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University Daily Kansan, March 9, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
House committee approves call for nuclear freeze talks
WASHINGTON — A. House committee yesterday approved a resolution calling for the negotiation of a nuclear arms freeze with the Soviet Union, while outside the Capitol, thousands of demonstrators rallied for and against the measure.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the resolution 27-9 asking the United States and Russia to seek agreement on a "complete halt" to the nuclear weapons race.
The vote was greeted with applause by spectators in the crowded committee room. Several thousand freeze supporters rally outside cheered when the action was announced over loudspeakers. A few hundred yards away, a more subdued rally was held by several hundred opponents of the measure
The resolution calls for the negotiation of a "mutual and verifiable freeze on and reductions in nuclear weapons."
More dioxin sites found in Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Dioxin contamination has been confirmed in four new sites in Missouri, including a suburban St. Louis mobile home park where five Times Beach families relocated, an environmental official said yesterday.
William Rice, deputy regional administrator of Kansas City's Environmental Protection Agency office, also said soil samples were being tested at 50 other sites.
The four other sites are near St. Louis. The announcement brought the number of sites where dioxin has been found in Missouri to 26.
The families had moved to one of the contaminated areas, a mobile home park near Grav Summit.
The EPA recently announced a $33.3 million buy-out of dioxin-contaminated Times Beach.
N.H. townspeople vote on petitions
CONCORD, N.H. — Voters across New Hampshire were asked yesterday to use the ancient ritual of town meetings to send a message about acid rain and nuclear arms to President Reagan.
Voters in 195 of the state's 224 town met in town halls, schools and fire stations to consider a petition calling for a 50 percent reduction in industrial sulfur emissions — thought by many scientists to be the root cause of acid rain — and were to vote last night. The rest will debate the issue later this week.
In 43 towns, voters also considered a resolution asking Reagan to negotiate a nuclear arms freeze with the Soviet Union. Opponents in some towns had another petition calling for a freeze only after the United States achieves superiority.
Iran, Nigeria stall OPEC price talks
LONDON — Iran and Nigeria blocked OPEC's efforts to avert a price war yesterday and Venezuela's oil minister warned the cartel's price could sink to $25 a barrel.
The of ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries met for more than two hours and then agreed to meet again today.
An OPEC official said Nigeria continued to oppose raising its oil prices and Iran continued to resist any lowering of prices.
Venezuelan Oil Minister Humberto Calderon Berti said most of the OPEC nations were focusing on a base price of $28.50 to $30 a barrel.
"If we don't reach agreement during the talks this week, I think we will meet again in one or two months and we will not be discussing a price level of $30." Calderon said. "We will be discussing maybe $25 a barrel."
German plans to tell of missile sites
DONN, West Germany — A member of the anti-NATO Green Party, said yesterday that he planned to disclose the locations of U.S. medium-range missile bases in West Germany as part of a plan to block their deployment.
"We plan to publicize the sites for American Pershing 2 missiles and other secret information we consider unimportant," said Gert Bastian, one of 27 members of Parliament the party gained in Sunday's election. Bastian, a former major general who left the army because he opposed the missile deployment, said he hoped to serve on the Parliament's Defense Committee to carry on his fight.
The Bonn government has withheld information on the bases, apparently in fear of demonstrations at them.
Japan commits defense to U.S. plan
TOKYO — Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's government yesterday outlined a new defense policy that commits Japan to the Reagan administration's global strategy against the Soviet Union.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Masaharu Gotoda, the government's principal spokesman, told Parliament that Japan would permit a U.S. blockade of three strategic waterways even if Japan were not under attack.
U. S. military experts believe that in the event of war, such a blockade would enable the United States to bottle up Soviet warships in the Sea of Japan.
Mining accident in Turkey kills 96
ANKARA, Turkey — Rescue operations ended last night at a northern coal mine where gas explosions and falling rocks killed 96 men in Turkey's worst mining accident, provincial government officials said.
