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University Daily Kansan, November 16 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Begin grieves death of wife as Israelis honor 75 troops
JERUSALEM—A grieving Prime Minister Menachem Begin buried his wife of 43 years on the Mount of Olives yesterday — a somber national day of mourning as well for 75 Israeli soldiers killed in the collapse of a military headquarters in Lebanon.
With Begin and his three children looking on, Aliza Begin was lowered into a grave in the ancient cemetery in east Jerusalem.
Before the funeral cortege left under heavy security for the cemetery, a siren sounded throughout the country, signaling a minute of silence for the 75 Israelis who died last week when an eight-story military command post collapsed in the southern Lebanese port of Tyre.
A preliminary investigation yesterday said the collapse was an accident and not the work of terrorists as originally suspected.
Lebanese President Amin Gemayel yesterday returned from talks in Saudi Arabia where he sought King Fahd's leverage in getting Syrian and Palestinian troops out of Lebanon and money to help Lebanon rebuild.
Beagan urges school busing review
WASHINGTON—The Reagan administration urged the Supreme Court for the first time yesterday to conduct a sweeping review of the use of court-ordered busing in school desegregation efforts.
The Justice Department filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a busing case from Nashville, Tenn., supporting an appeal by local school officials and asking the high court to confront the politically sensitive issue.
Attorney General William French Smith and President Reagan both oppose busing.
The Nashville case involves a ruling that struck down a desegregation plan which exempted young students from being bused.
One administration official indicated that a favorable Supreme Court ruling would be "a signal that the fixation, particularly among appellate courts, on mandatory transportation is really erroneous."
Soldier finds bomb, averts tragedy
FRANKFURT, West Germany-A soldier's curiosity led to the disarming of a terrorist bomb in the underground garage of a 25-story U.S. military apartment house and probably averted a tragedy, the Army said yesterday.
In a ceremony at his headquarters, LL Gen. Paul S. Williams Jr., commander of the V Corps, awarded the Army Commendation Medal to Spec. 4 Francis M. Brown, 22, of Annapolis, Md., for quick thinking and alertness.
Brown said he noticed a light brown gym bag in the underground garage as he was leaving the building.
garage he was in with a car driving it. When he returned, he saw the bag was still there and opened it to find a fire extinguisher with protruding wires. He notified U.S. military police who phoned American and West German explosive experts.
An army spokesman said between 500 and 600 Americans were removed from the apartment house after discovery of the bomb Sunday evening.
Kroger. Dillon boards ratify merger
CINCINNATI—The Kroger Co., the nation's second largest supermarket chain, and Dillon Companies Inc., a Kansas-based retailer, announced a merger yesterday.
retainer, and encourage a merger together.
The boards of directors of both companies unanimously approved the merger and said it was "in the best interests of the shareowners of both companies."
However, consummation of the merger is subject to the approval of shareowners of both companies. The holders of at least two-thirds of Dillon's outstanding shares must approve the deal.
Pursuant to the merger, each outstanding share of Dillon stock will be converted tax free into .8539 of a share of Kroger stock. Kroger has 28.5 million shares outstanding, and an additional 16.6 million shares would be issued in the merger.
Kroger, based in Cincinnati, operates mainly in the Midwest and South. Dillon is based in Hutchinson.
Kohl offers to bridge East-West gap
WASHINGTON -Visiting Chancellor Helmut Kohl told President Reagan yesterday that West Germany was a "loyal partner" and friend of the United States, eager to strengthen the Atlantic alliance and improve East-West relations.
The two leaders praised each other during two hours of discussions at the White House that marked their first meeting since the conservative Kohl replaced Helmut Schmidt Oct. 1.
In a pointed reference to the Soviet Union after the death of Leonid Brezhnev, they offered to discuss ways of improving East-West relations with the new Soviet leadership "if Soviet conduct makes that possible."
Kohl made clear his intention to meet Germany's commitment to NATO, which at times appeared in doubt under Schmidt, an official said
Stressing the importance of mutual security, he endorsed Reagan's arms control initiatives and opposed any unilateral pullout of U.S. troops from Europe.
Brazilians vote in general elections
RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil-Brazilians from the Amazon jungle to jet-set Rio streamed to the polls in a carnival atmosphere yesterday to vote in the country's most democratic and important general elections since a military takeover in 1964.
since a military officer in 1960.
"Brazil will not be the same country after today," said Leonel Brizola, 60, a socialist and front-running candidate for governor in Rio de Janeiro, as he cast his vote.
"This is the beginning of the end of the night that fell on us," he said. Heavy turnouts — up to 90 percent in some areas — were reported as 58 million potential voters elected 22 state governors, 25 senators, 479 congressmen and thousands of mayors and town councilmen.
Voting is compulsory, and Brazilians traveled by foot, mule, Amazon riverboat, car or bus to get to the municipality where they were registered.
Vote counting was not to start officially until today
Prisoner swap may free Americans
RUNDU, South-West Africa-Angola and South Africa began a complicated prisoner exchange yesterday involving American mercenaries, Soviet servicemen and Russian and South African bodies, the South African news agency SAPA said.
The swap, which also is expected to include up to 100 captured Angolan soldiers, is being carried out under the auspices of the International Red Cross. But Red Cross officials refused to disclose any details for fear of leopardizing its success.
people during his tenure.
The Angolan government is expected to release two American mercenaries who were convicted in July 1975 of fighting as mercenaries during the Angolan civil war.
