Page 2 University Daily Kansan, November 12, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan says foreign agents are backing nuclear freeze
WASHINGTON—President Reagan said yesterday that there was "plenty of evidence" foreign agents have been sent to the United States to help "instigate and create" the U.S. nuclear freeze movement and keep it going.
During his nationally broadcast news conference, Reagan was asked if he thought foreign intelligence agents were behind the freeze movement, which calls for a verifiable freeze on the production of new nuclear weapons between the two superpowers.
"Yes, there is plenty of evidence." Reagan replied, saying some of it had been printed.
had been priced.
"There is no question but that the Soviet Union saw an advantage in a peace movement built around an idea of a nuclear freeze, since they are way out ahead (in nuclear arms)," he said.
However, Reagan said he thought the great majority of the members of nuclear freeze organizations were "sincere and well-intentioned."
Reagan declined to reveal the "evidence" of foreign intervention in the freeze movement, saying, "I don't discuss intelligence matters."
Exploding pipelines cause injuries
A separate explosion at an energy plant in Good Hope, La., just south of New Orleans, injured two workers when a heater blew out.
WESTLAKE, La. An ammonia pipeline ruptured and caught fire at a chemical plant yesterday, critically burning one person and injuring several firefighters.
A spokesman at the Oil Chemical Co. plant in Westlake said the ammonia line ruptured about 6:20 a.m., spewing nitrogen and hydrogen that exploded in flames that were quickly extinguished.
Calcasieu Parish school officials, fearing a release of toxic gases, canceled classes at five schools in Westlake and Mossville, and State Schools.
In the Good Hope explosion yesterday, two workers were injured when fuel gas ignited with air in heater at the GHR Energy Corp. complex.
Blaze near Salina threatens homes
HEDVILLE—A grass fire fanned by 30-mph winds threatened homes across a 150-square-mile area of central Kansas yesterday, prompting evacuations and an urgent call for civilian firefighting help.
At least two men were injured, one of them critically burned. The town of Hedville, about 100 miles west of Topeka, was being evacuated, as were other areas, according to a Saline County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman.
The fire, which began about 3 p.m., stretched along the western edge of the county.
of the Country.
David Weir, 25, of Salina, was in critical condition with second- and third-degree burns over about 90 percent of his body, according to Kevin McCade, a spokesman at St. John's Regional Hospital in Salina.
Weir, who was found in a field with his clothing burned off, was taken from the hospital to St. Francis Regional Burn Center in Wichita.
Three men die crashing roadblock
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Security forces opened fire on a car that burst through a roadblock yesterday, killing three civilians hours after the province's first local assembly convened in a decade, unofficial police sources said yesterday.
The sources said three men died after their car burst through a security roadblock on a road 20 miles outside Belfast.
security roadblock or a road to hide out. A chase by police units followed and the car careened off the road when security forces opened fire, the sources said. Three bodies were later found in the vehicle.
Police officially would not discuss the deaths. Earlier, police said the three were shot by unidentified gunmen.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the deaths. The outlawed Irish Republican Army have claimed responsibility for three deaths since Monday, all Protestants murdered within 48 hours of the assembly's first meeting since 1972.
UAW presidential race slows down
DETROIT—The race between two top United Auto Workers officials for the presidency of the 1.2 million member union appeared dead even yesterday with leaders making up their minds on which candidate to endorse.
endorse The UAW's Executive Board and a steering committee planned to meet today to choose a successor to UAW President Douglas Fraser, who will retire in May.
who will be in office.
Estimates say that UAW Vice President Owen Bieber, 52, and Secretary-Treasurer Raymond Majerus, 58, have about the same number of votes from the executive board.
ROME—Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini handed his government's resignation to President Alessandro Pertini yesterday but the 66-year-old Socialist refused to accept it, leaving Parliament to decide the fate of the 10-week-old coalition.
In Ontario, UAW Canadian Director Bob White urged Chrysler Corp. officials to "stop playing games" and make a contract offer to end a strike by 10.000 workers.
"The president of the republic rejected my resignation, inviting me to explain in Parliament the institutional condition and policy of the government." Spadolini said.
Italian PM's resignation rejected
White also criticized U.S. leaders who have urged the union to end the walkout, which so far has cost 2,500 American workers their jobs.
Political commentators said this meant the prime minister would spell out the causes of the crisis to Parliament and then seek a confidence vote. This, they said, will likely bring the collapse of Italy's 4th government since World War II.
Man admits he hid body in cement
A Cabinet meeting had approved his decision to resign the government earlier in the day.
CANTON, Ohio—A man who encased the body of his slain 3-year-old stepdaughter in a concrete-filled garbage can and kept it for four years has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and gross abuse of a corpse.
