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University Daily Kansan. October 7, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Swedes trap sub off shore suspect it contains Soviets
MUSKO, Sweden — The Swedish navy yesterday dropped more depth charges on a suspected Soviet submarine trapped near a secret military base, but Moscow said it was all a hoax designed to create an "atmosphere of tension."
"There are grounds for doubt about whether there really is an unidentified object off Sweden's coast," the Soviet news agency Tasya said.
"Perhaps it was a deliberate invention seeking to shatter trust and traditionally normal relations between the U.S.S.R. and the Scandi-
Swedish navy spokesmen said depth charges were being dropped closer to the submarine in a bid to knock out its rudders and propeller and force it to the surface.
"There is a risk that we may hurt the submarine, but it is who they are taking the risks," said Gen. Lennart Ljung, supreme commander of the SWAT.
The Swedes have dropped at least 19 depth charges since the submarine was sighted Friday in Horsfjarden Bay near the Musko naval base in the Baltic, which the Soviets routinely use to reach the open sea.
Reagan blows stack at GOP hopeful
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, a flash of anger in his eyes, yesterday snapped him up "a congressional candidate who didn't want to run for the right."
During a White House meeting with Republican hopefuls, Reagan firmly defended himself against a now-familiar litany of charges leveled against him by the political right.
The audience cheered and applauded Reagan's defense and shouted down the accuser, conservative Gary Arnold.
"I don't know what you've been reading, but you don't know what you're talking about." Reagan sternly told Arnold, who is running for president.
When Arnold persisted in his criticism, dwelling on the nearly $100 billion tax increase Reagan drove through Congress this summer, the exasperated president snapped, "Shrut up!"
UAW official says contract will fail
DETROIT — A local United Auto Workers official said yesterday it was "inconceivable" the tentative contract with Chrysler Corp. would be ratified, in view of the overwhelming rejection of it by UAW locals so far.
"The only way this is going to pass is for the remaining locals to approve the measure by a 68 percent vote," said Bobb Weissman, president of Local 122 in Twinsburg, Ohio, which turned down the agreement by an 88 percent margin.
"How could that happen? It is inconceivable," he said.
Three small locals with a combined membership of 3,120 were voting on the contract yesterday.
During the past two days, six major locals voted the pact down by a total margin of more than 2-1. As of early yesterday, the total vote was 12,053 opposed and 5,775 in favor.
Voting by all 52 locals in 17 states will not be completed until Oct. 14.
Soviets ask for nuclear arms debate
UNITED NATIONS — The Soviet Union called on the U.N. General Assembly yesterday to include on its agenda a debate on the immediate cessation and prohibition of further nuclear weapons testing.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said in a letter to Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar that "no task is more important than to remove the threat of nuclear war from mankind and to achieve the cessation of the nuclear arms race."
A draft resolution submitted with Gromyko's letter "urges the U.N. Committee on Disarmament to proceed promptly to practical negotiations with a view to elaborating a draft treaty on the complete and general prohibition of nuclear weapons tests."
It also called on all nuclear weapons states "as a gesture of goodwill" and "with a view to creating more favorable conditions for the formulation of a treaty . . . not to conduct any nuclear explosions."
Group lists 'filthy five' contributors
WASHINGTON — An environmental organization singled out four Republican Senate candidates yesterday for accepting more than $10,000 each in campaign contributions from a "filthy five" group of corporate polluters.
At the top of the list, compiled by Environmental Action, was Sen. Dur皮骚堡er, R-Minn., who was listed as receiving $22,300 from the federal government to help rebuild the city.
Listed second is Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., for receiving $11,800.
Tied for third are Sen. Orniz Hatch, R-Utah, and Virginia GOP Senate candidate Paul Trible, who both received $10,500 from the five companies.
The five firms are Dw Chemical Co., Midland Mich.; Standard Oil of Indiana, based in Chicago; Weyerhaeuser Corp., Tacoma, Wash.; Republic Steel Corp., Cleveland, and Occidental Petroleum Corp., Los Angeles.
Contraceptive kills VD. herpes virus
NEW YORK — Test-tube research indicates that Gossypol — a cottonseed oil extract used as an experimental male contraceptive in China — apparently kills the genital herpes virus and the microbe that causes gonorrhea, experts in biomedical research said yesterday.
Studies showing this and leading to two clinical trials of gossypial against genital herpes in humans were conducted by University of
Experts estimate 20 million Americans have genital herpes, an as yet unattended sexually transmitted disease. Gonorrhea, often symptomless in females and also sexually transmitted, makes tens of thousands of people sterile each year.
Correction
Because of a reporting error in a story in yesterday's Kansan, Republican Sam Hardage's proposed gasoline tax was incorrectly identified as a 4 percent increase. Hardage proposes a four-cent increase in the gasoline tax, which is estimated to bring in $55 million annually.
