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University Daily Kansan, October 13, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Iraqi forces advance toward Abadan
KHORRAMSHAHR, Iran-Iraqi forces, locked in fighting for control of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, advanced to the outskirts of Abadan yesterday and pounded pockets of stubborn Iranian resistance in nearby Khorram-shahr with renewed shelling.
Abadan is the site of a huge Iranian oil refinery, and Western observers say it could be the next major Iraqi objective after 21 days of fighting.
In Khwarramshah, hands of Iranian troops armed with mortars and automatic rifles and assisted by Iranian artillery to the south, held off the northern and eastern flank.
A Western military expert said the Iraqi intend to sweep around the east of the city to squeeze what is left of the Iranian garrison against the Shatt al-Arab while allowing their armor to press on to Abadan and its battered refinery.
The assaults on Abadan and Khormarshair, if successful, will secure a major Iraqi goal—control of the Shatt al-Arab, Iraq's only access to the Persian Gulf—and hand Iraqi President Saddam Hussein a valuable lever for negotiations with Iran.
In Tehran, a foreign ministry spokesman said Iran would take part in a United Nations debate on the Iranian-Iraqi dispute, raising hopes of a limited cease fire to allow foreign ships trapped in the Shatt al-Arab to leave the war zone.
Bush to surface in Reagan campaign
LOS ANGELES—Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan's top campaign strategist said yesterday that America's suburbs are going to be the battleground in the final weeks of campaigning and that George Bush will be showcased to help win them.
Stuart Spencer, a senior consultant in the Reagan campaign, said in an interview, "The big thing in the next three weeks is to elevate George Bush in the campaign and give him more resources (staff) in certain regions and states where there are ticket snitters."
Bush is expected to have suburb appeal because of his moderate image, which could prove useful among the large group of moderate ticket-splitting advertisers.
Meanwhile, Robert Straus, President Carter's top campaign aide, said the Carter campaign had not done a good enough job in making voters aware of "the truth."
Straus talked with reporters in Washington, after a conference of campaign coordinators from 25 states.
"Their biggest complaint," he said, "Is that we have failed to come to grips with Reagan drastically changing his positions on issues, positions he had held for 10 to 20 years. . . that we have not done as good a job as we need now. I know how he has absolutely flip-flipped on issue after issue after issue."
Also in Washington, independent candidate John Anderson's advisers said support for both Heagan and Carter was so thin and volatile that Anderson was unable to win.
"Some of the most distinguished pollsters in the country have told us that the election will be decided in the last 48 hours," said Anderson's press secretary.
Matthews, a veteran political fund-raiser and behind-the-scenes man, said an independent, such as Anderson, would not have had a chance if the two were together. "They are not going to work together."
Carter among Nobel prize nominees
OSLO, Norway—President Carter and Pope John Paul II were among the record 71 nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. However, there is
The prize is worth $215,000. The winner will be named today by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament.
Nominies also include 14 organizations, such as the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the International Red Cross and the International Peace Corps.
An Argentine group known as the Madwomen of Plaza de Mayo also was nominated.
The group was given its name for regularly gathering in Buenos Aires' Mayo to demonstrate for the release of relatives being held as political prisoners.
There is strong support for a non-controversial peace laureate such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the 1979 laureate.
Some recent decisions, like the 1978 joint agreement to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, had led to制裁Egyptian oil companies.
The 1932 prize to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former North Vietnamian Foreign Minister Le Duc Tho was another award.
Oil tanker burns in Gulf of Mexico
NEW ORLEANS- An oil tanker carrying a 32-member crew and an estimated 14.4 million gallons of crude oil caught fire yesterday and burned for several hours in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.
The Coast Guard said the fire, which started in the engine room of the 761-foot M.T. Sea Royal, apparently was controlled quickly or extinguished.
tanker, said to be floating in the water about 200 miles south of New Orleans. Another tanker, the 438-foot M.V. Espoir, was diverted to help the Sea
Amphitheater, the 380-800 m. v. l. ESport, was inverted to help the Sea Royal. Three Coast Guard cutters and a C-131 airplane also were dispatched.
Coast Guard spokesman Doug Bandoz said that the fire had been reported about noon yesterday and that the Coast Guard had lost communications with the ship. However, about 3:45 p.m., the Coast Guard Coordination Center in New Orleans not word that the fire appeared to be out.
The Sea Royal is owned by Sanko Lines, a Tokyo-based shipping company, and is registered in Singapore.
