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University Daily Kansan, January 26. 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
U.S. Steel loss sets record; down $361 million in 1982
PITTSBURGH - U.S. Steel Corp., the nation's No. 1 steelmaker, said yesterday it lost a record $361-million during 1982, the steel industry's worst year since the Depression.
Steel losses alone totaled $852 million as shipments fell to their lowest levels since 1938, U.S. Steel said.
The expected loss was the steel giant's largest ever and the first since 1979, when it lost $293 million. It resulted from write-offs for plant closings and massive steel operating losses.
"The loss reflects the adverse economic conditions which prevailed for most of our businesses throughout the year, especially depressed steel markets." said U.S. Steel Chairman David Roderick.
In the fourth quarter of 1982, U.S. Steel lost $363 million, compared with a $102 million profit during the same quarter the year before.
The nation's eighth-largest steelmaker, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., yesterday reported a 1982 loss of $58.8 million, compared with a 1981 profit of $60.1 million.
Pope signs new Catholic law code
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II signed a new code of Roman Catholic law yesterday which restricts priests and nuns from politics and from labor unions, recognizes mixed marriages and still technically bans Catholics from activity in Communist parties.
The code is the first new code of law in 66 years and was signed by the pope in a Vatican ceremony.
Venzuuelan Bishop Rosalio Jose Castillo Lara, chairman of the Vatican commission that revised the code, and Cipio Pirotti, a canon law expert, said the new code retained a law banning priests and nuns from attending Mass. The canon law also banned priests and nuns from leadership roles in labor unions.
The new code no longer bans Catholics from marrying non-Catholics as long as the marriages are approved by a bishop.
Gas leak delays Challenger's flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — At least one of space shuttle Challenger's three main engines leaked hydrogen during a test-firing yesterday, forcing a month's delay in the maiden flight of the second space freighter.
Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, associate space agency administrator, said the 24-second firing, a repeat of one that turned up the leak in December, left no doubt that flammable hydrogen gas was leaking into the shuttle's tail section from the engine system.
Challenger's first flight, originally scheduled to start Monday, was delayed until late February. The new findings mean the flight must be postponed until March.
Abrahamson said it might be necessary to conduct another test-firing to pin down the source of the leak. Such a firing might require the removal of one of the engines.
Suit halted; KPL to hire more blacks
TOPEKA — An out-of-court settlement between Kansas Power and Light Co. and nearly 2,000 plaintiffs who said they were discriminated against was a victory for blacks, their attorney said yesterday.
Attorney Fred Phelps Sr. said, "I think it's just wonderful. I can't think of anything that we could have asked for more."
The consent agreement negotiated by the two parties over the weekend and signed Monday by U.S. District Judge Earl O'Connor requires KPL to hire and promote more blacks, in addition to providing employment for the plaintiff in his settlement. The agreement ended the suit in the 10th day of a jury trial.
The class action suit, filed in April 1977, involved KPL employees and job applicants who charged the utility with discriminatory practices.
China spares Mao's wife from death
PEIKING — China yesterday spared the life of Mao Tse-tung's widow, Jiang Qing, commuting the death sentence of the unrepentant leader of the Gang of Four to life imprisonment for crimes committed during the Cultural Revolution.
The decision not to execute Jiang, 69, was made by top leaders some time ago but was not officially announced until yesterday.
Also spared was Zhang Chunqiao, 65, Madame Mao's chief associate, who was sentenced to death Jan.25,1981, at the close of the most spectacular trial in modern Chinese history
China's Supreme People's Court ruled that both Jiang and Zhang had shown "sufficient repentance," an official announcement said.
Arrested in October 1976, Mac's widow was accused of plotting to seize power and of orchestrating the persecution of hundreds of thousands of people.
Kroger, Dillon merge with approval
Dillon, which has headquarters in Hutchinson and operates 219 supermarkets and 350 convenience stores in 12 states west of the Mississippi River, becomes the Dillon division of Kroger under the merger.
CINCINNATI — The Kroger Co., the nation's second largest supermarket chain, was merged yesterday with Dillon Companies Inc., another supermarket chain, when stockholders of both firms overwhelmingly approved the deal.
Kroger, which operates 1,199 supermarkets and 563 drug stores in 19 midwestern and southern states, sought the merger in order to expand to the western United States.
Kroger Chairman Lyle Everingham said the merger was an important step in reducing Kroger's dependence on the industrial midwest.
