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University Daily Kansan, March 25, 1982
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New Guatemalan army junto puts clamps on government
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemala's new military junta, moving swiftly to charge the president and assuming all political responsibility, dissolved Congress and purged the top opposition.
He said the three-man junta would have a six-man advisory board, all of them officers.
Gen. Efraín Rios Montt, 56, who overthrew President Romeo Lucas Garcia in a midday military takeover Tuesday, also said only officers had been named to his junta because he did not want "politicians" in his government.
Life in the streets of the Guatemalan capital returned to normal less than 24 hours after hundreds of army troops backed by tanks, planes and helicopters seized the national palace and key government buildings, forcing the president to surrender.
The fate of Garcia, who was led away from the National Palace in a convoy of vehicles after surrendering, was unknown.
Lleftt guerrillas, fighting to overthrow the military, spurned the new
saund's demands that they lay down their arms or be crushed by the army.
The coup was backed by a group of junior army officers opposed to what they said was the fraudulent March 7 presidential electoral victory of Garrison.
Convicts free hostages for supplies
RALEIGH, N.C.-Hunger, thirst and a craving for cigarettes spurred three knife-wielding convicts yesterday to free four of eight hostages they had held since Tuesday in a tiny office at North Carolina's century-old Central Prison.
A spokesman for the Department of Correction said the convicts, two of whom were not eligible for parole until the new century, traded the four hostages for the boys.
The trade came more than 25 hours after one of the convicts suddenly grabbed a prison employee and shoved him into the room in the diagnostic
Officials said the move triggered a "domino effect" and other convicts seized employees and pushed them into the room as well.
The spokesman said the convicts, armed with crudely made knives fashioned in the prison, were "making some demands which are rather difficult to achieve".
Columbia beams down Earth shots
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The shuttle Columbia streaked past its old 54-day flight duration at watershed and astronaut bases and Gordon Field in Florida, United States.
Swinging around the Earth for the 37th time, the Columbia surpassed the time it spent in space on each of its first two missions and soared on toward completion of its weeklong, 3.4 million-mile flight to a New Mexico desert landing Monday.
Earlier, on the 34th and 36th of a scheduled 115 orbits, the astronauts took turns at the spacecraft's TV cameras and beamed back footage of the earth.
The most vivid views were narrated by Lousa, who described deserts, snow-covered mountains, storms and the multicolored checkboard of
Haig envoy in Cuba, report says
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Alexander Haig sent a personal emissary to Cuba earlier this month in an effort to persuade the Castro government to drop support of rebels in El Salvador, it was reported last night.
CBS news reported that Gen. Vernon Walters, ambassador at large and a top Hail adviser, was sent to Cuba to hold meetings with Cuban officials in an effort to get President Fidel Castro "to drop support of the rebels in an attempt to cool the situation in Central America."
A State Department spokeswoman and a White House spokesman contacted about the incident declined to comment.
The United States and Cuba have had no formal diplomatic ties for almost 25 years. An attempt to renew ties was cut short during the Carter administration over the issues of the boatfuel of Cuban refugees who streamed into Venezuela in recent months. The United States regards as Cuba's subversive activities in the Western Hemisphere.
Regan sees 'Challenge' in budget
WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Don Regan conceded yesterday that the deficit projection in President Reagan's 1983 budget was probably too low and it would be "a real challenge" just to keep the red ink at around $90 billion.
But Regan told the House Budget Committee he thought "a real, no-smoke" budget with a deficit of around $90 billion would send the right signal that the state is on track to achieve its goals.
Tempers flared during the hearing when Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Texas, accused Regan and the administration of "welshing" on campaign promises
Regan dened that the administration had welished on the public. He said the current, unexpected recession had caused the large deficits projected in the budget.
Martial law imposed in Bangladesh
NEW DELHI, India - Houses after seizing power in a coup, the new strong man of Bangladesh clamped martial law on the impoverished country and slammed it into a political crisis.
Army chief of staff, Lt. Hossain Mohammed Ershad, who topped Bangladesh's President Abdus Sultan, 76, in an apparently bloodless strike on a British base in Kabul.
"I want to make it clear that our ultimate aim is to re-establish democracy and to hold general elections as soon as possible." Frashed said in a radio
He said that political corruption had caused a severe food shortage, and that "short-sighted policies of corrupt, opportunistic and nepotistic politics have severely affected the quality of life."
Elections unavoidable. Begin says
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Menachem Begin said yesterday that new elections, possible in November, were inevitable.
Though under law a tie constitutes a victory for Begin's coalition, the prime minister considered the vote a personal defeat and told his cabinet he
Israel radio query Begin in the Knesset as saying new elections could not be avoided after Tuesday's yid no-confidence vote in parliament that called for a referendum.
