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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1985
News Briefs
Canadians punch in; U.S. strike continues
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — Bargainers for the United Auto Workers and Chrysler Corp. worked yesterday to end a costly U.S. strike at 10,000 Canadian Chrysler workers ended their six-day-out walkout and headed back to work
Seventy-thousand workers walked out Wednesday in the United States at the same time the strike began across the border.
Members of the newly independent United Auto Workers of Canada yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed an agreement with the automaker.
S. Africa trial begins
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sixteen leaders of the opposition United Democratic Front pled not guilty to treason and terrorism yesterday at the start of South Africa's biggest such trial in 21 years.
The UDF leaders went on trial for allegedly trying to topple the government and instigating 14 months of anti-apartheid riots in which more than 760 people have been killed — most of them shot by police.
SAN FRANCISCO - Dan White, the former San Francisco supervisor who was charged with the shooting deaths of Mayor George Moscone and gay activist Harvey Milk, city supervisor, committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning yesterday, police said.
Convict kills himself
White sat in his car and inhaled the fumes through a tube connected to the tailpipe, police said.
PHILADELPHIA - A man with a history of emotional problems tried to open the door of an Eastern Airlines plane flying at 14,000 feet yesterday but was subdued by passengers and flight attendants, police said.
Man causes air scare
Gordon Ryan, 29, of Philadelphia, was arrested after the aircraft landed safely at Philadelphia International Airport.
Craxi asked to govern coalition
From Kansan wires
From Kansan wires.
ROME — Bettino Craxi was asked to form a new government yesterday, four days after he resigned as Italian prime minister. Politicians expect him to try to resurrect the same coalition that fell apart over the Achille Lauro hijacking.
"I will immediately start work to resolve the political crisis, which does not lend itself to easy solutions," Craxi told reporters after President Francesco Cossia named him premier-designate.
Earlier in the day, President Reagan's special envoy was in Italy on one step of a mission to repair U.S. relations in the Mediterranean.
The Italian coalition government collapsed over Craxi's decision to release Palestinian guerrilla leader Mohammed Abbas. Abas accompanied the four alleged hijackers out of Egypt on an Egyptian jetliner that took 10 hours after Mubarak said they had already left the country.
The envoy, Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead, later made stops in Egypt to meet with President Hosni Mubarak and in Tunisia to meet with Tunisia's foreign minister
Mubarak accused the United States of treachery in intercepting the Egyptian plane Oct. 10 and forcing it to land in Sicily, where the hijackers were arrested and charged with piracy and the murder of an
Before he left Cairo, Whitehead told reporters he gave Mubarak a letter from Reagan that "expressed his continued commitment to close U.S.-Egyptian relations and his hope that we can now put our recent differences behind us."
Leon Klinggoffer, the American tourist slain by the Palestinian terrorists during the hijacking, was buried yesterday in Kenilworth N. J.
Whitehead called the meeting "a good first step" toward healing the breach that resulted from the seizure of the ship and the interception of the Egyptian plane.
ed to a wheelchair, was shot execution-style Oct. 8 aboard the Achille Lauro off the coast of Syria a day after the four terrorists had commandeered it.
American passenger aboard the cruise ship.
Klinghoffer, a stroke victim confin-
Politicians in Italy said Craxi would try to form a government with the same four parties that joined his Socialists in the former coalition — Christian Democrats, Republicans, Social Democrats and Liberals.
The success of Craxi's effort appeared to depend largely on his talks with Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini's Republican Party, which precipitated the collapse by withdrawing its three ministers from the 26-month-old Cabinet.
Ortega fights U.S. policies
Reagan will address the General Assembly Thursday, U.N. Day, and plans to meet with leaders of top industrial powers who also are attending the 40th anniversary session.
UNITED NATIONS — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, in an anniversary address to the U.N. General Assembly, said yesterday that he would lift a state of emergency in his country if President Reagan would stop his “policies of aggression” against Nicaragua.
United Press International
Ortega said the Reagan administration was the "main obstacle" to the peace process being pursued by the Contadora group — Mexico, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela — which was seeking a negotiated solution to Central America's regional conflict.
