Page 2 University Daily Kansan, October 29, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
GM reports record quarterly losses
DETROIT - A U.S. corporate quarterly loss record established Monday by General Motors Corp. will stand for less than 24 hours.
Auto industry analysts predict Ford Motor Co.'s deficit for the third quarter could reach $700 million, surpassing GM's $677 million loss for the
Analysts said Chuyler's third-quarter losses would be $400-500 million, compared with a $356 million deficit in the second quarter.
Chrysler Corp. $p_1$, which went to the edge of bankruptcy this year before being rescued by federal loan guarantees, is the only one of the Big Three automakers expected to report a smaller loss during the July-September period than it did in the second quarter.
When American Motors Corp. reports its third-quarter next week, overall domestic auto industry losses for the year to date will approach $4
Reasons for the increased losses are the worst sales recession since the Great Depression, a shift in buyer preference to less-profitable small cars, increased marketing costs and the cash needs of the industry's ambitious small-car program.
U.S. trade deficit increased last month
WASHINGTON-The nation's trade deficit increased in September despite a decrease in oil imports, the Commerce Department reported yesterday.
In its monthly report about merchandise trade, the Commerce Department said the deficit increased $5.8 billion, from $1.06 billion in August to 1.64
On the import side, passenger cars and non-monetary gold, or gold held in private hands, led the increases for an overall 0.9 percent rise in September.
American agricultural exports increased 1 percent in September to $3.27 billion, but exports of manufactured goods and iron and steel mill products remained relatively unchanged.
private hands, led the increases for an over a 0.95 percent rise in September. Commerce Department economist Adren Cooper said the 2.4 percent increase in passenger car imports in September was not particularly disturbing because a one-month increase did not constitute a trend.
The bright spot in the trade report was a 5.5 percent decline in oil imports. Impressed decreases slightly to about 5.9 million barrels a day, down from 6.4 million barrels a day in March.
The price of imported oil also decreased over the month, falling 56 cents to $32.94 a barrel in September.
BAGHDAD, Iraq-Casualty reports increased sharply from both sides in the fighting between Iran and Iraq yesterday, indicating fiercer clashes in the 37-day-old conflict.
At the united Nations in New York, Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said he was concerned about the growing number of civilian casualties and appealed to Iran and Iraq to use the utmost care to distinguish between military and civilian targets.
Iran, Iraq report casualty increases
Iraq's foreign minister, Saddoum Hammadi, said in a letter to Waldehn, which was released yesterday, that the only possible solution would be a cease-fire and immediate Iranian-Iraqi negotiations through the United Nations.
In fighting, Iran reported 50 Iraqis killed near Gilan, on the northern front. The figure was greater than the combined total of dead report by both sides in recent 24-hour periods. Iran also said that more than 30 Iraqis were killed in fighting near Dezulf, also on the northern front.
On the southern front, Tehran Radio said Abadan was still under attack yesterday by Iraqi artillery.
Mitchell testifies at FBI break-in trial
WASHINGTON—Former Attorney General John Mitchell, in his first courtroom appearance since his 1975 Watergate conviction, told a jury yesterday he had never approved FBI break-ins and would not do so unless national security was threatened.
However, he said he never considered secret entries into homes or offices criminal offenses and never thought to prosecute FBI agents for them.
Ramsey Clark, attorney general for former President Lyndon Johnson,
was dismissed in a suit against insults, except in extreme circumstances, such as national security affairs.
Both were called as government witnesses in the trial of two former top FBI officials charmed with an overroving illegal break-ins in 1972 and 1973.
Prosecutors summoned Mitchell and Clark in a dramatic final move to show that former FBI officials W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller had no authority to approve break-ins in searches for information about fugitive members of the radical Human Underground group.
Miller is the FBI's former No.2 man, and Miller is a former intelligence chief.
Mitchell said under cross-examination that although he had never approved break-ins, it never occurred to him to make an investigation into them.
Study finds further effects of disease
ST. LOUIS—A deadly bacterium of Legionnaires' disease not only infects the lungs, but also can damage a patient's kidneys, spleen and bone marrow, and cause sepsis and pneumonia.
The bacterium spreads to other organs of the body through the blood, Dennis D. Wilsonburger, a pathologist from Duarte, Calif., said. He publicized his study at the annual joint meeting of the College of American Pathologists and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists.
The disease has been found to be fatal in about 15 percent of the cases, usually because of the severe pneumonia it causes. But Weisenburger said he had become concerned about reports that some victims had symptoms unrelated to pneumonia.
Legionnaires' disease was first diagnosed as the cause of 29 deaths at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia in July 1796. Federal researchers later confirmed as many as 45,000 cases of Legionnaires' disease occur in the United States each year.
Researchers still do not know how the disease is transmitted. However, certain antibiotics are known to be effective in treatment.
Saturn probe reports 2 new moons
WASHINGTON--America's Voyager I space probe has discovered two new moons orbiting Saturn, scientists said yesterday. The probe is still 12 million miles away from the ringed planet and is expected to reveal more surprises in the next few weeks.
The unmanned spacecraft is racing toward a Nov. 12 rendezvous with Saturn, which would allow it to look at seats in a larger moon, including Jupiter. The crew will use the spacecraft's orbital position to fly through Earth.
