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University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Nicaragua mobilizing militia expecting invasion by exiles
MANAGUA, Nicaragua—Nicaragua yesterday began a military and
business invasion because the government feared a U.S.-backed invasion
by Managua nationals.
Nicaraguan leaders have charged that the joint U.S.-Honduran naval maneuvers starting today in the Caribbean, code-named "Eagle View 81," are a cover for an invasion of Nicaragua by some 5,000 Nicaraguan exiles living in Honduras.
Thousands of soldiers and civilians marched through the capital Monday night shouting political slogans and lightening bonfires to protest the U.S.
Radio stations broadcast strictive calls for nationwide awareness and unity to defend the national sovereignty<sup>1</sup> in between sipets of martial music at events such as the UN's United Nations General Assembly.
Nicaragua, with a 40,000-man army and a 50,000-man militia, last week ordered a month-long mobilization beginning yesterday to prepare for the war on Gaza.
Pentagon spokesmen have said the maneuvers, involving four U.S. and 15 other countries, had duras some practice in repelling a possible invasion by forces based in Cuba.
But Western diplomats in Central America and Mexico have said that maneuvers were a "dry run" for a potential blockade of Cuba that would shut off the island's alleged shipment of weapons to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador.
Kuwait plans record U.S. merger
ALHAMBRA, Calif.—Kuwait plans to buy an American oil drilling firm, Santa Fe International, for $2.5 billion in cash, the largest known supplier of natural gas.
The Alhambra-based company announced Monday that its board of directors, including former President Gerald Ford and former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Roderick Hills, unanimously agreed to the merger with the government-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp.
The proposed acquisition, subject to approval by Santa Fe's shareholders at a Dec. 1 meeting, dwarfs any previously disclosed direct investment in the company.
Estimates in the past week show 'OPEC members already have U.S. holdings worth between $8.8 billion and $200 billion, including up to $53 million.'
Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Commerce Subcommittee investigating Arab investments, said he expected the Interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which is under the Treasury Department, to probe the proposed Santa Fe merger.
Regan savs budget cuts necessary
WASHINGTON—The Reagan administration will not water down the tax cuts. Congress has already passed and it is still committed to $10 billion in tax cuts by 2016.
Ragan, in remarks he prepared for a speech to be delivered today in Los Angeles, said that the tax cuts cuts. We will not hand the taxpayers of this country another broken piece.
Some congressional critics of the tax and budget cuts have urged that some of the tax cuts be deferred until the government trims its deficit.
But Regan said the administration would not reitent in its effort to control the federal budget.
"This administration has addressed virtually every criticism of Washington that the business community has expressed in the past two decades, Regan said. 'In so doing we have created the groundwork of an economic renaissance.'"
Mineral deposits found in Pacific
WASHINGTON - A deposit of copper and other strategic metals valued at more than $2 billion has been found on the Pacific Ocean floor west of San Diego.
Alex Malahoff, chief scientist of the National Ocean Survey, said the discovery and the possibility of other deposits near sea-bottom cracks off the coast of Washington, Oregon and around the world could make a "dramatic turnaround" in the global assessment of accessible mineral denos.
The Russian-born geologist held a flat-stacked chunk of gold recovered 8,250 feet underwater by robot arms of the research submarine Avlin. He said he was one of the few people to recover this type of gold.
Malahoff said the deposit, marked by a forest of stalagmite-looking cones tens of feet high, was at least 130 feet thick, 650 feet wide and 3,200 feet long. It was located along a fracture zone in an undersea ridge 240 miles east of the Galápagos Islands and 360 miles west of Ecuador.
House trims bill, but veto expected
WASHINGTON—The House yesterday trimmed $74 million from a bill that would finance social programs for the poor.
But House Republicans said the bill still did not meet President Reagan's request for additional cuts, and called it "a candidate for veto."
to be accountable. "See Michel, the House Minority Whip, said during debate on the bill.
The bill will award $7.2 billion for the Department of Labor, Health
The bill will allocate $87.2 billion for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Resources, and Education for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
Later yesterday, the house defeated a move by Republican leaders that would have sent the bill back to the Appropriations Committee for additional
"Clearly, the bill before us is a candidate for veto," Rep. Ralph Regula, R-Ohio, said yesterday.
"You said the measure would have to be reduced even though it provided "the safety net for the truly needy that we've heard so much about."
Young must face Marcus in runoff
ATLANTA—Andrew Young, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, yesterday failed to achieve the clear victory he sought in the Atlanta mayor's race.
Young now faces a runoff against Sidney Marcus, a liberal white state legislator.
With returns in from 186 of the city's 183 precincts, Young led the seven-centre field with 43,087 votes or 41.4 percent compared to Marcus' 40,444 or 38.6 percent.
A breakdown of voting patterns showed that Young won 60 percent of the votes in black precincts, but his strategists said he needed at least 70 percent of the vote.
Marcus won from 7 to 10 percent of the black vote and won at least 80 percent of the votes in the all white precincts.
"Ain't gonna stop us now," changed the youths who crowded Young's campaign headquarters last night.
caught headquarters last night.
But Marcus, in a midnight victory speech, told supporters that he might stonen York.
"Several weeks ago, Young didn't know who Sidney Marcus was," Marcus said. "He knows now."
Truman's condition still improving
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Former First Lady Bess Truman has gained weight and her condition is improving. her longtime physician said yesterday
The 86-year-old wife of former President Harry Harry "is much more the same" as Wallace Graham said. "She's looking remarkably well today and her mother is."
Wallace said Truman had gained five pounds since she was admitted to Research Medical Center Sept. 27 after she suffered a mild stroke. Graham said Truman's pulse and blood pressure were still fluctuating but she remained in fair condition.
