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University Daily Kansan, November 2, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Brezhnev says Soviet Union will never lose arms race
HAMBURG, West Germany—Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, in an interview published yesterday, welcomed President Reagan's willingness for talks, but said Washington must abandon its "dreams" of military superiority because Moscow would not lose an arms race.
re said that any thought the Soviets would agree to the arms reduction at the Geneva talks would be "absurd."
Brezhnev also said the Soviets would not agree to scrap SS-20 rockets aimed at Western Europe in exchange for a U.S. and NATO decision to halt them.
In an interview with the West German news magazine Der Spiegel, Breedwin said he was receptive to Reagan's willingness to discuss disputed
"We welcome this readiness because we always have considered negotiations the proper means to settle international problems," Brehnov stressed.
Sweden ready to stop sub rescue
KARLSKRONA, Sweden—A small Swedish armada of warships circled a grounded Soviet submarine—a near secret naval base for the sixth day yesterday to thwart a Soviet rescue attempt, and Sweden vowed to "go on waitin'" to question the red-faced commander.
In the tense diplomacy, Sweden demanded that it be allowed to question the commander of the Soviet vessel, Pyotr Gurshin, to shed light on the deep Russian penetration of the militarily restricted waters 10 miles from the Karikrona Naval base.
Sweden posted 500 extra troops to join at least 500 permanently stationed troops in the cluster of islands to block any Soviet attempt to rescue the submarine.
Convicts give demands to newsman
GRATERFORD, Pa. — A newspaper columnist, to whom a dozen criminals have surrendered in the past, met yesterday with convicts holding nine hostages at Graterford State Prison in the four-day standoff and was given a list of 12 demands that he called "reasonable."
Chuck Stone, a Philadelphia Daily News columnist and senior editor, arrived at the prison on 1 p.m. CST in a state police car at the request of Gov. Dick Thornburgh and the mother of Joseph Bowen—a three-time killer who is the leader of the convicts.
They had a "long discussion and they presented me with a list of 12 concerns they called negotiations." Stone said. "These are not demands, they are
This is extremely delicate. I cannot tell you how much. We are really dealing with life and death, I am not being dramatic, believe me."
The prisoners and hostages have been held up in the prison kitchen since Wednesday. The four convicts originally took 38 people captive, but released them.
Still being held captive are three prison guards, three food service employees and three inmates.
Begin denounces Saudi peace plan
JERUSALEM-Prime Minister Menachem Begin yesterday called on the Reagan administration to reject Saudi Arabia's eight-point peace plan, warning its adoption would be a "great obstacle" to the Camp David process.
In an interview with ABC's "Issues and Answers," Begin said Saudi Crown Prince Fahd's peace proposal issued in August was "in fact, a plan how to liquidate Israel in stages."
Begin was reacting to the State Department's reversal last week of its earlier dismissal of the Saudi peace plan. A spokesman said Washington had been given a day to respond.
The Saudi plan calls for Israel withdrawal from all Arab land captured in and the creation of a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital.
Newest nation gains independence
ST. JOHNS, Antigua—The world's newest nation—Antigua and Barbuda—celebrated its first day of independence yesterday with a $19 million gift from its former British rulers and a warning from the United States to beware of Cuban subversion.
Churches conducted independent day celebrations, and delegates from among the 250 official guests paid courtesy calls on pro-western Prime Minister Vere Bird to congratulate him and his two-island Caribbean nation of 100,000 people.
Antigua is the site of a U.S. Navy communications station. The satellite tracking station has 160 civilian employees, half locals and half Americans, with more than 80,000 subscribers.
Pentagon calls Post report false
WASHINGTON—A report that the AWACS sale was part of a secret plan to build bases in Saudi Arabia for possible use by U.S. forces is "totally untrue."
The Washington Post, quoting an internal Pentagon paper, "an authoritative foreign official" and U.S. diplomatic and military sources, said yesterday that the secret strategy would allow U.S. rapid deployment forces to move "over the horizon" to the Saudi Arabian bases with previously stored supplies if hostile forces attempted to capture the Persian Gulf oil fields.
