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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Aug. 30, 1985
News Briefs Astronauts launch Syncom 4 satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Discovery's astronauts launched their last satellite yesterday, then gunned the shuttle in pursuit of the disabled Syncom 3 communications station, which two spacewalkers will try to catch and fix this weekend.
The astronauts completed the mission's number one objective when they launched their third satellite, sending the Syncom 4 sailing out of the cargo bay, spinning like a giant Frisbee in slow motion.
Board position filled
The five-man crew also got a bird'seye view of Hurricane Elena, churning up the Gulf of Mexico 218 miles below. Commander Joe Engle said it looked like it could grow into a "whooner."
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — President Reagan yesterday appointed his former television adviser, Michael McManus, to the board of directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation.
Until earlier this year, McManus, 42, was assistant to the president and deputy to the chief of staff in charge of Reagan's television and campaign appearances.
People most 'sexed'
GLASGOW, Scotland — Humans are the most sexually active mammals on Earth and that's official.
Dr. Dennis Lincoln of Edinburgh University said yesterday there are 1 billion acts of sexual intercourse per year in Britain alone.
Speaking to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Lincoln said passion in Britain was nothing special among humans. He said that fact that humans are the most highly sexed mammals on Earth.
"I believe the human animal is about 10,000 times more sexually active than the rabbit," said the head heads a reproductive biology unit
But he added, "Don't ask me how I calculate these figures because the Chancellor of the Monarch might want to put a tax on it."
From Kansan wire reports.
19 die in S. African rioting
From Kansan wires
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The bloodiest two days of South Africa's state of emergency passed yesterday with 19 people reported killed in nationwide violence and mounting fears that a miners strike set for Sunday could lead to new unrest.
A 3-year-old girl who burned to death Wednesday and a teen-age shot to death by police were among the 19 people reported killed in the bloodyest two-day event in South Africa since March, when police shot 20 mourners to death at a funeral near Uitenhage.
There also were unconfirmed reports that three other children died in the violence — the worst ever in Cape Town and the worst since the state of emergency was imposed July 21 to curb yearlong unrest that has claimed the lives of more than 665 people.
In the black township of Guguleu,
near Cape Town, rioters strung
barbed wire across the streets in an
attempt to decapitate policemen patrolling in armored trucks, and buildings set ablaze by arsonists formed a ring of fire around the city.
Fire crews and ambulances refused to enter the areas, which were far from Cape Town's white suburbs and business district.
In Bellville South, youths fought "pitched battles" with police, said a trade unionist, who asked not to be named. Black smoke from a torched paint factory billowed in the skies.
"There are heavy casualties and loss of arrests," the union leader said.
Police reportedly used weapons and tear gas to seal off the area and disperse students demonstrating at Manenberg High School. Police in armored cars also sealed off Mitchells Plain and fired shotguns at one primary school and tear gas into another during battles with students throwing rocks and gasoline bombs.
Ten people were killed Wednesday,
and nine more deaths were reported
yesterday — most of them a result of clashes with police.
At least 114 people have been arrested by authorities in Cape Town since police Wednesday broke up attempts by black activists to stage an illegal march on the prison where black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela, the leader of the outlawed African National Congress, is serving a life sentence for treason and sabotage.
As the clashes continued, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu pleaded for international sanctions against the white-minority government in a bid to force changes in its policies of apartheid, or racial separatism.
"We are saying our last chance for a peaceful resolution for the deepening crisis in our land is intervention by the international community in our land to end apartheid," he said in a telephone interview with Indianapolis, Ind., radio station WTLC.
Travel costs under investigation
United Press International
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into allegations that the Martin-Marietta Corp. scheduled to inflate its travel costs in billings to the Defense Department, Pentagon sources said Wednesday.
The sources said the investigation focused on the creation by Martin-Marietta, based in suburban Bethesda, Md., and IV Travel Inc., of the company's subsidiary companies to handle the contractor's taxpayer-paid travel.
Investigators have found evidence that Martin-Marietta charged the Defense Department full price for its travel fares, failing to report refunds it recovered from the travel agency through business transactions involving the subsidiary companies, sources said.
Officials declined to say how much money was involved in the transactions.
In a memo obtained by United Press International, Martin-
William Harwood, a spokesman for the firm, the Defense Department's 12th largest supplier in 1984 with 37 million in contracts, declined comment.
