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University Daily Kansan, February 22, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
U.S. ambassador accused by Panamanians of spying
PANAMA CITY, Panama — Panama's ruling party yesterday backed National Guard accusations that U.S. Ambassador Everett Ellis Briggs was sving on a military base near the Canal Zone.
"This is a matter that wounds the pride of any Panamanian, regardless of political affiliation, because it involves Panama's dignity and sovereignty," the Democratic Revolutionary Party said in a statement.
Saturday, Panama's national guard chief Gen Ruben Dario Paredes warned that Briggs might be thrown out of Panama for visiting a national guard garrison without proper clearance.
"It's not our intention to deteriorate relations with the United States," the statement said. "On the contrary, what could hurt them is the lack of seriousness of this ambassador . . ."
Government sources said Briggs had been called to the Foreign Relations Ministry to explain his unauthorized visit.
The U.S. Embassy in Panama City was closed yesterday for the holiday and no official was available for comment.
OPEC members on verge of oil war
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia and five other Persian Gulf oil producers threatened yesterday to match or surpass Nigeria's price cut of $5.50 a barrel of oil and thereby shatter OPEC's fragile origine structure.
The six members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries might slash their $34-a-barrel oil price by $6 in response to the Nigerian cut, market analysts said.
However, Nigeria, an OPEC member, could threaten the $28 price in its attempts to compete with Britain in the market for low-sulfur oil, the analysts said.
Britain and Norway lowered the price of their North Sea oil by $3 to $30.50 a barrel Friday. Nigeria responded Saturday by reducing its oil price from $36 a barrel to $30.50 in a break with OPEC.
p Algeria called for an urgent meeting of OPEC to head off the growing oil price war.
GENEVA, Switzerland - Soviet leader Yuri Andropov has restricted Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union to a new low through intimation and stiffer visa policies. Simone Veil, former European Parliament president, said yesterday
Soviet emigration policy criticized
Parliament presides.
She told the two-day European Women's Conference for Soviet Jewry that Andropov also for the first time had forbidden Jews to reapply for exit visas.
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"The figure for January was the lowest since emigration began and new applications are being rejected out of hand rather than postponed," she said.
Haya Jaglam, the president of the conference, said 43 people within the oystermonth had seen their visa requests "refused forever."
Figures from the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration show that only 81 Jews were granted exit visas in January — about 20 times fewer than in the peak emigration years of the late 1970s.
Fire at Japan resort hotels kills 10
TOKYO Fire swept through two northern ski resort hotels yesterday killing at least 10 people and forcing scores of sleeping guests to flee into a snowstorm in their pajamas.
to free into a snowslope or other pavement.
Investigators questioned the owner of one of the hotels in Zao, 180 miles north of Tokyo, and a 25 year old man who stayed in the second floor room where the fire started.
"The ceiling began burning and I tried to extinguish the flame but it was too late." investigators quoted the man as saying. He was not immediately charged with any crime
The blaze raged for some two hours before 290 firefighters brought it under control.
They were hampered by a blinding snowstorm and narrow road access to the mountain resort.
Hijackers hold Libyan jet in Malta
VALLETTA, Malta  Three armed Arabs warned officials yesterday to refuel a hijacked Labyan jet with 159 passengers aboard or "be held responsible in front of the whole world for what will happen to the plane and passengers."
passengers.
Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff promised the gunmen he would not return them to Libya if they freed all the passengers aboard the Libyan Arab Airways jet.
He also promised to refuel the jet, a Boseing 727, if 30 children aboard were released first "as a sign that you (the hijacker) are in your right senses."
But, as evening fell nearly 24 hours after the plane landed in Malta, the pilot relayed a stern message from the hijackers demanding food, medicine and fuel.
A spokesman for the airline said almost all the passengers were believed to be Arabs, most of them Libyans. An American Embassy official said no Americans were thought to be aboard.
Senator wants Adelman questioned
WASHINGTON  Assistant Senate Republican leader Ted Stevens said yesterday that a new round of questioning could benefit Kenneth Adelman, who has been denied approval by the Foreign Relations Committee to be head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Adelman, 36, said last week he could not recall making such a comment.
The additional hearing was requested by Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., after it was disclosed that Adelman in a 1981 newspaper interview reportedly called arms control negotiations a sham.
But Stevens told reporters he understood that "perhaps the complete statement was not transcribed."
Although reports that a hearing would be held Thursday circulated through the Senate, the committee said no final decision had been made.
Kenyan soldiers search for poachers
NAIHOB, Kenya — Soldiers, backed by a helicopter and spotter planes, searched Kenya's rugged northeastern bush yesterday in search of about 30 heavily armed ivory poachers who have slaughtered 441 elephants in the past three months.
441 elephants in the past three months.
Ted Garse, a member of one of the anti-poaching units, said, "We have come across maybe 40 or 50 carcasses at one time. They were just left to rot in the sun."
Kenya's elephant herds, which numbered more than 100,000 a decade ago, were reduced to less than 20,000 in the late 1970s, mostly because of poaching. Conservation efforts have brought the herd back to about 30,000.
The crackdown on poachers was launched Friday after a shootout between an anti-poaching patrol and the illegal hunters at Lango la Simba — Land of the Lion — 260 miles northeast of Nairobi.
Gandhi hears survivors tell of slaughter
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visited hospitals and devastated villages in Assam state yesterday where weeping survivors recounted horror stories of the massacre of 1,000 Bengali immigrants.