A Pentagon spokesman said the Post article "appeared to be contingency planning by Carter administration officials and assumptions, many of which
Book examines policy toward Shah
WASHINGTON—Confusion within the Carter administration and misapplication of its human rights policy helped undermine the Shah of Iran and plunge his country into chaos, John Stempel, a State Department official, said in his recent book.
There are no heroes in Stempel's account of the Iranian revolution and the seizure of the U.S. hostages two years ago Wednesday. There are only vic-
Stempel, a Farsi-speaking foreign service officer who formerly served in Iran and is now director of the State Department's tightly guarded communications operations center, is in a unique position to put together such an account.
His forthcoming book, "Inside the Iranian Revolution," was cleared by the State Department before its publication. It is believed to be the first such topical book to be published by an active State Department officer in nearly 30 years.
Boats lost in Indian tropical storm
NEW DELIH, India - About 180 boats carrying more than 1,300 fishermen disappeared in the Arabian sea yesterday in a tropical storm that lashed
The fishing boats were reported missing between the west coast ports of Dwarks and Jakhan, 700 miles south of New Delhi after they were
Of the 215 boats that sailed out to sea Friday to fishing grounds off the Gujarat state coast, only 25 returned safely to port, officials said.
State officials organized search parties for the missing boats and crews, but Paruthu Rawal, Gujarat state home minister, said their fate would be decided later.
The 10-foot-high waves washed away about 100 fishermen's hats at Rajpura Port of Gujarat state, killing one woman when a tree branch fell on them.
Gujarat state officials ordered the evacuation of four coastal districts lying in the storm's path.
Ronald McDonald House offers hope. care
By JoLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
Yesterday marked the one-month anniversary of the opening of the Kansas City Ronald McDonald House, a home-away-from-home for families of children with cancer and other serious diseases.
One of the people living in the house is Katie Green.
For 13 of those days, her 18-month-old grandson, Curtis Green, was lying in a coma in the intensive care unit at Kansas Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
She has been living with her son and daughter-in-law for 19 days.
Although the idea for the house originated at the University of Kansas Medical Center, families with children in need may be housed in an area hospital are eligible to live there.
have cancer, but had contracted a
cancer that caused his liver and
caused his brain to swell.
Green said that her grandson did not
"He sat up for the first time today," she said Friday. "He won't be able to walk for quite a while, though. He was walking, before he entered the
TALKING TO OTHER families of seriously ill children at the Ronald McDonald House has helped to support family through its crisis. Green said,
"You come in the evening from the intensive care unit, discouraged, no improvement," she said. "Other people talk to you about their experiences. And you tell them what it is like to live, weather, their jobs, the countries they come from. It takes your mind off it."
She added that everybody in the house has been praying for her grandson.
Although the house is open, she said,
it is not vet completely equipped.
Dee Thomas, the Ronald McDonald House manager, said that prayers are
not the only way that people can help the children and their families.
"The parents let us know if they need something, and we usually manage to provide them."
She asked some of the parents if there was something the house needed that stained her clothes.
AFTER A SHORT conference, they made a suggestion.
"We never did get any blankets," Thomas said. "We haven't needed them yet, but it's going to start getting cold soon."
The house has 11 bedrooms with two or three beds each.
Last Oct. 19, eleven families were occupying the house. Thomas said
There are now two vacancies because two children have finished their final
week rounds of chemotherapy treatment and have gone home, she said.
If a situation arose in which there were more families wanting to stay in the house than there are bedrooms, you would be sure that the one that would decide whom to admit.
First, she said, she would admit families of children with cancer, because the house's primary purpose was to care for the families of children with cancer.
NEXT, SHE SAID she would admit and the greatest fear was faraway and had the greatest need.
But she hasn't had to make that decision yet.
"We're thrilled," she said. "We've been able to help everyone."
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