" campaign yesterday to flood the White House with pleas for jobs.
The move came on the eve of a job interview for Ronald Bricker, a steelworker who boldly handed President Reagan his resume in Pittsburgh last Wednesday and learned the next day that he had an interview with Radio Shack arranged by the White House.
Rain of resumes floods White House
"President Reagan recently made a big show of concern for the unemployed here ..." said the Rev. Garrett Dorsey, chairman of the Tri-State Conference on Steel. "But if the president is truly sincere, we think he should receive and act on the resumes of all unemployed Americans."
DALLAS — Thirty demonstrators — packing sleeping bags, water jugs and boxes of fried chicken — took over a federal bomb shelter yesterday in Dallas and vowed to remain "a year or more" until the Reagan Administration changes spending priorities.
Protesters seize Dallas bomb shelter
"They brought their own chicken so I guess they plan to stay," said Nat Harris, manager of the U.S. Postal Service's downtown Dallas station, which owns the basement shelter.
The squatters said they were angry about Reagan's proposed shift of money from housing programs to civil defense shelters.
The protest was organized by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Correction
Because of a reporting error, the Kansan incorrectly reported yesterday that Lewis McKinney, professor of history, was elected to the University Council. Ross McKinney, professor of civil engineering, was elected.
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Thais get U.S. guns for border defense
BANGKOK, Thailand — With Vietnam battling Cambodian guerrillas along its border, Thailand received eight of the most advanced artillery and the American arsenal yesterday and announced joint U.S. Thai war games.
By United Press International
Eight 155mm howitzers capable of matching the range of Vietnam's latest Soviet-made guns were delivered to the Thai military command in Bangkok after an emergency airlift from Travis Air Base near San Francisco.
merchant ship USS Benjamin Harrison as the United States continue to rush weapons to Thailand to counter a threat from its borders, military sources said.
Bangkok requested the stepped-up deliveries last week following a series of intrusions into Thai territory by the Cambodian forces pursuing Cambodia guerrilla.
More of the long-range howitzers were headed for Thailand aboard the
KHMER ROUGE GUERRILLAS counterattacked Vietnamese forces near the Cambodian town of Pojopet on the east of Bangkok, military sources said.
They said heavy fighting was reported inside Cambodia between Vietnamese troops and the guerrillas but
Vietnam, which invaded Cambodia in December 1978 and ousted the Khmer Rouge government of Pol Pot, began its military campaign against Cambodian rebels March 31.
no other details were immediately available.
Geni. Saiyud Kerdphol, Thai armed forces supreme commander, said U.S. and Thai forces would hold joint maneuvers in June to test Thailand's ability to transport military personnel and material in the event of war.
giant C-5 Galaxy transport planes following a 20-hour flight.
Kerdphol, Deputy Defense Minister Paniago Karnarat and U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean were on hand at Bangkok's Don Muang airport for the unloading of the howitzers from two
A U.S. EMBASSY SPOKESMAN said the howitzers, taken from the inventory of the most advanced U.S. artillery, were modified to match the 18.5 mile range and built 130mm guns Vietnam is using along the Thai-Cambodian border.
Thai and Vietnamese gunners have repeatedly exchanged artillery fire across the border since Hanoi stepped in drive against Cambodia guerrillas.
The Thai army reported during the weekend that more than 500 Vietnamese artillery rounds have landed since Hanoi began its offensive.
WW II bomb in Thames brings London to a halt
By United Press International
LONDON — An unexploded German bomb dredged from the Thames brought the heart of London to a standstill yesterday in an eerie six-hour reminder of the wartime Blitz. It was later defused by army experts.
Police blocked off roads across some two square miles of central London during the morning rush hour as army experts neutralized the 110-pound vehicle by Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe less than a mile from the houses of Parliament.
Scotland Yard took no chances and cordoned off a vast area of London
stretching from the financial district in the east to Parliament in the west...
Both banks of the river were cleared of cars and pedestrians. The three main bridges across the river were closed, and main railroad and subway stations in the area were shut down.
THE PRECAUTIONS CAUSED chaos for traffic in the capital with lines of vehicles inching through city streets. Police toured riverside offices with barking warning people to keep away from their windows and to draw their curtains.
An eerie stillness descended on
deserted riverside streets and police were stationed at every corner.
The bomb was unearthy by a dredger Sunday near Waterloo Bridge, within a mile of some of London's most familiar landmarks — the houses of Parliament, the Royal Festival Hall and the Savoy Hotel.
Army bomb disposal experts towed the barge containing the mud-encrusted 18-inch bomb into mid-river and the barge gingerly set about defusing the device.
"It had a clockwork fuse," said Maj. John Quinn, 42, a Falklands war veteran who defused the bomb.
"They're the worst to deal with because you never know when the thing is going to start again, even after 40 years."
As Quinn drilled a hole in the rusty casing and injected a saline solution "that sets like jelly" to gum up the clockwork fuse his colleague listened for the tick.
"If it had started ticking and then stopped again we'd have had seven seconds to get out of there," Quinn said. But the shell stayed silent and about 45 minutes after the saline solution was injected into the bomb Quinn radioed the all-clear.
BROADENING HORIZONS
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WOMEN'S RECOGNITION
Guest Speaker: Marilyn Yarbrough Ainsworth Professor, School of Law
A SPECIAL CEREMONY TO HONOR OUTSTANDING WOMEN.
Saturday, April 16, 1983 7:30 p.m., Alderson Auditorium
RECEPTION FOLLOWING THE CEREMONY
(Sponsored by Commission on the Status of Women, Funded by the Student Activity Fee)
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