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University Daily Kansan, November 29, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Rescuers look for missing after Mexico flood kills 21
MANZANILLO, Mexico - Rescuers scoured mud and debris yesterday for people fearful buried by flash floods and mud slides that killed at least 12 children and three adults in the Pacific port of Manzanillo, officials said.
Felipe Lopez, a spokesman for Manzanillo's General Hospital, said as many as 5,000 people were left homeless by the flooding and landslides, sparked by a rare flash flood late Friday.
One state newspaper said 300 people were missing but Lopez said the report was an exaggeration.
Report was an exaggeration. Telephone communication to the Manzanillo police headquarters, city government offices, a refugee shelter and the Red Cross was knocked out.
"There's never been anything like this in Manzanillo," Lopez said, noting that the downpour turned streets into waist-deep rivers that washed through residential neighborhoods.
washes through residential neighborhoods.
He said rescue workers were continuing their search for additional bodies in the neighborhoods of Buenavista, El Rocio, Bonanza, 16 de Septiembre and Punta Chica.
Increase in hijackings worries Poles
WARSAW, Poland—One day after Poland's second hijacking in a week, the government said yesterday it was concerned by the growing number of air piracies and cited a "difficult economic situation" as a possible cause.
in the latest hijacking, a gunman in uniform and posing as a security agent was arrested after he attempted to take over a Hungarian TU-154 flying from Leningrad to Budapest when the aircraft made a stop in Warsaw Saturday night.
Details of the takeover were sketchy, but an airport source said the hijacker demanded that the plane, with 50 passengers and crew aboard, be flown to West Berlin or Vienna, Austria.
The hijacker held everyone aboard hostage for almost three hours before releasing them, unharmed in small groups.
Before focusing on him he tried to change planes, the official said. He was captured when he tried to change planes, the official said.
Legally dead child's heartbeat stops
MAYWOOD. Ill.—Despite his parents' opposition, a 7-month-old child declared legally dead more than a month ago was taken off a respirator yesterday when his heart stopped beating.
yesterday when his heart stopped beating.
An autopsy was ordered to determine whether he had been abused. A doctor who admitted him to the hospital told police the child was a possible child abuse victim.
Alex B. Haymer, son of Albert and Karen Haymer of south suburban Justice, had suffered a head injury and brain hemorrhage. He was declared brain dead on Oct. 23, but his parents began a court fight to keep the child hooked to the machine.
The legal struggle was brought to an end early yesterday when the child's heart stopped beating, his doctor, Timothy Scarff, said.
In June, Alex was taken from his parents and put in a foster home after he was hospitalized for a similar injury. He was returned to his parents on Sept. 10.
Missile test site not harmed by blast
TULLAHOMA, Tem.—A television camera was lowered yesterday into the shaft of an MX missile testing facility where four workmen were killed Saturday while attempting to recover fuel. No structural damage was found in the shaft, an Air Force spokesman said.
A technician wearing an asbestos suit and special breathing apparatus was to be lowered into the shaft last night to determine if she had contracted asbestosis.
Thirty thousand pounds of solid rocket fuel exploded at 6 p.m. CST Saturday, killing four men.
Sixteen people attempting to put out the fire suffered smoke inhalation
injunction. Authorities were attempting to determine whether more fuel remained hidden under 4 feet of water at the bottom of the 250-foot deep testing cell.
Brig. Gen. Kenneth A. Johnson said a spark set off the fire, but he did not know what caused the spark.
Germany may deploy more missiles
WASHINGTON-West German Ambassador Peter Hermes said yesterday that unless the Soviet Union dismantles its intermediate rockets aimed at NATO, his country will deploy new American missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
Explore an interview with Cable News Network, Hermes said, "Within NATO, we have agreed on a schedule for the material preparations of deployment" of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles.
But, he said, West Germany still hoped the United States and the Soviet Union would be able to negotiate a "zero option" in Geneva. That means the Soviets should dismantle their rockets, he said.
meets beginning this week to discuss key political and military issues.
Officials said the alliance is certain to reaffirm its December 1979 decision to deploy 572 new cruise and Pershing II missiles beginning late in the coming year.
Israel agrees to U.S. compromise
TEL AVIV—The Israeli Cabinet yesterday accepted a U.S.-sponsored compromise on long-awaited peace talks with Lebanon but held fi'm en a demand some of the negotiations be conducted in Jerusalem.
"The heads of the two delegations will be properly authorized representatives," Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor said, reading a government communique after the weekly Cabinet meeting.
The compromise was sponsored by U.S. special envoy Philip Habib and his assistant Morris Draper. Both are crisscrossing the Middle East to secure the withdrawal of Israeli forces and 40,000 Syrian and 10,000 Palestine Liberation organization soldiers from Lebanon.