Diplomatic sources said Ortega asked U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to arrange a meeting this week between him and Reagan so the two could discuss their differences.
Ortega said, "Nicaragua appeals to the government of the United States to truly abide by the norms of peaceful coexistence among states enshrined in the U.N. Charter, to cease its policies of aggression against Nicaragua."
Ortega headed a list of eight presidents and 11 prime ministers and foreign ministers to speak yesterday.
Reagan defends court view
United Press International
WASHINGTON - President Reagan said yesterday that he chooses federal judges for their commitment to "judicial restraint," ignoring criticism from liberals that his administration is using judicial appointments to push conservative views nationwide.
Reagan entered the controversy, which has flared under conservative Attorney General Edwin Meeese, in a law-and-order speech to a group of federal prosecutors appointed under his administration.
Reagan also said his administration was having success against organized crime.
"I'd like nothing better than to be remembered as a president who did everything he could to bust up the syndicates and give the mobsters a permanent stay in office," the courtesy of the United States government," he said.
Insisting that he is "very proud" of his record on nominations to the bench, Reagan recalled how he
campaigned in 1980 and 1984 on the theme that the federal courts had overstretched their bounds.
"I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench — individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism," Reagan said.
"I want judges of the highest intellectual standing, who harbor the deepest regard for the Constitution and its principles."
In making the pledge, Reagan acknowledged the "sacred principle" of protecting the courts "from improper political influence" and said, "let me assure you it always will be guarded while this administration is in office."
Repeating one of his favorite themes, Reagan said that the framers of the Constitution never intended the courts to pre-empt legislative peregrinates or coerce the populace into adopting a specific view of utopia.
Official says farm bailout needed
United Press International
DES MOINES, Iowa — Failure to bail out the ailing Farm Credit System before Christmas will force a massive liquidation of farm lenders and create a "bloody mess" in the heartland, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said yesterday.
ed for red ink for the first time since the Great Depression.
Criticizing both President Reagan and Congress for ignoring the nation's agricultural crisis, the Republican governor said at his weekly news conference that the nation's biggest farm lender was head-
Without a federal bailout, Branstad said, as many as 40 Production Credit Systems and four federal Land Banks will be liquidated, affecting tens of thousands of farmers across the nation.
"The Farm Credit System is like a big snowball rolling down a hill. If action is not taken quickly, I am talking about the collapse of the system," he said.
He said that a massive liquidation of Production Credit Associations would have disastrous effects.
Branstad said his increased concern was prompted by information he had received concerning the Farm Credit System's third-quarter report due out later this week. He said 16 percent of the system's $81 billion portfolio would be listed as bad loans.
"Let's take action now before the end of the year, before you're left to pick up the wreckage after the collapse of next year," he said.
A spokesman for the Farm Credit System in Washington said he could not comment on Branstad's estimates.
Rights law may apply to business
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to review a handicapped-rights ruling that could expand the coverage of a tough antidiscrimination law to a host of businesses even though they receive no direct federal aid.
The administration, which has fought to curb government regulations, is appealing a decision that says airlines are subject to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which requires airlines on the basis of handicap in "any program or activity receiving financial assistance."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in January that since airlines used airports that get money from the government and used the federally operated air traffic control system, they indirectly received federal aid and must follow the law.
In seeking high court review, the government warned the ruling had far-reaching applications — perhaps even making businesses that send employees on airplane trips subject to the handicap law.
Federal lawyers argued that the appeals panel had expanded the definition of recipients of federal defense beyond what Congress intends.
Arlene Battis, an attorney with the Paralyzed Veterans of America, one of the groups that started the case, dismissed the government's argument as "ridiculous" and "nonsensical."
In other actions, the justices:
Agreed to decide whether a Michigan biology teacher suspended at the request of parents because he lectured about human reproduction is entitled to $300,000 in damages.
■ In a case that could cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. billions of dollars, agreed to decide whether a "standby letter of credit" is the same as a cash deposit.
- Opened the way for a new trial in a billion-dollar battle over busing in Los Angeles, dismissing city officials' arguments that they cannot be taken to federal court on charges that city schools are intentionally segregated.
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