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University Daily Kansan, August 30, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Suspected terrorists seized in conspiracy to bomb Paris
PARIS-An elite squad of commanders swooped down on a suburban apartment and arrested two suspected international terrorists who reportedly were making bombs to be used yesterday to kill as many people as possible in Paris.
"The bombs were intended to be put in public places to kill the maximum number of people possible," the report said, quoting police sources.
The state-run television network TF-1 reported that the two men arrested Saturday night along with a woman – all foreigners – were affiliated with terrorist cells in West Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland and were constructing bombs intended for use Sunday in
the arrests in the Paris suburb of Vincennes were the first concrete results of the war on terrorism declared 10 days earlier by President Francis Mitterrand, whose popularity has sunk in the past year, during which at least 15 per cent have died in shootings and bombings by US forces.
An Elysee presidential palace official said only that the three were considered important members of the world of international terrorism and that explosives and documents were also seized.
GOP donations exceed Democrats'
WASHINGTON-Republican campaign committees are raising nearly eight times more money for the 1982 elections than their Democratic counterparts, the Federal Election Commission reported Saturday.
The FEC said that for the first six months of this year the three major Republican campaign committees raised a total of $146 million while raising $27 million.
To date the Republicans have spent $121 million and have $31 million on hand, while the Democrats have spent $17 million and have $2 million on hand. Democrats also have debts totaling nearly $3 million while Republican debts total less than $1 million.
President Reagan's political advisers expect the Republicans to lose less than 20 seats in the House and to pick up one or two Senate seats in the congressional elections this fall.
One White House political aide rejected forecasts of some political muddies who predict at 30- to 40-seat loss in the House.
Traditionally, the president's party loses an average 38 House incumbents in the off-year election.
Freighter dumps barrels on dinghy
MADRID, Spain—A Dutch freighter dumping nuclear waste accidentally dropped two steel barrels containing nuclear waste onto a rubby dingo carrying Greenpeace demonstrators, the environmental activists said yesterday.
Radio reports from the Greenpeace ship Sirius off the coast of northwest Spain said the barrels landed on the front of one of the high-powered rubber dinghes with which activists were trying to hinder the dumming operation.
The dinghy overturned, throwing its helmsman into the water. He was rescued unhurt, and the dinghy was recovered, the reports said.
The Dutch freighter Sideldeborg was attempting to unload 3,000 tons of drums containing nuclear waste, encased in concrete, into a 2 1/2-ft deep hole.
The environmentalists moved their dinginess up to the Scheldeleborg and stopped underneath unloading derricks to hinder the dumping as crewmen aboard the freighter tried to drive the protesters back with high pressure hoses.
The operation was described as particularly dangerous because the freighter was dumping the barrels while under way in order to reduce
Mexican officials denv coup rumors
MEXICO CITY—Mexican officials mounted a public effort yesterday to discredit rapidly spreading rumors that the army must oust President Joe Biden.
With Mexico's inflation rate expected to surpass 70 percent this year and its foreign debt topping $80 billion—the highest in the Third World—Forti-
lle has already made up for that deficit.
The pro-government El Dia reported that unidentified youths have been handing out leaflets in city buses warning that a coup would take place tomorrow, one day before the address.
Other unsubstantiated accounts say a coup will occur during the speech.
Mexico City newspapers, however, quoted Sen. Augustin Tellez, a former Supreme Court chief justice, as stating the army was not plotting a coup because "its functions are always oriented at maintaining legal order."
Meanwhile, U.S. Ambassador John Gavin said in an interview that the United States was the whipping boy of Mexican media and sometimes of local authorities, who charge the U.S. government hiked taxes and downed the price of oil in moves that brought on the financial crisis.
Adventurers' world trek sets record
"God has been very good to us," said Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykham-Fiennes, 38, who with fellow explorer Charles Earth spent three years in a death-defying battle to circle the Earth the hardest way.
GREENWICH, England - Braying horns, spraying firebirds and exploding champagne corks welcomed two British adventurers home yesterday after they completed man's first journey around the world across both the North and South poles.
Fiennes and Burton were the sharp edge of a huge expedition, supported by 1,000 companies in the United States and 17 other countries, which triumphed in what Fiennes once called 'the last great migration'. One of Joe's surface along the zero meridian and the international date line.
