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Monday, Aug. 26, 1985
University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Launch postponed twice in two days
CAPE' CANAVERAL, Fla. — Computer failure yesterday forced the second launch postponement in two days for the shuttle Discovery and the ship was grounded until tomorrow so technicians could check for possible engine plumbing damage.
Weather forecasters, however,
said there was an increased
possibility of rain at launch time
Tuesday from either an approaching frontal system or a developing tropical disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dole promotes grain
PEKING — Sen. Bob Dole yesterday urged China to increase its purchases of U.S. grain and expressed disappointment that the Chinese had not lived up to terms of a 1980 grain agreement.
Dole spoke at a welcoming banquet in the Chinese capital for him and his seven-member Senate delegation. The group has pressed several Asian countries to open their markets to U.S. goods and restrain exports to reduce U.S. trade deficits.
Divers salvage pot
PROVINCETOWN, Mass.
Salvage operations began off Cape Cod yesterday to raise a sunken trawler still holding 70 to 100 bales of marine oil after divers removed $15 million of pot. Coast Guard officials said.
Divers already had brought up almost 500 bales of marijuana, valued at up to $15 million. The trawler was discovered mostly submerged Wednesday.
'I do's stop concert
DALLAS—Not many people get booed on their wedding day. But then not many people interrupt a rock concert to get married.
Promoters allowed Greg and Linda Grindstaff about five minutes for their wedding Saturday at the Texas Jam to the boos of thousands of heavy metal rock fans.
From Kansan wires.
Two schools burned
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Arsonists torched two schools yesterday, and in Cape Town five blacks sold a gasoline-bomber, police said.
Associated Press
Overall, however, South Africa was reported quieter after a two-day police round-up of 27 leading supporters of the nation's main anti-apartheid group.
Oscar Mepha, an ailing, 75-year-old leader of that group, the United Democratic Front, began serving a five-year jail term yesterday on an earlier terrorism conviction after Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee refused to waive his sentence.
In neighboring South-West Africa, commonly known as Namibia, police arrested 52 people at a meeting which marked the 19th anniversary of a guerrilla war for independence from South Africa, according to police in the territorial capital, Windhoek.
South Africa administered the former German territory under a League of Nations mandate after World War I, but has refused to surrender its mandate and place South-West Africa under the United Nations trusteeship system.
Police said the schools burned Sunday were in Middelburg, a coal-mining center 56 miles east of Johannesburg, and Umlazi, a black township outside the Natal province port of Durban.
In Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, five blacks pursued and killed a black who had incurred a fire bomb into a home Saturday, police said. Five men were arrested, police said in a statement.
Scattered unrest was reported yesterday from four other centers, compared with more than a dozen hit by rioting Saturday.
The Prisons Department in Pretoria confirmed meanwhile that Meptha, one of three co-patrons of the multiraction United Democratic Front, entered a prison yesterday.
Meptha was sentenced with 17 young blacks in 1981 for inciting riots at a Cape Town squatter settlement, Crossroads, in which two white men
The Appeal Court last month rejected Meptha's appeal and Coetsee said yesterday he would not waive it on grounds of compassion.
He said that Meptha's crime was grave and that Meptha also had been "involved" in stirring up black unrest during the past year.
More than 600 blacks have been
killed, many by police and many by fellow blacks, in a year of rioting over the government's system of aparteid, or legal racial segregation, by which 5 million whites control 24 million blacks.
The South African Press Association said that Mpetha was in Cape Town's Pollsmoor prison.
Nelson Mandela, president of the outlawed African National Congress guerrilla organization, is at Pollsmoor serving a life term imposed in 1864 for plotting sabotage.
The Front plans an illegal mass march on Pollmsmoor Wednesday to demand Mandela's release.
Louis le Grange, the law and order minister, Saturday warned of "stern action" if the march took place.
The Rev, Allan Boesak, a leading anti-apartheid activist and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, called for the march. Boesak, a man of mixed race, said the government crackdown was "yet another sign that the government is incapable of handling peaceful protest."
Muslims bombard Beirut
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muslims sheiled Christian areas yesterday in a new violation of a Syrian-brokered truce designed to stop random bombardment of residential areas. Sniper fire kept all six gates closed along the Green Line, which splits Beirut into Christian and Muslim sectors.
Police said 16 motorists still were missing after rival Christian and Muslim militias grabbed them Saturday as they tried to drive across the Line. Other victims of kidnapping were released hours later in a swap.
