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University Daily Kansan, October 15, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan OKs aid measure questions one-house veto
WASHINGTON — President Reagan signed legislation yesterday intended to improve operation of student aid programs but raised legal objections to provisions giving Congress broad power to veto certain eligibility rules.
Reagan, in a statement, agreed the legislation will improve the way the programs function.
Congressional sponsors said the bill was needed to restore stability to the Pell Grant program, which provides funds to low-income students, and the guaranteed student loan program for students from middle-class families.
However, he objected to a section that permits either house of Congress to reject the schedule that the secretary of education sets for schools.
In doing so, he restated objections previously by the Justice Department concerning the "single-house veto," a device used increasingly by Congress in recent years to tighten oversight of executive agencies.
UAW turns down Chrysler contract
DETROIT — United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser yesterday announced resounding rejection of a tentative pact with Chrysler Corp. and said bargainers would try to get angry workers immediate pay hikes in reopened negotiations.
With a few votes still uncounted, unofficial totals released by the UAW showed the pact was rejected by 68 percent of the workers voting.
Office and clerical workers represented by the UAW approved the contract 53 percent to 47 percent, but a pact must be accepted by a majority of all those voting to be ratified.
The overwhelming rejection of the Chrysler pact mars the UAW leaders' recent record of correctly reading the sentiment of the rank and file and negotiating only acceptable contracts.
The union will resume negotiations with Chrysler today.
Church files lawsuit against district
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Country Hills Christian Church yesterday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Shawnee Mission School District because the district refuses to allow the church to conduct religious services on school grounds during non-school hours.
Wilkes Robinson; president of the Gulf and Great Plains Legal Foundation, which is representing the church, said the church, which has no permanent facilities of its own, was denied use of the school because it is not on Mother's Day and another on Easter when it expected large crowds.
The church maintains that the district policy banning religious use of the facilities during non-school hours is unconstitutional.
David Westbrook, a spokesman for the Shawnee Mission district, said he was concerned about the constitutional requirement separating church and state.
Arafat accused of aiding Brigades
VENICE, Italy — Italian authorities, acting on information from one of the kidnappers of U.S. Brig. Gen. James Dozier, want to arrest PLO leader Yasser Arafat on charges of supplying weapons to Red Brigades terrorists, legal sources said yesterday.
The PLO office in Rome called the request for an arrest warrant "a form of provocation," but representative Namer Hammad said the PLO office was acquitted.
Arafat has repeatedly denied that the PLO ever sent weapons to the Red Brigades. However, he has not ruled out the possibility that Israel might have used them.
Rome's Il Tempo newspaper said a Red Brigades informer told investigators Arafat was involved with a large consignment of weapons that the Italian terrorist organization obtained in Lebanon from Palestinians in September 1979.
Quakers say contracts dangerous
PHILADELPHIA — A Quaker peace research group yesterday called increased campus research spending by the Pentagon a dangerous
The American Friends Service Committee said contracts totaling more than $1.1 billion had been awarded to 250 colleges and universities for military-related work by the defense and energy departments and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
"Although many universities severed ties with the military in the wake of student opposition to the war in Vietnam, the Penagon is buying its way back onto campus," said Thomas Conrad, a staff member of the U.S. Marine Corps on the Military Industrial Complex, a unit of the Quaker organization.
Conrad said there was a "people connection" between campuses and the military establishment in that faculty researchers often take jobs with Pentagon-related private firms or government agencies.
Program will fight drug, mob crimes
WASHINGTON — President Reagan unveiled a $100 million program yesterday to stop drug trafficking and "cripple the power of the mob in America" with special task forces in 12 cities and 1,000 new crime-fighting agents.
Senior administration officials estimated the annual cost at $160 to $200 million, including the salaries of 1,000 new agents and prosecutors and funds for more prison space.
Reagan said statistics showed the criminal justice system had failed to adequately "pursue, prosecute and punish criminals."
"For many years, we have tolerated in America — not just in the illegal and highly dangerous drug traffic but in many other areas — a syndicate of organized criminals whose power is now reaching unparalleled heights," the president said.
Students march to protest editorial
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — About 200 University of New Mexico students marched on the student newspaper office yesterday, protesting an editorial that said minorities were academically inferior to whites.
