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Universitv Daily Kansan. October 1. 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Hurricane batters Mexico; thousands flee from homes
CULIACAN, Mexico — Hurricane Paul, which tore through scores of towns in northern Mexico yesterday, forced 50,000 people to flee their gale-riped homes, authorities said, and dozens more are missing.
Army troops began evacuating 43 towns hit by the hurricane in the Himalayas and struggled to reach eight villages cut off by flooding, stalled off irrigation.
Officials said as many as 3,000 people were trapped in the mountainous village of Huitusi near Guasave, 70 miles northwest of Culiacan, were in danger and could not be reached by road or air.
“Dozens of people have disappeared,” a spokesman for the Culicanat fire department said. Officials said many people had been injured, but it was unclear why the victims were killed.
Winds uprooted telephone and power lines, blacking out parts of the state capital of Cullacan and the cities of Los Mochis, Guamucii and
Air and railroad travel to the area was suspended and many roads were impassable, officials said.
Amerasian children leave for U.S.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Eleven giggling children fathered by Americans during the Vietnam War left Vietnam yesterday in what Vietnamese officials called "just the beginning" of an exodus of the children to the United States.
The children paraded out of the Ho Chi Minh City airport terminal and chanted in Vietnamese, "Let's go to America," before boarding an Air France charter flight for Bangkok. The trip to Bankok was the first leg of their journey to the United States.
Vietnamese officials at Tan Son Nhu airport in Ho Chi Minh City — formerly called Saigon — said 26 more children would leave for the
United States next week if U.S. authorities cooperated with the project. The children, who are between the ages of 7 and 15 and bear U.S. citizenship because their U.S. fathers recognize them, joined 228 other refugees departing Vietnam as part of the "Orderly Departure Program."
Rock Island purchasers get loans
TOPEKA - Kansas shippers and railroad officials yesterday praised the Federal Railroad Administration's approval of $40 million in loans to complete the purchase of the Rock Island line from Salina to Dallas-Fort Worth.
The state of Oklahoma, two railroad companies and rail service users have been negotiating to buy track from the bankrupt Rock Island line for two years.
Although the long-awaited transaction must win final approval by U.S. District Judge Frank McGarr in Chicago next week, the authorization of the FRA loan was the biggest stumbling block facing buvers of the 750 miles of track.
David Tittsworth, chief of rail service in Kansas, said he expected McGarr to amrove the deal Thursday.
Service along the 230 miles of track in Kansas should resume in early November, returning rail service to many Kansas shippers and dealers.
Panel warns secrecy could damage
WASHINGTON — Imposing secrecy on scientific research "could be extremely damaging" to the nation's military, economic and technological progress, a panel of prestigious scientists warned in a report released yesterday.
"A national policy of security by accomplishment has much to recommend it over a policy of security by secrecy," said the two-volume report titled "Scientific Communication and National Security."
Because of technology transfers to the Soviet Union, there have been suggestions in government circles that federally funded scientific research could be used for military purposes.
But the special panel of the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy concluded in the report that the "limited and uncertain benefits" of controls are "outweighed by the importance of scientific research with open communication accelerates, to the overall welfare of the nation."
Death count six in Soviet air crash
LUXEMBOURG — A final count showed six people were killed and 40 injured in the crash of a Soviet Aeroflot Hyllush 62 airliner at Luxembourg's Findel airport, Josy Bartel, transport minister, said yesterday.
Wednesday's crash was first mentioned in the Soviet press about 19 hours after it occurred, when the Tass news agency said "the Soviet government has issued a warning"
Four of the injured were reported in serious condition with severe burns. They were flown by helicopter to specialized hospitals in France.
An air traffic controller said Wednesday that the four-engineed airliner seemed to have developed brake trouble upon landing. Airport sources said the captain told investigators he was unable to control the plane when the engines were reversed to slow the speed.
Split committee approves adviser
WASHINGTON — The Senate Banking Committee yesterday approved, 7.4, President Reagan's nomination of Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
The vote, the nomination to the full Senate, was split along party lines. William Proxmire, D-Wis., was strongly opposed to the
The post would make Feldstein the president's chief economic adviser. But Proxmire said the holder of this job was more than an adviser.
"He is a key figure in setting economic policy. We would be kidding ourselves if we thought the CEA chairman was not significant," he said.
Feldstein would replace Murray Weidenbaum, who resigned as chairman to return to his teaching post at Washington University.
Majorette's father files bias charge
PITTSBURGH — The father of a high school majorette barred from marching at football games because she is 1.1/2 pounds overweight filed a complaint yesterday charging school officials with violating her civil rights.
Herbert Ward, father of Peggy Ward, filed the weight discrimination complaint with the state Human Relations Commission against the Ward.
"So many children have been discriminated against for stupid things like being too tall, too fat, too short, thousands of reasons." said Ward.
