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University Daily Kansan, March 30, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Berkley holds off Wheeler for 2nd term as K.C. mayor
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — Richard L. Berkley overcame a spirited challenge yesterday by Charles B. Wheeler to win another four-year term as the mavor of Kansas City.
Berkley matched his mayoral primary showing by pulling in about 58 percent of the first third of the vote counted. Election officials said that percent would not change more than 2 percent as the rest of the votes were counted.
It was a vindication of sorts for Berkley, who has been blamed for several scandals in City Hall. In included those scandals were charges that city inspectors cheated on time sheets and expense voucherers and Recreation and Recreation officials were using department equipment or for private projects.
Berkley was first elected in 1979 after defeating Wheeler, in a primary.
Legislators criticize Salvadoran law
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Two U.S. congressmen who visited some of El Salvador's 728 political prisoners yesterday called the law that made the detentions possible "a gross violation of human rights."
The prisoners, 645 men and 81 women, were jailed under El Salvador's sweeping "Decree 507," which has suspended most constitutional rights since March 1980 and has allowed police to detain anone suspected of "subversive activity."
The congressmen, Reps Bill Richardson, D-N.M., and James Obersten, D-Minn., they would ask House colleagues to tighten
In the most recent combat, guerrillas said they captured 14 soldiers, 14 riffles "and a large cache of medicine and munitions" Monday in an attack 29 miles east of San Salvador.
Violence continues to plague India
NEW DELHI, India — Police with orders to "shoot on sight" patrolled a village yesterday where a mob killed 10 people and burned 50 homes in new communal violence that has taken more than 4,000 lives in two months.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today was expected to begin a three-day tour of train-torn Assam state in northeastern India, where militant natives are demanding the expulsion of 4 million immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh.
She was also expected to meet with officials and inspect relief operations for some 200,000 people made homeless by the violence in Rwanda.
Militants said they would boycott her speeches, wave black flags and light oil lamps to protest her third visit to the troubled region this year.
Chemical firm told to clean up act
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The nation's largest handler of hazardous waste was ordered by the state yesterday to correct certain practices at its sprawling chemical landfill in western Alabama, including the disposal of PCBs that cause cancer.
The order from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management proposed corrections already submitted by the firm, Chemical Waste Management Inc. of Oakbrook, Ill., for its waste disposal site at Emelia, Ala.
ADEM Director Joseph Broadwater issued the order amid a stir caused by the activities of a state legislator who sold land to an attorney for Chemical Waste Management while helping win enactment of a law benefiting the firm.
New French money law takes effect
PARIS — Despite a last minute rush to beat stringent new travel restrictions barring French tourists from taking more than $450 on foreign vacations, the new law took effect yesterday in an atmosphere of calm resignation.
Liquor stores, however, were jammed with customers hoping to stock up before the next socialist government austerity plan goes into effect.
Two extra customs officers were put on duty at Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports and some people were frisked to make sure that they were observing the new limit of taking only 3,000 francs — roughly $450 — out of the country.
The new regulation is one of 10 austerity measures designed by President Francis Mitterrand to revive France's economy.
Sicily's Mount Etna erupts again
CATANIA, Sicily — Molten streams of lava spewed out of 10,707-foot Mount Elma for the second day yesterday, destroying two buildings and cutting off a road and two skis lifts as they snaked down the slopes of Europe's most active volcano.
Two policemen were slightly injured when their jeep overturned after they lost control of it. The driver panicked when he heard a nearby explosion when the intensely hot lava collided with snow.
Officials at the Catania Institute of Volcanology, monitoring Etna's activity, said the lava flow from the volcano's eruption, the worst in two years, appeared to be slowing down and there was no immediate threat from the volcano.
British court reejects suicide verdict
LONDON — Britain's highest court yesterday rejected a coroner's verdict that Italian financier Roberto Calvi committed suicide.
The court ordered a new inquest into the death of the man known as "God's banker" because of his links to the Vatican.
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Geoffrey Lane, said the new inquest should be heard by a different coroner. Lane specifically criticized the coroner's summation on Calvi's death. The family lawyer told the High Court that Calvi had been murdered and did not commit suicide.
Calvi, former head of the now defunct Italian Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanged by a rope tied from scaffolding under Blackfriar's Bridge in central London last June 18.
Brazil may limit alcohol-fueled cars
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil's new revolutionary alcohol-powered cars are becoming so popular that four out of five buyers choose them over traditional gasoline-models and the government is talking about limiting their production.
