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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
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Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1985
News Briefs Discovery concludes productive mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Buoyed by news that the satellite they fixed has been fired up for the first time, Discovery's space salvage crew packed up yesterday and was to have landed today.
The five astronauts were returning from a seven-day mission that had a hard time getting started but ended up as one of the most productive of all 20 shuttle outings. During this mission, the crew launched three satellites and revived another.
To avoid landing in total darkness, the crew planned to fire a rocket burst to increase their orbit by 10 miles.
Bonn hears from spy
BONN, West Germany — West Germany's senior spy-catcher has written the government a letter saying he defected to East Germany of his own free will and had no desire to speak with Bonn representatives, an official said yesterday.
Hans Joachim Tiedge, whose defection Aug. 19 forced a shakeup of West Germany's intelligence service, spoke of his "hopeless situation" in the handwritten note, a government spokesman said.
Radio criticizes U.S.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador
- The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front's clandestine Radio Vencierremos said Monday that the new U.S. ambassador, a former ally of the president to failure as did his predecessor."
"For you it is a great honor to represent President Ronald Reagan — the most shameless and stubborn warrior of our time, is maintaining our country in permanent terrorism" through aid to the Salvadoran army, the broadcast said.
Titanic wreck found
ST. JOHN's, Newfoundland — The wreck of the Titanic, the luxury liner that rammed into an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, was found yesterday off the coast of Newfoundland, members of a U.S.-French expedition announced.
Eight S. African mines rocked by strike
From Kansan wire reports.
United Press International
53 miners injured in clashes with police Falwell draws protesters
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police using whips, tear gas and rubber bullets clashed with striking black miners yesterday, injuring 13 and arresting 83 others, as 28,000 workers walked off the job at eight mines, union officials said.
The National Union of Mineworkers, which had urged 70,000 miners to strike Sunday in a pay dispute with three companies, charged mine operators and police trying to force the miners to work.
But spokesmen for the three affected companies denied the charges and said the strike call was being ignored by many miners. Police were not immediately available for comment.
Elsewhere, four more deaths were reported nationwide in renewed racial unrest against the system of apartheid, or racial separatism, and a state of emergency declared July 21.
South Africa's reeling financial markets cautiously reopened yesterday after a brief shutdown, and the rand surged in trading one day after the white-minority government suspended repayments of its foreign debts for four months and tightened currency exchange controls.
The NUM, which called the strike a "complete success," reported scheduled job actions at three mines and wildcat work stoppages at five others. The mines are owned by three firms — Gencor, Anglova and Goldcor. The number of workers skilled at percent to 19 percen likes granted to workers of other companies.
NUM leaders said 28,000 miners struck yesterday. Police arrested 83 union stewards and strike committee members at the three mines where sanctioned strikes were under way, and at least 13 miners were seriously wounded in clashes, NUM said.
could not be confirmed independently.
"Hundreds of workers have been injured by rubber bullets, sjamboking (whipping) and tear gas. In some isolated cases, live bullet injuries have been reported," the union said in a statement.
The Angloval group reported no strike activity. Gold Fields confirmed security guards fired tear gas to break up a picket line at one gold mine.
Police said three people were wounded and 10 were arrested in day-long clashes in segregated townships near Cape Town.
Near Cape Town, police shot and killed a schoolboy in the Colored, or mixed-race, suburb of Elsies River during clashes with youths burning tires and throwing rocks and gasoline bombs. Students set fire to a classroom, torched a store and tried to burn post office vans before police sealed off the area.
NUM leader Cyril Ramaphosa had threatened to bring as many as 350,000 more miners out on strike if the mine operators try to forcibly halt the walkout.
Owners denied the reports, which
New outbreaks of racial violence were reported around the country yesterday.
United Press International
DALLAS — The Rev. Jerry Falwen led more than 5,000 people in a rally against pornography yesterday as 350 anti-apartheid demonstrators protested the Baptist preacher's support of the racist regime in South Africa.
Singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." Falwell and members of the National Federation for Decency marched one mile from Cole Park near downtown Dallas to the Southland Corp. headquarters yesterday to protest the sale of adult magazines at the company's 7-Eleven convenience stores.
