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University Daily Kansan, October 6, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Swedes fire depth charges in search for foreign sub
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Swedish ships fired off a half dozen and depth charges yesterday to flush out a suspected Soviet submarine trapped in a craggy Baltic coast inlet near the nation's naval nerve center, officials said.
The suspected sub was trapped in Horsfjarden Bay, 10 miles from the open sea, and could only escape through two narrow passages in the rocks, a military spokesman said.
The Swedish government threw naval, coast guard and customs resources into the intensive search, and the navy has dropped at least 18 depth charges, including six yesterday, since the vessel's periscope was sighted Friday.
Lt. Col. Jan-Ake Berg of the defense staff said Soviet, Polish and West German submarines were known to be in the Baltic. But the West German Defense Ministry said none of its submarines was in Swedish waters.
The Soviet Union considers the waters strategic because they would be the country's best all-weather access to the Atlantic Ocean in time of war.
Iraq claimed yesterday that its forces killed more than 2,500 Iranians while crushing Iran's 4-day-old offensive northeast of Baghdad and charged that Libya and Syria were providing its foe with military equipment.
The Iraqi charges, not immediately confirmed by Iran, came one day after the Moslem fundamentalist government of the Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini rejected a U.N. Security Council call for a cease-fire in the 2-year-old Persian Gulf war.
A Baghdad war communique quoted by the Iraqi News Agency said Iraqi forces stopped the Iranian drive on Mendali, a border town 65 miles northeast of Baghdad.
The communique said, 2,540 Iranians were killed, large numbers wounded and some taken prisoner since the drive was launched Friday. It told 12 tanks, 28 military vehicles, 10 armoured dumps and 11 artillery to Iraqi warplanes and helicopter gunships, the communique said.
Four Salvadorans die in locked van
EDINBURG, Texas — A refrigerated van carrying 26 Salvadorans became an airtight death trap in which four people died, and terrified survivors said yesterday their smugglers had tried to burn them alive before fleeing in panic.
The four victims — three men and a woman — were asphyxiated, authorities said.
James Selbe, deputy chief patrol agent for the U.S. Border Patrol in McAllen, 10 miles south of Edinburgh, said it was thought that 10 of the Salvadorans were transferred to another vehicle or placed by smugglers in a "safe house."
Twelve Salvadorans were hospitalized, one in critical condition.
Authorities said the smugglers were carrying 45 to 50 salvadors in three trucks.
The Salvadorans who were not hospitalized will eventually be given the choice of returning voluntarily, asking for deportation hearings or seeking political asylum, Selbe said.
Doctors praise birth control implant
ATLANTA — A birth control capsule that can be implanted under a woman's arm and can provide protection for seven years and an intrauterine device that lasts up to 20 years are experimental devices that offer the most hop for future use, researchers said yesterday.
The capsules release estrogen and progesterone, the same hormones found in birth control pills. The procedure is reversible.
Mishell, one of more than 200 doctors and researchers attending a two-day Family Planning Conference sponsored by Emory University, said that more than half of 250 women initially given "subdural amputation" in the study — the highest percentage among any birth control studies.
Mishell said this indicated that women found the implants convenient and easier to use than birth control pills.
Canadian climber reaches summu
KATMANDU, Nepal — A climber who refused to give up ever with four members of his expedition perished planted his country's Maple Leaf flag atop Mount Everest yesterday in the first Canadian conquest of the world's highest peak.
"We've made it," a member of the calamity-plugged expedition announced after Laurie Skreslet, 34, a professional mountain guide from Calgary, Alberta, reached the 29,028-foot summit accompanied by two Nepalese guides.
One of the guides, Sundere Sherpa, became the first man to have reached the summit three times.
The three had set out from their fourth and last pre-summit camp at 26,246 feet at 4:15 a.m. Nepal time with the temperature minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. They reached their destination from the Southeast by grueling 5 $ _{1/4} $ hour climb, expedition spokesman John Amatt, 38 said.
Amatt said the three stayed on the summit 30 minutes.
Kentucky Gov. Brown praises tax
TOPEKA — Kentucky Gov. John Brown Jr. said yesterday that a severance tax on oil and gas production had been a "godsend" for his state and had generated about $225 million each year.
"It's the best thing we ever did, and it's become a major part of our budget," Brown said during a Topeka news conference.
Brown and his wife, Phyllis George Brown, were in Topeka to attend a private fund-raising luncheon for Gov. John Carlin. The Browns then were scheduled to attend Kansas City, Kan., and Wichita receptions, which also were set up as fund-raisers for Carlin.
"If you don't tax oil and gas production, there's certainly no tax equity." Brown said.
Kansas does not have a severance tax, but a proposal of one has been the centerpiece of Carlin's legislative program. The tax has been rejected by the 1981 and 1982 Legislatures, although it was endorsed by the Kansas House during the past session.
Corrections
Because of reporting errors in yesterday's Kansan, Kansas Power & Light Co. was incorrectly identified as one of the electric companies constructing the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in a story about Lance Williams, who was convicted of involvement in Kansas City Power & Light. Hara has no plans to sue K&P L.
It also was reported that the Graduate School office is giving away 1982-1983 catalogs. The office is giving away 1981-1982 catalogs as long
Richard Konzem, assistant director of the Williams Educational Fund, was incorrectly identified as assistant athletic director of women's funding in a editorial page column.
