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University Daily Kansan, March 29, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Salvadoran rebel offensive closes some polls; 74 killed
SAN VALDADOR, El Salvador—Hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans waited in lines up to a half-mile long to vote in crucial elections yesterday, but all-out rebellive offensive killed at least 74 people and forced polls to close in a proclinical capital and five other towns.
At least 14 soldiers, 13 civilians and 15 rebels died in bloody guerrilla raid on five San Salvador suburbs, and another 32 people were slain in five eastern provinces in the worst violence since the rebels' January 1981 offensive, which left 1,000 dead.
In San Salvador and in provincial cities, voters ducked bullets and evaded guerrilla blockades to cast their votes in elections for a 60-seat constituent assembly pitting the ruling Christian Democrats against five rightist parties.
The Reagan administration supports the elections as the first step in calming political and military tensions in the battle-torn Central American
the leftist rebels are boycotting the election, saying that civil war makes it impossible to hold balloting.
The newly elected assembly would have the power to form a provisional government, write a new constitution and call for presidential elections as well.
The fiercest combat erupted yesterday in the provincial capital of Usulutan, 66 miles southeast of San Salvador, where at least 10 soldiers were killed and 15 others seriously wounded in house-to-house combat that forced polls to close.
Electoral commission officials said they would try to conduct voting in Usulutan today or tomorrow.
Reagan to back nuclear arms talks
WASHINGTON—President Reagan is expected to endorse a call for a negotiated and gradual U.S. Soviet arms reduction when he holds a joint statement with Russia.
The president has rejected calls for an immediate freeze on nuclear arms, arguing that such a precondition would be 71 members of the House and Senate. The United States Department of Justice has said.
Reagan also rejected Soviet President Leonid Breznev's offer to freeze deployment of nuclear weapons because he said it didn't go far enough.
According to White House aides, Reagan instead favors a resolution now circulating on Capitol Hill that calls for negotiations with Moscow to seek long-term weapons reductions and then to freeze the armaments at a certain point, presumably after Soviet superiority wanes.
The resolution urges the administration to "propose to the Soviet Union a long-term, mutual and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply
Junta jails two top police chiefs
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemala's new military junta jailed two top police chiefs in a purge of clandestine death squads, and gunmen to death another feared police chief in a highway ambush, officials said yesterday.
Authorities said Benedicto Santos, chief of National Police Command Six, was ambushed and killed as he was driving on a highway about 30 miles east.
Santo's assassination as the new three-man military junta an-
nounced in May 2013. The killing of General Manuel Martinez and Carlos Eunique Sotuley, polls chief of the eastern province of Zacateca.
"The junta is trying to get rid of the paramilitary groups," said army spokesman Jaime Rabanles.
The new junta praised its coup as a move to restore democracy to Guatemala, which is considered vital to U.S. strategic interest because of its importance in the region.
Gunmen kill Ulster police inspector
LONDONDERY, Northern Ireland — Two gunmen riding a motorcycle shot and killed a police inspector in front of his two sons yesterday as he left the scene.
The Londonderry unit of the outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the killing.
About 15 IRA members have turned informer in recent weeks, leading to a number of arrests and several discoveries of big caches of arms and ex-
The inspector, Norman Duddy, 45, had been a policeman for 28 years and was stationed in Londonderry for 23 years.
Despite the sectarian nature of Ulster's troubles—tension between the 2 million Protestants and 1 million Catholics—assaults and attacks at places
Draft registration evaders sought
WASHINGTON—The government is tracking down men who have failed to register for the draft, Selective Service System Director Thomas Turnage
The Justice Department is prepared to prosecute nonregistrants who do not respond to letters directing them to turn in their names to the govern-
The most recent completed registration forms are being processed by the Selective Service, Turnage said. Once the review is complete, the agency will compare its list of registrants with Internal Revenue Service documents to identify members to identify 18-year-olds who have not complied with registration laws.
Turnage estimated that 93.6 percent of the nearly 8 million young men required to register have done so. The Selective Service estimates 355,000 have failed to register, but opponents of registration place the number at about 800,000.
Rep opposes curbing Soviet agents
WASHINGTON—There is a growing awareness of the presence of Soviet intelligence agents on Capitol Hill, but a House subcommittee chairman said that there are no evidence of such agents.
Rep. Don Edwards, D-Callif, said that, to his knowledge, no Soviet agents and tried to contact him or his office, but that they had attended some of his meetings with the KGB.
Edwards said he opposed legislation to restrict the movements of Soviet agents on Capitol Hill and that the Reagan administration was "fanning the fire" in support of his views.
"For the first time in history, Reagan is unleashing the CIA within the United States, and it is probably against the law," Edwards said. "This is something we must do."
Killer of six given death sentence
RENO, Nev.—A jury of seven women and six men yesterday sentenced Palencia Fife to a gas chamber for barreling her car down a roadway and killing and killing others.
It took the jurors 26 hours to decide Ford's penalty, more than twice as long as it took them to decide her guilt.
She was convicted on six counts of first-degree murder and 28 counts of attempted murder for ramming her car into tourists crowding downtown Reno sidewalks Thanksgiving Day, 1980. The panel returned six separate death sentences.
