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University Daily Kansan, November 17, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Soviet Union breaks 1975 pact, U.S. says
MADRID, Spain—The United States prepared a four-part human rights and detente attack on the Soviet Union yesterday for this week's closed-door general debate at the European security conference.
The U.S. denunciation accuses the Kremlin of breaking every commitment contained in the 1975 Haaland accord on detente and it will be used to justify its own actions.
The opening statement by U.S. delegation leader Griffin Bell during the first week of the conference criticized the Soviet Union for repression of dissent in Ukraine.
"What we are going to say will make our opening speech seem mild," one U.S. official said.
U. S. delegation co-leader Max Kampelman planned to begin the attack today by running through Soviet violations of the 10 principles in the final act of the Helsinki agreements. Officials said the speech would center on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan last December.
Wolf Creek cost a burden to consumer
TOPEKA-Rates for two utility companies building Kansas' first nuclear power plant will have to be boosted by about 50 percent between now and 1844 if the companies want to complete the project, a preliminary consultant's report saves.
The Cresap, McCormick and Paget consulting firm was hired by the Kansas Corporation Commission to investigate reports of cost overruns, poor construction management and other problems at the construction site peer Burlington.
A preliminary report by the consultants indicates that Kansas Gas and Electric Co. of Wichita and Kansas City Power and Light Co. of Kansas City, Mo., would have to bring in about 60 percent more in revenues by 1984 to complete construction of the plant.
Cost estimates for the plant have risen several times. Six years ago, KGE estimated that the Wolf Creek plant would cost $484 million to construct.
Last month, however, KGE increased its cost estimate to $1.7 billion. The plant is not scheduled to begin operating until 1984.
KCC chairman Richard Loux referred to the consultants' report at an Overland Park appearance last week.
"That's what the consultants claim is needed between now and when the plant begins operation," he said. "That doesn't say anything about what will happen."
Intense fighting marks Iraqi advance
BAGHADD, Iraq-Iraqi forces advancing on an overnight artillery barrage moved into the heavily defended Iranian town of Susangerd, Tehran
Iraqi reports indicated that the battle for the town involved some of the most intense fighting in Iraq's 57-day-old invasion of Iran.
Susangerd lie 20 miles inside the Iranian border and is about 40 miles north of Ahwaz, the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province.
Also yesterday, Kuwait announced that for the second time in the past four days, Iranian jets had fired 8 targets inside Kuwait. The attacks threaten to devastate Tehran and its capital.
Kuwaiti anti-aircraft batteries forced the planes to flee, and the attack on the northern area of Abdullah no longer caused, Aziz Hussein, minister of defense, to be reassured.
On Thursday, Kuwait issued a formal protest to the Iranian government about a similar attack in the same border area.
Medicare fraud costly. report saves
WASHINGTON—A report by a House committee on aging says Medicare loses $2 billion a year through kickbacks, false billings and other fraudulent actions of doctors and persons in health-related services, the Washington Star said yesterday.
In a report not yet released, the committee outlined fraudulent practices, including kickbacks to doctors and nursing home operators who benefit from their work. The report also cited
In one case, the report said, a doctor received $2 million for more than two years for performing abortions on women who were not pregnant. In another case, a doctor earned the nickname "Dracula" because he ordered so many unnecessary blood tests.
The government would save about $1.5 billion a year if patients were no longer hospitalized for unnecessary treatments, the report said.
It also said Medicare now covered less than 40 percent of an average medical bill for senior citizens.
Polish workers may call strike today
WARSAP, Poland—The Polish government has met the pay demands of Odginka health service workers whose grievances threatened to trigger a strike by members of the healthcare industry.
However, talks with a government negotiating team about other issues were continuing in the port city. It had not been determined whether 700,000 factory workers along the northern Baltic coast would call their threatened strike today as a show of support for the Dgskans workers.
Elsewhere, sources within Solidarity, the largest independent labor coalition, said that talks for resolving a separate protest in Czestochowa were deadlocked and that fears of new strikes threatened Poland's fragile economy. The organizers of the Czestochowa protesters were demanding the removal of the provincial government.
Solidarity issues issued an appeal later yesterday calling for worker unity as a balk to any strike action or independent union chapter dealings with the employers.
Brush fires scorch California hills
Authorities said arsonists were thought to be responsible for two of the six blazes.
The entire population of the Riverside County community of Rancho Capitán was evacuated, as was most of Bradbury, in the footfalls 40 miles east of Rancho Capitán.
LOS ANGELES—Brush fires fired by 80 mph winds scorched more than 25,000 acres of tinder-dry California hills and destroyed scores of half-million-dollar homes yesterday, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes and leaving at least one person dead.
A canyon near the Pacific Palisades home where Ronald Reagan worked yesterday was among those ablaze, but the smoke and flames were not a threat.
The largest fire was in southern Riverside County, near Lake Elsinore, where at least 13,000 acres were consumed and one partially built house was destroyed. The fire was spreading at the rate of 1,500 acres an hour. Officials said it had been started by an arrogist.
Fire companies from dozens of cities and from four counties were batting the blazes along with firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service.
Where winds permitted, helicopters dropped water, and air tankers bombed the fire fronts with a chemical retardant.
No hope for SALT II Reagan advisers sav
By United Press International
MOSCOW-There was some preliminary sara baret ruling between Soviet officials and Reagan aides last week that may have given each side a better understanding of the other and demonstrated that SALT II, as it now stands, is as outdated as a Jimmy Carter campaign button.
A delegation of Americans led by
Analysis
Reagan adviser Brent Showcroft and former U.N. Ambassador William Scranton met several times with Soviet officials, and by Scranton's own account, emphasized that the Soviets' aggressive posture during the past year caused the sad state of U.S.-Soviet relations.
For their part, the Soviets used the meetings to vent their frustrations about the recent gig-zags in U.S. foreign policy, epitomized by the Carter administration's conflicting signals to Moscow.
that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan had convinced millions of Americans that the massive buildup of the Soviet forces was for more than defensive purposes.
THE FORMER Pennsylvania governor also bluntly warned that Soviet conduct in Poland was being carefully watched and would greatly affect international relations between the two superpowers.
Scranton told Vice President Vasily Kuznetsov and other leading Soviets
Scranton did not hold out false hope (and the Soviets badly want to) into effort.
"The United States stressed the need to recognize as a fact of life that SALT II will not be ratified as is," he told reporters and pursued him throughout the week.
According to U.S. delegation member Lincoln Bloomfield, the Soviets responded to Scranton's comment with "great pessimism." Such pessimism usually is a thinly disguised warning that Moscow will not be pushed too far.
Much of the tough talk by both sides can be regarded as the sort of gloves-touching necessary when the two powers come into direct contact
One of the Americans said that the Soviet message seemed to be that they would prefer Reagan's toughest line, if only he would stick to it.
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