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University Daily Kansan, September 3, 1980
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News Briefs From the Kansan Wire Services
Gunmen assassinate general in Spain
BARCELONA, Spain—In the most serious attack on the Spanish military this year, gunmen yesterday assassinated an army general and wounded 29 civilians.
Doctors said one of the teen-age soldiers wounded in the bloody submachine gun ambush was in critical condition and was not expected to be.
The violence in the northern province of Catalonia came as police in the part-Basque town of Pamplona braced for possible clashes during rival demonstrations.
Gen. Enrique Briz Armengal, supply chief of the fourth military region and the first general killed in Spain since September 1979, was the 80th victim of political violence this year and the military's 21st victim in the last four years. He also was Spain's fourth terrorist victim in six days.
Police said auspicion for the attack fell on the urban terrorists of GRAPO
Anti-Packet Resistance Groups, the only gunmen known to use the
army. Police said they were on the loose.
They speculated that the assassination was motivated by Friday's killing of Abelardo Collazo, one of GRAPO's ton leaders.
Witnesses to the morning rush-hour attack said two gunmen toting submachine gun jumped out of a stolen taxi on a busy Barbara street as Briz
Poles grant miners fewer work days
WARSAW, Poland—Government officials, confronted with a spreading coal miners strike in Southern Poland's vital coal-mining district, yesterday yielded on a number of the strikers' key demands, including a reduced work week.
An estimated 100,000 striking miners, angered by the deaths of eight workers in an underground accident this week, had expanded the strike throughout coal-rich Silesia, the heart of Poland's economy, and issued a 12-week strike for increased safety measures and other improvements in work conditions.
Dissident sources reported the miners also said they were fed up with Communist Party chief Edward Gierke's leadership and wanted him to resign with the party leader from the Katowice region, Politburo member Dzikslaw Grudzien.
G里克let his power base in the southern coal belt and was known as the "king of Silenia" before assuming the party leadership after the 1970 election.
Government officials agreed to a demand that every coal miner would work five days a week, with more Sundays off.
At present, miners work six out of every eight days, rotating to a different shift each week and working three out of every four Sundays.
The miners strike began last week in support of walkouts along the Baltic coast. The strike spread rapidly yesterday after miners learned of the deaths of their fellow workers in an underground accident that they said had been prevented by more stringent safety rules and better maintenance.
Afghan rebels falling to Soviet action
NEW DELHI, India—A shift in Soviet military strategy encouraging tribal hostility and rifts between rebel groups has met with initial success in weakening Afghan rebel resistance, reliable sources said yesterday.
At the same time, U.S. Embassy officials expressed concern that disasters of the past would good copious in India now that the Unattendance has its deemed. It has been signed off.
The officials said word is out among the more than 1 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Ireland on Oct. 1, the United States would admit them from all countries.
Of the 12,000 to 15,000 Afghan refugees in India, up to 80 percent are expected to apply to go to America, an official said.
Rebel sources who left Afghanistan last week said a high-ranking Soviet defense delegation sanctioned the switch in strategy, which involves recruiting volunteer forces of teenage tribesmen for peacekeeping duty in the home regions of their traditional tribal enemies.
Ostensibly, the volunteer forces are peacekeeping units, but they also infiltrate rebel strongholds and tribal bases, where they encourage feuds in relationships already riddled with political, religious and ethnic hatred, the sources said.
"So far, they have created chaos," said one Afghan source, who told of massive briberies paid to local tribesmen to turn in the leaders of Moslem state militias. "They have taken hostages."
Svria welcomes merger with Libva
BEHURT, Lebanon - Syrian President Hafez Assad has welcomed a call from the United Nations to help address hardline Arab states in the struggle against Israel, reports yesterday.
Khadifa appealed for the merger in a speech Monday, marking the anniversary of the coup that put him in power in Tripoli 11 years ago. He said if the Libyan people did not agree to the merger, he would go to Israel to fight as a guerrilla.
Assad immediately cabled Khadafy, saying, "We extend to you our arm to meet yours in unity. Let's work together to achieve the common goal."
The exact implications of the call for unity and the question of whether a request for mediation was immediately clear. No date for the possible Libyan-Syrian merger was mentioned.
Since Egypt's withdrawal from the Arab confrontation with Israel, beginning with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem in 1977, Syria has sought what it termed the "restoration of the strategic balance of power" against Israel.
