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Military voyage ends for shuttle Atlantis
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. The shuttle Atlantis closed out its clandestine four-day satellite-launch mission with a smooth landing on a dusty runway yesterday.
WASHINGTON — In a step toward a possible blood test for artery disease susceptibility, scientists reported yesterday that they had found an apparent genetic clue to those who might have an increased risk of eventually having a heart attack.
John Baxter, a founder of California Biotechnology Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., said three genetic "markers" had been found, one of which seemed to be associated with coronary artery disease.
Atlantis' military mission, the second fully classified American manned spaceflight, was conducted in strict secrecy, but under the supervision of an airplane included two advanced defense communications satellites.
London riots kill 1
The next shuttle mission, a weeklong Spacelab mission for West Germany, is scheduled to begin Oct. 30.
Genetic clues found
A study of 10,000 people is now under way to confirm the findings.
LONDON — Police sealed off an inner city housing project yesterday and threatened to use plastic bullets and tear gas to quell rioting by youths who hacked an officer to death and battled riot squads with shotguns, knives and gasoline bombs.
At least 245 people — most of them police officers — were injured Sunday night and early Monday in the fist riot to hit Britain in a month of violence. The death of police officer Keith Blakelock, 40, was the first ever during a riot on the British mainland, authorities said.
From staff and wire reports.
Senate debate threatens payroll
United Press International
Despite prodding by President Reagan, the Senate was stalemated over the balanced budget measure, which would take the deficit down to zero in six years. Backers said the amendment would mean equal budget cuts in all programs except Social Security, but opponents charged many areas — including 80 percent of the military budget — also would be exempt.
WASHINGTON — The Senate, ignoring warnings that government checks could start bouncing, yesterday failed to raise the federal credit line to $2 trillion because of a four-day-old deadlock over balancing the budget by 1991.
The balanced budget amendment was attached to a bill needed to increase the government's debt ceiling from $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion and has been the subject of a four-day filibuster by opponents. Without the borrowing authority hike, the Treasury warned, government checks will not be honored by today or tomorrow.
we're backing what I believe can be a historic proposal . . . that is worth fighting for," he said. "This amendment has been held hostage to the debt ceiling."
Reagan went to his party leaders with a strong
dose of advice to get the balanced budget measure passed.
Democratic leaders proposed taking the pressure off by waiting a few days to vote on the balanced budget measure and passing a temporary extension of the debt ceiling. They proposed a vote on Thursday on the balanced budget issue and several other amendments as part of a longer term debt ceiling hike.
Sen. William Armstrong, R-Colo., said the "doomsday" predictions were wrong. He said the government would simply run with the cash it had on hand for a few days.
The House has already passed the increase in the debt ceiling, but without amendment. If the budget amendment were attached, the measure would have to go back to the House for a vote, causing further delay.
government would not shut down if the debt ceiling was not lifted, but lack of an extension ceiling would cause government financing to "get kind of crunchy." He said the government would be on a "crush basis."
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said the
One option suggested by lawmakers but discouraged by Treasury Secretary James Baker would allow the government to borrow from the Federal Financing Bank, an agency that helps coordinate sales of securities by other federal offices and semi-government agencies. It also has the authority, never before exercised, to issue securities on its own to borrow up to $15 billion from the public.
The cash shortage poses no immediate threat to federal workers or recipients of Social Security and welfare checks, a Treasury spokesman said, since government employees were paid yesterday and other checks were mailed last week.
The balanced budget amendment, sponsored by two Republicans and a Democrat, would take the annual deficits down in steps over the next six years.
U.S. rejects world court
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1985
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration said yesterday that it was ending a 39-year U.S. commitment to accept the automatic jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in disputes between nations because the court was being used by Nicaragua as a "political weapon."
The State Department said the American commitment to the role of the world court "remained strong" and commitment to international law was not diminished. But it announced the United States no longer would accept the "compulsory jurisdiction" of the 15-member court, based in The Hague, Netherlands, which is part of the United Nations.
Court to measure prejudice
After a terse memorandum from President Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz formally notified U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar that the administration was terminating acceptance of the jurisdiction accepted by President Harry Truman Aug. 14, 1946. The action will take effect in six months.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, returning to work on the traditional first Monday in October, announced a sweeping review of affirmative action plans that according to the Reagan administration discriminate against whites.
