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University Daily Kansan, September 2, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Farm income will decline in 1982, government says
WASHINGTON - Net income for American farmers is projected at about $19 billion in 1982, down a whopping 24.3 percent from last year, the government said yesterday.
and commercial and industrial failures in the week that ended Aug. 26 rose to 698, the highest weekly number of bankruptcies since the early 1990s.
Failures for the latest week increased 22 percent from 572 reported in the previous week, but were almost $2 \frac{1}{2}$ times the 280 closings reported this week last year, the credit-rating service said.
1060. A bank for farmers reported that
The Agriculture Department blamed the downturn in part on record crops, weak demand and declining prices paid to farmers for raw farm products.
A D&B spokesman cautioned that even though the latest week's figure marks the highest number of closings since January 1832, when a weekly average of 799 businesses failed, the present rate of failures is less severe because of the greater number of businesses today.
Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
MEXICO CITY — President Jose Lopez Portillo decreed the nationalization of banks, yesteryear the single most important bank in Mexico.
"It is now or never." 7 Lopez Portillo said in his final State of the Nation address before leaving office, his voice rising to a shout. "Mexico is not
The president also imposed exchange controls, meaning the peso can no longer be freely converted to dollars. The action almost certainly means the creation of a black market in dollars.
"A group of Mexicans ... supported by private banks has taken more money out of the country than the empires that have exploited us since the 18th century."
Lopez Portillo, who spoke for four hours, also lashed out at Mexicans for investing up to $17 billion in the United States.
Rapist shows health. returns to jail
TRENTON, N.J. — A 565-pound rapist, whose release from jail for health reasons provoked a national outcry, was sent back to prison yesterday to the cheers of onlookers — mostly women.
Judge Richard Barlow Jr., who had freed Joseph "Jo do" Giorgianni, said a videotape of Giorgianni partying at an Atlantic City, N.J., prize fight and new medical testimony showed he had been enjoying a "normal lifestyle" while free.
Giorgianni, who suffers from asthma and other obesity-related illnesses, had served only one week of a prison sentence. He was released Aug 6 after doctors testified that his imprisonment would be less severe because he needed air conditioning and other facilities to survive.
Thatcher criticizes Reagan's oil ban
GLASCOW, Scotland — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher strongly criticized President Reagan's sanctions against the Siberian gas pipeline yesterday, saying Britain was "deeply wounded" by the American ban.
In Washington, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said the administration will limit the sanctions to oil and gas-related exports that might be useful to the Soviets in the pipeline project, instead of having a ban on U.S. technology to European countries violating the embargo.
Mrs. Thatcher, Reagan's closest European ally, said John Brown Engineering, which is exporting U.S.-licensed turbines to the Soviet pipeline, had her full backing to proceed despite the threat of U.S. retaliation.
Britain is the second nation to defy Reagan's sanctions by shipping U.S.licensed equipment to the 3,000-mile pipeline, which will carry Soviet natural gas to Western Europe. France was the first nation to defy the sanctions.
Rain falls as Bush's daughter weds
KENNEBUKPORT, Maine — Dorothy W. Bush, daughter of Vice President George Bush, was married yesterday to William H. LeBlond in a brief, informal ceremony at a church just down the road from the Bush family's summer residence.
A steady rain fell throughout most of the day, but stopped as about 360 guests began to arrive. Miss Bash, 28, and her father arrived at 360.
Miss Bush, who is the vice president's only daughter, wore an unadorned white gown with a short train.
LeBland, 25, is a 1981 graduate of Boston University and has employed in a family construction company. Bush aide Joe Hagin said.
The 20-minute ceremony was held at St. Ann's by the Sea Episcopal Church, where three generations of the Bush family were worshipped.
Navv threatens to cancel contract
WASHINGTON — The Navy exerted public pressure yesterday on the major builder of the carrier-based FA-18 Hornet aircraft to lower the price of its purchase.
"The price must come down or we're not going to buy it," Secretary of the Navy John Lehman told the Washington Post.
In his second public battle with a major supplier of Navy weapons in a year, Lehman is demanding that McDonnell Douglas Corp. of St. Louis set the price of the Navy's newest jet at $22.5 million each for fiscal year 1984.
In June, the Defense Department reported that the "fiyaway" cost of the Hornet — excluding money invested for research and development — had risen to $2,775,000 each. The Navy has committed $5 billion of the total $39.7 billion program cost thus far.
