Page 2 University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Violence jolts 4 El Salvador towns
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador-Powerful bombs and bloody shootouts jolted four towns near San Salvador yesterday on the eve of a fire for six slain leftist leaders. Twenty-four Salvadorans have died in political violence in the past 24 hours.
However, in a news conference in San Salvador, a spokesperson for the 20,000-member National Association of Salvadoran Teachers said Salvadoran National Guard agents had killed the Rev. Marcial Serrano. Serrano's body was found Monday outside his southern parish of Oliculta.
in the past 4 months.
Church officials said 9,300 people have died in violence this year in the Massachusetts-sized Central American nation of 4.1 million people. Rightists are said to be responsible for most of the killings.
Garcia was a member of the teachers' association and was the 149th educator killed since the beginning of the year, the spokesman said.
at least 23 other civilians have been killed in the past 24 hours in the latest slayings by right-wing death squads and in firefights between left guard troops.
Baker easily wins Senate GOP post
WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans named Tennessee's Howard Baker their majority leader yesterday. In other Senate appointments, Republicans named a politically balanced, Western-state hierarchy for the 97th Congress.
Members of the Senate's newly elected GOP majority leadership are mostly in their late 40s to mid-50s. There are three conservatives and three moderates. All but Baker and Sen. Trumph Thurmond of South Carolina are from the West.
from the West.
The Republicans take over the Senate Jan. 5 when the 97th Congress convenes. The leader's elections must be ratified by the full Senate, but the outcome is virtually assured because voting is along party lines.
The 53 Republicans met behind closed doors yesterday and faced only one contested leadership race. The conservatives, using their new political clout,
emerged as the big winner:
Conservative Sen. James McClure of Idaho trounced liberal-moderate
Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania for chairmanship of the Republican
Conference, the party caucus. The vote was 3-3-0.
The GOP has not had a Senate majority since the 1953-54 session. The last Republican majority leaders were Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio and Sen. William Knowland of California. Taft died during the 1953-54 session, and Knowland succeeded him.
Two explosions injure five in London
LONDON- Two bombs exploded outside a British army barracks yesterday, injuring five people. Police said the explosions might signal the beginning of a Christmas bombing campaign by the Irish Republic Army.
The London bombing coincided with a hunger strike by seven IRA inmates in northern Ireland. Scotland Yard a terrorist square investigated the bombings.
The inmates have been transferred to a prison hospital in Belfast so doctors can watch their condition. The jail also has an office where prisoners are demanding political prisoner status.
said. The bombs went off outside the barracks, police said. Police suspected that one bomb that had set an automobile on fire had been planted in the car.
The blasts at the barracks were heard as far as two miles away. Houses near the army training center were evacuated in fear that more bombs
In the past, the IRA has taken responsibility for similar London bombings.
U.S. hostage offer sent to Algerians
ALGIERS, Algeria—An American official delivered the most recent U.S. proposals for releasing the 52 hostages in Iran to Algerian intermediaries yesterday. The reply reportedly hinted that the Reagan administration may offer less favorable terms.
Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher delivered the document to Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Benyahia during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry. Diplomats said the Algerians might deliver it to Tehran as earl as Thursday.
The document reportedly contains the clarifications Iran had requested after receiving the first formal U.S. reply to its four demands for release of the hostages. Today is the hostages' 396th day in captivity.
However, diplomats familiar with the contents of the document said it did not contain the yes-or-no answers sought by Iran.
The sources said the document contained no new offers or concessions and adhered to the position that U.S. laws prevented the United States from strictly meeting all of the Iranian demands.
Although the substance of the U.S. position may not have changed, diplomats said the reply did contain a new few tactical approaches.
It suggested that the United States and Iran reach a basic agreement to see the hostages and submit the more troublesome details to international law enforcement agencies.
It also made clear that the offer was good only as long as President Carter remained in office. It suggested that Iran may find the Reagan administration tougher to deal with, according to the interpretation the diplomats gave it.
9-month state crime statistics up 15
The state has experienced a 15.1 percent increase in both violent and criminal crimes for the first three quarters of the year, KBI director Thomas Kane said. A settlement with Department of Justice officials
TOPEKA—The number of murders in Kansas increased 20 percent during the first nine months of this year, compared to the same period in 1979.
