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University Daily Kansan, January 13, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan nominates woman to health post on Cabinet
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, naming the second woman to his Cabinet in a week, yesterday nominated former Massachusetts Rep. Margaret Heckler to succeed Richard Schweiker as head of the giant Health and Human Services Department.
She would become the administration's second female Cabinet secretary. Reagan annuated presidential assistant, Elizabeth Dole last year.
Schweiker, 56, told Reagan last Friday that he had received an "irresistible offer" in private business and Reagan accepted his reward.
Heckler, 51, defeated on her re-election bid in the election, will head the government's largest agency if confirmed by the Senate.
The former Pennsylvania senator will earn a six-figure salary as president of the American Council of Life Insurance, a lobbying group.
Schweiker, considered a low-key member of the Cabinet, was Reagan's running mate in his unsuccessful 1976 bid for the Republican nomination.
TIMES BEACH, Mo. — A caravan of sealed trucks loaded with flood debris left dioxin-contaminated Times Beach under police escort yesterday and was met by a guard of nearly 30 helmeted state troopers at a landfill 40 miles away.
Although Warren County residents had vowed to form a human barricade to block the trucks, the vehicles entered the landfill without incident. The troopers stood in formation at the landfill entrance as the trucks passed by.
Flood debris removed amid protest
The crowd of about 40 people began chanting as the trucks neared, but their words were drowned out by the sound of media helicopters.
The 12 trucks were covered with tarps and their tailigates sealed with foam before they left Times Beach. Each was washed with a high-pressure hose and was driven by a pollution specialist wearing protective gear including a respirator.
Former Soviet leader Podgorny dies
MOSCOW — Former Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, a member of the Kremlin troika that toppled Nikita Khrushchev, has died, the presidium of the Supreme Soviet announced yesterday. He was 79.
Podgorny died Tuesday night, an official at the Supreme Soviet, the nation's parliament, said. No cause of death was given.
Together with Brezhnev, who died last November, and late Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin, Podgorny emerged as one of the troika or triumvirate that voted Khrushchev out of office in 1964.
Podgorny's role as president was largely ceremonial, including tours of crisis areas where the Soviets wanted to demonstrate interest.
"This has no political significance but it will be interesting to see how the authorities handle it," one Western expert on Soviet domestic policies said.
Salvadoran mutineer ends rebellion
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Renegade L.I. Col. Sigirida Ochoa yesterday agreed to end his six month rebellion against the defense forces in Honduras.
Ochoa's chief of staff, Major Luis Rodriguez, implied that Ochoa extracted an agreement for the eventual resignation of his rival, Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia, as the price for ending his mutiny.
"Sometimes you have to give some to get some," Rodriguez said.
Sometimes you have to give some to get some. Roorgriguez said.
Magana said Ochoa would not be forced to become military attache to Uruguay, where he originally was ordered by Garcia last Thursday.
The order sparked Ochoa's rebellion.
Magana said Ochoa had accepted his transfer from command of the northeast province of Cabanas.
King's daughter wants rights revival
"We must arouse ourselves from our slumber, stand up and deal with what must be done." Yolanda King told 700 people at a commemoration of her father sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services.
WASHINGTON — Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., called yesterday for resumption of the civil rights movement led by her father more than 15 years ago.
It was one of several such ceremonies planned nationwide this week. The activities are a prelude to the 20th anniversary of the Aug. 28, 1963 march on Washington by 250,000 people where King delivered what he known as his "I have a dream" speech. King would have been 64 years old.
Yolanda King, who heads a theatrical company in New York, said the movement led by her father "was an inspiration for all other
NEW YORK — The vice president of a Bronx armored car company, robbed twice in December of a record-breaking $11 million in cash and later of $225,000, was arrested, and an arrest warrant was issued for the company's president, officials said yesterday.
The arrest and the warrant were not related to either of the thefts, said a spokesman for Mario Merola, Bronx District Attorney, but were for a third theft of $100,000 from Sentry Armored Courier Service.
Company officials suspects in theft
Kuna Laren, vice president of Sentry, was arrested and charged with the $100,000 robbery, and a warrant was issued for the arrest of John Kuma. The case has been adjudicated.
