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University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Lebanon seeks help of U.S. in removal of Israeli troops
BEIRUT, Lebanon- Lebanese President Amin Gamayel yesterday asked for international help to assist Israeli troops from the mountains outside Beirut where rival Christian and Moslem militiamen clashed with rockets and artillery in fierce new fighting.
In a surprisingly quick reply, the United States stepped up pressure on Israel to remove its 30,00-man army from all of Lebanon.
on Israel to remove 85,000 inmates. Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam said the slow pace of talks for removal of Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian troops was "clearly intolerable" and blamed Israel for insisting take place in Jerusalem, which many Arab states do not recognize as the Israeli capital.
In the southern Lebanese town of Nabitaye, two prisoners in Israel's Anzar prison camp were killed and four others were wounded by what the military command in Tel Aviv said was an accidental burst of gunfire by a guard.
The camp holds 6,000 PLO suspects that Israel rounded up during the initial weeks of its June 6 invasion of Lebanon.
Demand for jobless benefits climbs
New claims for unemployment checks climbed by 56,000 during the third week of November for the first increase in five weeks, the Labor Department said yesterday.
The department said 654,000 Americans asked for unemployment benefits for the first time during the week ending Nov. 20. The increase was the largest surge since a record, 703,000 new claims, was set 10 weeks earlier.
The October unemployment rate was 10.4 percent, the highest unemployment rate since the Depression. The November rate will be based on a survey taken during the week ending Nov. 13 and adjusted for routine seasonal patterns.
The department said the number of people receiving jobless benefits showed a sharp increase for the week ending Nov. 13, climbing by 196,000 to a new total of 4,841,000 or 5.5 percent of the insured workforce.
Nicaraguan says U.S. to back raid
MEXICO CITY - A top Nicaraguan party official charged yesterday that a U.S.-backed invasion will be launched against Nicaragua as soon as "the American cowboy," President Reagan, ended his Central American visit.
Bayardo Arce, political coordinator of Nicaragua's leftist Sandimista party, said in a Mexico City news conference that Reagan was making his four-nation Latin American tour to drum up support for his "plans of aggression."
"teagan's trip is not going to be the success that they (U.S. officials) expect." Aree said.
He said the United States planned to send 5,000 rightist Nicaraguan paramilitary forces to invade Nicaragua from Honduran training camps "to provoke a confrontation between Honduras and Nicaragua," that in turn would trigger a U.S. intervention.
Inspector blamed for shuttle woes
SPACE CENTER, Houston—An inspector's oversight caused the failure of a regulator in one $2 million spaceunit on the space shuttle Columbia last month, and moisture apparently ruined a sensor in the other one space agency officials said yesterday.
The head of the shuttle program, Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, said Wednesday the problems, which prevented a spacewalk by astronaut Joseph Allen and William Lenoir, should be fixed in time for a rescheduled spacewalk in January or February.
Richard A. Colonna, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration investigative team, blamed an inspector for subcontractor Carlton Controls, of Buffalo, N.Y., for the problem with the regulator.
He said the spacesuit was sent back to Carlton for regulator modifications in August, and the piece was left out at that time.
Bodies of last MX technicians found
TULLAHOMA, Tem. - Remains of the last two of four technicians killed in a flash fire in a MX Missile test cell were found yesterday wedged beneath a "witch's hat" flame deflector at the bottom of the 250-foot deep shaft.
Two bodies were found earlier, but water that was poured into the shaft to fight the blaze last Saturday delayed recovery of the bodies of the other two victims. Firemen were lowered into the shaft after workers pumped out most of the water.
Air Force MaJ. Tom Koch said the firemen found the two wedged beneath a flame deflector about 50 feet above the floor of the fire-blackened shaft.
The four were ingulfed in 5,000-6,000 degree heat Saturday night when 30,000 pounds of solid rocket fuel ignited while they were trying to retrieve it from the test shaft at the Arnold Engineering Development Center.
Gag order blocks media from case
EI. DORADO—A county judge, who dismissed civil and criminal charges against Middle Walnut Watershed District members, has issued a gag order prohibiting release of information about the settlement.
