Page 2 University Daily Kansan, October 23, 1981
News Briefs
From United Press International
Reagan to help Third World, but rejects economic plan
CANCUN, Mexico—President Reagan told the Cancun economic summit yesterday the United States was ready to work with poor nations to develop specific programs to fight their poverty and hunger—but he rejected the developing nations' call for a new economic order.
But Reagan, responding to criticism of his views by Mexico, the summit's host, said, "I would be tied to the principles of free enterprise. The aid and assistance would be provided."
"This program deals . . . in substantive fundamentals with a track record of success," he said.
"We bring a positive program of actions based on the principles of stimulating international trade," Neagan told the 21 rich and poor nations in Geneva.
Earlier, Reagan said he wanted the summit to be informal, saving specific for later. But yesterday, Mexican president Jose Lopez Fortillo, and then former President Obama, also attended.
"It would be a tremendous waste if we limited ourselves to a mere exchange of views without future," he said.
Loper Portfolio also called Western lending institutions unresponsive and called for massive foreign aid to erase the "lacering contradiction bet-
Reagan rejected the calls of Third World nations for a new economic order and he added some conditions to his offer of a dialogue with the poor.
Future talks must respect the economic policies of involved countries, and must be mutually beneficial to both countries, he said.
Weinberger warns of Soviet force
LONDON—Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger yesterday warned the European allied that they faced destruction if they failed to rearm and continue their bombing.
During Weinberger's speech before the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 500 demonstrators stood outside the building chanting "Warmers."
"We are no longer dealing with armed forces whose quality is far below that of the army," Weinberger said. "The needed balance is now seriously impaired."
Weinberger's speech apparently was in response to growing neutralism in Europe, and the international community was beginning to engage in Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Holland beginning in 1985.
Many European leaders objected to President Reagan's statement last week, which was interpreted to mean that the United States would fight its nuclear war in Europe. Weinberger said that interpretation was "patent nonsense."
Polish union leaders defy Walesa
GDANSK, Poland—Militant Solidarity leaders defied Lech Walaes and other union moderates yesterday to force a vote on calling a nationwide site.
A resolution calling for a one-hour nationwide strike next Wednesday was submitted to the Solidarity National Commission, at which delegates aggrieved.
The 107-member commission will vote on the strike call today.
"The feeling of the workers is that strikes bring nothing, but they still think this is their only weapon," one union delegate said.
mother decease after said son should become a public payy.
"Let's take over power because there is no power in Poland," he shouted.
Another delegate later said Solidarity should become a political party.
If the congresswoman there in Delaware Deferred her objection.
The strike resolution was pushed through over the objections of Lech Walesa, Solidarity's leader. Walesa warned that Solidarity was in danger of losing its credibility.
"We have to invest in Poland both the party structures and the Union," he said. "Without the party, the Union could form a new totalitarian system."
Cops seek AWOL Lansing inmate
LANSING - An inmate at the Kansas State Penitentiary serving a sentence for burglary failed to return from a job forblow yesterday and was convicted of assault.
Earl Union, 32, began a job for lurkout at 8 a.m. Tuesday and was to return an 8 p.m. yesterday, said Capt. Norman Bacon, a shift supervisor at the prince's headquarters.
Bacon said Union, who began serving his sentence in November 1980, was to have stayed with his mother in the Kansas City area during the furlough period.
"When guys are within so many days of parole, we allow them to have a job furfurlight to find a job for when they get out," Bacon said.
He said prison authorities接到 Union's mother, who said her son left a day earlier to return to the prison. Bacon said he did not know whether Union ever见了 him.
Bacon said escape charges would be filed in Leavenworth County Court.
Law enforcement authorities, including sheriff's departments in Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties and the Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., police departments were notified to be on the lookout for Union.
U.S. national debt tops $1 trillion
WASHINGTON—The national debt topped $1 trillion yesterday for the first time, the government said. And the debt's interest alone costs about $8 billion.
"It's not an issue for celebration," a Treasury Department spokesman said.
The department could not say exactly how high the debt was, but it said its routine issue of treasury bills this week added $925 million to the debt.
The debt is recorded in computer memories in Washington, showing that banks, savings and loans, corporations, state and local governments and individuals iet the government borrow money in return for interest payments.
Foreign countries hold about 12.8 percent of the debt. The U.S. government holds a third of the debt in Federal Reserve, Social Security and pension funds. But it is also relying on a growing domestic economy.
96 Haitians killed, 2 men indicted
The two men were co-captains of the Jesua, a 33-foot boat that sailed toward Florida July 25 carrying 250 Haitians.
MIAMI—A federal grand jury yesterday indicted two Haitian boat captains on charges resulting from a voyage in which authorities say 96 Haitian men were killed.
Atee Wampler III, a U.S. attorney, said the men were indicted on charges of conspiracy and smuggling. They could not be charged with murder because the boat was not a U.S. vessel and the passengers were not U.S. citizens.
The boat later sank, and survivors told authorities that the captains had killed many of the passengers.
Wampler said from five to 16 people were killed with machetes, strangled on boats or death with boards. Another 80 were starved to death and thrown overboard.
None of the bodies have been found.
What we have is an alien smuggling case where force and murder were used to . . . keep information from reaching officials," he said.
If the two men are convicted, they could face maximum sentences of 30 years in jail, $2,000 fines or both.
Food stamp investigators to tote guns
WASHINGTON - The House yesterday voted to allow Department of Agriculture investigators of food stamp fraud to carry guns.
Over the objections of civil libertarians, the House adopted an amendment to let the department's investigators conduct searches, carry firearms and make arrests without warrants if they think a crime was committed in their presence.
The amendment's sponsors said the new powers would help protect agents who faced physical danger when conducting undercover investigations of
'Salina Piece' to be examined for safety
Von Ende said the large metal sculpture resting in a field on the southeast corner of Sunnyside Avenue and Sunflower Road weighs too much for the University to allow it to go up without a safety check.
University of Kansas officials have questioned the safety of the "Salina Peep" abstract sculpture, and will not allow it to be installed until they have some answers.
By STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
An attempt to install the sculpture failed on Oct. 9 when the sculpture fell to the ground after it was elevated to its normal 45-degree angle.
"We want to satisfy ourselves to structural integrity anywhere people may be climbing on something," Rick von Ende, executive secretary to the University, said last night. "We won't continue with installation until we're satisfied with the structural integrity of the piece."
Staff Reporter
Two support rods bolted into a concrete base will hold the "Sailna Piece" aloft. The metal rods are hollow and are about six inches in diameter.
Because of the Oct. 9 incident and other expressions of concern, the University was prompted to review the sculpture's structural integrity, von Ende. Structural engineers have been retained for that purpose.
Vandals apparently bent one of the support rods, Allen Wiechert, university director of facilities planning, said.
Wiechert said he did not believe the earlier attempt to install the sculpture.
Vandals left signs almost two weeks
vandal which contended the huge black
sculpture was "Igly Junk," a $25,000
Tax Write-Off" and "First Place Bad Taste."
"Someone sat on it," Wiechert said. "It wasn't caused by the first project."
The engineering study is "part of our concern about the vandalism," Wiechert said.
"The main thing is that we do intend to get it erect," he said. "But it isn't going to happen tomorrow."
Neighbors have complained that the unfinished sculpture is ugly. It has also come under attack recently from a small group of alumni.
Drinking Myth of the Week
Donated by John M. Simpson, unsuccessful 1800 Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, the sculpture has been restored and is now delivered to the campus in June.
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