Marietta official William Vetter wrote, "In order to lower travel costs without giving money back to the government, MM Corp. created a novel business relationship."
Vetter's memo to Frank Menakar, vice president and general counsel, was made available by the Project on Security Defense Department watchdog group.
Richard In candela, IVI's president, said that relations between his firm and Martin-Marietta were severed "by joint agreement" last May when the travel agency learned of an investigation by the Defense
Department's inspector general's office.
Sources said the matter since has been referred to federal prosecutors in Baltimore and that a grand jury was reviewing evidence.
Incandela said he and some of his employees had been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury.
In the memo dated March 20, 1984, Vetter wrote that IVI set up a subsidiary called Performance Travel Inc. to book travel arrangements for Martin-Marietta.
Elena expected to hit gulf
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Hurricane Elena swept toward the Gulf Coast yesterday as thousands of people from Florida to Louisiana fled coastal homes and jammed highways in the face of the fast-growing storm's 85-mph winds and high tides.
Forecasters warned yesterday that the hurricane would strike land early today with dangerous winds of up to 100 mph.
Forecaster Mark Zimmer of the National Hurricane Center said the storm could change course and speed. The most likely landfall for the eye of the hurricane is the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Gale force winds from the hurricane's leading edge were expected to strike the coast after sunset yesterday and a hurricane warning was in effect from Morgan City, La., to Pensacola, Fla.
Eastern Airlines fined in cocaine smuggling
MIAMI — The U.S. Customs Service fined Eastern Airlines $1.3 million yesterday and blamed baggage handlers in Colombia for smuggling nearly a ton of cocaine into the United States aboard two of the carrier's tets.
Eastern immediately suspended flights to Barranquilla, Colombia, and a spokesman said yesterday security measures throughout the airline's South American system were under review.
Customs officials revealed agents in Miami seized 1,722 pounds of cocaine — given a street value of $430 million. About half the cocaine was aboard an Aug. 11 Eastern flight from Barranquilla, and the other half was on an Aug. 24 flight from Cali, Colombia.
Edward Kwas, southeast regional commissioner for the Customs Service, said the cocaine was in suitcases stashed in air conditioners and stored until the forward cargo holds on the Boeing 723 passenger jets.
In Washington, Customs spokesman Ed Kittedge said the smugging apparently was done by baggage handlers in Colombia. He said only Eastern employees had access to the area.
Agents withheld disclosure of the cocaine seizures until yesterday in an unsuccessful attempt to trap the person or persons who were supposed to receive the drug shipments in Miami.
The two seizures were the 25th and 26th aboard Eastern flights originating in Latin America since November 1983, but were the first major incidents since Eastern tightened its security measures under government prodding in April 1984.
Kittredge said the airline has been "very cooperative" since an April 1984 crackdown in which Customs agents found three pounds of cocaine in an Eastern jet en route from Lima, Peru, and Panama to Miami and New York.
On that occasion, seized the $35 million L-1011 plane because lax security measures had brought a string of 22 cacaine seizures aboard Eastern flights in a six-month period.
Kittedge said federal law required a fine of $50 for every ounce of cocaine found aboard a common carrier — a total of more than $1.3 million in the Eastern case.
Eastern officials said the airline was considering whether to pay the fine without dispute.
Colombia testing herbicide
United Press International
WASHINGTON - Colombia, the world's third largest producer of coca for cocaine, is well along in testing a herbicide that U.S. officials feel could wipe out the illegal crop in three years.
Those officials say that Colombia could begin a spraying program by the end of this year and they claim, although some experts remain skeptical, that a full-fledged program could eliminate production. In 1984, Colombia produced 11,680 metric tons of leaf.
"We think we'll be into a program in the middle of next year," a State Department official said, He said it could knock out the Colombian crop in three years, "knock out Ecuador in less than that. Then, we hope to move against Peru and Bolivia."
Another U.S. official, who expected the spraying program to begin late this year, agreed the effort could wipe out the Colombian crop in three years.
But an American weed control and herbicide specialist working with the Colombians was not quite so buoyant, calling such predictions "overly optimistic."
The key in Colombia — which began spraying herbicidal glyphosate with success on marijuana last year — is to find a herbicide strong enough to kill the tough coca plant while causing minimum environmental harm.
U. S. officials say Colombia and Ecuador have agreed to use a herbicide if it's proven effective and environmentally safe.
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