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University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Terrorists bomb 11 cities attack Army supply train
MADRID, Spain — Terrorist bombers struck in 11 major cities across Spain and dynamited a West German train carrying U.S. Army supplies yesterday. Attacks also were reported in Italy and France.
In Bonn, a West German government security report warned new attacks were expected against American targets by the Red Army Faction and other left-wing bands.
Spanish police said a shadowy urban guerrilla group set off 15 crude home-made bombs outside banks, tax offices and other public buildings in Madrid and 10 other Spanish cities, causing damage but no casualties.
Interior Minister Juan Jose Roson bled the attacks on GRAPO, a terrorist outfit known by its Spanish acronym for the Oct. 1 Anti-Fascist Revolutionary Groups. He linked the attacks with the Oct. 28 general elections.
Two bombs went off in Madrid, Leon, Tarragona and Barcelona. Other bombs exploded in Seville, Valencia, Cordoba, Vigo, Castellon, Oviedo and Mataro.
West German police said terrorists tried to blow up a German freight train carrying food supplies to a U.S. army depot near Giessen. They said no one was injured in the blast that tore up rails and ripped a hole in the track, but did not seriously damage the train.
Soviet jet crashes and burns; 10 die
LUXEMBOURG — A Soviet jetliner with 77 people crashed upon landing yesterday, and burst into flames at Luxemburg's Findel airport. Luxembourg state troopers reported that 10 persons were killed. Rescue sources said several survivors from among the 11 crew
Rescue sources said several survivors from among the 11 crew members and 66 passengers suffered serious burns.
The Soviet jet, part of the world's largest airline fleet, was coming in for landing at 2:28 p.m. CDT under clear skies, a television reporter on the scene said.
It touched the runway, then suddenly veered to the right before cutting down dozens of trees and exploding into flames about 1,000 yards from the runway, the reporter said.
Senate moves to fund government
WASHINGTON — During a nonstop 13-hour session, the Senate yesterday rejected dozens of amendments, including a $1 billion Democratic jobs program, and passed a stopgap measure to fund the government past midnight tonight.
However, a joint Senate-House conference committee must still resolve the differences between the two measures and submit the compromise to the House and Senate for a final vote. The president also must sign it.
Without enactment of the temporary funding measure, called a "continuing resolution," the federal government would be forced to begin shutting down operations tomorrow, the beginning of the 1983 fiscal year.
Just before final passage, the Senate voted 60-37 to kill an amendment by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., to create a temporary $1 billion emergency program to put 200,000 people to work repairing the nation's roads and bridges.
Study says superpowers are equal
LONDON - The Soviets are boosting their edge over the West in nuclear and conventional forces in Europe, but the two superpowers are still roughly equal in overall nuclear strength, an authoritative research institute said Thursday.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies, in its annual military balance survey, said although it believed the Soviets might have the upper hand in a war limited to continental Europe, the Soviets and Americans would be roughly equal in a full-fledged confrontation.
The institute said it "does not endorse the current claims of supposed U.S. weakness in strategic forces."
It estimated total weight of Soviet strategic nuclear weapons at 6,100 megatons compared with 3,752 for the United States.
TVA to consider toxic waste dump
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — TVA officials who fought off the tiny snail darter, Cherokee Indians and farmers to complete Tellico Dam said yesterday they would consider building a toxic waste dump in the area if they could coax industry there.
Agency spokesman Don Bagwell said industries locating in the area would probably need somewhere to dump their waste and that TVA had never considered the idea until a steel company inquired about it last spring.
Although Bagwell said the toxic waste dump was "not a serious proposal," a letter from TVA Chairman Charles Dean dated May 20 stated otherwise and a memo TVA released Tuesday for a single industry would be acceptable.
Bagwell said TVA never considered that industries would need a place to dump their waste until last spring when Timken Steel Co. raised the question. Timken considered putting a plant in the area but opted against it.
Soviet-backed Afghans bomb Kabul
NEW DELHI, India — Soviet-backed Afghan government forces rained bombs and rockets on a bazaar near the Afghan capital of Kabul in a helicopter attack on Sept. 18 that killed or wounded 200 civilians, Western diplomats said yesterday.
In response to the attack, anti-communist Moslem rebels shelled the Soviet Embassy in Kabul the following day and blew up the Radio Center. The government was arrested.
One official said the Soviet Embassy compound was hit on the night of Sept. 19 with rocket, machine gun and small arms fire.
In another attack near the Soviet Embassy, an official of Karmal's Soviet-backed regime was killed when a grenade blew up in his home.
