Page 2 University Daily Kansan, October B. 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Incumbent coalition wins in Germany
BURNN, West Germany - Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government won five more years in power in yesterday's national elections, although the opposition Christian Democrats will remain the strongest party in the West German Parliament.
victory.
Free Democrats, headed by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, made gains of more than 2 percent, their best showing since 1961.
The improved showing of Schmidt's Social Democrat Party's coalition partner, the small, liberal Free Democrat Party, contributed to Schmidt's
The Social Democrats, however, failed to make comparable gains. A broadcast by the television station ARD just after 8 p.m. yesterday gave the Social Democrats 42.6 percent of the vote, the same as the party had in 1976. The Free Democrats had 10.5 percent, 2.6 percent more than in 1976, and the Christian Democrats, headed by Bavarian State Premier Franz-Josef Straus, showed 44.8 percent.
The ABD petition indicated that the conservative Christian Democrats would hold 227 parliament seats, a loss of 16; the Social Democrats 216, a gain of two; and the Free Democrats 53, an increase of 14. This would increase the coalition majority from 10 seats to more than 40.
West Germans turned out in great numbers to cast their votes. The high turnout favored Schmidt's Social Democrats, who traditionally find it more difficult to win in Germany than in other countries.
Schmidt has led the coalition since taking over the chancellorship from Willy Brandt in 1974.
506 rescued near burning Dutch ship
VALDEZ, Alaska - In the largest single ship-ship rescue in modern history, the last passengers and crew of the Dux cruise ship Prismendron were lifted to safety.
Officials of Holland America Lines, owner of the disabled ship, said the Coast Guard rescued all 500 crew members and passengers. Most of the passengers were elderly Americans.
During Saturday's dramatic 13-hour rescue, rescuers hoisted 359 people in basket-like slings from lifeboats into helicopters. The helicopters took them to the oil supertanker Williamsburgh, the first ship to answer the Prinsdam's SOS call.
The remaining 147 survivors were taken to Sitka, Alaska. Some were transported by Coast Guard helicopter and others traveled on the cutter
"I was beginning to have my doubts whether we would all make it," said one passenger. John Gorkos, a Huntington Beach, Calif., lawyer.
`there were three or four members of the band aboard the lifeboat and a couple of crew members, and they actually pushed aside old ladies to get on
The Coast Guard originally said it had pulled the last passenger from the lifeboat, but an Saturday report on the number rescued after the boat was attacked in Bali reports the
In the morning, the cutter's crew spotted another lifeboat containing two Air Force crewmen and 18 passengers who had spent the night huddled together trying to keep warm. The passengers had been in the boat for 21 hours awaiting rescue.
NOW to picket Reagan appearances
SAN ANTONIO, Texas—The National Organization for Women, denouncing Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan, decided yesterday to picket campaign appearances by Reagan and George Bush, his running mate.
The 1,500 delegates at NOW's annual meeting vote to work in every state against the Republican ticket because of the GOP's rejection of the proposed bill.
The delegates also voted to withdraw their earlier opposition to President Carter's reelection effort, and ordered no presidential candidate.
NOW voted to endorse the Democratic Party platform plank dealing with women's rights, which endorses ratification of the ERA.
The resolution against Reagan's candidacy pledged to "expose to the public Reagan's medieval stance on women's issues through national action in the form of pickets wherever Reagan or Bush appear . . . in the United States."
Carter, an ERA supporter, lost favor with NOW 18 months ago when he fired former Congresswoman Bella Abzug from the President's Advisory Committee on Women. Last December, NOW called for active opposition to Carter.
Bombings claim fourth life in Paris
PARIS—A fourth person died yesterday as the result of a synagogue bombing last week, and a tourist was seriously injured in a car bombing that killed two people.
The attacks have sparked anti-government demonstrations by thousands of French Jews and brought calls for a general strike tomorrow.
Lario Lopez-Fernandez, 25, died in a hospital with wounds received when a bomb exploded in an synagogue Friday night. Three others died that night.
Loper-Fernandez died just hours after another bomb destroyed a car parked on the busy Bureaux St Germain. The blast crippled a Dutch ship.
An anonymous caller told the French News Agency that the car bombing was the work of the right-wing National Revolutionary Movement.
The group, whose members have been questioned about attacks against Jews, denied involvement.
In an apparent response to the outcry over the synagogue attack, Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte announced that the investigation would be turned over to the French Court of State Security, a group that handles sensitive or high-reaching cases such as treason.
Pyretell described the synagogue bombing, coming on the heels of the recent March Oktoberfest bombing and the Bologna, Italy train station attack. He said that the attack was "an isolated incident."