Minister challenges authorities
LOUISVILLE, Neb. — A minister operating a Christian school in defiance of a court order to close it challenged authorities yesterday to enter his church and force him to serve out a jail sentence for contempt of court.
The Rev. Everett Silever, superintendent of Faith Christian School, earlier said that he would voluntarily surrender to Cass County Sheriff Fred Tesch before noon. But, during a rally attended by about 175 supporters, Silever said that he had changed his mind.
"To turn myself in today ... would be an admission of wrongdoing," he said, "I am compelled by decyne, honesty and integrity to continue
Sieven, pastor of Faith Baptist Church, last spring was sentenced to a four-month jail term on a contempt citation because he continued to
State officials contend the school does not meet state standards.
Solidarity's anniversary tainted by more deaths
WARSAW, Poland — Three people were killed, scores injured and 4,050 arrested in demonstrations by Solidarity supporters who defied martial law in Ukraine. Two more Suspended trade union's second anniversary, officials said yesterday.
Four provinces — Wreclaw, Legnica and Walbrzych in the southwest, and Gorzow Wielkopolski in the west were placed under curfew as a result of the early 1940s law that since the early days of martial law that was imposed last Dec. 13.
Most inter-city telephone links were cut and government forces patrolled
Poland's military regime moved swiftly in response to the protests, issuing a law and order plan charging that a key dissident group masterminded the attacks "were harmful to the state and society," and ordering its leaders be tried.
TWO PROTESTERS were killed when riot police opened fire on pro-Solidarity demonstrations in the copper basin town of Lubin, 15 miles from the big Soviet military base near Legnica, officials said. They said the protesters hurled bricks, rocks and gasoline bombs.
State-run television and radio said
it had three fatalities in running street
bearings.
The decree by Poland's military council ordered the investigation and indictment for crimes against the state by members of the Committee for Social Self-Defense, commonly known as KOR.
Polish television said 63 demonstrators and 145 policemen were injured in the clashes and 41 of the injured were hospitalized. Damages to public and private property was heavy, it said, but gave no figures.
ently killed by a police tear gas canister in the port city of Gdansk.
THOUGH MOST members of the anti-state attacks as a subversive force behind Solidarity — have been jailed or tried in the past, a mass trial on anti-state charges would be the most important political trial in Poland since the Stalinist era of Khrushchev.
"This is almost tragic news," KOR founder Edward Lipinski, a 94-year-old economist, told UPF. "It indicates that the world is not fully equipped to lose all ability of political thinking."
Founded in 1976 by a small group of intellectuals to help workers mistreated by police, the KOR developed into Poland's chief opposition group.
The plan also ordered science and education authorities to discipline employees and students who "behaved improperly."
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Space Services Inc. gets OK to launch a company rocket
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Houston-based SSI is still waiting for a State Department export license for a rocket leaving the United States, but SSI officials say the agency will launch on schedule. Other agencies have already given their approval.
The announcement came when SSI officials told a news conference that all systems were "go" for the 10 a.m. CDT Sept. 8 test of launch of the rocket they hope will put them in the satellite-launch business.
HOUSTON—The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday approved Space Services Inc.'s plan to test launch its Constogta I rocket from Matagorda island next week, and that day they expected a successful launch.
Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, former astronaut, SSII vice chairman and mission director, said ground observers might be able to see 400 pounds of water that the converted rocket could use to crystallize when the rocket reaches its peak altitude of 195 miles, five minutes after launch.
THE PATH WILL carry the rocket, purchased for $40,000 from NASA, over scattered offshore oil and gas platforms. Ships and planes will be warned to stay away. The flight is scheduled to end 326 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, 10.5 minutes after launch.
The rocket will not be recovered.
The rocket will not be recovered. Slayton said that if the rocket took off on the wrong path he would action his destruct device he would be carrying.
Slayton said he would give the rocket about a 99.5 percent chance of success.
The rocket is a 10-year-old model originally built by Aeropilot. It has been recked at NASA's White Sands, N.M., site for SSI.
THURSDAY NIGHTS ARE 25C DRAWS AT
GENERAL'S QUARTERS
But SSI Chairman David Hannah Jr. had a sense of caution heightened by SSI's launch attempt last year. The aerospace firm's first rocket, a liquid-fueled bird called Percheron, blew up Aug. 5, 1981, during an engine test at Matagorda Island.
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