The firm was robbed of $11 million Dec. 13. The heist was the largest cash robbery in the nation's history. A week later the company reported that $225,000 was missing.
HALLANDALE, Fla. — As many as 2,000 blacktip sharks drove tourists from the water along south Florida's beaches for the second consecutive day yesterday, but there was disagreement about whether the sharks had moved on or still posed a menace.
Tony Rosa, captain of the Hallandale Beach Patrol, said murkiness in the 72-degree water made it impossible to determine whether the sharks still hurled near the shore. However, lifeguards at Hollywood Pier were swimming on swimming, because no more sharks had been sighted in that area.
2.000 sharks haunt Florida beaches
A school of 500 to 2,000 of the blacktips first showed up Tuesday. Blacktina average from 4 to 7 feet in length.
Although swimming was permitted at Hollywood Beach, Rosa said, he did not know when he would let swimmers return to Hallandale Beach.
Arms reduction agency overhauled by Reagan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, in an important high-level purge that fell-lowed months of political in-fighting, yesterday fired the director of the U.S. Agency and replaced one of his top arms negotiators.
Reagan said that Kenneth Adelman, deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations, would replace embattled agency director Eugene Rosestow in a move likely to appease hard-line Republicans and intorture arms control advocates.
And, rejecting the recommendation of Rostow and Secretary of State George Shultz, Reagan said he would nominate former Rep. David Emery, R-Maine, as deputy director of the arms control agency.
The president also replaced Richard Stair, who since 1981 has been negotiating conventional force reductions in Europe at talks in Vienna, with Morton Abramowitz, a career foreign service officer.
In a written statement, Reagan called the members of his reconstituted arms control team "men of great distinction and dedication" and said he was determined to seek reductions in conventional and nuclear arms.
"It is essential that we press forward in the search for arms reduction," he said. "We shall be unrelenting in our efforts."
Reagan said Shultz shared his "high confidence" in the new nominees.
For months, Rostow has been criticized by conservative Republican senators who do not view him as sufficiently hard-line and succeeded in torpeding the nominations of his deputy and one of his chief assistants.
Rostow, in a brief statement, said: "It has been a privilege to serve as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for the past 20 months. In recent days, it has become clear that the president wished to make changes. In response to his request, I have tended my resignation."
He indicated that it was Shultz who informed him of the reasons behind the firing.
A Senate Democratic source said Rostow, 69, was fired "because there are people in power in this administration who do not believe in any arms control agreement with the Soviets, except in terms of unilateral Soviet disarmament, and Rostow knew that this was not achievable."
A conservative Democrat who served as undersecretary of state in the Johnson administration, Rostow also did not get along with the White House national security staff members, who were insistent outside the sphere of arms control.
Vice President George Bush, who is leaving the country at the end of the month to discuss recent Soviet arms reduction proposals with European leaders, he did not believe the Rostow resignation would alter his own mission.
"I don't see any effect on the trip," he said. "I mean, things go on. The talks will resume on schedule and that's the key thing."
Low-tar cigarettes 'risky,' report says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Tobacco companies may be using additives that make new low-tar products "even tastier," the makers branded." it was reported yesterday.
Mother Jones magazine of San Francisco, and the Florida Times-Union newspaper in Jacksonville, Fla., reported that tobacco companies bu'y as much as one million years of the year of the plump plant coumarin.
The publications, which conducted a joint investigation, reported that the plant, commonly known as deer tongue, had been banned by the government in foodstuffs in 1964 and was found to be poisonous to the liver
They also said German tests in the
1960s linked the plant to cancer in laboratory animals.
The publications said that, although deer tongue suppliers had told them they sold huge amounts of the plant to tobacco companies, the plants refused to say whether they still use the plant in their products.
The Tobacco institute, an industry association based in Washington, said it did not know exactly what went into various tobacco products because companies kept ingredients confidential.
Prior to the government ban of deer tongue in foodstuffs, the plant had been known to be widely used in tobacco for flavoring.
Although the government warns smoking is dangerous to health, it has no regulatory control over the manufacturing of tobacco products.
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