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University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Vietnamese troops kill 32 in attacks on refugee camps
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand — Vietnamese troops backed by tanks and artillery built by the United States stormed three refugee camps yesterday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 300 others, military sources said.
About 10,000 refugees fled across the border into Thailand, Western and Thai intelligence sources said. Thai government forces fired several warning shells at Vietnamese positions after stray artillery rounds landed in Thailand.
All three camps shelter refugees and guerrillas of the Khmer Rouge, the Khmer People's Republic government and to assist the Vietnamese troops occupying Cambodia.
The sources said 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers took part in the attack on the refugee camps of Chan Ka Kan, Phnom Chat and Kok Thahan.
Guerrillas sav 84 soldiers killed
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Salvadoran army rushed reinforcements to Morazan province yesterday where guerrillas claimed they killed 84 soldiers.
Military officers in San Francisco Gotera, 71 miles northeast of San Salvador, said roads were closed into the battle zone. The officers said they could not confirm or deny the rebel claims.
The guerrillas' Radio Venceremos said that 84 soldiers were killed and at least 46 more were wounded in a daylong battle Wednesday in and around San Isidro, nine miles northwest of Gotera.
If the rebel claims were accurate, the battle at San isfdro would have been one of the bloodiest battles of the three-year-old civil war.
Nicaraguan rebels seize three towns
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Rebels claimed yesterday that they controlled three Atlantic coast towns, but the Sandinista government said it had crushed an attempt by exiles to set up a second invasion front.
In the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, a spokesman for Nicaraguan Indians opposed to the leftist regime claimed government planes bombed villages in northeast Zelava province.
He said that rebels in Zelaya, a region along the Atlantic coast, captured the rural airport of Musawa Wednesday and that rebels captured the town of Wawa.
But Commander William Ramirez, minister of the Atlantic provinces, said the army had stopped rebels attempting to open a new front in Zelava.
EPA savs Dow is dumping dioxin
CHICAGO — Potentially dangerous levels of dioxin are being released into Michigan's Tittabawae River in wastewater from a Dow Chemical Co. plant, the Environmental Protection Agency said in a preliminary report yesterday.
"This is going to become the ticking bomb for human beings if it is accumulated over years and years," said Valdas Adamkus, EPA Region 5 administrator.
The EPA study, which was concluded in September 1981 and which took nearly two years to analyze, showed that more than 40 toxic chemicals, including dioxin, were being released by the Dow plant in Midland, Mich. into the nearby Tittabawasse River.
Dow spokesman Al Wolf said the company would not comment on the study until officials had an opportunity to examine it.
Britain tells three Soviets to leave
LONDON — Britain yesterday ordered the expulsion of two Soviet diplomats as spies and warned a Russian journalist to leave the country within the week.
The Foreign Office said the diplomats were found "to have engaged in activities incompatible with their status."
Col. Gennadi A. Primakov, assistant air attache at the Soviet Embassy, was given seven days to leave. Sergei V. Ivanov, a second secretary now abroad, will not be allowed to return.
A Foreign Office spokesman said Igor V. Titov, the London correspondent of the Soviet magazine New Times, had been found "to have engaged in unacceptable activities."
Tito said the allegations were "outrageous nonsense, absolutely ridiculous."
Study shows drugs cause impotency
CHICAGO Disease or adverse reactions to medications — not emotional problems — were the cause of impotency in 80 percent of the cases.
Michael F. Slag, physician, and colleagues at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota surveyed 1,180 male outpatients of a medical clinic.
"Erectile distraction has long been considered to be primarily a psychogenic disorder with few patients having identifiable underlying organic disease." Slag said.
"Recently, as patients with impotence are examined more thoroughly, it has become increasingly clear that underlying organic disease is often responsible for the impotence."
World Cup bids rejected; U.S. out
ZURICH, Switzerland — In a surprise announcement yesterday, the world soccer body rejected bids by the United States and Canada to hold the 1986 World Cup, leaving Mexico as favorite to stage the tournament.
It said insufficient stadiums and too large distances contributed to the decision to turn down the two countries for the World Cup — held every four years.
"The applications of Canada and the United States deviated too much from the conditions laid down in the terms of reference which had been approved by the Executive Committee," said a statement by the Federation Internationale de Football Association.
Pope re-enacts Last Supper ritual
In Catholic churches around the world, main altars were stripped bare and tabernacles were left empty and open to commemorate Christ's Last Supper with his 12 Apostles, his betrayal and his arrest the night before his crucifixion.
ROME — Pope John Paul II washed the feet of 12 homeless boys in a Holy Thursday rite which led the Roman Catholic Church into the most solemn period of the liturgical year.
