Page 2 University Daily Kansan, November 4, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Leftist Turks take hostages in consulate, give up later
Fifty-nine hostages had been released in groups earlier. The Married gunman of the "Bunditania"LIFEGUN
COLOGNE, West Germany-Masked Turkish leftists seized the Turkish consulate and 72 hostages yesterday but surrendered it hours later when police promised to review their bid for political asylum. The hostages were unarmed.
With hands in the air, the nine extremists and their last 13 hostages walked out of the building at 1:50 a.m. local time.
we are immediately driven to downtown police headquarters for questioning. The "Revolutionary Left" is opposed to the right-wing military alliance.
The gunmen, who fired 50 gunshots, swarmed into the building at 3:50 a.m. CST.
Government officials said they rejected all demands the terrorists made during the ordeal.
Police sources said the terrorists had demanded safe passage out of the country. They also demanded that a statement attacking the Ankara government be read on West German television and published in newspapers.
Salvadoran rebels assault key city
SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador—Brebels firing rockets and automatic weapons fought their way through the streets of a key northern city yesterday, leaving 78 soldiers dead, wounded or missing in action, military officials said.
They said that by afternoon rebelds had retreated to the outskirts of Sushiitto, and were poised for a possible new attack on the city.
Suchitoto, located 30 miles north of San Salvador, was the largest city yet attacked by rebels in their fall offensive, now in its fourth week.
Meanwhile, U.S. Ambassador Deane R. Hinton released a statement yesterday saying he welcomed a harsh attack against him by the Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce and Industry for remarks he made last Friday. Hinton had said the prosecution of those who killed six Americans in El Salvador in the past two years was necessary for continued U.S. assistance to El Salvador.
Iran claims recapture of borderland
Iran said yesterday it shot down five Iraqi planes, killed or wounded 900 people and reconquered pockets of borderland in the second full day of a new offensive in the 26-month-old Persian Gulf war.
Iran said its troops, on an offensive launched late Monday night, had reconquered 115 square miles of territory occupied by Iraq late in the early days of the war in 1980.
Iran's claims, issued after Iraqi said its planes and helicopters had been successfully striking Iranian troop concentrations since dawn, were not confirmed by independent sources. The Iraqi news agency later set the Iranian death toll at 1,345, and accused Iran of bombarding the southern Iraqi town of Basra, wounding civilians and damaging buildings.
As has so often been the case in the conflict, the two sides disagreed on the progress, aims and even the location of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's third offensive since July.
Italians hope for end to sanctions
WASHINGTON-Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini, after meeting with President Reagan, expressed hope yesterday that the U.S. sanctions against the Soviet pipeline to Europe would be lifted "within a few days."
"On the Italian side, we very much hope that within a few days the sanctions will be lifted," he told a press conference.
But a senior White House official said "nothing new" was discussed about lifting the sanctions, although "a number of new ideas are being introduced all the time."
After a visit of almost two hours with Reagan, Spadolini said, "The United States has made a further step forward toward the solution of this problem through a formula" to be presented "to the ambassadors of the countries concerned."
Reagan called Spadolini a close friend of the United States.
S. African elections test mixed plan
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Prime Minister Pieter Botha's plans to grant limited power to some of South Africa's non-whitees were tested for the first time yesterday in seven regional elections.
The elections cannot erase Botha's ruling National Party's 97-seat majority in Parliament, but will be a barometer of the nation's attitude to his plans to include those of mixed race and Asians in government.
in polities to include those of mixed race and Asians in government.
Conservative Africaners are opposed to any attempt to grant even limited power to non-whitees in Africa's only remaining white-ruled country.
In Washington, the International Monetary Fund yesterday agreed to lend South Africa more than $1 billion, a loan which has raised controversy in the United Nations and the U.S. Congress.
Recently, 31 members of Congress wrote President Reagan, urging that the United States oppose the new loan because of South Africa's racial policies.
Automakers report increased sales
During the last 10 days of October, domestic automakers sold 189,188 autos, up 7.7 percent from last year. For the month, sales were 487,499, up 3.1 percent.
DETROIT—Domestic automakers started the 1983 model year with a 3.1 percent sales increase for October and a 7.7 percent hike for the final 10 days of the month, they reported yesterday.
Year-to-date domestic sales totaled 4,750,094 autos, down 12 percent from 5,416,550.
Every domestic automaker except Volkswagen of America posted increases for the final 10 days of October.
American Motors Corp. posted the industry's most impressive increases for the 10-day period and the month. Boosted by the early success of the new Renault Alliance model, AMC sales jumped 107.6 percent in the final 10 days to 6,822 from 3,547 last year.
Philippine army tests coconut bomb
MANILA, Philippines—There is coconut candy and coconut cookies, coconut soap and coconut oil. Now the Philippines has announced a 100 percent coconut bomb.
The official Philippines News Agency said yesterday that the army Saturday "successfully exploded a coco-bomb whose charge consisted of 100 percent residues of coconut oil."
The island nation, the world's biggest coconut producer, came up with the idea while trying to find new uses for the coconut.
The report said detonating wires were attached to the 6.6-pound bomb, which was set off by current from a 12-volt battery.
"Debris from the explosion were blown up to 656 feet away, while the gravel bags were ripped apart and scattered to some 20 feet from their approach," the agency said.
The explosive force was described as "stronger than ordinary dynamite."
Commission predicts more opinion polls
Tuesday's opinion poll on the question of a nuclear weapons freeze with the Soviet Union is over, but other polls might come before the public in the future, several city commissioners said yesterday.
BY DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
ever, dissented when the policy was approved. He said yesterday that a 5-0 vote of the commission should have been required head of the 4-1 vote now in the policy.
