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University Daily Kansan, October 21, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Watkins' brother iailed for drug sale
OLATHE-Three men, including a brother of congressional candidate Evan Watkins, were arraigned yesterday on charges of selling cocaine and Ponder
Pollice said Thomas J. Watkins, 24, of Lenaea, was arrested Friday in Overland Park after selling about $% of cocaine to undercover agents of the Johnson County City-County Investigative Squad. Watkins also was in possession of about $% of marijuana, police said.
Dan Watkina, the Democrat challenging Rep. Larry Winn in the 3rd District race, said the arrest of his brother had nothing to do with the demonstration.
"The law enforcement system is going to take its course, and we trust it will resolve the situation," Watkins said. "We believe people are fair and fully understand that there is no connection between this incident and the conclusion that race is close, and we do not expect this unfortunate incident have any effect."
Also arrested Friday on charges of selling cocaine, possession of harmless marijuana and that nana were Robert J. Dettenwanger, Gary Lueck 23, of Friar Village.
The three men were arrested after a 30-day investigation, police said. Each suspect was being held in lieu of $2,500 surety bonds and $1,600 per person.
Marcos blames dissidents for blast
MANILA, Philippines—President Ferdinand Marcos yesterday accused U.S. based Filipino dissidents of masterminding the bombing of a conspiracy behind the attack.
Marcos also ordered the arrest of 30 suspects, many of whom live in the United States. The U.S. State Department pledged its cooperation.
An anti-Marcos dissident group called the April 6 Liberation Movement said it was responsible for the explosion in the seaside Philippine Convention Center. The group, which said it also was responsible for several bomb blasts since August, had warned the travel agents to stav away.
Marcas said he ordered the arrest of 30 people he suspected had planned the explosion, which occurred 10 minutes after he delivered the welcoming speech.
Neither Marcos nor U.S. Ambassador Richard Murphy, both sitting about 50 feet from where the bomb exploded, was injured.
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Molten rock rising from the earth's fiery interior yesterday sent volcanic shocks rumbling through the 1½-mile-wide crater
Lava rising within Mount St. Helens
The underground pulsations accompanied the growth of a dome of lava welling up of a circular hole at the center of the 3,000-foot-decrater, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The dome grew 155 feet high and 900 feet across during a 24-hour period. It plugged the major escape route of gases and steam hissing out of the volcano, giving Mount St. Helens a deadly, bomb-like potential. USGS scientists said.
The new dome, the third and largest to appear since the volcano's initial eruption May 15, could blow out at any time as the others did, said USGS
Mount St. Helens erupted five times last week between Thursday and Saturday, sending ash and steam as high as nine miles into the sky.
Carter, Reagan argue foreign policy
President Carter and Ronald Reagan continued their long-distance debate on foreign policy yesterday while negotiated for both campaigns tried to improve relations with other countries.
The debate negotiations began late yesterday morning, but three hours later League of Women Voters representatives said their only decision was to delay the vote.
In Youngstown, Ohio, Carter continued to attack Reagan's nuclear arms policies. He said Reagan was naive to think the Soviet Union would respond to a nuclear attack.
"In my judgment, that sort of expectation—if it became the policy of this nation—would have the most serious consequences for the future." Carter said. "It would be a devastating and perhaps fatal blow to the long-term process of nuclear arms control."
Reagan also was in Ohio. He said in Cincinnati that there was a greater danger of nuclear war under Carter's weak foreign policy than under his own plan to build American military strength before undertaking arms control.
In Chicago, independent presidential candidate John Anderson disputed the national polls that have locked him out of the presidential debate. He said he would vote for Clinton.
The most recent Gallup Poll showed that Anderson had dropped to 8 percent nationally, and a New York Times-CBS poll put him at 9 percent.
Pill poses negligible risk, study says
WASHINGTON-The final report on a 10-year study involving more than 16,000 women concludes that the risks from taking birth control pills appear to be negligible, at least for the young, white, middle-class Americans studied.
The report said that the study, conducted by the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center at Walnut Creek, Calif., provided "additional assurance" that users of oral contraceptives did not have an increased risk for cancers of the breast, uterus or ovaries.