The girl's mother, Yvonne Marie, 25, was convicted earlier of involuntary manslaughter and illegally collecting welfare for the child. Police testified that she had been released from Tampa jail and taken into punishment. She then put the girl in a room where the window had been left open, although it was February.
Temeka Byrd, whose body was taken from the girl's mother, Marie, 25, was convicted earlier of her murder and collectively collecting welfare for the child.
Samuel Webb, 30, was charged in connection with the death of Temekea Byrd, whose body was discovered in June.
without a couple then put Temeeka's body in the garbage can and poured cement over her because they were frightened when she died.
clement, because they were pregnant most times when they moved four times in four years, each time taking the body with them, police said.
Polish government to free Walesa
WARSAW, Poland—The Polish government has ordered the release of Lech Walesa, the charismatic leader of the outlawed Solidarity union interned since martial law was imposed 11 months ago, officials said yesterday.
By United Press International
world — have deluged Polish Communist authorities. It was one of the conditions demanded by the Reagan administration, economic sanctions against Poland.
Government spokesman Jerzy Urban said "no conditions" had been proposed to Wales in exchange for his freedom, but stressed that like anyone else, he could be re-informed if he acted in a way deemed harmful to the state.
Walesa was detained, along with thousands of Solidarity members, after the imposition of martial law Dec. 13. He had played a key role in the August 1980 founding of Solidarity, the first free trade federation in the Soviet bloc.
DEMANDS FOR Walesa's release —
from inside Poland and around the
"It it's too good to be true," Walesa's wife Danuta said. "I expected to go to Arlamowo to visit him Monday . . . I knew nothing of this."
Urban said Wales was no longer considered a "threat to internal stabilization."
Mrs. Walesa said she was "full of joy and fear" at the news, "Fear because I can't imagine the crowds of people who will want to see him."
There was no word on whether Walessa would meet with Jaruzelski.
Urban said Walesa was ordered freed after he met earlier this week with Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak, who traveled to a remote hunting lodge in Iowa in southeast Poland near the Sewol border, where Walesa is being held.
Urban said Wallea would "have to go home, get a rest, think things over. His
Although the official communique announcing Walesa's release was d a t e d Wednesday, authorities waited a day to disclose it
- apparently to see the results of Solidarity's call for a general strike and street demonstrations
Lech Walesa 1981 photo
Riot police used tear gas to disperse about 1,000 to 2,000 marchers in Warsaw and Krakow who tried to parade through city streets waving
Solidarity flags and chanting "Solidarity" and "Free Wales!" after special masses marking the 64th anniversary of Polish independence Wednesday.
In Warsaw, most of the 8,000 people at the cathedral mass celebrated by Bishop Wladyslaw Mizielow went home peacefully. Riot police in Krakow and Warsaw clashed with dispersing immediately but a few small groups of hard-core protesters
Riot police backed by heavy armored vehicles in several cities had braced for possible illegal marches called by the underground, after the masses.
AUTHORITIES CLAIMED victory despite clashes between thousands of demonstrators and riot police in three cities. It was the second anniversary of Solidarity's registration as a free trade union. The strike call was to protest Parliament's banning of the union last month.
Explosion levels Israeli base in Lebanon
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon—A bomb explosion destroyed the Israeli military headquarters in Lebanon's southern city of Tyre yesterday, killing and wounding hundreds of Israeli soldiers and their Palestinian prisoners.
Israeli soldiers at the scene of the attack, believed to be the single most deadly assault against Israeli forces since they invaded Lebanon June 6, said as many as 200 people were killed or wounded.
A previously unknown group, the
Armed Struggle Organization, claimed responsibility for the attack."
IT TOLD Beirut's independent An Nahar newspaper the explosion was caused by "a booby-trapped car," but a preliminary Israeli investigation indicated the blast occurred inside the building.
Sources said it appeared as if explosive charges were placed on top of cooking gas cylinders or in the elevator shaft.
The Israeli military command in Tel Aviv said its initial casualty count showed 13 Israelis killed and 25 others wounded. The dead were Tyre residents, detained as suspected
guerrillas, were also pulled from the rubble and handed to the International Red Cross.
THE BUILDING served as general headquarters for the paramilitary police force, the military police department of Mat Saad Haddad's militia.
The top floors were used as a makeshift lockup for dozens of local residents held as suspected guerrillas. A massive roundup occurred Wednesday night, with eight side walls torn into the building, a nearby shopkeeper said. Israeli soldiers said troops were sleeping in the building.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, arriving at New York's Kennedy International Airport on the first leg of a 10-day visit to the United States, said, "This new outrage in Tyrre, perpetrated by terrorists . . . won't deter us in doing our duty to ensure peace and security for our people."
IN WASHINGTON, where Begin will meet with President Reagan Nov. 19, the president ordered envoy Philip Habib back to the Middle East to lead an accelerated drive for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon and progress in talks on Palestinian autonomy.
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