October 22,1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily KANSAN
Grenada casualties higher than reported, NBC says
WASHINGTON — NBC News reported yesterday that it learned there were 22 more casualties in the Gronada invasion a month earlier, and an assessment reported, but the Pentagon denied it.
In a report at the start of "Meet the Press," the network said three unnamed analysts reported that six U.S. commanders died and 16 were wounded in a failed early morning raid Oct. 25, 1983, designed to clear a runaway at the airport.
A Pentagon spokesman said: "We completely deny there were any more than 19 servicemen killed in Grenada. That is all we reported, and that's all there were."
French director Truffaut dies
PARIS — French director Francesco Truffault, who led the revolution of France's "new wave" in cinema and influenced America's best young moviemakers with films such as "Day for Day," "Blows Off," and "400 Blows," died yesterday. He was 82.
A spokeswoman for the American Hospital of Paris declined to reveal the cause of death, saying hospital doctors would release details today.
Truffaut, arguably the best known French director in the United States, was cited as a major influence by American critics. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
Official suggests sin district
MILWAUKEE — Alderman Michael McGee wants the city to establish a special district where all wickedness and sin can be concentrated.
"Everything from burlesque houses and strip joints to porno places would be there, and prostitutes would hang around in the room," he said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal.
MGee made his comments more than a week after an 18-year-old female dancer claimed she was sexually assaulted by two men, and she was taken to a tavern in McGeese's addermary district.
Mortician accused of thefts
LINCEN CITY, Ore - Undertakers in Oregon said they would lobby for stricter licensing and offered free burials of 16 bodies found in the garage of a mortician accused of receiving money for cremations that never occurred.
Dale Omsberg, 34, the owner of Omsberg's Pacific Mortuary, was arraigned Friday on 16 counts of first-degree theft after authorities found 16 bodies stored in the mortuary's garage. Court documents indicate he received $200 for cremations that never took place.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Officials may be fired for work on CIA book
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — National security adviser Robert McFarlane said yesterday President Reagan would fire any U.S. official involved in producing a primer advising Nicaraguan rebels on political assassination, blackmail and mob violence.
"I think the president has made clear that if there were U.S. officials involved in the development of this and approval of it they should not be involved," she said on ARCS. "This Week with David Brinkley."
When asked if CIA Director William Casey would be fired if he was found to be involved, McFarlane replied, "All of the evidence preliminarily is that this was a subordinate official, and perhaps not even someone who knew the identity of the person who, is whoever was involved ought to be fired."
MEANWHILE, ON NBC's "Meet the Press," Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday there was "no doubt what happened." The Salvadorian alvador were being supplied from Nicaragua.
He also said the United States continued to observe the directive that American personnel must not enter combat zones in El Salvador, but said this no longer virtually confined them to the capital city of San Jose, where permanent forces have secured outlying areas.
Asked if there was any evidence of arms being relayed from Nicaragua to the rebels in El Salvador, Shultz said, "A lot of material has been collected." There is no doubt whatever the Salvadoran guerrillas are supplied from Nicaragua."
Asked if, in view of controversy surrounding it, it might not be better to make this public proof. Shultz replied: "That is open to question, because when you disclose information, you have to disclose how you get it and then you have a beater time getting
—and then you have a harder time getting it."
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE en route to Kansas City, Mo., for the final debate between President Reagan and Walter Mondale, Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., told reporters: "We've got to get to the bottom of" the primer issue. "For us to be instructing people in Central America on how to go about terrorism is an exercise in futility. It's like teaching Mormons missionary work."
Newsweek magazine, meanwhile, said it had learned that key aides to Casey, Jese Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and "U.S. Defense Department office" had discussed the need for a handbook guerrilla warfare in meetings in August 1983.
The magazine said one "top planner" asked a reporter a year ago. "How do you write a manual for revolution?"
ACCORDING TO EDGAR Chamorro, spokesman for the Nicaraguan Democratic Forces, the Contra command structure, the United States sent an "older" man to Honduras, a Korean and Vietnam War veteran who had taught at the National War College and was an expert on guerrilla warfare.
Chamorro said he and the American worked together to create the pamphlet as a gift.
Arson in fraternity kills student
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A smoky arson fire swept through a fraternity house at Indiana University early yesterday, killing one student and injuring at least 30 others, officials said. Some suffered fractures leaking from windows to escape.
By United Press International
The fire spread through the Zeta Beta Tau house early yesterday with help from an unidentified flammable liquid campespa property and no suspects or motives in the incident.
Firefighters were called at 4:25 a.m. by freshmen from the nearby Sigma Chi House, heading for a pre-dawn snack. The student roasted the ZIIT members and called police.
David Hamilton. Bloomington deputy fire chief, said flames were leaping 15 to 20 feet from second-story windows as firefighters arrived, but they extinguished the blaze within 10 minutes with streams from three pumper trucks.
Bloomington Hospital emergency room head nurse Sue Kooistra said at least 30 people were treated, most for smoke inhalation.
Steven Ross, 19, Okermann, Mich., said there had been a small party the night before, but most of the students had gone to bed. He said that, ironically, his last act before床 was to play a record by Talking Heads. titled "Burning Down the House."
Israel Edelman, 19, of Richmond, died of smoke inhalation, authorities said.
United Press International
Lech Walesa, leaving the Warsaw St. Stanislaw church of the kidnapped pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko, flashes the V-sign to cheering Solidarity supporters. Popieluszko was abducted Friday.
Federal agency rejects study using water as bomb shelter
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - A federal agency has rejected as "ludicrous" and "absurd" a theory set forth in a government study that factory workers might escape a nuclear holocaust by dividing into a large pool of water wearing "as much clothing as possible."
The nation's emergency prepareded agency is moving to cancel the $174,000 study grant with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of Livermore, Calif.
"A body of water could provide a unique protective option for some individuals," the report said, which was issued last summer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "Considerable protection could be obtained in the ground nuclear effects by wearing as much cover as possible and about four feet down and spending a little time as possible at the surface for air.
"HOWEVER, WORKERS TAKING advantage of large bodies of water should not only be good swimmers, but they should also possesses to a flotation device with a 10-foot line.
The report also called for workers to shield themselves from a nuclear blast by wrapping them in a thick membrane.
"The report is ludicrous." Richard Fearman, project manager in the FEMA industrial protection division, complained in an internal memorandum on Aug. 29.
Besides assailing the conclusions, FEMA accused the Livermore Lab of plagiarism because it allegedly copied British and FEMA material in its report.
Firman said the report's information and research methods appeared to have been acquired from the International Institute of Strategic Studies, based in London, and other FEMA papers.
LABORATORY DIRECTOR ROBERT Hickman said he had not had a detailed discussion of the deficiencies in the agreement. But he said it was not uncommon for project managers to ask for revisions or additions.
Responding to the report, Feirman wrote the chief of the FEMA industrial protection division that it was unlikely a worker would be wearing a tether, find sufficient water, or be able to remain submerged long enough to mitigate blast effects.
"It is statements like these made by LLN that undercut the entire civil defense program and cause loss of validity to the threat of nuclear survivability," said Feirman.
Disclosures about the Livermere grant come as FEMA faces subpoenaes from a House subcommittee investigating unrelated allegations of contracting favoritism in employment companies. The Science and Technology subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for next week.
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