During the ceremony, the pope washed the feet of 12 homeless boys from around the world who live in a boy's home in Rome.
The pope poured water over the right foot of each of the seated boys and then dried and kissed each foot. The gesture commemorated Christ's washing of the Apostles' feet during the Last Supper.
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Reagan says arms talks require unity
LOS ANGELES — President Reagan warned nuclear freeze backers yesterday that their efforts could destroy hope for agreement on disarmament.
By United Press International
"IT IS VITAL that we show patience, determination and, above all, national unity," Reagan said in a speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
And he said there was serious doubt the Soviets were complying with the treaty.
Reagan said that American supporters of a freeze movement could "pull the rug out from under our negotiators in Geneva."
"If we appear to be divided, if the Soviets suspect that domestic political pressure will undercut our position, they will dig in their heels. And that can only delay an agreement and may destroy all hope for an agreement."
Reagan announced Wednesday that he had made an offer to Moscow to reduce the number of missiles NATO would deploy if the Soviets would dismantle an equivalent number of missiles already aimed at Western Europe.
The House is expected to approve a resolution after its Easter recess calling for a "mutual and verifiable freeze and reduction" of nuclear arms.
In Europe, freeze backers have planned protests for the Easter holidays against U.S. plans to install 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles from Iraq. The coalition will begin in December if there is no arms agreement with the Soviets.
REAGAN'S PROPOSAL received the support of Democrats.
Delivering the Democrats' official response, Rep. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn., said, "The president can count on Democratic support for his effort to
A commentator on the state-run Radio Moscow criticized Reagan's proposal but stopped short of an outright rejection.
The commentator, Igor Dimitre, called Reagan's plan a "pseudo-new initiative" and a "new edition of the zero option but only in a new wrapping."
come to grips with the problem of negotiating limits on this class of emissions.
THE SOVIETS have rejected Reagan's zero option proposal, which would
In his speech, Reagan expressed strong doubt that the Soviets were not fully informed of what was happening.
"I am sorry to say, there have been increasingly serious grounds for questioning their compliance with the arms control agreements that have already been signed and that we have both pledged to uphold," he said.
Committee cuts $16,822 in requests
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee voted to cut $16,822 from the $69,448 requested by the 43 members. The budget cuts last night.
The committee will consider the other 20 of the 63 groups that submitted requests at its meeting Tuesday and make final budget reductions.
THE COMMITTEE made substantial cuts in the groups' requests for travel costs.
The Senate student organizations account has about $60,000, but the Senate must keep about $5,000 in student funds from student groups is about $140,000.
distance phone charges, literature expendable supplies, rent, advertising, capital equipment, and personnel.
The group decided to allocate 4,450 to the Recreation Advisory Board for distribution to the sports groups that had requested financing.
The committee also decided that instead of allocating money for the supplies and expenses of individual foreign student groups, it would allocate a lump sum of money to the KU International Club for distribution.
Loren Busby, chairman of the committee, said that by allocating one member to each committee, the group
committee would avoid hearing bickering among groups.
CERTAIN IRIANAN students, for example, would not join the KU Arab Students Club. The International Club would be enough to handle the conflicts, he said.
During deliberations, the committee considered a letter written by two KU students that recommended that the Senate refuse to finance the Gay and Lesbian Services the $1.146.44 it requested.
Despite the students' recommendations, the committee recommended allocating $493 to Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
Farm prices continue rise for 3rd month
WASHINGTON — Prices paid to farmers for their crops and livestock registered their third straight monthly increase in March, up 0.8 percent from February levels, the government said yesterday.
An Agriculture Department report said prices were the equivalent of those recorded one year ago. It was the 19th time in the last 20 months that prices remained at or below levels recorded 12 months earlier.
THE REPORT did not discuss reasons behind the March increase, but department officials have consistently credited the announcement of new surpluses to reduce crop surpluses to helping strengthen prices paid to farmers.
In its analysis, the department's Crop Reporting Board said the increase was a result of higher prices for cattle, tomatoes, corn, eggs and wheat. Fruits, nuts, oranges and broilers offset a portion of the increase, the report said.
By United Press International
THE REPORT showed farm operating costs also rose in March, up 0.6 percent from February and 2.6 percent from one year ago.
The report attributed most of the increase to the higher costs of feeder livestock, farm machinery and agricultural chemicals.
Wheat was up eight cents from
february to $3.65 per bushel, the report said.
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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
3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10, 1983 Crafton-Preyer 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
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Piano Quintet in E Flat
Piano Quintet in E Flat Schumann
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