Page 2 University Daily Kansan, September 9, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Police free Polish attache; plea for immunity rejected
BERN, Switzerland — A diplomat who went unnoticed for two days by Polish terrorists was rescued from the seized Polish Embassy yesterday and Swiss officials refused to grant immunity to the terrorists if they freed their last five hostages.
Matusius, who had not eaten since the terrorists seized the embassy, had hidden in a room on the top floor of the three-story house.
"It was all over in a few minutes," Ulrich Hubacher, Justice Ministry spokesman, said of the operation by police who scaled the embassy walls to rescue embassy attache Josef Matusiak. "He is now safe and sound."
The request for immunity was the latest in a series of concessions by the terrorists of the previously unknown "Polish Revolutionary Army" who stormed the embassy Monday, but since have freed eight of their 13 hostages.
Authorities refused to comment on whether the latest offer indicated that a breakthrough could be reached with the terrorists who threatened to blow the embassy, their hostages and themselves 'sky high,' unless Poland ends martial law by 4 a.m. EDT tomorrow.
Marines to withdraw from Lebanon
WASHINGTON — President Reagan announced yesterday that U.S. Marines sent into Lebanon as part of a multinational peace-keeping force will begin withdrawing tomorrow.
He said the U.S. troops played an essential role in bringing peace to Lebanon by overseeing last week's evacuation of Palestinian forces from the country.
At the same time, Reagan warned against further violations of the cease-fire in Lebanon, following Israel's attack yesterday on one of its embassies in the United States.
Reagan also minimized a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to the Israeli parliament that the West Bank would belong to "the Jewish people for all generations".
Derrick moves waste, not protesters
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Three environmentalists yesterday boarded a Dutch ship that was dumping nuclear waste in the North Atlantic, and handcuffed themselves to its derricks, a nuclear agency official said.
Hans Veldhuis, spokesman for the Netherlands Energy Research Center, said the three had halted work on board the government-chartered freighter Rijnborg.
Mickey Kaufmann, spokeswoman for the Greenpeace International Environmental Organization, said the boarding followed an accident that destroyed a high-speed inflatable boat.
"One of the concrete-linear steel drums containing the radioactive waste fell eight onto the boat. Willem Groenier, who was driving it, was maddened."
Veldhuis could not confirm the account of the accident, but said it was possible.
"It takes infinite skill by the Rijnborg's crew to miss the motorboats. Greenspace uses them to stop us dumping by lying right under the derricks," he said.
Baker to urge special SS session
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Howard Baker said yesterday he would urge that Congress hold a two-week special session beginning Jan. 3 to try to solve financial problems of the Social Security system.
The Social Security old-age trust fund will be unable to pay benefits in July 1983 unless Congress acts to ensure its solvency.
Baker was asked by reporters about a proposal last week by Senate Finance Committee chairman Bob Dole, R-Kan., to hold a lame-duck session of Congress on Social Security immediately after the Nov. 2 congressional elections.
"I think it has a lot of merit," Baker replied.
But, he added, "My preference is to have the equivalent of a special session on Jan. 3," which would give the new 98th Congress 10 to 14 days to work on Social Security before the normal session would begin.
Congress adjourns for the year on Oct. 8.
Army quits Copperhead production
WASHINGTON — The Army will cancel production of the Copperhead inner-guard artillery shell after spending $630 million on development and testing.
A House-Senate conference committee debating defense expenditures for fiscal 1983 made the decision for the Army by cutting out further money for the shell, approving only $15 million to end production. The Army "chose not to fight" the decision, one spokesman said.
The weapon was designed chiefly as a counter to the Soviet superiority in the number of tanks ranged against NATO forces in West
Though fired from a 155mm howitzer, the artillery round is guided to its target by a laser beam and as such acts more like a missile. It has to be fired by a soldier, and a spokesman said caused production problems with the weapon because of the "absolutely perfect" tolerances needed when fireing the shell.
Summer of 1982 was movies' star
HOLLYWOOD — The summer of 1982 was the most successur in Hollywood history. U.S. box offices sold $1.4 billion worth of tickets in 15 weeks, Variety magazine said yesterday.
The summer season, which lasted from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend, topped the previous record of $1.23 billion set in 1881. The main reason was the popular "E.T. - The Extra Train" earned a shopping $240 million, 18 percent of the total summer take.
Other summer blockbusters were "Rocky III," which earned $111 million; "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan," $78 million; "Polluterigist"; $65.7 million; "The Best Little Whehouse in Texas," $60.7 million; "Annie," $22.7 million; and "Conan the Barbarian," $50 million.
"Doonesbury" artist needs breather
FAIRWAY — "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau will take a leave of absence early next year and temporarily cease production of his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip in more than 700 newspapers, Universal Press Syndicate officials said yesterday.
"I need a breather," Trudeau, 34, told Universal Press Syndicate officials in a telephone conversation from his home in New York City.
John P. McMeel, president of Universal Press Syndicate, yesterday said "Doonesbury" would be suspended beginning Jan. 2, 1983.
sam Dobbsbury would be hesitated beginning Jan. 2, 1863. The specific length of Trudeau's leave was not announced. But the artist told the syndicate he would likely resume the feature by the fall of 1864.
Trudeau said it was time to reappraise his characters and review development of the strip.
Rare tie vote marks first Senate meeting
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
Tie votes don't happen very often in the Student Senate. In fact, David Welch, student body vice president, had never exercised his authority to break a deadlocked vote at a Senate meeting.
Welch broke a 19-19 tie at the Senate's first fall semester meeting by voting against a bill that would have made the campus director of the Associated Students of Kansas an ex officio Student Senate Executive Committee.
Ashner, StudEx chairman, was "largely symbolic," said David Adkins, student body president.
That is, until last night.
THE BILL, submitted by Lisa
"In the past, ASK has felt very alienated from the students," Adkins told the Senate. He said that although the ASK campus director usually attended StudEx's semimonthly meeting with Gov. Bridgman, bill the Senate would have regular meetings and ASK's lobbying efforts and possible problems with the Kansas Legislature.
Opponents of the bill, however, said its approval would have forced StudEx to establish positions for other Senate-funded organizations.
"ASK is funded by the Senate, they have no legal ties to it," said Paul
THE SENATE, however, approved by voice another bill that created a House committee to address the issue.
Buskirk, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator. "This bill makes it almost a duty to bring in other organizations that we fund."
The bill, also submitted by Ashner, named the campus director of ASK as an ex officio non-voting member of the new committee. The committee's chairman, when named, will also become a voting member of StudEx.
John Keightley is the current ASK campus director,
After the two-hour meeting, Staci
Feldman, Senate executive secretary,
will meet with the Senate Republicans.
to 11 senators who had not attended the meeting.
Feldman said Senate rules prevented her from naming the suspended senators until the notices had been sent.
According to Senate rules, senators are suspended after they have two unexcused absences or four absences of any kind.
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Senators who do not appeal the suspensions within one week will be removed.
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