The author of the editorial, Managing Editor Mark Blazek, resigned his post with the New Mexico Daily Lobo.
The lead paragraph of the editorial, which ran Wednesday, apparently provoked the protest:
The editorial, which discussed the SAT scores of various groups, provoked immediate anger on campus from a variety of minority groups.
"For 11 years the College Board that administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has refused to release racial and ethnic scores. This month, however, the board reversed its policy, opening its books with new evidence all along — minorities are academically inferior to whites."
Correction
Because of a reporting error in Wednesday's Kansan, it was incorrectly reported that the KU women's tennis team was beaten by Missouri. The team was beaten by Nebraska.
Lebanase army advances into East Beirut
By United Press International
The Lebanese army, proving its strength under President Amin Gemayel, moved armored columns into East Beirut for the first time yesterday in an attempt to disarm the Christian government's largest private militia left in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Israel, moving to repair relations with the United States that were tattered by its June 6 invasion of Lebanon, pledged to share with the United Nations the device that destroyed Soviet-built Syrian missiles in the Beka Valley.
The move began shortly after Phang-nist militiamen loyal to the Gamelay family fought a two-hour artillery duel with the French in the Shofu mountains southeast of Beirut.
And in Washington, Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir had "friendly consultations" with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about implementation of a plan approved Wednesday by Israel for withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon and the creation of a security zone in southern Lebanon that would avert attacks on Israel.
taneous withdrawal from Lebanon of an estimated 70,000 Israeli troops and 25,000 to 30,000 Syrian troops. The withdrawal would take place after the establishment of a Lebanese-patrolled buffer zone and removal of about 10,000 Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas. Shamir said Israel wanted to pull out of Lebanon before the end of the year.
IN TUNIS, PLO chairman Yassen Arafat was the focus of a deepening riff in his own organization and increasing polarization in the Arab world over the his political credibility. The developments were seen as a danger to President Reagan's Middle East peace that was unveiled Sept. 1.
The approved plan called for simul-
The long-awaited move into East Beirut was cheered by small groups of Moslems who charged that a delay in entering the eastern sector had enabled the 20,000-man Christian force to hide themselves. The Turkish government was responsible for the Sept. 16-18 massacre of Palestinians in two Beirut refugee camps.
The move into East Beirut is an important test of strength for Gemayel because it is still unclear how much control he wields over his brother's militia. For nearly two weeks his force has been engaged in similar operations
in West Beirut, apprehending illegal residents, leftist guerrillas, and confiscating arms and ammunition.
Sources close to Gemayel said he had wanted to begin the move into East Beirut before flying Sunday to the United States. He is scheduled to meet General Assembly Monday before meeting President Reagan on Tuesday.
In Tel Aviv, state-run Israel Radio said Defense Minister Ariel Sharon had sent a message to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger inviting a team of Pentagon experts to examine information on captured Soviet equipment and secret combat performance reports from the invasion.
So far, Israel, angry at Reagan's decision to hold off shipment of F-16 fighter jets to Israel, with haspheld combat information from Washington. Officials said Sharon was behind the ban.
BUT DEFENSE analysts and diplomatic sources said Israel now was offering first-hand accounts and films of air and tank battles, and a rundown of contacts in the Soviet Union, Europe, South America and Central America.
In Washington yesterday U.S. force aid chief Peter McPherson promised "keep the pressure on" to provy Lebanon and Syria, as part of Palestinian refuges in Lebanon.
McPherson, administrator of 1 Agency for International Development and President Reagan's personal representative for U.S. government assistance to Lebanon, said the Unit States had earmarked $14.5 million in funds and provide Pakistani ments for five refugee camps south Beirut.
The approach of the winter rain season makes shelter, he said, "it most pressing need." He said the teen would start going up in November.
A month ago, as many as 60.0 people were outdoors and in need some kind of shelter, he said. Virtual all of those have found shelter, ranga thousands be buried to doorways, b thousand needs being met the cold winter rains, McPhearson sai
McPherson returned to Lebanon for third time because of concern that tl U.N. Work and Rehabilitation Agenec established after the creation of ISRA established afterwards, wnges, not moving fast enough to obtain a erect temporary shelters.