Page 2 University Daily Kansan, October 15, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Court rules TV can air Abscam tapes
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court cleared the way yesterday for the television broadcast of the Abscarn videotapes that led to the bibbery convictation of George Floyd.
All three networks showed excerpts of the tapes on their nightly news broadcasts. One tape showed Myers taking a money-filled envelope from an
The court rejected arguments by Myers, a Pennsylvania Democrat, and his three co-defendants that airing the tapes would hurt the chance in appeal.
The sound quality on the tapes was uneven, and the networks censored several obscenities from the tapes, which showed meetings between Myers, his co-defendants and FBI agents offering bribes in return for help on special legislation to bring a bonus Arab sheik into the country.
The justices refused to stay an appeals court ruling that the public has a right to see the tapes, and that ABC, CBS and NBC could obtain copies of the
NBC sources said the network delayed the broadcast of an Abscam special because of the World Series.
Hope for quake survivors abandoned
AL-ASNAM, Algeria-Authorities said yesterday that there was practically no hope of rescue more survivors of last week's devastating earthquake. They said the urgent task now was to find and bury an estimated 18,000 bodies, many still entombed in the ruins of AL-Asnam.
The state radio said that the estimated death toll still stood at more than 20,000. Most of the victims, up to 18,000, are still buried in the rubble of the city. Three-quarter of the city was destroyed by last Friday's earthquake, which registered 7.5 on the Richter scale.
The Algerian Red Crescent, the equivalent of the Red Cross, said medical teams were speeding up vaccinations in 27 refugee tent cities to avoid a
The refugee total was estimated at more than 200,000.
As bodies were recovered, they were wrapped quickly in white sheets and taken to temporary norgues. Our cursy attempts at identification were unsuccessful.
Jamaican official assassinated in mob
KINGSTON, Jamaica—A Jamaican government office campaigning for the re-election of Gov. Andrew Fletcher had men strove into a crowd of opposition party supporters and countrylocked voters.
Deputy National Security Ministry Roy McGann, 46, and his bodyguard were killed and at least three people were injured in the muel in a Kingston station.
Opposition Labor party leader Bruce Golding said that McGann and two carloads of armed supporters went to the Labor Party rally and started the shooting. He said McGann fired at police, who fired back, killing the deputy minister and his bodyguard.
Police confirmed that McGann and several men walked into the Labor Party crowd with guns. But they said they did not know which side started the shooting. Police were waiting on the results of ballistics tests to see if they had fired a shot at him or to determine whether he was shot by police or by a Labor Party supporter.
Prime Minister Michael Manley, himself the target of an assassination attempt last week, went on radio to urge Jamaicans to remain calm. He said he was a "victim."
McGam was the latest victim of a wave of politically motivated violence marrying the campaign for election to the island's 60-seat parliament. Since Manley announced in February that he was calling early elections, fighting manchester political opponents has claimed 405 lives, if of them in the past week.
Firms liable to DES cancer victims
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court opened the door yesterday for daughters of women who used DES, a cancer-inducing drug, to recover damages from drug companies that made the drug, which was used to prevent miscarriages.
The daughters contracted various types of cancer because their mothers took DES during pregnancy.
The high court refused to hear the drug companies' appeal of a California Supreme Court ruling that divided liability for the cancer among various companies that made DES.
Since the cancers did not develop until years after the drug was taken, it is nearly impossible for affected women to prove which company manufactured.
The California court solved the problem by dividing a new rule dividing the liability for damages among manufacturers according to their share in the DIES.
The firms, which have millions of dollars at stake in suits brought by hundreds of victims, unsuccessfully contested that rule.
In 1947, the Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of DES on an experimental basis. For several decades, more than 200 drug companies made and sold the drug, a synthetic compound of estrogen, a female hormone.
DES was taken off the market in 1971 after tests showed it could induce cancer. By that time, as many as 3 million pregnant women had taken the drug.
Simpson, Dole favor balanced budget
WICHTA-Kansas Sen. Robert Dole and his Democrat opponent, John Conyers, passed yesterday in their fifth debate on the need to balance the federal budget.
Dole said that he favored a balanced budget and that cuts were being made in his budget. He said Congress must curtail government spending by "no" voting.
But Simpson said that making cuts in the federal budget was not easy. He said he favored eliminating the MAX missile project, certain CETA agreements and the DOD's proposed budget cuts.
