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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 28, 1985
News Briefs
42 U.S. firms to help in apartheid reform
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — As mixed-race crowds hurled gasoline bombs and stones at police in a Cape Town suburb yesterday, the chairman of 42 American firms with investments in the oil sector pledged to play an active role in peacefully reforming aparthief.
Satellite sent again
The chairmen placed a full-page advertisement in the English-language Sunday Times.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A marooned $85 million satellite revived by two spacewalkers in August was successfully fired toward its proper orbit yesterday, triumphantly capping the most ambitious space salvage bid ever attempted.
The Syncom communications satellite, owned by Hughes Communications Inc., had been stranded in space since April.
PITTSBURG, Calif. — As thousands cheered from the shores, Humphrey the wrong-way whale was "ripping" through the Sacramento River toward his home in the Pacific Ocean, trailed by a pair of 10-ton Army landing craft.
Whale heads home
The 45-ton whale, also called E.T. after the homesick film extraterrestrial, was halfway along his journey yesterday, about 32 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge and proceeding at 3-4 knots, said organizers of the rescue effort.
Police raid with toys
LOS ANGELES — Two undercover police officers were toy guns and badges with their regulation blue uniforms Saturday night to raid a clothing-optional Halloween party, authorities said.
It is not illegal for consenting adults to attend such parties, Sgt. Dave Rossi of the Foothill Division's vice squad said, but it is illegal to charge admission without a business license. The undercover officers were admitted to the party after paying $55.
From Kansan wires
Chrvsler goes back to work
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Autoworkers at Chrysler Corp. voted to approve a new contract, ending a 12-day walkout by 70,000 union members that cost the company an estimated $10 million. Auto Workers officials said yesterday.
Before the vote was announced, local union leaders hailed the agreement as a personal victory for United Auto Workers President Owen
"It's the best thing that it's happened in many, many years. It's brought the union together," said John Coyne, president of Local 212, which represents 2,800 UAW members at a Chrysler trim plant in Detroit.
Union locals nationwide voted Saturday and early yesterday on the three-year pact, which gives Chrysler workers pay and benefits
Local union leaders said there had been only token opposition to the contract among rank-and-file.
comparable to their counterparts at Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp.
"We had about 2,000-2,500 people here (to vote), and about three voiced any kind of dissent," Coyne said.
Coyne said the contract, which gives the 70,000 Chrysler workers immediate cash bonuses of $2,120 each for granting concessions when the automaker neared bankruptcy, is a personal victory for Bieber.
"No more will anyone say 'Owen who?'," Coyne said. "He's a low-key guy, but he doesn't take a back seat to any of the nouns's past leaders."
Bieber, 55, became UAW president $2 \frac{1}{2} $ years ago, succeeding Douglas Fraser. He is up for re-election in June.
Some maintenance employees and
workers at plants with third suites were expected back on the job last night, pending ratification of the contract. Chrysler spokeswoman Anne Lalas said.
Bieber, who hammered out the agreement announced Wednesday after a 42-hour bargaining session, won approval of the pact Thursday on a voice vote from the union's 170-member Chrysler Council.
Typical workers now will earn $5,600 extra during the life of the agreement, assuming a 4 percent annual inflation rate, the union said. Lump sum payments and profit sharing will total about $4,400 during the three years.
The company estimated the contract would cost the automaker more than $1 billion in additional labor costs over the previous pact that expired Oct. 15.
7.000 Filipinos protest killings
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — About 7,000 Filipinos burned effigies of President Ferdinand Marcos and President Reagan during a rally yesterday protesting the police killings of two anti-government demonstrators.
Wearing black armbands, the protestors marched to within two blocks of Marcos' Manila palace behind a jeep carrying the flag-draped body of Emmanuel Lazo, 17.
Lazo was killed last Monday when police opened fire to quell a melee that erupted during a farmers' march marking the 13th anniversary of the government land reform program that critizes "farcical."
Another student, Danilo Balcos, 19, died Saturday after being in a coma for five days with a gunshot wound in the head.
"I admire the death of my son and I pledge to you that I will continue the struggle he died for," said Emmanuel's father, Maudelino Lazo, 45.
A letter distributed by Patriotic Youth, the student front organization of the outlawed Communist Party, vowed to "avenge . . . these killings and other obnoxious massacres." The protest came four days after Marcos signed a bill banning unauthorized marches and rallies.
