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University Daily Kansan, September 22, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Senate votes to terminate railroad engineers' strike
WASHINGTON—The Senate voted last night to halt a 3-day-old national railroad strike that stunned the depressed automobile industry, threatened massive layoffs and inconvenienced thousands of commuters.
Senate action came on a voice vote shortly after Labor Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Uttah, and ranking committee Democrat Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts failed in one last effort to sell the land and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on voluntary arbitration.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled to draft legislation this morning. Chairman John Dingell obtained unanimous consent from the House to bypass normal procedures and take the bill to the Senate, in preparation, consideration of the bill might have been delayed until tomorrow.
Both Dingell and House Speaker Thomas O'Neil promised prompt action to send the legislation to President Reagan, ordering 28,000 engineers to halt their work stoppage and allowing 400,000 other rail workers — many of them openly angry at the engineers — to return.
National SAT scores raise slighty
NEW YORK—Scholastic Aptitude Test scores for 1982 squeaked up three points, halting a 19-year decline, the College Board said yesterday.
Records showed the increase — two points in verbal and one in math— still left the average scores 87 points behind those of 1963, the year the data were collected.
Board President George Hanford said it was too early to tell whether the reversal was a trend or only a temporary interruption in the nearly two-decade slide in scores.
The tests measure aptitude and predict a student's chances of doing well in college.
The long slide in scores has been interpreted by various authorities as a sign that students and the schools of today, on the average, are not doing as well as those of nearly 20 years ago. The scores are considered to be one barometer of how schools perform.
Fifth shuttle flight to be on schedule
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla —The space shuttle Columbia returned to its launch pad yesterday and will be ready to blast off on its first operational flight on time, the space agency said.
The shuttle will undergo a month of further tests on the launch pad before the fifth flight, scheduled to begin at 6:19 a.m. CST on Nov. 11. It will land in the Pacific Ocean, 30 miles south of Guam.
On flight five, the shuttle will have a crew of four and for the first time will launch two commercial communications satellites into orbit.
The five-day voyage will also mark the first spacewalk since 1974. Mission specialists Joseph Allen and William Leonow will do a few light missions.
Ex-guard cleared of murder charges
KANSAS CITY, Kan—Former Wyandotte County jail guard Frank Santillon was acquitted yesterday of charges that he murdered one prisoner and injured three others in a December shooting sneeze.
More than 30 prosecution witnesses, including guards, inmates and police officers, (testified against Santillan, 48 about the shooting death of a teenage girl) are being interviewed.
Santillan testified that at 1:30 a.m. Dec. 12 he was picking up some Christmas cards when he heard a pop.
"It sounded like a cap gun," he said. "I saw a Negro mate, who I think was (immate James) Crume, with his hands pointed down towards a bow at him."
Santillan said he could not tell if the man had a gun in his hands and added that he immediately turned and started to leave the area when he
James Sharp, a recreation worker at the jail, testified that Crume, who is serving a life sentence for murder, admitted to him last February that he did the shooting. Sharp said he filed a report with the jail's warden after his conversation with Crume.
Honduran troops encircle guerrillas
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras—Honduran combat troops surrounded a downtown building yesterday in which leftist guerrillas have held 12
Honduran soldiers took up positions around the Chamber of Commerce Building before dawn, relieving some of the anti-terrorist force.
There were no signs that the troops planned to storm the building to rescue the hostages, who constitute two government ministers, a bank employee, and a police officer.
The guerrillas have demanded the release of 70 imprisoned leftists, including Salvadoran rebels, and the ouster of U.S. and other foreign powers.
Senate rejects halt of prayer delay
WASHINGTON—The Senate defeated a second attempt yesterday to break a filibuster blocking action on school prayer legislation, and liberals claimed to have "broken the radical right" on every item of its social agenda.
With every member of the Senate present, the vote was 53-47 — seven short of the required 60.
The Senate is scheduled to vote a third time against the liberal filibuster today and, at the request of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., a fourth time tomorrow if necessary. But even conservative Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., questioned whether the vote would be successful.
Speaker Thomas O'Neill Jr., D-Mass, indicated the prayer measure probably would be approved if it reached the House before Congress adjourned, but he said there had not been much agitation for House action.
Arizona expects bumper crop of pot
TUCSON, Ariz. —The depressed Mexican economy and a good growing season are contributing to a huge crop of marijuana that is beginning to turn up in Arizona at prices up to $500 a pound, narcotics officers said yesterday.
