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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, April 10. 1986
News Briefs
U. of Illinois allows shantytown to stand
URBANA, III. — University of Illinois officials said yesterday that they would let a shantytown built to protest the school's investments in companies doing business in South Africa stand until Saturday.
Students built the small structures in the middle of campus from plywood and 2-by-4 studs Tuesday but did not have the required permission from the university, school officials said.
Actor promises fun
CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif.
— Clint Eastwood, mayor-elect,
promised yesterday to "bring a little
fun back to Carmel."
Eastwood, will be sworn in Tuesday, told reporters at a news conference that he didn't plan to geek higher office.
"I'm not running for anything," he said. "I'm staying right here in Carmel. This is where it stops."
Eastwood said the triumph ranked with his successes as a director and actor.
Doctor investigated
WASHINGTON — The U.S. attorney and District of Columbia homicide detectives investigated yesterday the death of a heart patient who was under the care of a physician who helped save President Reagan's life.
Benjamin Aaron, chief heart surgeon at George Washington University Hospital, who removed a bullet from Reagan's chest after a 1801 assassination attempt, was placed on administrative leave after one of his patients allegedly was injected with a lethal dose of potassium chloride.
Dancers seek asylum
SAN FRANCISCO — Five black members of a South African dance and music troupe who have been in the United States since 1890 asked for political asylum Tuesday, saying they fear for their lives if they return home.
The five came to the United States with the Uzulu Dance Theatre as part of a South African government-sponsored tour six years ago and received entertainer visas.
From Kansan wires
Carriers stay in Mediterranean
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Navy has taken steps to assure that President Reagan can call on a two-carrier battle group if he decides to order a military strike against Libya, Pentagon and administration sources said yesterday.
The preparations include cancellation of the departure by one carrier from the Mediterranean for home travel. A second carrier by a second carrier, the sources said.
The U.S. 6th Fleet now has the carrier America under way in the northern Mediterranean off the coast of Italy. The carrier Coral Sea, which had been expected to sail for home shortly, was in port yesterday in Malaga, Spain, but sources said it might get under way as early as today.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Navy had yet to receive any orders to re-form a naval battle group in the central Mediterranean off Libya's coast. But they acknowledged the latest preparations were the clearest indication yet that plans were being studied for a military strike.
"It has become clear over the past 24 hours that we're going to keep our options open for the moment by keeping two carriers over there," said one source.
The disclosure of the Navy actions came as President Reagan was telling newspaper editors the United States was not going to just sit here and hold still in the wake of renewed terrorist attacks against Americans in Europe.
The president refused to say what he planned to do, other than to continue to gather evidence about the incidents and to seek the support of European allies.
He said Libyan leader Moammar
Shortly before the president's appearance, a senior administration official disclosed that U.S. intelligence agencies had learned that Khadafy was encouraging his embassies to guide new terrorist attacks against Iran and Reagan administration officials had agreed there must be retaliation.
Khadafy was definitely a suspect in the latest fatal bombings aboard a TWA jetliner over Greece and in a West Berlin nightclub.
Pentagon sources revealed on Tuesday that the Coral Sea was preparing to leave port at Malaga, Spain, to conduct some routine
operations in the western Mediterranean. After a brief period of operations, the sources said, the Coral Sea was supposed to set sail for the United States, having completed its normal six-month deployment.
The carrier left its home port of Norfolk, Va., on Oct. 2.
Instead of departing Malaga, however, the Coral Sea was unexpectedly ordered to remain in port and to scrap its plans, at least temporarily, for a return home.
The carrier America, meanwhile, left the port of Livorno, Italy, yesterday as scheduled. But that ship had been told to remain under way at sea instead of heading toward a second port call in France, the sources said.
Brash LaRouche condemns critics
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Lyndon LaRouche, basking in new prominence, said yesterday that he represented the forgotten majority and characterized a laundry list of critics as being insane, homosexual, pre-Soviet or linked to an international drug lobby.
Holding one of the biggest news conferences of his no-longer- obscure political career, LaRouche also dismissed as lies charges by several groups such as the Anti-Defaunlation League of B'rai B'rith and the AFL-CIO that he is an anti-Semite and a fascist.
"I know of no case of any attack on me, which has been published or which I have noticed in the news media, which did not originate with the drug lobby or with the Soviet operation," he said during an appearance at the National Press Club.
The often combative, one-hour session ended with LaRouche cutting off Mark Nyakanen, an NBC correspondent, who asked him about the finances of a organization of a few thousand people worldwide.