Opposition lawmakers say the law, which carries a penalty of up to six years in prison, violates constitutional guarantees of free assembly.
Quoting intelligence and U.S. congressional sources, The Washington Post said Marcos, 68, suffers from "systemic lupus erythematous", a disease that attacks organs, particularly the kidneys, and may die within six months.
Marccos, president for 20 years, has announced plans to run for re-election in 1987.
The United States maintains two large military bases in the Philippines — Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Base.
One storm whips, another wanes
United Press International
CHALMETTE, La. — As Hurricane Juan churned slowly yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico 300 miles southwest of New Orleans, Hurricane Nele weakened and veered away from the Hawaiian Islands.
In Louisiana, almost 8 inches of rain and winds gusting up to 40 mph hampered rescuers in evacuating about 600 people.
A hurricane warning was issued in the afternoon from Mobile, Ala., to
Port Arthur, Texas. Winds buffeted low-lying marshlands southeast of New Orleans and tides were reported at 7 feet above normal.
Winds were reported at 80 mph about 250 miles southwest of New Orleans and gales lashed the southeastern Louisiana coast while Juan moved slowly northeast at 5 mph.
Dave Munn, assistant director of civil defense in St. Bernard Parish, where the most rainfall was reported, said a voluntary evacuac
tion was in effect for Delacroix Island, Yschoskey, Hopedale and Alluvial City southeast of Chalmette, about 10 miles downriver from New Orleans.
"The winds are really picking up," Munn said. "It's painfully slow because these people wait (to leave) until a tidal wave goes over them.
Munn said an estimated 600 residents of the fishing villages were trapped in their homes when water flowed over the levees.
Poisoned beverages carry death in Japan
United Press International
TOKYO — A 44-year-old man dropped a coin in a soft drink machine and got two bottles instead of one. Thinking it was his lucky day, he drank both.
Takahi Sakai became ill and died two weeks later of Paraguay poisoning — one of 10 people who have died in the past six months after drinking beverages laced with toxic substances.
Paraguat, a herbicide, was used widely by drug enforcement agents in the 1970s in an effort to wipe out Mexican marijuana fields.
Police say they have no clues to the motive or identity of the poisoners, who have struck in several Japanese cities.
The National Police Agency said there had been 17 cases of soft drink poisonings in the past six months. The victims selected a drink from a vending machine, found a second drink in the slot and drank both. Nine of those cases have been fatal.
In addition to the vending machine poisonings, police said about a dozen related cases have been reported in which the victims consumed tainted beverages that
they found or were given by strangers.
A tenth man died last month after drinking a poisoned soft drink that a taxi driver gave him. Another man, who consumed a half bottle of Paraguay-laced milk found outside his house, was hospitalized in serious condition.
The two manufacturers of the most frequently targeted soft drinks, Coca Cola (Japan) Co and Ohtsuka Seiyaku, said they had not received any threats and no one had tried to extort money from them.
Police investigating the poisonings apparently have ruled out the possibility that one person is behind all the incidents.
In a bid to prevent further poisonings, Japanese police, soft drink companies and vending machine manufacturers have begun a campaign to **warn** the public and alert venduing machine operators and retailers of toxic substances.
The National Soft Drink Manufacturers' Association has placed advertisements in newspapers and has begun putting warning stickers on the nation's 20 million vending machines.
Officials try to determine Soviet's wishes to defect
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A Soviet grain ship lay at anchor in the Mississippi River yesterday while State Department officials tried to determine whether a man who jumped ship two days ago wanted to defect.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Peter Martinez, said, "We're seeking to interview him in a neutral environment."
Chasse near the Naval Air Station, 10 miles southeast of New Orleans.
Martinez declined further comment but on Saturday he said the ship would be free to leave "when we've satisfied ourselves about the individual's intentions."
The unidentified man jumped from the ship and swam ashore Friday. He was picked up by Harbor Police and turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol.
The ship, the M.V. Marshall Konyev, remained anchored in Belle
David Lambert, district director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, said the Border Patrol "didn't understand what was going on and didn't realize he was trying to defect, and brought him back to his ship."
En route to the ship on a crewboat, the seaman again jumped overboard and began swimming to shore. Officials recaptured him and held him until Soviet crewmen returned the man to the grain ship.