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Tuesday, September 1, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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8 killed, 42 missing in mine crash as elevator cable fails in S. Africa
WELKOM, South Africa — A mine elevator cable failed yesterday, sending a metal cage full of miners crashing to the bottom of a 4,500-foot shaft, company officials said. At least eight men were reported killed and 42 were missing.
The accident occurred as hundreds of thousands of blacks returned to gold and coal mines after a three-week national strike. Five miners were pulled alive
from a small excavated platform 2,300 feet down where rescuers found them. Eight bodies were found nearby.
Israeli workers protest end of jet project
All five were hospitalized with burns. One miner was in serious condition.
"We certainly seem to be learning towards an explosion, but we can't say what caused it," mine manager Gregory Maude said in speculating on the cause of the accident.
JERUSALEM — Hundreds of angry aircraft workers blocked traffic with burning tires and shouted anti-American slogans yesterday to protest Israel's decision to scrap production of the Lavi jet fighter.
pressure to cancel the U.S. financed project because it was over budget.
The Cabinet halted the Lavi by a vote of 12-11 with one abstention Sunday following strong American
Israel had planned to produce more than 70 of the advanced combat aircraft in the 1990s with the United States providing about $500 million a year toward the project.
Surrogates warn against parenting for pay
WASHINGTON — Mary Beth Whitehead, who lost her "Baby M" in a bitter court fight, joined other surrogate mothers yesterday in announcing a campaign to warn women about the anguish of parenting for pay.
Whitehead and the others
decried surrogate-parenting contracts as a form of reproductive "slavery" and called for a federal ban on the practice.
The women spoke on behalf of a coalition created to provide moral and legal support for surrogate mothers.
Deputies set trap for furry marijuana thief
MINDEN, Nev. — Douglas County deputies have set a trap for a culprit who got into an evidence room and made off with some marijuana.
While nobody has seen the thief, it's believed that the culprit is about three inches long and furry. The trap that's been set is a mouse trap.
Iran may suffer arms embargo
Reagan administration consults with four UNSC members
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration, while deploring Iraq's resumption of the "tanker war" in the Persian Gulf as a dangerous development, said yesterday it was consulting with other members of the United Nations Security Council on an arms embargo against Iran.
A State Department spokeswoman, Phyllis Oakley, acknowledged that getting an embargo resolution through the council would be more difficult than the cease-fire passed July 20 with the support of China and the Soviet Union.
the Soviet Union.
She declined to say when the United States would move for a worldwide embargo against Iran but said the Security Council should consider it very soon.
Mrs. Oakley said the renewal of Iraqi attacks on Iranian oil shipments last weekend after a 45-day
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In Santa Barbara, Calif., President Reagan's chief spokesman decried Iraq's bombing of Iranian oil facilities and insisted that the administration was pursuing an even-handed policy toward the warring Persian Gulf nations.
self-imposed cease-fire made the situation in the Gulf more dangerous.
Briefing reporters while the vacationing Reagan did ranch chores and went horseback riding, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said "our policy in the gulf is one of neutrality. We don't ask one side to do one thing and not another."
"Clearly, this is a time for restraint on all sides," she said, reading from a prepared statement.
another. Fitzwater said the United States had been in contact with Iraqi officials to express concern in the wake of two consecutive days of air raids directed by Baghdad against Iranian
From The Associated Press.
offshore oil facilities.
U. S. warships are protecting oil shipments from Kuwait, an ally of Iraq, from Iranian attack. An Iranian mine in the Gulf damaged the Bridgeton, a U.S.-registered tanker, but otherwise Tehran has held its fire while U.S. maintained a moratorium.
However, Iran has vowed that if its gulf oil-exporting facilities or tankers came under Iraqi attack, Kuwaiti ships and the U.S. warships escorting them would be in danger of Iranian attack.
attack. China, which sold Silkworm antiship missiles to Iran, or the Soviet Union, whose allies in Eastern Europe provided other arms, can block a sanctions resolution with the veto available to the five permanent members of the Security Council. The three others are the United States, Britain and France.
83 thought dead in Thai jet crash
The Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A AirThai airways jet plunged into the sea near Phuket Island yesterday and officials said they thought all 83 people aboard were killed.
A statement from Dragon Airlines Ltd. in Hong Kong said company officials spoke to the captain of its aircraft and were assured that the Dragonair aircraft was not involved. It gave no details, and the Dragonair jet's crew would not talk to reporters when the plane returned.
people abroad. Two Americans were said to be among the 37 foreigners on the Boeing 737 domestic flight.
"As of 10:30 p.m., Thai Airways believes there are no survivors," a statement from the airline said. An earlier report from Air Marshal Narong Dithipeng, managing director of the state-run airline, said many people were thought to have survived.
Narong told a news conference earlier yesterday that the plane was trying to evade a 737 of the Hong Kong-based line Dragonair when it crashed into the Andaman Sea eight miles from the resort island's airport.
Spokesmen said 17 bodies were recovered before search operations halted for the night because of high winds and poor visibility. Meteorologists said skies were clear when the crash occurred.
Pravyon Thavisang, manager of the Phuket airport, said the aircraft were following a landing procedure that caused no problems in the past. He told The Associated Press by telephone he doubted there were any survivors.
Law gives business new role
From California fruit farms to the textile mills of Tennessee, the United States' 7 million employers will take on the role of government immigration agents today under a sweeping new law that requires them to document the legal status of their employees.
Employers must sign the new forms, called the 1.9, after a review of supporting documents, such as passports, naturalization certificates or permanent residence cards, that prove all employees hired since last Nov. 6 are eligible to work in the United States.
A random nationwide check of businesses by The Associated Press indicated a high level of compliance with the Sept. 1 deadline for having new forms on file for review by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
United States. The AP's survey also found no evidence of the widespread confusion and mass dismissals of employees that some critics had predicted after President Reagan signed the law.
President Reagan
But many company executives complained about the additional bureaucracy imposed upon them by the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which makes it a crime for employers knowingly to hire illegal aliens.
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"It is a lot of extra paperwork we're not too pleased with, but it's something we're able to handle," said John Pennington, spokesman for Genesco Inc.
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