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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Friday, November 12, 1982 Vol. 93, No.60 USPS 650-640
Heads of state praise Brezhnev as leader
By United Press International
MOSCOW-A medical report signed by the Soviet Union's leading physicians yesterday showed that President Leonid Brezhnev died of heart failure.
Sources said the delay in announcing his death, which occurred at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday (11:30 a.m. CST), was caused by doctors' vain attempts to elevate the chest寓死 for hours after he was clinically dead.
Most leaders praised Brehnev for his dedication to defente and halted him as a statesman of great stature who left his mark on history.
World leaders paid tribute to the late Soviet President and the United Nations lowered its aid.
BUT A FEW leaders offered critical appraisals of the Soviet leader and even fewventured to guess what direction the Kremlin's new rulers would take after his 18-year tenure.
President Reagan praised Brezhnev as "one of the world's most important figures."
He told the Kremlin that the United States had a strong desire" to improve relations with Russia.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, on a private visit to Paris, said yesterday that the Soviet Union could now be on the verge of launching a new peace effort.
"If such a chance comes we must seize it," Kissinger said.
FORMER PRESIDENT Richard Nixon called Breznev a "ruthless schemer and a relentless aggressor" but said he was also "warm, effusive, bullient."
Nixon said the late world leader "wanted the world. But he did not want war."
A statement released by the official Soviet news agency Tass said an autopsy showed the 75-year-old Soviet leader suffered from a stroke and lost the flexibility of the aorta, the heart's main artery.
The autopsy showed that Brezhnev had an irregular heartbeat and scar tissue on the heart
Chine, which exploded its first nuclear blast in 1964 on the day of the resignation of Brezhnev's predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev, reported Brezhnev's death without immediate comment.
BREZINEV DIED less than a month after talks resumed between Peking and Moscow on Tuesday.
In Hong Kong, traders on the gold bullion market reacted to the news with panic, pushing the price of gold up 88 in the 30 minutes that followed the announcement.
"It was complete pandemonium," one trader said
On the London money market, the news and uncertainty over the new Soviet leadership booster the dollar yesterday against major economies, and now is the most world financial markets reacted calmly.
Austrian Chancellor Kreisky, while maintaining Breznev's role in world affairs should not be "underrated." it was the only government leader to criticize the late Soviet
REKISJY, A KEY figure in East-West relations, criticized Brezhny for keeping the "right to intervene in the internal affairs of any country" and the bloc should a political crisis develop there."
The United Nations, its blue and white flag at half-staff, cancelled a General Assembly meeting yesterday and held a commemorative session to pay tribute to the Soviet leader.
"His name is inextricably to the policy of lasting peace, detente and disarmament," said Imre Hollai, president of the General Assembly. Delegates then rose for a minute of silence.
U.S. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick extr
dare "our deepest sympathy" to the Sovi-
tian people.
Eastern European capitals went into mourning, with flags flying at half-staff and radio and television broadcasts altered to pay tribute to the dead Soviet leader.
POPE JOHN PAUL II sent a telegram to Vasily Kuznetsov, vice-president of the Supreme Soviet, expressing his condolences and calling the Soviet leader "the illuminated deceased."
In Tunis, capital of Tunisia, Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat praised Brehnev as a friend of the Palestinian cause.
Brezhnev, he said, "supported the rights of the Palestinian people and their cause, their right to self-determination, and their right to return to homeland and build an independent nation."
In Bonn, members of the West German Bundestag interrupted a budget debate to stand
FRENCH PRESIDENT Francis Mitterrand spoke warmly of Brezhnev as "a great leader of the Soviet Union, a statesman whose eminent role in the world will be remembered by history."
Soviet loss could result in Polish gain, prof says
Bv MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
Staff Reporter
Dissidents in Eastern Europe should use the death of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, and the subsequent lack of a single powerful Soviet leader, to further the cause of independent labor unions, a KU professor of Soviet and Eastern European Studies said yesterday.
Professor Jareslaw Piekalkiewicz said that the state of confusion and uncertainty that generally accompanied a Soviet power struggle would allow greater freedom to independents.
"The SOVIET UNION is in a very difficult economic situation. I predict it will be more flexible in terms of economic conditions than we were left to be left to as an own designs for a period — maybe a few years,
maybe a few weeks. Solidarity should utilize that period and try to hammer for negotiations."
Solidarity could succeed by following such a course because for the next year Soviet aid to the U.S. would be limited.
