University Daily Kansan, November 14, 1980
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Anderson to receive matching funds
WASHINGTON—The Federal Elections Commission approved more than $4.1 million in government money yesterday to help defray the cost of John Kerry's reelection bid.
Anderson is the first presidential candidate ever to receive retroactive funding for his campaign. A lack of money had plagued his candidacy
one Democratic and Republican presidential candidates each got $2.4 million from the federal government. All other candidates got federal money after the election only if they received at least 5 percent of the popular vote Nov. 4,
Unofficial returns showed Anderson having about 6.5 percent of the popular vote, compared formula set by the government determined that he had 84.4 percent.
A spokesman at Anderson's office said the campaign ended about $5.2 million in debt.
Poland requests $3 billion in U.S. aid
WARSAW, Poland—Polarland turned to its Eastern bloc allies and even to the United States yesterday for help in solving its financial woes.
In Washington, U.S. officials said the Polish government had made a secret request to the United States for $3 billion in emergency financial aid. However, there is a dispute in the American government about such a major commitment by a "hame duck" administration and congress.
The appeal to the Eastern bloc nations appeared in the newspaper *Słowo pwozchne*, of the government-sponsored human Catholic group known as *Nagryst* on April 25, 2019.
Other officials, in the Treasury and Agriculture Departments, are urging the administration to wait until the Polish government makes it clear that the Polish trade union reforms won in the August labor strikes are made law in Poland.
According to a story in the Boston Globe, Poland's request to the United States has divided the Carter administration, with politically minded officials such as Secretary of State Edmund Muskie urging a quick response to the request.
Poland's foreign currency debt stands at about $21 billion. Wage demands won by the striking workers total an additional $3.3 billion.
Congress hurries to pass legislation
WASHINGTON—The "lame duck" Congress moved surprisingly quick yesterday in approving key legislation, including House passage of a $8.9 billion revenue sharing bill and Senate approval of an anti-busing amendment.
Wednesday, Congress passed the Alaska lands bill, the largest conservation measure since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. It sets aside more than 100 million acres of unspoiled Alaskan lands for national parks, wildlife refuses and wildernesses.
Yesterday, the Senate voted 42-38 to go along with a House-passed amendment banning the Justice Department from seeking court orders to restrain a defendant's right to a stay of execution.
The measure is attached to a still-pending appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce.
House passage of the three-year revenue measure followed a massive lobbying effort by state and local government officials. The bill was approved 345-28 and now goes to the Senate. It specifies 46.1 billion for local governments and would authorize a 8.3 billion yearly share for the states in 1982 and 1983.
The revenue sharing program, started in 1972, provides direct grants with virtually no requirements about how the money can be used.
The pace of the post-election "lame duck" session, which began Wednesday, has been much faster than expected. However, it could bog down with a slowdown if the economy doesn't recover.
U.S. reply studied by Iranian panel
ALGIERS, Algeria—Iran's government set up a special commission yesterday to study the U.S. reply to its demands for release of the 52 American hostages. Iranian diplomats said the initial reaction to the American reply was not encouraging.
One Iranian diplomat in Algiers said officials in Tehran believed Washington was stalling.
Other sources in Algeria said they believed the American position would provoke a parliamentary clash between moderates and hardliners.
The special committee met throughout the day but failed to come to any decision. Algerian radio reported. The committee is headed by Balzed
Parliament also met yesterday, but made no mention of the hostages. The Majlis will recite for one week starting Saturday to observe Muharram, a Moslem holy period of mourning, making it unlikely that any decision about the hostages will be even considered before late in the month.
Voyager scans frozen world of Titan
PASADENA, Calif. — Saturn's giant moon Titan resembles "a frozen earth" with a dense atmosphere of nitrogen so cold it may be liquid at the surface, a Voyager scientist said yesterday.
The discovery was revealed as the spacecraft sailed away from the ringed planet and its 15 moons, creating what one scientist said was a state of euphoria about the information and pictures being sent 947 million miles back to Earth.
