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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Aug. 29, 1985
News Briefs
Actress Gordon dies
EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Actress Ruth Gordon, 88, whose youthful zest won her a new generation of fans 60 years after her career began in silent movies, died of a stroke in her sleep yesterday at her summer home on Martha's Vineyard.
Gordon's husband, writer Garson Kanin, called police about 8 a.m. after waking to find that she was not breathing, said Edgartown Police Chief George Searle.
Medical Examiner Robert Nevin pronounced her dead in an upstairs bedroom of her two-story home on Cottage Street. Nevin said that Gordon had died from a stroke and that he did not plan an autopsy.
Cancer test lauded
BOSTON — A sensitive new test that examines the genetic material of abnormal cells will help doctors accurately diagnose a variety of lymph cancers such as leukemia, researchers said yesterday.
Doctors have found that they can accurately pinpoint the origin and type of cancerous blood cells and improve diagnosis and treatment using microscopic probes that delve into the genes of renegade cells.
In addition, the new test may lead to a method of treating the cancers using a promising new technique called monoclonal antibodies.
The findings were reported in three articles and an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Tibetan rite closed
PEKING — Foreigners have been prohibited from viewing traditional Tibetan "sky burials" in which bodies are chopped up and fed to turtles, the official Xinhua News Agency said yesterday.
The agency said a notice published Tuesday in the Tibet Daily newspaper warned that anyone going to sky burial sites or taking photos or film of the funeral ceremony without permission would be punished.
From staff and wire reports.
Council urges sanctions, activists' release Churches unite for protest
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The National Council of Churches yesterday urged President Reagan Wednesday to scrap his policy of "constructive engagement" with South Africa and urged him to seek the release of black activists, including the Rev. Allan Boesak and Nelson Mandela.
The council action came amid growing protests by U.S. and world church leaders over the arrest Tuesday of Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and Wednesday's arrest of the Rev. Abel Hendricks, a two-time past president of South African Methodist Church.
"We believe it is in the interest of the United States government to help the South African government
move toward prudence and sound judgment through the scrapping of the policy of constructive engagement and the signing of legislation supporting economic sanctions against the Republic of South Africa," the council, an ecumenical agency of 30 Protestant and Orthodox church bodies, said in a telegram to Reagan.
"We also urge the release of Allan Boesak and all other detainees, including Nelson Mandela," the council telegram said.
In Geneva, Switzerland, the World Council of Churches, with 305 member churches representing 400 million Christians around the world, joined Boesak's World Alliance of Reformed Churches in issuing a statement demanding Boesak's release and urging "churches, public opinion and
world leaders to strongly react and condemn this manifestation of inertance on the part of the South African government."
The Rev. Avery Post, president of the United Church of Christ, said in a telegram to Secretary of State George Shultz: "President Reagan has suggested that the South African government is making a mistake by detaining those black leaders with whom it should be negotiating. I support the president's position and urge that our government take immediate action for the release of Dr. Boesak and his colleagues."
The National Council sent telegrams to all members of Congress urging them to protest Boesak's arrest and to demand his release.
Tutu attacks Reagan's S. African policy
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's policy of constructive engagement has been a disaster for blacks in South Africa and has made white leaders there more stubborn and arrogant, Bishop Desmond Tutu said in an interview published yesterday.
Peace Prize winner, said he predicted five years ago that Reagan's decision to maintain diplomatic contacts with South Africa would bring "unmitigated disasters for blacks" and faulted himself for not issuing a stronger warning.
Tutu, the 53-year-old Nobel
ment, I said that it was unmitigated disaster for blacks," said Tutu, who was interviewed in Johannesburg by USA Today. "I think I should have used even stronger terms, because it has turned out exactly as we said.
"At the beginning of his first administration, when he applied the policy of constructive engage-
"It is merely giving the government an excuse for an escalation in their intrasignience and arrogance," Tuta said.
N.Y. schools to plan AIDS policy
United Press International
NEW YORK — Officials of the nation's largest school system said yesterday that they will make a decision next week on whether to allow children afflicted with AIDS to attend classes when school begins Sept. 9.