But walking on the other side, carrying signs saying "Hitter Would Say 'Job Well Doe, Jerry,'" and "Falwell and KKK Go Hand In Hand," were about 350 members of the NAACP.
The protestors marched one way down the street carrying signs reading "Don't Thank Heaven For 7-Eleven," and "Real Men Don't Need Neon."
The Rev. Marion Barnett, of Dallas' Saintsville Church of God in Christ, who led the NAACP group, called Falwell a "white racist" and said Falwell's support of the racist policies toward blacks in South Africa presented a "paradox."
"How can he say that he is pro-life and pro-family when he supports a government that will shoot women and children in cold blood and some of these women are pregnant with babies in the womb?" he said.
Falwell arrived at the park just before 10:30 a.m. and made a brief speech, which was frequently interrupted by applause and shouts of laughter.
"We find it difficult to 'Thank Heaven For 7-Eleven,' when they are defiling our women and children," he said in a jibe at the company's advertising slogan.
The Rev Don Wildmion, who organized the rally, asked the crowd to "pray for those at 7-Eleven that the Lord will change their heart. And if they don't, we pray that God will take away some of their business."
8 senators to meet with Soviet leader
United Press International
MOSCOW — A delegation of eight U.S. senators placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier yesterday and met with senior Soviet military officers and parlia-
mentarians in an effort to improve superpower relations.
The senators, who arrived in Moscow on Saturday, were scheduled to meet with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin today.
nalsist since taking office six months ago.
"The situation today is highly complex, very tense," he said in his first interview with Western jour-
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., leader of the bipartisan delegation, said he was carrying a letter from President Reagan to the Soviet leader in order to help the superpower summit in Geneva, Switzerland, in November.
In an interview published yesterday in Time magazine, Gorbachev said Soviet relations with the United States had deteriorated recently.
"Relations between our two countries are continuing to deteriorate, the arms race is intensifying and the war is not subsiding." Gorbachev said.
In an arrival statement, Byrd said his group hoped to smooth the way for the summit meeting and for improved negotiations at the Geneva arms talks.
The senators met yesterday with Soviet parliamentarians and two military commanders, Col. Gen. Nikolai Chervov of the army and Admiral Nikolai Amelko, a deputy chief of staff, following a stop to place a wreathe at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
"An exchange of meetings was held on questions of Soviet-American relations and also topical international problems of mutual interest," the news agency Tass said after the meeting with members of the Supreme Soviet.
Man killed chasing two thieves
United Press International
CHICAGO — An assistant manager of a fast food restaurant who jumped over a counter and chased two purse snatchers into a subway was struck and killed by a train, officials said.
Larry McCaleb, 31, of Chicago, saw two yiews kids by 72-year-old woman and steal her purse while she waited to place an order Sunday afternoon at a Near North Side Burger King.
McCaleb jumped the counter and chased the youths, who fled down the steps of a nearby subway station. A ticket agent at the station said he spotted two men jump over the turntable and then saw McCaleb pursuing them, police said.
southbound train, police said.
McCaleb chased the pair for nearly six blocks along the underground southbound tracks. McCaleb was hit when he jumped from a catwalk into the path of a
The train's conductor hit his emergency brakes as the first sub-car passed over McCaleb. The train carried McCaleb about 150 feet before coming to a complete stop at the edge of the next station's platform. Chicago Transit Authority officials said.
The restaurant where McCaib worked closed three hours early Sunday.
United Press International
MD telethon raises $33.1 million
with live remotes hosted by Sammy Davis Jr. in Atlantic City, N.J., and Tony Orlando in New York.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The 21.1-hour Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association raised a record $33.1 million, officials said yesterday.
Lewis, whose annual marathon fund-raiser began Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT, had said he wanted "just $1 more" than last year's record total of $32 million.
The 20th annual Labor Day fund-raiser, carried on about 200 television stations in the United States and Canada, originated from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
The $33.1 million total of pledges from telephone calls from viewers will be added to corporate pledges of more the $50 million to finance the 240 MDA hospitals-clinics for the coming year.
Guests performed throughout Sunday night and yesterday to help raise money to finance patient care and research into 40 neuromuscular diseases under the MDA umbrella.
Winning.
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