2
Thursday, November 19, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Former Communist party leader named to new government post
MOSCOW — Boris N. Yeltis, the man who was thrown out as the head of Moscow's Communist Party last week and labeled an ambitious renegade, was named to a top government post yesterday and given the rank of minister.
It was a stunning turnaround in the political fortunes of the 56-year-old Yeltsin, who last week
Union Carbide mav face trial over accident
was denounced at length by Soviet leader Mikhail K. Gorbachev as a rash colleague who bucked party rules and discipline.
Exactly one week after his ouster from one of the top party posts in the country, Yellinsin was named first deputy chairman of the Soviet State Committee for Construction, the official Tass news agency said.
BHOPAL, India — The government and Union Carbide failed yesterday to meet a deadline for the settlement of India's $3 billion damage suit in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak, which killed 2,660 people and injured more than 200,000.
The failure means the Danbury,
Conn-based company may have to stand trial in the world's worst industrial accident.
District Judge M.W. Deo ordered attorneys for both sides to return to court Nov. 27 to set a schedule to hear petitions on the disaster.
Housing construction declines sharply
WASHINGTON — Housing construction plunged 8.2 percent in October, the biggest decline in more than three years, the government reported yesterday. Analysts blamed the setback on rising mortgage rates and fears over the
collapse of the stock market
The Commerce Department said new homes and apartments were started at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.51 million units in October, down from an annual rate of 1.65 million units in September.
New Jersey man breaks joke-telling record
NEW YORK — A comedian broke a record for the fifth time by telling a 49-hour string of jokes, according to the talent director for a Manhattan comedy house.
T. R. Benker, 28, of Jersey City,
N. J., rattled off everything from Groucho Marx classics to: "What do you get when you cross a Hare Krishna with an atheist?"
"Someone who knocks on your door for absolutely no reason."
London subway fire kills 28
The Associated Press
Dozens injured during rush-hour blaze in busy terminal
LONDON — Fire broke out in the huge King's Cross subway station during the evening rush hour yesterday, killing 28 people and injuring about 80, fire officials reported.
The British Broadcasting Corp. issued a condition that the death toll could rebound.
Gordon White, a spokesman for the London Fire Brigade, said 28 people were confirmed dead, 30 were badly burned and about 50 suffered lesser injuries such as smoke inhalation.
Thick smoke from the fire filled the cavernous terminal.
The fire began at 7:36 p.m., apparently under an escalator, but its contents were not found.
King's Cross is a vast complex built in 1851-52, and it is one of Britain's busiest rail terminals. It now contains stations for both British Rail and the London Underground, as the city's subway system is called.
Five subway lines go to King's
Cross: the northern, Circle, Metropolitan, Piccadilly and Victoria.
A man accompanied by his wife and child said, "All the firemen were going down into the Underground. We saw a woman and a man coming off and he had their hair burned off and his face was black, and the woman was screaming."
Police Superintendet David Fitzsimmons said, "No one who was down there where the fire started could possibly be living."
The fire was brought under control within two hours, but White said an investigation was underway.
Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency, said 30 people were feared trapped in the terminal at one stage, but White said late yesterday night it was not known how many remained in the station.
About 100 firefighters were at the station, and the area was sealed off.
A man and woman said they walked inside and encountered
Knight-Ridder Graphic
clouds of smoke. "We just ran out," the woman said. "There was smoke everywhere and total confusion."
Obstacle removed in arms talks
From The Associated Press.
talks on nuclear weapons in Europe.
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Soviet negotiators have removed a major sticking point in the way of a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles and are close to settling a second problem, Reagan administration officials said yesterday.
that appears to be a victory for the U.S. side. The Soviets had demanded the provision for follow-up negotiations in an apparent effort to limit U.S. aircraft based in Western Europe.
The second issue near resolution concerned a Soviet proposal that the treaty contain a noncircumvention clause — a pledge not to undercut the letter or spirit of the missile ban. The United States argued that it was unnecessary.
The Associated Press
But two tough verification issues remain on the table less than three weeks before the Dec. 7 arrival of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev for talks with President Reagan.
Two officials, who spoke to a reporter only on condition of anonymity, said that the negotiators in Geneva had made some compromises.
The officials said some language was being prepared that would be a compromise between the two sides.
The Associated Press
Study links smoking to diseases in women
BOSTON - Smoking causes about half of all heart attacks among young and middle-aged women, and even three or four cigarettes a day sharply increase the risk, research concludes.
Until a few years ago, many experts thought that cigarettes did not contribute to heart disease in women. But recent studies have concluded that smoking is an important hazard for women, as it is for men.
The latest research, based on the Nurses Health Study, concludes that no level of smoking can be considered safe. Women who smoke fewer than five cigarettes a day have two to three times the heart disease risk of non-smokers.
The study demonstrates "the overwhelming importance of smoking for coronary heart disease in young and middle-aged women," said the study's director, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health. "It looks like cigarette smoking can account for approximately 50 percent of the total number of cases of coronary heart disease in that group."
The research, published in today's New England Journal of Medicine, adds to the evidence against smoking. Cigarettes cause lung cancer and emphysema for both sexes.
Senior
Yearbook Portraits
for the
1988 Jayhawker
in
003A
Jayhawker Towers
This is your last week to have
your senior picture taken for
the yearbook
8:30 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
(excluding weekends)
Walk-ins are welcome
3 sitting fee is paid with the purchas
of a 1988 Jayhawker)
For more information call 864-3728
For more information call 864-3728 or stop by 003A Jayhawker Towers
Zodiac Style
The Nadia from Zodiac offers comfort and style for campus or everyday wear. The textured leather is the latest fashion in casual footwear. Available in Black or Brown.
Quality Footwear for the whole family since 1958.
ARENSBERG'S SHOES
OPEN SUN.
1:00-5:00
825 Massachusetts Downtown Lawrence 843-3470
Sub&Sruff Sandwich Shop
5 p.m.-Midnight
We Deliver!
841-DELI
If you need abortion or birth control services, we can help.
Confidential pregnancy testing • Safe, affordable abortion services • Birth control • Tubal ligation • Gyn exams
Confidential pregnancy test services • Birth control • Tuba Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. Providing quality health care to women since 1974. Insurance, VISA and MasterCard accepted.
Comprehensive Health for Women
4401 West 109th (1435 & Rox)
Overland Park, Kansas
teens (913) 345-1400
1 800-222-7222
Toll Free (except KS) 1-800-227-1918