"You guys (NBC) are a bunch of liars," said
Afterwards, Nykanei, who has done several investigative stories on LaRoche, said he was not a drug pusher but that he didn't want to engage in a debate with LaRoche.
LaRouche, in response to a network report Tuesday that quoted sources as saying he is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service. "How could I talk to a drugusher like you?"
A stunned Democratic Party called the election a fluke caused, in large part, by uninformed voters and non-vigilant politicians. It is now conducting a second election sign in an effort to prevent a repeat of the election.
LaRouche, 63, a three-time presidential candidate on the political fringe, surged into the national spotlight in March when two of his followers scored upsets in the Illinois Democratic primary. They defeated the hand-picked candidates of gubernatorial nominee Adalie Stevenson.
LaRouche said the election reflected mounting support for his state and local candidates nationwide, most of whom run on the ticket of the National Democratic Policy Committee, which has no connection with the Democratic Party.
He said his followers in Illinois drew support from the forgotten majority — farmers, blue-collar households and blacks.
"They don't believe in Washington; they don't believe in the party leadership," he said. "They don't believe in the national AFL-CIO leadership."
Standing before about 100 news reporters and photographers, he said, "They look to me as the guy who will stick it to 'em in Washington, in a manner not much different from the (George) Wallace phenomenon some years ago."
Several questions dealt with his verbal attacks on critics, ranging from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to civic leaders in Loudoun County, Va., where he has lived in heavily fortified estates for the past three years.
"The ADL attacks on me have been always on behalf of the drug lobby and nothing else," he said of charges. The organization has rejected LaRouche's charges as unfounded.
Gun lobby scores win in House vote
United Press International
WASHINGTON — In a victory for the gun lobby, the U.S. House firmly rejected important amendments proposed by opponents of a new gun control law yesterday, turning down a ban on the interstate sale of handguns and sale of silencers.
that the issue was a matter of life and death.
Voting 248-176, lawmakers set the stage for final approval of the bill by rejecting pleas from supporters of strict gun control laws, who argued
Rep. William Hughes, D-N.J., who took the lead in trying to convince his colleagues to ban interstate handgun sales, said the vote on the amendment might be the most important vote in the debate over the gun law.
Noting that hundreds of police officers had converged on the Capitol to oppose loosening gun laws, Hughes said voting for his amendment would
allow the police officers to return home without a message that the House of Representatives had turned its back on them.
The House also rejected, 242-177,
an amendment by Hughes to allow
states and local jurisdictions to
continue prosecuting people who travel
 across state lines with handguns if it
violates local law.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms applauded the House votes as important to the millions of Americans who own firearms and said, "We are going to do everything we can."
yesterday, they stopped debate on the bill in the early evening. Votes on additional amendments and the final bill, which would ease the nation's gun laws for the first time since 1968, were to come today.
Although house leaders had expected to finish work on the measure
4.9 billion to coexist on Earth
United Press International
The bureau, a private research organization specializing in demographic trends, said the increase would continue despite the global growth rate as national programs in population control took effect.
China with 1.05 billion people remains the most populous nation, with 21.3 percent of the world total, the report said. India is second with 785 million people and could surpass China by the year 2100 if present trends in both countries continue.
WASHINGTON — World population will hit 4.9 billion at midyear and more than double by the end of the 21st century, the Population Reference Bureau estimated yesterday.
The United States, with 241 million people, is now in fourth place, trailing the Soviet Union, which has a population of 280 million.
The report, written by Thomas Merrick, bureau president, said global population growth, after accelerating for two centuries, had nearly doubled in size slightly more than 2 percent a year in the late 1960s to 1.7 percent now.
"Human demographic history has reached an important turning point." Merrick said of the slowing of the growth rate.
Merrick's report said that far more than 90 percent of the slowing but enormous growth, was concentrated in the less developed countries of Africa, Asia — excluding Japan — and Latin America. Those areas accounted for 76.1 percent of world population.
Despite the slower rate, the annual global population increase, now 83 million a year, is expected to climb to about 89 million annually in the late 20th century. In numbers continues because the size of the base population is so large.
In China, fertility dropped sharply to replacement level - 2.1 children per woman - in 1984 after a controversial campaign of one child a family launched in 1979.
Fertility is also declining in other developing countries except sub-Saharan Africa, the poorer countries of Latin America such as Bolivia, Guatemala and Hounduras, and in South Asia, including Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.
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