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University Daily Kansan, December 7, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
NATO ministers consider disarmament negotiations
LONDON—The Geneva talks on nuclear disarmament in Europe and the widening European peace campaign form a backdrop to this week's meeting.
The ministers of the 15-nation alliance will consider the political and military implications of the Soviet-American disarmament talks that began
Diplomatic sources said the ministers, meeting in Brussels, were certain to reaffirm the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's commitment to the deployment in Europe of 108 Pershing II ballistic missiles and 464 ground-launched cruise missiles as a bargaining counter in the disarmament talks.
U. S. officials have warned that any weakening of the NATO commitment, which has come under attack at peace marches in several European cities, could undermine the alliance's resolve.
Defense ministers, among them Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, will meet tomorrow and Wednesday in Brussels to review the alliance's nuclear and conventional military readiness, including steps taken to build up the bases and the backup facilities for the Pershing and cruise missiles.
Fears grow for fasting Sakharovs
MOSCOW—Friends and relatives of Andrei Sakharov said yesterday their fears were growing hour by hour about the conditions of the hospitalized Nobel Peace Prize winner and his wife, who began a hunger strike 15 days ago.
Sakharov, who had a brilliant career in physics that included a key role in development of the Soviet H-bomb before he began campaigning for human rights, began his hunger strike Nov. 22 together with his wife, Yelena Bonner.
They were demanding an exit visa for a friend, Lisa Alexeyeva, so she could travel to the United States to be reunited with Sakharov's stepson, Alexei Semenyon. The two young people were married in Montana last June, with a proxy standing in for Alexeyeva, but the Soviet authorities have not given their permission.
Sakharov is a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, one of the Soviet Union's most prestigious institutions. Its director, Anatoly Alexandrov, and other leading members have criticized Sakharov's human rights activities many times in the past.
Some doctors still owe for school
WASHINGTON—Some doctors who graduated from some of the nation's leading medical schools are earning big salaries and driving luxury cars while failing to pay back the government loans that helped them through school federal investigators have learned.
At the University of Maryland's medical school, 391 practicing physicians who graduated from the school are diligent on their loans, owing $189,000, although 83 percent of them have perfect credit ratings in the private sector. Senior medical students aides also said. They similar students have surfaced at other schools.
An aide to Sen. Charles Percy, R-III, who is on the committee, estimated that as many as 5,000 prospective doctors, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists and nurses would be denied government loans this year because of the abuses.
Exchange program cutbacks likely
NEW YORK—A record 311,882 foreign students are going to college in the United States, but Reagan administration cutbacks threaten the student body.
Wallace Edgerton, president of the nation's largest educational exchange agency, said he was concerned about dwindling U.S. financial support for universities.
Only 17 percent of the foreign students had a U.S. source as their prime source of funds, he said. In 1976, 28 percent did.
"The massive cuts planned by the Reagan administration . . . will mean that the American alternative to Soviet government programs will no longer be feasible."
UAW weighs contract concessions
DETROIT—The United Auto Workers Executive Board, its membership faced with contract concessions or wholesale layoffs to keep the sinking auto industry afloat, begins strategy meetings today on how to handle the dilemma.
With requests from two firms for contract concessions and pleas from other automakers for the same treatment, it seems inevitable that the subject will dominate conversation for the next three days at Solidarity House, UAW headquarters.
Union spokesman warn no new stances are expected to be taken by the leaders, who meet quarterly to discuss their next moves.
It will be extremely difficult for the union to backpedal even slightly from its determined stance against reopening existing contracts with the automakers before the start of formal negotiations next summer on new contracts.
The union board, however, cannot ignore the two years of slumping sales, which have plagued the industry, as well as its 193,000 members on indefinite
Musical collection left bv Lennon
NEW YORK -Yoko Ono is still accompanied on walks by an escort a year after the murder of husband, John Lennon, and she says their 6-year-old son was involved in the attack.
Ono, 48, also disclosed in a copyright interview yesterday with the New York Daily News that Lennon, a Beale, left a large collection of written and recorded material.
The songwriter-musician was shot to death a year ago tomorrow while One looked on in the courtyard of the Dakota Apartments in Central Park, where she was shot.
Mark David Chapman, a 25-year-old amateur rock musician, pleaded guilty to the slaying and is now serving a 20-year life term in state prison.
Blacks march to publicize election
The march was to boost interest in tommorrow's voting when Indianola holds its first general election with a newly districted black voting majority. The march began at a black church and ended at the local black community center.
INDIANOLA, Miss.—The Rev. Jesse Jackson led a wind-blown peaceful march yesterday through Indiana to focus attention on the coming climate change.
The election was ordered by a three-judge federal panel in response to a lawsuit that blacks say demonstrates the necessity for the Federal Voting Rights Act. The judges ruled last summer the town violated the Voting Rights Act by using annexations to dilute black voting strength.
