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University Daily Kansan, November 5, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
U.S. signs U.N. proposal for Falkland negotiations
UNITED NATIONS-United States broke with its British ally and voted for a U.N. resolution approved yesterday urging Britain and Argentina to settle their sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands through negotiations.
British Ambassador Sir John Thomson, speaking against the resolution, said Argentina had refused to accept "a definite cessation of hostilities" and warned the Assembly against raising false hopes in Buenos Aires.
Argentina seized the Falklands April 2, 1982, prompting a 74-day war that ended with the British recapture of the islands June 14.
"We cannot accept a call for negotiations on sovereignty after an unprovoked attempt to force the issue by invasion — an invasion which made abundantly clear the extent of Argentina's disregard for the islanders." Foreign Secretary Francis Pym told Parliament.
Israel to settle Jews on West Bank
TEL AVIV, Israel—Israel said yesterday it was moving ahead with plans to settle 1.4 million Jews on the occupied West Bank in 30 years, a move denounced by the State Department.
Ze'ez Ben Youssef, spokesman for the World Zionist Organization's settlement division, said a 1977 plan to spur Jewish settlement of the occupied West Bank had been "targetly achieved."
In Washington, State Department spokesman Alan Romberg said, "The United States regards this latest announcement of Israel's intention to begin work on additional settlements as most unwelcome."
In Beirut, U.S. Marines patrolled the Christian militia enclave of East Beirut for the first time yesterday.
Romberg said it was possible that U.S. Marines might eventually be ordered to patrol the length of the Beirut-Damascus Highway up to Lebanon's border with Syria, which would necessitate enlargement of the Marine contingent.
War with Iran nearly over, Iraq says
BAGHDAI, Iraq — Iraq said yesterday that the failure of Iran's latest drive in the Gulf war indicated the 26-month-old conflict was nearly over, but Tehran said its offensive was gaining momentum and more attacks were planned.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi said he expected the war to degenerate into "more skirmishes on the border."
"The failure of Iran's latest offensive is considered a practical end to the war," he said in an interview published by the Kuwaiti daily Al Jazeer.
Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Musavi, however, was quoted by the state-run Iranian news agency IRNA yesterday as saying the Iranian forces were prepared "for a chain of operations that would pave the way for another offensive."
However, reports from both of the warring capitals are generally unreliable.
Iowa pipeline explosion kills five
HUDSON, Iowa—A fiery explosion caused by a punctured natural gas pipeline killed five people yesterday and sent up a column of fire several hundred feet high that could be seen 30 miles away, authorities said.
"The bodies were blown beyond recognition," said Black Hawk County Medical Examiner Albert Dolan.
Mark Schildroth, who farms the land where work on the Northern Natural Gas pipeline was taking place, said the blast at about 2:15 p.m. hurried one body across the road and another into a ditch 100 feet away. The person was found in the backhoe that ruptured the pipeline.
One other person was found in the backbox that ruptured the pipeline. None of the victims was immediately identified.
Bill Greene, a spokesman for Northern Natural Gas, said a crew of workers was laying drainage tile on the site near Hudson in northeast Iowa when a backhoe apparently punctured the underground gas line.
Goldwater stable after heart surgery
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Sen. Barry Goldwater, conservative leader and the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, underwent successful heart surgery yesterday to repair three blocked arteries.
Dr. Ted Diethrich, who performed the 90-minute operation, said the blocked arteries were "life-threatening," but Goldwater, 73, came out of the surgery in good condition.
"His vital signs are stable." Dieithrich said, adding that there was no muscle or heart damage caused by the blockages.
Dieitrich said Goldwater probably would be in intensive care for three days and would remain at St. Joseph's Hospital for seven to 10 days. Goldwater probably will be able to return to Washington by Dec. 1 for a special congressional session.
Vietnam veteran commits suicide
Diethrich said Goldwater was also anxious to return to Washington.
OCALA, Fla. — A Vietnam veteran described as “one of the happiest and most patriotic guys around” downed Army fatigues, smeared camouflage paint on his face, marched into a grassy field Wednesday with a weapons arsenal and killed himself, authorities said yesterday
A bystander who saw Moody stalking around the field stopped his car to investigate.
Stanley Erwin Moody, 38, who served two tours with the American Special Forces in Vietnam, "would sometimes have flashbacks of his experiences."
The veteran's body was found lying at the base of a flagpole he had erected in honor of his father when he died in the late 1980s, officials
"He (the bystander) wound up getting shot, but not seriously wounded," Smith said. "Stanley wasn't shooting at anything in particular. He was just having his own war."
