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Thursday, November 11, 1982 Vol. 93, No.59 USPS 650-640
Soviet President Brezhnev dies at 75
By United Press International
MOSCOW—President Leonid Brezhnev died yesterday, the official Tass news agency announced today. He was 75.
Brezhnev's name failed to appear in a Pravda item today and Soviet media played funereal ads.
The Soviet leader's name was missing today from its customary place on the front page of the Communist Party daily in a congratulatory address to the American Marxist state of Angola on its national day.
Brezhnev was last seen in public Sunday, at the Red Square military parade that marked the 68th anniversary of the war.
"Leonid Breznev, died a sudden death at 8:30 a.m. (11:30 p.m. CST) on Nov. 10, 1922." Tass m.
Simultaneous announcements were made by
Leonid I. Brezhnev
the official news agency, the television and radio at 2 a.m. CST today.
Roussel said no special security actions were taken but "we are continuing to monitor the
President Reagan was awakened about one-half hour after the official announcement and was told of Brezhnu's death, a White House spokesman said today.
The White House planned a formal statement on Brezhnev's death later in the day, Roussel said.
Spokesman Peter Roussel said National Security Adviser William Clark awakened Reagan shortly after the U.S. Embassy in Moscow confirmed Brezhnev's death.
TASS SAID "the name of Leonid Ilych Brezhnev, a true continuer of Lenin's great cause and an ardent champion of peace and communism, will live forever in the hearts of the
The hulking and barrel-chested Breznev was written off by most Western analysts as a roughneck and hack when he took control of the party in 1964, and was seen as a transitional leader between Khrushchev and some long-term successor. But the steelworker's son grew into the highest office and in the second half of the 1970s disclosed a wider-faceted personality.
No funeral arrangements were announced immediately.
Soviet people and the entire progressive mankind."
He proved to be businesslike, intelligent and occasionally boisterous and charming. Tough, too. His conservative communist beliefs and the belief in vassalist power — security — were never in question.
Since 1964, Brezhnev presided over the Soviet Union's empire and made it the military equal of the United States.
the West, but by using the awesome power at his disposal to preserve orthodox communist rule, he demeaned the international mistrust he hoped to dispel.
He ardently espoused the cause of detente with
He signed two strategic arms imminent treaties with American presidents, then saw one of them repudiated as a result of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which he ordered.
IN HIS last days, Breznev issued tough statements against "hot-headed" Western leaders, attacking the 'adventurism, rudeness and regurgitated egosism' of the Reagan administration.
"We shall do the utmost to see to it that those who like military ventures should never take the land of the Soviets unawares, that the potential
He gave his nation prestige, some prosperity and stability during a rule that lasted longer than those of all his predecessors except Josef Stalin.
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Shuttle begins fifth voyage
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four astronauts flew the shuttle Columbia into space today carrying commercial satellites for paying customers for the first time.
"The big winged space freighter, weighing a record 4,488,000 pounds, took off on time at 6:19 am; CST and streaked out over the Atlantic after returning having a long trail of smoke and flame in its wake.
It was a spectacular Veterans Day sendoff for astronauts Vance Brand, Robert Overmyer, Joseph Allen and William Lenoir, the first four and the first to fly a spaceplane on a charter flight.
Mission control in Houston reported everything was proceeding normally as Columbia gained altitude, bucking headwinds as it accelerated.
THE PILOTS had a busy day ahead of them; Lenoir, an electrical engineer, was scheduled to direct the launching of the first of two compacts in early afternoon; open cargo bay about eight hours after blastoff.
Allen will launch the second satellite tomorrow.
Wearing sensors to monitor eye movement in a space sickness test, Allen was riding as a
passenger on the Columbia's lower deck for launch. He will switch seats with Lenoir in the cockpit for landing.
The weather was perfect for launch and Brand told the control center before takeoff: "I appreciate you guys ordering it for us."
Conditions were bad, however, at the emergency landing site in New Mexico. Dust storms closed that base today, making the Kennedy Space Center difficult to reach. The emergency return had one been required after launch.
The lakebed runways at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert were under water from recent rains, but officials said, the roads are still a paved runway there next Tuesday as planned.
THE BOOSTERS for the shuttle's last flight in June sank, but the parachute system was repaired for this flight.
Columbia's twin booster rockets fell away as planned two minutes after launch, to drop by parachute to the Atlantic Ocean for recovery by two ships.
The astronauts were all business during the ascent with none of the chatter that has marked their lives.
Controllers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston said that Columbia started out a little low on its course to space, but the ship's com-
paters steered it onto the proper trajectory for its first operational mission.
Once the shuttle jettisoned its empty external fuel tank, the astronauts fired the ship's twin maneuvering engines to push it into preliminary orbit.
Air Force space trackers calculated the Columbia would come within 60 miles of the twoman Soviet Salyut 7 space station over the Indian Ocean four hours after launch.
The critical final hours of the countdown began at midnight when engineers began pumping more than a half million gallons of frigid liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the shuttle's burgundy-colored external tank. Fueling was completed at 1:40 a.m. CST.
Brand, 51, a veteran of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Soviet-American spaceflight, is the skipper of the Columbia this time. It is the first mission for a manned spacecraft. (The two flight engineers — Allen, 43, and Lonner, 43.)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials halted the $25 million mission as an important step toward shifting much of the shut-in program of costs from the government to commercial users.
"IT'S A NEW era," said Glym Lunney, shuttle program manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "It sure is a lot different from just flying for ourselves."
