University Daily Kansan, March 10, 1982
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Guatemalan police break up protest against ballot fraud
GUATEMALA CITY—National police and army troops fired automatic weapons and lobbed tear gas grenades yesterday to disperse 1,000 people protesting what they considered widespread ballot fraud in the presidential election, witnesses said.
There were no confirmations on injuries.
Police and soldiers grabbed the ABC television crew, including reporter Gerardo Rivera, beat them, shoved them into a police van and whisked them away.
A U.S. embassy spokesman said the police were trying to intercede on behalf of the news team.
The protest rally was organized after an unprecedented meeting of the three presidential candidates who lost the election to rightist Anibal Guivera. The candidates said the election was rigged, but the government warned that it would recess an unauthorized public protest.
In Washington, the State Department earlier had urged the government to clear on the vote-trust allegations.
Little evidence has been presented to back up the fraud charges, while Greaves backers showed stacks of local results signed by representatives of the bank.
An honest election was considered a prerequisite for any U.S. military and economic aid that all four rightist candidates agreed was essential to defeat the president.
Guveira, 6, a career military man who rose from the rank of corporal to become the ruling coalition's presidential candidate, brushed aside op-
Phillips to close refinery in K.C.
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-Phillips Petroleum Co. said yesterday that it plans to buy the company's oil tanker because a buyer cannot be found. The move will affect approximately 720 employees.
Phillips said it will actively seek a buyer for this, its oldest refinery, which need to bring the company's refining capacity into balance with sales, and also its largest supplier of chemicals.
Phillips said it will actively seek a buyer for this, its oldest refinery, which was built in 1904 and acquired by the company in 1930.
If no acceptable offer is received, Phillips said it will offer employment at other company facilities to many of the 730 workers involved in the targeted
Beagan open to budget alternatives
WASHINGTON—President Reagan visited Capitol Hill yesterday to hear alternatives to his 1983 budget and assured Republican senators of his full cooperation in the hunt for a politically attractive and workable spending plan.
But during a lunch with GOP lawnmakers, Reagan made he plausible not yield on the basics of his $757 billion budget—scheduled tax cuts, a large reduction in non-defense spending and a continued increase in money for the Pentagon.
Planets evoke doomsday forecasts
"I'll be glad to consider any comprehensive congressional plan that meets this crucial standard," the president said.
A respected, if eccentric, Indian astrologer predicted Los Angeles would be destroyed today and the Pacific Ocean would swallow up some islands. Peruvian "cosmobiologists" said hungry animals would stalk the earth, a rave would sweep the Caribbean and Peru would be hit with torential rains.
The doomsday forecasts stem from a rare event in the solar system—the convergence of all nine planets within a 96-degree arc on the side of the moon.
U. S. astronomers said the ominous forecasts were nonsense.
The planetary arrangement is described in the book, "The Jupiter Effect," by John Gribb and Steve Palgemann, who predicted that the gravitational pull of such a lineau would suck cosmic winds from the sun and cause zones around the earth, particularly along California's San Andreas fault.
Censure urged in senator's case
WASHINGTON—While a Republican headcount showed little support for letting Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J., escape expulsion, assistant Democratic leader Alan Cranston of California, pleaded with the Senate yesterday not to rush into an irreversible judgment.
Cranston urged that expulsion be reduced to cautious so that Williams could remain in the Senate while his Abscam convictions were appealed.
Debate on an Ethics Committee recommendation to expel Williams for his conduct in the Abscam bribery investigation entered its fourth day in mid-June.
Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee indicated that Washington would no longer support the impusion would promptly follow Wednesday. If it fails, the impusion would promptly follow.
japanese to discuss U.S. imports
TOKYO-Japan, countering blunt U.S. demands for greater access to Japanese markets, agreed yesterday to begin talks next month about the issue.
A foreign ministry spokesman said both nations also agreed to discuss increasing import quotas on high-quality and citrus products in Oceania, which are scheduled to be delivered in early February.