"No words can describe Assam's agony." Gandhi told reporters at Nellie village, where Lalit tribesmen rebelled in 1962. "They want to be Bengali immigrants from Bangladesh."
The death toll from 21 consecutive days of riots, attacks and police shootings rose to 1,286 in Assam, a country where Bangladesh state officials said.
State officials said the death toll could soar to nearly 1,300 in the worst election-related carnage in India's history as an independent nation.
ASSAMESE BEGAN RIOTING Feb. 1 after demanding a boycott of state elections because illegal Bengali immigrants were allowed to vote.
despite their wounds told Gandhi how Assamese tribesmen attacked them with spears, axes, machetes and knives. Indian reporters said.
Some of the 400 Bengalis who managed to escape the massacre
"From what the survivors and police say, it seems the villages were attacked when men were on their own ravaging missions," the newspaper
Most of those killed by the tribesmen were women and children who were alone in the villages, the Indian Express newspaper reported.
Several hospitalized victims wept as they smoke to a visibly moved Gandhi.
The newspaper, describing the massacre as an ambush, reported that tribesmen armed with spears, arrows and machetes chased women and children across a small river, where attackers were attacked by tribesmen on other side.
"THE STENCH OF rotting bodies is all pervasive," the newspaper said. "So is their presence all over the rice fields that makes taking a walk across an act
"Says a Central Reserve police veteran leading a patrol: It was hard
The Assamese tribesmen's anger was fueled by the killing of six of their children by the immigrants only days before, the newspaper said.
When the more than 6,000 men of the villages returned home to the scene of the carriage late Saturday, the Indian government immediately called out four columns of the army in an attempt to prevent reprisals.
on our younger soldiers. Only those who saw action in Bangladesh could understand.
About 20,000 people throughout Assam were left homeless during the pandemic.
DETAILS WERE NOT immediately available on clashes in rural areas near the state capital, Gaubati, 900 miles east of New Delhi.
Scattered clashes erupted yesterday between Bengali immigrants, who support the current elections, and the rulers, who are boycotting the rols, officials said.
Gandhi flew by helicopter to Nellie, where she visited two relief camps and talked with survivors, officials said.
The massacre occurred Friday and Saturday in Nellie village and a cluster of 14 other hamlets, 60 miles east of Gauhati.
The prime minister then drove 15 miles to the dusty rural area outside the town where she saw the massacre sites and visited one of the improvised hospitals tending to the hundreds of wounded, officials said.
Gandhi also visited nearby Gohpur, frequently hit by riots during the past 21 days. She instructed more paramilitary troops to guard the town, officials said, and approved $500,000 in emergency funds.
Opposition parties — except the Marxists — also boycotted the elections the court was that some of the Kimi's Coalition I candidates won seats uncontested.
ABOUT HALF THE 9 million Assamese were expected to boycott the elections for the state's legislative body. The opposition is to India's lower house of Parliament.
The polls closed yesterday, and tabulations are expected later this week.
House OKs bill freezing unemployment benefits
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - The Kansas House yesterday approved a bill that had been amended in the Senate that would freeze maximum weekly unemployment benefits and would relocate employers to pay additional money into the Employment Security Fund.
In an effort to keep the fund, which pays unemployment benefits, from going broke, the Legislature rushed the bill through the House and Senate so that Gov. John Carlin could sign it yesterday.
frozen at $163, the same as 1982 payments.
Employers under the bill must pay an additional 20 percent into the unemployment fund. And 1983 maximum weekly unemployment payments were
CONTROVERSY SURROUNDED the bill in its trip through the Legislature, because the House included a law to save the unaccompanied fund.
But under the plan, if the unemployment fund reached an $80 million balance by April 30, 1984, the plan would be dropped.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Dawrence, voted for the bill but said some legislators voted for it in order to avoid unemployment issue in the election year.
"I simply cannot support locking us in for two years, because we could come back next year and look at it," she said.
that other alternatives could be examined that might bring money into the fund
Some legislators had suggested during House and Senate debates that the bill be limited to a one-year plan so
An advisory committee comprised of industry and labor had originally asked the House Committee on Labor and Industry to hold the plan to one year.
HIGH DEMANDS had drained the unemployment fund and the Department of Human Resources had warned that the fund would be depleted by November, unless legislation was passed to keep the fund solvent.
Also, some employees had not paid as much into the fund as their laid off employees had received, which reduced the revenue flowing into the
Those employers, referred to as negative balance accounts, will be required to pay an additional 5.4 percent surcharge on top of the 20 percent boost all employees must pay into the fund.
Another provision of the bill would give the Secretary of Human Resources, Harvey Ludwick, the power to
assess additional charges on employers if the unemployment fund balance dipped below $35 million this year.
because of that provision in the bill,
State Rep. David Miller, R-Eudora,
voted against the measure.
"I DON'T THINK it's right to give bureaucrats the right to raise taxes," he said. "The general gist of the bill is that you should pay them more, the secretary the right to raise taxes."
State Teep Athletic Deville, chairman of the fund industry committee, was an early advocate of the unemployment fund measure.
State Rep. Arthur
He said he was surprised that more Democrats did not vote for the bill, because Gov. Carlin had endorsed the plan.
Why go through this whole thing next year, when we're running short of it? Ask them. In reality a one-year plan is a safety for an additional year, if needed.
Dowlie said he strongly supported the two-year plan.
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