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University Daily Kansan, March 3. 1983
News Briefs From United Press International Ambushes in India kill 38; death toll climbs to 3,692
GAUHATI, India — Natives determined to drive Bengalis out of Assam swept into a sleeping village of fishermen yesterday, killing at least 24 people by setting huts ablaze and slaughtering anyone who could not flee, officials said.
In a separate incident in the northeastern state, another 14 people were reported killed in attacks on villages in Nowgow district.
The latest deaths in Assam, state officials said, pushed to 3,692 the number of people to have been killed since Feb. 1. The violence has been directed mostly against Bengali immigrants from Bangladesh.
In the worst of two attacks yesterday, several hundred native Assamese surrounded a village of Bengali immigrant fishermen as they slent, officials said.
Then, armed with what one official called a variety of "lethal weapons," the attackers stormed the village, set fire to 30 huts and slaughtered anyone who could not flee.
Senate committee approves Heckler
WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Margaret Heckler, President Reagan's nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, easily won approval from one Senate committee yesterday and got a warm welcome from a second.
The Senate Finance Committee voted 16-0 to send Heckler's nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation for confirmation.
Heckler, a Republican from Massachusetts, appeared later before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, which is headed by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Uttah. Democrats as well as Republicans promised to support her.
Only Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., challenged Heckler and the administration on their commitment to the handicapped.
Weicker accused the administration of hypocrisy in its concern for the handicapped and said it was "trying to gut" existing federal laws that protect the disabled.
Carter meets with Mubarak, Habib
Former President Jimmy Carter, on an unofficial Middle East peace mission, met yesterday in Cairo with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and U.S. envoy Philip Habib and called for the total withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian troops from Lebanon.
At the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Carter was asked about his assessment of the troop withdrawal talks between Israel and Lebanon. "It is still distressing," he said.
"But our government has had the same goal in mind that the Egyptians have and that is the total withdrawal of both Syrian and Israeli forces." Carter said.
Hamm, who flew from Israel Tuesday to brief Carter and top Egyptian officials on the troop-withdrawal talks, returned to Israel following an hour-long meeting with Mubarak.
Search for survivors ends in China
PEKING — Chinese rescuers yesterday abandoned the search for survivors of a ferry that capsized in a violent storm, killing at least 147 people in what the captain called an upside down hell.
Only 85 of the more than 200 passengers and 32 crew members were rescued after the 118-foot, two-deck Red Star 312 overturned Tuesday in the Sanshui River.
Most of the survivors, including 66 who were hospitalized, were rescued in the first 16 hours after the disaster in an operation involving hundreds of government workers and troops.
"We don't think anymore can be alive," said an official in Guangdong province more than 30 hours after the ferry capsized.
Officials said they thought most passengers were asleep and did not have time to grab life preservers or jump overboard to escape.
Americans join friend in Thai jail
NAKHON PHANOM, Thailand — Former Green Beret James Gritz yesterday broke down in tears on embracing two comrades, brought to his jail cell for questioning about a secret operation to find missing U.S. servicemen in Laos.
David Scott Weekly, 35, a U.S. Navy veteran whose expertise in advanced weaponry earned him the nickname "Dr. Death," and Gary Goldman, 38, surrendered to Thai police in Nakhan Phanom, 390 miles northeast of Bangkok.
Police locked them up in the 2-square.yard jail cell where Gritz was being held with Thai inmates. The two men were being for questioning about illegal radio equipment found at a house rented by Gritz.
Gritz led an unsuccessful search for American prisoners of war in Laos last November, financed by Hollywood stars Clint Eastwood and William Shatner. Gritz, Weekly and Goldman all have refused to discuss their cross-border foray.
Dioxin found in Michigan river fish
LANSING, Mich. — A university researcher has discovered fish contaminated with dioxin in Michigan's major industrial rivers, supporting fears that the highly toxic substance has entered the food chain in the state, a Michigan State University scientist said yesterday.
Matthew Zabik, who is associated with MSU's Pesticide Research Center, said he did not believe that the dioxin contamination posed a serious threat to human health but that it might have serious implications for wildlife.
Zabik said the levels found in industrial rivers were comparable to those in the Sagmaw region where Dow Chemicals 'a' Midland, Mich. had a concentration of 150 mg/L.
Dow officials have denied that effluent from the plant was the sole source of the problem.
WASHINGTON - A usually fatal disease closely resembles one in homosexual men has killed dozens of monkeys at two federal private research centers and poses a threat to monkeys at other centers, officials said yesterday.
AIDS decimates monkey colonies
The aliment in humans is called acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS, and interferes with the body's ability to fight off disease. Its cause is unknown.
Two-thirds of a colony of cyclopis macaques, an endangered species, at the New England Primate Research Center in Southborough, Mass.
