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University Daily Kansan, March 11, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
American Embassy official ousted from Soviet Union
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday that KGB secret police had caught Richard Osborne, a U.S. Embassy staff member, "red-handed" using a spy radio and that he had been ordered expelled from Russia.
The U.S. Embassy and the State Department in Washington refused to comment on the charges.
Osborne also had with him handwritten notes on "paper that dissolves quickly in water," the KGB said in a statement published by the government newspaper Izvestia and the official Tass news agency.
The chief U.S. spokesman in Moscow confirmed that Osborne had been ordered to get out and said that he was in the process of making his case.
There was no word on how much time the Soviets gave the Osbornes to leave. The State Department only said Osborne was to leave Moscow shortly.
Reagan seeks more Salvadoran aid
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, asserting that U.S. security is at stake on the battlefields of Central America, called on a reluctant Congress yesterday to give El Salvador another $110 million in emergency military aid.
The president pledged in a foreign policy speech to the National Association of Manufacturers that he will not "Americanize" the war in El Salvador, but hinted that if Congress does not approve the full aid package, he may send in more U.S. advisers.
The new military funds for El Salvador would be part of a package of $298 million in military and economic aid for the region. Of the total, $163 million would be shifted from aid funds already appropriated elsewhere. Reagan said.
Cancer in two men traced to drug
CHICAGO — Two men, whose mothers took diethylstilbestrol, or DES, during pregnancy, have developed testicular cancer — the first documented cases in males exposed to the drug while in the womb.
DES, a synthetic estrogen, was used widely in the United States from the early 1940s to 1971 to prevent spontaneous abortion and other pregnancy complications. The use of DES was discontinued in 1971.
The possibility of carcinogenesis has been suggested in DES-exposed males, but to our knowledge until now no case of testicular cancer has been documented in a person exposed in utero to DES. In the study described below we examined the Medical Center and in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Reagan stakes oil, minerals claim
WASHINGTON — President Reagan claimed a 200-nautical-mile "exclusive economic zone" yesterday for the United States, a region which extends off the shores of all U.S. territory and possessions and covers some 4 million square miles of ocean.
The proclamation stakes out U.S. rights to explore and mine all minerals in the zone, including oil and gas. It does not directly affect fishing rights or territorial waters, which remain at three nautical miles off the U.S. coasts.
It declares that the waters adjacent to the United States, Puerto Rico and all U.S. overseas territories, including the Pacific Trust territories, are an exclusive economic zone. The proclamation took effect immediately upon being issued yesterday.
U. S. officials said the claim was consistent with the Law of Sea Convention and existing international law.
Mexico's money woes slow exports
MEXICO CITY — Bad weather and tight currency and exchange controls will cut Mexico's produce exports in half and throw nearly one-third of its migrant laborers out of work, the National Vegetable Producers Union said yesterday.
Union President Luis Saenz said Mexico will export 500,000 tons of vegetables this year, compared with 1.1 million in 1982. He said there would be a similar drop in revenues from produce exports, which in 1982 earned $400 million.
Some 300,000 migrant workers were employed as field hands in 1982, but only 210,000 will be needed this year. Saenzi said.
Saenz said heavy rains in northwestern Mexico had damaged crops, but government currency control policies were equally to blame for the fall in export$^{1}$.
Japan asks Navy to ban warheads
TOKYO — On the anniversary of an air raid that devastated Tokyo, Japan said yesterday it wanted a U.S. promise that the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise would not carry nuclear warheads during a port call this month.
The government fears that the visit of the Enterprise, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, will trigger violent protest in the only country to have suffered nuclear attack.
Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe said he would seek assurances from U.S. Ambassador Mike Mansfield that the ship will carry no nuclear waste.
The Enterprise will stop at Sasebo, in southwestern Japan, for a five-day visit. A violent protest demonstration against the carrier's last visit, in 1968, left 500 injured.