The total kidnapped was unknown. The tit-for-tat abductions caused the army on Saturday to close the only gateway still open across the 3-mile line.
Police said two artillery barrages hit coastal townships on the Christian heartland north of Beirut. They said 17 shells crashed in pine woods above
the port city of Joànieh, 12 miles north of the capital.
There was no immediate report of casualties.
A truce was reached Thursday to end 12 days of indiscriminate bombardment of residential areas in and around Beirut. Battles between Christians and Muslims had killed more than 320 people and wounded almost 1,100, according to police count.
In Syrian-controlled east Lebanon's ancient town of Baalbek, rival Muslim gunmen clashed for one hour Sunday with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades after what began as a squabble over a teen-age marriage, reporters there said.
The reporters in Baalbek, 50 miles east of Beirut, said the wrangle grew into a fierce dispute between two Sunni and Shiite clans and before it was over, one boy had been killed and another badly wounded.
Reporters said Palestinian guer-
rilled rushes to Baalbek to help the Sunnis, and fighters of the all-Shiite Amal militia fought beside their fellow Shites. Syrian troops stationed near Baalbek brought the fighting to a halt by firing anti-aircraft salvios against both sides, the reporters said.
A 3-year-old boy was killed when a stray bullet struck him in the head. A 5-year-old boy was in critical condition from bullet wounds in the head, hospital officials in Baalbek said.
None of the members of the two feuding families was shot in the clashes.
Christian and Muslim leaders came no closer to agreement on deploying Syrian military observers throughout Beirut to monitor the truce.
Druse and Shiite militia officials want the Syrians to be based throughout Beirut, including spots at army artillery emplacements and Christian militia posts.
British lord has died of AIDS, papers say
United Press International
LONDON — Members of Britain's House of Lords reacted with shock yesterday to a report that Lord Avon, son of the late Prime Minister Anthony Eden and a former aide to Queen Elizabeth II, has died of AIDS.
The tabloid News of the World, Britain's largest circulation Sunday newspaper, said Avon, a 54-year-old bachelor, died of AIDS in a London hospital on Aug. 17.
Doctors at St. Stephen's Hospital officially said he died of inflammation of the brain. Dr. Charles Farthing, who treated Avon, refused to confirm or deny the report that he suffered an immune deficiency syndrome.
The disease strips its victims — mostly homosexuals — of their defenses against disease and leaves them open to fatal cancer and infections. There is no known cause for the disease, which is known to recover from the disease.
Avon, who held a seat in the House of Lords, was forced to resign his post as a junior environment minister last March because of ill health. He was a friend of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and his father was the late Prime Minister Anthony Eden.
Colleagues in the House of Lords reacted with shock to the report and said they understood he was suffering variously from shingles, hepatitis and a liver aliment.
Lord Denham described the AIDS report as "monstrous."
"I really can say with my hand on my heart that I have never heard a rumor to that effect, and I have never heard any suggestion of it in the House of Lords," he said.
But the News of the World said the death of Avon, who held the title of earl, was being widely discussed by government officials as an AIDS case.
"We knew earlier this year that he had AIDS," an official at the Environment Department told the newspaper. "When friends visited him two weeks ago, he looked positively emaciated He was confined to a wheelchair and had gone almost totally blind."
Avon's father, a member of the Conservative Party, was prime minister between 1955 and 1987. Avon himself took up politics in 1977 upon his father's death and became a close friend of Thatcher, working in her private office during the 1979 election, the newspaper said.
Advertisement for loan aid pays off for college student
United Press International
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A University of Rochester student who hung signs asking people to invest in his education said yesterday that the unusual campaign had paid off.
Arthur Sherman, 22, of Lewiston,
N.Y., said he had received $300
loans he was seeking to pay the final
$1,250 installation for last year's
tuition and registration for fall
classes.
"I probably could have raised $3,000," Sherman said after receiving nine responses for his plea for money.
The economics major, who described himself as self-supporting, said he had plastered downtown Rochester's business district with 250
fliers last week because he could not raise enough money through part-time jobs to pay for food, housing and tuition.
Sherman said that he had already taken out low-interest student loans and that he was not eligible for bank loans because he lacked a cosignatory.
The campaign for investors triggered a flood of calls and even a $5 donation from an unidentified restaurant employee who sympathized with his plight, Sherman said.
The letter, signed only with the name Chris, said Sherman's problems were all too familiar to many waiters, waitresses and bus boys trying to earn money to pay for a college education.
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