Energy, national defense, inflation and agriculture were among the issues Simpson said he would focus on if elected to the U.S. Senate.
When asked about solving the housing industry's problems, Dole said he would encourage a savings plan and support mortgage revenge bonds and cohesion bonds.
"I do not believe my opponent understands what a good energy policy is," Simpson said, attacking Dole's support for nuclear power.
Reagan wants woman on high court
President Carter and John Anderson talked about the economy yesterday when he answered his critics with a surprise pledge to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court.
Reagan made his announcement in a news conference before leaving for a cross country campaign blitz.
"I am announcing today that one of the first Supreme Court vacancies in my administration will be filled by a woman," Reagan said. "The most qualified woman I can possibly find, one that meets the high standards that I will demand for all my court appointments."
The statement came in response to what he called "false and misleading accusations" about his stand on women's rights.
Reagan's plan for a three-year, 30 percent income tax cut was criticized by Carter.
a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, outlined his economic plan, and asked why government programs he would cut to achieve a balanced budget.
"Right now, just as we are beginning to bring inflation down, is exactly the wrong time for election year proposals that would drive prices up again."
In Chicago, Anderson had little good to say about economic views. He said neither Carter nor Reagan had the courage to present a full cost accounting of their programs "for the very simple reason—the American people would be shocked by the cold facts."
Iran threatening to mine strait
By United Press International
BASRA, Iraq-Iran threatened yesterday to mine the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic artery for 60 percent of the West's oil, if Persian Gulf Arab states help Iraq in the war, Tehran Radio reported.
Ira rained artillery fire on Abadan, site of the Middle East's biggest oil refinery, and poured more men and tanks into a ground attack that has reached within 3 to 5 miles of the Iranian city.
Tehran Radio said Iranian defenders repulsed the Iraqi attempt to penetrate Abadan.
AN OFFICIAL IN ABACAD told the official Pars news agency that the morale of the city's residents was now better than ever.
At the United Nations, the Security
Council announced it would hold a special session today on the 23-day old conflict. Delegates from both Iran and Iraq agreed to debate the issue for the first time.
Pandas bear cubs
In Washington, Pentagon officials said they were skeptical of Iran's ability to block the Strait of Hormuz with mines. They do not know if Iran possesses enough naval mines to mine the strait.
PEKING (UPI) - Two giant pandas that had been impregnated by artificial insemination each gave birth to twins last month, but only one of the cubs survived. Peking Zoo officials revealed yesterday.
If Iran were to mine the strait, mine-sweeping helicopters aboard the two U.S. carriers in the Arabian Sea could sweep the mines.
The surviving cub was reported doing well, but it was one of the cubs that had died that gave veterinarians hope for someday raising pandas artificially.
"I think we could sweep as fast as they laid them," one official said.
A war communique from Baghdad yesterday said Iraqi troops continued to crawl toward Abadan, "striking deep into their territory and further consecrating our victories,"
THE THREAT TO Mine the gulf was broadcast in Arabic-language by Tehran Radio monitored by the BIC-in-Theatral network. It broadcast Ektelat newspaper as its source.
As a result, the communiqué said,
"The enemy lost more than 16 soldiers,
and several others were wounded. One
tank and one armored personnel
machine were deployed. Oil pipelines
between Abadan and Darab-Shapur
were blown up."
Iran threatened during the first week of the conflict to mine the strait, but this was the first time an Iranian official linked the warning to the conduct of the Arabian nations along the gulf, most of which sympathize with Iraq.
"However, if it becomes necessary,
we will minim the Strait of Hormuz and
the Arabian Sea."
On the Iraqi bank of the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, an Iraqi spokesman said every one of the 152 oil storage tanks in Abadan had been hit since the conflict began. More artillery rounds smashed into them yesterday, and balls of fire erupted through the thick black smoke rising from them.
Claiming that Iranian gunboats have successfully blocked ships heading for Iraq, the commander said, "Freedom of international navigation in the gulf region and the Strait of Hormuz is guaranteed by Iran.
An Iraqi spokesman said the fires were belching out so much smoke and poisonous fumes that it would be unsafe to send men into the city.
"The commander of the Iranian navy
said Iran will strongly rebuke the Gulf states and ishkodima if they offer help to Iraq.
IRAQ BEGAN its drive to Abadan one week ago, after announcing it had captured Khormarshahir, 14 miles Khormarshahr has since proved to be exaggerated.
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