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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 2, 1985
News Briefs
TMI unit shut down after switch breaks
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — The Unit No. 1 nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island shut down for about 12 hours yesterday because a relay switch in the reactor's electrical generator malfunctioned, plant officials said.
Soviet to go to U.S.
A "minute amount" of radioactive steam was vented into the air immediately after the mishap, which officials described as of no consequence to the public health and safety.
MOSCOW — Yelena Bonner, wife of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, plans to leave for Rome today for treatment of an eye allergen before going on to the United States for heart-bypass surgery.
The 62-year-old Bonner was scheduled to leave Italy this afternoon, her friends said.
Beach booze banned
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In an effort to limit the antics of annual college spring-break revelers, Fort Lauderdale's new ban on public drinking on beaches begins this week.
Although the rule is aimed mainly at the annual influx of students to Fort Lauderdale's famed strip on spring vacation, the city commission agreed to apply it throughout the year, beginning Tuesday.
Cartoon writer dies
LOS ANGELES — Cartoon writer-producer Bill Scott, who lent his voice to the characters Bullwinkle and Dudley Do-Right, has died of a heart attack. He was 65.
Mr. Scott died Friday at his home in Tujunga, about 15 miles north of Los Angeles, said his daughter. Barbara Scott.
Mr. Scott was best known as the voice behind several characters from the popular "Rocky and His Friends" television show. He was also head writer and co-producer of the cartoon series.
From Kansan wires
Israel apologizes to U.S.
From Kansan wires
JERUSALEM — Israel apologized yesterday to the United States for any acts of espionage and said it would punish anyone found guilty of spying and dismantle the secret unit allegedly involved in spying on Washington.
"Spying on the U.S. stands in total contradiction to our policy." Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the Cabinet in a report later read to reporters. "Such activity, to the extent it did take place, was wrong and the government of Israel apologizes."
Secretary of State George Shultz, en route to South America, said, "I think this is an excellent statement, and we are satisfied by it. We have full confidence in Israel's determination and ability to pursue this case down to the last detail and to bring those responsible to account."
Peres said an inquiry was under
way into allegations that surfaced after the arrest Nov. 21 of Jonathan J. Pollard, an American Jew and civilian U.S. Navy intelligence analyst charged with selling military secrets to Israel for $50,000 over the last 18 months.
His wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard,
25, was arrested the next day and charged with unauthorized possession of national defense documents.
Peres told the Cabinet, "The government of Israel is determined to spare no effort in investigating this case thoroughly and completely.
the government of Israel assures the government of the United States that in the wake of the inquiry, if the allegations are confirmed, those responsible will be brought to account, the unit involved in this activity will be completely and permanently dismantled."
Israeli officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said Pollard was working for a secret department of
the defense Ministry founded about 20 years ago to conduct industrial espionage, which recently expanded to include military spying.
Accounts published by U.S. newspapers and confirmed by officials named Rafael Eytan as head of the unit, which used scientific attaches in the United States as conduits for other types of espionage.
Eytan, a adviser on terrorism to former prime ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, continued to head the unit although he left the prime minister's office after Peres' office in September 1984.
Peres' statement did not relate to U.S. demands that Israel return documents it allegedly bought from Pollard and allow questioning of two Israeli diplomats who were recalled from the United States last week.
Israeli commentators indicated that the survival of Peres' fractions 15-month-old coalition government could be at stake.
Severe cold cripples heartland
From Kansan wires
A deadly snowstorm crippled parts of the Midwest and northern Plains yesterday with blizzard conditions and a third week of sub-zero temperatures. Highways and schools were closed, stranding motorists, delaying airline flights and snapping power lines.
As of midnight, 361 people had been killed in traffic accidents on the country's roads during the Thanksgiving holiday.
At least 42 non-traffic deaths have been attributed to the severe weather that has cast storms from the West Coast to the upper Great Lakes region and in New England since Nov. 24.
The most severe snowstorm centered over the Midwest, with blizzard warnings in effect for parts of Minnesota and Iowa. Snow drifts of more than 3-foot deep were reported in southeast Minnesota, and many secon-
davr roads were closed in Iowa.
The storm across Iowa forced officials to call in the Iowa National Guard to help officers search vehicles stranded in drifts. Wind chills plummeted below minus-50 degrees and caused several traffic accidents, including a 15-car pileup near Mitchellville.