The problem for Brazil is matching the fast-growing fleet of alcohol vehicles to the amount of fuel available.
Industry Minister Joao Camilo Pena said Monday that alcohol cars had become so fashionable that if sales remain high the government might have to establish limits for their production and sale within a year.
There are now about 800,000 alcohol-run cars on Brazilian roads, he said.
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Reagan wants NATO to deploy missiles
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has offered the Soviet Union a new formula for cutting the number of intermediate-range missiles in NATO and Russia. NATO go ahead and deploy its own missiles if there was no agreement.
identified said the proposal was placed before Soviet negotiators in Geneva two days ago. The talks rested for seven weeks until May 17 yesterday with both sides abiding by an agreement not to make any substantive statement
The president said he would announce the terms of his proposal today after "making a statement about this whole matter" to ambassadors from NATO countries invited to the White House.
"We've never retreated from our position that we are going to deploy on schedule," Reagan told a small group of reporters in the Oval Office.
The so-called interim plan, drawn up by the administration at the request of European allies, represents "no change in my position or my goals." Reagan
SOURCES WHO ASKED not to be
The Soviets have turned down Reagan's "zero option," which called for the Soviets to dismantle their missiles and the United States to cancel its deployment. The United States, in turn, has rejected a Soviet offer to force the United States to deploy British and French missiles already deployed.
Reagan said the United States was ready "to negotiate in good faith on any serious option," but the offers from Moscow so far had been unacceptable.
Under a 1979 NATO agreement, the United States is scheduled to begin deploying 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in five Western European countries in December. That schedule remains intact, he said.
Soviets have about 500 SS-4, SS-5 and
triple-headed SS-50 missiles targeting
Mexico.
ACCORDING TO U.S. estimates, the
Discussing Soviet-American relations during his half-hour meeting with six reporters, Reagan said there had been no break in the dialogue between the superpowers despite Moscow's anger to recall his call last week for United States to develop a futuristic defensive system against ballistic missiles.
"We remain in communication with them," he said, citing three sets of current disarmament negotiations. "I don't think there's been anything particularly new in the rhetoric that was used by (Soviet leader Yuri) Andropov and has been used by other Russian leaders before him."
number of courses," the president said. "He could offer to give this defensive weapon to them to prove that there was no need any need to keep these missiles."
The president said long-term development of a space age anti-ballistic defense system could give an extra motivating tool to some future presidents.
"HE COULD FOLLOW ANY one of a
Reagan said he had not "given any thought" to the possibility of pooling the information but, "It's something to think about."
Proposals under consideration by the administration included a limit of 100 missiles with 300 warheads for each side. The United States has insisted that French and British missiles not be used, but that the Soviet diamantine the missiles they remove from the European theater rather than moving them to Asia.
Reagan also told the reporters that the Soviets have rejected his proposal to renegotiate verification provisions of a treaty signed in 1976 but never ratified to limit the yield of nuclear weapons tests to 150 kilotons.
Council ends Nicaragua-Honduras border debate
By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council ended debate over confrontations on the Nicaragua-Honduras border yesterday, but the council took no action on Peru's requests for council intervention and a fact-finding mission to ease regional tensions.
Council President John Thomsen of Great Britain chastised members before adjournment yesterday evening for "abusing the rules of procedure"
during the five-day debate requested by Nicaragua.
Without naming specific delegates, he accused them of "using unhelpfully strong language which went beyond the bounds of civility."
On behalf of Britain, Thomsen suggested that U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar "use his good judgment" in dealing with the various disputes in Central America.
PERUVIAN AMBASSADOR CELSO
Pastor de la Torre rubéador members for their "uncontrolled rhetoric and pugnacity," which served only to "put
more wood on the fire and make it more difficult to control.
Pastor de la Torre called for a council decision aimed at achieving an immediate bottle acts in the confrontation zone between Honduras and Nicaragua.
"In addition the council could, if appropriate, send a fact-finding mission to the area with the consent of the parties concerned" and "approve measures contributing to a dialogue among the five countries of the area." be said.
Argentina joined the chorus of Latin
American countries urging a regional solution to regional problems.
Ambassador Carlos Muniz of Argentina warned against submission to pressures from either Moscow or Washington.
West German officials said that non-intervention in the region must be strictly observed in times of critical change.
NICARAGUA CHARGES THAT THE Honduran military actively supports the Nicaraguan rebels, letting them set up an office at the border inside Honduran territory.
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