"The KREMLIN WILL be concerned with its own problems," Pleklaianiewicz said. "The Polish martial law government can depend less on law enforcement than the Israeli government will be at a little bit of a loss."
But Norman Saul, chairman of the department of history, said the use of force against the Soviet Union was "a serious problem."
"I don't think it's very likely that anyone will pressure the Soviet Union," he said. "The result might be against our best interests. It might force a single, powerful leader to emerge."
AIRD, professor of Soviet and Eastern See BREZNEY page 3.
See BREZHNEV page 3
Today will be cloudy, windy and colder with a 30 percent chance of snow according to the National Weather Service. The high will be about 75 degrees Fahrenheit, steady or falling throughout the day.
Tenight will remain cloudy and cold with a low in the teens.
Weather
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high around 40.
space shuttle Columbia opened its cargo doors yesterday to ease the first satellite ever launched in space. This artist's
conception shows the satellite drifting away from the shuttle and a second satellite that will be launched today.
Columbia crew has perfect first day
By United Press International
Astronauts Vance Brand, Robert Overmyer, Joseph Allen and William Lenoir finished the flawless opening day of Columbia's first commercial flight with a promise to repeat their performance today by launching another communications satellite.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The crew of space shuttle Columbia, adopting the motto "we deliver," earned almost $9 million for U.S. taxpayers yesterday by launching an electric-blue communication satellite over the Pacific Ocean.
Plans called for the second communications satellite, owned by Telesat of Canada, to spring into operation.
A SECOND SUCCESS will bring Columbia's total earnings to $18 million and complete the year-end goal.
Although this flight was a "loss-leader," with the fee for its two launches covering only 7.2 percent of the mission's $250 million cost, NASA officials said it cleared the way for paying cargo to cover the full cost of operating a fleet of four shuttles within five years.
Flight Director John Cox said yesterday's launch from the shuttle's 60-foot cargo bay
of a drum-shaped, 7,300-foot satellite owned by
Satellite Business Systems at 4:17 p.m. — just
eight hours after their own blastoff from Cape
Canaveral.
"We deliver!" Lenoir told mission control.
"We got SRS off on time."
THE ASTRONAUTS beamed back a videotake of the SBS satellite spinning like a slow-moving top and moving away from Columbia at 2 mph, with the Earth 184 miles below."
Allen and Lenoir triggered the spring release
The opening day of the flight piled up an impressive string of other records.
Columbia is the first spaceship to go into orbit five times.
This was the first four-man launch.
Columbia's four earlier flights had two-man crews.
It was the first American space flight to carry a passenger. Allen rode in a seat on the shuttle's lower deck.
It was the first time a manned spacecraft blasted off with no provision for the crew to manipulate it.
And for the first time, the crew took off clothes in comfortable, blue jups instead of dresses.
THE BIGGEST problems were nagging ones — windshields smeared with salt spray and bird droppings, faulty instructions for activating a
German experiment on metal structure, suction-cup shoes that caused more problems than they solved, and a video screen that was on the blink.
From its blastoff precisely 39 second before
19 a.m. the mission was picture-perfect. Fox
squad members ran into the hangar.
Allen and Lenoir, the payload engineers, started the SBS launch by opening a white sunshield and turning on electric motors to set the satellite spinning in its cradle at 51 revolutions a minute. The spinning was to stabilize the satellite after launch.
THE SUN GLINTED off the blue solar cells covering the satellite's sides and the silver dish antenna covered over its top. The open sunshield was clearly visible as a white video name Pau-Man living on its back.
Allen snapped pictures and flashed a live telecast of the spin up back to Earth.
The launch took place with Columbia over the Equator west of Quito, Ecuador and out of radio contact with Earth. But a few minutes later, the satellite collided with the International Station. Chile reported it was flawless.
"We still have that beautiful satellite in sight," Allen said. "It's traveling right below us."
COLUMBIA'S SPACEMEN got a call from President Reagan during their third sweep across the Atlantic.
Pride endures with veterans of Vietnam War
Staff Reporter
By BONAR MENNINGER
The Vietnam War burned through the American psyche like a fireball. When the end finally came, many veterans believed that a disillusioned nation had turned away from them.
Yet much of their pride survived the Vietnam War. For many of those who fought in the tangled jungles of Southeast Asia, there was no shame.
Tamorrhoe, a memorial to those thousands who fought and died for their country will be held on Wednesday.
