Page 2 University Daily Kansan, August 25, 1980
News Briefs
From the Kansan Wire Services
Soviets send 10,000 to Afghanistan
NEW DELHI, India—At least 10,000 Soviet soldiers have been airlifted to a military base in Afghanistan's northwestern Herat province to help evacuate civilians from the country.
There was no independent confirmation of the report.
The source, in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, said the Soviet troops arrived last week aboard transport planes that apparently flew directly from the Soviet Union to Shindand airport, near Herat and about 80 miles south of the Soviet frontier.
The Soviet Union last December sent an estimated 100,000 troops into Afghanistan to support the pro-Soviet regime against anti-communist instigation.
Soviet forces bombed and shelled the old city of Herat for five consecutive days starting a week ago yesterday, according to reports from Kabul.
Afghan refugees have the Shindand military air base has become Herat's civilian airport because of fighting around the city. Passengers are arriving from Afghanistan.
Billy used money quickly, paper says
ATLANTA- Within four months of receiving $200,000 from the Libyan government, Billy Carter had spent all but about $12,000 of the money, which he has characterized as a business loan, an Atlanta newspaper reported yesterday.
Much of the money went to pay off debts, according to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
Quoting from a document provided to the Senate subcommittee, the Journal and Constitution yesterday described how Billy Carter disposed of all but about 81,700 of the $200,000 by July 28, the last entry in the document. The document also obtained the document and did not say who provided it to the subcommittee.
Billy Carter has maintained that the money represents installments on a $500,000 loan and told the subcommittee last week that Libya no longer specializes in borrowing.
He told Senate investigators Thursday that he thought the Libyans felt personally responsible for the fact that "I lost my means of financial livelihood" as a result of unfavorable publicity arising from his Libyan ties.
Israeli jets shoot down Syrian fighter
TEL AVIV, Israel-Iraeli warplanes on a "routine patrol" over southern Tel Aviv in early May 2017, jetting into the first dogfight in nearly a year, the Israeli military command said.
Syria claimed one Israeli plane was hit but Israeli military officials denied the report. The Israeli command, which said the Syrian plane had tried to take off from Gaza, did not give details.
Hours earlier, a bomb planted by Palestinian guerrillas exploded at a gas station just off the main Tatviv-Jerusalem highway, killing one person and wounding 12 others, including seven European tourists who were treated for minor injuries and released.
Beirut Radio said the dogfighter took place over the village of Jbaa, 14 miles north of the Israeli-Lebanese border. The Israeli-Syrian dogfighter was the first over Lebanon since Sept. 24, 1979, when Israeli planes shot down four Syrians lets near Beirut.
Yesterday's clash followed a week of tension on Israel's northern border, which began Tuesday with a major Israeli ground assault into the Arnoun region of southern Lebanon. It continued through the week with exchanges of fire and rocket fire and Israeli air attacks on Palestinian guerrilla positions.
L.A. expecting strike-related blackout
LOS ANGELES—With Los Angeles' electrical generating capacity cut by some 60 percent, representatives of striking electrical workers warned residents yesterday to brace for possible blackouts and muddy tap water in the coming week.
But a spokesman for the city's Department of Water and Power said that barring a power-sapping heat wave—and none is forecast—power from cooling towers would be too much.
Ray Taylor, head of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, Saturday ordered 100 workers at 13 hydroelectric plants off the job. They joined 250 workers who Wednesday struck the city's four major oil-fueled electric plants.
"It looks like it's going to be a hell of a dark Monday." Taylor said as he announced escalation of the strike. He claimed the city reneged on a settlement that would have given workers a 10-percent wage increase and provided a wage-fringe benefit increase of 14 to 20 percent. The 7,200 union members earn an average of $9 an hour. The union had sought an 18percent wage increase.
Mugabe calls remarks 'propaganda'
NEW YORK—Prime Minister Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe said yesterday that Marxist statements and literature used by his pre-independence guerrilla movement were only part of a wartime "propaganda campaign" and were not to be taken too seriously.
"During the war . . we had to put out propaganda," said Mugabe, emphasizing that his government was committed to upholding his country's turbulence during Churchill's reign.
Mugabe admitted that both he and the other leaders of Zimbabwe—formerly known as Rhodesia—have people common with him, and that commitment we do not have.
However, he said the country's white minority and the owners of private businesses had little to fear as the country undergone a "reconciliation."
The wartime propaganda, Mugabe said, was designed to increase the morale of the guerrillas and put pressure on the "settler regime."
The prime minister, in an appearance on ABC's "Meet the Press," met Wednesday in Washington with President Carter and ask for a sizeable
Carter insists on 'one-on-one' debate
Watson, interviewed on the news program, "Face the Nation," said the president's staff was now considering offers for a debate before the Baltimore meeting sponsored by the League of Women Voters, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 18. That debate now is scheduled to be the first one of the presidential campaign and could include independent candidate John B. Anderson.
WASHINGTON—President Carter, although willing to debate presidential candidates other than Republican nominee Ronald Reagan, insists that the first debate of the campaign be "one-on-one," White House chief of staff Jack Watson said yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Baltimore Sunday Sun said plans for the Baltimore debate were being jeopardized by Carter's insistence on debating Reagan alone in an earlier debate. It quoted an unidentified official in the Carter campaign as saying that prospects for the Baltimore debate are "50-50 at best."
In Washington, Anderson issued a statement accusing the Carter camp "of trying to manipulate the debates in order to benefit Jimmy Carter." An argument that is clearly trying to use the issues of scheduling and logistics to avoid the president face his two major opponents in a debate on the issues.
