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University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Cabinet reappoints Sharon to policy committee posts
JERUSALEM — The Israeli Cabinet reappointed Ariel Sharon to two key committees yesterday and triggered opposition outcries that the move had made a mockery of democracy and had spurned the recommendations of the Beirut massacre commission.
At Prime Minister Menachem Begin's insistence, the ex-defense minister was renamed to the steering committee that guided Israeli policy on Lebanon and to the larger ministerial security committee.
The Beirut massacre commission investigated the Sept. 16-18 killing by Lebanese Christian militiamen of hundreds of Palestinians at two west Beirut refugee camps. The commission recommended that Sharon be ousted.
The committee said Sharon, who had ordered the militiamen into the camps to battle remaining Palestinian guerrillas, should draw the appropriate personal conclusions. If necessary, it said, Begin should consider removing him from office.
Sharon left the defense post in response to the report, but Begin kept him in the Cabinet as a minister without portfolio
Two arrested after Seattle murders
SEATTLE — Two young Chinese men were in custody and police sought a third suspect yesterday in the execution-style murder of 13 Asians found bog-tied and shot through the head Saturday at a Chinatown gambling club.
Police think robbery was the motive for the savage slaughter — the worst in Seattle's history
Benjamin Ng, 20, and Kwan "Willie" Mak, 22, Honk Kong natives living in Seattle, were booked on 13 counts of homicide hours after the
Ng was in bed when police arrived. Mak called detectives and surrendered. Police declined to describe the third suspect, still at large.
Police were tipped to the blood bath when its lone survivor, retired cook Wat Chin, 62, was seen staggering in an alley near the private Wah Mee Club about 2:45 a.m. None of the residents of surrounding buildings had heard anything, police said.
Police suspect arson in Aussie fires
SYDNEY, Australia — Police blamed arsonists yesterday for Australia's worst bushfires in nearly half a century. The fires killed at least 70 people and charred an area nearly twice the size of Rhode Island.
Most of the fires that first raged across the southern states of Victoria and South Australia last week were under control yesterday.
However, three stubborn blazes were still burning yesterday. More than 900 firefighters were battling two bushfires near Melbourne and one near Adelaide.
As millions of Australians took part in church services for victims of the fires, police said the body of a man had been found. The discovery brought the official death toll to 70.
Don Plant, police chief superintendent of Victoria, said he thought that arsonists touched off fires which, in his state alone, killed 44 people and rendered 8,000 others homeless.
EPA official purged crucial memo
WASHINGTON — A former Environmental Protection Agency official said yesterday he purged from agency computers an agency memorandum central to the Congressional investigation of the agency's toxic dump cleanup program
Two House subcommittee chairmen said they were concerned information being sought by Congress may have been destroyed.
Eugene Ingolid, a former top aide to fired top EPA official Rita Lakota, has said that has become public in the same way EPU computers are routinely used.
The memo was cited by EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch as one reason why she had Miss Liavie lured by President Reagan two weeks
Ingold, fired when Miss Lavelle was, said that what he eliminated amounted to "about a page and a quarter of notes to be used by Miss Lavelle for a meeting on management problems."
PLO leader resigns from parliament
ALGIERS, Algeria — A leading Palestinian "dove" who wants the guerrilla movement to recognize Israel resigned yesterday from the Palestinian parliament in-exile because Yasser Arafat prevented him from speaking, sources said.
Issam Sartawi said he would remain in the PLO because it "is the sole representative of the Palestinian people."
Sartawi, often used by Arafat as a diplomatic messenger, accused the Falestine Liberation Organization chief of "violating the principles of democracy."
"I am authorized to say 'well done' about the resignation." PLO spokesman Ahmed Abdul-Rahman said in announcing that the council had accepted the resignation. "Sartawi has expressed views that do not represent the view of his leadership."
Sartawi was among several speakers waiting to address the council Saturday when Arafat proposed that debate be closed.
Union OK likely only for Mondale
Mondale, who is scheduled to formally enter the race tomorrow, has always enjoyed strong backing from union groups and may be the only candidate able to win the two-thirds support of the AFL-CIO by December.
BAL HARBOUR, Fla. - Former Secretary Ray Marshall said yesterday that only former Vice President Walter Mondale had sufficient labor strength to win a pre-primary presidential endorsement from the AFL-CIO
Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., an announced candidate, and Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., a contender who has not yet announced his candidacy, are scheduled to address the council.
Two other democratic hopefuls, Sen Gary Hart of Colorado, who announced last week and former Florida governor Reubin Askew, who will officially announce on Wednesday, will not address the council.
Chicago Democrats face close race
The voters are playing their cards close to the vest this year as they consider candidates Mayor Jane Byrne, State's Attorney Richard Daley and Rep. Harold Washington.
CHICAGO — Even veteran politicians are reluctant to predict the outcome of tomorrow's Democratic mayoral primary.
The polls show Byrne ahead but slipping as she tries to hold the reins of the nation's "Second City." But none of the candidates say they put much stock in the polls.
