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University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International Report says more troops needed to defend Lebanon
WASHINGTON — A report given to Congress yesterday said it would take two years for the Lebanese army to take over protection of Lebanon and that in the meantime, the only alternative might be to increase the number of international forces, including U.S. troops.
The report warned that an increase in U.S. troops raised the chance of accidental involvement in violence.
Congressional sources said there was widespread support for an administration request to help build up Lebanese forces. But the sources said a buildup of American troops or advisers would run into strong opposition.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to approve this week an administration request for $251 million in supplemental military assistance for Lebanon.
Buckelshaus announced EPA head
WASHINGTON President Reagan chose William Ruckelshaus to head the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday and gave him the power to clean house.
"He's the right man for the right job at the right time," Reagan said while announcing that Kruckelshaum, EPA's first administrator in 1970 and a key player in the Watergate scandal's "Saturday Night Massacre", 10 years ago, was returning to Washington.
Ruckelshaus resigned as deputy attorney general in 1973 rather than carry out former President Nixon's orders to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
Reagan's choice got enthusiastic bipartisan support from Congress.
CHICAGO — The state of Illinois yesterday filed a $1.1 million lawsuit against the nation's largest waste disposal firm, charging that it illegally dumped 400,000 gallons of a hazardous chemical at a Calumet City, Ill., dumpsite and plotted to keep environmental officials from discovering the violation.
Waste Management Inc., of suburban Oak Brook, Ill., took the chemicals to the sprawling site south of Chicago from a Muskegon, Mich., chemical plant owned by Bofors, Nobel Inc., the suit charges. Waste Management had a $4 million contract with Bofors.
waste Management, in a prepared statement, said it believed all of its operations were "well run and generally in full compliance" with laws and regulations.
HELSINKI, Finland — Prime Minister Kalei Sorsa's Social Democrats yesterday won a two-day parliamentary election, but two coalition partners recorded sharp losses that may weaken the government's hold on parliament.
With 88 percent of the vote counted, the Social Democrats had 26.6 percent confirming Sorsas's position at the head of the government.
But the Communists and Centrists dropped to 14 percent and 17.5 percent, respectively, which experts said might require their replacement in the coalition.
Senators submit compromise on aid
The opposition Conservative party, the nation's second party, made slight gains and the populist Rural party took up most of the slack left by the losses of the Communists and the Centrists.
WASHINGTON — Kansas Sen. Nancy Kassebaum and two Democratic senators yesterday agreed a compromise plan that would give El Salvador less than half of the military assistance President Reagan wants for the Central American nation.
The proposal also would encourage a peaceful resolution of El Salvador's civil war through an open dialogue among all parties.
Sharp controversy is assured, but one of the sponsors, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, hinted they have the votes to pass the measure, which will come up today in the Senate Appropriations and Foreign Relations committees.
The third sponsor, Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., insisted the proposal was aimed at U.S. policy, not at the dollar amount of aid.
Rain, mudslides bury towns in Peru
LIMA. Peru — Heavy rain and mudslides buried at least two towns in northern Peru and killed more than 50 people, authorities said yesterday. At least 500 others were missing, many of them presumed dead.
An exact death toll and other information were not immediately available because communications were disrupted.
Police reported the recovery of 30 bodies in Casma province, 210 miles north of Lima, where heavy rains flooded the Casma and Sechin rivers Sunday.
Radio and television reports from the area said 115 families, each with an average of four or five members, were missing after the villages of Cashipampa and Huarcos in the Casma valley were buried.
Israel to give U.S. data, Arens says
Israel reported progress yesterday in the latest round of negotiations on the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon but the crucial issue of security arrangements was left untouched.
In Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Moshe Arens announced Israel would share with the United States "technology and tactics" it used to destroy Soviet weapons during its invasion of Lebanon last summer.