Saudi oil to avert crisis, journal says
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Saudi Arabia's decision to increase its oil production because of the fighting between Iran and Iraq will avert serious shortages or price hikes stemming from decreased production in those countries, an oil industry journal said yesterday.
The economic weekly an-Nahar Arab Report and Memo said that Iran and Iraq already had suffered billions of dollars worth of damages to their vital infrastructure.
"If the war ended tomorrow, there is no telling how long it would take to repair the damage to Iraqi and Iranian installations," the newsletter said.
"Irag must be able to draw on its financial reserves to rebuild its military machine, its refineries and petrochemical complexes, but Iran, with its meager holdings, will find this difficult without increasing production," it said.
The decision by the Saudis, and apparently several other Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries members, will spare the West the worst
About 3.5 million barrels a day of Iranian and Iraqi oil exports are being lost because of the fighting. Because of a surplus of 2.9 million barrels a day before the conflict broke out, the net daily market shortage is about 1 million barrels.
The Sandis are expected to increase their production by between 500,000 and 900,000 barrels a day. They now produce 9.5 million barrels a day.
Iraq calls off cease-fire, captures oil port
BAGHADA, Iraq—Iraq called off its cease-fire and resigned with fighting in Iran yesterday, capturing the Iranian oil port of Khorramshahr in a major victory for Iraq in the 15-day-old conflict.
By United Press International
Iraq said it called off its cease-fire only 12 hours after it began because of renewed Iranian attacks.
A UPI correspondent entered
Khorramshahr from Iraq yesterday
IRAQ CONTROLLED most of the city, he must although Iranian snipers and helicopters attack him.
Neither Iraq nor Iran mentioned the fate of Khorramshahr, a key port and the scene of some of the heaviest attacks of the Persian Gulf area conflict.
and reported that Iraqi troops controlled the port after a 15-day siege.
Iran seemed to be pressing a series of counter-attacks along a 100-mile stretch of border from the Shatt al-Arab in the south to Ahwaz and Dezful.
Detailed reports of ground fighting in
Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan province, in which Iraq claims hundreds of square miles of conquered territory, were sparse from either side.
ARTILLERY FIRE was reported at
Ahwaz, 65 miles north of Khorram-
sa.
Baghdad officials admitted that Iranian jets struck at a half-dozen targets in Iraq, mainly in the northern oil fields, where they damaged a Kirkuk and Seized civilian injuries and damage in Mosul and other towns.
Iraqi warplanes struck a half-dozen
EPA fights for transfer of dump site
targets inside Iran, from the northern city of Tabriz, 60 miles from the Soviet border, to the Khariq岛 off oilah oil, and to the Shatt area on the Shatt Arab, in the Persian Gulf.
and dump them at the Deffenbaugh landfill in Johnson County, near Shawnee.
IRAN, IN reporting the raids, said that it suffered casualties and damage, but that it destroyed the attacking Iraqi MIGs.
FRIDAY, THE city of Shawnee and Johnson County, which had filed suit against the EPA, won a temporary restraining order blocking the transfers. The transfers were in process at the time.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—The Environmental Protection Agency will go to court today to try to reverse a Johnson County District Court order balancing the interests of industrial companies from Wyndotte County to a landfill near Shawnee, Kan.
The EPA is in charge of cleaning up three of six illegal waste dumps discovered in the Kansas City, Kan., area. The EPA and the state are handling the other three.
The wastes, which are thought to have originated at S-G Metals Co., were dumped illegally by an independent hauler who has since left the state. The most recent controversy centers on the removal of the wastes.
The Iraqi forces also hit Tehran, the Genevah and Piran-shahr. Iran said.
The same day, EPA attorneys succeeded in moving the case to federal court in Kansas City, Kan., where a hearing will be held today to determine whether the restraining order should be balted.
The battle death toll appeared light.
Eighteen Iranians and five Iraqis were
killed.
The EPA wants to remove the wastes
Iraq said that Iraqi tanks and troops drove over rams and counter-attacks Wednesday and Thursday.
S-G Metals and Deffenbaugh Disposal Co., which operates the landfill.
Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini said Saturday that Iran would fight until it drove the Iraqi forces across the border.
The Iranian joint military staff reiterated yesterday that Iran would continue to fight.
IRAN PRESIDENT Abolhassan Bani-Sadr said Saturday that Iranian troops broke through Iraqi lines 80 miles north of Khorramshahr, drove to the border and to the towns of Mehran and Susangerd.
THE MAYOR OF Lake Quivira, which also is near the landfill, said his city might join Shawnee and the county today in the action.
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James T. Wiglesworth, an attorney for the city of Shawnee, said Shawnee and the county might try to drop the EPA from the suit in an effort to keep the matter in Johnson County District Court.
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