Last year two 7-year-old students with acquired immune deficiency syndrome were removed from class during the spring term and completed the school year being tutored at home. A third student, who was 5 years old, was assigned a teacher, but when the teacher arrived at the child's home, the child had died.
Victor Botnick, special assistant to Mayor Edward Koch, said Health Department officials thought that four or five students with AIDS were expected to be old enough to enter kindergarten or first grade on Sept. 9.
Botnick said Health Commissioner David Sencer would make a recommendation to the Board of Education next week and the board would set a policy.
"There are two options." Botnick said. "Let them attend classes or be taught at home."
Botnick said officials had considered a special education unit similar to the Harvey Milk School, which was set up last term for gay students who would have otherwise dropped out.
"That has been in discussion, but it has not gone very far," Botnick said.
He said the class would be impractical if the students were widely separated geographically.
A 13-year-old AIDS victim in Kokomo, Ind., was barred from attending classes when school began Monday. The boy, Ryan White, monitors classes through a speaker-telephone linked to his home.
Health Department spokesman Martin McGinley said that 77 cases of children with AIDS had been reported to authorities in New York City and 52 children have died. Children with AIDS have an average life span of $2\frac{1}{2}$ years.
Study says companies avoided paying taxes
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Nearly half of 275 large, profitable corporations paid no taxes in at least one of the last four years, including 40 companies which paid no taxes on more than $10 billion in profits last year, a lobbying group said yesterday.
Many of the companies actually paid less than no tax — they took advantage of federal tax laws allowing them to gain tax refunds, according to the study by Citizens for Tax Justice.
Five large defense contractors were among the companies that paid no federal income tax, at all or just a small fraction through 1984 period, the study said.
Those contractors are: General Dynamics, General Electric, Lockheed, Boeing and Grumman, the study said. Three others — McDonnell Douglas Corp., Martin Marietta and Westinghouse Electric — had effective tax rates of less than 1 percent, the group said.
Citizens for Tax Justice is a liberal research and lobbying group supported by labor unions, churches, public interest groups and other
organizations. Its report on the taxes of large U.S. corporations was released as a follow-up to a similar study conducted last year.
"With the addition of the 1984 data, we now have for the first time the complete picture of corporate tax avoidance during President Reagan's first term in office." Robert S. McIntyre, director of federal tax policy for the group, said in releasing the study.
"It is a picture of unparalleled success in beating the federal tax collector," he said.
The report said that 129 of the 275 profit-making companies surveyed paid no federal income tax or received tax rebates in at least one of the four years in the period. These 129 companies had $6.5 billion in pre-tax domestic profits during those years and received a total $6.4 billion in tax rebates, for a tax rate of negative 9.6 percent, the report said.
It said 50 of the 275 companies paid an overall total of nothing in federal income taxes over the entire four-year period, despite more than $56 billion in pre-tax domestic profits.
Reagan gives boot to tariff ignores recommendations
From Kansan wires
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — President Reagan, beginning a battle Congress over trade policy, yesterday refused to protect American shoe manufacturers against imports, saying it would be too costly to consumers.
"Protectionism often does more harm than good to those it is designed to help," Reagan said in a written statement. "It is a cripping 'cure,' far more dangerous than any economic illness."
The president assured domestic manufacturers, however, that he had ordered an investigation by the White House trade office under law that permits a wide range of actions that he said could root out any unfair trade practices that may be harming U.S. interests.
Commission for import quotas, a proposal by some top administration officials to raise the 8.8 percent tariff on foreign shoes and intense pressure from Congress and 20 governors for import relief.
The decision flew in the face of a recommendation by the U.S. Trade
Reagan's move, expected for several days, quickly drew criticism from Congress — even among members of his own party — and from the shoe industry.
In a letter to Congress, Reagan staked a tough position in a coming clash with lawmakers over trade policy.
Reagan said quotas would place a costly and unjustifiable burden on U.S. consumers and the U.S. economy. It also could cause serious damage to U.S. trade by forcing the United States to pay about $2 billion in compensatory relief to foreign suppliers.
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