McDonald's, diarrhea illness linked
The CDC began its investigation of the aliment, which it calls "hemorrhagic colitis," after two separate outbreaks earlier this year in Oregon and Michigan. Those outbreaks, the CDC said, were associated with a case of McDonald's, Dr. Lee Riley of the CDC's enteric diseases branch said.
ATLANTA—More cases of an unusual diarrheal illness traced to eating McDonald's hamburgers were reported yesterday by the national Centers for Disease Control.
McDonald's issued a statement last month denying any connection between consumption of its burgers and the illness. "We serve 10 million guests a day and we serve them the highest quality products money can buy," the statement said.
Riley said health officials were almost certain the cause of the hemorrhagic colitis did not originate in the restaurants.
Stevenson holds narrow lead in Illinois Late returns draw Thompson's ire
By United Press International
CHICAGO-Gov. James Thompson, trailing by a razor-thin margin in his bid for a third term, charged yesterday that returns from 15 Chicago precincts were missing for two days before being counted.
Thompson stopped short of charging vote fraud on behalf of his Democratic opponent, former Sen. Adalie Stevenson who led gubernatorial race in Illinois history.
The only statewide totals available from a single source showed Stevenson with a lead of 3,358 votes. With 185 to 772, he received 1,777 votes, 1,778 to Thompson's 1,774,227.
THE FIGURES were provided by News Election Service, a cooperative vote-counting agency that tabulated figures from each of the state's 102 counties and Chicago. NES quit counting, with 185 precincts unreported.
questioned Chicago ballot boxes — which completed the Chicago vote
"EMPTY BOXES have become full and missing ballots have been replaced by ballots found in car trunks and basements," the governor said at an improptu news conference at his campaign headquarters.
Thompson said his figures showed him 171 votes ahead, with only 107 suburban precincts yet to be counted. His vote totals, however, included some suburban precincts where ballots became wet on election day and could not be counted until late Wednesday night. There was no way to determine for certain they had not been counted in the NES totals.
"I don't know who's questioning what," Thompson said. "All I know is that I've lived in this city all my life and I've seen just about everything."
Thompson said his representatives objected to the counting of the 15
Michael Lavelle, chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, said there was nothing unusual about the late return of ethics attorneys. He said judges sometimes reported to the
board on election night without the materials and, when they were told to go back and get them, found their polling places locked.
Thompson
ELECTION OFFICIALS then have to be dispelled the next day to get the material. Laveille said, adding, "I suspect that anything has been tampered with."
Lavelle and aides to both Thompson and Stevenson said the election proba-
blyw would wind up in court. The most likely way would be a request for an injunction to block certification of the election board of Elections and to order a recount.
Delays in counting were attributed to some ballots that became soggy from rain and humidity and could not be retrieved or dried. There were also computer snusf.
Lavelle also reported late Wednesday II uncounted ballot boxes were not properly sealed and two other ballot boxes were seized. He said that there was no indication of fraud.
ALSO IN ILINOIS, the Daley name returned to mayoral politics as Richard M. Daley, son of the boss "Boss," defeated against incumbent Jane M. Byrne.
Daley, currently the county prosecutor, invoked his father's name as he announced he would run against. Byrne in the February Democratic primary.
"On this day, especially, I think of my father," Daley told several hundred cheering supporters who packed a downtown hotel ballroom. "He was never satisfied with the progress this city had made. He was always wanting to make it better because he loved the city."
Richard d. Daley served as mayor for 24 years until his death in December
HIS SON, who promised during his successful campaign for Cook County
state's attorney that he would not run for mayor in 1983, said he changed his mind because of requests from the people.
His family, including his mother, Eleanor "Sis" Daley, watched his announcement. They all wore white-on-blue buttons reading "RMD in 83."
Daley referred to Byrne, who has a campaign fund estimated at more than $3 million, as "the champion fundraiser of the nation" but said she could not "change the record of nearly four years in 30-second commercials."
Daley, 40, won his first elective office as a delegate to the 1969 state constitutional convention. He later served in the state Senate before beating a candidate backed by Byrne for the state's attorney's nomination in 1980. Byrne then worked quietly but strongly for the Republican incumbent in the general election in hopes of blocking Daley's political career.
IRONICALLY, it was the elder Daley who brought Byrne into politics. He first noticed her as a volunteer in the 1960 Kennedy campaign and later named her to head his consumer services department.
She broke with Daley's successor, Michael Bilandic, and defeated him when a freak blizzard virtually paralyzed her for only weeks before the 1979 primary.