"We do expect a measurable increase in the amount of marjuanja coming into the United States," said Robert Eyman, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Because many Mexicans are unemployed, they are spending time growing marijuana. Sgt. David Gonzales of the Arizona Department of
Also, the Mexican government has withdrawn troops that used to curb the marijuana trafficking, Gonzales said.
He said if the 10 tons of marijuana seized in Arizona this year was any iridation, 1982 will mean a "bumper crop."
Marines sailing back to Beirut
By United Press International
U. S. Marines sailed to Beirut yesterday on a renewed peace-keeping mission to help Lebanon get control of its capital and prevent more bloodletting following the murder of its military officer and massacre of Palestinian refugees.
Residents of West Beirut, occupied for a week by Israeli forces, celebrated the imminent return of French, American and Italian soldiers.
The 1,800 Marines left Naples, Italy,
for the 72-hour Mediterranean voyage
on the carrier Guam and four amphibious
ships — the Hermitage, Saginaw,
Nashville and Manitowoc — equipped
with Sea King helicopters. Harrier
vertical takeoff jets and armored
vehicles.
Officials in Paris said the first units of 850 French peace-keeping soldiers would arrive as early as tomorrow. Italy's defense ministry said "around 1,000" Italian soldiers would soon go to Lebanon, apparently via Cyprus.
Only the 800 Marines who oversaw the evacuation of 13,000 Palestinian and Syrian fighters from West Beirut before leaving Sept. 11 were expected to go ashore in Lebanon, 6th Fleet would stay there, and the Navy would stay aboard the Navy ships unless the situation required them to land.
IN ISRAEL, Prime Minister Menachem Begin ignored the advice of his own Cabinet and other calls for an immediate, independent inquiry into the killings of Palestinian refugees by Israel's Christian militia allies
Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor said the government would decide the manner for "an appropriate examination" later.
Lebanese Army officials at Beirut's Sabra and Chattia refugee camps in Moslem West Beirut said the number of hostages under 36-hour rampage would exceed 1,000.
The slaughter prompted President Reagan Monday night to order the Marines back into Beirut and call on Israel to withdraw its troops from the Lebanese capital to prevent further bloodshed.
Reagan made no mention of who was at fault for the massacre in his speech, but the State Department for the first time bluntly blamed Israel.
"Iasrael assumed military control of West Beirut," said spokesman John Hughes. "When you take military action, you assume responsibility for what happens."
THE FINAL HURDLE for the return of the tri-national force was cleared earlier in the day by the Israeli Cabinet, which approved the red-employment and said it was withdrawing its forces from west Beirut.
But in Beirut, Israeli troops were
seen conducting house-to-house searches for leftist militiamen and arms caches in what appeared to be a last effort to clear the area of guerrillas before the arrival of the peace-keeping troops.
The Lebanese army also set up more patrols around the city, taking over from withdrawing Israeli units. State-run Beirut radio reported that the Lebanese "spread their control over 60 percent of the capital."
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, on the CBS "Morning News."
said no time limit had been set for the Marines' mission. He said they would stay until the Lebanese government is forced to withdraw its own borders and its own cities."
The top U.S. diplomat in Lebanon, Ambassador Morris Draper, met with Lebanese Prime Minister Chef Wikazan, Lebanese President Ellias Sarkia and Foreign Minister Fud Butros to discuss the situation in Israel's withdrawal, the government announced. No details were disclosed, however.
Lebanese pick new president
By United Press International
FAYAYDIYEH, Lebanon—Amin Gemayel, a moderate member of the Phalange Party, was elected president of Lebanon yesterday in a rare display of Christian-Moslem unity, exactly a week after the assassination of his younger brother.
liament for election on a first ballot.
Gemayel, 40, will assume office tomorrow.
He received 77 votes, easily exceeding the two-thirds majority required from the 92-member parliament for election on a first ballot. Gemayer's only rival, Raymond Edde, a leftist living in France since 1976, did not receive any votes.
Gemayel's brother Beshir, the 34-year-old pro-Western leader of Phalange Party, was killed last week in bombing of the party headquarters.
"The more we all work for the unity of Lebanon, its territories and its people, the more we will be loyal to our dreams"i dreams and plans for a proper treatment are said in a victory speech. "It's no time to weep. It's time for action."
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