However, they also said that the City Commission must act carefully when issuing fines.
Earlier this year, the commission approved a policy under which it could allow opinion polls to take place. The policy provides that the vote of the commission to authorize an opinion poll should be at least 4-1.
"I just thought it would be a better safeguard to make it unanimous," he said.
COMMISSIONER DON BINNS, how-
Binns said any future opinion polls that the commission allowed to take place should be not only of local, but also of national concern.
TUESDAY'S POLL, which recommended a nuclear weapons freeze by a three-to-one margin, was an example of such an issue, he said.
But the commission should not authorize polls on volatile social issues, such as school prayer or abortion, Binns said.
Randy Makin, 836 Kentucky St., filed suit in Douglas County District Court to block the nuclear freeze poll, but he was unsuccessful.
He said yesterday that an opinion poul could affect almost any election, because the poll would place another issue before the voters.
Some voters may not have thought of that issue before, he said, but the possible effects of presenting such a new issue would be difficult to measure.
TWO OTHER commissioners also said a 4-1 vote should be sufficient to ensure that any opinion polls would be considered carefully.
Commissioner Nancy Shontz predic
ted that the commission would not approve another poll for some time.
"My guess is that it's going to be a long time before we approve another one, simply because we don't want to take this lightly," she said. "We do want to protect the regular election process as much as possible."
"I'm quite sure that if an issue came up that was a moral issue or a religious issue, I doubt that we would consider it at all."
But although the commission should consider future polls carefully, a poll would not be expected to work well.
Marines to stay in Beirut, Pentagon says
COMMISSIONER TOM GLEASON said, "I really felt that the super-ordinator of four votes being required would ensure that it was not done trivially."
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon—French peacekeeping troops began patrolling East Beirut yesterday but deployment of U.S. Marines into the heavily armed base of Abu Dhabi's Phalange was put off for a day because of a "procedural" problem.
The Pentagon later said that the Marines would probably remain in Lebanon through the winter as part of a military training exercise to train and rearm the Lebanese army.
Sixty American military trainers, 36 older M-48 tanks, 12 pieces of 155mm artillery and 24 armored personnel carriers will soon be shipped to Lebanon to help the Lebanese police effectively power their territory without aid from foreign peace-keeping forces, the Pentagon said.
OFFICIALS ADDED that the complexity of the program almost certainly
meant that the Marines would remain on duty through the winter.
In Tel Aviv, Israel's Foreign Minister Yitzhak Hamir criticized Lebanese President Amin Gemayel and his government for using "negative tones" when talking about Lebanon's relationship with Israel.
Shamir said that statements made by the Lebanese leaders "show ignorance of the immense change that, thanks to openness, Galilee, has taken place in Lebanon."
Operation Peace for Gallilee is Israel's term for its June 6 invasion of Israel.
In the Israel-occupied Shof mountains, Druze Moslems and Christian rightists fought new battles and Druze leader Wald Jumball flew home from Iran to participate in high-level negotiations. The Islamic State had killed conflicts. Fourteen people have been killed and 15 more wounded in four days of fighting.
U. S. MARINES who were scheduled to move into East Beirut postponed their deployment after a Marine commission in the inspection tour of Beirut's Christian schools.
Christopher Ross, a U.S. State Department official, described the delay as "procedural" but gave no further details.
Lt. Col. Jon Abel, Marine Public Affairs Officer, said that the Marines would move into East Beirut today, "Optimism is running higher now." he said, attributing the delay to only a "complex decision-making process."
The 1,200 Marines in the tri-national peacekeeping force have been based solely in the relatively secure area around Beirut's airport since arriving Sept. 29.
TOGETHER WITH French and Italian peace-keepers, the Marines were to patrol East Beirut while the Lebanese army began disarming right-
ist Lebanese forces in a crucial test of credibility for Gamayel.
Official Beirut radio said that Gemayel himself was leading top-level efforts to check the violence.
In Tel Aviv, Ariel Sharon's top aide testified yesterday that he transcribed the defense minister's order allowing Christian Phalange militiamen into two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Israel Television reported.
The aide, Avi Dudai, told the Israeli commission investigating the Beirut massacre that he transcribed Sharon's order on the morning of Sept. 15 in a brief Israeli command post in the Lebanese capital, the television reported.
IN PREVIOUS testimony before the commission, Sharon said the decision to let the Phalange into the camps Sept. 16 to clear out an estimated 2,000 Palestinian fighters was a "military implementation" of long-standing government policy.
Israeli life is improving despite inflation
By United Press International
TEL. AV1V, Israel—It may cost Israelis 8 percent more each month to pursue the good life, but that hasn't stopped them from living in a cornucopia, new government statistics showed yesterday.
"There is no question the figures show a remarkable percentage in sales."
David Newman, of the Central Bureau of Statistics, about a new government statistical yearbook compiled for 1981.
Take the family car. In 1982, ony one family in 25 could afford one. Last year, one in three families owned a car despite annual inflation well over 100 percent and car taxes that can triple if prices rise.
NEWMAN SAID that in 1981 only 9 percent of Israeli households lacked television sets compared with more
than twice than many seven years earlier.
In 1960, only 15.8 percent of Israeli households had washing machines. By 1981, that figures had increased to 78.5 percent.
"There have been considerable increases in the standard of living over the past 20 years," Newman said. "All those who are living on the hundreds of percent that over
period, except for telephones, which are lagging badly."
But the telephone problem is one more of the inability of the Communications Ministry to provide telephones than of low demand. Newman said there were 220,000 outstanding applications for telephones in a nation whose latest population estimate is 4.04 million.
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