Prinsendam sinks in Alaskan Gulf
The ship had been carrying about 180,000 gallons of bunker oil when it sank, according to Coast Guard LA. Dave Hildbrand. The fuel is so thick it probably just sank to the bottom. Vulnerable.
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Dutch cruise ship Prinsendam rolled over and
passed by the crew on Wednesday, just one hour after 234
passengers and the crew were saved from a crash.
Coast Guard officials said there were no traces of oil pollution from the vessel, which sank under 10,000 feet of water. The only remains were a life raft and two small boats.
Had the fuel been diesel, the situation could have been more serious, he said, because diesel fuel is very light and would surface.
Agent Cochran, head of a five man marine salvage crew, said the Prin-
tiple was in danger. The crew came from Portland, Ore., to fight the aboard the lineer.
Kuwaiti urges West to conserve oil
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Kuwait's finance minister said yesterday that he did not expect the OPEC nations to raise oil prices because of shortages created by the Iran-Iraq conflict, but he called on Western nations to conserve as much as possible.
The minister said the Western industrialized nations had a major role to play in raising crude prices down by conserving as much possible and preventing the use of cheap oil.
The oil ministers of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates met in the Saudi resort town of Taif Friday to coordinate plans for making up part of the 3.5 million barrels per day lost to the world market by the halt in Iranian and Iraq exports.
AIDES TO Interior Minister Boulem Benhamdua, directing operations of a rescue force of 40,000 people, said a survey of outlying villages in the area quaked has been completed. He placed total of homeless at more than 140,000.
AL-ASNAM, Algeria (UPI)—Two aftershocks triggered new panic in earthquake-devastated al-Ansam yesterday and President Chadli Bendjed ordered rescue efforts intensified in an effort to reach thousands who may still be alive but buried in the city's rubble.
Algerian quake rescue efforts intensified
Officials said damage spread in a circle extending 33 miles from the epicenter of Friday's earthquake, about nine miles north of al-Asam.
An international relief effort gathered momentum two days after the city was destroyed by the war. The officer almost 275 years later. The government said
the death toll will exceed 20,000.
Perhaps 50,000 were injured.
Rescue officials said about two dozen people were removed alive from debris yesterday along with several hundred corpse, which added to the more than 15,000 dead in the war. More than 15,000 were believed still trapped inside collapsed buildings.
About 1 million people were affected
shocks measures 7.5 to 8.5
on the Rinker in New York.
IN ONE MIRACULOUS rescue, workers plucked a 2-month-old baby from the wreckage of a four-story building as builderz cleared debris.
Police uncover clues in racial killings
BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) - Possible breakthroughs have emerged in recent racial allysings and kldnppings in Atlanta, officials said yesterday.
In Buffalo, a man jailed on a drunk driving charge may fit the description of a white male sought in the rash of racial murders that have terrorized the city's black community, authorities said yesterday.
Asked if the man had a history of mental illness and if he had been treated for a mental dysfunction, Cosgrove said, "yes."
Cosgrove said the man was arrested early Saturday on a charge of driving while intoxicated and held in lieu of $500 bail. Authorities obtained a warrant and searched the man's home in suburban Amherst.
Erie County District Attorney Edward Cosgrove would divulge very little information about the man, whose "bizarre behavior" had aroused suspicion.
In Atlanta, a significant pattern has emerged in the disappearance of young black children whose slayings have spread fear and suspicion through the city's south side, homicide investigators said yesterday.
He answered "no" when asked if authorities were close to making an arrest in the recent slayings of six black men and the near strangulation of a seventh.
In a little more than year, 14 children were vanished. Eight of them were found
The link police say binds all the cases together is that 21 to 27 days elapsed from the start.
The only previous similarities noted were that all the children were black, between 8 and 15 years old and came from low-income neighborhoods.
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The building had already yielded about a dozen bodies.
Led by the baby's cries, a rescue worker wriggled under slabs of concrete to the child then rushed off in ambulance with the baby in his arms.
The government issued an appeal for 30,000 more tents as aftershocks from the quake sent thousands more rugby matches to the relative safety of the countryside.
IN ADDITION to al-Asman, a city of more than 100,000, several other towns and villages were reported wiped out in the attack, while many suffered less damage.
"Two days after the earthquake, our work is only beginning," and a rescue team is already on the scene.
The only two roads open into the area were clogged with truck convoys, siren-imbaliances carrying the seriously injured and thousands of homeless survivors.
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