Tylenol linked to death in Philadelphia
CHICAGO — Police in Philadelphia yesterday called the death of a college student six months ago "Tylenol cyanide-related," adding yet another bizarre twist to the deaths last week of two students who died from cyanide-loaded Tylenol capsules.
By United Press International
The deaths of a woman in Wichita, Kan., and a man in Kenton, Tenn., whose bodies were found near Tylenol in Fresno unrelated to the Chicago investigation.
"It if is true, it is to say the least frightening," said Dr. Reggie Jones, an official with Chicago's Health Department.
Investigators in Chicago had no comment on the Philadelphia develop-
suicide was found to have been caused by Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules
PHILADELPHIA police said the April 3 death of a graduate student originally believed to have committed
The Philadelphia medical examiner said William Pascual, 26, died from ingesting cyanide, which was found in his stomach and blood. Frank Schafki chief of detectives for the Philadelphia police department, said Pascual has left a suicide note and emptied his bank account.
A bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol was found in a shoe in a closet in the room where the body was found, Scafidi said. Initial tests on the pills in April were negative, but only three were tested at that time. After the news of the death, police reexamined all the capsules and found traces of cyanide, Scafidi said.
THE BOTTLE came from lot number FE603. The expiration date is June 14 and capsules originally recalled by McNiel are sold by Tylomel manufacturer, because of the
In Wichtha, Police Chief Richard LaMunyon yesterday blamed national "media hype" over Tytlenol-related death for the confusion surrounding the death of a woman found with a Extra Strength Tytlenol bottle nearby.
Chicago deaths, had expiration dates in 1987.
Coroner Robert Daniels said the confusion resulted early in the day because incomplete information about him was leaked without his knowledge.
First reports from the Seedgwick County coroner indicated the bottle had contained capsules. Police later said the bottle contained tablets.
Joan Williams, 30, was found dead Tuesday with an empty bottle of Tylenol Extra-Strength tablets in her bedroom. Clemence was not known late yesterday.
LAB TESTS yesterday revealed no cyanide in Tylenol capsules found next to the body of Thomas Isbell, 46. of
Kenton, Tenn. He was found dead in his truck with three fold-wrapped Teflon尼龙袋 in the back of his truck.
Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fahner learned through UPI that suburban Park Ridge postal officials told mail carriers to deliver free samples of Tylenol yesterday morning, despite an urgent order from the federal Justice Department to halt nationwide mail distribution of about $350,000 free sample packets.
The Canadian manufacturer of Extra Strength Tylenol asked drugstores yesterday to take the drug off store shelves and prevent any tampering with the product.
MAYOR JANE M. BYRNE yesterday introduced an ordinance requiring protective sealing of all over the counter drugs and medications sold in Chicago. The county board introduced a similar ordinance this week. Similar legislation has been proposed at the state and national levels.
Lebanon continues roundup, finds maze
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Amir Palestinian fears of a forced exodus, Lebanese troops yesterday expanded their crackdown on illegal refugees for the first time into southern Beirut despite the United States, France and Italy.
The U.S. Department of State later said Lebanese officials "have been reassuring" that "appropriate safeguards" had been taken to guarantee the roundup was "done in a proper manner" and did not violate the rights
of Palestinians living legitimately in Lebanon.
Also in Washington, a former Israeli officer said yesterday that only U.S. pressure stopped Israel Defense Minister Ariel Sharon from ordering a total invasion of Beirut to exterminate the Palestine Liberation Organization.
THE LEBANese crackdown posed a delicate problem for the three peace-keeping nations — France, Italy and the United States. Each wants to help Lebanon establish a strong central government but none wants anything to do with charges of human rights violations.
A U.S. Marine spokesman, reacting to reports of mistreatment of detained Palestinians, said U.S. forces would not tolerate searches in the area they control further south if the searches violated "human dignity."
The Lebanese army yesterday also revealed an elaborate network of tunnels used to shelter Palestinian guerrillas and huge quantities of military supplies from Israeli bombardment.
The concrete-lined tunnels, one which ran for 21+2 miles from West Beirut toward the south, linked the Palestinian strongholds in the city with
the three refugee camps south of Beirut
- Chabra, Satilla and Bouri]a jibneh
LEBANSEE SOLDIERS were still exploring the tunnels yesterday and did not know the extent of the maze or where some of the passages led. They said they were moving cautiously and that some parts might be boggly trapped.
UPI reporters, taken on a tour of the tunnels yesterday, saw huge bunkers packed to the ceiling with modern explosives ranging from Russian GRAD missiles to American mortar and howitzer shells.
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