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University Daily Kansan, February 8, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
At least 32 dead, 20 injured in fire at chic Tokyo hotel
TOKYO—Fire raced through the top floors of a 10-story hotel in a fashionable section of Tokyo early today, killing at least 32 people and injuring 20 others, including two Americans, fire officials said.
Jurus, a Japanese official said the Hotel New Japan, built 20 years ago in the Akasaka-Mitsuke district of Tokyo, a chic quarter of popular nightclubs and bars. (AP)
Two of the injured were believed to be Americans. One hospitalized victime, suffering burns on the back and one arm, was identified as Sharon Paff, wife of a U.S. Air Force captain stationed in Okinawa.
Another, a man whose name was not immediately known, was reported suffering from smoke inhalation but not burns and was also hospitalized for treatment.
Guests who escaped said no alarms sounded and the first they knew of the fire was when they were awakened by smoke or flames.
**YUADH, Saudi Arabia - Defense Secretary Secretary Weinberger predicted yesterday a proposed $238 billion military budget would not easily pass Congress, but said it would be a "tragic mistake" to make cuts in the proposed sum.**
"I assure you that we not asked for anything more than we can justify," Weinberger said at a press conference after a day of meetings with the company.
"There are some people who are saying they don't want to spread this much for defense," he said. "All I'm wearing is that I think that would be a fragile situation."
Weinberger's proposed $258 billion military budget for 1983 is a $43.7 billion jump over the 1982 military budget. Of that sum, $25.9 billion would be spent during the year and the remaining $42 billion would be used for the purchase of major weapons systems during the next several years.
Reagan wants $757.6 billion budget
WASHINGTON - Slashing funds for social services, boosting spending and cutting taxes, the Republican's proposals for a new tax code were released Saturday.
Reagan sent Congress a record pancake粟军事 budget of $215.9 billion for everything from personnel to nuclear energy. He proposed nearly 13亿 dollars in cuts, but the president's budget was more modest.
James Jones, house budget chairman, said yesterday that congressional reaction to the $757.6 billion budget was one of "disappointment and hostility" and predicted there would be a bipartisan effort to come up with a better budget.
Despite $28 billion in proposed cuts and additional proposed savings the administration expects a deficit of $1.5 billion.
Reagan urged lawmakers not to retreat from his plan to bolster defense spending or his pledge to cut taxes by saying they would make the deficit
"Jones said the administration's deficit projection was overly optimistic. "It will be at least $100 billion," he said.
Ex-medic says Army falsified tests
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A former Army medic, breaking 25 years of silence, said yesterday he followed orders to prepare phony records hiding high levels of radiation exposure to soldiers at four atomic tests in 1956 and 1957.
Van R. Brandon said his top-secret medic group kept two sets of ledgers to record radiation readings from badges worn by soldiers at the Yucca Flat, Nev., test site. The badges were designed to record the levels of radiation to which the men wearing them had been exposed. One set of books showed no exposures over approved limits, while the other showed far greater exposure.
In addition, during a fifth test where he was trained, Brandon said he saw others prepares phony records.
A Pentagon spokesman in Washington said he would not comment
Brandon, who suffers from degenerative discogenic spine disease, said he was denied veterans benefits and told that the top secret医unit he said
two or sixteen children were born mentally retarded and two others developed arthritis. He believed that their problems were due to his own genetic predisposition.
Marchers retrace King's journey
FUTAW, Ala. —A dwindling group of about 40 Civil Rights activists yesterday finished the second leg of a 180-mile trek to the state capital to protest the convictions of two black women on vote fraud charges and to push for extension of the Voting Rights Act.
Nearly 200 marchers began the trek from Carrollton, Ala., Saturday and traveled 10 miles to Allecville, Ala. They held a rally at the ShadGrove Baptist Church and resumed their journey early Sunday. The demonstrators three miles outside Allecville and then rode the rest of the 27 miles to Futaw.
Another rally was scheduled for last night, and the marchers planned to leave early this morning for Greensboro.
The march, which eventually will retrace the steps of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic Sela-to-Montgomery journey 17 years ago, was being led by the Rev. Joseph Lowey, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Walter Fauntroy, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
"We may be few in number right now," Lowery said, "but we'll pick it up as we go along."
Fetus disposal method questioned
The fetuses were found after the owner of the storage container repossessed it from Mel Wiseberg, owner of Medical Analytic Laboratory, Inc., in Santa Monica. Weisberg had failed to make a $1,700 payment on the container.
Some of the fetuses, which were found Thursday night, weighed up to four pounds and may have been in the sixth month of development, officials said.
LOS ANGELES—The disposal of 900 human fetuses, found packed in a dynein in metal storage container, may have violated a state abortion law.
Roger Lopez, a department of health services spokesman, said the abortions apparently were not performed at the medical laboratory, but at hospitals or other clinics. He said the fetuses were sent to the laboratory for analysis.
A state health department spokesman said his office would determine whether the fetuses were improperly disposed of. Regulations require that fetuses be disposed of within days of an abortion. Medical records found in a patient indicator that some of the fetuses had been aborted as long ago as 1979.
Terrorist sought in police shooting
The law also proscribes the manner of disposal.
NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass.—State police searched a wooded area for an armed man who fired at two troopers yesterday, and who is identified as belonging to a radical terrorist gang suspected in the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper.
A state police spokesman said authorities identified the man who fled from a station wagon full of weapons after a brief 2 a.m. skirmish as Jan Laman, a member of a group headed by Richard Williams, the suspect in the trooper's slaying.
A second armed suspect was captured, police said.
A second man in the car was captured as he sat in the passenger seat shortly after his partner shot at the two troopers, the spokesman said.
Police said they believed the man captured was Christopher King of Brooklyn, N.Y. He was wearing a bulletproof vest and had a 6mm pistol.
Snakes draw large crowds at museum
The snakes in the Museum of Natural History's Kansas snake collection might appear to be dead and stuffed, but they aren't.
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS Staff Reporter
The live snake collection, on the sixth floor of Dyche Hall, is the museum's second most popular exhibition, he said. Comaniche, a stuffed horse, which was the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand, is the most popular, he said.
Joseph Collins, zoologist, said the live snakes usually were motionless because they were at ease in their surroundings.
Collins helped set up the first live snake exhibits in 1969, when the snakes were displayed in small aquariums. The display areas now are larger, with sand and water that encourage broaches that normally would be part of the snake's natural habitat.
"People basically love seeing snakes, but they still have a strong love/hate relationship."
"If the snakes don't like their new background, then we have to go back to the drawing board." Collins said.
Recently, Collins said, the museum has been refurbishing the backgrounds and sceneries of its live snake exhibits.
The museum's zoologists have to experiment with different sceneries until the snakes are no longer bothered by them, Collins said.
The garter snakes, he said, tore down the neck of a giant monkey, so the ropes were to have wristbands.
snake's liking, it would root them up or break them down.
Collins said the walls of the displays were repainted and new identification panels installed.
the drawing so that HE SAID if the tree branches or other background materials were not to the
Collins said that people could come to the museum and see which snakes were in their collection.
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"You need to know what venomous snakes look like so you don't upset yourself over a garter snake," Collins said.
Below the labels are new maps showing where the snakes can be found in
MOST OF the museum's snakes could be handled by people, he said, and are used in public education classes.
used in public education classes. He said people were fascinated by the snake's alien-shaped body.
but the museum no longer feeds the snakes publicly, Collins said, because someone complained that the snakes got poisoned to watch the snakes chase mice and eat them alive.
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