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University Daily Kansan, March 31, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
South Africans to decide on raising minority power
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — White South Africans will vote in a revolutionary referendum for their apartheid society on whether to share power with other races, Prime Minister Pieter Bothe told parliament yesterday.
garmament yesterday. It will be the country's first major referendum since 1960.
who be taken. Because he would hold the referendum in hopes of obtaining the greatest possible cooperation from the electorate on his limited power-sharing plan, which has deeply divided his ruling National Party.
The proposal is revolutionary for white Africans, who are accustomed to the strict racial separation policy called apartheid.
The power-sharing plan excludes the nation's majority 17 million blacks but gives South Africa's other minorities limited parliamentary representation. The country would continue to be dominated by 4.5 1800million whites.
Mexican leader wants land reform
MEXICO CITY — President Miguel de la Madrid has called for a drastic overhaul of Mexico's land reform program, saying peasants have been cheated of their land by corrupt officials, the Mexican government newspaper said yesterday.
De la Madrid, who vowed he would oversee a "moral renovation" of both government and the private sector when he became president last December, said Tuesday he would call for ending "irregularities" in the land program.
land program.
De la Madrid said that more than half the land titles granted by the government to small land-holders, some 10 million acres, was held illegally, and he vowed to "regularize" the land titles.
Chicagoans receive meningitis shots
CHICAGO — At least 4,000 residents in one of the city's largest public housing projects received inoculations yesterday to prevent an outbreak of meningitis from spreading, public health officials said.
Six people in Chicago have died from the disease and 13 deputy Health Commissioner Bernard Turnock said the inoculations would be given over a two-day period to residents over age 2 who live in projects on the city's west side.
The Chicago Health Department recommended the inoculations at the projects after three cases of meningitis were confirmed there this year. So far this year, 27 cases of meningococcus meningitis have been discovered in the city.
Soviets say Israel threatens Syria
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union accused Israel yesterday of preparing to attack Syria with U.S. backing and warned Tel Aviv against "playing with fire."
"Nobody can be indifferent to Israel's criminal designs toward Syria and these designs must be foiled," the official Soviet news agency Tass said. "The Syrian people are not alone."
said. The Syrian people are not hostile.
The statement came as Syrian and Israeli forces traded tank and mortar fire north of Beirut, Lebanon, according to Lebanese military sources. Syria has 40,000 troops in Lebanon and Israel has 30,000.
Syria has 40,000 troops in Iraq. Damascus radio, monitored in Beirut, also accused Israel of preparing to attack in the spring or summer and warned that Syria would take necessary action.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A 93-hour countdown began yesterday for the Monday's maiden launch of the space shuttle Challenger, grounded for more than two months by engine and equipment problems.
The four astronauts who will fly the Challenger on its five-day, $266-million mission are to arrive at the space center Friday from their homes in Houston. NASA officials said Paul Weitz, Karol Bokko, Donald Peterson and Story Musgrave will be given weekend briefings and then will board the ship about two hours before launch.
mngnights of the flight include the launching of a giant tracking satellite on the first day and the first shuttle spacewalk by Musgrave and Peterson on the fourth day.
Britain to cut oil prices by 50 cents
of oil price hikes the response to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' decision earlier this month to slash its base oil price by $$ to $29 a barrel means a global oil price war will probably be averted, analysts said.
In Norway, a spokesman for the Norwegian National Oil Co. said Norway was likely to follow the British lead by reducing the price of its North Sea oil as early as Tuesday.
In February, Britain set the stage for a pricing free-for-all when it offered to reduce its oil by $3 to $30.50 a barrel.
Equine herpes virus under control
VIENNA, Austria — The deadly herpes virus that killed 33 of Austria's world famous dancing horse is apparently under control, but the Lippizaner stud farm will remain quarantined for at least two months, officials said yesterday.
"It seems that the crisis is over," an Agriculture Ministry spokesman said.
The incurable virus, equine rhinopneumonitis, first surfaced in mid-February at the government-owned Fiber stud farm in southern Austria and claimed the lives of six mares and 27 foals.
Marx's companion loses lawsuit
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — An seemingly confused jury ruled against Erin Fleming in the Groucho Marx estate suit yesterday and ordered the former actress and companion to the late comedian to pay $471,842 damages to Bank of America.
damages to Bank of America. The verdict, however, became mired in confusion when polling of the jurors showed that they failed to follow the judge's instructions in reaching a decision.
"If anyone would have loved this, the Marx Brothers would have," said Melvin Bell, one of Fleming's attorneys.
san marino superior Court Judge Jacqueline Weis called a recess to "straighten things out." She later ordered the panel to reassess why it awarded damages to the bank when it also apparently had not found fraud.
Correction
In an article in yesterday's Kansan, the first name of Prairie Village City Council candidate David Morrison was omitted. Morrison, Prairie Village junior, recently won the Republican primary race.