The statement was seen as a retreat from the Jewish state's former position that talks on the withdrawal of some 30,000 Israeli forces from Lebanon include ministers representing both nations.
Irish official urges end to violence
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—The outlawed Irish Republican Army yesterday claimed responsibility for killing a policeman in front of his young son, and Ireland's prime minister-elect warned that the ongoing religious strife could spell disaster for all of Ireland.
Police said James Martin, 34, the owner of a gasoline station in the southwestern city of Armagh, was shot to death in his office Saturday by one of two men who had stopped their car at the station.
one of two men who had stopped them to take a picture. A police spokesman said the IRA, in a telephone call to a Beifast radio station, said it was responsible for the shooting. The IRA claimed Martin had been working for the Ulster Defense Regiment, Northern Ireland's mainly part-time security force. But police denied the IRA claim.
Baker expects passage of jobs legislation
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—Senate Republican leader Howard Baker yesterday forecast bipartisan cooperation in the lame-duck congressional session that starts and is all but certain to enact a public works-jobs bill.
Democrats may press to add housing, sewer and other public works construction to the highway, bridge and repair repairs included in the legislation.
But, Baker said, there would be considerable agreement this year and in the next Congress because "stimu-
ce" is a state law that gives a Democrat or Republican concept."
Moreover, he said in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation," most Republicans now agree federal social programs "cannot be cut significantly again," and most Democrats agree the national budget "must be got under control."
The lame-duck session, which will last about three weeks, was called mainly because President Reagan wanted Congress to deal with appropriation bills for the remainder of the current fiscal year.
But a surprisingly strong consensus developed over the past two weeks, favoring enactment of an increase of 5 cents in the gasoline tax to finance the needed public works and create jobs in a depressed labor market.
Secretary Drew Lewis, the proposal would create 350,000 direct and indirect jobs. With 11 million people out of work, he said that a more serious nation's 10.4 percent unemployment.
ACCORDING TO Transportation
Howard Baker
The Associated General Contrac-
And a key senate source acknowledged to United Press International that the bill will produce 'very little' of needs with areas of high unemployment.
gen. estimate that each $1 billion in additional revenue would create 13,100 on-site jobs paying an average of $21,000 a year, 13,200 on-site jobs paying $22,000, and 36,700 indirect jobs with no specified wage.
Reagan is expected to announce details of his plans for the $5.5 billion legislation before leaving on a Latin American trip tomorrow.
Another focus will be on the $201.3 billion defense appropriations bill. The key disputes are expected over Reagan's plan to deploy 100 MX missiles in a "dense pack" and calls for a token of American GIs from Europe.
The MX fight will center around proposals by Rep. Joseph Addabbe, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., to eliminate $988 million requested for the production of the first five of the ten-10-ward interconti-
nental missiles.
MORE THAN $3.2 billion has been requested for the MX in the 1982 defense budget. The Hollings and Addabo amendments leave intact the nearly $2.5 billion requested for research and development.
President Reagan announced the $28 billion basing plan last week, hailing the new weapon as "the right missile at the end of the world to close the 'window of vulnerability.'"
Hollings, whose similar amendment failed by only two votes in September, is certain of victory during the lame-duck session. "It's a terrible decision. It's money down a rat hole," he said of the MX
In an interview yesterday on ABC, Hollins said flatly. "We have the votes" to block the plan.
Ted Stevens, assistant Senate Republican leader, has proposed that troops in Germany be cut by 20,000 — about two U.S. divisions — as an economy measure. The US Congress to Europeans that they are not doing their share for allied defense.
THE FIGHT against the cut of NATO troops is led in the Senate by Charles Percy, R-III, Foreign Relations Committee chairman, who warned earlier this month that withdrawing U.S. forces Europe would sequestrate NATO unity.
Also, members of the House Armed Services Committee returned from a
tour of U.S. and NATO bases in Europe convinced that trimming the number of GIs in Germany was a bad idea.
In another defense-related issue, a House investigations panel plans to probe the security measures at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Grotau, Conn., where Trident missile carriers, nuclear submarines are being built for
Because not all the pending money bills can be passed during the short session, Congress also will have to pass legislation that would require government operations in the interim.
It is certain to include a continuance of the ceiling on top federal pay members and other top members of Congress and other top officials would get a pay raise.
THEIR ANNUAL, salaries frozen since 1977 at $80,602.50, House and Senate members would get an automatic 4 percent cost-of-living raise of $2,426 on Dec. 18. If the four-year cap comes off retroactively, the raises would amount to 27 percent or more than $16,000.
But Congress has repeatedly voted to freeze their own pay.
"Especially in this difficult economic period, such a pay increase just doesn't make sense." Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, Kanser, said.
Since their last pay raise, inflation has risen 60 percent, and government white collar workers have received increases of 30 percent.
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