Bradford Smith, a University of Arizona astronomer who heads the Voyager imaging team, said the two new moons were discovered last weekend during a stop-action sequence of pictures of Saturn and its rings.
Smith said one of the moons was about 180 miles in diameter and the other was about 150 miles across. Their orbits are on either side of a narrow debris disk.
Correction
The periodical reading room in Watson Library will be closed from 5 p.m.
Oct. 31 until noon Nov. 3. It was incorrectly stated in Monday's Kansan that
the entire library would be closed.
Iran may demand U.S. television spot
Iran. added a fifth condition for the release of the 52 American hostages yesterday, with a demand for three hours on American television to explain the Iranian position on their captivity, West German television siad.
By United Press International
the French newspaper Le Monde, in a dispatch from Tehran, said a majority of the Iranian Parliament and Iranian leaders favored the hagtager' release, but some of them opposed it. 200 parliamentary deputies was still fighting efforts to free the hostages.
The West German national television network said some of the hostages would be released as soon as Iran's Parliament had been granted three
The State Department said the report was "100 percent rumor."
The new condition was reported as
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (UPI)—Saudi Arabia broke diplomatic relations with Libya yesterday because of a dispute about the stationing of U.S. military forces in the country and differences about the Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq.
Saudis break ties with Libva
There was no immediate comment from Libyan ruler Col. Moammar Khadaf, whose propaganda campaign had been launched by the Arabian government prompted the break.
Arab analysts said the Saudi move could herald the start of a new Arab cold war, the likes of which has not been seen since the 1980s.
hours of American television air time to
the American people on the problem to
the American people.
The break between two of the world's leading oil exporters also comes as a severe blow to the already divided petroleum of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
It also could have consequences for Syrian plans for an economic and political merge with Libya. An Arab
diplomatic source in Beirut, Lebanon,
predicted the merger would fall
through. Khadifa, without explanation,
has a planned trip to Syria
westerday.
A statement released by the Saudi Foreign Ministry accused Khadafy of disparaging Islam and threatening Arab unity, an apparent reference to Libya's support of non-Arab Iran and its attempts to get Arab countries to turn against Iraq in the 37-day-old Persian Gulf conflict.
Soon after the war began, Iraq severed relations with Libya and Syria because of their support of Iran. Saudi Arabia quietly been backing Iraq in the fighting.
The Saudi statement indicated that Khadafy, not Libya, was the object of the government's wrath, and added, "The kingdom is keenly interested in maintaining the fraternal ties between it and the brotherly people of Libya."
A SECOND GROUP would be released when Washington met Iran's four other conditions: return of the former shah's fortune, unfreezing of Iranian assets in U.S. banks, a non-intervention guarantee and a promise to meet commitments no demands on Iran as a consequence of the taking of the hostages.
The United States said Monday that release of the hostages by groups would be unacceptable and warned Iran of any action. A number of the captives were tried as spies.
State Department spokesman John Trattner dismissed the West German television report, saying, "That is a bona-fide, 100 percent rumor."
He also said that no negotiations were going on regarding the hostages because of a U.S. government policy to not negotiate with terrorists.
Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, in a nationwide speech yesterday, made no mention of the hostages, now held for 361 days.
PARLIAMENT DEBATED the hostage issue in sessions Sunday and Monday, but was in recess yesterday for a Moslem holiday commemorating the choice of the Prophet Mohammed's son-in-law Ali as his successor.
The West German television network said a majority of the Iranian deputies wanted the debate about the release of the Syrian dictator today's secret session of Parliament.
HPH
We're having a Halloween costume party, featuring
the Moffet-Beers Band
Fri. Oct. 31st 10:00pm-2:00am
with a "Best Costume"
Contest,
Prizes to
be awarded.
SUA FILMS
Wednesday, Oct. 29 Night of the Hunter
A unique Halloween chiller, directed by Charles Laughton. A preacher (Robert Mitchum), having married and murdered several rich widows, romances Shelley Todd and Diana Wynn, who left his secret, he goes after them. A memorable moonlight chase, as well as a classic hellfire mission, make this a terrifying story. 7:30 (9:17 min) I7:30
Thursday, Oct. 30
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1932)
Dead of Night
Dead of Night
two classic horror films. Dr. Jekyll, at least the eighth edition of Dr. Robert Louis Oscar for his role in this exciting, florid version with superb make-up, directed by Ruben Mamoula and Night is the separately tales of the supernatural; ingeniously linked; the stories include a story of an abandoned infant before and a ventriloquist being taken over by his dummy. We have the uncultured *Miriam* (90/105 mins) B&W 7-30.
Friday, Oct. 31
Halloween
See John Carpenter's film on the night it was intended for. A psychic killer escapes and stalks a young babybyster (Jamie Lee Curtis) in this amazingly funny tale. The director, Pleasance. Plus: "Mad as a Mars Hire" (927·min) 4:30; 7:30; 10:00.
(1978)
Unless otherwise noted; all films will be shown at Woodford Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Weekday films are $1.00; Friday, Saturday, Popular and Sunday films are $1.50. Midnight films are $2.00. Tickets available on campus. 4th level information 864-347. No smoking or refreshments allowed.
25th & IOWA Holiday Plaza "New Mile Store"
Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run
including:
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out/Jungleland
Backstreets/Thunder Road/She's The One
Mfg. List $7.98 Kief's $4.59
Mfg. List $15.98 Kief's $10.99