"There's some idiots still out there," said Ed Thornton, a foreman for a Department of Transportation garage in Des Moines.
Officials at several colleges and universities in the upper Midwest canceled classes for Monday, Iowa State University, the University of Northern Iowa and the University of Iowa all canceled classes, as did Drake University and many smaller colleges across the state.
The Des Moines airport remained opened, but United Airlines canceled all flights until last night.
Dangerously cold winds prevailed from the northern and central Plains to the upper Mississippi Valley.
Bolivians rush to kill coca plants
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivia, threatened with a cutoff of aid from the United States, has until the end of the year to eradicate 10,000 acres of cocaine-producing coca plants.
Brigades of manual laborers this week resume yanking out the 12 million coca bushes, hoping to complete the eradication by Dec. 31 to avoid loss of some U.S. aid to Bolivia
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-- the second poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere behind Haiti.
U. S. funds will be used to pay peasants $140 for each acre of coca destroyed.
President Victor Paz Estensoro says he is optimistic the workers will succeed. But the enormity of the task became apparent on the ceremonial first day of eradication Wednesday, and the government may have problems persuading peasants to give up their crops.
When Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy pulled out the first coca plant in the Chapare region, 160 miles southeast of La Paz, plot owner Nestor Martínez broke down in tears.
Experts say Bolivia now produces 40 percent of the world's coca leaf used in cocaine production, surpassed only by neighboring Peru.
Aquino plans to run; Marcos' ally cleared
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MANILA, Philippines — The wife of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino yesterday told 15,000 cheering supporters that she would announce her candidacy for president as soon as President Ferdinand Marcos signed a bill for early elections.
Just hours after her announcement, a three-judge panel aquitted former armed forces chief Gen. Fabian Ver, a confidant of President Ferdinand Marcos, and 25 others in the 1983 murder of her husband.
The judges, apparently supporting the government version of the killing, said it was not unreasonable to conclude that he was shot by alleged communist assassin Rolando Galman.
The 26 defendants — Ver. 24 other military men and a civilian
Galman himself was shot and killed after the slaying of Aquino on Aug. 21, 1983, at Manila Airport. Aquino was returning home after three years of self-exile in the United States.
— all were ordered freed after the decision was issued in a two-hour hearing held under tight security as 100 anti-Marcos demonstrators held a vigil outside the courtroom.
Marcos has vowed that Ver, who was stripped of his armed forces post after the Aquino slaying, would be reinstated immediately upon aquittal.
Yesterday, more than 3,500 Filipinos jammed the church in Manila's Quezon City suburb to support Aquino's candidacy.
"i assure you that you will hear what you want to hear," she told a crowd after mass at Santo Domingo Church, where a priest splashed holy water on bundles of petitions signed by 1.2 million supporters demanding her candidacy.
"At a time when government credibility is very low, I am moved that you, my beloved Filipino people, believe that I can give hope," Aquino said.
Laurel, leader of the largest coalition of opposition parties, has said he still plans to run.
Astronauts practice building tower during shuttle mission
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts on the Atlantis erected a 45-foot tower during a $6\frac{1}{2}$-hour spacewalk last night and swung it about like a giant baton.
Setting the stage for construction of a space settlement in the early 1990s, the astronauts rode the shuttle's 50-foot robot arm like a cherry picker to the top of the 190-pound aluminum truss to finish its assembly.
construction workers for years.
"I think I'm getting ironworker pay for this," said Jerry Ross, perched like a steeplejack high above the winged spaceship, about 217 miles above Earth.
Ross and Sherwood Spring, to the delight of National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials monitoring the operation on television, worked in the weightless environment as if they had been cosmic
"Let's go build a space station," Ross said after the tower was completed. The tower was similar to framework sections planned for NASA's permanent orbiting modular base in space.
The two spacewalkers had some difficulty with one latching device for a 12-foot aluminum pyramid.
The astronauts first erected and dismantled the 45-foot tower in Friday's highly successful spacewalk. During last night's exercise, they built only nine sections from the bottom up. Then, using the arm like a cherry picker, Ross went to the top to add the 10th section.
Mary Cleave drove the triple-jointed, computer-controlled arm from Atlantis's flight deck, responding to commands from Ross as he went up and down.
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