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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Monday, March 24, 1986
News Briefs
Part of shuttle cabin intact, sonar reveals
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Son images of the seabed where Challenger's crew cabin fell, made available yesterday, show a ghostly pattern of wreckage that indicates a portion of the compartment may have crashed into the ocean relatively intact.
Col. Edward O'Connor, in charge of the salvage effort for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said Friday that about 75 percent of the crew cabin was working from the USS Preserver.
The Preserver remained in port again yesterday because of 25-knot winds and 15-foot swells at sea.
Gas victims win suit
DANBURY, Conn — Union Carbide Corp. said yesterday that it had agreed to pay $350 million in damage claims from a poison gas leak at its plant in Bhopal, India, that killed more than 2,000 people and injured another 200,000.
The $500 million will be paid over time. It will produce a fund for the victims of between $500 million and $600 million because of accrued interest.
The class-action settlement covers everyone harmed by the disaster whether or not they have filed suit against Union Carbide, which is based in Danbury.
Meat strike may end
AUSTIN, Minn. — Mavler merc meatpackers said yesterday that they would try to negotiate an end to their strike against Hormel & Co. But they also said they would continue their lawsuit charging the parent union with undermining their 7-month-old walkout.
William Wym, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, ordered the strike ended last month in hopes of salvaging some jobs at Hormel's flagship plant.
japan storm kills 2
TOKYO - A spring snowstorm caused accidents that killed two people yesterday and a train crash that injured 253, authorities said.
In one accident, one man was killed when an awning collapsed under the weight of accumulated snow. In another accident, a firefighter was electrocited by a fallen power line, police said.
From Kansan wires.
Filipinos strike, servicemen fill in
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — American servicemen took over jobs as cooks and trash collectors yesterday as some 22,000 striking Filipino workers shut down strategic U.S. military bases for a third day. U.S. officials said military operations were not affected.
No talks were scheduled on breaking the impasse with the workers, who began the strike Friday after U.S. officials rejected a key union contract demand.
Officials reported pickets at four of the seven U.S. operations sites north of Manila, including the largest overseas U.S. air and naval installations — Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base.
No violence was reported yesterday. Clashes between picketers and servicemen at Subie, the sprawling logistics and repair center of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, left seven servicemen injured Friday night and Saturday, U.S. officials said.
workers were hospitalized after they were stabbed by eight Marines, apparently intoxicated, who tried to cross a picket line set up at Subic's main gate-Friday night.
U. S. officials would not confirm union charges that six Filipino
"Authorities at Subic continue to investigate allegations that U.S. Marines were involved," a U.S. Embassy statement said. "Numerous interviews with security guards and other individuals at Subic as well as with police authorities . . . have failed to substantiate that this incident took place."
U. S. officials asserted the walkout had a negligible effect on military operations. The main runway at Clark has been closed for repairs all month, so there are few, incoming flights. In addition, there are no ships on liberty call at Subic or in port for repair, the officials said.
However, U.S. servicemen took over jobs as cooks, telephone repairmen and trash collectors, and as maintenance men at water treatment and power plants at Clark and Subic.
Soviets angry over U.S. nuclear test
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union reacted with outrage yesterday to the first U.S. nuclear test explosion of 1986, saying it was meant to torpedo the Kremlin's moratorium on nuclear tests and show contempt for the world.
In West Germany, spokesmen for the opposition Social Democratic Party denounced the U.S. test as a provocation and called it a setback for East-West relations.
Although Soviet news commentators called the underground nuclear detonation impudent and a disgrace, they stopped short of saying the Soviet Union would resume testing. The detonation took place Saturday beneath the Nevada desert.
to resume testing," one commentator said.
"In giving the order to press the button someone in Washington meant to torpedo the Soviet moratorium and is trying to force the Soviet Union
Pravda, the daily Communist Party newspaper, said the U.S. administration was showing its contempt for the world and disregarding the demands of its own people.
The U.S. test — the first of 1986 — was a blow to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's hopes of curbing arms expenditures.
"One more test and the Soviet moratorium is over," the diplomat said. "Then there is the likelihood the Soviets will have to increase defense spending and decrease domestic spending."
The state-controlled Soviet news media said the blast had originally been planned for mid-April, but was set off Saturday to neutralize public opinion for the moratorium that would have gained momentum in the coming month.
