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University Daily Kansan, November 26, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Analysts call Arab summit a failure
AMMAN, Jordan—A Syrian-led boycott of today's Arab summit conference grew to five nations and the Palestine. Arafat decided to reactively doomed it to failure.
"Holding a summit that is supposed to plan Arab strategy against Israel without the PLO and Syria will be meaningless," one Arab source said.
Eleven of the 20 Arabian delegations have ready to attend, but four other nations planned delegations below head-state level, including powerful
Algeria, Lebanon and the PLO announced their boycott decisions yesterday, joining Iran and Yemen and hardline Syria, which have urged al-Islamic abroad the meeting.
The executive committee of the PLO met in Damaacus under Yasser Arafat and announced "with deep regret" that it would not attend the summit. The guerrilla organization asked it asked for a two-week delay and was surprised by the refusal of host King Hussein of Jordan to grant a
Ottensily, the summit is designed to patch up Arab differences over the Iran-Iraq conflict, but Arab diplomatic sources said the PLO and Syria feared the meeting was designed to give Jordan a larger role in Arab-Israel peace negotiations.
Three missing in boat, tanker collision
PILOTTOWN, La.—An oilfield supply boat slammed into the bow of a tanker on the Mississippi River yesterday. The Coast Guard rescued a worker who was trapped for nine hours in the mangled wreckage, but three others still were missing.
A derrick barge was dispatched to the scene to help the supply boat free of the tanker so divers could safely continue the search for the two men and one
The Coast Guard suspended the search for the missing crew members yesterday.
Officials were unsure whether the three people were still in the supply boat or had fallen overboard.
Coast Guard spokesman Joe Gibson said the Sailee P collided with the 448-foot Liberian-registered tanker coastal transport shortly after 4 a.m. near the mouth of the Mississippi River. The tanker was headed toward the Gulf of Mexico with a load of caustic soda.
No injuries were reported on the coastal transport, and the ship suffered only minor damage, the Coast Guard said.
The dramatic rescue began when workers received signals from inside the supply boat wreckage.
"They tapped on the supply boat and received a tap in return," said Gibson.
After the accident, he said, the ship moved about one onboard and one half miles m授ress. He added that the boat boasted boat BOSU V could use the smaller boat for the rest of the journey.
"The supply boat is perched up there on the bow of the tanker," Gibson said. "The slightest weight shift could cause it to slide off the bow and go into the water. We don't want that to happen."
More tremors at Mount St. Helens
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Mount St. Helen has become active again, scientists said yesterday, with light tremors suggesting a new phase for the mountain.
Susan Russell-Robinson, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said that light seismograph readings lasting about a half hour were picked up three times on Saturday and Sunday. Another of about two hours was recorded Sunday morning.
She said more tremors started about midnight and were still being noted yesterday.
Christopher G. Newhall, also of the USGS, said nothing in the new information indicated there would be another big eruption in the near future, but that it would not be a major one.
"I think it would be wrong to say that because of May 18, the worst is over and we can just relax," he said. "I think there is a very good chance we will succeed."
Newhall said the USGS was making the assessments about the volcano's potential for use by other government officials and individuals. He his agency still was unable to make predictions about the mountain's activity in the months and years ahead.
Defendant turns against Mao's widow
PEKING-One of the Gang of Four turned against his fellow prisoners yesterday in an apparent attempt to save his own life. He testified that Mao Tse-Tung's widow was behind a plot to publicly destroy China's strongman Deng Xiping and the late Chou En-Lai.
The defendant, Wang Hongwen, and Yao Wenyuan were the first of the Gang to go before the special court. Wang immediately implicated his fellow prisoner and defendant, Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, who also faces a possible death sentence.
Wang, 45, the youngest of the defendants in the Gang of Four trial, rocketed from the obscurity of the factory floor to become China's third most powerful man in the world.
But yesterday he freely admitted he was deeply involved in schemes to discredit Deng and the late Premier Chou, China's most beloved leader.
Asked whether he had falsely accused both men of plotting to seize supreme power. Wang repiled, "Yes, I said it... but those were the words
Jiang is awaiting her own appearance, but unlike the first defendants in the witness box, she has stoutly maintained her innocence, putting the blame
Pot users face adverse health effects
DURHAM, N.H.-Teenagers who smoke marijuana face 'horrendous' health problems, according to an Ohio doctor.
migrn Latter, a Willoughby, Ohio, physician, said marjiana was the most horrendous single health problem in pediatric practice.
"Teenagers used to be our healthiest generation," she told a weekend symposium sponsored by the New Hampshire Council on Marjaniuse. "Now more and more kids come to see me with chronic chest pains and coughs.
"To me, it's not a moral issue but a medical one."
Latner, a member of the International Council on Drug Abuse, said she was seeing an increasing number of young people with symptoms related to marijuana use, including short-term memory loss, lowered motivation, laziness, fatigue, lack of concentration, depression and impaired sexual
C. W. Dempsey, a physics professor at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, La., called marijuana a "veritable walking pharmacy" of more than 400 chemicals, including THC (Delta-9 Textrahydrocannabinol).
TRHC impairs nerve cell function, resulting in slowed responses and memory lapses, he said.
