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University Daily Kansan, February 2, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
U.S. and Honduras begin war games near Nicaragua
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The United States and Honduras opened their biggest joint military exercises ever near the border of Nicaragua, which branded the war games a "propagation."
Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova, other national officials and foreign diplomats flew to the swamps of eastern Honduras for the opening of the six-day maneuvers, code-named Big Pine.
Some 1,600 U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force personnel joined 4,000 Honduran soldiers in the $2.5 million exercise to simulate the rescue of a Honduran battalion attacked and surrounded by an enemy force.
Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government, which refused a Honduran invitation to send observers, has called the exercises a "new provocation" and claims Big Pine is a preparation for an invasion of Nicaragua.
The official Sandinista party newspaper, Barricada, in Managua noted that the beginning of the maneuvers coincided with a deterioration of the situation for the government in neighboring El Salvador.
Defense activities aid U.S. economy
WASHINGTON - A surge in defense business pushed new orders for factory goods up 4.8 percent in December, the government reported yesterday.
It was the strongest gain in $2\frac{1}{2}$ years and a boost for Reagan administration's claims of economic recovery.
However, the report's luster as an indicator of economic activity was tarnished because the gain came from defense activities. Without that, orders would have declined 0.1 percent from November, the Commerce Department reported.
The strong $7.3 billion order increase came atop a particularly weak base, bringing the month's total to only $157.6 billion. The 4.8 percent increase was largely driven by a
The gain came too late to prevent the 1982 order level from finishing
6.4 percent below the 1981 total.
North Korean troops placed on alert
TOKYO — North Korea ordered its armed forces on semi-war alert yesterday, and accused South Korea of firing on a communist plane in an attack coinciding with joint war games by U.S. and South Korean forces.
The alert order, issued by North Korean ruler Kim Il-Sung and broadcast by the North Korean Central news agency, came a day into annual joint military exercises by 188,000 U.S. and South Korean troops. Korea watchers in Tokyo said it was the first such order since the end of the Cold War.
Kim ordered the country to stay on alert until mid-April, when the maneuvers are scheduled to end, the broadcast said.
In a separate broadcast, North Korea charged South Korean forces with firing 300 rounds of anti-aircraft gunfire at a North Korean plane over the island of Hainan.
Andropov rejects summit proposal
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Yuri Andropov yesterday rejected President Reagan's proposal for a summit meeting based on Washington's zero-option disarmament plan for Europe.
"Can one seriously speak about a proposal according to which the Soviet Union would have to scrap unilaterally all its medium-range missiles, while the United States and its NATO allies would retain all their air assets," asked in an interview with the Communist Party newspaper. Pravda.
Under the zero-option plan, France and Britain would keep a total of 162 medium-range nuclear missiles, while the Soviet Union and the United States would have 87.
Andropov warned that if U.S. plans to deploy 572 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles were carried out this year, Moscow would "answer the question."
Gulf oil producers may slash prices
KUWAIT — OPEC's Persian Gulf oil producers warned yesterday they would reduce their crude by 84 a barrel in a week if the carrel did not end its production and pricing deadlock, reported the government-run Kuwait news agency.
The action could drop U.S. retail gasoline prices by 9 cents a gallon. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' summit in Geneva collapsed last week after its members failed to agree on a plan to lower production to 17.5 million barrels a day.
The news agency quoted an "authoritative Gulf oil source" as saying the non-OPEC Gulf states of Bahrain and Oman would join Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar in reducing prices.
An official at OPEC headquarters in Vienna said there was no confirmation of reports the carlard would meet next week.
Federal workers off to hail Redskins
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has granted federal workers in the Washington area two hours of administrative leave with pay today so they can attend a parade to celebrate the Washington Redskins' Super Bowl win.
A parade was planned down Constitution Avenue today to commemorate the Redskins for their 27-17 win over the Miami Dolphins.
The employees will be given time off between noon and 2 p.m., a White House press spokesman told reporters aboard Air Force One yesterday shortly before Reagan returned from a trip to St. Louis.
The president and first lady Nancy Reagan welcomed the Redskins back home Monday night at Dulles International Airport.
Veterans sell Falkland war medals
LONDON — Some veterans of the Falkland Islands war are selling medals awarded for heroism and bravery for "easy cash," reports said yesterday.
Spinks of Westminster, a medals dealer, received $400 — the highest known price — for one of the medals. Spinks said it had sold three medals that had been awarded to Scots Guardsmen.
Another London antique dealer, Norman Collett, said he was offering $1,600 for a medal awarded to anyone in the elite Special Air Service during last year's 74-day war with Argentina over the south Atlantic islands.
London newspapers said that other medals had been sold by at least one Welsh Guardman as well as by members of the merchant navy and
It is illegal for an active member of the British armed forces to sell a bravery medal because technically it is part of his military uniform.
Collett said he expected the price of the medals to decline over the years as more soldiers retired and more medals went on the market.
Senate confirms Dole as transportation chief
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday unanimously confirmed the nomination of Elizabeth Dole as Transportation Department secretary, the first woman to serve as a member of President Reagan's cabinet.