Amerasian children to fly to States
BANGKOK, Thailand — The largest group of Amerasian children to leave postwar Vietnam will depart Ho Chi Minh City today on the first leg of a flight to a new life in the land of their fathers.
The 11 children, all American citizens, range in age from 7 to 15 and will be accompanied by nine relatives on the flight to Bangkok, U.S.
Don Colin, chief of the U.S. Embassy's Orderly Departure Program, said he hoped the departure of the 11 children would clear the way for more offspring of Americans conceived during the Vietnam War. U.S. embassies in children, who are outcasts in Vietnam because of their American features.
The U.S. Embassy said the rest of the children and their relatives would go to new homes in Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, California and Washington, D.C.
Marines land in Beirut; Lebanese rage goes on
By United Press International
U. S. Marines, part of an international peace-keeping force, landed in West Beirut for the second time in a month yesterday, and new violence by Israel's Christian allies against Palestinian Islam was reported in southern Lebanon.
State-run Beirut said four said suspected Christian gunmen fatally shot a 70-year-old Palestinian man from the apartment building. The refugee camp, 28 miles south of Beirut.
A total of 1,200 Marines will join Italian and French forces to provide Lebanon a measure of stability following the assassination of President-elect Beesh Gemayel, the subsequent invasion of Israeli forces and the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Beirut.
THE MARINES made a two-pronged entry into the Lebanese capital. The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said 200 landed at the northern port and 600 others arrived in helicopters from ships in the Mediterranean.
The landing came after Israel, following a bitter dispute with U.S. diplomats, agreed to withdraw all its forces from the strategic airport that it hoped to use even after the Americans' arrival.
The Americans will be stationed south of the Palestinian refugee camps where Israeli-allied Lebanese Christian militiamen slaughtered hundreds of Arab men in two weeks ago. The camp will be protected by Italian and French troops.
The State Department took the unusual step yesterday of reversing Reagan's statement Tuesday that the United States would withdraw from Lebanon, and Syria withdraw from Lebanon.
"I don't think he was putting forth the question of (Israeli and Syrian) withdrawals from Lebanon as a criterion," a spokesman in Washington said.
"I think he was putting that forth as an expectation of what is going to happen and what we see happening in the immediate future."
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ON THE POLITICAL front, newly-elected Lebanese President Amin Gemayel accepted the formal resignation of the government of Prime Minister Chefik Wazzan, a presidential palace statement said. But the present government will stay as caretakers until a new administration is formed.
In Damascus, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat led mourners at a funeral for Ala Abu AlWalil, the PLO "commander-in-arms" of the forces in an ambush in eastern Lebanon.
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IN TEL AVIV, opposition forces, unswayed by the Israeli government's decision to launch an inquiry into the Beirut massacre, yesterday pressed Prime Minister Menachem Begin and minister Ariel Sharon to resign.
Begin faced angry calls for his resignation in an appearance before the Knesset's powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Newpaper editors in Ha'aretz and the Jerusalem Post joined opposition forces and continued to press for resignations from Sharon and Begin.
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Wendy's sizzles, sues Burger King for promo
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—Figuring there "nin't no reason" to let a competitor get away with a nationwide advertising campaign it considers "false, misleading and deceptive." Wendy's International,愈年iedyer filed a $25 million lawsuit against Burger King Corp.
At a news conference at the No. 3 hamburger-maker's very first sandwich shop, Wendy's Chairman Robert L. Barney said the suit was filed in U.S. District Court "for our customers."
"Their (Burger King's) claims are an insult to them," he said.
BURGER KING also has a lawsuit pending against it by McDonald's, the nation's largest fast food outlet, because of ads saying consumers prefer Burger King's "broiled" or the "fried" patties of competitors.
"We cannot allow the American consumer to be confused, confounded and misled by Burger King's campaign," said Barney. "Our research completely contradicts everything they claim."
The Columbus suit seems damages, corrective advertising and an injunction to stop the ads, which have been televised commercial Sunday night.
If the ads continue, an estimated 90 percent of all American consumers will have seen them within eight weeks.
The $25 million figure is based on production costs and media air time to run corrective ads, and does not include punitive damages to be determined by the court, Barney said.
BARNEY SAID the "obvious unfairness of this method of comparison clearly communicates the difficulty" of Burger King's research
THE LAWSUIT challenges the validity of Burger King's research, which claims consumer preference is influenced by international "sinclair" hamburger.
"I think we're going to find their studies are not a true representative sample of what people think," he said. "We're not going to stand by it, let them, on nationwide television, insult the American intelligence."
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