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University Daily Kansan, October 8. 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Two Iraqi oil ports burned in new surge of Gulf War
Iran said yesterday its artillery pounded two Iraqi oil ports and set them ablaze in a new surge of fighting in the 25-month Persian Gulf War. Iraq said it sank two Iranian ships at the strategic Kharg Island oil terminal.
In northwest Iran, armed opponents of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini assassinated a Sunni Moslem mullah and his son in the politically volatile Turkish-speaking region of Naghadeh, a center of opposition to the Shiite regime.
The killings came amid fierce new fighting in the war between Iran and Iraq. Tehran radio said Iraq's "oil installations and oil ports of Favi and Chahar Cheragh were set on fire Wednesday with the artillery fire of the Islamic (Iranian) forces."
The two combatants' southern neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, yesterday urged Iran to "take immediate action" to respond to international peace efforts, including three U.N. Security Council resolutions for a truce.
Fresh contact spurs assault on sub
MUSKO, Sweden — The Swedish navy made fresh contact yesterday with a suspected Soviet submarine trapped near a secret military base and immediately exploded four more depth charges to force it to the surface, a navy spokesman said yesterday.
Navy commander Sven Carlsson said the new contact was made yesterday morning near the northern entrance to Horsfjarden Bay, which is considered to be the most likely spot for the submarine to attempt to break out of its weeklong entrapment.
navy snips and a submarine were the north entrance to the bay, which separates the Musko naval base from the Swedish mainland. The four depth charges were the first to be dropped since early Wednesday. More than 25 have been exploded in the bay since the hunt began six days ago when a periscope was spotted observing military exercises near the Musko base 20 miles south of Stockholm.
DETROIT — A 2,800-member United Auto Workers local yesterday swelled the roar of dissent that left a proposed contract with Chrysler Corp. near death and prompted UAW insiders to concede the pact's defeat.
UAW locals reject Chrysler contract
UAW Local 138 in St. Louis yesterday reported that a staggering 83 percent of its members had rejected the contract.
The early voting, with results in from seven key locals, showed workers shooting down the contract by better than a three-to-one margin.
Negotiators could go back to the bargaining table if the agreement is defeated. An option considered highly unlikely would be the UAW's executive board overriding the membership.
Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca's recent remarks about Chrysler's $1 billion reserve in cash and securities have been blamed by union leaders for the pact's poor performance.
Officials delay ban of video games
MARSHPIELD. Mass. — Town officials agreed yesterday not to implement a new ordinance banning the use of video games until a court challenge brought by local merchants has been decided.
The ordinance, scheduled to become effective today, would impose a $200 fine on anyone operating commercial video games within the town limits. Merchants appended the ordinance, which bars the use, possession and possession of commercial video games, on constitutional grounds.
The ordinance was passed June 15 after townpeople objected to the amount of time and money children were spending on the games.
"The they attract unsupervised young males," said town attorney Robert Marzell. "If my wife is going to go shopping, she's not going to go to a place where there are a lot of young guys standing around smoking and saying things."
Anti-nuke group's lovaltv attacked
WASHINGTON — Describing herself as "simply a housewife and a mother," Betty Bumpers yesterday said attacks on her loyalty may strengthen Peace Links, the women's anti-nuclear group she founded this year.
Bumpers, wife of Seh. Dale Bumpers, D-Ak. was referring to the implied attack on Peace Link's patriotism by Sen. Jeremiah Dent, MN.
Denton, opposing a resolution designating Sunday as "Peace Day," created an uproar last week by saying in the Senate "the Soviet policymakers will derive comfort and aid" from such a move.
At least 13 other congressional wives and former first lady Rosalynn Carter are affiliated with Peace Links, which Bumpers said did not have a formal membership. It distributes peace literature from existing groups and makes it available on request to women's organizations.
U.S. puffing, drinking reaches high
According to the publication, the average person over the age of 18 in the United States smoked 3.850 cigarettes, drank more than two gallons of wine, more than 24.5 gallons of beer and more than 39.5 gallons of soft drinks during 1981.
NEW YORK — Americans are puffing more cigarettes, sipping more wine, guzzling more beer and downing more soft drinks in 1982 than ever before, according to Industry Surveys, a publication released yesterday by Standard & Poor's Corp.
During 1983, consumption of cigarettes will increase more than 1 percent, wine between 4 and 6 percent, beer more than 1 percent and soft drinks 2.5 percent based on figures for the first half of the year, according to Industry Surveys.
Robert Natale, analyst for S&P, said that while wine and beer are gaining popularity, the per capita intake of distilled spirits dropped to 1.98 gallons during 1980 and 1981.