Soviet weapons had being back the data, reportedly out of fear the Israel had been holding back the data, reportedly out of fear the United States would pass it to friendly Arab states such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
But Arens implied he expected Washington to reciprocate and lift a freeze on the supply of 75 F-16 warplanes to the Jewish state. The sophisticated fighter-bombers were held up on orders from President Reagan after the invasion.
China, Russia meet to discuss trade
MOSCOW — China and the Soviet Union ended a second round of talks on normalizing their chilled relations yesterday with predictions that trade between the two Communist countries will nearly double.
Chinese negotiator Qian Qichen met with Soviet Foreign Minister Adrien Gromyko yesterday to conclude the talks.
Major differences between the two sides remained, but both Soviet and Chinese sources cast the talks in an upbeat light.
and Chinese sources," The sides stated the positive importance of the fact that the U.S.S.R. and the (People's Republic of China) are having a political dialogue," the official Tass news agency said.
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Crisis averted as French franc devalued
The accord saved the European monetary structure from collapsing entirely but the worst crisis in the system's four-year history marred the
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Europen leaders averted a collapse of their monetary system and agreed to devalue the French franc by 2.5 percent yesterday in a major realignment deepening economic crisis in France.
By United Press International
WITH MANY EXCHANGE markets partially closed, dealers said, the position of European currencies against the dollar would not become clear until of
Exportors said French perfume and champagne would not suddenly become bargain items because U.S. importers are spending more on the savings until the market stabilized.
In the Paris market, the U.S. dollar gained nearly 5 percent against the franc. It rose from 6.93 to 7.25 francs.
opening of a two-day summit of the 10 Common Market heads of government
In Washington, Treasury Secretary Donald Ragan told reporters, "I think probably what should happen . . over the next several weeks is more of a setting down in the foreign exchange markets after traders have absorbed this initial news, maybe a weakening of the dollar somewhat."
ficial markets reopened today.
Originally, the French had held out against any devaluation and had threatened to斗成 the European money war. But Russia has bear the complete burden of revaluation.
tion of the mark. It is the third devaluation of the franc in less than two years.
The summit of European heads of government, also in Brussels, had been designed to strengthen European unity and forge a common approach to the summit meeting with the United States Japan at Williamsburg, Va., in May.
Instead, the leaders of West Germany, France, Britain and their seven European partners found themselves in a situation Britain attempting to patch up differences.
Kansas House mourns death of fellow legislator
By United Press International
TOPEKA — State Rep. Reba Cobb, a Galva Republican, elected to her first term last November, died early yesterday from undetermined causes, authorities said. She was 27.
Her brother, Richard Cobb of McPherson, said that although the family believed she died of a heart attack, an autopsy showed no definite cause of death. Cobb has his sister had suffered from a heart murmur since a
young age, but had showed no signs of heart trouble recently.
Shawnee County Coroner Kiernan O'Callaghan said preliminary autopsy results failed to determine a cause of death.
"There is nothing on the autopsy that indicated she had anything wrong with her heart," he said. "We found nothing significantly wrong with her heart."
O'Callaghan said further tests would be conducted.
until services for Reba Cobb were over
Richard Cobb said services probably
would be conducted today, but he
was told that he would only immediate family would attend.
House lawmakers mourned Miss Cobb's death and a bouquet of flowers was placed on her empty desk.
"On behalf of the people of Kansas, I want to extend sympathy to the family and friends of Reba Cobb." Carlin said in a statement.
Topeka from her hometown in central Kansas Sunday when a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper stopped her on Interstate 70 for exceeding the speed limit. Authorities said she was also driving erratically.
REBA COBB WAS traveling to
KHP Capt. Terry Scott said Miss Cobb was stopped about 15 miles west of Topeka by a trooper. Noticing she was ill, the trooper took her pulse, when unable to find it, he called an ambulance. He conducted cardiopulmonary resuscitation until the ambulance arrived, Scott said.
Decision to prolong life is patient's, panel says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Doctors should honor a critically ill patient's wishes to refuse or discontinue life-prolonging treatment, even if doing so will hasten death, a presidential commission said yesterday.
