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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, March 26, 1986
News Briefs
Court ruling permits meetings to continue
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court handed a technical victory yesterday to Bible-reading students in Williamsport, Pa., but avoided giving its legal blessing to teachers or prayer meetings in public schools.
WASHINGTON — The pesticide heptachlor that contaminated thousands of gallons of milk in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma has shown up in the consumer meat supply, the Department of Agriculture said yesterday.
The court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that the lone member of the school board who appealed the original decision allowing students to hold the meetings did not have a legal right to challenge the lower court ruling. The court did not rule on the constitutional question of religious freedom.
Smokeless not safe
Pesticide is in meat
Of 196 meat samples tested, six had illegally high amounts of the chemical, officials said. Additional samples were analyzed.
WASHINGTON — Smokeless tobacco products, used by at least 12 million people in the United States last year, can cause cancer and are not a safe substitute for smoking cigarettes, a report for the surgeon general said yesterday.
The agency is testing products used by the national school lunch program, which receives meat from 18 plants in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Victim forewarned
BETHESDA, Md. — An ice cream parlor manager was forewarned of a robbery at his store, but was still left with an empty register.
Nathan Peabody was called by a man claiming to be a police officer, who said police had a tip his store would be robbed that night. He told Peabody to give the robber the money — police would arrest him outside.
When a man came in with a knife and demanded money, Peabody gave him the cash and waited for police, who never arrested the man.
From Kansan wires.
United Press International
U.S. money alters Honduran story
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras accused the United States yesterday of sowing propaganda for saying Nicaraguan government troops had crossed the Honduran border, but abruptly reversed the claim after President Reagan pledged up to $20 million in emergency military aid.
Lisandro Quezada, Honduaran government spokesman, first told the newspaper El Heraldo that the Reagan administration was sowing disinformation about the alleged incursion of 1,500 Nicaraguan troops.
Minutes after repeating those allegations, Quezada read a statement confirming the
He said, "The Honduran government has information confirming that in the eastern border sector, in the province of Olancho, there have been new incursions by the Sandinista People's Army on Honduran territory."
Before the reversal, Reagan, citing an urgent plea from Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo, ordered the release of up to $20 million in military assistance to counter the Nicaraguan military push.
Later yesterday, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, Gen. John Galvin, arrived in Honduras to evaluate the military situation, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said.
The spokesman said Galvin was sent by Caspar Weinberger, U.S. defense secretary, to meet with Honduran army and government officials and to provide counseling, military intelligence and an evaluation of the military situation.
Quezada's statement did not give the number of Nicaraguan troops thought to be in Honduras, the date of their incursion or their location, quezada said he did not know any of the details.
Gen. Joaquin Cuadra, Nicaraguan army chief of staff, reported heavy combat in
Quadra denied reports that Sandinista troops had invaded its northern neighbor, but conceded it was probable that artillery shells may have fallen on the other side of the border.
Nicaragua near the border. Thousands of men were mobilized, he said.
It is difficult to prove or disprove claims of a Nicaraguan troop incursion into Honduras because the border stretches about 480 miles over rugged terrain.
At the regional military headquarters in Estell, a Soviet-built M-24 H gunship helicopter was seen landing, apparently to back up another already on the ground.
A Nicaraguan army spokesman said an operation to drive out contras who infiltrated Nicaraguan territory over the last two weeks was continuing, but fighting had moved away from the border to an area called Yali, 25 miles northeast of Esteli and about 40 miles from the border.
said U.S. military assistance to Honduras was expected to include troop transport operations, possibly piloted by Americans, as well as other military supplies. He did not rule out arms and ammunition.
Larry Speakes, White House spokesman.
In Managua, Manuel Espinoza, Nicaraguan government spokesman, denied that Nicaraguan troops had entered Honduran territory as the Reagan administration had contended.
He was referring to the contras as former members of ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza's national guard.
"These false charges form part of the propaganda structure built up by the White House to get the approval of the $100 million for the Somoza mercenaries." Espinoza said.
The Honduran statement confirming the Reagan allegations said troops had been ordered into the eastern border region to protect the population and repel the Nicaraguan troops, and there was no reason for alarm.
Senate rejects budget proposal
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected a balanced budget constitutional amendment by one vote yesterday, heeding arguments that the measure would tie the nation's most cherished document into a straitjacket and would not solve the country's fiscal problems.