Clark says Lifeline may be challenged
Bv DOUG CUNNINGHAM
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to取证 an opinion from the city attorney on whether it can institute a plan of lower natural gas rates for needy people.
Although a Lifeline plan is a good idea, the plan may face a serious legal challenge, Lawrence City Commissioner Barkley Clark said yesterday.
The city has a franchise agreement with the local natural gas utility, Kansas Public Service Co. Inc. The city therefore has the power to regulate the rates charged local customers.
"The basic problem, as I see it, is that Section 14 of the franchise agreement prohibits any preference to any person," said Clark, who also is a professor of law at the University of Kansas.
THE PROPOSED plan would offer rates that were 50 percent lower for the first 20 meters of gas used during the months of December, January and February.
1,000 cubic feet of natural gas.
All AHI is 1,000 cubic feet of air/hab.
Eligibility for the program would be based on
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income, with the program targeted to low income people.
But according to the plan, "full-time college or university students will not be eligible regardl
Other residential customers would have to pay an additional average cost of $17.71 yearly to up for the anticipated $250,000 cost of offering 1,800 households that are expected to be eligible.
The plan assumes an average usage of 25 mcfs during each of those months.
"I AM VERY much in favor of doing it. I think there is a tremendous need to do it — but there is also a need to do it legally." Clark said.
He said that amending the franchise agreement probably would require an ordinance, which would then open the issue up to public protest.
The city could be forced into holding a special election if enough people, about 1,200, were to sign a petition protesting the steps taken to implement the Lifeline rate plan. Clark said.
Commissioner Don Binns, however, said the commission should institute the plan, even though doing so might bring about a court challenge.
"I'm not sure you can amend a contract like this when the rights of a third party the other party"
"I'm all for it," he said. "I don't see any way out other than to go ahead and do it and let it be"
More than 800 jailed amid riots in Poland
By United Press International
WARSAM, Poland—More than 860 people, who unsuccessfully tried to rally to Solidarity calls for a national strike, were arrested yesterday for a nationwide pro-union protests in at least seven cities.
An American studying on a grant at the Polish Academy of Sciences also was arrested and charged as a "spy." Polish television said, many dozens of the arrest were not immediately known.
Government spokesman Jerzy Urban said the protest call was "a total failure for the government."
Polish television said more than 800 people were arrested in seven cities for attempted demonstrations and abortive strikes. There were 300 arrests in Warsaw.
"It opens the way toward the lifting of martial law."
candidate for vice president on the Consensus coalition. In the background are Momentum presidential candidate Kevin Waiker and vice presidential candidate David Teporten.
IT ADDED that 17 policemen were injured and 10 demonstrators were hospitalized, one in "very grave" condition.
The American arrested was identified as Roman Lau. The report said Lau had "close
Lisa Ashner, standing, candidate for student body president on the Consensus coalition, answered questions at last night's debate at McColum Hall. Sitting in the foreground is Jin Cramer.
and systematic contacts with the underground organization: in Poland."
U. embass officials did not have information on the arrest.
Police battled the protesters with flares, smoke bombs and clubs after the tear gas assault. After dusk, crowds fought riot police in a standoff as hurled car火 behind makeshift barricades.
The most serious clash was in the southwest Solidarity stronghold of Wroclaw, where 2,000 to 3,000 chanting demonstrators marched carrying weapons. “Solidarity will win” Solidarity will live!
"There was such a big panic and fear that people worked," said a worker from Gdansk's Lenin shipyard. "They were watched closely, but the work was not very efficient."
BUT IN OTHER cities there were only a handful of reported attempts to heed the underground strike call. Workers leaving factories said that with soldiers and factory officials stationed on shop floces to keep order, they were too afraid of threatened reprisals.
The official arrest figures mentioned detentions also in Poznan, Dierzoniew, Krakow, Lodz and Legnica — a city near the site of a major Soviet army base.
Two coalitions accuse Momentum of lying, plagiarizing in campaign
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
Two coalitions competing in next week's Student Senate elections last night charged candidates from the Momentum Coalition with lying to students about possible lobbying ties with Anheuser-Busch Inc. and with plagiarizing portions of their campaign literature.
Momentum presidential candidate Kevin Walker, however, denied the allegations and countered with charges that he was "unsure of his eligibility" in elections because they would be run by senators.
The accusations came before and during a debate at McCollim Hall last night between student body presidential and vice presidential leaders from Momentum and Consensus coalitions.
Momentum candidates have said that they
would solicit help from Anheuser-Busch to aid in getting beer sold in Memorial Stadium.
RECENT FLIERS distributed by the Momentum coalition say "Bee in the stadium. We want it. And it will be our top priority. We plan to buy more equipment, the largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch Inc. to eat it."
Walker said he had never intended that Anheuser-Busch officials personally lobby at KU for stadium beer sales. He said that Momentum coalition candidates would only use "statistics and expertise" from Anheuser-Busch in guiding efforts to get beer sold in the stadium.
But Terri Reicher, campaign manager of Consensus, said yesterday that Momentum had never worked with Anheuser-Busch
"They never intended to work for us," Walker said. "No promises had ever been made."
Officials from Anheuser-Busch in both Kansas and Missouri also denied any connections with
Cameras dusch in both Kansas
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Weather
Today will be cloudy and windy with a 60 percent chance of rain or thundershowers and a high around 65, according to the National Weather Service.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain becoming mixed with or churning up.
changing to 30% . The low will be about 30.
Tomorrow will be cloudy, windy and cold with a chance of snow. The high will be in the mid-30%.