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University Daily Kansan, March 7, 1983
News Briefs
From United Press International
West German voters select Kohl's coalition in election
BONN, West Germany — Helmut Kohl won his first victory as chancellor yesterday with a mandate to proceed with deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles in West Germany.
Final results gave his conservative condition of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats 55.7 percent of the vote for 278 of the 498 seats in the House.
The Social Democrats, led by Hans-Joen Vogel, who said he would try to make deployment of the missiles unnecessary, won 38.2 percent of the vote and 193 seats. The Green Party alliance of anti-nuclear activists and ecologists won 5.6 percent of the vote. For 27 seats.
Kohl, 53, described the victory as “a clear mandate” to carry out NATO's plans to deploy 572 intermediate-range nuclear missiles in five European nations — including 108 Pershing-2 and 96 cruise nuclear missiles in West Germany beginning in December.
Japanese official against arms sale
TOKYO — Japan will not export weapons to the United States or enter into joint arms production arrangements, a ranking government official said in remarks released yesterday, contradicting recent remarks made by Prime Minister Yasuhi Nakasone.
"I'll stake my political life not to allow exports and joint production of arms which kill or injure people," said Sadanior Yamanaka, minister for energy.
A transcript of his remarks before a parliamentary budget committee Saturday was made available yesterday.
Government officials declined to say whether Yamanaka's comments reflected a decision to back down from a recent pledge by Nakasone to share advanced military technology with the United States.
500 found killed in Assam violence
OPPARIYA ISLAND, India — Hindus wielding machetes killed 500 Bengali Moslems in a newly discovered massacre that raised to more than 300 deaths.
The slaughter Feb. 13 on Oppariya Island was previously unknown to Assam state authorities until they reached the tiny island this weekend on foot.
Police said they discovered 50 skeletons, but Opparia Island's village headman. Mansoor Ali, said 500 immigrants were killed.
The report of 197 deaths in the massacre pushed to 4.019 the number of people killed since Feb.1 in Assam according to official reports.
Officials in the Assam state capital of Gauhati said there were no immediate reports of fresh violence since Friday.
Conservatives gain power in France
PARIS — French voters rebuffed President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government in local elections yesterday, defeating several top government officials and putting the right-wing opposition in position to win control of large cities.
Partial results and computer predictions gave the opposition parties an absolute majority of between 51 and 53 percent of the vote in the first of two rounds of polling. The run-off elections are next Sunday
Opposition candidates were well placed to score victories next Sunday and give conservatives control of most of France's largest cities.
In Paris, declared opposition leader Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris, was re-elected in his district. The opposition won or led in 16 of Paris' 20 districts.
WASHINGTON — The Denver law firm of former Environmental Protection Agency consultant James Sanderson represents four companies linked to more than $500,000 in Republican campaign contributions since Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
While he was an EPA consultant, Sanderson took part in meetings with Administrator Anne Gorsuch Burford to discuss policies affecting the companies, agency officials said.
The companies linked to the contributions are Waste Management Inc., Oakbrook, Ill.; Adolph Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colo.; Amax Environmental Services Inc., Denver; Chevron Shale Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of California.
The Justice Department has been investigating Sanderson, who quit the EPA in June, for potential conflicts of interest.
New Orleans policemen go on trial
DALLAS — The trial begins today for seven white police officers accused of beating and intimidating blacks during racial tensions in New Orleans two years ago.
The case began Nov. 8, 1980, when a policeman was found shot to death in the Aligiers section of New Orleans. Within a week, officers shot and killed four people in the neighborhood.
Activists briefly took over city hall to demand an investigation of the shootings, and Police Superintendent James Parsons resigned.
No charges were returned in the policeman's slaying or in the deaths of the four residents. Instead, the federal indictments concern four black men who said they were illegally jailed as potential witnesses and beaten during interrogations.
Strike hampers bullfights in Spain
MADRID, Spain — The 1983 bulldog season failed to open as scheduled yesterday because of a strike by picadors and banderillers.
Among other things, the bullring workers — whose job it is to stock pikes and darts into the bull to prepare it for the matador — are demanding a 25 percent salary hike, fixed assignments and payment in advance.
The two largest bullfights canceled were in in Madrid's Las Ventas ring and in the city of Castellon.
Tourists booked into the state's network of paradors, or ims, faced a wildcat strike by hotel workers. The strike ended yesterday but the union warned there would be more stoppages if the workers were not granted 40-hour weeks and a 9.5 percent wage increase.
In a caption in Thursday's Kansan, the Campus Christian House, 1116 Indiana St., was incorrectly identified as the Canterbury House.
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Food, makeup additives may cause early puberty
WASHINGTON — Synthetic hormones used in cosmetics and food may be causing children age 9 and younger to develop "precocious puberty," the premature manifestation of adult sexual traits. It was reported yester-
By United Press International
Mother Jones magazine, published in San Francisco, reports in its current issue that 10,000 to 15,000 children develop the condition each year.
"These children — girls under the age of 8 and boys under 9 — show signs of sexual maturity, including enlarged breasts, menstruation, growth of pubic
hair and enlarged testes," the article said, citing physicists and scientists in the study.
"These changes are often accompanied by such burdens of adolescence as body odor and acne. Sexual development has even been seen in 6-month old babies," it said.
RESEARCHERS are hesitant to say the syndrome is affecting more children each year, but Dr. Felix Conte, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California in San Francisco, says it's normal when students do research on the subject. I'm seeing a lot more patients with symptoms."
The magazine reported that some scientists believed the condition was inherited.
Doctors have reported that children who were sensitive to sex steroids and synthetic hormones had shown signs of premature sexual development after exposure to pills, lotions and cosmetics containing hormones.
THE MAGAZINE quoted Vicki H爪nagel, a Los Angeles obstetrician-gynecologist, as saying, "There may be a connection between preconception puberty and environmental contamination with hormones, but it's hard to tell."
were looking into suggestions that precocious puberty might be linked to hormones approved by the Food and Drug Administration, used to fatten cattle, pigs and poultry.
Mother Jones also said scientists.
Investigators suspect the use of diethyltestibrol, a hormone known as DES and banned by the government in 1979 because it was linked to cancer, is an outbreak of breast enlargement in 1977 and 1978, the magazine said.
In Puerto Rico, where such hormones can be purchased without a prescription, public health officials have reported a threefold increase in the condition between 1979 and 1981, the report said.
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