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University Daily Kansan, September 18, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Powerful car bombs kill 35, injure 110 in Lebanese towns
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Two powerful car bombs, one in south Lebanon and the other in the north, destroyed a Palestinian guerrilla office and a cement factory yesterday, killing at least 35 people and injuring 110 more.
A group calling itself the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners, claimed responsibility for both blasts.
However, the Palestine Liberation Organization accused Israel of planting the bomb that destroyed an office jointly by the PLO and Lebanese forces.
Palestinian officials said 25 people were killed and 100 wounded in the Sidon blast.
In the northern town of Chekka, police said, 10 people were killed and 10 injured by a car bomb at a cement factory run by a former Lebanese
Officials said the blast at Sidon, 27 miles south of Beirut, was caused by 265 pounds of TNT concealed in a car in front of the joint headquarters of the Islamic State in Syria.
Four guerrillas were among the dead at Sidon, sources said. The remainder were civilians passing through the neighborhood where the office
"The bomb attack is part of the Israeli aggressive plot within the war of annihilation against the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples," the PLO said.
Republicans ask for defense cuts
WASHINGTON—President Reagan may have trouble holding the support of moderate House Republicans unless he seeks $9 billion in defense cuts rather than the $2 billion he proposed, several representatives said yesterday.
The group of more than 30 Northern, moderate Republicans said budget director David Stockman was on their side this time.
Reagan has said he would propose no more than $2 billion in defense cuts for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, but the group said a minimal defense cut would mean larger reductions in programs such as fuel assistance. Social conservatives have pointed out that the president 'pict in the sky', one representative said. "We think it's a reasonable figure."
Reagan holds infcrmal summit talks
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- President Reagan met informally yesterday with his counterparts from Canada and Mexico to press his case for energy reform.
Details of his meetings with Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo and Pierre Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, were not released, but Reagan said. "We haven't changed the course of the world at all. We just had a good time."
The leaders were in Michigan to attend today's dedication of the Gerald R. Ford Museum.
White House spokesmen said Reagan planned to discuss events in Central America during his meeting with Portillo. The United States takes a much more cautious approach.
With Trudeau, Reagan planned to discuss air pollution, the Alaskan
nineeline and Canada's energy policy.
WASHINGTON—Sponsors of a Senate resolution to defeat President Reagan's proposed weapons sale to Saudi Arabia said yesterday that they had 51 members—a majority—as co-signers. But one senator later issued a denial.
An aide to Sen. H.I. Hayakawa, R-Calif., said the senator was "leaning against" the weapons sale, but had not agreed to co-sponsor the resolution.
resolution. A tie vote on the controversial measure would mean Vice President George Bush, president of the Senate, could break the tie.
The Senate is considered the key to success for Reagan's weapons sale to Saudi Arabia, America's largest oil supplier.
House opponents of the arms sale said 253 members supported their own resolution, 35 more than the 218-vote major们 needed to defeat the package.
But a vote of both the House and the Senate is needed to kill the weapons sale.
Agency nixes postal rate increase
WASHINGTON - The Postal Rate Commission, for the third time this year, yesterday refused to increase the cost of mailing a first class letter to
In a 3-1 decision, the independent regulatory agency rejected the U.S. Service's request to increase the cost from 18 to 20 cents, a move the service had been planning for.
The postal service said it would face a $600 million deficit if it did not get the rate increase.
And William Bolger, postmaster general, said the American public could face a 28-first-class stamp next year if the postal service did not impose
Racial comment offends attornevs
WASHINGTON—More than 100 department of Justice attorneys early this week sent a petition to Attorney General William F.rench屏保护 a testimony.
The petition asked Smith to "repudiate the racially offensive statements" made in a memo by Robert D'Aresino, a deft assistant attorney general.
In the July 21 memo, D'Agostino disputed a government claim that black school children had been "improperly classified as emotionally disturbed."
"Why improperly?" D'Agostino wrote, "Blacks, because of their family, cultural and economic background are more disrupted in the classroom on
Missionary murdered in Guatemala
A U.S. Embassy spokesman identified the murdered man as John Troyer, 24 of Mia, Mich., who had worked in Guatemala for seven years as a Menonite.
GUATEMALA CITY—Terrorists ransacked an American missionary's home Wednesday, then shot him to death in front of his wife and five children.
Troyer, whose body was shipped home for burial Wednesday, was the third American killed in Guatemala in less than two months.
Gary Miller, another Mennonite missionary, was in satisfactory condition yesterday after being wounded in the chest during an attack Monday
Terrorists strike chemical plant
Government sources predicted terrorism against U.S. installations may increase in coming months. They said there had been a "considerable falloff" in U.S. military troop numbers since Tuesday's commandeer attack in Heidelberg against Gen. Frederick Kroesen, commander in chief of the 250 U.S. Army forces in Europe.
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said yesterday that terrorists struck a Dow Chemical Co. office in West Germany, bringing the number of terrorist attacks to 123.
Pentagon officials said no one was killed in the incident but they refused to elaborate.
Correction
Because of a reporting error in yesterday's Kansan, Michael Kelly, author of "The Fitness Factor", quoted as saying his wife, Buzzie Gentry, did not have enough training.
The story also said that lifting weights would increase blood pressure, but it should have said, that it would increase pulse rate.
Commission asks to see harassment draft
By CATHERINE BEHAN Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is working hard on its sexual harassment policies but needs to look for more student input, Gaul Boaiz, president of the Commission on the Status of Women said last night.
"The University is anxious to pass the policies," Boaz told about 10 people at a meeting in the Kansas Union. "We have made some effort to get some student input."
The commission asked the University to involve students in the development of a policy for sexual harassment last spring, Boaz said.
The University seemed eager to involve the students, she said, but has
The University sent the proposed policies to the University Senate executive committee which has three representatives, all men, Bozx said.
"They want input, but they're not making any effort to get it."
"Do we rewrite and submit our own policy?" she asked. "We don't know until we see the policy.
not given the commission a copy of the proposed drafts yet.
"That's fine, but we want to use a committee that hasn't yet been established."
The new committee would be called "KU Coalition Against Sexual Harassment," she said, and would continue to educate student concerns about the issue.
"With this group, we could find out
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just how extensive the problem of sexual harassment is at KIU" she said.
"It's a good sign that the University even came to SenEx with it," Adkins said. "It needs work, but the administration is basing its final decision on our input."
However, David Adkins, SenEx student representative, said SenEx had reviewed the proposed policies and was going to appoint a committee today.
sexual harassment is at a KU," she said. "The burden of an issue for on-ground to decide."
"The draft report is a loose document and is not very specific," Adkins said. "We aren't going to draft a new proposal but suggest some changes. The committee will really look at the problem."
The committee will consist of two students, one graduate student and one undergraduate, one faculty member, and member of the Classified Senate and someone who has worked with the problem professionally.
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