Galp Demreli, governor of Zopoldak dragonye, said that 99 people
were injured and many others were Punctured unintentionally. Minister of Energy Fahir Fahr called the disaster “the biggest mining accident” from Energy's history.
Demirel said a small blast 1,150 feet underground followed by an explosion four minutes later triggered the rockfalls.
Witnesses said that two hours before the explosion, a fire had swept through the mine and that the miners had re-entered the shaft before the fire was properly extinguished.
Reagan proffers prayer amendment
ORLANDO, Fla. — President Reagan, declaring "let our children pray," said yesterday that he had sent Congress a proposed constitutional amendment to permit prayer in public schools.
consecutional unannounced perim. prayer in parish 2008s
The president announced the move in remarks to the National Association of Evangelicals. The president made a similar move last May.
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Pope blesses Hondurans, wishes peace
TEGUCIGALPA *Honduras* — Pope John Paul II embraced Honduras in a "hug of peace" yesterday and proclaimed all of Central America under the Virgin Mary's protection to end its "hate, violence and injustices."
By United Press International
Guatemala. After kissing the ground in the sixth country of his eight-nation tour, the pope said he was extending“a grand hug of peace” to Honduras.
POLICE, fearing they had lost control of a crowd trying to get near the pope, used night sticks to beat back pigrips who were blocking the road with President, Roberto Suzio Cordova.
THE IMAGE OF THE VIRGIN Mary has a powerful hold in Latin America. By singling out the Central American isthmus for special protection, John Paul accorded a great honor to its mostly Catholic population.
There was no immediate report of injuries. At least three people were injured.
Hundreds of thousands of Honduras lined the 7-mile route of the pope's motorcade and he was later greeted by a praying prayer service in San Pedro Sula.
John Paul arrived in Honduras from
area. Conserve it, like the most precious treasure," the pope said in his sermon at an outdoor Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Suvanna.
"Mother of God and our own mother, saint Virgin Mary, I put in your charge all the countries of this geographic
He said the faithful in Central America, to live under the Virgin, had to "reject all that is contrary to the gospel, the hate, violence and injustice in the work, the imposition of ideologies that lower the dignity of men and women."
AFTER A SERIES2of miracles was attributed to its power, the Virgin became the patron of Honduras.
Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova told John Paul at the airport that his government sought "a more dignified life for our people."
"In Honduras, there are no prisons for ideas, nor chains for thoughts." Chomutov
But human rights groups in Honduras
complained of "disappearances"
of police officers.
Honduras has a weak church organization. There are only 223 priests in the country.
Roman Catholics hope that Pope John Paul II's visit yesterday will trigger a wave of enthusiasm for the church to induce youths to join priesthood.
Indiana officials fear growth of measles epidemic
By United Press International
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University students lined up for meals abes kids yesterday in an effort to quell a campus epidemic that health authorities fear could spread nationwide when students disperse Friday for spring
As of late yesterday, 17,300 of the campus' 32,000 students had received immunizations against old-fashioned HIV, while 65% of them worried about getting measles than
being excluded from class if they cannot prove immunity when they are exposed
"We want people to be on the alert throughout the country," Walter Orenstein, a physician at the national Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, said.
INDIANA HEALTH COMMISSIONER Ronald G. Blankenbaker said the 178 measles cases reported on campus constituted an epidemic.
School officials said another 150 cases were suspected, and 23 cases were
confirmed in Bloomington outside the university campus
Orenstein said it was the largest known outbreak in the country at present.
Student Nancy Dudley, 20, said that a sorority sister had measles and that most of her sorority members planned to stay home not out of fear of contracting measles.
"I think people are worried about after spring break," she said.
The first reports of measles at Indiana University on Feb. 11 came at
the end of an outbreak of the disease at
Purdue University in West Lafayette. It was limited to about 20 students, most in the same dormitory.
Measles, characterized by red skin spots and fever, can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis, middle-ear infections and other complications. Blankenbanker said. One case in 1,000 is fatal.
BLANKENBAKER SAID THE state board of health would require all students to provide proof of their immunization upon returning to school from spring break.
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