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University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan calls for infiltration to curb terrorist activities
WASHINGTON—President Reagan, angrily condemning the fatal terrorist shooting of an American attache in Paris yesterday, said the United States was trying to infiltrate terrorist ranks to prevent such killings.
Also in reaction to the killing, a State Department official said the United States was intensively studying new means of protecting U.S. embassy personnel.
An assistant U.S. military attache, Lt. Col. Charles Robert Ray, 43, was shot and killed outside his Paris apartment yesterday by an unknown terrorist, authorities said.
terrorists, authorizes said.
"I think terrorism is the hardest thing to curtail," Reagan said. "Probably the only defense you have against terrorist attack is really infiltration to try to find out in advance what their plans are.
"In the last few years that has been made more difficult, and we're doing our best to correct something like that," he said.
a test to correct something like that. The State Department officials said security was being strengthened in 24 U.S.-diplomatic posts as part of a $40-million program approved by Congress. The department has not identified those 24 posts for security reasons.
Launched after the 1979 takeover of the Tehran Embassy in Iran and the sacking of other embassies, the program creates strongholds inside certain embassies where personnel can retreat and still communicate with local authorities and the State Department.
Reagan preparing union address
WASHINGTON—President Reagan will announce in his state of the union address next week a far-reaching proposal to turn over responsibility for dozens of transportation, education and welfare programs to state and local governments.
In return, the federal government will provide state and local governments with additional revenue through a huge trust fund, a congressional source said.
Next Tuesday, the president will hold his first conference of the year, and is sure to face tough questions about charges that his administration is racially biased and criticism that he is backing away from an off-repeated vow not to raise taxes. Howard Baker, Senate Republican leader, did not confirm the reports about Reagan's decentralization plans. However he did say that Reagan's report would be a "hundinger . . . profoundly important."
Officials deny Walesa will be freed
WARSAW, Poland—Poland's Roman Catholic Church plans to take custody of imprisoned Solidarity Union leader Lech Walaesa and keep him in a palace run by nuns, a source in the church said yesterday. Marshal law authorities, however, dismissed the idea and said there was no date for
Church sources would not elaborate what role Wales might play under church care, but said that Walesa, who has been held in seclusion since the military crackdown Dec. 13, would be moved to a palace outside Warsaw where he would stay permanently.
sen. Larry Pressler, R-South Dakota, just back from Warsaw, said in Washington that Poland's leaders would not relax martial law soon because doing so would produce "an explosion" of unrest and possibly lead to civil war.
Socialist wins election in Finland
HELSEINKI, Finland—Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto won a sweeping victory yesterday in presidential voting and appeared certain to be named Finland's first socialist president.
named himself a member of the executive council, a social democrat and monarchist economist, wore outright control of the electoral council, which will name the president Jan. 18.
The next president will succeed ailing President Urho Kekkonen, 81, as custodian of Finland's delicate neutrality in an increasingly tense Baltic zone. Kekkonen served as president for 25 years.
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Finnish neutrality, which includes a tight relationship with the Soviet Union while maintaining democracy at home, plays a safety factor in world politics, Koivisto said.
Schools may lose tax-exempt status
WASHINGTON—President Reagan sent Congress a package of legislation yesterday to deny tax-exempt status to church schools that discriminate because of race—but did not roll back two such exemptions recently granted.
tee. Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., and the Goldsboro N.C. Christian schools both will have their exemptions restored as the administration promised earlier this month, officials said.
inhlude a public notice that the proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would be retroactive and erase any benefits received by the two schools in the interim.
In a letter to congressional leaders, the president said he remained in "unaltered opposition to racial discrimination in any form."
But he also restated his belief that the Internal Revenue Service should not be allowed "even with the best of intentions and to further goals that I strongly endorse, to govern by administrative fiat by exercising powers that the Constitution assigns to Congress."
Israel, Egypt resolve Sinai snags
CAIRO, Egypt - Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and Egyptian officials yesterday solved most problems relating to the final phase of Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai Desert by April.
"We really feel that we are in peace," Sharon said after the first of two days of meetings.
