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University Daily Kansan. March 23, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
U.S. report accuses Soviets of violating warfare pacts
WASHINGTON—The administration, in a report to Congress and the United Nations, accused the Kremlin yesterday of "flagrantly and repeatedly" violating treaties that ban the use of chemical and biological warfare.
The report contained no new revelations, but it provided a greater array of evidence and cited a larger number of cases than before to bolster chemical warfare charges that the administration has brought against the Soviets since September.
The State Department said the report, a compilation of chemical analyses, eyewitness reports, autopsies and "sensitive intelligence," led to the "inescapable conclusion" that The Soviet Union had been involved in using such weapons against diplomatic groups in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan for at least six years.
The report said that chemical warfare attacks were responsible for more than 10,000 deaths in Southeast Asia and that eyewitnesses and chemical samples provided evidence that deadly mycotoxins, poisonous chemicals created biologically, have been used widely in Laos and Cambodia.
State Department experts said Soviet military doctrine had long accepted chemical warfare as "a cheap, effective weapon against unsophisticated populations who are also terrorized and demoralized" by the effect of the attacks.
Embassy denies ambush statement
SAN VALDADOR, El Salvador - A U.S. Embassy spokesman yesterday disavowed a statement by an American diplomat that of Dutch journalists
If the statement was made, the spokesman said, it was only a 'personal assessment', not the result of a U.S. inquiry in the killings last Wednesday.
The unidentified diplomat was quoted as saying, "The soldiers were waiting in the hills for the Dutchmen. There can be no possible doubt that they were hostile."
The diplomat allegedly told a Dutch reporter that his conclusion was reached on the basis of official, secret documents held by the service of terrorists.
Radioactive water leaks at TMI
MIDDLETOWN, Pa..A—low-level emergency was declared at the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear plant for the second time in a month yesterday when up to 200 gallons of radioactive water were discovered leaking.
The alert, confined to the plant site, was canceled two hours after technicians shut leaky valves, stopping the flow of low-level radioactive waste.
Spokesmen for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the incident posed no health threat to the public.
The leak resulted in 150 to 200 gallons of "very low-level" radioactive water spilling into an auxiliary building, a spokesman said. It was预警时间晚了一小时。
Theaters razed despite protestors
NEW YORK~Workers have demolished two historic Broadway
streets and 300 demonstrators who refused to abandon picket
walls were arrested
The demolitions began just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the last hurdle necessary for the city to raise the Helen Hayes and Morosco theaters so an Atlanta developer could build a luxury hotel near Times Square.
The Supreme Court, in its rulings, rejected an emergency request from a coalition of environmental groups and entertainment unions that wanted to bribe the court.
Hundreds of demonstrators—including many who had been arrested earlier—watched from across the street as a boulder tore into one of the buildings. Those who had been arrested earlier wore their pink summonses pinned to their coats.
The protesters read plays and sang songs throughout the afternoon on a stage flanked by posters that read "Free the Morosco 200."
UAW council accepts GM contract
DETROIT—The United Auto Workers International Executive Council unanimously approve new succession contract worked out with GWU.
The proposed contract now goes to the UAW's 300-member GM council for a vote in Chicago Thursday.
More than 490,000 current and laid-off GM hourly workers will vote on the contract after Thursday's meeting.
Industry observers said the contract would save nearly 11,000 jobs and possibly lower car prices in return for as much as $3 billion in union concessions.
UAW President Douglas Fraser said job security, finding a way to stem the "hemorrhaging" of jobs and numerous plant closings, was what brought the UAW back to the bargaining table and was the key to the agreement.
Carlin wants tornado disaster aid
TOPEKA-Gov. John Carlin asked yesterday that four southeast Kansas counties struck by tornadoes be deemed disaster areas so residents could apply for low-interest loans. Carlin plans to make a similar request to help cover farm damage.
Excluding destruction to farms, the four counties, Crawford, Cherokee, Labette and Montgomery, suffered $2.5 million in building damage from tornadoes that struck last Monday, Carlin said in a letter requesting loans from the Small Business Administration.
Weather wreaked havoc on other parts of the Midwest as well last week. In Indiana, an estimated 4,000 people returned yesterday to homes coated with mud from a week of flooding that caused more than $20 million in damage. Schools also reopened and main streets were cleared.
FDA acne report finds myths false
WASHINGTON—Neither chocolate nor sex are responsible for the acne that afflicts nearly 80 percent of all adolescents, according to a report by the National Center on Drug Abuse and Prevention.
Acne is caused by hormonal changes that occur at puberty and abruptly secreting glands under the skin, said the report, made by a group of independent doctors.
The report also said there was convincing evidence that many non-prescription drug products could effectively treat the condition. Such products are lotions, creams or jellies containing sulfur or benzoyl peroxide or sulfur-resorcinol combinations, according to the report.
Planned law may threaten penguins
CAMARONES, Argentina—the Magellan penguin—the tiny, tuxedoed master of ceremonies of the animal kingdom—may be slaughtered and turned into golf gloves if an Argentine firm wins approval to pack and process the rare Antarctic bird.
The Hinode Penguira Company says it plans to begin construction of a plant in Camarones, on mid-Argentina's coast, within two months to process up to 48,000 penguins a year, but the project has set off a furious campaign to save 2-foot-tall birds.
"Don't let them kills us," a penguin, bundled in a scarf and stocking cap, pleaded in protest posters hanging in store windows in the city of Trelew, New Zealand.