Scientists from the California Primate Research Center at Davis reported 29 deaths in 77 rhesus monkeys housed in one corral during the past 15 months.
"They are a national resource worth millions of dollars," said Leon Whitehair, director of the National Institutes of Health primate research program.
Corrections
Because of a reporting error, a quote was incorrectly attributed to Gary Zangerle, a first-year law student, in an article in Tuesday's Kansas. Another first-year law student, Richard English, was the source of the quote.
Treasury secretary says recession ended
By United Press International
Bregan said the 3.6 percent jump in the government's index of leading indicators for Jamaica to be sub-
sub-secured as the recession is over and we're beginning the recovery."
NEW YORK — Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said yesterday he was convinced the recession had ended and economic recovery was underway.
The strength of the gain was so pronounced, however, that Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge issued an unusual warning that the report "should not be taken as a sign of a coming economic boom."
The sensitive leading economic indicators climb was the most in over three decades, with good weather helping to boost tourism; the government reported yesterday.
THE LEADING index is intended to be a baryometer of the future economy.
President Reagan was pleased, saying the positive readings in nine of the 10 available indicators "flashed a bright green light for recovery."
Instead, Baldridge said, the improvement was exaggerated by the way the composite index reflected the month's exceptionally good weather and some technical factors, such as the shift of billions of dollars into newly deregulated deposit accounts at banks and thrift institutions.
REGAN PREDICTED a "stronger recovery" than the administration's official forecast of 3.1 percent growth in Gross National Product from the fourth quarter of 1982 to the fourth quarter of 1983.
six to eight months" in easing credit to promote economic recovery
The Treasury secretary said he was "very satisfied with what the Federal Reserve has accomplished in the last
But he warned the Fed not to "overdo it on the easy side," and he urged a slow, steady increase in the growth of money to help sustain the recovery.
He said interest rates must come down further to sustain the recovery
Analysts expected the index to go up, since it gained eight times last year on much slimmer evidence of recovery.
IN A SEPARATE report yesterday the Commerce Department said the sales of new houses continued to improve, jumping 9.9 percent in January to boost the rate of sales to more than 120,000 homes in September 1980. The increased selling activity helped lift the average price of a new house to a record $91,300.
The nine indicators showing a positive trend were led by the Federal Reserve System's increase in the
nation's money supply, adjusted for inflation, the report said
The second-biggest contributing factor was a lengthening of the average work week, a possible harbinger of improvement in the unemployment
ALSO POSITIVE were the month's decrease in new claims for unemployment benefits and increases in building permits, new orders for consumer goods and in the average price of 500 common stocks.
Roundting out the gains were improvement in the formation of new businesses, increases in raw materials prices and a slowing in the pace of deliveries, apparently because of increased demand.
The only leading indicator to decline was that for new orders of plant and equipment, the business investment improved despite incentive tax cuts.
Pope criticizes outsiders' role in Central America
By United Press International
SAN JOSE. Costa Rica — Pope John
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Pope John Paul II, hoping to ease the "painful cry" of stifter-torn Central America, arrived yesterday in Costa Rica and immediately called for a halt to foreign interference in the region.
He also insisted the church end all involvement in radical movements and raise "the banner of peace" as a guide for the refugees, orphans and elderly of the overwhelmingly Catholic ismusm
THOUSANDS OF Costa Ricans, some
loting tents, food and folding chairs,
lined an 18-mile route in predawn rain yesterday to catch a glimpse of the Pope's motorcade to San Jose.
The pope said peace was possible through unity, social justice, more government respect for the rights of all people and the confrontation of problems in a climate of sincere dialogue without foreign interference.
At his first official meeting in an assembly of 60 Central American bishops at the Catholic seminary in San Jose, the pope later said the split between conservative eligemm and radical activist priests must be healed.
banner of peace" and a "defender of man" before the bishops but cautioned that the church's primary and undeniable mission was preaching, a clear reference to his disapproval of the involvement of priests and nuns in revolutionary movements.
HE PROCLAIMED the church as "a
Leftist rebels rebelts Defense Minister Jose Garcia's appeal to lay down their weapons permanently to honor the pope's visit, saying peace would come once Garcia was "in the graveyard of history."
REBELS, WHO had offered a truce in the three-year civil war during the pope's visit, rejected Garcia's statement that a permanent truce would
occur only when rebels laid down their arms.
THE SALVADORAN government has promised presidential elections no later than March 1984. But U.S. officials now expect EI Valdrón to accelerate that schedule and to offer a general salary to members of the guerrilla forces.
In Washington, the State Department said the Reagan administration supported early elections in El Salvador as well as a possible amnesty for guerrilla
The administration has met congressional opposition to its plan to give El Salvador $60 million in emergency military aid.
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