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University Daily Kansan, November 25, 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 Liberation Organization, and Israel's embassy in Jerusalem was under attack.
"Holding a summit that is supposed to plan Arab strategy against Israel without the PLO and Syria will be meaningsless," one Arab source said.
Eleven of the 20 Arab League states were ready to attend, but four other nations planned delegations behind头-of-state level, including powerful
Also, Lebanon and the PLO announced their boycott decisions yesterday, joining Yemen and hardline Syria, which have insisted against the meeting.
The executive committee of the PLO met in Damascus under Yasser Arafat and announced "with deep regret" that it would not attend the summit. The guerrilla organization asked it said for a two-week delay and was surprised by the refusal of host King Hussein of Jordan to grant a
Ostensibly, 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 scour for the two men and one man.
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 PCollided 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 to one and one half miles upriver, near Pillertown, on the oilfield jackup boat Boasu V could use.
"The supply boat is perched on there on the bow of the tanker," Gibson said. "The slightest weight shift could cause it to slide off the bow and go into water."
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
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 noted yesterday.
Christopher G. Newhall, who the USGS, said nothing in the new information indicated there was another hospital in future, time. The hospital has long been dormant.
"I think it would be wrong to say that because of May 18, the worst is over and we can just release us," we said. "I think there is a very good chance we will win."
Newhall said the USGS was making the assessments about the volcano's potential for use by other government officials and individuals. He said 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 Xionging 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 under Mao's tutelage during the 1968-76 Cultural Revolution.
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
d. Jiang Queng.
Jiang is awaiting her own appearance, but unlike the first defendants in the witness box, she has stoutly maintained her innocence, putting the blame for any crimes on her late husband.
Pot users face adverse health effects
DURHAM, N.H. - Teenagers who smoke marijuana face "horrendous" health problems, according to an Ohio doctor.
Ingrid Latner, a Willoughby, Ohio, physician, said marjuana 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 Marjanause. "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, lack of concentration, depression and impaired sexual functioning.
C. W. Dempsey, a physics professor at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, La., called jujuana a "veritable walking pharmacy" of more than 400 chemicals, including THC (Delta-9 Textrahydrocannabinol).
THC impairs nerve cell function, resulting in slowed responses and memory lasses. he said.
"Alcohol washes out of the body, and nicotine from an average tobacco cigarette stays in the bloodstream about 60 seconds." Dempsey said. "But THC hangs in there. After smoking one joint, the THC effects can still be found in the body 30 days later."
Reagan Junior wed—in tennis shoes
NEW YORK—Donald Reagan Jr., the 22-year-old son of the president-elect and a member of the Joffrey Ballet Troupe, was married yesterday at her home in Arlington, Va.
Reagan and Doria Palmieri, 29, were married in an informal ceremony in the states of State Supreme Court Justice Lester Evans in Manhattan.
One of the dancer's bodyguards, Secret Service agent Lane Nennitt, and a friend of the governor, Calvin Wilford, witnessed the wedding. The couple's
Neither the president-elect nor Nancy Reagan attended the ceremony. The judge waived the usual 24-hour wait between issuance of the license and the release from prison.
The bride wore red cowboy boots, 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, Nev. —Searchers using jackammers and blow torches opened two of the three elevators late yesterday that they feared hold several more victims of the MGM Grand Hotel fire, but they found no bodies inside.
By United Press International
Capt. Donald Ashley has his search crew 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 howled 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 trapped people in the three elevators, many of those in the 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 down a steep staircase.
Several other elevators in the 3,500 room hotel have not yet been opened,
Inside the 140-yard-long casino, once a major strip attraction for its mammoth dimensions and splendor, soo-coated fixtures dangled from the ceiling over the "eye in the sky," a passageway entrance to the casino where observers used to watch for cheating in the games below.
Searchers who emerged from the cavernous basement of the hotel said the water was slx feet deep in places, but he could still be around the clock for the last two days.
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CLARK COUNTY coroner Otto Ravenholt said about 200 people were
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.
Fred Benninger, president of MGM Grand Hotels Inc., said there was little structural damage to the hotel, despite the millions of dollars in damages.
"The hotel has adequate insurance, including business interruption insurance, to cover our requirements as we can determine them at this time." he said. "Structurally, the hotel The Hotel, The Jail, the Jail 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 Harrass's Hotel-Casino in Reno when a kitchen grease fire broke on 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 penhouse 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 families. Other means of supporting their families.
Beminger 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 Dgansk and an indefinite strike by the police. The army outside at the giant Urusus 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 Investva warned a rail ad hoc campaign against Poland's national and defense interests.
It also noted Solidarity's refusal to cooperate with the Communist trade union of railroad workers and its own work be recognized as the only trade union."
Workers at Ursus went on strike at noon and vowed they would not return until Solidarity volunteer Jan Narozonik was released from police custody.
The strike by railway workers affected the local commuter lines in Warsaw and Gdansk. Workers
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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.
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Naronzik 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.
Narozenix subsequently was put on a three-month "investigative arrest," and Solidarity said he was being-involved for violating the State Secrets Act.
A STATEMENT released yesterday evening by the Wrocław branch of Solidarity denied reports by the official news agency Pap that talks with the commission had begun. The union said the commission hadOUR strike in Gdansk and Warsaw today.
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