The Soviet Union announced a series of unilateral moratoriums on nuclear tests beginning
last August. The self-imposed test ban was due to expire March 31, but Gorbachev extended it indefinitely provided the United States did not conduct tests
President Reagan has refused to discontinue U.S. testing, saying the Soviet moratorium was unverifiable.
The leaders of Argentina, India, Mexico, Sweden, Greece and Tanzania appealed to Reagan and Gorbachev to stop testing two weeks ago.
The nuclear test also was a challenge to Washington politicians, Radio Moscow said, citing a Capitol Hill protest.
The Soviet parliament sent a message Wednesday to Congress asking the United States not to go ahead with planned nuclear tests.
"A nuclear blast — such is the White House's response to the Soviet Union's appeal," Pravda said.
Soviet fifth-grader continues U.S. tour
United Press International
NEW YORK — Soviet schoolgirl Katerina Lycheva arrived in New York yesterday and said that if it were up to children, it would take a minute or so for the Soviet Union and the United States to get together.
Katya, an 11-year-old fifth-grader from Moscow, arrived in New York after a two-day visit to Chicago. She walked arm-in-arm with her U.S. hostess, Starve, 10, of San Francisco, at LaGuarda Airport. They wore matching sweatjackets with the words: 'Children as the Peacemakers.'
Katya is scheduled today to visit a Brooklyn public school, where she will eat fried chicken in the students' lunchroom, visit classes and talk with students. The school was
chosen, school officials said, because of its large number of immigrants, including Russians.
Katya's trip is in memory of Samantha Smith, the Maine schoolgirl who visited the Soviet Union in 1983. Samantha died in a plane crash last year with her father.
In Chicago, Katy attended the Express-Ways Children's career fair where she planted a chamomile seed as a token of peace. The seed will be transferred to the city's peace garden along Lake Michigan. Katya called the plant the most significant part of her trip so far.
"It is the American flower," Katya said through her interpreter. "Not only people, but flowers work for peace."
5 students fall, die at Florida resorts
United Press International
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A college student fell nine floors from a hotel balcony in Daytona Beach yesterday, bringing to the number of students who have plunged to their deaths in Florida this spring break season.
Daytona Beach Police said Paul Morse, 21, of Omaha, Neb., was airlifted to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. He was attempting to climb from the ninth-floor balcony of one room to another balcony of the LaPlaya Hotel when he fell, police said.
Police in Daytona Beach have warned that anyone caught climbing on hotel balconies would be arrested, but a female hotel guest said the warning apparently had had little effect.
"In the state of mind these people get into, you can't talk to them," she said. "They get more intoxicated as the night goes on."
In Fort Lauderdale, Michael Hutchings, 22, of Buffalo Grove, Ill., apparently fell backward over a balcony railing at the Pier 68 Hotel early Saturday, police said.
Another college student died in Daytona Beach in a fall Thursday. Police said Laurin Day Buffington of Griffin, Ga. fell six floors to her death when she lost her grip while climbing across a 'baiycon' from one hotel room to another.
Zia's rule draws fire from mob
From Kansan wires
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — People by the tens of thousands shouted antigovernment and anti-U.S. slogans yesterday, and opposition leaders said that President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's pro-American government was in its last days.
The Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, an alliance of 11 opposition parties, staged one of its biggest rallies since martial law was lifted Dec. 30.
About 60,000 people marched through this city of about 1 million and listened to anti-government speeches. The opposition staged dozens of smaller demonstrations across the country to commemorate Pakistan Day, celebrated as independence day here.
Speaker after speaker asserted that Zia's military government would fall soon for lack of support, and said this entire nation of 88 million people hungered for the return of democracy.
The United States was repeatedly criticized for supporting Zia, the army chief of staff who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977.
"If we want democracy in the country we must rid Pakistan of American influence, we must struggle against the Americans," said Afzal Zahda, a leader of the Peasants and Workers Party.
"American imperialism should stop interfering in the internal affairs
The crowd chanted "Zia is a dog!" and "Down with the Americans!" as speakers called for abolishing the government, the end of military influence in politics and immediate free elections.
Hundreds of riot police armed with rifles, bamboo clubs and shields were stationed around the city.
Earlier in the day, about 50 gunmen stormed Pakistan's largest prison and freed 35 death-row inmates, an official spokesman said. Two people were reported killed and several injured.
The gunmen attacked Sukkur's central jail, the biggest such prison in Pakistan spread over an area of three miles, and a number of wardens on duty were overpowered.
The attackers then scaled the jail wall after cutting electric wires and broke open 17 cells of prisoners in death row.
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