Stressing the importance of death with dignity, the commission said most such decisions about whether to prolong life should be made by the patient or his family rather than by doctors; hospitals, the courts or federal agencies.
The commission's opposition to a new federal rule governing treatment of
newborn handicapped infants drew criticism from Judie Brown, president of the anti-abortion American Life Lobby.
BROWN SAID IT gave "official imprimatur to a policy little different from that of the Nazi government's policy of killing defective newborns that was the first step down the road to Auschwitz."
The President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research said modern medicine had made it possible to delay the moment of death in almost every life-threatening situation.
Poles flee via biplane
By United Press International
KRISTIANSTAD, Sweden — An aging bipolar carrying 12 Polish refugees and a dog made an emergency landing in southern Sweden yesterday. The officers of the Brussels bad weather, a police official said
Four men, four women and four children asked for political asylum immediately after landing their single-engine biplane on a coastal grass field close to the town of Kristianstad in southern Sweden.
The biplane was spotted by Swedish radar half an hour before it landed, a military spokesman said
scrambled to look for the biplane, but were unable to locate it.
Swedish fighter planes were
"Flying weather was very bad," the spokesman said.
"Shortly before landing the plane almost crashed into the sea. The two pilots managed to gain altitude," a police translator quoted them as an enemy air force landed on their gasy landing, as they feared their fuel was running out."
the spokesman said.
At A PRESS CONFERENCE, the Poles said they had started off undetected in fog from northern Poland, crossing the Baltic in a two hour flight.
A local resident said the Polish plane circled over his house several times before landing on the grass field.
State asks for dimissal of suit
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL BECK
The Kansas attorney general's office filed a motion last week to dismiss a $3 million lawsuit against the University of Kansas and three other state agencies, an assistant attorney general said yesterday.
On Feb. 28, the Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, Kan., filed a petition claiming that the University, the University of Kansas Medical Center, the state of Kansas and the Board of Regents defaulted on $3,007,172 worth of electric bills at the Med Center.
Bruce Miller, attorney for the defendants, said that the plaintiffs must prove that the defendant knew of their existence.
previous cases that supported the response of the defendants.
HE SAID THAT ONCE the plaintiffs responded, a judge would review both sides and decide whether the case should go to trial.
Vicki Thomas, University general counsel, said the motion refuted alleged constitutional violations by the state as stated in the BPU suit and cited
Kathy Peters, a Kansas City assistant city attorney, who is handling the BPU's side of the case, said she had not heard of the motion to dismiss and could not comment on how the BPU would respond.
The suit claims that shorting screws were partially engaged in an electrical meter at the Med Center. Because they were not removed, as they should have been, the meter failed to register electricity from November 1972 to May 1981.
The suit claims the defendants are disclosing against taxpayers by distributing payments.
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ANOTHER ASPECT OF the suit involves the Med Center's not being able to pay its electric bill for June 1981 because the faulty meter caused it to underestimate its projected electrical consumption in 1980.
The amount the Med Center owed for June 1981 was $133,499 and the Joint Special Claims approved paying the sum in December 1981.
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However, the state obtained a release from the BPU in May for $133,489.
passed a bill approving payment of the balance due the BPU, but an amendment on that bill said that the Med Center could not pay its bills for June 1881 unless it got a written release for all claims before June 1881.
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The BPU CLAIMS THAT it should have been notified of the amendment and that the release, which had the first section of the bill approving payment, did not have an amendment, as it should have.
Joe Callahan, director of customer service for the BPU, signed the release, but the BPU says that Callahan was not authorized to sign the release.
The petition claims that after the release was signed, the BPU made repeated attempts to talk to Pat Hurley, state secretary of administration, about the $3 million, but neither Hurley nor Arthur Griggs, chief attorney for the department of administration, returned its calls.
Last December, the Joint Special Claims heard the case and ruled against the BPU.
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