The two countries' officials also agreed on ways to safeguard Israeli shinping through the Gulf of Aqaba.
However, diplomatic bases said differences persisted regarding a small disputed area at Tara, near the Israeli port of Eilat, as well as the future of Rafah, a town that straddles the international border between Egypt and British-mandate Palestine.
shipping an aircraft from Allianz Airlines to Sharon and Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali gave the upbeat report on progress in implementing the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace treaty following more than five hours of talks in morning and evening sessions.
State closes hazardous waste dump
WICHTA-*Kansas*' only commercial hazardous waste dump has been closed because of improper waste retention, Gov. John Carlin said yester-
Joseph Harkins, secretary of the Kansas Health and Environment Department, described in writing the dump of certain chemicals, which may pose a health risk to cardiopulmonary disease.
Harkins said that chemicals from the waste dump, which is located about 10 miles northeast of Wichita, had been discovered in a small pocket of groundwater. He said they had not seeped into residential water supplies and residents were not in immediate danger.
He also said that the firm's handling of the seepage problem would have a bearing on whether the firm, which a year ago was fined by the Environmental Protection Agency, is granted a permit to expand the site from 80 to 160 acres.
Harkins said it would cost the firm that owns the dump "hundreds of thousands of dollars to correct the problem."
Divers attempt to find jetliner recorders
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Salvage crews recovered the tail section of an Air Florida jetliner from the ice-choked Potomac River yesterday, but investigators were unable to locate vital recorders that could provide clues to the cause of the crash that killed 78 people.
Officials said the crucial "black boxes" were missing and may have fallen out of the plane during the recovery operation.
Investigators hope that if the two crash-resistant recorders are found they will contain valuable data about the movement of the plane and crew before the crash.
"We are very hopeful that they will tell the story, that they have survived the crash, the impact, and that the tapes are in good shape for a read-out," said Francis McAdams, a member of National Transportation Safety Board.
James Shugart, police inspector, said, "They were not located in the tail section of the plane and therefore the recovery effort is going back to the Potomac River for further searches." He noted that the helicopter snarched detectors when they returned to the water in another attempt to locate the recorders.
THE BLUE AND GREEN tail, examined by airline representatives and officials of the National Transportation Safety Board, was raised by a huge crane on the middle section of the 14th Street Bridge, which the jet hit
Officials had hoped the "black boxes" would hold the key to why the Boeing 737 crashed during a snowstorm after takeoff from National Airport.
SEARCHING AN area the size of a football field and operating with a visibility of six to eight inches, divers earlier yearly pulled four more bodies, all male, from the river. The task of recovering 28 bodies still entrained in the water has been hammered by extreme cold.
on take off Wednesday before slamming into the river.
The final stage of the tail's recovery began shortly after 2 p.m. It took about 15 minutes to position the tail over a barge.
Only five survived who were aboard the "sunshine" flight 90. Kelly Duncan, a flight attendant from Miami, was released from a Washington area hospital yesterday. The four others remained hospitalized.
The recovery effort had been suspended Sunday after temperatures dipped to 5 degrees below zero and divers found their exhaust valves
IN ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT, the wife of a man killed in the crash filed a $370 million class-action suit by failing to adequately de-ice the plane's wings
freezing shut. By yesterday afternoon, temperatures were in the 20s and skies were clear.
In what was believed to be the first suit filed in the crash, Katherine Erickson of Decatur, Ga., charged that the airline failed to take reasonable and safe precautions and blamed Air Florida for the death of her husband, James, 63. The suit sought $5 million for each of the passengers killed.
The transportation board is awaiting an FBI analysis of de-icing solution used on the plane, which may provide information to back up one witness' observation of large ice buildups on the let's wings.
A BUILDUP OF ICE ON the wings can significantly affect a plane's ability to lift off from a runway.
The investigators also hoped to receive a transcript of all conversations between the jet and the National Airport control tower. Preliminary in-
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Board officials have confirmed that supervisor, filling for a controller, was handling observance of the jet at the time of the crash and that two military controllers were working in the tower at the time.
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