A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL began Wednesday at the National Cathedral, where the names of the 57,939 dead and missing from the war are readied. The reading of the list will end this evening.
The ceremony in the nation's capital is the culmination of five days of events aimed at bealing wounds from America's longest and most controversial war.
Still, like the war, the monument itself has been surrounded with controversy. The stark, chevron-shaped piece of black granite on the Washington Mall slopes into the ground. It is inscribed with the names of those killed or missing in action.
Critics have charged that the design of the monument reflects shame and dishonor.
As a compromise, a stature of three Marines, along with the American flag, will be placed
For several area veterans, the dedication and accompanying events in Washington bring back ambivalent feelings about Vietnam, and may serve as a bitter reminder of the way they were treated by the government and people of the United States when they finally came home.
JOHN MUSGRAVE is the director of the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program at the unemployment office in Lawrence. He is a former public school word about the war are edged with bitterness.
"Regardless of what the intentions of this government were, the intentions of the young
men who fought in Vietnam were honorable," Musgrave said.
In 1967, Musgrave was an 18-year-old infantryman, barely out of high school, attached to the 8th Marine Division in Vietnam. In 1968, when he was wounded for the third time, Musgrave had only a few days to go before his tour of duty was up.
The highly decorated soldier was shot through the chest and the jaw by machine-gun fire, spent 17 months under medical care and lost partial use of his left arm.
When I was shot the last time, I knew I was "dying," he said. "I just had to accept it. At that moment I was as satisfied as I had ever been and probably ever will be. I knew I had done everything for what I believed in. I wasn't ashamed. I wasn't embarrassed."
MUSGRAVE SAID he disliked the design of the memorial because he thought it attempted to
"I want a monument that speaks of our job and
WITEN AM."
Storms whipped through Douglas County and the surrounding area last night. Tornadoes were reported in Johnson and Franklin counties, but no one was injured.
Cold weather spawns area tornadoes, claims life
By JULIE HEABERLIN
Staff Reporter
Weather, forecasters were predicting Lawrence's first snow as gusting rainstorms swept across eastern Kansas yesterday, spawning two tornadoes and killing one man in Prairie Village.
Johnson County sheriff's officials reported a tornado about 6 p.m. that left a two-mile path of battered roofs and downed trees, fences and power lines in rural Johnson County.
The funnel moved northeast and touched down again in southern Overland Park, demolishing a barn, Overland Park police said. Damages were reported and investigations were reported in either case, police said.
THE TOPEKA area was under a tornado
watch yesterday at 4 p.m. when police report
sighting a tornado near Williamsburg in Franklin County. The tornado hit a rural residence before the building was destroyed.
Officials said the tornado damaged several tin buildings and treesees in Franklin County before it struck.
Flash flooding yesterday evening claimed the life of a motorist swept from a bridge at the Mission Hills Country Club into the swollen River, said Prairie Village Fire Chief Robert Wilcox.
A Prairie Village police dispatcher blamed leaves and debris clogging sewers for the rapid
At 4:30 p.m. m Kansas Power and Light Co.
officials said wind and weather had caused about
50 power outages in Eudora, Desoto and
Tonkea. Lawrence or Ottawa were reported
in Toneka. Lawrence or Ottawa
WEATHER FORECASTERS were predicting
Joe Eagleman, KU professor of meteorology,
said Lawrence might be dusted with light snow
yesterday afternoon that temperatures in Lawrence would drop into the 30s before midnight, with the possibility of light snow mixed with rain early today.
Ron Crandall, a forecaster for the National Weather Service, said temperatures would fall into the teens tonight. He predicted a 30 percent drop in temperatures and in the mid-30s by afternoon.
Eaglemen said that the latest winter onslaught probably signified the last of the unseasonably warm weather for Lawrence and predicted that temperatures would prevail for the next few days.
THE_EXTENDEDweekend_forecastshowsa warming trend, with highs in the upper sixties and lows in the lower seventies.
Batch Larios, supervisor of production control for facilities and operations, said that leaks were reported in seven buildings yesterday, including Murphy, Strong, Malote and Summerfield halls.
Yesterday's high winds and rain put an extra
workload on both city and city officials.
Larios said he could not estimate damages until the rain stopped and the clean-up crews
The weather did not cause major traffic problems in Lawrence and on the highways.
ROBERT PORTER, KU assistant director of facilities operations, said that workers were prepared to keep the main avenues and building accesses on campus clear in case of snow today, but reductions would prevent them from ensuring that routes were "bone dry" as in past years.