A third American, businessman-pilot Geoffrey Tyler, 32, of Florida, also may be freed. He has been detained by Angolan authorities since his plane made an emergency landing in the former Portuguese colony last year.
Severance tax threatens to divide Kansas
By BRUCE SCHREINER
Staff Reporter
U. S. Highway 81, long considered the line of demarcation between eastern and western Kansas, could become more like the "Great Wall of Kansas" because of one issue that has almost shut the state — the severance tax.
Many eastern Kansans have hailed the severance tax, levied on oil and natural gas production, as an answer to the state's serious financial crunch.
But in western Kansas, where most of the state's mineral production occurs, the controversial tax is considered and more expensive than the preceding personal property tax resources.
DESPITE GOV. John Carlin's decisive win over Wichita businessman Sam Hardage on Nov. 2, which many observers called a 'winter kill' in western Kansas residents have not toned down their crusade against the minerals tax.
counties that helped give Carlin his second four-year term.
Last weekend, a covey of eastern Kansas hunters converging on the rich hunting fields of Ells County, in the heart of Kansas' oil producing region, were driven from the fields by passes of western Kansans.
Shot-gun toting Ellen County residents, atttunning over Carlin's victory, in the 1980s.
Last week, Fritz Dreiling, a western Kansas oil producer, began his personal drive against the severance tax by vowing not to buy oilfield goods produced in counties that voted for Carlin.
A CARLIN aide yesterday responded to the incidents by calling the latest division a new chapter in a long saga of differences between the east and west.
"I don't look at this as anything widespread. You have to look at the history of Kansas politics, where western Kansas has never been a stronghold," said Mike Swenson, Carlin's assistant press secretary.
the governor is concerned about it,
and we have to remember we are one state. I think once all this is behind us,
we can just keep going quickly
we all move on to other things."
For the third straight year, Carlin will center his budgetary policies on a severance tax. In 1961 and 1982, the governor in the Senate after passing the House.
SEVERAL WESTERN Kansas legislators said a bittersweet toward Carlin and the severance tax would continue to be withdrawn. The county could be soothed with a tax package
that included other tax sources to supplement a severance tax.
"I think there is a lot of resentment in western Kansas for eastern Kansas" support of the severance tax," said State Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Praff. "But we are one state and we need to work together.
"If the tax package is treated in a balanced fashion, then western Kansans will be more willing to swallow the severance税 if they perceive eastern Kansas people are paying into the system.
"But Gov. Carlin needs to be open to a compromise, supporting some form of increase in the gasoline tax or sales tax."
STATE REP. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said many western Kansans considered the severance tax, estimated to raise about $120 million annually, an attempt by northeast Kansans to steal the west's natural resources to improve their schools and highways.
“It’s an emotional and high-pitched issue,” said Hayden, who is expected to succeed Wendell Lady as House speaker in the upcoming session. “But I think it would be a great experience to work to iron out the problem, this won't be a recurring problem.
"I don't think it will create a permanent line of demarcation as long
as the governor and the Legislature's approach is a balanced one.
Swenson said that the governor was in the midst of drawing up his budget plans, and that. no compromise was included in the preliminary package.
"WE ARE NOT going to start talking about compromising in November," he said. "There is simply a misunderstanding about the severance tax. It is a statewide tax that will benefit the entire state. The money will not be distributed to counties, but will be dispersed in aid to education throughout the state."
Despite the pleas and hopes for unity, the legislators agreed that the state's size and diversification was an ideal setting for regional disputes.
"I think there has always been a gap, and now this may widen the gap some more," said State Sen. August Bogina Jr., R.-LenNexha. "I think there is a great deal of amimosity, and unfortunately, it's going to be difficult to get rid of it."
STATE REP. David Heinemann, R-Garden City, said western Kansas' suspicions of its eastern neighbors went on the time Kansas gained its statehood.
"It's been traditional for people out
been to see what goes back east
because it was a tradition."
Andropov, Bush meet following funeral
By United Press International
MOSCOW—Soviet leader Yuri Andropov used his predecessor's funeral yesterday to warn the West against any military buildup but had a 45-minute talk with Vice President George Bush in an apparent move toward detente.
the new Communist Party general-secretary's meeting with Push following Leonid Brezhnev's funeral was the highest-level encounter between of former President Carter and Brezhnev signed the SI II pact in 1979.
"IT GAVE BOTH sides the opportunity to exchange views on the state of their relations," he said, before boarding a U.S. Air Force plane for Zimbabwe, where he was to resume a 10-nation African tour.
Secretary of State George Shulz and Ambassador Arthur Hartman also took part in the talks in the Kremlin's St. George Hall.
Andropov also met with representatives of the Western allies in a
Bush said Andropov told them the "Americans" presence at Breziness in 2013.
diplomatic campaign seen aimed at restoring detente, Brezhnev's proudest achievement.
BUT BOTH SIDES had optimistic assessments of the private meeting.
The official Tass news agency said Andropov's regime was "ready to build relations with the U.S.A. on a basis of non-interference and mutual respect."
Bush and Shultz also met briefly with
six Siberian Pentecostals who have been living in the basement of the U.S. Embassy since rushing through the doors in 1978.
Brezhnay was buried yesterday in a pine-shaded nook in Red Square beside Russia's most revered leaders, as factory whistles blared, bells pealed and work stopped for five minutes in memorial.
THE GREATEST assemblage of foreign dignitaries ever in Moscow produced the Soviet capital's biggest show of non-wartime security. Police and other officials hold a 5-square-mile section surrounding Red Square in the heart of the city.
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