The court disenfranchised 1,000 whites added to the voting rolls through annexations and removed the white mayor and four white and one black
Pope calls for equality for women
"The problem of juridical equality between men and women workers should be resolved with a social legislation that recognizes the equality of men workers with women workers," the pope told 30,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square for his weekly blessing.
VATICAN CITY—Pope John Paul II yesterday called for equality between male and female workers but said women who dedicated themselves to their families played an "irreplaceable role" and should not suffer discrimination.
The pope said a woman who dedicated herself to a family should be able to do so "without psychological or actual discrimination, without penalties in the workplace."
In his latest encyclical, "On Human Work," the pope called for government subsidies to families so mothers would not be forced to work if they did
Officials say there is evidence of Libyan assassination plots
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The State Department and a key secretary said yesterday U.S. intelligence officials have strong evidence Libyan leader Moammar Khadif has been plotting the assassinations of American officials.
Khalady denied in an interview yesterday he had ordered terrorists to kill President Reagan or anyone else.
"We have strong evidence that Khadiyah has been plotting the murder of American officials both here and overseas," State Department spokeswoman Sue Pitman said. We certainly know that he was abandoned by use of terrorism and assassination as part of his foreign policy.
Pittman said she could add nothing to her statement or give details of the evidence.
"When he has stopped, we will know it."
Earlier, Sen. Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., acting chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, appeared on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley" program and said, "We have concrete evidence top U.S. officials have been targeted" and ordered killed by Khadafy.
describe Washington was greatly exaggerated, and they noted that the anti-sniper squads stationed on the roof of the building had used there for several months.
White House aides, under orders not to discuss the threat, expressed concern over the publicity generated by the stepped-up security measures for President Reagan, Vice President Bush and members of the Cabinet.
THE AIDES said the term "state of siege" used by television newsmen to
Moynahan said he could not reveal the "concrete evidence" given to his committee by U.S. intelligence officials.
"That is an executive privilege," he said.
Asked what credibility he put in reports that an assassination squad was in the United States with orders to kill Reagan or other top U.S. officials, we asked him a question, an argument, a probability. We got this particular information from an informant."
If any American is harmed, Moyihan said, Khadafy "should understand there will be the most severe consequences. The consequences of its continuation are going to be severe, at its minimum.
The United States bought $14 million worth of Libyan oil every day during the third quarter of 1881.
In an interview from Tripoli on the same ABC program, Khadafy called Reagan a liar and charged that the assassination squared reports were fabricated by Reagan to start a war with Libva.
"We are sure we didn't send any people to kill Reagan or any other people in the world, and we want to see big lies (exposed)," Khadiy said.
"We are ready to make investigation and to see who is liar, and you will see—Reagan is liar."
MOYNIHAN, who was questioned immediately after the Khadafy interview, angrily denounced Khadab and said, "The president of the United States is not a liar. The dictator is the liar.
"That man was lying to us. He's mad."
The Libyan leader said he believed the Reagan administration was conducting a propaganda campaign against Libya because it "refuses to be a state of America. We want to be a country, a non-aligned country. America wants to dominate all the world."
ABC news reported it had learned there were actually two assassination squads in the United States—a threeman squad, composed of a Libyan, an Iranian and an East German, armed with automatic weapons, and a second five-man squad that was to be a backup in case the first group failed.
Some new precautions in terms of Reagans movements are apparent. He is being seen in public less often and last night, when attending a Kennedy Center awards presentation in Los Angeles, he required to pass through metal detectors.
Newsweek magazine said that assassination squad reports were based on the testimony of a former Lebanese terrorist now in CIA custody.
THE LEBANESE, who defected to Western Europe, told U.S. officials he attended in meeting eight weeks ago at the embassy in Athens and assasinated Raewan. Newsweek said.
The former terrorist said the Libyan leader ordered Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Americans at the UN headquarters to take the attempt on Reagan's life failed.
Search for missing man unsuccessful
A three-hour search Saturday for an elderly man who walked away from the Cherry Manor concerned with his life. Fruitless, police said yesterday.
The volunteers searched for the 62-year-old man in the area south of the K Mart store at 31st and Iowa streets.
About 125 area people, including members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and several fraternities and sororites, aided Lawrence police and sheriff's search in the search for Nicholas Dikov.
Directions from a psychic in France, which told Dikov's daughter, Ola Ackery, that Dikov could be sitting under a tree across the street from a cemetery, were used in the search.
Ackerly wrote to the psychic and asked for help a few weeks ago.
Although there were many wooded areas in the search area, Richard Stanwick, chief of police, said he didn't think Dikv was there.
He said the area had been combed too thoroughly in Saturday's search and in searches conducted last month.
Airplanes and cars were used in all the searches.
Dikov was reported to have walked away from Cherry Manor before.
Dikov suffers from Alzheimer's disease, a hardening of the blood vessels in the brain, and is almost unable to take care of himself.
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