Truman, the nation's oldest living former first lady, was hospitalized this year after she fell at her home and died during that stay. she also had a stroke and was hospitalized.
Death in Cairo
KU profs predict policy shift Degree of change still uncertain
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
"They haven't been allowed to be who they could be," he said, "because they've been overshadowed by Sadat."
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's assassination will cause a shift in Egyptian foreign policy, but the extent of the attack on several KU professors said yesterday.
George Gawrych, professor of history who specializes in the Middle East, said that the direction Egypt would take was to move the border subordinates have worked in his shadow.
GAWRYCH SAID that the succession of power should go smoothly, at least in the early stages, but he said that the situation was unpredictable.
"There are a lot of things that could happen. We won't be as strongly allied with Egypt," he said.
Carl Lande, professor of political science, said the key question was
Slain leader's funeral march to begin at assassination site
whether Sadat's followers could maintain power. *
Sadat was planning to travel there today to pray for the Moslem feast of sacrifice.
CAIRO, Egypt—President Anwar Saad's funeral Saturday will begin at the same military square where he has been buried, but a burial site has not been selected.
Sadat once expressed the wish to be buried at the foot of Mount Sinai, where, according to the Bible and the Koran, God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses. Sadat liked the area, not only because he considered it holy, but because the recovery of the Sinai from Israeli occupation was the principle fruit of his peace treaty with Israel.
By United Press International
The newspaper Al Ahram said Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mobarak met with Sadat's widow to discuss the burial spot, but did not mention it. The burial site is Sadat's birthplace, the Nile delta village of Mit Abul Kun.
The newspaper said the funeral would begin from the monument of the unknown soldier, at the eastern suburb of Nasr City, where yesterday's military parade and the assassination took place.
"But even if you have succession there is the possibility of a shift in leadership."
Gawrych said that in recent months, Sadat had run into growing opposition from several different groups. Those groups included Islamic fundamentalists, the Egyptian middle class and intellectuals and military leaders who opposed Sadat's peace efforts with Israel.
"There are enough groups opposing his policies that there is discontent." Gawrych said. "Sudat has rulled with an ability to bring about a very limited democracy."
JAREK PIEKALKIEWICZ, professor of political science, said that those groups would be very important to whoever came to power, but he added, "I don't think immediately that anybody can tell."
Several KU professors were hesitant about making any comment because of their views.
"All I know is that all morning he was alive and now he's dead," said Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science. "I tell him that I know enough about it to comment."
The United States also will have to reassess its policy toward the Middle East in general and Egypt and Israel in particular, several professors said.
"It seems to me that a lot of stuff will be deferred a little bit." said Burdett
Loomis, assistant professor of political science.
HE SAID THAT THE sale of AWACS
in Saudi Arabia could be held up by the assessment.
"A lot of sensible legislators might want to back away and see what happens for a couple of months," Loomis said.
Gawrych said, "The immediate effect will be to create a little uncertainty among American policy-makers. We are confident our foreign policy to some extent."
But Piekalkiewicz said that for the present, the U.S. position in Egypt was secure.
"I don't think much is going to change in the attitude toward the U.S. in the near future," he said. "What may be the attitude toward Camp David."
Pikalkiewicz was referring to the Camp David peace accords signed by Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachen Begin and President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Many Arabs criticized Sadat for signing the treaty with Israel.
"I think American policy is going to be more concerned with saving what we've got," Lande said. "It's going to cost us money." CSU's sale, but it's hard to say which way.
Loomis said that the assassination showed how volatile foreign policy can be.
When the guys at Miller asked me to write an ed on writing, I said, "Forget it. Not even if you held a gun to my head. So they were really shouting south. They're a pretty persuasive mom."
"I guess the irony of all this, and what it shows, is the instability of all this."
THUGS TO MUGS
If you're going to write anything, know what you're talking about. And that means three things: Research, research, and more research. The more you know, the more you can tell your reader
Even locations should be based on real things. If you're writing about a bar, know that bar. Hang out there. Watch the bartender. The customers. Whatever they drink, you drink. When they drink Lite Beer, you drink Lite Beer. Remember—research is most fun when you soak up as much subject matter as you can. It can only help you paint a better picture.
Take my characters. A lot of them I base on actual people. There's this buddy of mine who pops up in every book I write. In one story he's a cop. In another, a private eye. Once, I made him a millionaire. Using him not only helped make character development a heck of a lot easier, he was so carried away by the rich image, he bought me a lot of free dinners (and a lot of Lite Beer from Miller). So use the people you know as models.
HI. DOLL
No caper is complete without dames (or ladies in proper English). Experience has shown me that in mystery writing, the sexier the dames, the better. Experience has also shown me that sexy scenes make great punctuation marks. This is where research has the greatest potential. Use your own discretion in this matter. But when you write about it, don't be too explicit. That way, your reader gets to paint a more vivid picture.
CAPER TO PAPER
O. K., you've got your characters, locations, and dames lined up. Now comes the good part: Putting your cape to paper. There's no mystery to it. As long as you write the ending first, the rest will follow. Write short, terse, to-the-point sentences. Be as clear as possible. And make sure you've got the right stuff around for when you get thristy. After all, writing is pretty thirsty work.
I suggest a couple of mugs of Lite Beer- who ever heard of a caper that didn't involve a couple of mugs?
Why Lite Beer? It's a lot like me and my books—great taste, less filling (some people can't get their fill of my books), and always good to spend time with
At any rate, follow my advice and, who knows—you might turn out a heck of a story. Or you might turn out to be a heck of a Lite Beer drinker.
GREAT WRITING STARTS WITH A LITTLE LISTENING,A LITTLE BEER, AND A LOT OF LEGWORK.