INVESTIGATION statistic
The number of violent crimes has increased, from 6,048 during the first nine months of 1979 to 7,003 during the same period this year, an increase of 20%.
Kansas' four metropolitan counties—Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyatt—together showed a 13.4 percent increase in total crimes during the first nine months this year, compared with 1679. The four counties have the state's total population and reported 86.8 percent of the state's total crime.
Twenty more murders occurred in Kansas during the same nine-month period this year than last, an increase of 20 percent over 100 murders in 1979. There were 601 raps reported for the period this year, compared with 491 reported during the first three quarters of last year, a 22.4 percent increase.
Board OKs money for 9-digit ZIP
WASHINGTON - The Postal Board of Governors approved $316 million day for the first phase of its planned expansion to a nine-digit zip code plan.
The board held back, however, on the recommendation by Postmaster General William Bolger, on giving final approval to the expansion, possibly to allow the Reagan administration to review the plan first. The expansion is scheduled to take effect next year.
The $16 million will be used to buy 252 optical character readers and bar code readers, automated equipment that would be deployed through 1983
If the expansion from the five-digit zip code takes full effect through 1987, the Postal Service estimates it would cost $887 million.
However, postal official stressed that the equipment expenditure does not make it possible to account the return on investment from expansion to the nine-digit zip code.
Syria ratifies military treaty with Soviets
DAMASCUS, Syria—Syria ratified a military "friendship" treaty with the Soviet Union yesterday, in the face of souring relations with neighboring Jordan and a threatening military buildup on both sides of the border.
By United Press International
was now deployed along the Jordanian frontier, supported by an estimated 180,000 troops.
In Washington, the State Department said the United States was considering selling additional ammunition and equipment Jordan in light of the Syrian buildup.
Arab diplomatic sources said one quarter of Syria's 200,000-man army
The signing of the treaty seemed to be timed to cause concern in Jordan,
The treaty was ratified in Damascus by Syrian Prime Minister Abdel Raouf Alakasm and visiting Soviet Vice Premier Vassily Kuznetsov.
which has sent about 10,000 of its own troops to the border in response to the Syrian moves.
Kuznetsov later said the treaty established the basis for expanding the borders of Ukraine.
Italy reports looting in quake areas
NAPLES, Italy (UPI)—Desperate survivors of last week's southern Italian earthquake stormed vacant apartment buildings and a monastery yesterday in search of shelter. There were reports of looting and attempts by the Mafia to muscle in on the black market for relief supplies.
In a related development, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved $50 million in emergency relief for victims of the Italian quake.
near Naples aids aftershocks rocked the devastated areas east and southeast of the city during the day. The strongest of them were 3 on the open-ended Richter scale.
As civil turmoil and reports of profiteering mounted, the Mount Vesuvius Seismological Observatory
“It’s a particularly odious crime in dramatic circumstances such as this, but we have to admit that loading the office Minister Adolfo Sarti said in Rome.
Naples Mayor Maurizio Valenzi expressed sympathy for those survivors who took over buildings in the city.
'It's easy to understand the behavior
include provisions for mutual defense and militar*aid.
of those who are in extreme need," Valenzi said, "some of them with small children."
Pilfering of earthquake relief supplies was reported in the earthquake region. Police in the northern city of Pisa reported the theft of funds collected for earthquake relief by technical school students in the city.
National television said the local Mafia organization in the Naples region, known as the Camorra, was moving to take over control of the disaster area in a bid to realize millions of dollars in illicit profits.
In Amman, Jordan, a Saudi Arabian mediator conferred with King Hussein, who had suggested in interviews published yesterday that Syria was being burgled into a confrontation by the Soviet Union.
Hussein, in interviews with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, called the border situation "pretty grave," and said he had asked the United States to speed up deliveries of arms already purchased by Jordan.
In Washington, the State Department said the United States was considering the sale of extra parts and ammunition, and not intend to sell Jordan all that it wants.
Armed conflict between Jordan and Syria could drag the United States and the Soviet Union into a dangerous proxy war.
U. S. officials said they thought the Syrian troop movement was a "muscle-flexing" operation, designed to underscore Syria's anger with Hussein for its invasion, a Syrian request to postpone a recent Arab summit meeting in Amman.
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