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University Daily Kansan, October 14, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Christians, Moslems clash near peace-keeping forces
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli and Syrian forces clashed in eastern Lebanon yesterday and factional fighting between Lebanese Christians and Moslems erupted the south of Beirut within earshot of Italian reinforcements arriving as part of the peace-keeping force.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli Cabinet approved Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to establish a "security belt" of up to 33 miles inside southern Lebanon as a condition for withdrawing Israeli troops sent across the border June 6. State-run Israel Television reported that Sharon also sent his top aide, Maj. Gen. Avraham Tamir to the United States with Israeli conditions for withdrawing from Lebanon.
Foreign Minister Vitzhak Shamir is to meet with Secretary of State George Shultz today to discuss the plans for a withdrawal and the buffer zone, the report said.
A brief spate of gunfire broke out between Israeli and Syrian soldiers in the southern Beka Valley near the village of Raghla. The Syrian military command in Damascus said its forces suffered two casualties in the fighting that lasted some 15 minutes.
San Francisco gun ban overturned
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Court of Appeals overturned San Francisco's tough anti-handgun law yesterday on the grounds that the city had no authority to enact it.
A three-judge panel, acting unanimously, ordered San Francisco to refrain from enforcing an ordinance regarded as the most far-reaching handgun ban ever enacted by a major American city. The ordinance generally banned possession of handguns.
The court held that the legislature had taken exclusive control of handgun regulation and that local agencies could not constitutionally regulate it.
Mayor Diane Feinstein, who favors the ordinance, said she would check with the city attorney before deciding whether to appeal the ruling.
The law has not yet been enforced because residents were given until Oct. 28 to turn their handguns over to police or dispose of them some other way.
Anti-nuke activists win Nobel Prize
OSLO, Norway — Anti-nuclear activists Alva Myrdal of Sweden and Alfonso Garcia Robles of Mexico won the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for their work to end the arms race.
Myrdal, 80, former Swedish disarmament minister, and Garcia Robies, 71, former Mexican foreign minister, were honored for "making public opinion all over the world aware of the problems of armaments," the Nobel Committee said.
The committee said the two veteran activists, both familiar figures at international disarmament conferences, had "helped to arouse a general sense of responsibility."
The prize includes a gold medal and a cash award worth $157,000 to be shared by the two.
Among the 60 other candidates for the award were U.S. Middle East envoy Philip Habib, jailed Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II.
Salvadoran guerrillas seize villages
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Lettist guerrillas fought fierce battles on two fronts in northern El Salvador yesterday, reportedly capturing as many as five villages in their largest offensive since the March elections.
Guerrillas said their forces had overrun the towns of Torola, San Fernandio, and Peruquí in northern Morazan province and were driving them northward.
In Chalatenango province, rebels repulsed an assault by 1,000 government troops on the village of El Jicaro and were holding nearby Las Vuelitas against another 1,000-man government force, military officials said.
Both villages, 42 miles north of the capital, were captured by rebels Sunday.
The rebel Radio Venerecomes said guerrilla fighters have killed 72 government soldiers, wounded at least 80 and captured 107 since the start of the offensive called "National Military Campaign of the Heroes and Martyrs of 1979-80."
NEW YORK — Wall Street's bull market rally wound up its second month yesterday as the Dow Jones average vaulted to a 17 1/2-month high of 1,015.08 in the second busiest session on record.
Dow Jones average continues to rise
Investors, anticipating the economy will recover several months down the road, were encouraged when most of the nation's major banks lowered their prime rate to a two-year low of 12 percent and Manufacturers Hanover cut its personal loan charges.
The Dow Jones industrial average, down more than 4 points at the outset after falling 9.11 Tuesday, climbed 11.40 to 1,015.08, the highest level since it finished at 1,016.93 on April 28, 1981. It had been ahead 23 points during the day.
The closely watched average, which soared through the 1,000 level for the first time in 15 months Monday, has risen 236.1 points since the start of 2018.
Alaskan oil field draws high bids
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — American oil companies bid more than $2 billion yesterday for the right to drill an offshore field in the icey Bering Sea.
The high bids, totaling $2,967,604,785.55 of 125 of the 338 tracts offered in the Daipar Field off the North Slope, set a record for an oil bid opening in Alaska. The highest bid for a single tract was offered by a consortium of five companies; the largest bid was $273,250 or $39,439.80 per acre — one of the more accessible sites.
Twenty-eight U.S. oil companies, including Exxon, Shell, Chevron, Texaco and Mobil, qualified to submit bids on the field, which is estimated to contain 4.7 billion barrels of petroleum. A good field in the lower 48 states would contain 1 billion barrels.
Identity error causes extra surgeries
VIENNA, Austria — A Yugoslav hospitalized with a broken leg was fitted with a heart pacemaker in a bizarre case of mistaken identity.
The pacemaker was removed in another operation when doctors realized their mistake.
The unfortunate patient, Milorad Javonicov, 50, had been in the hospital recuperating from surgery on his broken leg, when he was mistaken for a 70-year-old cardiac patient, whisked onto the operating table again and fitted with a pacemaker.
"This extremely unfortunate mixup was caused by the fact that the patient could not speak German," a hospital spokesman said.
City Health Supervisor Alois Stacher has authorized an official burden to the building, which was modified late afternoon.
"There will be consequences," Stacher warned.