Attorney Steven Cranford's office in Winfield said yesterday that the attorney was under a court order not to discuss the case with reporters. Butter County District Judge J. Patrick Brazil issued the court order Wednesday blocking information to the media about the case.
Brazil dropped charges against the men Wednesday, and records show the charges were dismissed in exchange for the men's sexual assault.
Contracting officer E.E. Jabes and watershed directors Clifford Pray and Raymond MacKay were accused of abusing their public offices and improperly watershed funds. Newly elected Vice President Clee Ralston also was involved but was not included in the criminal action.
EPA head given contempt citation
WASHINGTON—A House panel voted yesterday to cite Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch for contempt when she refused, on orders from President Reagan, to produce documents about the cleanup of hazardous waste sites.
By a vote of 9-2, the House public works subcommittee approved a resolution by Rep. Norman Mineta, D-Calif., recommending Gorsuch be cited for contempt of Congress.
The action came after Gorsuch refused to provide the panel with some sensitive postponed documents concerning cleanup at hazardous waste sites around the nation.
Chairman Elliott Levitas, D-Ga., said the panel needed the documents to investigate charges that the EPA was not holding major chemical companies liable for cleanup costs at many of the country's largest waste sites.
House panel passes increase in gas tax
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved by voice vote the Reagan administration nickel-a-gallon gasoil [107809]
Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, D-III, said he was "optimistic" about the ultimate fate of the package in Congress, but he said, "I'm sure there will be some lively debate."
The $5.5 billion revenue package, if passed by Congress, will finance highway and mass transit improvements, and is expected to create more than 300,000 new jobs. The bill now will go to the House floor.
Although the administration refuses to characterize the proposal as a "jobs bill," Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis has said it will create about 320,000 private sector jobs — more than half of them in the recession-wracked construction and building materials industry.
CONGRESSIONAL. Democrats are seeking more ambitious legislation to create public works jobs to fight the housing shortage and unemployment rate of 10.4 percent.
In other action, the MX missile barely survived a crucial test yesterday as a House committee rejected, on a tie vote, a move to eliminate production money for the new weapon sought by President Reagan.
The administration wants Congress to pass the gasoline tax measure by Dec. 17, the scheduled end of the lame-duck session.
THE HOUSE Appropriations Committee, in an action that Reagan called "a vote for a stronger, more secure America," voted 26-26 on an amendment to delete $988 million for the missile the president plans to deploy in Wyoming. The amendment, lacking a majority, was defeated.
The Air Force estimates the total costs of the MX program at $26 billion, but opponents say costs could reach $50 billion.
But the mask faces an uncertain fate in the House when the $231 billion defense appropriations bill comes up for a vote next week.
Speaker Thomas O'Neill predicted a tough battle on the House floor even to retain financing for further research and development on the missile.
IN SAO PAULO, Brazil, Reagan also acknowledged a tough fight ahead.
"I consider a win a win," he said.
"Frankly, it was in danger of not getting out of committee and it just did."
The administration waged an intense lobbying campaign in recent days to save the MX, including personal phone calls and emails to the president, who is visiting Brazil.
The move to delete 9888 million in MX production funds was led by Rep. Joseph Addabba, D-N.Y., chairman of the defense subcommittee.
Addabo's amendment was on the verge of winning on a 26-25 vote when Rep. Bill Alexander, D-Dark, who had passed when his name was first called, at the end of the roll call. The amendment then failed on the tie vote. 26-26.
Investigators question man but doubt he laced Tylenol
By United Press International
Officials have said they don't think Masterson, a former mental patient, was responsible for the deaths.
A DuPage County sheriff's spokesman said Masterson posted $1,000 of a $10,000 bond on marijuana
CHICAGO-Kevin Masterson was released on bond yesterday after police questioned him in the poisonings of seven people who swallowed water.
Masterson, who had been sought of a month, turned himself in to FBI agents in Los Angeles Monday.
Fahner, head of the task force, said he would ask Masterson to take a lie detector test in an effort to distinguish fact from fiction.
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