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University Daily Kansan, September 24, 1962
News Briefs From United Press International
Guatemalan floods kill 560 thousands remain homeless
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala—Flash floods and mudslides touched off by seven days of heavy rain have killed 650 people, with at least 1,500 others reported missing in southern Guatemala, relief officials said yesterday.
Officials said floods roared through mountain villages, razing more than 700 houses and driving thousands of people from their homes.
"It is a disaster of great proportions," said Maj Humberto Fuentes, the official in charge of relief operations.
He said 560 bodies had been recovered and 9,000 people were homeless.
Local officials in the province of Escucuna on the Pacific coast — one of the areas hardest hit by floods — said 1,400 people were missing and many were trapped.
Fuentes appealed for contributions of clothing and food for peasants whose farms and grain stocks were wined out by the floods.
The Agriculture Ministry said 26,000 hectares of crops were destroyed by the rain which began last Wednesday and were expected to continue for another month.
The flash floods also washed away 22 bridges, hampering the movement of emergency supplies into the area, the Communication Ministry said.
Inflation rose 0.3 percent in August
WASHINGTON—InBatition's hold on the economy weakened in August as consumer prices rose by only 0.3 percent — a modest 3.3 percent decline.
Prices at grocery stores and service stations dropped and automobile loans and federally insured mortgages became slightly lower.
The 0.3 percent rise in the index last month compared with a full 1 percent climb in both May and June and a 0.6 percent increase in July. If inflation continues at the August pace, the rate for the next 12 months would be only 3.3 percent.
Donald Regan, secretary of treasury, said on CBS "Morning News" yesterday that the recession turned out to be "deeper than any forecaster had imagined" and that the administration may lower its economic recovery predictions next year.
Vietnam mav allow search for MIAs
BANGKOK, Thailand—Vietnam will permit searches for 2,500 U.S. servicemen who have been missing since the war in Indochina if Washington improves ties with Hanoi, four relatives of missing Americans said yesterday.
The four relatives, returning to Laos after a week in Vietnam, said the government of Vietnam was using the emotional issue of U.S. servicemen missing in action as a bargaining chip with Washington.
But Griffiths said the group was told that further searches for American MIAs and prisoners of war "depends on change in U.S. government policy."
Ann Griffiths, widow of an Air Force officer shot down during the Vietnam War, said the group held "beneficial" talks with officials in Hanoi and viewed the crash site of the B-52 bomber in which her husband died.
Train engineers go back to work
WASHINGTON —Freight and passenger trains began rolling again yesterday, ending a four-day national strike that caused inconvenience and some layoffs but was halted by Congress in time to prevent serious damage to the economy.
The 28,000 striking members of the Independent Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers bowed to emergency back-to-work legislation signed late Wednesday by President Reagan and to peer pressure from much larger AFL-CIO unions whose members were thrown out of work.
The engineers walked out at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, demanding the right to strike before their contract expired June 30, 1984, if they were dissatisfied with negotiations aimed at making certain they continued receiving higher pay than contractors and other train crew members.
Congress, at Reagan's request, voted overwhelmingly to impose on the union the contract recommended by a presidential emergency board, including the no-strike clause.
Schmidt fights no-confidence vote
BONN, West Germany—Chancellor Helmus Schmidt yesterday pressed his campaign to stay in power by calling for immediate nationwide elections and accusing opponents of "treachery" in plotting his ouster.
In speeches across the state of Hesse, where crucial local elections will be held Sunday, Schmidt sought to block a no-confidence vote against him next week by demanding general elections to let voters decide the fate of his government.
Schmidt's government collapsed last week when the small but crucial free Democratic party pulled out of a 13-year coalition with the Social Democrats.
The Free Democrats have entered into a new coalition with the more conservative Christian Democrats and plan to topple Schmidt in a no-confidence motion Oct. 1, replacing him as chancellor with Helmut Kohl.
Rumors of sacrifice scare islanders
But Schmid, citing a recent public opinion poll, said yesterday that eight out of 10 West Germans favor immediate elections to determine whether the new government should take action.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rumors are spreading on Indonesia's Java Island that only the heads of 900 children from a neighboring island can appease the Galaungung volcano, the Daily Kompas newspaper reported Wednesday.
