NATION AND WORLD
November 14, 1984 Page 2
The University Daily
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Polish government to act against watchdog groups
WARSAW, Poland — The government yesterday said it would move against new independent human rights watchdog groups formed in response to the slaying of a pro-Solidarity priest, branding them 'innocent killers' 'dedicated to 'general anarchy.'
"They are anti-state structures operating under the sham pretext of monitoring human rights," government spokesman Jerzy Urban told a news conference.
He refused to disclose what actions he would be taken against the groups, which were formed by dissidents to monitor government human rights violations following the Oct. 19 abduction and murder of a police officer Popieluszko by secret police officers.
Libel trial against Time begins
Former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million libel suit trial against Time magazine began yesterday with his lawyer charging it made "accusations of mass murder" against the Israeli war hero.
Sharon contends that a 1983 Time article implied he encouraged the Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia to murder hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Beirut in September 1982.
Santa horror movie ads halted
HOLLYWOOD — Tristar Productions has canceled TV promotions nationwide for its new horror movie, "Silent Night, Dead Night," in which Santa Claus is seen as a brutal murderer, the producers announced yesterday.
Bowing to public outcry and picketing parents at a Milwaukee theater exhibiting the film, Tristar stopped the commercials over the weekend.
Steve Randall, senior vice president of marketing at Tristar, said. "The picture doesn't present Santa as a killer. It's the girl who pressesresses as Santa Claus who is the murderer."
Sea gulls put end to golf range
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Smith & Wesson has been forced to close its new golf ball driving range since sea gulls were apparently mistaking golf balls for sea shells, scooping them up and dropping them on unsuspecting neighbors.
"It was open for about a week and the damn sea gulls started coming in and picking up the golf balls," said Alfred Stafford, a quality control inspector who convinced the company to open the range for its 2,500 employees.
Birds were spotted dropping balls on Interstate 291, and one windshield was reported broken.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Shuttle crew changes Westar recovery plans
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Trying to avoid another surprise, Discovery's salvage crew yesterday decided to put astronaut Joseph Allen on the end of the shuttle's arm like a cherry picker to lower a second satellite into the cargo bay today.
Allen and his space-walking partner, Dale Gardner, recharged their $2 million space-suits and said they were ready for their second six-hour excursion outside the shuttle, this time to retrieve the 1,098-pound Westar 6 relay station.
Shuttle commander Frederick Hauck said, "We're looking forward to Joe and Dale bringing that one aboard and then coming back for days from now, ah, three days from now."
ALLEN HAD TO awkwardly hold the Palapa satellite — now safely secured in the shuttle cargo bay — for 90 minutes Monday because an unforeseen protrusion prevented installation of a fixture to be grabbed by the robot arm.
Under the new plan, Allen will anchor his feet to a shackle on the end of the arm while Gardner jets out to seize and stabilize Westar. Hucken will then move Discovery over to the satellite so Allen can hold it while Gardner attaches a mounting fixture.
Allen and the satellite will then be lowered into the cargo bay by Anna Fisher, who will be at the controls of the 50-foot arm, while Gardner guides it into latches on the floor of the bay. David Walker will serve as salvage foreman, directing the operation from his vantage point at a rear window of Discovery's cabin.
Flight director Randy Stone said today's spacewalk could take less time than the one Monday "because we now are anticipating problems and are bypassing problem areas."
HAUCK FIRED THE shuttle's engines twice—once for only 1.2 seconds —in pursuit of Westar. By yesterday afternoon, Discovoirs had landed, closing at a rate of 27 miles every hour.
Allen and Gardner recharged their space-suit batteries and replenished the breathing oxygen and cooling water in preparation for the second spacewalk.
They also inspected the spacesuits and found that outer insulation on Gardner's gloves had worn through from tightening the joints. He planned to use a spare pair today.
The shuttle is scheduled to wind up its extraordinary eight-day mission with a
landing at the Kennedy Space Center shortly after sunrise Friday. Forecasters said the weather was expected to be good for the second shuttle landing in a row at the cape.
THE TWO SALVAGED satellites will be returned to the Hughes Aircraft Co. factory at El Segundo, Calif., to be overloaded for the first time. The company financed the salvage part of the mission.
Hughes built both Palapa and Westar 6 for about $35 million apiece. The rockets that misfired last February and left the satellites marooned in the wrong orbit were manufactured by McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co.
Mission control told the astronauts that Hughes engineers reviewed the blueprints for Westar 6 said there should be about one-third of an inch clearance between a mounting bracket and part of the satellite. That part stuck up a fraction of an inch too high on Palapa and that was what slowed Monday's retrieval.
But Hauck was afraid that if a similar problem did occur with Westar, Allen and Gardner would have a more difficult time manhandling the satellite because part of it was now occupied by Palapa and there would not be as much room to jockey Westar about.
"WE NEED TO keep im mind that we've got a lot less space available in the payload bay than we had yesterday and if we were to come up with a similar problem at the same point in the timeline tomorrow, it could really cause us some problems," he said.
"We've learned an awful lot in the last 24 hours about what our capabilities are in the contingency world," Haack said. "It seems to me now there are more uncertainties and perhaps a bigger hit to the timeline if we go with the (original plan)"
Project officials agreed and accepted the project's recommendation to proceed with the alteration.
Palapa and the nearly identical Westar were sent into useless orbits in February when their solid rocket boosters flamed out of the rockets' release by the crew of the shuttle Challenger.
INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS, who lost $130 million when the satellites went astray, paid NASA and Hughes Aircraft Co. builder Michael A. Briggs a million to mount the daring rescue mission.
Despite gentle handling by Allen and Gardner, the astronauts confirmed some of Palapa's power-generating solar cells were damaged and warned that Westar would suffer the same harm if a manual rescue was required.
United Press International
EVANSTON, Ill. — Richard Radutzky, a student at Northwestern University, performs his pea levitation stunt in his apartment in preparation for his appearance on the Late Night with David Letterman show. Radutzky practiced Monday for his performance on the show's "Stupid Human Tricks" segment last night.
Students explode bombs during protests in Chile
By United Press International
SANTIAGO, Chile — Simultaneous bomb explosions rocked Chile's main cities late yesterday, capping a day of student demonstrations broken by riot police using force to uphold a week old state of siege, witnesses said.
Six dynamite charges exploded at different points in the Chilean capital, damaging lamp posts to which they were attached, residents were taken to the hospital and attacks shortly after 9 p.m. (7 p.m. CST).
At the same time, in the copper mining center of Rancagua, 54 miles south of Santiago, a bomb destroyed the offices of the local newspaper, El Ranaconque. Simultaneously explosions were reported in the southern city of Valparaíso, Pacific port of Valparaíso, authorities said.
Students said at least 40 demonstrators were arrested, but police reported only five
Riot police, carried in buses to universities
EARLIER, RIOT POLICE used tear gas to disperse university students who hurled Molotov cocktails in the first organized attack of the siege declared by the military government
in Santiago and other cities, surrounded campuses where student leaders called for class boycots and protests against a wave of active government measures in the last week.
Helmeted police charged through the University of Chie's school of medicine campus to break up groups of students who were drunk in a bus, stones and two gasoline bombs, police said.
Police, meanwhile, said 103 people arrested over the weekend had been sent to a remote prison camp in northern Chile for 90 days.
HUNDREDS OF BOYCOTTING students chanted, "The military dictatorship is going to fall!" outside the medicine school campus and other universities in Santiago. Some 854 students were arrested last week's arrest of 10 student leaders.
Leftist opposition groups, who have been hampered by press censorship, also called for supporters to protest the state of siege on gangs on pots and pans in their homes last night.
"About 80 percent of the students have stayed away from classes today," said Yerko Lubjetic, union president at the 17,300-student University of Chile.
STUDENT REFERENDUM
The following bill will be before the students of the University of Kansas as a binding referendum in the Student Senate Elections on Nov. 14 and 15, 1984. A vote in favor of the bill will make the bill part of the student senate rules and regulations. A vote against the bill will eliminate the bill from the student senate rules and regulations.
The University of Kansas
STUDENT SENATE
BILL No. 1984-030
Date Submitted October 2, 1984
Submitted by BooG Highberger, Student Body Vice President Chris Bunker, 1st Year Law Student
A BILL TO PROHIBIT THE EXPENDITURE OR INVESTMENT OF FUNDS BY THE STUDENT SENATE WITH ANY CORPORATION OR FINANCIAL INSTITUTION DOING BUSINESS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA OR MAKING ANY LOANS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA OR ANY CORPORATION CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.
WHEREAS the government of the Republic of South Africa has declared a policy of racial discrimination and subjugation known as apartheid, and
WHEREAS the system of apartheid violates the fundamental human rights of the majority of the people in the Republic of South Africa, and
WHEREAS discrimination on the basis of race is contrary to longstanding policies of the University of Kansas as expressed in the University's Affirmative Action Plan, the State of Kansas as expressed in K.S.A. 44-1030 and 44-1031, and the United States of America as expressed in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and
WHEREAS the Student Senate of the University of Kansas is an elected body representing the values of the students of the University of Kansas of all races, and as such cannot condone racism anywhere in any form and is committed to ending racism by any means at its disposal, and
WHEREAS the struggle for basic human rights has traditionally been a particular concern of students.
THEREFORE BEIT INACTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT SENATE HERE ASSEMBLED that, subject to the provisions of Kansas law, the following additions be made to the Rules and Regulations of the University of Kansas Student Senate:
5. 4.2.1 Social Responsibility Subcommittee of the Student Senate Finance Committee: The duties of the Social Responsibility Subcommittee shall include but not be limited to the implementation, monitoring, regulation, adjudication and enforcement of section 7.5.21 of these Rules and Regulations concerning the expenditure or investment of funds by the Student Senate and organizations funded by the Student Senate with corporations or financial institutions doing business in the Republic of South Africa or making loans to the government of the Republic of South Africa or any corporation controlled by the government of the Republic of South Africa.
7. 5.21 For as long as the system of apartheid shall endure, no funds shall be expended or invested by the Student Senate or any organization funded by the Student Senate with any corporation or financial institution doing business in the Republic of South Africa or making loans to the government of the Republic of South Africa or any corporation controlled by the government of the Republic of South Africa. Expending funds shall be defined for the purposes of this section of these Rules and Regulations as purchasing the real property, goods, securities, currency, coin, or services of any affected corporation, financial institution, or government. Investing funds shall be defined for the purposes of this section of these Rules and Regulations as opening any account or obtaining any loan from any affected corporation, financial institution or government.
Implementation, monitoring, regulation, adjudication and enforcement of the provisions of this regulation shall be the responsibility of the Social Responsibility Subcommittee of the Finance Committee of this Student Senate as set forth in section 5.4.2.1 of these Rules and Regulations.
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