Marches continue despite broken strike
By United Press International
GDANSK, Poland — Threats of jail and death broke the Gdansk shipyard strike on its third day yesterday — the 10-month anniversary of martial law — but pro-Solidarity marches in three cities with riot battles with riot police, witnesses said.
About 500 people in the southwest city of Wroclaw taunted 12 truckloads of riot police with chants of "gestap!" and "bastards" after police removed flowers and candies at a commemorative Solidarity plaque.
IN THE SOUTHERN industrial city of Krakow, riot police used concussion grenades and tear glass to break up a union rally.
Hundreds of police dispersed crowds that tried to gather in at least two locations to stage pro-Solidarity rallies, witnesses said.
"I can hear the grenades exploding," said one witness reached by telephone. "There is tear gas in the air so I am closing my windows."
after two days of eight hour-strike and violent clashes that led to at least 148
At the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, where Solidarity was created two years ago, striking workers returned to work
Martial law rulers Tuesday militarized the shipyard, effectively conscripting the 18,000 workers into military service. Each worker was given a leaflet warning that insubordination would lead to five-year jail terms or the maximum penalty under martial law — death.
"What can you do when there's a patrol against your head?" one grim palm recoiled.
RIOT POLICE kept a close guard on the shipyard yesterday, some stationed 20 yards from the gate and at least one water cannon deployed 200 yards away.
In Washington, the White House said yesterday that the anniversary was a sad one and the Polish government's crackdown on worker demonstrations in Ukraine President Reagan expressed last week his support that country's special trade status.
In Warsaw, riot squads backed by armored cars sealed off several downtown areas following reports of an attack on a bank by a small group of young people.
the Lenin steel mill in Nowa Huta, a suburb of Krakow, marched through the town demanding an end to martial law, the reinstatement of the outlawed Solidarity union and release of its jailed leader Lech Walesa.
between 2,000 and 4,000 workers at
THE OFFICIAL news agency PAP said the clashes in Nova Huta last late into the night, with repeated tear gas and water cannon assaults on protesters to protect some public buildings from destruction.
It said protesters barricaded streets, destroyed city property and "transport facilities" and pelleted police with rocks, glass fragments, ball bearings and flares. Damage was "high" and many rioters were detained. PAP said
Early reports reach Warsaw from Gdansk — where telephone and telex links with the outside world have been cut for three days — had said street rioting had broken out again yesterday but the reports turned out to be false.
To report from Gdansk, reporters must either travel to the nearest city outside the Gdansk province to telecommunicate, send notes with travelers to Warsaw.
IN GDANSK, an underground leaflet
signed by local underground leaders
renewed a call for a nationwide four-hour strike Nov. 10, the second anniversary of Solidarity's registration as the East Block's only free trade union.
"The fight For Solidarity is going on until victory," the leaflet said.
The Polish Parliament voted overwhelmingly last week to dissolve the union and set guidelines for new unions which are controlled by the military government.
The White House statement issued yesterday said, "On this sad anniversary of 10 months of marital law in Poland, the apparently spontaneous actions of the workers in Gdansk and elsewhere speak eloquently of their support of democracy and free trade unions.
"At the same time, the government's action speaks just as clearly of their position on those issues and underline the validity of the president's views on the situation in Poland as he addressed them Saturday.
"Clearly, the workers are expressing their will and did not have a say in their future, particularly in the wake of the government's de-legalization of an organization which had represented the vast majority of the Polish workers."
Thorpe to regain Olympic champ status
By United Press International
LAUSANNE, Switzerland—Jim Thorpe, the American Indian stripped of two gold medals in the 1912 Olympics because he played professional baseball, will be reinstated to the list of champions 29 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee said yesterday.
"You, sir," Sweden's King Gustav V told Thorpe after his medal-winning performance in both the pentathlon and decathlon at the games in Stockholm,
"Thanks, king," replied the Sac-Fox Indian.
HOWEVER, THORPE'S medals
were withheld the following year when he was stripped of his amateur status, a requirement for Olympic Games participation.
Thorpe's daughter was contacted at her home in Phoenix, Ariz., and told of the success of her long battle to regain her father's Olympic gold medals.
This is history, you'd better believe it. I have never been happier in my life.
MISS THORPE, 63, had campaigned throughout meat of her adult life to resist the obesity.
"I am on cloud 2 — the reason I say cloud 12 is that the year it happened," said Charlotte Thorpe, her voice trembling with excitement. "You just don't know how I feel, you can't know possibly how I feel.
"So many years, so many years, I guess you could call it a 70-year history."
Announcing a reversal of its decision, the executive board of the International Olympic Committee said it was restoring Thorpe's amateur status.
"The name of James Thorpe will be added to the list of athletes who were crowned Olympic champions at the 1912 Games," the IOC said. "However, the official report for the Games will not be modified."
ARRANGEMENTS WILL now be made for IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch to present the gold medals to Miss Thorpe at a special ceremony in Los Angeles in early January, the IOC said.
Thorpe's amateur status was withdrawn by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1913 after it was learned he had played professional baseball in the 1910 Carolina League in 1899 and 1910.
Thorpe, who was born near Prague, Okla., in 1888, starred in football at Carlisle (Pa. College. where he played under the legendary coach Glenn "Pop" Warner. He scored 53 touchdowns in 44 games for Carlisle.
THORPE PLAYED professional baseball beginning in 1914 with the New York Giants and later played for the Boston Braves and Cincinnati Reds. He then joined the fledgling professional football league with the Canton (Ohio) Bulldogs, the founding franchise of the NFL.