Kuwait loses access to federal oil
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government will stop allowing Kuwait to buy U.S. oil and gas interests on federal land and will investigate whether the country can keep its current holdings. Interior Secretary James Watt said yesterday.
The decision by Watt declares Kuwait a "non-reciprocal nation" under the federal Mineral Leasing Act because it "is discriminating against U.S. citizens and corporations" seeking to hold petroleum interests in the Persian Gulf country.
While Kuwait prevented U.S. firms from holding interests in its energy resources during the 1970s, the country has not nationalized such concessions held by Japanese, British, Dutch and Spanish interests, Watt said.
Soviet satellite docks with Salvut 7
MOSCOW — A Soviet satellite yesterday docked with the unmanned Salyut 7 space station in what could be a significant step toward keeping men in space permanently.
The official Tass news agency said that Cosmos 1443, launched March 2, was carrying equipment and cargo.
Western space experts thought the satellite would function as an extra room for the station. They also predicted that the Soviets would launch another crew shortly.
The Soviet space program has long been studying the effects on the human body of prolonged space living, and Soviet cosmonauts have repeatedly broken their own space endurance records. Two cosmonauts set the latest record of 211 days in space when they returned to Earth Dec. 10.
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Variable temps make heat control tough
By LA DONNA LONGSTREET Staff Reporter
The University is having a hard time keeping up with Kansas' variable weather
In the past few weeks students have plowed through snow, dashed through rain and sauntered in the sun to attend classes, and thermostats haven't always compensated for the temperature changes.
Hogan said that he and his staff studied the weather for about two weeks to make sure it was constant before stopping the heat or starting the air conditioning. He said he tried to predict temperature changes so that no one would be too uncomfortable in any building.
William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, said that some areas on campus were always uncomfortable between seasons.
"IT8 JUST AN uncomfortable period of time," he said. "The outside is open."
"We hope to turn off the heat fairly soon."
Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance, said, "We
He said, though, that two weeks in the tall and spring, when temperatures were low, would have been better.
THERMOSTATES ARE now set at 80 degrees. Porter said, and the air is too cold to cool.
Resetting the thermostats will take five men two to three weeks because they must go to every building on campus, he said.
Richard Perkins, associate director
of facilities operations, said, "There are probably 5,000 to 10,000 thermostats."
Hogan said that in the past, heating was replaced with air conditioning on April 15. But this year the heat will be shut off about a month early, around March 15, and air conditioning will go on about the first week of May, he said.
Perkins, who is in charge of utilities,
said that the University would try to
turn off the main heating valves to
some buildings during spring break,
but if the temperature drops to the 30s,
the valves might be turned back on.
"FROM THE latter part of March through April, the weather can do just about anything." he said.
Hogan, Porter and Perkins agreed that the weather would determine when it rained.
Hogan said that by the end of the year, such cost-saving measures could save $1 million.
Porter said that during a normal spring, when temperatures were about 40 degrees, the University could conceivably save $50,000 to $75,000 by off the load a month early and beginning the air conditioning a month late.
MANY CLASSROOMS and offices in Wesco Hall either have windows that don't open or no windows at all. Porter said air conditioning would be turned on earlier in Wesco than in other buildings, probably toward the first of May, because outside air did not circulate well there.
Hogan said, "Every once in a while we receive a complaint, but we have to tell him that."
Judge blocks draft's tie to aid
By United Press International
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A federal judge yesterday granted a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a law requiring a student to register for the draft to be eligible for federal student aid.
FOR THE CHANGING TIME
CONGRESS LAST year said students
U. S. District Judge Donald D. Alsop agreed with six anonymous students who challenged the law, saying they would not be able to comply with it without putting themselves in jeopardy with the U.S. Selective Service System.
applying for loans or work study funds must sign a statement saying they had registered for the draft before they could get financial assistance. The law was to have become effective beginning in the 1983-84 school year.
University of Minnesota President C. Peter Magrath joined a number of educators in opposing the requirement.
ALSOP SAID the Selective Service System had enough power to get people to register for the draft. The penalties were a fine of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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