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Beirut under worst fire yet; Reagan optimistic about end
BEHRUT, Lebanon - Palestinian and Israeli gunners engulfed East and West Beirut in the heaviest artillery battle of the war yesterday, but President Reagan said there were "reasons for some optimism" that an agreement would be reached to end the Lebanon crisis.
Prime Minister Chetik Wazan arranged a p. 9 p.m. (3 p. m. EDT) truce, ending daylong bombardments that tore through hospitals, residential neighborhoods and military positions on both sides of the divided city and its southern suburbs.
IT WAS THE FIRST time since the Israeli invasion June 6 that East Beirut, controlled by Israel's Christian allies, was bombarded.
Reporters in the field said the exchanges of rocket, tank, and artillery and naval fire were the heaviest use of firepower on the ground so far.
Early reports said 75 people were killed and 180 wounded in the shelling. The military command in Tel Aviv said 28 soldiers were wounded during the attack.
PRESIDENT REAGAN, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, denied that U.S. special envoy Philip Habib set an Aug. 1 deadline for a Palestinian withdrawal from Lebanon and said he hoped a negotiated solution could be reached.
"We've been disappointed before. I think there are reasons for some optimism," Reagan said.
Reagan denies Haig rushed to go
WASHINGTON—President Reagan yesterday denied reports that Alexander Haug's departure expired after a "testy" telephone call before his arrival.
Reagan held a brief question-and-answer session with reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew back to Washington after an 12-day vacation in New York.
Reagan was asked if he had wanted Haig to leave office sooner than he did. Reagan said, "No, he has been most gracious as long as he could be helpful in the transition period, so I, therefore, felt duty-bound to get that over with as quickly as possible so as not to be imposing on him."
Reagan was then asked whether Haig was not still being helpful when he officially resigned.
“Oh, no, he was being very helpful,” Reagan said. “He really was. It was a lust case of I didn't want to impose because he was very generous.”
Reagan made the surprise announcement of Haig's resignation June 25 in his letter of resignation. Haig said he would leave U.S. foreign service after the cabinet set a new
British greet 2.500 royal marines
SOUTHAMPTON, England—Prince Charles and thousands of other proud Britons yesterday cheered the liner Canberra, which was carrying home 2,500 of their "lads"—royal marines who won the Falkland Islands War.
Exultant troops in uniform full uniform the ship's deck and out as the Royal Marine Band played choruses of "Rule Britannia," and red, white
Charles piloted a helicopter out to the Canberra, which was escorted into Southampton water by hundreds of yachts, sailboats, ferries and firebats.
The crowd waved the British Union Jack and held signs saying "Welcome home- well done, lads."
The Canberra, a requisitioned luxury cruise that will now be reftified for regular passenger passengers, was rusty but unscatched after 92 days in the
Seventeen-year-old Commando Martin Tait, the youngest British soldier to serve in the Falklands, grinned when asked what he was going to do first.
"Easy," he said. "Just smile and be glad to be back."
Gandhi's choice may be president
NEW DELHI, India—Former home Zail Singh, the hard-picked choice of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, is expected to be elected India's new prime minister.
The new president will replace President Neetem Sanjivay Reddy, who is retiring after a five-year term.
Singh, 66, who resigned his post last month to campaign for the presidency of the world's largest democracy, would become the first member of the U.S. presidency in more than a decade.
The opposition parties have jointly nominated 70-year-old former supreme court Judge Hans Raj Khannaas as their candidate for president. The balloting is to be completed today, and the new president will be sworn in July 24.
Intended to help strengthen Gandhi's rule over India's 700 million people, Singh has vowed to uphold the prime minister's policies in contrast to his predecessor.
Man slips into Queen's bedroom
LONDON-A man breached Buckingham Palace security, entered Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom, spoke to her for 10 minutes, asked for a cigarette and then was apprehended by a footman, the Daily Express reported today.