The justices will hear arguments this term in a case brought by a firefighters union in Cleveland challenging a promotion agreement worked out between the city and a group of minority firefighters.
Acceptance of the disputes adds a new dimension to an already crowded calendar for the court's 1985-86 term. The justices, under pressure from the Reagan administration to adopt a more conservative stance, are now demanding that the rights of criminal defendants and church-state relations.
The court also agreed to decide a case involving the New York City local of the Sheet Metal Workers union over whether a union could be ordered to increase its non-white membership to a certain level.
Agreed to decide whether it was constitutional to exclude ardent opponents of capital punishment from juries in capital trials, a dispute that could affect death penalty laws nationwide.
In other actions yesterday, as they weeded their way through a backlog of more than 1,000 pending appeals, the justices:
Announced they would decide whether an employer could be held
accountable under civil rights laws for the sexual harassment of a female employee by a male supervisor.
"Said they would consider whether the First Amendment right to free speech protected a student who gave a sexually explicit speech to a high school assembly.
■ Refused to disturb a ruling that struck down a Pompano Beach, Fla., ordinance that banned people from sleeping in their cars on public property.
Also yesterday, the court neared arguments in an Indiana case over gerrymandering, the use of legislative reapportionment to benefit a political party.
U.S. to call for new IMF lending
United Press International
The World Bank would pick up half the tab and commercial banks would lend the remaining $25 billion, the sources said.
Speculation about the U.S. initiative was the principal topic of *conversation among the world's finance ministers gathered in Seoul before the opening of the formal session.
SEOUL, South Korea — The Reagan administration's plan to solve the Third World debt problem calls for $50 billion in new lending to 15 debtor nations over the next three years, highly placed sources said yesterday.
Finance Minister Dilson Funaro of Brazil, the world's largest debtor nation with a $100 billion debt, said he was confident the Reagan administration's plan would help ease the world debt problem.
Treasury Secretary James Baker was scheduled to unveil the plan today at the formal opening of the annual International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting.
"It is a good plan," Funaro said. "It's timid, but important."
Shultz has no penalty for Israel
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz has assured Israel that its raid on Tunis last week did not violate the U.S. ban on the offensive use of American-supplied arms and that the United States would not seek any punitive action, diplomatic sources said yesterday.
The assurance, according to the sources, came in a telephone call Saturday night from Shultz to Israeli foreign minister Itzhak Shamir, who was in New York.
U. S. officials confirmed there was such a call but said they were not able to discuss the substance of the conversation. A senior U.S. official indicated last Thursday in New York that the United States had accepted the Israeli claim of legitimate self-defense in the use of the aircraft, but said no final determination had been made.
Shultz told Shamir that the United States had determined that the bombing raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters conformed to the U.S. definition of self-defense, as required under the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, the sources said. U.S.-supplied F-15s and Boeing 707 refueling tankers were used in the raid near Tunis last Tuesday.
The sources said that during the conversation, Shamir protested the U.S. abstention on the U.N. Security Council vote Friday, in which Israel was censured for the raid.
Shultz, according to the sources,
said the United States was concerned
about the reaction in the Arab world to
the raid, and the initial defense of
it by the White House and State
Department. Shultz was quoted by
the sources as saying the decision to
throw the bomb on the Council motion, was made to protect
U.S. national interests in the Arab world.
Shamir told Shultz that the unanimous censure vote in the Security Council was a perfect illustration of why Israel was adamantly opposed to an "international framework" for a Middle East peace conference, the sources said.
COST
KU Dues to ASK
$24,000
2 coins = $4000
BENEFITS
$24,000 in dues that KU will pay ASK in 1985-86
KU Benefits from ASK action
= $381,270.80
$154,210 in state work-study money as direct result of ASK ACTION,$186,060.80 in taverns, clubs and grocery stores saved or created by ASK action, $41,000 in larger state scholarship awards from ASK action.
THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF KANSAS: IT WORKS FOR YOU!
A meeting to discuss KU's involvement in ASK will be held TONIGHT. 6 p.m.,in the Wheat Room of the Union.All are welcome.
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