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University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Shuttle begins space flight, rockets smoothly into orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Challenger — setting out on its maiden flight — rocketed flawlessly into orbit yesterday and prepared to launch the world's largest, most powerful data relay satellite.
satellite
Veteran commander Paul Weitz and space rookies Karol Bobko
Story Musgrave and Donald Peterson, orbiting the Earth 177 miles up,
quickly settled into the busiest workday ever assigned to earth in space.
satellite
Their main job was to deploy the $2_{1 / 2}$ ton communications satellite from Challenger's cargo bay just before midnight yesterday, breaking ground for a revolution in the way astronauts in flight are linked to ground controllers.
ground. A secondary highlight, was a planned spacewalk Thursday by Musgrave and Peterson to test new $2 million spacesuits.
Mississippi oil spill threatens farms
ST. LOUISE — The Coast Guard yesterday said a flood crest on the Mississippi River could spread crude oil, spilled from four barges, into low-living farmland, possibly endangering crops.
Cmdr. James Card, head of the Coast Guard unit in St. Louis, said floating transparent "sheen" from the oil slick had been spotted 150 miles south of where thousands of gallons of oil spilled in the barge accident Saturday night. The oil ignited and caused scattered waterfront fires.
Emergency workers yesterday unloaded leaking oil barges and vaulted pockets of the oil from the muddy water and the riverbanks. Authorities said they hoped the swift current of the rain-swollen river would help break up the slick.
British seamen threaten to strike
LONDON — The National Union of Seamen in Great Britain threatened yesterday to call a worldwide strike, which could cripple Britain's merchant navy to protest what it called the "piracy and hijacking" of a troopship by the Royal Navy in a pay dispute with civilian crewmen.
crewmen.
The dispute arose last week when a civilian crew facing a drop in wages from $390 a week to $255 threatened to prevent a troopship from leaving port to pick up servicemen and civilians on the Falkland Islands.
Yesterday was the first anniversary of the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands. In Buenos Aires, a military chaplain, Miguel Medina, told Argentina's military leaders that the nation's "heroic defeat" was acceptable.
Zimbabwean representative killed
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A gang of about 22 dissidents shot and killed a white member of Zimbabwe's parliament, his daughter and a British guest in a raid on his ranch in southern Matabeleland province, official sources said yesterday.
One of the dissidents also was reported killed in wild shooting at the ralph.
anch.
Paul Savage, 60, who represented former Prime Minister Ian Smith's Republican Front Party in the Senate, his daughter, Colleen, 20, and a woman friend were killed Sunday during a barbecue at the Savage ranch in the Gwanda area, the sources said.
"After ordering them to put up their hands the dissidents opened fire indiscriminately," the sources said.
22 Nicaraguan rebels die in clashes
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A Nicaraguan air force plane strafed rebels plying the Coco River in rats in one of three clashes near the Honduran border that left 22 rebels dead, the defense ministry said yesterday.
The clashes occurred Sunday in different locations across the border region. The attack was linked by the United States invaded
Nicaragua has said 2,000 rebels backed by the United States invaded the country from bases inside Honduras, in an attempt to overthrow the Marxist-dominated Sandinista regime, named after Cesar Augusto Sandino, a guerrilla leader in the 1920s and '30s.
Sandino, a guerrilla leader in the 1920s, Government officials took journalists on a tour of areas of Nueva Segovia province to counter rebel claims that they had overrun 11 nearby villages.
Thai warplanes bomb Viet forces
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand — Thai warplanes yesterday bombed and strafed Vietnamese forces who seized a strip of Thai territory in their burgeoning offensive against Cambodian guerrillas.
their burgeoning offensive against them. The air strikes, an escalation of the five-day-old conflict along the Thai-Cambodia border, came hours after the Vietnamese captured the headquarters of a Cambodian guerrilla group.
A warship in a cambodian gate the Vietnamese marked the first time Thailand has deployed its modern U.S-built F-5'E' in combat. It was also the first time Thai warplanes were used along the border since a Vietnamese incursion into Thailand in June 1980.
1960 Washington, the State Department said it was concerned about "the escalating level of violence."
Millions lost in London holdup.
LONDON — As many as six hooded men carrying shotguns held up a security office yesterday and escaped with a substantial sum of cash — reportedly between $1.5 million and $9 million — in what could become Britain's biggest holdup.
Scotland Yard said it would not know until today how much money was stolen.
was stolen.
Press reports said it was over $1.5 million and the Independent Television News quoted "reliable sources" as saying the haul was $9 million.
Frank Cater, commander of the central robbery squad for Scotland Yard, would only say a "substantial sum of money" was taken by the gang about 7 a.m. from the headquarters of Security Express at Shoreditch, in east London.
as gold disappears in New York
turned out almost half a dozen jobs to be opened. The FBI entered the investigation yesterday on "the assumption that it (the stolen gold) would be moved interstate" because of its enormous value, an FBI spokesman said.