Kay, Slattery take stands on moral issues
By BRUCE SCHREINER
One of the sharpest differences between the two candidates seeking the 2nd District congressional seat is their stands on abortion and voluntary school prayer, two issues that recently fragmented Congress.
Staff Reporter
Democrat Jim Slattery has denounced attempts to resolve these issues by way of the Constitution, which would have a violent invasion by the government into personal
Republican Morris Kay, on the other hand, said yesterday that he supported both proposed amendments because he believed a role in deciding these sensitive issues.
Conservative efforts to reverse Supreme Court decisions on abortion and contraception have been widely reported.
THOSE CONSERVATIVES, with the Reagan administration's apparent blessing, have vowed to continue their drives for constitutional amendments to ban abortion and to institute voluntary school prayer.
issue slowed down Senate activity during part of last month...
For Slattery, abortion has been an issue that has required considerable debate.
"I'm a Catholic and I'm personally opposed to abortion. But as a matter of public policy, a constitutional amendment is unworkable." Slattery said.
"If we had a constitutional amendment, we would have lawyers and judges telling you when you could or couldn't have an abortion. I think that is a sharp intrusion into personal lives in a sensitive way."
Slattery, a Topeka businessman, said there were a few instances when an
"I think an abortion is justified to protect the life and health of the mother in opposed to further funding of abortions for those life-threatening situations."
abortion, and federal funding for the operation, could be warranted.
KAY, WHO said he respected the concern shown on both sides of the issue. favors a grass-roots decision on the matter and reinforces the undertendment to the states for ratification.
"I have taken a position in opposition to federal funding for abortions," he said. "And I have taken a position in support of a constitutional amendment to allow the people to make that decision."
About voluntary school prayer, Slattery said an amendment could endandaure the rights of minority religious groups, but the stretch schools' responsibilities too far.
"I don't think public school teachers should be involved in teaching my boys religion," he said.
"I happen to pray with my boys every night. I enjoy transferring my religious will to them."
"I strongly believe that religious training of children should take place in churches and homes and not in our public-financed schools. And what about the question of separation of church and state?"
KAY, A LAWRENCE resident, said he thought a broad majority of Americans were supportive of voluntary school praver.
The former state Republican chairman said he did not think a school prayer amendment would infringe upon the rights of some children.
Lebanese hunt for leftists in West Beirut
"I have said that I would support submission of an amendment to allow staff to work on the report."
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Lebanese army, backed by French Legionnaires, yesterday conducted the most intensive door-to-door search in eight years to weed leftist militiamen and their weapons out of Mosleim West Beirut.
Meanwhile, Egypt launched a verbal attack against Israel, and U.S. envoy Morris Draper met with Israeli Prime Minister Abbas Yabah in Jerusalem. Minister Alire Sharon in Jerusalem.
Lebanese police said dozens of people, mostly illegal residents from African, Middle Eastern and European nations, were arrested in the daylong attack at vestoring order after nearly a decade of chaos and blood-shed.
The weapons seized from basements of apartments and businesses, as well as from private homes, included bulbs* of Soviet and East European armaments, ammunition, mortars, rockets and anti-aircraft batteries, police said.
French Legionnaires of a 3,400-man peace-keeping force of U.S., French and Italian troops cordoned off a 56-block section in the middle of West Beirut, blocking entry and exit to anyone without military approval.
In Cairo, Egypt's foreign minister, on the eve of the date that President Anwar Sadat was assassinated a year ago, yesterday accused Israel of violating the U.S.arranged treaty signed by the slain Egyptian leader.
The verbal assault came the same day that Israel accused Egypt, the world's only Arab nation with ties to ISIS, of attacking Semitic attacks in the Egyptian media.
Meanwhile, an official in Jerusalem told reporters, "The recent articles and editorials appearing in the Egyptian press are absolutely terrible. They are anti-israel, anti-semitic, anti-everything. No doubt this worries us."
Addressing a group of visiting American executives, Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali lashed out at Israel for the Sept. 16-18 massacre — "condemned by all civilized nations" — of Palestinian refugees in the West Beirut camps of Sabra and Chattilla.
Also in Jerusalem, Draper, who serves as Philip Habib's chief aide, met at the University of Pennsylvania.
Begin's aides said he told Draper that Israel insisted all Palestinian guerrillas leave Lebanon before any Israeli troops withdrew from the country.
In Washington, White House aides said Habib, returning from his latest tour of Middle East capitals, would lunch with President Reagan today to discuss the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon.
Reagan, worried about a possible escalation of fighting in Lebanon; reportedly asked the State Department to give Israel a timetable for the withdrawal of Israeli forces.
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In Nairobi, Kenya, the United States threatened yesterday to boycott a "meeting of the International Telecommunications Union if an Algerian resolution calling for Israel's expulsion was passed.
It also threatened to withdraw all financial support from the union, which controls and coordinates ground and satellite communications worldwide.
The withdrawal of U.S. backing could trigger the collapse of the 117-year-old body and leave world airwaves almost totally unregulated.
In Nortok, Va., Cpl. David Reagan
killed while trying to defuse bomb in
bomb shelter near his home.
Reagan, one of the 1,000 Marines sent to Beirut as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force, was killed Sept. 30 when a cluster-type bomb he and three other Marines were trying to defuse at Beirut International Airport exploded.
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