Corrections
Due to a reporting error, an article in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly reported that the number of School of Architecture seats in the Student Senate would increase from two to three. The increase is from one to two. Also, the School of Business and two Senate seats last year, not
The results of Tuesday's Greek Sing were incorrectly tabulated. The third place winners are the Alpha Phi sorority and Sigma Chi fraternity.
Disarming Phalangists is Gemavel's next test
By United Press International
Lebanese President Amin Gamayel, in his fledgling government's most crucial test of strength, will try to disarm the largest private army left in Lebanon — the Christian Phalange militia that has ruled East Beirut for nearly eight years, officials said yesterday.
But Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, declaring Israel's security more important than "the friendship of the United States," demanded creation of a Z-12 mile buffer zone in southern Lebanon to protect northern Israel from attack.
In Tel Aviv, officials offered what amounted to a breakthrough in U.S.-sponsored talks to remove all foreign forces from Lebanon. Israel responded with a 90,000 F100 fighters withdraw before a joint Israeli-Syrian pullout begins.
"If there is an element today making the march toward a peace treaty with Lebanon difficult, it is the United States, for reasons of its own about which I do not want to elaborate on at this time," he said.
He also accused the United States of using its influence to prevent Israel and Lebanon from signing a peace treaty.
In reference to President Reagan's plan for Palestinian rule on the West Bank in association with Jorday, Sharon said, "The friendship of the United States will not endanger the security of the state of Israel for it."
STATE-RUN BEIRUAT radio said the Lebanese army, in control of West Beirut for the first time in eight years, plans to assert its authority over the Christian section of the capital by disarming the Phalangist milita-
men.
Lebanese troops will tear down roadblocks between Beirut's Moslem western and Christian eastern sectors and will begin disarming Phalangist aliens for illegal aliens and arms in the west are complete, Radio Beirut said.
Gemayel, whose control over the Christian Phalange is not nearly as strong as that exercised by his bain brother, Beshr, wants the streets cleared before he begins his visit to the United States Oct. 16, the radio said.
In the United States, former President Carter admitted to Alexander Haig he had "no evidence" to back his comment that it might have been Haig who gave Israel the green light for its expansion. The former secretary of state said yesterday.
Haig told a news conference at Yale University that after Carter's comment, he was sufficiently concerned that he called the former president.
"We discussed it and he had no evidence" to support his comments, Haig said.
ALSO, THE Rev. Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority, said yesterday Israel was justified in invading Lebanon but conceded "somebody goofed" in the massacre of Palestinian refugees.
CHICAGO - Hope that a cyanide death in Philadelphia would lead to the killer who poisoned seven Chicago-area people with cyanide-loaded Extra-Strength Tytelon faded yesterday, and officials admitted the investigation might soon box down.
By United Press International
Tylenol probe slowing
Officials ruled out a connection between the April death of a Philadelphia graduate student and the Chicago deaths.
Other deaths and illnesses in California, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kansas, Tennessee and Texas also have been discounted.
"We are not close to making an arrest," said Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fahner, head of the week-old investigation.
FAHNER SAID Philadelphia police did not overreact by reopening the investigation into the April 3 death of William Pascual, 28, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student.
Chicago police superintendent Richard Brezcek said he was confident that the case would be solved but admitted that as the investigation wore through its eighth day, officials were left with no hard suspects and few promising leads.
"We're still in the process of trying to understand the scenario of events as to how the cyanide got into those bottles." Brezzeek said.
The case was reopened when cyanide was discovered in an Extra-Strength Tylenol bottle found in Pascual's home.
Chicago police abandoned plans to send officers to Philadelphia to question a friend of Pascual's after the FBI and Philadelphia police administered a lie detector test to him and released him.
Authorities in Chicago, after starting the week with 24 possible suspects, now have "eight or nine." Fahner said, but Breezecek admitted there was no hard evidence of them in the poisonings.
Investigators also rued out industrial sabotage at the manufacturing plants because the deadly capsules had been placed in different locations and were in containers carrying different lot numbers, Fahner said, making such sabotage "a mathematical and physical impossibility."
THE MANUFACTURER of Tylonel, McNeil Consumer Products Co., said yesterday it was arranging for the delivery of the return of all Tylonel canisters.
Consumers should mail bottles of Extra-Strength and regular strength capsules to Tynelon Exchange, P.O. Box 200, Maple Plain, NM 53548.
The correspondents should include names, addresses and zip codes. In return, consumers will receive free replacement of Tylonen extra strength tablets or Tylonen regular strength tablets. Tablet forms of Tylonen have not been linked to the cyanide deaths.
Consumers can return capsule bottles to stores where they were purchased and receive Tynolen tablets in return.
For further information, consumers can call 1-900-210-3000. The company will pay for the call.