By United Press International
Dole, wife of Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., succeeds Drew Lewis, who left the Cabinet to take a high-paying post with Warner Communications Inc. Her most immediate problem will be the federal government's role in the truck strike by independent truckers, which flared into violence Monday.
The Senate voted 97-0 to approve her nomination. Only Sens. Strom Thurmond, R-S-C, and Nancy Kassbeau, on the nomination before the vote.
Thurmond said, "In this post, as in others, she will serve her country and the people."
KASSEBAUM TOOK the moment to praise Washington Redskins running back John Riggins — the hero of the Super Bowl — a "native son" of Kansas, and Dole, the "adopted daughter" of her state.
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The Doles become the highest-ranking couple in government, with Mrs. Dole making about $80,000 and her husband making about $60,000.
Reagan nominated Mrs. Dole, 40, while she was White House assistant for public liaison. She previously served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission and presidential assistant for consumer affairs.
She is the first of two women Rengan nominated to the Cabinet.
THE SENATE still must consider the nomination of former Rep. Margaret Heckler, R-Mass., who was defeated for re-election in November. She was also to succeed Richard Schweiker as Health and Human Services secretary.
Heckler's nomination has not yet been confirmed by the Senate.
At her confirmation hearing, Mrs. Dole said auto safety would be the foremost mission of the department under her stewardship, and said she was personally involved in areas of drunk driving, seat belts and infant seats.
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NORTONVILLE — A propane truck carrying three people sidet into the path of an oncoming Santa Fe train yesterday, killing two of the men and injuring the third in an explosion that flew off the hoops of two train engines.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department reported two passengers in the truck were killed. They were identified as Greg
A witness to the aftermath of the accident on the south side of Nortonville's downtown said the truck was demolished and the engine hoods were torn off. The truck is owned by Rural Gas Co.
Weishaar, 19, of Nortonville and Gary Carroll, 30, of Atchison.
A SPIKESMAN for a Winchester hospital said the injured passenger was transferred to the University of Medical Center in serious condition.
The accident occurred about 3:40 p.m. Nortonville is 37 miles north of Lawrence.
Kansas Highway Patrol Lt. Paul Wade said firefighters from nearby Winchester and Nortonville were among those killed in a hampered by snow-scovered roads.
The propane tank reportedly was lying under one railroad car and the truck tractor was beneath a second car. There were no reports of injuries to the train passengers or crew.
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BARKLEY CLARK'S STATISTICIAN IS STILL FALLIBLE
While recently trolling in the park on yet another uneventful day, my compatriots and I had our perennial丝里獭 rudely interrupted. Stumbling towards us, shaking with laughter, was a provocateur whom I knew to be forever on the prowl. Being already aware of this miscreant's relative instability, I really wasn't surprised to find that his outburst was due to a single sentence. This chap—a negativist, you understand—had always felt that my recollections of past jousts were . . . uh . . . flawed, and his joy on this particular occasion was the result of him encountering a statement by City Commissioners who he had repeatedly used as measure of the Uniform Daily Kansan which apparently confirmed that thesis. Said Commissioner Clark of the viewpoints I vailed after the City Commission: "I think he's wrong almost 100% of the time." Although none of us marginalia mean to be uppity, we do collectively hold that even statisticians employed in the societal stratosphere occasionally make mistakes and that Commissioner Clark's sweeping sentence is the result of several such errors.
For instance, some two and a half years ago, several City Commissioners appeared willing to use $10 to 25 million of public funds to construct a privately owned shopping mall downtown. I suggested to Commissioner Clark in a public forum that our city government, by implementing this proposal, would be assuming the responsibility for the management of the government in a capitalist country the agent of the capitalist class. Commissioner Clark responded not with a direct answer but with a rhetorical question deading with industrial revenue bonds.
A short time before this same period in the past, the Kansas Legislature had approved a bill permitting cities to issue industrial revenue bonds in conjunction with tax increment financing for downtown projects. Commissioner Clark, who had been instrumental in the creation of the tax increment law, described it "a tool for cities to use to save downstates." The Tax Increment Financing Act required that a city's governing body first declare the area to be developed "blighted" and then seek approval from the general and economic welfare" of the affected city. When in an advertisorial, I pointed out that the four square block area slated for destruction was neither "blighted" nor in need of development ("to promote (our) general . . . welfare", Commissioner Clark didn't take issue with my claim.
Commissioner Clark understandably thought I was impugning all developers in my recent description before the Commission of benefit district financing as "naked dishonesty". After explaining that my statement was directed, not at individuals but at the benefit district financing phenomenon itself which, like the legitimized racial segregation of yesteryear, is incompatible with the principles upon which our country was founded, Commissioner Clark didn't appear to disagree with me and is now one of the several City Commitmenters trying to deceive a mechanism which will wring from delinquent developers their unpaid special assessments.
Although I'll be genuinely sorry to see Commissioner Clark, a fine teacher and dedicated public servant, leave the Commission in April, the sooner that fount of misinformation, his mischievous statistician, goes, the better.
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