NEW YORK — Authorities yesterday searched through a looted jewelry firm in Manhattan's diamond district trying to determine how ihires carted off almost half a ton of gold chains, valued at $6 million.
Authorities described the theft as the largest gold heist recorded in the New York City.
A detective said investigators had been unable to figure out how the thieves were able to enter or leave the locked, alarm-protected building that housed the looted Goldheart International Ltd.
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Europeans flock to anti-nuclear protests
were the culmination of four days of protests in Britain, The Netherlands, Italy and West Germany against plans to deploy the missiles starting in December.
Huge rallys were staged in 10 other West German cities and dozens of smaller actions were held to protest the deployment of new U.S. cruise and Pershing-2 missiles in Western Europe. No arrests were reported.
Police with riot gear and dogs blocked 14,500 demonstrators outside a U.S. airbase in West Berlin yesterday at the close of four days of Easter anti-nuclear protests that drew hundreds of thousands of people across Europe.
By United Press International
"We want a completely nuclear-free Europe. The freezing and restriction of armaments both East and West would mean opportunities for a new life for all people," protest organizers in Frankfurt said in a statement.
Organizers estimated that 785,000 protesters took part in 90 demonstrations during the Easter weekend in West Germany, and in Britain demonstrators said the protests drew 150,000 opponents of the missile deployment.
NO ARCHIVES FOR VESTERDAY'S demonstrations
IN MOSCOW, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda applauded the demonstrations, saying the German public was upset about "plans to turn the territory of the country into a military site for the Pentagon's missiles.
The West German Interior Ministry acknowledged that "several hundred thousand demonstrators" took part in the protests, but reporters and police thought the 785,000 figure appeared to be top high.
Pravda said "the aspirations of people of goodwill are required anew nowadays in mass-scale spring peace marches."
The Soviet media dismissed the latest U.S. arms offer yesterday as "the same old theme" and accused Washington of wanting the Geneva arms talks to fail so it could deploy nuclear missiles in Europe.
In West Berlin, helmeted police with riot shields and dogs surrounded 14,500 protesters outside the Templehof base and blocked roads leading to the base.
AN ESTIMATED 5,000 people ringed the U.S. base at Waldheim, about 50 miles southwest of Nuremberg, and were interviewed by Demonstrators and the base had been designated as a possible site for Pershing-2 missiles.
U.S. joins effort against oil slick in Persian Gulf
By United Press International
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The chief of the U.S. Coast Guard arrived yesterday to join the fight against a massive oil slick threatening shore installations and marine life in the Persian Gulf.
the arrival of Charles Colbert in Abu Dhabi came as environmental experts from eight Gulf nations started urgent deliberations in Bahrain on ways of containing the slick, which is covering an estimated 8,000 to 12,000 square miles.
GULF OFFICIALS said the pollution would have everlasting effects on marine life. The pollution is the worst ever in the region, and the marine life already has started to suffer with fish and other sea creatures being washed ashore.
The construction of dams around vital water-purification plants and large industrial complexes around Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman continued unabated.
In New York, a spokesman for the United Nations said Gulf countries asked Secretary-General Javier Perez
de Cuellar for U.N. help to clean up the slick.
FISHING ALREADY has been prohibited in the UAE, while Qatar and Bahrain were taking daily samples of fish for laboratory tests to verify if they
Residents in the Gulf continued to stock mineral waters and fish, whose prices more than doubled because of widespread panic.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said Colbert was heading a three-man delegation invited by the United Arab Emirates' Health Ministry.
PERSIAN GULF officials reportedly were relieved that warring Iraq and Iran agreed to take part in the talks to coordinate efforts to fight the slick, which resulted from leaks in Iranian wells damaged by both Iraqi air attacks and a ship collision.
TONIGHT
Ira's deputy premier, Mirza Taheri, who arrived in Kuwait to take part in ministerial-level talks, was quoted by Teberan radio as saying Iraq blocked efforts to cap the damaged wells. The wells have reportedly been spewing up to 10,000 barrels of heavy crude per day.
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The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Chamber Music Series closes out its 1982-83 season with
"The World's Master of Chamber Music"
guarneri STRING QUARTET
3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10, 1983 Crafton-Prever Theatre/Murphy Hall
ARNOLD STEINHARDT,Violin
JOHN DALLEY,Violin MICHAEL TREE,Viola DAVID SOYER,Cello with LYDIA ARTYMIW,Piano
Quartet in G minor, op. 74, no. 3 Haydn "The Rider"
Quartet, no. 11 Barber
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office
All seats reserved/For reservations, call 913/864-3982
Public prices: $8/$7; special discounts for students and senior citizens
Piano Quintet in E Flat Schumann
Partially funded by the Kansas Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the KU Student Activity Pee.
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