The report also said, "Oral contraceptive users have no increased risk of death from all causes combined."
But the report warned that the final word on oral contraceptives is not yet in.
Smoking, heavy exposure to the sun and sexual activity appear to be associated with increased, but still low, risks in pill users for heart disease, depression and pregnancy.
Among other study conclusions, the report said that oral contraceptives were associated with a reduced occurrence of fibrocystic disease, which was also found in patients with high blood pressure, but reversible, risk of high blood pressure, and there is an increased risk of chronic heart disease in pill users when combined with smoking.
Court denies review of custody case
WASHINGTON—An Illinois woman narrowly lost her bid yesterday for Supreme Court review of a decision denying her custody of her children because she lives with a man who is not her husband.
Justice William Breman, writing for the dissenters, said the case raised an important social issue. He cited 1797 Census Bureau statistics showing
More than 25 percent of these homes include at least one child, he said.
Health service not reaching the poor
Three justices, one short of the necessary number, said they wanted to hear Jaceline Jarrett's appeal from an Illinois ruling that her living arrangement threatened the upbringing of her three daughters.
DETROIT—Milions of Americans, especially the poor, are suffering because of racism and politics in the nation's public health system, the head of the CDC says.
June Jackson Christmas, president of the American Public Health Association, spoke at the opening session of the organization's 108th meeting. APHA is one of the nation's oldest health organizations, with a membership of 30,000 doctors, social workers and other specialists.
Christmas said the nation's health services were "otten inadequate, inattentive and uncoordinated," with the poor who live in crowded inner cities.
She said the infant mortality rate among inner-city dwellers was nearly twice that of the whole population.
"Only half-hearted attention is paid to the increasing pollution of the air, because, the water we drink and the vegetation that nourishes us," Christian said.
Iraqi military intensifies siege on Abadan
BASRA, Iraq—Iraq claimed yesterday that it had surrounded Abadan with an "airlight" ring and appealed to residents to get out of the city. The governor said the city, site of the largest oil refinery in the Middle East, had been cut off.
A Baghdad Radio broadcast on the 25th day of the Persian Gulf conflict "clearing pockets of resistance and firming up the air-light siege of Abadan."
"Dear residents of Abadan," it said. "We request that you either leave your homes and place nearby the area of brightness disarm the Revolutionary Guards and
THE BATTLES came despite Id al-Adha, the Moslem Feast of the Sacrifice, a four-day holiday that began Sunday. The Koran, the Moslem holy book, prohibits bloodshed during the holiday, which commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son at the command of God and God's decision to provide a lamb to be sacrificed instead.
Iraq broadcast an appeal to the people of Abadan.
hand them over to the Iraqi forces."
Battle reports indicated Iranian defenders were holding out in Abadan, while Iraq pounded the city with artillery and mortar.
Continued hand-to-hand street fighting still was reported in Khorramshahi. Miles upstream on the border of the Arab Arabian has renamed the "City of Blood."
IN TEHRAN, Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini and the Parliament speaker Jojoleshatal Rafsanjani held separate meetings with Habib Chatti, representing the 42-nation Islamic Conference. Rafsanjani lashed out at Iraq, telling Chatti, "Why, when the crimes are in our country, manner of crime in villages, you are insisting that we give in?" Tehran Radio said.
Other battlefield action was minor and intermittent.
Diplomatic efforts to end the Iran-Iraq conflict made a sudden reap-
Tehran Radio said Khomeini replied
Chatt's proposal with a distribute
receipt.
Chatti told Khomeini the heads-of-state mission from Islamic countries to Iraq.
peace talks started. "I believe it is time to end the war," Chatti said.
IRAN'S PRIME Minister Rajai, after a visit to the United Nations in New York, began talks in Tripoli with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who imported Iran in its struggles with Iran.
In other developments, a seven-man Iranian commission, considering the issue of the 52 Americans held captive since last November, 4. may recommend to Iran's parliament this week its proposed solution to the hostage issue.
Oil analysts say they think the Iran-iq conflict has put the OPEC oil
A special representative of Iraqi President Hussein said in Tokyo that his country would welcome mediation by any country to end Iraq's attacks against Iran. He denied Iraq has been receiving Soviet arms through Jordan.
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