"We are pleased that our shareowners agree so strongly that this merger will benefit both companies, our shareowners and our customers," he said.
Woman bullied Groucho,man says
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Groucho Marx lived his last years in fear of Erin Fleming, who dominated the comedian through physical abuse and drugs and tried unsuccessfully to become his adopted daughter, a witness testified yesterday.
John Ballow, who worked two years for Marx as a chef, was the second house servant to testify that Fleming controlled and manipulated the comedian.
The Bank of America is the executor of the Marx estate, and is suing Fleming for $1.4 million, accusing her of milking the comedian out of substantial amounts of money and property. Marx died in 1977 at age 86.
Ballow said Fleming once told him. "You only get one chance in life to succeed. I was a success before I came here, but meeting Groucho was a stroke of luck and I'm going to make the most of it."
OPEC glut prompts fear of oil price war
LONDON — An international oil price war loomed yesterday as spot crude prices tumbled on European markets in the aftermath of the OPEC deal.
By United Press International
Non-OPEC Norway and Britain braced for a possible cut in North Sea oil prices that are pegged to the cartel's best-quality crude. The British pound sunk to an all-time low against the dollar.
Saudi Arabian oil minister Sheik Ahmed Zaked Yamiam predicted that North Sea prices will drop by $2 to $3 a barrel in the absence of an
accord in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and set the stage for a pricing free-for-all.
OPEC's summit in Geneva collapsed Monday after its 13 member nations failed to agree on a production plan to keep its $34-a-barrel oil price from cracking in the glittered world oil market.
British Energy Secretary Nigel Lawson said in a BBC radio interview that Britain would not take the lead in cutting prices.
The OPEC stalemate raised fears that a pricing battle could trigger loan
"Everyone is waiting to see who will break first," said a spokesman for the court.
THE BRITISH poulled to a record low yesterday, producing a bonanza for U.S. tourists buying everything from wool to whiskey and raising fears among some economists for the health of Britain's economy
defaults in oil-exporting nations and endanger the international financial system.
The drop was attributed to fears Britain's revenues from the sale of oil drilled in the North Sea would plummet during a price war.
Although the collapse of the OPEC meeting caused the pound to plummet, the stock market bounced back yesterday from its worst loss in three months
with a modest gain in fairly active trading as traders awaited President Reagan's State-of-the-Union address.
WHILE OIL stocks staggered from the collapse of the oil talks, airline issues took off on hopes of lower fuel prices that would boost earnings.
High-technology issues scored with the help of investors who found their prices attractive after the market slide of the past week. The Dow Jones industrial average, which plunged 22.81 Monday, rebounded 11.86 to 1,042.63 on drubbing was the worst setback since the Dow skipped 38.33 on Oct. 25.
ACLU claims prosecution selective in draft cases
By United Press International
WICHITA - A defense successful in California is to be used in the trial of a Mennonite charged with refusing to register for the Selective Service, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union said yesterday.
U. S. District Judge Frank Theis is scheduled Monday to review a motion filed by ACLU lawyers accusing the Justice Department of selective prosecution and asking for dismissal of a case against Charles Robert Epp, a Henderson, Neb., student at Bethel College in Newton.
"THE 13 defendants who have been charged around the country are being illegally prosecuted in violation of their First Amendment rights, because they have been selected for prosecution for their vocal and visible opposition to registration." Arthur Benson II, a lawyer for the ACLU in Kansas City, Mo., said yesterday in a telephone interview.
Benson said the selection procedure by which defendants were chosen for prosecution was the result of the defendants calling attention to themselves through various anti-draft activities — including organizing rallies,
speaking to religious organizations and writing letters to newspapers and government officials.
The government has ignored more than 500,000 men who have failed to register. Benson said. The ACLU motion was filed on Dec. 29, 1982.
Giting religious beliefs, Epp and another Bethel student, Kendal Warkentine, refused to register for the Selective Service and were inducted in September 1982 for failing to register.
WARKENTINE PLEADED guilty in
WARKENTINE His sentencing is scheduled
for March 7.
Benson said if the motion did not work, the ACLU would continue to assist Epp's defense lawyer, Eric Bruce of Wichita, in the trial scheduled to begin Feb. 8.
"We're very serious about this motion," Benson said. "It will be litigated to the end."
The selective prosecution defense was used successfully in the Los Angeles trial of David Wayte. Charges of failure to register for the Selective Service against Wayte were dismissed Nov. 15, 1982.
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