Sources cautioned that Tokyo's decision to begin talks next month on the trade restriction did not mean it would agree to liberalize imports of the 22 U.S. products, which include beef, citrus, tobacco and a variety of manufactured products.
Rig's sinking likely due to porthole
WASHINGTON - A smashed 18 inch porthole may have caused last month's sinking at a huge offshore rig "Ocean Ranger," in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Japanese-built rig, owned by the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co of New Orleans, L.A., sank in a raging storm off the coast of Fountainhead on Pond Lake.
Hugh Kelly, president of the drilling company, told the House Merchant Marine Committee at a hearing that it appeared the high seas broke a porthole in the rig's control room and flooded the electrical pumping system and one pontoon, which could have caused the rig to capsize.
Kelly said that the porthole theory was only speculation and that many countries remained unanswered. The Canadian government and the U.S. Coast Guard agreed.
Officials quiet about Belushi's death
LOS ANGELES—The coroner's office here, under intense public criticism for its handling of sensitive cases, yesterday refused to comment on reports that a large consumption of cocaine caused the death of comic actor John Belushi.
The Los Angeles Times quoted a "reliable source" in the coroner's office as saying toxicological tests conducted Monday indicated Belushi had a large amount of cocaine in his blood. The source said the drug was believed to have caused respiratory failure and possibly a heart attack.
Police investigators and coroners refused to comment on the reports.
Belushi was buried yesterday in a small graveyard near his summer home at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His sidekick, Dan Aykroyd, wearing a red, white and blue bandana around his head and a brown leather flight jacket with a red carnation, was among the pail bearers. After the ceremony, he and his crew put Dodge Monroe that had been used by the two to tears around Chicago in "The Blues Bones," the film that established them as a comedy team.
Requests evaluated
TOPEKA-A Senate subcommittee has decided to recommend $2,098,833 to begin construction on the long-awaited addition to Haworth Hall, according to State Sen. Ron Hein, R-Topeka, chairman of the KU Subcommittee of the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Subcommittee approves Haworth addition
Haworth is KU's highest priority project this year, and the Board of Regents listed the addition as their fifth highest priority of 39 proctests.
IN A MEETING last week, Hein and State Sen. Billy McCary, D-Wichita, discussed KU's capital improvement requests and decided to stick with most of the contracts made earlier in the session by the JOHN COMMITTEE on State Building Construction.
"This is very good news to us," Gunther Schlager, chairman of the Nestlé Group.
The Legislature allocated funds for planning the addition two years ago. The University requested the money to build last year, but did not receive it.
The Ways and Means Committee is
The building committee recommended a total of $13.8 million for the Haworth addition, with a portion of the money to be allocated yearly through 1986. The addition would include a new dormitory, a Malott halls and would allow the biology department to move out of the 50-year Snow Hall.
scheduled to vote on the subcommittee recommendations tomorrow and will then send its Regents budget package to the Senate floor.
The new Haworth-Malott complex would also house other science departments including chemistry, pharmacy, physics and astronomy.
"Conditions in Snow are terrible," Schlager said.
The University also requested funds for an addition to Summerfield Hall and has raised $1,050,000 in private donations for the project. KU asked for assistance from the Legislature, but the building committee did not recommend state funding.
Instead, it suggested that the
university begin construction on the project and said to the limit of the
has received federal grant money from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration since 1972.
The subcommittee will not recommend funds for any of the University's other requested capital improvement projects. These include a replacement of the ventilating systems in Bailey Hall, a $5,64 million renovation of Strong Hall and $350,750 for preliminary planning of a new science library.
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SENATE WAYS AND Means Committee Chairman Paul Hess, R-Witcha, had said a new library probably would not be financed for two or three years.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary of the University, said the money would come from the sponsored research and development project to subsidize research projects.
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However, the subcommittee did recommend funding for two other KU programs, the Kansas Applied Remote Command and the Bureau of Child research.
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