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University Daily Kansan, November 19, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Official testifies he warned Israelis of Beirut massacre
JERUSALEM—An Israel Cabinet minister yesterday testified he told a top government official that Christian militiamen were "carrying out a slaughter" in West Beirut — a day before Israel moved to stop the killing.
Zippori said Israeli military correspondent Ze'ev Shift told him of reports of atrocities at the camps on Friday morning, Sept. 17, which were 17 hours after the Christian Phalanxists entered the camps.
Communications Minister Mordechai Zippori said he alerted Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir that the rightist militiamen were massacring civilians in West Beirut's Sabra and Chatila refugee camps the morning after the killings began.
The 15-minute appearance by Zippori, a former deputy defense minister, backed up previous testimony that the Israeli army had received reports of the massacre soon after the Phalange assault got under way.
Zippori said he passed on the information to Shamir after trying unsuccessfully to contact the chiefs of Israeli military intelligence and the secret security service.
GOP leaders say tax cut lacks votes
WASHINGTON—Top Republican congressional leaders told President Reagan yesterday that advancing a 10 percent income tax cut from July to January would face serious opposition on Canitol Hill.
House GOP leader Robert Michel of Illinois said he told Renagan bluntly that we just don't have the votes" to push the proposal through.
Senate Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee said he told Reagan, "It's going to be a difficult thing to do in the lame-duck game."
Reagan called Michel and Baker to the White House for an hour-long strategy, their first meeting since the Nov. 2 elections.
While the administration has been suggesting moving the tax cut forward, Democratic opponents have called for the tax cut to be
Polish workers' refusal called 'blow'
WARSAW, Poland-Poland's underground Solidarity leadership yesterday said workers' failure to respond to a Nov. 10 protest call to the ban on the union was a "serious blow to the authority of the underground leadership."
Tygodnik Mazowsze, Warsaw's main ground leaflet, said. Most members of the union decided that such a form of protest does not violate the constitution.
The Nov. 10 protest call was the biggest since marital law was imposed Dec. 13, 1981, and was part of a protest plan leading up to a court order.
"The defeat could mean either rejection of this program and the necessity to choose a strategy of long-lasting resistance or the acknowledgment that it was a lost battle fought at the wrong time." Tygodnik Mazowsze said.
Bishops draft anti-nuke statement
WASHINGTON—The nation's Roman Catholic bishops ended their annual meeting yesterday without backing away from the essential message of their proposed statement condemning the arms race and calling for a nuclear freeze.
After a two-hour debate involving about 30 prelates, the bishops agree to write a third and final draft of the pastoral statement on abortion.
The present draft condemns an immoral first use of nuclear weapons or the use of such weapons, even in retaliation, against civilian populations; endorses a mutual freeze on development and deployment of nuclear weapons; and questions the morality of the U.S. strategy of deterrence.
If approved, the statement will be used as a teaching instrument to help the nation's 50 million Roman Catholics inform their consciences on such issues.
Windfall tax ruling to be appealed
WASHINGTON—The Reagan administration announced yesterday that it would ask the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling declaring the windfall oil profits tax unconstitutional.
In a brief statement, the Justice Department notified a federal court in Cheyenne, Wyo., that it would appeal the ruling by U.S. District Judge Ewing Kerr. On Nov. 4 Kerr ruled that the tax was invalid because exempted Alaskaan oil and thus was not applied uniformly to all states.
The Windfall Profit Act, signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 is expected to bring the government $227 billion by the end of the decade.
President Reagan opposed the windfall profits tax during the 1980 campaign, but his administration now faces the prospect of a federal deficit that could reach $175 billion.
Jury hears recording, convicts rapist
The tape was played Wednesday despite the protest of defense attorneys who said it was too gruesome. But the judge said it was rare to have a recording of what actually happened in an assault and allowed it to be presented as evidence.
WICHITA—An all-woman jury, after hearing a tape recording of a woman being assaulted, yesterday found David Williams, 30, guilty of rape and aggravated sodomy.
Prosecuting attorneys said the tape recording was made by a dispatcher after the 23-year-old rape victim dialed the emergency number.
The woman of Tuba, Okla., testified she was staying at the home of a friend when the rape occurred April 19, 1982, and she said Williams was that woman's boyfriend.