The newspaper did not identify the intruder or say when the break-in occurred. However, on Friday, palace guards arrested for the second time a man identified as Michael Fagan. 3 inside the palace. A court ordered him to leave the palace and have a June 7 attempt to steal a half bottle of wine from the Queen's cellar.
Scotland Yard refused to comment on whether Fagan was the intruder mentioned in the Express report. The home office and Buckingham Palace
The Express said the intruder had entered the Queen's bedroom, sat 6 feet from her and talked for 10 minutes.
The queen kept talking calmly to the man, and when he asked for a cigarette, she said that there were none in the bedroom but would ask a footman to get some. She opened the door of her bedroom and summoned a footman, who was on duty in the corridor.
The newspaper said that the queen was "unruffled" and that she later asked about the incident with members of the palace staff.
The newspaper said the breach of palace - security, which was the fourth this year, could lead to calls for the king's reevaluation. William Tullman, secretary of the queen's safety.
Aid to cancer treatment discovered
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A team of Rhode Island scientists has discovered a way to manufacture, more than a thousand times faster, the "magic bullets" that are the most promising and powerful cancer treatment yet envisioned.
Researchers at Brown University and Roger Williams Hospital caution that their discovery is not a cure for cancer but a technical breakthrough that should make it easier to manufacture the bullets, which are substances called monoclonal antibodies.
The "magic bullets" work as homing devices that seek out tumors, slide by normal cells and stick to the surface of cancer cells. Anti-cancer drugs or radioactive atoms could be attached to these antibodies and hitch a ride to the tumor.
Paul Calabrese, one of the researchers, said, however, that the technique was far from perfected. So far it has been used to produce one type of gelatinous material.
NEW ORLEANS - Air traffic controllers issued two warnings of violent wind shifts just before a Pan Am jetliner crashed on takeoff, killing 153 people, and the pilots probably were aware of the hazard but decided they could depart, federal investigators said yesterday.
Tower warned pilots. feds sav
Patricia Goldman, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said authorities had no reason to think the pilots aboard Pan Am flight 759 from Miami to Los Vegas and San Diego were not listening to the ground frequency over which the controllers issued the warnings.
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THE WARNINGS alerted ground traffic at the airport to sudden shifts in air traffic.
The second alert was broadcast a minute later, just seven minutes before the Boeing 727-200 crashed into a residential area of the nearby suburb of Kenner, hurbling debris and flaming jet fuel over a two-block area.
"wind shears." They occur when two bodies of air impinge on each other, often creating turbulence. The shifts can be vertical or horizontal.
Goldman said the first alert of possible turbulent winds was issued approximately six minutes before the plane took off in a heavy thunderstorm.
ALL 145 PEOPLE aboard the jetliner and at least eight people on the ground were killed in the second worst air disaster in U.S. history. More than a dozen homes were destroyed by 1,000-degree flames rolling through the area.
Goldman said co-pilot Donald Pierce
was at the controls during the ill-fated takeoff, but she downplayed speculation that that may have contributed to the crash.
"It is traditional that the co-pilot and plot take turns on certain legs of a plane."
Regardless, she said, the decision whether to continue or delay the flight would belong to the pilot.
"He makes the final decisions since he's flying the plane," she said. "There is not any indication of any irresponsibility."
GOLDMAN SAID THE NTSB had recovered the cockpit recorder, but analysts were having difficulty deciphering the discussions because of background noises caused by windshield wipers on the plane. She said the NTSB had taken
the tapes to the FBI in the hope that sophisticated equipment at that agency could be used to gather evidence.
National Guard troops patrolled the ravaged suburb while masked searchers picked through incinerated remains in the burned-out neighborhood.
Two miles from the crash site, at a Delta Airlines hangar at New Orleans International Airport, pathology experts, coroners and dental experts from Louisiana State University examined victims in an effort to determine identities. Officials believe the process could take weeks.
State health officials were providing free psychiatric counseling to residents and survivors who wanted to talk about their hidden terror.
Only KU cut air conditioning
By NEAL McCHRISTY Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas was the only Board of Regents school that discontinued air conditioning on a large scale because of the 25 percent cut in gas prices and the costs Warren Corman, facilities officer for the Board of Regents, said recently.