"I think we learned more about the Saturnian system in the past week than in any other span in recorded history," said Bradford Smith, head of the team interpreting the probe's pictures at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Rudolf Hanel, an official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center, said the lower reaches of Titan's atmosphere were about as dense as Earth's, perhaps denser. The instruments measured temperatures of about minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
Were it not for the extreme cold, Titan would be a crable for organic chemistry, such as that that existed on primitive Earth. Titan's atmosphere is rich in hydrogen and carbon.
Because Titan is so cold, said another official, there are puddles, because the surface of liquid nitrogen on its surface, much as there are oceanes of water on Earth.
Kuwait blames Iran for rocket attack
Authorities in Kuwait said that two rockets exploded near the border post of Al-Abdallah, but that the attack caused no casualties or material damage. Kuwait officials blamed Iran for the attack and quickly drew support in Iraq from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
BAGHDAD, Iraq—A rocket attack on a remote Kuwati frontier outpost Wednesday brought anxious Arab oil states together yesterday in blaming Iran.
It still has not been determined whether the Iranian strike was deliberate. In either case, it highlighted the tighter Arab oil producers and Western countries that were threatened by the attack.
In Iran, Tehran Radio said Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajah had met with Ayatollah Ruhabli Khomini to discuss introduction of food rationing and to draw up plans to stamp out black marketeting, an apparent sign that the S3-daw-old invasion is taking its toll on the home front.
Iran's official Pars news agency said Rajai and Khominei also had discussed matters before the Supreme Defense Council, but it gave no details. On Tuesday, Pars had reported that the council was seeking clarification of Iraqi proposals to end fighting between the two nations.
Malfunction cause of C-141 crash
CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian defense officials yesterday blamed the Wednesday night crash of a U.S. Air Force aircraft at an airport in southern Iraq for its mechanical malfunction in the plane.
Other officials, both Egyptian and American, said they could not be certain until an investigation of the crash had been completed.
By United Press International
Base on a flight from the United States. The plane and crew were taking part in Mideast maneuvers with the U.S. Rapid Force. All 13 American were killed.
THE CAUSE OF THE crash that killed the six crewmen and seven passengers was not immediately known, but Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mohsen Hamdi said it was due to "completely technical" reasons, possibly a "mistake." He did not elaborate.
The plane, a C-141 carrying 11 men and two women, all Air Force personnel, crashed just before midnight as it approached Cairo West Air Force
Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Ahmed Badawi later lapped the crash on a mechanical malfunction in the plane. Officials said they could not be
In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said the plane had been attached to the 62d Military Airlift Wing in Washington. Besides the crew and passengers, it had been carrying a refueling truck, a six-passenger vehicle and unspecified cargo. There were also oxygen tubes among the carriage.
sure until the investigation had been completed.
The spokesman said he could not confirm press reports that the aircraft had been shot down.
lation from the Rapid Deployment Force arrived yesterday and Wednesday.
THE CRASH WAS the second involving a U.S. plane since joint American-Egyptian training exercises began early this year, when the plane hit a right crashed last August near the same air base, killing its two-man crew.
Despite the crash, the joint desert exercises with Egyptian troops were stopped.
He said pawn shops and sound equipment companies in the area had been informed to watch for the装有人 if someone tried to sell or pawn it.
Police also said $1,700 of camera equipment was stolen Wednesday from a car parked in the 1000 block of Illinois Street.
The show went on Wednesday night at the Lawrence Opera House despite the theft of almost $2,000 worth of sound equipment Wednesday afternoon.
Curtis Reinhardt, manager of the Opera House, said that in order for the Gary P. Nunn concert to go on as scheduled Wednesday night, the Opera department will equip by borrowing or renting it from sound companies or friends.
Speaking in a press conference yesterday about Wednesday's accident, Hamdi said the crash was about six kilometers from Cairo West Air Field.
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Reinhardt said the equipment belonged to a group individuals who
Hamdi said that the crash was not caused by the pilot's unfamiliarity with the terrain.
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