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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1985
News Briefs Firefighters control forest fires in West
Firefighters began their final assaults yesterday on an outbreak of wild fires that charred more than 70,000 acres in the West — most in national forests — and destroyed nearly 30 homes and other buildings.
The blazes in Idaho, Monhua,
Washington, Wyoming and Cali-
fia were close to either full
containment or control. Only
minor injuries were reported
among the thousands of crew
members on the fire lines.
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland — Scientists who discovered the Titanic, the "unsinkable" liner that sank in 1912, said yesterday that the ship's hull was sitting on the ocean floor two miles deep in "near-perfect shape" but that they would not attempt to raise it or recover its treasure-trove.
Representatives of the U.S.French expedition that found the ship with a robot submarine Sunday agreed the wreck should be left as a "memorial," and they would not reveal the exact location of the wreck who might to recover experts who might to recover the valuables that went down with it.
Titanic to stay under
12 injured in protest
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala - At least 12 people were injured and more than 500 arrested in running street battles between police and several thousand students protesting recent bus and food price hikes, officials said yesterday.
The clashes erupted late Monday when police tried to halt a march toward the National Palace by 3,000 students protesting a 50 percent rise in bus prices and higher prices for bread and milk.
Russia, U.S. prepare for meeting Gorbachev meets U.S. senators Reason asks to speak
United Press International
Byrd, leader of an eight-member delegation of U.S. senators, said after meeting with Gorbachev for more than three hours that he was optimistic about the November summit between President Reagan and Gorbachev, as well as the Geneva arms control talks.
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev would make "radical" proposals to reduce nuclear weapons if the United States agreed to discussions on halting "Star Wars" research, Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd said yesterday.
"He indicated that if the U.S. were prepared to discuss the question of preventing the militarization of outer space, it would then hear from the Soviet side the most radical proposals on strategic arms and intermediate weapons," said _Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia.
From Kansan wire reports.
Byrd said Gorbachev indicated he would make a proposal "the very next day" after he heard that the Reagan administration was willing to discuss halting Strategic Defense Initiative research into space-based weapons, commonly known as "Star Wars."
Gorbachev appeared more flexible than Soviet military officials, who emphasized there would be no progress in other areas of arms control until Washington agreed to ban the 5-year, $26 billion-research into a shield against incoming nuclear missiles, said Byrd.
Byrd, who characterized Gorbachev as "articulate, tough, able and serious," said the Soviet leader expressed the desire to start building an atmosphere conducive for the superpower summit.
"He very much wishes that dia
logue begin and that rhetoric be lowered just a little." Byrd said.
Gorbachev, accompanied by his foreign policy adviser and experts on U.S. relations, greeted the senators in his third-floor Kremlin office. Byrd read a prepared statement and gave Gorbachev a private letter from President Reagan. Byrd said he was asked to relay the Soviet leader's greetings back to Washington.
"He's very sincere and serious about this summit," said Sien John Warner, R-Va., in an interview with ABC. "I would say that, historically, the Soviets have always fielded supreme ballerinas and now they've fielded a prima politician."
"On the negative side, he was very emphatically opposed to discussion of internal matters as he calls them in the Soviet Union and that was in response to our sincere concern about human rights," Nunn said.
for meeting Reagan asks to speak on Soviet television
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, welcoming comments by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a U.S. magazine interview, wants the Kremlin to give him equal time to address the Soviet people, a White House spokesman said yesterday.
Deputy press secretary Larry Speake, in a statement on Gorbachev's interview with 'Time magazine about prospects for the November summit, said Beagan was prepared to declare that he intended to offer "serious proposals" to ease super-power tensions.
But tempering that view, Speakes said, "Unfortunately the public rhetoric never seems to get translated into serious proposals" at the negotiating table.
Speakes noted the United States is awaiting a Kremlin response to a request submitted sometime ago that Reagan be allowed to present his views directly to the Soviet people.
He said Charles Wick, director of the U.S. Information Agency, had proposed to Leonid Zamyatin, Soviet chief of information, that Reagan have the opportunity to present his views on Soviet television.
"We are pleased that Mr. Gorbache was able to present his views to the American public," Speakes said.
Reagan hopes the Nov. 19-20 summit in Geneva, Switzerland, "will lead to such a result," Speakes said.
Group backs abortion ruling
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A group of Congress members, declaring no bedroom in America would be safe from government scrutiny, urged the Supreme Court yesterday to ignore an administration request to overturn the 1973 landmark ruling that legalized abortion.
"If the government has its way, no bedroom in this country is safe, no woman's body is safe," Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor representing 81 members of Congress, said during a Capitol Hill news conference.
The bipartisan group, led by Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif, and Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., have filed a "friend of the court" brief with the Supreme Court asking it to affirm its historic abortion ruling.
"To overturn Roe vs. Wade as the government urges would turn the clock back, not just to 1973, but to a point prior to 1923," the congressmen said.
"It would not only deprive women of their
fundamental liberty, but would also cast in grave doubt the continuing validity of every one of the court's half-century of privacy decisions which protect us all."
Tribe said the administration's position would roll back the privacy rights of Americans to decide when and whether to marry, how to raise children or whether to have them at all.
Edwards said the administration's request is the first step in banning other forms of birth control, such as intrauterine devices and the morning-after pill, which prevents pregnancy after fertilization.
If the administration is successful, Edwards said, the abortion issue would be returned to the 50 states and each would have the authority to decide whether to allow abortion and under what circumstances.
"In the biological context of human conception, state efforts to ferret out prohibited abortions — as defined by the government — would require not only searches of bedrooms for telltale 'morning-after' pills.
Gulf residents start cleanup
United Press International
GULFPORT, Miss. — Federal and state officials toured littered streets yesterday, assessing damage wrought by Hurricane Elena's 125-mph winds, 12-foot tides and spinnoff tornadoes.
Many of the more than one million people who fled inland from Labor Day holiday-packed resorts on the Gulf coast were still homeless in the aftermath of the storm's Monday wrath.
"We need temporary housing for families that had to be relocated," said Wade Guice, director of civil defense for Harrison County.
The few injuries that were reported in Mississippi were caused by tornadoes, which struck at least three emergency shelters for evacuees. There were four storm-related
deaths — two in Florida, where 31 people were injured, and two drownings in Texas from undertows generated by Elena.
The hurricane quickly degenerated into a tropical storm after coming ashore in the Bloxi area Monday morning, and was only heavy rain over Arkansas, Oklahoma and northeast Texas yesterday.
Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain and Mississippi's director of the Emergency Management Agency, Jim Maher, met yesterday with regional federal disaster officials to determine the damage for federal aid funds.
"It's just tremendous property damage, not only in residential areas but also to the downtown businesses," Allain said.
KU Tae-Kwon-Do Club
Instructors: Master Choon Lee
Master Ki-June Park
Place: Robinson Gym, Room 102
Time: Mon. 5:00-6:00 (beginner)
    6:00-7:30 (advanced)
Wed. 6:00-7:30
CHARLOTTE BRUNER will
BLACK WOMEN WRITERS SEMINAR