At an April 29 hearing, Judge John Barrett will impose formal sentencing and also will decide the sentences Fondt must serve for the 23 counts of at-
Appeal to the death sentence is automatic under Nevada law.
Crowd awaits shuttle landing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.- The plots of the space shuttle Columbia checked out their ship yesterday and found it in top shape to end their weeklong space voyage with a touchdown today in New Mexico.
By United Press International
Meanwhile, in New Mexico,
thousands of people waited in a miles-
long caravan of cars, vans and campers
in the air; army missile base to
see the landing.
Mission control told astronauts Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton that the weather would be good when they landed. NASA said they will fly Columbia in from its third mission.
Columbia was scheduled to land on the dusty gypsum desert surface at White Sands, N.M., at 2:27 p.m. EST, seven days, three hours and 27 minutes after its blastoff from the Florida spaceport last Monday.
The throng, some wearing T-shirts saying "Viva Columbia," turned the normally inhospitable sand and sagebrush into a small city replete with barbecue grills, volleyball nets, softball and horseshoe throwing contests.
entry tomorrow was 100 percent successful," said Harold Draughon, the flight director who will guide Columbia in.
"All the testing we did today for re-
The shuttle buffs began waiting Saturday outside the gate that was to open at dawn, to allow 50,000 of them to a viewing site on the base.
Extra state troops, all available city and county policemen, a 20-member National Guard Unit, about 450 soldiers, and four teamed teams on duty to handle the estimated 150,000 people expected to watch the landing from the Army base, the nearby White Sands National Monument and from vantage points in the area.
By last night, state police said, 2,000 vehicles were lined up outside the
Army's White Sands Missile Range and the civilian convoy was growing by the hour. Beer parties, card games and sine-alons lasted until the wee hours.
"I drove 1,482 miles to get here. It's one of those once-in-a-lifetime deals," said August "Mack" Macki of Michoach, Mich. "I've had a ball out here."
The shift in Columbia's landing site last week from California to New Mexico created an unusual air of excitement and festivity in Alamogordo, Tularao and Las Cruces, the three communities nearest the 4,000-square-mile desert missile range.
Las Cruces Mayor David Steinborn declared the Columbia's return a holiday and urged residents to fly red, white and blue streamers to welcome the astronauts back from their weeklong mission in space.
Vendors hawked T-shirts, caps,
bumper stickers and more exotic off-
erings like "shuttle cakes," "shuttle
weeds," or "shuttle dirt" to the crowd:
The Army, after pressure from Washington, agreed to open a base viewing area five miles from Columbia's runway. But it repeatedly warned employees of the risk. "dud" bombs and rattlesmakes and told them to bring their own food and water.
Panel warns of more energy shortages
By KEVIN HELLIKER
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Political upheaval in the Mideast will cause America to undergo painful energy shifts. James McCure, RHDA, said Friday.
"But don't be fooled by the price of gas going down," he said. "National upheaval in Mideastern countries will result in another crisis."
Speaking at an energy conference partially sponsored by the University of Kansas, McClure, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said the current low price of electricity is a concern for forgetting about energy conservation.
"The American public has the attention span of a 3-year-old," McClure said. He blamed the press for not keeping energy on the public's mind.
To illustrate America's vulnerability
to Midaleast politics, McClure pointed out that "gas prices doubled overnight" at the time.
McClure and several other speakers at the conference said the most crucial step toward establishing America's energy independence would be for the government to decontrol the price of gasoline and ease laws regulating such alternative energy sources as coal and nuclear power.
During a panel discussion marked by frequent criticisms of the Carter administration and endorsements of President Reagan, several panel energy regulations to an overly cautious industry that did not trust private industry.
"We don't have a Jane Fonda on our side," said John Sumunu, president of the family.
Sumuni said private industry needed someone like Fonda to improve its business.
would form the energy policy of the '80s.
Although private industry now has many answers to the energy crisis, Sununu said, "it is no good to be right if we're right all alone."
Citing one example in which private industry had been "right all alone," Sununu said General Motors had tried to prepare for the gas shortage by creating the compact Chevrolet Corvair in the early '60s.
But, Sununu said, a leading consumer advocate condemned small cars as being unsafe, severely damaging Corvair sales.
"Ralph Nader drove the first steps of this nation to go to a small car quite literally into oblivion," Sununu said, stirring apolase.
Another speaker on the panel, John Conlon, a vice president of the AMAX Coal Company, said coal could become an alternative to gas if the government eased clean air laws.
Among those at the conference concerned with energy research were about 20 people from KU, including one of the KU Energy Research Center.
The conference, moderated by Rep. Larry Winn Jr., R-Kan. enabled KU energy researchers to establish communication with members of both private industry and government who may be interested in the University's more than 40 energy projects, Riordan said.
Until research develops energy alternatives to oil, Conlon said, "we see our product as serving an energy bridge."
Energy projects at KU include research on producing oil from shale and on better methods of insulating buildings.
"The conference pointed out that what we're doing here fits into the national policy," Riordan said.
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