Peggy, 16, was ordered nearly two weeks ago by band director Joseph Cerosimo to lose four pounds because an administrative rule requires each majorette to comply with a weight limit according to her height. She missed the limit by 1 1/2 pounds yesterday.
She was prevented from marching in tomorrow's game at Alquipa but received the weight limit and return to the marching unit on arrival.
U.S. Marine killed in Lebanon
Bv United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon—An artillery shell — possibly an American-made "cluster bomb" — exploded near a U.S. Marine mine-sweeping team yesterday, killing one soldier and wounding three others.
The teathereens were clearing the area of unexploded ammunition to permit the final contingent of a 1,200-member Marine detachment to wade ashore near Beirut International Airport, which is serving as their headquarters.
The arrival of the last Marines completed the tri-national peace force.
complexed the tr-national peace force. The Pentagon, amid conflicting orders and warnings from Russia, rule out" the possibility the shell may have been a cluster-type munition, the U.S.-made weapon dropped by Israel during its invasion of Lebanon.
Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas use different artillery artil.
Pentagon spokesman Henry Catto said the blast was "just an accident," not the result of hostile action against U.S. forces.
identified as Cpl. Anthony Moran, 21,
of Muccon Gaucho, Cpl. Ceephor Cpl.
Knox.
President Reagan expressed shock and sorrow at the casualties but said the Marines' mission would not change.
The victims were immediately flown to the USS Guam, the helicopter carrier that serves as flagship for the U.S. fleet supporting the Marines in Lebanon.
ONE MARINE DIED after reaching the Guam and another was seriously wounded. The other two were slightly wounded and able to walk aboard — one with a leg wound and the other with an arm wound, officials said.
The two less seriously injured were
It was the first bloodshed involving the Marines in Lebanon. Their earlier 16-day peacekeeping mission, which ended Sept. 16, was free of incident.
The first American military men killed in Lebanon were two U.S. military officers, part of the U.N. bombing team, kept off a Saturday nine miles east of Beirut.
The Marine casualties cast a palp over a day that had begun optimistically with the reopening of the Israeli embassy in Lebanon, since the Israel invasion of Lebanon.
Lebanese ran to their balconies and clapped in joy as the Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 from Larnaca, Cyprus, entered the capital before landing south of the city.
In a ceremony before the Marines landed, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel thanked the United States, France and Italy for sending the troops so that Saad Bantu would no more be divided into Christian and Moslem sectors.
"Beirut, as of today, is the capital of all Lebanon, and has become one city, a united capital." the newly installed president said. "No east, no west halves — it is one for all Lebanon and all of the Lebanese."
In Egypt, U.S. presidential envoy Philip Habib told Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali yesterday he hoped to achieve agreement "within weeks, not months" on withdrawal of both Israeli and Syrian forces from Lebanon, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
In Tel Aviv, an Israeli official said the only condition Israel has set for
leaving Lebanon is "the simultaneous withdrawal of all foreign forces." Another official said, "We would like (to go as soon as possible)
But, the official said, Israel had "no idea" when a withdrawal agreement was reached.
A PALESTINIAN LEADER, however, said he expected another "full-scale military confrontation" in eastern and northern Lebanon between
guerrillas of the PLO and Israeli invasion forces.
Salah Khalaf, better known by his code name Abu Iyad, is Yasser Arafat's No. 2 man in Fatah, the PLO's largest faction.
In an interview in the weekly magazine Al Mussawar, Khalaf said PLO forces are mazed where the next battleground is, the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.
Phalangists ordered raids but not massacre, reports say
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Top Christian Phalangist commanders, including slain President-elect Beesh Gemayel, planned the electron of two refugee camps to the massacre of Palestinian civilians, newspaper reports said yesterday.
The body count from the massacre rose to 337 when officials discovered the body of a pregnant 17-year-old woman and her unborn infant.
Officials said that the magnitude of the slaughter may never been known because many bodies were bulldozed into mass graves. They have predicted the total number of dead could reach 1,500.
The Washington Post, quoting a variety of sources, said the original intent of the Christian raid was to take out the insurgents. The guerrillas to encourage an estimated
500,000 Palestinian refugees to leave Lebanon.
But the Post said the operation, planned before Gemayel's Sept.19 assassination, did not call for the attack on men and children at two refugee camps.
The New York Times quoted a high-ranking Lebanese Army officer as saying the plan to enter the camps had been discussed between Israel and Christian officers long before Gemayel's assassination.
THAT WOULD conflict with a statement by Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon that the operation was worked out Sept. 15, the day after Gemayel's death. Phalangist troops moved into the camps Sept. 16.
The Post said the move into 'the camps was "in accordance with an operational plan designed and approved by the highest military echelons of Beshir Gemayel's Lebanese Forces militia, including Gemayel himself."
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