Reagan Junior wed—in tennis shoes
NEW YORK--Ronald Reagan Jr., the 22-year-old son of the president and his wife, was married yesterday in a secret ceremony before a New York judge.
Reagan and Doria Palmeri, 26, were married in an informal ceremony in the chambers of State Supreme Court Justice Lester Evans in Manhattan.
One of the dancer's bodyguards, Secret Service agent Lane McNitt, and a friend of the groom, Carla Luffman, visited the wedding. The couple's relationship was revealed.
Neither the president-elect nor Nancy Reagan attended the ceremony. The judge waived the annual 24-hour wait between issuance of the license and the discharge.
The bride wore red cowboy shirt, a black sweater and black slacks. The groom wore a red sweatshirt, blue jeans and tennis shoes.
Search for bodies in MGM fire continues
LAS VEGAS, New...Searchers using jackhammers and blow torches opened two of the three elevators late yesterday that they feared held several more victims of the MGM Grand Hotel fire, but they found no bodies inside.
By United Press International
Capt. Donald Ashley said his search crews would move to the third elevator.
Firefighters conducting the search for bodies were endangered by the sagging concrete and steel casino ceiling and by gusting winds of nearly 50 mph that bowled through broken windows in the large resort, blowing shards of glass over the debris from the fire in which at least 84 people died.
Rescuers had feared they would find as many as 100 mama, many 250 mama, many 400 mama. They three elevators.
All of the known dead were identified and their names released by noon yesterday except for two young women. One was found lying on a stairwell clad only in a man's trenchcoat. She apparently had suffocated from smoke.
Cables had snapped on at least one of the three main elevators, which hurtled out of the building.
Several other elevators in the 3,000 room hotel have not yet been opened,
Inside the 140-yard-long casino, once a major strip attraction for its mammoth dimensions and splendor, so-coated fixtures dangled from the ceiling over the "eye in the sky"; a large glass-enclosed length of the casino where observers used to watch for cheating in the games here.
Searchers who emerged from the cavernous basement of the hotel said they were in places, double pumps working around the clock for the last two days.
Nevada Gov. Robert List ordered flags on all states at half a minute of the first of the five windows.
The "eye" fell in flames upon the greening tables, trapping and burning
CLARK COUNTY coroner Otto Ravenholt said about 200 people were
Fred Benninger, president of MGM Grand Hotels Inc., said there was little structural damage to the hotel, despite the millions of dollars in damages.
considered missing, although most of those probably had left Las Vegas after the fire without checking in with authorities. Efforts were under way to contact them by telephone at their homes.
"The hotel has adequate insurance, including business interruption insurance, to cover our requirements as we can determine them at this time," said Shirley. "You should be sound. The showrooms, Jai Alai Fronton, convention center and dining areas are in good condition, as are the guest rooms."
On Sunday night, the third Nevada hotel fire in eight days broke out.
About 1,500 people were evacuated from Harrah's Hotel-Casino in Reno when a kitchen grease fire broke and sent smoke through a ventilation shaft to the fifth floor. One person was treated for smoke inhalation.
evacuated the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas when a fire, apparently caused by a cigarette, swept through a penthouse on the 17th floor.
On Nov. 15, scores of people
WHILE THE MGM Grand search and clean-up work proceeded, the first of 4,000 hotel employees applied for state unemployment benefits, which the state was making available without the usual 10-day waiting period. However, many complained that unemployment benefits won't make up for lost tip money, which in some cases is more than half their income.
A trust fund for MGM Grand employees was established at a local bank and donations were sought to help them with their needs. Other means of supporting their families.
Benninger said guest rooms in the tower that were damaged by smoke would be completely refurbished before the hotel reopened. July 1.
He said construction plans would continue on an MGM Grand Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J., although it may be delayed for several months.
Strikes. work stoppages spread in Poland
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland—Labor unrest spread in Poland yesterday, with a two-hour work stoppage by rail workers in Warsaw and Gdansk and an indefinite strike by employees at the giant Ursus tractor factory outside the Polish capital.
A sit-down strike at a Baltic Coast sugar refinery that has been going on for two weeks continued, with workers calling for better conditions.
The rail strike drew sharp criticism from the Soviet Union. In Moscow's strongest statement yet about
Solidarity, Poland's independent labor union movement, the Soviet government newspaper *Izvestia* warned a rail on Monday that Poland's national and defense interests.
It also noted Solidarity's refusal to cooperate with the Communist trade union of railroad workers and its efforts to be recognized as the only trade union."
threatened a four-hour strike today, unless the government meets their demands and needs a government commission to the southwest city of Wroclaw to negotiate a wage settlement distribution.
Workers at Ursus went on strike at noon and wowed they would not return until Solidarity volunteer Jan Narozena was released from police custody.
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Naroziannik was detained after a police raid on Solidarity's Warsaw headquarters Thursday, during which a classified state document detailing the Communist regime's policy against political dissidents was seized.
The strike by railway workers affected line 1, Warsaw and Gdańsk.
Naroznisk subsequently was put on a three-month "investigative arrest," and Solidarity said he was being in prison for violating the Slate Secrets Act.
A STATEMENT released yesterday evening by the Wroclaw branch of Solidarity denied reports by the official news agency Pap that talks with the commission had begun. The union said it would strike in Gdansk and Warsaw today.
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