Pat Chase, a spokesman for the league, said there had been no change in the details and are very confident the details will be worked out and the first debate will be held.
Unions win victory in Polish party shuffle
From Kansan wire services
WARSAW, Poland—In sweeping concessions to some 150,000 striking workers, Poland's Communitist Party leadership fired Premier Edward Koehler to recognize union leaders elected by "democratic and secret ballots."
Party chief Edward Gierek announced on national television that six members of the party's Politburo, including Babuch, and a half-dozen other government and party officials were in attendance at an extensive shakeup since bloody riots topped the regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka 10 years ago.
Glerek said the Politburo, the political bureau of the Communist Party's Central Committee, had authorized the overhaul of the official trade union structure to permit workers to go on strike in election instead of by state appointment.
"We go on striking," Leszek Wales, chairman of the Inter-Factory Strike Committee, told a crowd of 2,000 workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, where the paralyzing strikes began Aug.14.
BUT THE defiant workers said it was not enough.
"Only free trade unions can make us happy, can give us a victory," he said.
"The government will not be able to cheat us. We do not give it that opportunity."
The strikers have compiled a list of 21 economic and political demands, including an end to censorship, release of unemployed workers, pay and more adequate food supplies.
"Only free trade unions can make us happy, can give us a victory. The government will not be able to cheat us. We do not give it that opportunity."
But the major issues that have emerged are the workers' demands for free trade unions to replace those killed by the state and the right to strike.
Gierek, in his 19-minute address, said, "We are making a basic turnaround in the policy of our party and we are adjusting to the realities of today."
IN MOSCOW, the Soviet news agency Tass carried the news of the government reshuffling without comment and made no mention of the strikes.
"There is no higher priority than to lead the country out of the crisis. The basic condition for achieving this goal is to create a climate of discontent and create a climate of
mutual confidence. I think that our decisions today will achieve this."
In an obvious bid to win approval from strikers who have crippled Poland's industrial output since the Gdansk strikes began, Glerek said, "We are ready to talk with workers' representatives . . . but we cannot agree to workers' postulates striking at the basis of the states existence."
Previously, the government had sought to negotiate with strikers in individual plants, but Saturday night it bowed to the workers' insistence that it negotiate with the leaders of the Inter-Factory Strike Committee. First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski met in the assembly hall of the occupied Lenin shipyards for two hours with Wales and other strike leaders.
THE STRIKERS charged they were forced to pay for the government's mismanagement of the Polish economy, which is now some $20 billion in debt and facing shortages of food and other goods.
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in the government shakeup, Jozef Pinkowski, a member of the Communist Party Secretariat, was named to the Politburo to replace Babluch, the 52-year-old premier who came to power only last February, the state news agency reported. Also named to the Politburo was Stefan Olszowski, a former foreign minister and ambassador to East Germany.
More than 150 strikes have hit Paldon this summer since a meat price increase of 40 to 60 percent went into effect July 1.
The Gdansk strike was different from earlier strikes because it combined worker demands for political reforms as well as wage increases. The government evidently underestimated the strength of that worker movement, and it has failed to settle any of the major strikes.
There once was this team from next door
Those talent was nothing more
Than a drop in a bucket
They should pack-up and chuck it.
They looters no better.
Tuesday, Aug. 26
7:00 p.m.
156 Robinson Center
SVA FILMS
Monday, August 25 Brief Encounter
David Lear's touching yet unsentimental portrait of a middle-aged man and woman of mixed happiness in a short comedy about a girl who boasts a script by Nool Coward and excelses performances by Trevor Howard (8/619) B/W; 7:30. "The Hand." (8/619) B/W; 7:30.
Tuesday, August 26
Trouble in Paradise
(1932)
Design for Living (1933)
An Ermst, Lubitsch double feature. *Padrasia* features a group of societies, including for herbert Marshall—he is after the 1970s and now leads Rugles and Miriam and Evelie Chattent Design features Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March as a group of societies. With the impromptue Paris, With the irresponsible Mior. Horizons Frank Palangbo (8599 km) BWK 7.4
Wednesday, August 27 Darling
John Schlesinger's cynical tale of an John Schlesinger (also her Christie) who works her way to the top as a Miss Christie who an Oscar for her Lawrence Harvey and Dirk Bogden star. "A shining, buoyant, and seductively photographed picture."—New York Times
Thursday, August 28
The Seduction of Mimi
Glancario Giannini plays an unuscrepit factory worker who is seduced by her boss, and then faces the facades and the Malia—or any combination thereof—in Lia Wurtmertra's breakthrough film, a austere, insensitive shtick. She is, as she becomes a cry for another scheme of things.* —Penelope Gillitt, Plus *A* (92 min). Color, Italiani italicises, 7:30.
Friday, August 29 Who'll Stop the Rain
Nick Note is astonishing as a disciplined ex-Marina who helps a pill-popping Californian (Tuesday Welld) elude an assortment of low-life types on the trail to Kobe. The book's Karel Reel's adaptation of Robert Stone's获奖-winning novel is a powerful, savage and yet oddly comic view of society. With Michael Moriarty, Anthony McClure and John McLaren's Opening Speech," (128 mm) Color. 3:00, 7:00, 9:30.
Unless otherwise noted; all film will be shown at Woods Auditorium in the building on Friday, Saturday and Sunday Fridays, Saturday and Sunday films are $1.50; Midnight films are $2.00. Available at the SUA office, Kansas University, 3477. No smoking or refresher admissions.