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Friday, October 24, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
U.S. refrains from retaliation after latest Moscow expulsions
WASHINGTON — The United States, calling off a diplomatic slugfest with the Soviet Union to make room for "larger issues" such as arms control, refrained yesterday from retaliating for the latest expulsion of Americans from Moscow.
After four rounds of expulsions, the score stood at 10
Americans kicked out of the Soviet Union vs. 80 Soviets
expelled from the United States, with another 80
Soviets scheduled to leave before April 1988.
There was no direct U.S. action countering Moscow's expulsion of five more American diplomats.
On Wednesday, Soviet authorities stopped 260 Soviet employees from going to work at the U.S. Embassy and Consulate, forcing diplomats to drop regular work to cook meals in the snack bar, chauffeur their own cars and perform other menial tasks.
Charles Redman, State Department spokesman, said the United States would place restrictions on Soviet diplomats similar to restrictions placed on the U.S. ambassador and other U.S. diplomats. Some of the restrictions include limiting the number of temporary visas for visiting personnel and limiting the number of personal guests the ambassador and other U.S. diplomats may have.
Law official criticizes Meese
WASHINGTON — The head of the American Bar Association yesterday criticized Attorney General Edwin Meese's statement that Supreme Court decisions on the Constitution did not represent the absolute law of the land.
In a speech Tuesday night at Tulane University in New Orleans, Meese said government officials should
"Supreme Court decisions are the law of the land just as acts of Congress are the law of the land," said Eugene C. Thomas, president of the Association.
be guided by their own views of the Constitution rather than always deferring to the Supreme Court.
Thomas said, however, that until a court decision was overruled, "public officials and private citizens alike are not free simply to disregard that legal holding, for it is a part of the body of binding constitutional law of the land."
Terry Eastland, head of the Justice Department's public affairs office, said that Meese had not been suggesting defiance, but was suggesting that other branches of government and other opponents of the court's rulings should not be shy in disagreeing.
Walesa not allowed to visit U.S.
WARSAW, Poland — Authorities refused to accept Solidarity founder Lech Walesa's handwritten application for a passport to visit Los Angeles to receive a human rights award, a dissident source said yesterday.
Jerzy Treczniski, Walesa's assistant, said in a telephone interview that he went to the passport office in Gdansk on behalf of Walesa but the handwritten application was not accepted for consideration.
preparation
Trezenski said he was told that Walesa must comply with official passport procedures that take up to one month.
Under the procedure, Walesa would need to show an official invitation from the California-based John Rogers Foundation, which invited him to receive the award, two photos, and obtain a leave of absence from Gdansk's Lenin Shipyard where he is employed as an electrician.
Walesa was at work and could not be reached for comment on whether he would try to assemble the necessary documents.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday urged college staff members to improve living and learning conditions for black students after a study found racial bias on campus.
MIT official urges end to bias
A study, conducted by the university's Minority Student Issues Group, found that "overt racist behavior" by some faculty and students impeded the educational and living environment for black students at the college.
Dean of Student Affairs Shirley M. McBay, who headed the study group, said the racial climate on campus was investigated after some faculty and students expressed concern about the quality of life and education for minorities at the college.
The report, however, praised the university's long-standing support of minority programs.
The study consisted of a series of open-ended telephone conversations with 42 women and 95 men of the 671 blacks who attended MIT between 1969 and 1985. According to the survey, 44 percent of the respondents said racism impeded their adjustment to MIT.
U.S. marks '83 Marine bombing
WASHINGTON — Flags across the nation flew at half-staff yesterday to mark the third anniversary of the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in which 241 Marines and sailors were killed.
President Reagan, asking Americans to take part in "A Time of Remembrance" proclaimed by Congress, said in a statement Wednesday, "I urge all Americans to actively participate by flying the American flag at
half-staff . . . as a symbol of patriotism, dignity, loyalty and courage.
"As we mourn these men and all other victims of terrorism, as we honor them and as we offer our heartfelt condolences to the families of victims, let us remind the world that our reflection and remembrance fortify our determination to deter and defeat terrorism."
The Marines, part of a multinational peacekeeping force, were victims of a suicide bomb attack Oct. 23, 1983. A TNT-laden truck crashed into the Marine compound at the Beirut International Airport just after dawn, blowing up a building filled with sleeping U.S. servicemen.
Wellesley protesters arrested
WELLESLEY, Mass. — Police arrested 49 Wellesley College students yesterday for blocking two campus entrances to protest the school's refusal to divest from companies doing business in South Africa.
The students were taken by bus from the entrances at Routes 135 and 16 to the Wellesley campus police station, college spokeswoman Ann O'Sullivan said. Campus police refused comment.
The students blocked the entrances to the suburban campus after the school's trustees voted 17-14 against divesting $41 million in holdings in companies operating in the racially segregated nation, O'Sullivan said.
Student spokeswoman Michele Brown said the students were outraged by the trustees decision not to divest.
The students began blocking the entrances to the college at 2 p.m. Officials warned that they would be arrested if they did not move and began arresting the demonstrators shortly after 4 p.m., Brown said.
Wellesley College is an all-female liberal arts college with about 2,200 students.
From Kansan wires.
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