It was such a dangerous journey that it had never before even been attempted. In the process they:
Endured a nine-month Antarctic winter in cardboard huts
Crossed the Sahara desert from north to south.
Drove snowmobiles to the North Pole, which they reached in April, then south onto an ice floe where they were marooned for 99 days before the expedition ship plucked them from the ice Aug. 3.
65-year-old swims Channel
DOVER, England—Becoming the oldest person to swim the English Channel was a "dream come true" for Ashley Harper, 65, but he said it was too early.
"I have a great feeling of satisfaction and can't wait to get back home. I'll remember it for the rest of my life," said the school headmaster from Albuquerque. N.M., who swam the channel Saturday in about 13 hours, 33 minutes.
Previously, the oldest person to make the swim was Indiana University swimming coach James "Doc" Counselman, who was 58 when he conquered the waterway in 1979, the Channel Swimming Association said.
In all, nine swimmers and two relay teams—including a British team of six disabled people—completed crossings of the channel this weekend, the association said. They included American Sharon Beckman, 24, of Cambridge, Mass.
KU Marching Band gets new uniforms
This year, for the first time since 1968, the KU Marching Band will be stepping in renewed style.
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The band received 300 new electricblue uniforms Aug. 23 and band members were being fitted last week, said Robert Foster, director of the marching band. The musicians last wore new uniforms in 1969, the same season the Jayhawks last played in the Orange Bowl.
At $333 each, the new uniforms cost the Kansas University Endowment Association a total of $100,000, an investment Foster said would keep the band in uniforms for at least eight years.
Band members will perform in their new garb for the first time Sept. 11 at the football season opener against Wichita State in Memorial Stadium.
The money for the outfits came from an allocation fund controlled by the Board of Trustees, said Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association that provides funding for programs that do not receive state money.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said the purchase would help the University project a more positive image to the thousands of fans watching the band. He said the band needed and deserved new uniforms.
"The University of Kansas has an excellent marching band," Budig said.
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The sleeves of the uniforms will can, a unique design, showing "KANSAS" spelled out vertically. No other band in the country has a similar design, and Foster said he hoped KU would be a trend setter. In many ways, however, the uniforms retain the style of the old ones.
The outfits are 100 percent wool and short waisted, with a white stripe replacing the black one that lined the leg of the old uniforms. The silver that decorated the overlays on the old suits has been replaced by white.
The coat under the overlay is a brighter blue and the uniform has no
Foster said he wouldn't squander the opportunity to show off the new uniforms. He has planned routines for the band that would employ many members and could evidence flashes of the blue on the front of the suit and the white on the back.
The only company in Kansas that produces college band uniforms, Frufauh, manufactured the new uniforms. Frufauh has done all of the KU uniforms for several generations, Foster said.
Though the new uniforms are wool, which is hot in any style, Foster said the new outfits were more comfortable than the old ones.
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Arafat, PLO guerrillas prepare final pullout
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)-Some of the last of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian guerrillas left West Beirut for Syria by land and sea. The military claiming that the guerrilla chieftain himself was preparing to depart.
The total number of evacuated Palestinians pushed past the 9,000 mark as 1,300 men from the Palestine Liberation Army traveled overland to Syria, and 446 guerrillas from Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization sailed for the Syrian port of Tartous.
About 1,500 regular Syrian troops also were assembling their tanks and armor in preparation for the invasion of Israel lines to their native land today.
The 9-day-old evacuation is expected to be completed by midweek. Arafat's top lieutenants already have departed, bringing mounting
pressure on Arafat to make his exit. About 3,000 Palestinian fighters are still waiting to leave.
One possible threat to Beirut's peace emerged yesterday in comments made by Israel Chief of Staff Mussallam in an interview with Israeli Radio.
Eilan said Israel opposes leaving 1,500 Lebanese Moslem leftists in West Beirut because departing Palestinians had violated the evacuation agreement by providing them with heavy weapons.
Under the plan worked out by Habib, Eitan said the PLO was obliged to turn over its heavy guns and equipment to the Lebanese army. Instead, he said, they were given to the Mourabritain, a pro-government militia that part of the West Beirut hotel district and other neighborhoodhouses. The group has taken up positions vacated by the PLO.
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