The penguin, which winters in the far reaches of the South Atlantic and summers along the desolate coastline of southern Argentina, currently is one of the most endangered seabirds in the world.
Commission closes bar
By BECKY ROBERTS Staff Reporter
The Douglas County Commission decided yesterday morning to temporarily suspend an operating license of the county tavern that hired a convicted felon.
THE COMMISSION suspended the license to serve 3.2 beer because the tavern had hired a convicted felon. State law restricts hiring a convicted felon to work in a place where alcohol is served.
The license "can choose which five days before the end of April that she wants to close," Robert Weis, Douglas County commissioner, said.
The commission ordered Babes in the Woods, at the junction of U.S. Highway 24-40 and K-32, to close for five days sometime before the end of April.
The commission decided on the five-day sentence on a recommendation from Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney.
"He suggested five days because it's the first penalty." Weis said.
He was employed at Babes in the Woods from Feb. 3 until Feb. 27, Matney said.
Susan Matney, licensee for the tavern, said she did not know the former employee was a convicted felon.
Malone said that although an employer may not know that an employee was a convicted felon, it was against state law to hire that person.
BABES IN THE WOODS, formerly J.B.'s, received its license to serve 3.2 beer from the county commission in December 1981. The tavern is owned by Armour Amusements of Kansas City, Kan.
The former employee was convicted on forgery charges in 1973.
Student Senate begins hearings on new budget
The state gives each county the authority to grant licenses to serve 3.2 beer in that县. These taverns are the only establishments that are in the jurisdiction of the district attorney's office.
The Student Senate's budget committee began budget hearings last night for the fiscal 1983 year by listening to requests from 10 student groups.
All together, the groups asked for $11, $66.55. The budget committee has between $25,000 and $55,000 to allocate during the six nights of hearings.
Private clubs that serve liquor are regulated by the state's Alcohol and Beverage Control division.
The committee will conduct final deliberations April 2.
"we gotta be really critical about how we look at this stuff," Tom Berger, the Senate's finance and auditing committee chairman, said.
The groups requesting funds from the Senate, werg:
He said budget cuts throughout the University could force groups who had not approached the Senate for funds in the past to start asking for them.
- The KU Solar Energy Club, which requested $600.20 to maintain its library *
- Student Council for Recruiting,
Motivating and Educating Minority Engineers, which requested $3,482.85, $1,632 of which was for a symposium at Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
- The Amateur Radio Club, which asked for $2,184 for equipment.
- the KU Rugby football Club, when
scaled for $1298
- The Ad Astra L-5 Society, a group investigating space developments, which asked for $15.10.
- The KU Cricket Club, which asked for $730 for equipment.
- The KU fencing team, which wanted $7,769.50.
- The Slavic Graduate Students, who
will pay for $11 for the KU Russian
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- Amnesty International, which asked for $509.90.
- The Men's Coalition, which asked them for advertising and to sponsor speakers
Columbia sends data of tests to scientists
This mission of the Columbia is the first to radio "live" data to earth from instruments measuring something other than the performance of the spaceship. The second flight carried science instruments, but their data was not read until it returned to earth.
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THE SHUTTLE launched yesterday into its third, longest and busiest test flight—one hour behind its target on its own target date for the first time.
SPACE CENTER, Houston—The Columbia began a new era in science yesterday by sending earthbound scientists data from experiments operating in the payload bay of a shuttle orbiting in space.
By United Press International
Overheating in an auxiliary power unit caused the delay, but NASA officials said commercial airliners routinely faced similar problems. The space agency did not posed a threat to the astronauts Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton.
Forty-one minutes into the flight,
Columbia soared into a circular orbit 150 miles up. There,
the astronauts will spend a busy week "wringing out" the spacecraft and its components before a landing scheduled for Monday on a strip of New Mexico desert.
At an hour and 41 minutes, the astronauts sent down their first television pictures, showing the inside of Columbia's payload bay, but reported they would be unable to see the opening of the payload doors.
THIS OPERATION, carried out a short time later while the crew was out of contact with the ground, is crucial not only to carrying out the missions but to radiating heat out of the ship and keeping it comfortable.
Four hours later, scientists hovered around monitors where they began receiving the first scientific data from experiments.
The first experiment—taken from
an instrument measuring contamination surrounding the shuttle—took readings 36 minutes after launch and stored them in a recorder for replay three hours later.
WERNER NUEFERT, of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said late yesterday that it was too early to say what the first scientific data showed, but he said that specimens appeared happy with early resuscitation.
The shuttle is scheduled to send data from a dozen experiments, ranging from relatively simple television pictures of how bugs fly in weightlessness to the complicated airfields around a flying spacecraft.
Neupert, who coordinate nine of the 14 experiments on board, said this mission would show the real scale of Earth and warm for space science investigation.
"It provides experimenters on the ground with the opportunity to react to what they are seeing," he said.
ON LATER flights, screwmen will leave the shuttle cabin to work with experiments in space, but Neupert said the capability would be demonstrated this flight through use of the shuttle arm.
On the third day of the Columbia's scheduled week-long mission, the astronauts will use the arm to maneuver an instrument called the plasma diagnostics package as an exosuit is fired from the payload bay.
"We may find the beam behaving in some way that hadn't really been predicted," Neupert said. "People on the ground can say let's explore it and discover some process that we hadn't found before."
THE EXPERIMENTS aboard Columbia include measurement of X-rays and ultraviolet rays coming from the sun. The astronauts may also maneuver the shuttle to capture flare if one occurs during the flight.
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