The rejection — a reversal of the Senate's 1982 approval of the amendment — came on a 66-34 bipartisan vote and leaders said it killed the issue for this year. The measure required a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, for passage.
ported the measure, while 10 Republicans and 24 Democrats opposed it
Forty-three Republicans and 23 Democrats sup
President Reagan had worked the telephones hoping to persuade senators to support the amendment but his effort fell short.
After the vote, the White House issued a statement saying that the president was disappointed, but that the Senate's close vote "merely spurs us to come back and try again."
But Sen. Orrrin Hatch, R-Utha, a key sponsor of the amendment, conceded: "It's not dead, but let's be honest about it. Unless there's a change in the '86 election and we can replace some of those who voted against us ... I don't believe we're going to
be able to pass it."
Backers of the amendment said it was necessary to keep the federal budget balanced after 1991, when the Gramm-Rudman balanced budget law expired. It would have required a three-fifths majority of the Congress to send the government's budget into the red, except in times of declared war when it would need only a simple majority.
Even if the Senate had approved the measure, it faced likely defeat in the House, which rejected a similar proposal in 1982 after the Senate passed it. It also would have had to have approval of three-fourths of the states to become the 27th amendment to the Constitution.
NAACP calls Oscar voting a slap in the face to movie
United Press International
test to the Academy.
LOS ANGELES — An NAACP chapter filed a protest yesterday against the Motion Picture Academy for not awarding any Oscars to "The Color Purple," calling it a slap in the face to producer-composer Quincy Jones and director Steven Spielberg.
A spokesman said the Academy had no comment, noting the winners and losers were the result of secret balloting by its 4,234 members.
The statement by the Hollywood-Beverly Hills branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was issued by publicist Connie Watson, who called the outcome a black-out, a term the chapter uses to describe industry action to suppress black film projects. She said Willis Edwards, the chapter president, sent a formal letter of pro-
"I think there is a very strong social implication," Jones said after the awards.
The film about a rural black woman's struggle for self-worth had gone into the awards night with 11 nominations, the same number as "Out of Africa," which won seven Oscars, including best picture. "The Color Purple" failed to win even one.
The shutout added to the controversy that already surrounded the academy's snub of Spielberg, who was denied a nomination.
Marcos moves to estate; Swiss banks freeze assets
United Press International
HONOLULU — Ferdinand Marcos, his wife and a small personal staff spent their first day in a new refuge yesterday — a, heavily guarded $1.5 million oceanide estate in Honolulu. Meanwhile, Switzerland froze any assets in that country of the former Philippine president to prevent him from removing them.
Hickam a 27-day stay on restricted
Hickam Air Force Base, the Marcos
party made a cross-town dash
Monday night to the one-story,
four-bedroom beachfront house on
the eastern edge of Honolulu. The
Marcoses remained out of sight yesterday while Secret Service agents guarded the home.
In Bern, the Swiss government ordered banks to freeze any assets held there by Marcos.
Achille Casanova, vice chancellor of the federal government, refused to name banks involved and said his government was not sure that Marcos had money deposited in Swiss banks.
However, another government spokesman said the order was given to six Swiss banks after the government learned Monday that Marcos had tried to withdraw money from Switzerland.
Angolan rebels report bombing of oil complex
United Press International
LISBON, Portugal U.S-supported Angolan rebels said yesterday that they bombed and dynamitened a Chevron-Gulf oil company complex and pipeline in northern Angola. Chevron denied its base camp was attacked but said it had no information on the status of the pipeline.
A spokesman for the anti-Marxist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, known as UNITA, said he did not know whether there were casualties. More than 100 Americans work at the Chevron-Gulf complex.
UNITA spokesman Alcides Sakala said commandos attacked the Malongo oil installations in the northern enclave of Cabinda before dawn Monday.
UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi threatened in Washington last month to order an attack on the installations — the Angolan government's main source of foreign exchange — unless the U.S. companies stopped lobbying against his movement.
Savimbi met with President Reagan during his visit and received pledges of military aid for his in-vehicle vehicles when mainly backed by South Africa.
The offshore Atlantic oil fields in Cabinda pump about 75 percent of the country's oil.
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