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Reagan seeks reduction of intermediate missiles
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WASHINGTON - President Reagan, under pressure from allies to ease his all-or-nothing negotiating stand, called yesterday for an interim reduction in the number of Soviet and U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Europe.
"When it comes to intermediate nuclear missiles in Europe, it would be better to have none than to have some." Reagan said. "But, if there must be some, it is better to have few than to have many."
Reagan said he sought "to substantially reduce these forces to equal level on both sides," but he did not propose specific numbers. He left that to the Soviets, who were to receive the control negotiator Paul Nilze in Geneva.
LEADERS OF FRANCE, Italy and Britain, along with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, applauded the new initiative, and the Soviet Union, while calling it a propaganda ploy, promised to review it without bias.
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., sponsor of a nuclear freeze resolution, said the freeze movement deserved credit for putting pressure on the White House to get serious about arms control.
Critics of the president's arms control expressed qualified fury at the press.
The president was expected to discuss arms control at greater length today in a speech to the Foreign Affairs Council of Los Angeles.
REAGAN'S PROPOSAL SHIFTS the emphasis from reducing missile
The Soviets have about 600 intermediate-range nuclear launchers in place, about 500 of them aimed at the Soviet Union than half a carrier triple-warhead SS-20s.
launchers to reducing the number of warheads permitted to each side and would cover intermediate-range missiles rather than only those trained on Europe.
The United States has none, but plans to begin deploying 572 single-warhead Pershing 2 and ground-launched cruise missiles in five NATO countries in December if there is no arms control agreement with the Soviets.
LEADERS OF ALL FIVE countries where the new missiles would be deployed — West Germany, Italy, Britain, Holland and Belgium — had asked the president publicly or privately to ease his original "zero-zero" NATO deployment if the Soviets dismantled all their missiles.
"If the Soviets will not now agree to the total elimination of these weapons, I hope they will at least join us in an interim agreement that would substantially reduce these forces to equal levels on both sides." Reagan said.
"To this end," he said, "Ambassador Paul Nitzhe has informed his Soviet counterpart that we are prepared to negotiate an interim agreement in which the United States would substantially reduce its planned deployment of Pershing 2 and ground-based cruise missiles propelled by the Soviet Union reduced the number of its warheads on longer-range INF (intermediate nuclear force) missiles to an equal level on a global basis."
Economic indicators increase for sixth consecutive month
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The government's sensitive leading economic indicators climbed 1.4 percent in February — less than in January but otherwise the strongest growth in more than two years, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
The report, marking six straight months of improvement, confirmed the economy is continuing to be better but the economy is not moderate and uneven, analysts said.
More than half of last month's improvement was contributed by growth in a broad measure of the nation's money supply.
BUT SOME OF THAT growth may be only on paper, since the measure of money supply has been temporarily
inflated by switching of funds into newly deregulated savings and checkings accounts.
If both the money supply and the work week were excluded from February's index, it still would have gone up 1.4 percent.
And government analysts said the biggest negative factor for the month, a sharp contraction in the length of the average work week, might be equally irrelevant to recovery predictions — reflecting unemployment caused by bad weather rather than by economic stagnation.
IN A SEPARATE REPORT on factory orders for February, the Commerce Department said Monday there was a 2.2 percent decline in orders that increase despite strong surges in the auto and metals industries.
Leaders discuss African rule
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan and President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia held intensive talks on critical African problems yesterday and said they both abhor apartheid in South Africa, consider independence for Nambia vital.
Kaunda said after the two-hour meeting at the White House the talks "have gone very well." He said they covered a wide area. "I was able to communicate Zariah's U.S. relations, southern Africa, the Middle East and East-West relations.
SPEAKING IN PARIS before leaving for Washington Tuesday for three days of talks, Kaunda said a raid explosion erupted in South Africa within four years.
"I am saying to you governments of the West, we are sitting on a volcano."
The United States, Britain, Canada, France and West Germany are negotiating with the black African "front line" states of Zambia, Botswana, Angola, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Malawi in their independence. In a 1978 resolution, the United Nations called for independence under U.N. supervision.
"KU on Wheels" Transportation Coordinator Opening
The Student Senate Transportation Board is seeking applicants for the position of TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR. This position requires a currently enrolled K.U. student with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0. The position is a year long appointment and carries a stipend of $100.00 per month. Responsibilities include oversight of the day to day functions of the K.U., on Wheels student run camp transportation system. Opportunity for hands on experience in leadership, business, and university governance.
Experience in working with people, and a knowledge of student government structure and function are preferred.
Complete job requirements and an application are available in the Student Senate Office, 105 B Kansas Union, 864-3710. Deadline for applications is April 5, 1983 at 5:00 p.m.
Paid for by Student Activity Fee.
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