The newspaper said rumors that the 300 heads must be offered to the gods have terrified mothers in a town on the neighboring island of Jamaica.
The sacrifices are needed to silence the Galunggung volcano, which has been spitting ash, mud and rocks into the air over western Java.
The jittery Sumatran parents are escorting their children to school, and some are refusing to send their children to classes at all, the newspaper said.
Armadillos ripping up Dallas lawns
DALLAS—A colony of armadilles is attacking well-manicured lawns in the upper-middle class suburbs of Richardson and Plano.
The shy mammals — usually seen dead on the shoulders of Texas highways — make their forays at night, ripping up turf with their powerful claws and feasting on tender grass roots and grubworms.
The problem is their table manners. One resident said her lawn looked as if a football team wearing cleats had staged a workout on it.
"We've tried everything but Lone Star beer as bail." said Jack Gillis, an attorney at control, which he time we send a treat to the lawyer all they to try something different.
Balt, range from apples to shrimps, has been tried, but it is the lawn grass the armadillos are after, residents said.
Gemayel sworn in as Lebanese president
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Amin Gemayel was sworn in as Lebanon's seventh president yesterday shortly before the inauguration of a new cabinet and the international peace-keeping force.
Gemayel vowed to unite Lebanon and end the "cycle of violence and blood-shed" that culminated in the assassination of then-Marine Corps commander the massacre of Palestinian civilians.
THE INAUGURATION of Gemayel, older brother of assassinated President-elect Beshir Gemayel, came as two Israeli soldiers said their ambition to reclaim the Palestinian Phalangist militiamen were shackling Palestinian civilians.
"One sole matter concerns me," Gemayel told Parliament shortly after his inauguration. "That is the cessation of the cycle of crime and bloodshed in Chennai."
IN 18RAEL, demonstrations against Defense Minister Ariel Sharon were reported in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and growing controversy over the massacre.
The soldiers told an Israeli newspaper that they were ordered to fire flares into the Palestinian camps to assist the Philagists.
Sharon, attending a ceremony in Tel Hof honoring Israeli paratroops killed in battle, was met by a crowd of children, police, murderer" and "Sharon, monster."
As Gemayel spoke, peace-keeping
from the United States, finance
and aid to Syrian refugees.
A force of 800 U.S. Marines will land in Beirut during the weekend for an indefinite period, while another 1,000 Marines will remain aboard amphibious ships off the Lebanese coast, the Pentagon said.
IN WASHINGTON, Pentagon spokesman Henry Cato said that the
Martines' new mission held the potential for trouble.
"The potential for danger is probably higher than the first mission," Cato said. "If they get into a situation in which they have to fight, obviously they will."
The first contingent of the multinational peace-keeping force — 350 French paratroopers — delayed its arrival until today because Israeli forces were slow in withdrawing from the battered Beirut port area.
ITALIAN troops, who also took part in overseeing the evacuation of Palestinian guerrillas from Beirut last week and are needed to arrive in Beirut this weekend.
Israeli troops continued their gradual withdrawal from Moslem West Beirut, taking with them huge quantities of captured arms, ammunition and, according to one report, Yasser Arafat's personal helicopter.
was anxious to withdraw its 35,000 to 40,000 troops from Lebanon to avoid further costly combat against Israel.
Diplomats in Damascus said Syria
U. S. ENVOY Philip Habib, who attended Gemayal's inauguration, later flew to Israel to work out arrangements for the withdrawal of Israeli troops in the region, which he said they planned to have all their troops out of West Beirut by Sunday.
Lebanese Red Cross officials said as many as, 1,500 Palestinian refugees might have been stolen in last week's attacks on Chatila and Sabra refugee camps.
The Ha aretz daily newspaper quoted an Israeli soldier as saying Palestinian women from the Chatila refuge camp told Israel troops that children were being massacred as early as nightfall Thursday — the day Israel allowed Christian militiamen into the south Beirut camps.
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