In some wards, both Byrne and Daley forces claim to be comfortably ahead, indicating voters either are misleading the politicos or have not made up their minds.
There is no confusion, however, about voter interest. Election officials say applications for absentee ballots are running about the rate normally expected for a presidential election and a turnout of 1 million — or 70 percent — is predicted.
Tests reveal higher dioxin levels
WASHINGTON — Preliminary results of the latest round of tests to determine the presence of highly toxic dioxin in Times Beach, Mo., have disclosed levels far higher than those from earlier samplings. Environmental Protection Agency officials said yesterday.
By United Press International
Officials of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have said they considered any detectable level of dioxin, which usually can be traced at 1 part per trillion, to be a potential health risk and that levels of more than one
THE DIOXIN at Times Beach originated from contaminated oil sprayed on roads in eastern Missouri for dust control in the early 1970s by salvage oil operator Russell Bliss of Rosati, Mo.
EPA officials said the latest sampling results, which have yet to be validated, revealed levels of the cancer-causing agent of more than 550 parts per billion.
Biss picked up large quantities of the dioxin-laden oil from a southwestern Missouri chemical plant and sprayed it on roads and horse arenas at numerous locations in the state, creating what federal and state officials now call a long range health threat.
part per billion were considered to be a significant health risk
The dioxin in Times Beach became perhaps the most pressing of 22 sites in the state now confirmed to contain dioxin because of recent flooding that may have washed the substance into places where humans may be exposed. Much of the town was evacuated following the flooding.
EPA officials said in the first round of testing months ago that samples were taken from the edge of the road Bliss sprayed and that the highest levels detected were about 100 parts per
'We'll just have to wait until EPA gets off their duff and decides to tell us what everyone else knows.'
—Times Beach alderman
billion. The officials said samples were taken from the edge of the road in the city.
IN THE LATEST round, samples were taken from the oiled gravel pavement and the quantities of dioxin were much higher.
William Hedeman, director of the EPA's Superfund, for cleanup of the
nation's worst hazardous waste sites, said Friday he was still awaiting the report.
Missouri officials yesterday said they had not given any of the results of a survey conducted by the U.S. Department.
"As far as I know, if that reports of results is accurate information, it is of a preliminary nature and I can't confirm or deny it. " said LaFauser.
"EPA and CDC have basically said that as soon as they had completed all their quality checks on the data they'd make it available," said Fred Lasser, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in St. Louis.
Times Beach, Alderman Harold Goodman said. "We were told that we would be the first to know. But, as usual, the press is. We'll just have to go and EPA gets of their duff and decides to tell us what everyone else knows."
Nakasone carries pro-U.S. policy further
By United Press International
TOKYO — Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's statement that he would allow U.S. forces to blockade three strategic straits even if Japan were not other Soviet attack heightened confrontation yesterday over his pro-American stand.
Nakasone's remark at a hearing Saturday in the lower house of the Diet, or parliament, went a step further than the traditional policy that a joint U.S.-Japanese naval operation could have prevented. If Japan was attacked by Soviet forces
Japan and the Soviet Union have not signed a peace treaty formally ending World War II because of Japanese demands that Moscow return four
northern islands occupied by Soviet forces.
THE THREE straits, Soya, Tsushima and Tsugaru, are strategic-member, Defense Agency chief Kazuo Taninaka, who told the same Budget office that Japan would decline such a rule even the nation itself was under attack
"Unilateral blockade of the three straits by U.S. forces could easily get Japan involved in a war," one critic said.
THE STATEMENT by Nakasone, who pledged close military ties with the United States when he met President Reagan in January, protested protests from crites who charge that the prime minister was enrolbed in the U.S. global strategy.
A nationwide survey conducted last week by the mass-circulation Asahi newspaper showed 43 percent of the respondents would not support the incumbent administration, compared with only 29 percent in favor.
After three months in office, the Nakasone administration's popularity rating has plunged to a record low and is now under control. Joseph's fate with that of the United States.
Japan is not under attack is like
mulling off the safety pin. he said
The previous low was held by the government of Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, who got only 31 percent of support after three months in office. ally important because they regulate movement by ships of the Soviet Union's Pacific Fleet based at Vladivostok to the Pacific Ocean and
"The use of the language 'even if'
American policy planners consider the straits crucial bottlenecks that could be blockaded in the event of a military conflict with the Soviet Union
the South and East China Seas
Nakasone, who became the nation's chief executive in November, was asked by Communist Party legislator Mituo Gihashikawa if Japan would accept a U.S. request for the blockade of the three straits by American forces.
"In principle, the United States must have Japan's concurrence." Nakasone said. "But, when it is judged that an enemy attack is impending, or when Japanese vessels were heavily damaged, it identified aircraft, the answer is 'yes.'"
Nakasone's statement contradicted testimony given by his own Cabinet.
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Key for Program Discontinuance
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Effects of Reduced OOE on Program Quality Professor James Carothers
Possible Problems in the Future
Professor Joel J. Gold
Questions from the Audience
Paul Mackenzie Performance Management Consultant
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