Syria had since attempted an abortive merge with bordering Iraq in his speech in Tripoli, Khadifa hailed Syria as the "only Arab trench because of its remoteness" and said he in defending the Arab nation from imperialism, Zionism and reaction, Syria, with its people and leadership, deserves praise and commendation.
Factory orders reverse 5-month skid
The improvement in factory orders was the latest in a series of recent changes; the country might be on its way to recovering from the eight-month recession.
WASHINGTON- In an indication the recession may be bottoming out, the government yesterday reported that new orders to U.S. factories in July reversed five months of decline and made their largest gain in more than a decade.
Last week, the government's index of future economic trends registered its largest increase ever. Other figures in recent weeks have shown improving auto sales, rising housing construction and increased consumer spending.
It was the first increase in factory orders since January and represented the largest increase since December, 1970, when orders rose 6.8 percent.
AUGUSTA. Maine-Testing of clams for paralytic shellfish poison began yesterday as clam diggers and dealers agreed to the closing of the 3,500-mile Maine coast to shellfishing because of a "red tide" invasion of coastal waters.
Poisoned clams suspend shellfishing
The state's coastline was closed Monday to harvesting of shellfish after 18 people in Maine and Massachusetts were hospitalized for paralytic shellfish poisoning. The poisoning is caused by the "red tide," a form of seaweed that contaminates marine mollusks, giving sea water a reddish tinge.
The contaminated clams eaten by the victims were thought to have come from Maine.
The Marine Resources Department said the ban included shellfish such as clams, mussels and quabs. Scallops, tobsisters, crabs and finishes are unregulated.
John W. Hurst Jr., resource services director at the state fisheries管理局 (Boathway Harbor), said he might be unable to pinpoint the origin of the entanglement.
Reagan wants imports slowed
DETROIT (UPI)-Ronald Reagan yesterday said the Carter administration had not done enough to help the economically depressed auto industry and the government for failing to slow the "deluge" of Japanese car imports.
Reagan said President Carter had been only "tinkering" with the mass of government regulations that have caused the auto industry's problems.
"There is something government has a responsibility to do it has shirkered so."
"It has to convince the Japanese one way or another, and for their own best interests, that the deluge of their cars into the United States must be slowed while our industry gets back on its feet."
The Republican presidential nominee got a mixed reception on a tour of the plant where Chrysler Corp. is producing the new K car it hopes will solve its financial woes. Although he was cheered by many along the assembly line, some booed Reagan loudly as he passed them.
The United Auto Workers Union has endorsed Carter for re-election.
The independent presidential candidate also defended President Carter as the target of what he said were unfair attacks by Reagan.
Meanwhile, John Anderson campaigned in a crowd of friendly students yesterday and told them what they wanted to hear—that he opposes draft registration and supports a ban on new nuclear plant construction.
Anderson said Reagan had been unfair to try to link Carter to the Ku Klux Klan because its headquarters opened his campaign Monday.
"Carter disapproves of the Klan so it's not a fair comment to make about the president," Anderson said. "I think it was a very unfortunate comment. I don't think it speaks well of Governor Reagan."
Anderson addressed an enthusiastic con-
versation with Dr. William E. Mc
University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
Reagan's apparently off-hand remark that started the controversy came when he chastised the Monaco Menorah and the Tusculum, Ala.-"the city that gave Tusculum, Ala.-" the city that gave
It it brought prompt demands for an apology from Alabama Gov. Fob James and a half-dozen southern candidates and from other politicians including Carter.
birth to, and is the parent body of, the Ku Klux Klan."
Reagan yesterday apologized to the people of the South for any negative reactions to his comments. Carter kept talking about the South as a nation, basing him of trying to divide the nation.
Gov. James later accepted Reagan's statement.
"What was asked for was an apology and that what was received," said Rachel.
In his talk with the students, Anderson stressed his opposition to draft registration and criticized Carter's foreign policy, which he said could create a situation where American youth might be forced to fight.
On nuclear power, an issue raised by a student who asked how he stood on the matter, Anderson said: "There ought to be a moratorium on new construction permits. That's what we can do and should do as a nation."
ORIENTEER KANSAS MEETING
Orienteer Kansas will meet at 8 ttonight in the Kansas Union Council Room. Member Karan Kehill will show slides of the World Championship meet this summer in Switzerland.
On Campus
INDEXHIBITION LECTURE The Benton Exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art continues as Karal Ann Marling, professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, presents a lecture titled "Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood" at 8 tonight in the museum auditorium.
ORIENTEER KANSAS MEETING
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