Although Begin is supported by his cabinet, he lacks a solid base in parliament to assume passage of legislation, as yesterday's proceedings
Lyons salt mines not to hold wastee
WASHINGTON - Abandoned salt mines near Lyons, Kan., are not being considered as a depository for high-level nuclear waste, according to a report by the National Energy Agency.
The report, made by the General Accounting Office, said the 'Lyons, Kan, salt mine is no longer being considered for high-level nuclear waste
Similarly, the Kansas Legislature yesterday considered action on low-level radioactive waste.
The Senate gave tentative approval to the final draft of the central interstate waste compact that Kansas has joined with eight other states.
By joining the compact, Kansas would take the risk of being chosen as the "host state," for setting up a disposal facility for the waste.
Veterans ask for Agent Orange answers
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
One veteran, Richard Moore of Topeka, saying he had lost faith in the Veterans Administration, said he hoped the state could discover why he had suffered more than 100 cancerous tumors after his service as Agent Omar and a defiant sprayed over South Vietnam during U.S. military involvement there.
Vietnam veterans urged a House committee yesterday to approve a state investigation into the potential health hazards of the herbicide Agent Orange.
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"I have lost several jobs, have a damaged child, had have 138 tumors removed, continually produce more cancer cells," he said. "I returned from Vietnam." Moore said.
Committee to approve a bill, sponsored by State Sen. Roy Ehrlich, R-Hoshington, that would establish channels within the state for the recruitment of veterans who claim to be suffering from after effects of Agent Orange.
"I am very confused on my own outcome. The final result in my medical case is not yet known."
Moore and other veterans urged the House Public Health and Welfare
The bill, stripped of a more than $2 million fiscal note in the Senate, would not in its present form require the state to finance treatment of the veterans. But some veterans say they do not want government services they want only answers.
"The men afflicted with this problem are suffering deeply with a fear of the unknown, and need to be given the answers—whatever they are—to put their families at ease," Ted Bongard, a veteran from Topeka, said.
Despite several studies by the VA, the effects of exposure to Agent Orange are still unknown, which has led the VA to refuse more than 10,500 claims by Vietnam veterans for compensation for health damages.
But in his testimony to the committee yesterday, Moore said the VA was suppressing the results of its investigations. Moore said that about three years ago the VA extracted an ounce of his "good, undamaged flesh" for testing, but has since refused to release the test results.
"Continually I pressed the VA for information and received none," Moore said. "The VA even stated that no sample was taken or taking of the sample tissue existed."
Meanwhile, he said, tumors continue to form on his skin.
"The VA continues to stonewall all
brain training any information from
my medical care."
The amended bill would call for state physicians to send their diagnoses of the veterans to the state secretary of Health and Environment. The secretary would then file an annual report of the findings of all physicians and medical facilities that deal with possible Agent Orange victims.
According to the Vietnam Veterans of
America, approximately 29,000 Kansans served in the part of Vietnam that was sprayed with Agent Orange.
After dropping about 12 million gallons of Agent Orange on South Vietnam, the United States abruptly halted the defoliating in 1971 when Vietnamese women told of rampant birth defects in their children.
But a problem with linking these disorders to Agent Orange has been the difficulty in receiving information from the Pentagon.
Vietnam veterans who served in the contaminated area also have complained of birth defects in their children, along with such disorders in themselves as numbness of body, loss of sensory perception, memory and sex drive and an unusually high occurrence of cancer.
The bill would allow the Kansas attorney general, using information gathered by the secretary of Health and Environment, to represent state veterans in obtaining military records from the Pentagon.
Debaters win team, individual honors
A KU debater won the highest award given by the National Debate Fraternity last week, while the KU debate squad swept the top team and individual honors at a tournament sponsored by the fraternity.
Zac Grant, Manhattan senior, was named the Student Speaker of the Year by the Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alba National Debate Fraternity.
The award is based on excellence in debate, public speaking and scholarship, and was announced during the tour at Texas Tech University unbock.
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The award was decided by a committee of students and faculty, Donn Parson, KU director forensics, said. More than 600 student members of the fraternity were eligible, and 10 were picked as finalists. The only other KU
debater ever to win the award was James Prentice, who won in 1976.
The teams of Grant and Mark Gidley,
junior, London
Dobey, and Rodder Payne,
London
Also in the tournament, two KU teams tailed for first place and another placed fifth. The members of the first placed teams also received individual awards.
The fraternity's award for Speaker of the Year went to Vernon Jordan, former head of the National Urban College and the address at the tournament conference.
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