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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1985
News Briefs
Bill would designate Titanic a memorial
WASHINGTON — A bill to designate the sunken ocean liner Titanic a maritime memorial and establish guidelines for exploration and possible salvage of the ship was announced yesterday.
The wreckage of the huge ocean liner, which sank April 14, 1912, after striking an iceberg, was recently discovered by a scientific expedition that took pictures of the ship off the coast of Newfoundland.
LOS ANGELES — Comedian John Belushi died lying naked in a fetal position on his bed, his right side bruised and his arm scared with needle tracks, his physical trainer testified yesterday in a preliminary hearing.
Belushi case goes on
Home to be prison
The bill to designate the Titanic a maritime memorial is being sponsored by Rep. Walter Jones, D-N.C., chairman of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Bill "Superfoot" Wallace, who worked to get Belushi in shape for starring roles in the films "Continental Divide" and "Neighbors," said he found Belushi, 33, dead March 5, 1982, in his $200-a-day bungalow at the Chateau Marmont Hotel on the Sunset Strip.
LOS ANGELES — David Alan Wayte, a former philosophy student who refused to register for the military draft, yesterday was ordered to spend six months under house arrest at his grandmother's home.
U. S. District Judge Terry Hatter, who accepted Wayne's guilty plea in June, could have sentenced the 24-year-old Whittier, Calif., man to as much as five years in prison.
The judge instead opted to place Wayte on probation with the condition he not leave his grandmother's home except for emergencies.
From Kansan wire reports
2 known dead in British rioting
From Kansan wires
BIRMINGHAM, England — Angry youths threw rocks at Britain's law enforcement minister, set new fires and battled police yesterday in a second day of rioting that has killed at least two people in a mostly black section of Britain's second largest city.
Firefighters found the badly charred bodies of two Asians in the smoldering embers of a post office on the fire-gutted and looting-ravaged main street of the city's Handsworth section.
It was the worst rioting to hit Britain since 1981, when racial violence raged for two days in parts of London, Liverpool and Manchester
Home Secretary Douglas Hurd tried to tour the riot area, but was forced to fice in a police van when a man carrying a gun hurled stones and bottles at him.
in the greatest breakdown of law and order in this century.
As Hurd said "I'm here to listen." bricks and bottles sailed out of the crowd. Hurd was hurried into a police van and driven away unhurt
The crowd pelted two police vans it. a service station with stones. One van drove away, but the crowd overturned the second and set it ablaze. The police smoked over a neighborhood still smoldering from fires in about 50 shops.
The riots fought new street battles with riot police, overturned
Police said they had arrested 25
blacks on charges of looting.
cars and set at least four new fires after Hurt fled.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said she was "absolutely appalled" at the destruction and loss of life, and urged police and community leaders to work together to prevent further trouble.
"It piles shock on top of shock," she said.
Hurd said authorities were taking unspecified measures to prevent "copycat riots" from erupting in other British cities.
Black residents said the rioting was triggered by police harassment and poor living conditions and charged officers had moved against
the black community in recent weeks, shutting down social clubs in drug sweeps.
"It's like the police want to keep us down forever," a black resident said. "We must do the dirty work and now the jobs are scarce. Riots like this are the only way we can protest."
Birmingham, a city northwest of London with a population of 1 million, has an unemployment rate of more than 15 percent.
More than 50 shops and homes, mostly owned by Asians, were gutted in the rioting that erupted Monday night after a white policeman was attacked by a mob when he tried to ticket a black motorist.
Eight West Germans occupy embassy
From Kansan wires
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Eight members of West Germany's environmentalist Greens Party yesterday occupied their country's embassy in Fretoria in protest of South Africa's racial discrimination policies.
The demonstration came as President Pieter Botha renewed his condemnation of economic sanctions announced by President Reagan on Monday, and Nobel peace laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu said that Reagan was "bending over backwards" to save the South African government.
a spokesman for the West German Embassy said that the protesters, led by Greens Party founder and Parliament member Petra Kelly, locked
themselves into a room at the mission after meeting with diplomats.
The environmentalist and anti-nuclear party said in a statement that the demonstrators, seven members of Parliament and a Greens Party official, would remain inside the embassy for 48 hours to protest aparthid and the West German government's support for South Africa's white-minority government.
The demonstrators, who had traveled to South Africa on a fact-finding mission, hung a banner reading "Coca-Cola" from a second-floor window.