The jury Wednesday listened quietly as the tape, filled with the victim's sacks, screams and pleas for help, was played. The woman was seated in the chair. The judge, who never saw the tape,
Drinks up, sweets down, report says
WASHINGTON—Americans guzzled more alcoholic beverages and soft drinks but nibbled on less sweets and bakery products in the late 1970s than a decade earlier, a government food consumption report said yesterday.
Americans also consumed fewer eggs but more cold breakfast cereal, fresh fruits and fresh juice than in the mid-1960s, the Agriculture Department said in findings of a nationwide food consumption survey taken in 1977-78.
The newly published report showed a dramatic increase in the consumption of yogurt and low-fat skim milk during the period, while the use of evaporated milk, butter and shortening decreased the most of any foodstuffs.
In contrast, consumption of sugar and sweets dropped about 25 percent in each region, and bakery products, including bread, dropped 20 to 26 percent.
Millions join 1-day Smokeout
A record 19 million nicotine friends — three million more than last year — took a break from cigarettes yesterday to watch the American Cancer Society said.
By United Press International
The society said it based its figures on random telephone calls to 2,277 households across the country between 4 a.m. and 10:39 a.m. in each time zone.
Thirty six percent of those reached said they were trying to stop smoking.
About 37 million others kept puffing away.
MORE WOMEN than men joined, the society said. Thirty-two percent of the men contacted said they were giving birth to babies compared with 41 percent of the women.
Society, said that smokers who didn't make the goal shouldn't feel bad because it was hard to quit smoking. It was a day of, crazy, bugs, are.
From Seattle, Wash., Willis Taylor,
president of the American Cancer
It was a day of crazy bets and light-hearted fun.
Somersworth, N.H., Mayor George Bald promised to march in. Dover's Christmas parade wearing red flannel underwear if Dover Mayor Raymond Hennessey and WTSN radio news director Donald Briand made it through to midnight without lightup.
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IN TULSA, Okla., the Excelsior Hotel offered headless matches, cold turkey sandwiches and a chance on a free carriage to those who made the Smokey goal.
know I'll get through the day. We am will."
Portland, Ore., Mayor Frank Ivance and the entire City Council swore off
Medical hypnotists scheduled free sessions for quitters at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City and St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa.
"We will make it," council member Mildred Schwab, who has smoked for 40 years, said.
LYNN SMITH, publisher of the Montello Times in Minnesota, looked back on his D-Day campaign that led to an escape on a small scale almost ten years ago.
He tried to get subscribers to stop puffing in a campaign Jan. 7, 1974.
His idea was not accepted at first, but once it caught on nationally, six years ago the community of Monticello received acclaim.
In Washington, C. Everett Koop,
surgeon general of the U.S. Public
Health Service, cheered the stalwarts on.
Newly found star sets spin record
"At best, you may start on the road to quitting permanently. At worst, you may find out what kind of grip your habit has on you," he said.
By United Press International
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BERKLEY, Calif. — A University of California — astronomer yesterday announced discovery of a star that rotated 642 times a second.
The star, which is called a pulsar,
spins many times faster than any
other pulsar scientists have ever
studied.
The new pulsar was thought to be only two or three miles wide, but its mass could equal that of two or three nuts.
The discovery was announced by Donald Backer, head of a research team that used the world's largest radio telescope, an instrument 1,000 feet wide at Arecibo Observatory. Puerto Rico. The pulsar's extraordinary rotation speed was calculated Nov. 7.
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas invites you to attend our
Holiday Dinner Dance
on Friday, December 3rd in the Crystal Room of the Eldridge House Hotel.
Full buffet dinner, including vegetarian entrees,
full house dessert
Reservations must be made in advance with $5.00 deposit by Fri, Nov. 19th at GLOSK office, 3rd floor, Union.
Dinner, entertainment, dance—$9.00
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A shop full of quality brands you know and trust.
When the party is BYOB (Bring Your Own Brush) you find out who your friends are.
Friends aren't hard to find when you're out to share a good time. But the crowd sure thins out when there's work to do. And the ones who stick around deserve something special.
Löwenbräu. Here's to good friends.
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