Of the six other Regents schools, three managed without supplemental funds, one saved by burning oil instead of natural gas, one dipped into other funds and one stayed within its budget despite the fund decrease.
The four schools using the supplements requested them from the Kansas legislature to help with the increase in utility costs.
THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas discontinued air conditioning in 34 buildings and set thermostats higher than usual in others from May 10 to July 6 because of a $189,779 deficit in requested funds for supplemental utility
Tom Anderson, KU director of facilities operations, said that discontinuing the air conditioning was the only way for the security of Kansas to cope with the deficit.
SWITCHING FUELS helped one university overcome the deficit.
The University of Kansas Medical Center was exempted from the cuts in supplemental appropriations because of a dispute concerning a metering problem, Corman said. The Board of Public Utilities had claimed that the Med Center owed them money because of a problem with the meter, he said.
Kansas State University had stockpiled 466,000 gallons of oil near Salina. The school used the oil to generate electricity for the campus rather than use natural gas, said Fred Ferguson, director of buildings and utilities at K-State. The oil was used from May 10 to July 2, he said.
The saving by using the oil was about 70 million cubic feet of natural gas, Ferguson said.
Emporia State University came up about $6,000 short but used money from an "other operating expenditures" account, which had a small reserve, to make up for the deficit, said John Greene, physical plant director.
Corman said other funds could be used to make up the deficit, as long as salary funds were not used.
Wichita State University, even with the cuts, was able to operate within its budget, partly because of cool weather in June, said Roger Lowe, vice president for business affairs at Wichita State.
FORT HAYS STATE University, Kansas Technical Institute and Pittsburg State University did not even have to request supplemental appropriation.
Fort Hays State instituted an energy conservation plan in 1979, so funds were returned to the state this year, said J. Scott Brown, a geologist at Plant and planning at Fort Hays State.
Jim Friesen, director of operational affairs at Kansas Technical Institute, Salina, said, "We had instituted an energy conservation program earlier, and with the type of weather, we didn't have any supplemental utility request."
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LARRY NOKES. Pittsburgh State's physical plant director, said that Pittsburg State did not have to ask for supplemental appropriations. He credited a computerized energy management system for part of the savings.
With utility bills climbing, some of the utility managers at the schools surveyed said that they did not know how much they paid for deficits as easily in coming years.
Utility bills increase by 25 percent to 30 percent a year and double every four or five years, Corman said. Some legislators are not convinced that the budget is coming from the Board of Regents are doing as much as they should to conserve, he said.
For that reason, a meeting of state legislators and personnel from the schools administered by the Board of Regents is scheduled for July 23 to talk about energy conservation plans, Corman said.
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THE MONEY WAS collected for 10 months in 1981 in the form of a 50-cent water fee attached to users' water bills. The collection stopped in December after an error in the authorizing and filing process. In a special election in May, Lawrence voters decided againstaving the fee.
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In other business, commissioners will set a date for an executive session to discuss the city manager's next evaluation. They will also review a report regarding financing activities for extending Michigan Street.
City manager Buford Watson presented the options to commissioners in a memo Thursday afternoon. The memo listed the refund's methods and costs, ranging from $360 to $2,490.
City Commission to view options on water refunds
City commissioners will discuss at tomorrow's meeting seven options for refunding the $80,000 collected by the city in 2016 for a storm water drainage plan.
The commission meets at a t.p.m. in the commission chambers at the Lawrence City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
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MOODY'S IS COMING TO LAWRENCE
Moody's is an exciting new 21 club that specializes in great drinks, ranging from ice cream specialties to fruit daiquiries. Ladies night will be on Monday and Tuesday with cross the board $1.25 drinks.
Moody's offers a beautiful, relaxed atmosphere with a large dance floor and a plush interior. Come downtown and check us out underneath the Eldridge House at 7th and Mass.
Moody's is a private establishment. Memberships—$20.
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Free hors d'oeuvres on Tuesday 4-6.
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