"This is a demonstrative, nonviolent occupation as a means of protest against the continuing support of the apartheid regime by the German government," the statement said.
"They are here and they are refusing to leave," an embassy spokesman said. Embassy officials said the protesters chained themselves up, but did not elaborate.
West Germany, one of South Africa's main European trading partners, so far has rejected calls for sanctions against Pretoria's apartheid policy of institutionalized race discrimination. Ambassador Carl Lahusen was recalled to Bonn last month as a gesture of protest against a state of emergency declared in a large part of South Africa July 21.
Herman Nickel, U.S. ambassador to Pretoria, left Washington Monday carrying a letter from Reagan to Botha. Reagan told White House reporters that it underscored America's "grave view of the current crisis."
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arrive in Johannesburg later yesterday, was recalled on June 14 "for consultations" after a raid by South African forces into neighboring Botswana in which nine people were killed.
Reagan on Monday ordered a curb on bank loans to South Africa and a ban on computer sales to South African agencies that enforce apartheid. He also opened up the possibility of a ban on U.S. sales of South African kruerrand gold coins.
Both yesterday renewed his condemnation of the sanctions, saying they were "nothing but a form of warfare."
Suit filed to block satellite weapon test
From Kansan wires
WASHINGTON — Four House Democrats and the Union of Concerned Scientists filed suit in federal court yesterday to block a test of the nation's anti-satellite weapon against a defunct U.S. satellite orbiting in space.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, asserts that the presidential certification for the test failed to meet criteria set by Congress last year in passing the Pentagon budget.
The Pentagon is scheduled to begin final testing of an anti-satellite weapon Friday, but the four Democratic congressmen hope to get a federal court order to halt the demonstration shot.
The Air Force weapon, which will be fired from beneath a high-flying F-15 jet fighter, will track and destroy the "Solwind," a now-defunct 6-year-old scientific satellite, over the Pacific Ocean, according to Capitol Hill and other sources who discussed the program
Monday only on condition they not be identified.
The representatives who filed the joint suit with the scientists union are Reps. George Brown, D-Calf; Joseph Moakeley, D-Mass; John Seiberling, D-Ohio; and Matt McHugh, D-N.Y.
The suit argues that the Reagan administration didn't adhere to congressional requirements for the planned test and that the administration is not trying in "good faith" to
negotiate a ban on the weapons as required by law.
Pentagon spokesman Fred S. Hoffman, asked for reaction, said, "I don't have any comment on that."
But, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, "The United States has fully met the requirements of law concerning ASAT testing" and is "prepared to discuss the whole range of arms control issues" in talks resuming in Geneva Sept. 17.
Prisoners are freed by Israelis
BEIHUT, Lebanon — Israel yesterday freed 119 Lebanese prisoners whose release had been demanded by hijackers of a TWA jet in June. The prisoners returned to a tumultuous welcome and the Shite Moslem militia said that two Frenchmen held 111 days in Beirut would be freed in exchange.
The release of the 119 prisoners, who were mostly Shiites, ended five months of captivity in Israel's Atitl Prison near the northern port of Haifa.
United Press International
It cleared the prison of the final batch of the 1,200 Lebanese whose transfer from Ansar Prison, in southern Lebanon in April prompted protests from the United States and the International Committee of the Red Cross that Israel had violated rules of the Geneva Convention regarding the movement of detainees from their home country.
Israel had transferred them as part of its withdrawal from a three-year occupation of Lebanon.
The prisoners were driven in Sussex to the border checkpoint of Posh Island, where they were onward the border into Lebanon, wearing Israeli-issued logging suits.
They were driven through the villages of southern Lebanon in a triumphant column. Residents tossed rice and rosewater over their heads and fellow Shites thrust weapons into their hands. Others fired into the
In Haifa, an Israeli army spokesman said that the release "fulfills Israel's pledge to release all prisoners as soon as security in south Lebanon permits."
A spokesman for Lebanon's Shite Moslem militia Amal said the release would mean freedom for Jean-Paul Kaufmann, a correspondent for the French weekly magazine L'Evenement de Jeudi, and Michel Seurat, a researcher at Beirut's Institute for Middle East Affairs.
They were kidnapped May 22 as they drove from the Beirut airport.
"If these are the last Lebanese prisoners, Amal understands that the two Frenchmen will be released soon," said Amal spokesman Ali Hamdan.
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