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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Feb. 27, 1986
News Briefs
Smith College sit-in enters its third day
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — Dozens of Smith College students yesterday gave no sign of leaving the administration building, which they took over Monday to protest the school's investments in South Africa.
Students at the elite women's school renewed their vow to hold College Hall until the school agreed to divest the $22.3 million it has invested in companies which do business with South Africa.
Smith trustees voted over the weekend against complete divestiture.
20 poisoned in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Members of ousted dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier's private army poisoned the water supply of a northern town, Port-de-Paix, killing 20 people, radio reports said.
The reports, which could not be confirmed, came amid fears that former Ton Tons Macoutes members were seeking revenge against civilians whose violent protests forced Duvalier to flee Feb. 7.
American Airlines and Eastern Airlines canceled flights to Haiti yesterday.
WASHINGTON — Navy Cmdr. Donal Billig, 55, the former chief of heart surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, was convicted in a court-martial yesterday of involuntary manslaughter and negligence in the deaths of three of his patients, and of 19 counts of dereliction of duty.
Surgeon convicted
Billig faces dismissal from the Navy, up to 11 years, nine months in prison and other possible fines and penalties.
Ruth's a Pepper, too
DALLAS — Coca-Cola officials say they won't alter Dr Pepper's "out of the ordinary" advertising campaign, which features Ruth Westheimer joining company President John Albers in giving away millions of cans.
The "good soda" ads follow Westheimer's "Sexually Speaking" radio-show format, focusing on people seeking help with some provocative diet-drink problems.
From Kansan wires.
Reagan defends military spending
United Press International
WASHINGTON President Reagan said yesterday that any effort to cut back Pentagon spending from the $311 billion in his new budget was dangerous, and he warned that the strength of the United States was in jeopardy.
While saying the nation had made considerable progress in the past five years — in which $1.2 trillion has gone into military spending — Reagan said the "hard, cold reality of our defense deficit" demanded nothing less than the amount he is seeking for fiscal year 1987.
Further, he maintained, it was his rearming of the nation that forced the Soviet Union to think seriously about cutting nuclear arsenals.
"Now that the Soviets are back at the table, we must not undercut our negotiators," he argued.
The $311 billion amounts to an 8.2 percent increase over present spending levels and would represent the first payment on a new five-year military spending program that carries a price tag of $1.8 trillion.
Reagan, speaking to a nationwide television audience from the Oval Office, said large military imbalances still remained between the United States and Soviet Union. And he bluntly put congressional foes on notice that he would fight for every dime in his latest spending outline.
Going over the politicians' heads to the people, the president said, "I will never ask you for what isn't needed. I will never fight for what isn't
Reagan's speech was his first devoted exclusively to defense since his March 1983 address, in which he announced his Star Wars plan to build a high-tech anti-missile defense that would make nuclear weapons obsolete. That project is being researched and still is the subject of fierce debate.
necessary. But I need your help. . . "
Last night's speech contained no new initiatives. The president opened his talk with his first spoken remarks on the overthrow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, saying, "We salute the remarkable restraint shown by both sides to prevent bloodshed during these last tense days."
"Our hearts and hands are with President Aquino and her new government as they set out to meet the challenges ahead," Reagan said, never referring to Marcos — whose 20-year rule ended abruptly with the withdrawal of U.S. support this week.
Marcos resigned Tuesday as support for a new government under
A senior administration official, speaking with reporters, said the speech was designed to kick off debate on the defense budget, and when questioned about its allegedly defensive tone replied, "It is an effort to sell the defense budget."
Corazon Aquino became overwhelming.
President Hosni Mubarak, facing his worst domestic crisis since the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981, pronounced the insurrections crushed at an emergency Cabinet meeting yesterday evening.
country is going to have a useful debate on national security, we have to get beyond the drumbeat of propaganda and get the facts on the table."
Pointing to an approaching clash on Capitol Hill over the 1987 budget — the first to come under full pressure from the Gramm-Rudman balanced budget law — Reagan said, "If our
Pitching for the 8.2 percent defense increase while most domestic programs face cuts, Reagan said, "The biggest increases in defense spending are behind us."
He said he accepted a defense freeze last year with 3 percent real growth scheduled for this year, only to have it result in a reduction because of the Gramm-Rudman law.
Diplomatic sources said many people apparently were killed or wounded, but they had no exact figures. The newspaper Al Akhbar said 64 people were wounded and hospitalized in Giza, 10 miles south of the capital.
Troops crush Egypt revolt; hotels burn
Two army helicopters fired rockets at the Giza police camp and tanks moved into the burned hotel section to crush the riot, the semi-official Al Ahram newspaper.
"Instead of a freeze, there was a sharp cut—a cut of over 5 percent," he said. "And some are now saying that we need to chop another $20, $30, even $50 billion out of national defense."
United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt — Army troops using tanks and rocket-firing helicopters crushed a revolt by police conscripts yesterday in which the mutineers burned down three luxury hotels on the avenue to the pyramids, the semi-official Al Ahram newspaper said.
The mutiny, which erupted at police ccnspark consept the Giza Pyramids south of Cairo, spread to other camps as far south as Suhag, 300 miles from the capital, and to Ismailia, 90 miles north of Cairo.
Up to 60 foreigners, including as many as 130 Americans, were evacuated from the Holiday Pyramid, Holiday Sphinx and Jolie Village hotels, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy said.
U.S. won't link summit to arms
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The administration yesterday rejected Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's suggestion that the timing of the next summit should be tied to progress at the arms control negotiating table.
President Reagan later, in a nationally televised address on defense, put the burden for arms control progress on the Kremlin but did not touch on the latest wrinkle in U.S.-Soviet relations and the possible challenge to a second superpower summit.
Reagan noted that U.S. negotiators presented his latest plan for eliminating intermediate-range nuclear missiles to the Soviets at the Geneva negotiating table this week.
"And we are pressing the Soviets for cuts in other offensive forces as well." he said.
State Department and White House spokesmen earlier said about Gorbache's suggestion, "That kind of linkage simply won't work."
State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said Reagan made a serious response to Gorbachev's Jan. 15 initiative proposing complete
elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2000.
But Gorbachev, in an address to the 27th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in Moscow on Tuesday, attacked Reagan's response, which proposed the elimination of U.S. and Soviet medium-range nuclear weapons from Europe and Asia during a three-year period.
"General Secretary Gorbachev seems to have missed a central point in the president's letter," Kalb said. "As the president said Monday, we are pleased that the Soviet Union now appears to agree in principle with our
ultimate goal of moving to the total elimination of nuclear weapons when this becomes possible."
The Soviet Embassy held an unusual news conference to promote Gorbachev's speech, his first to a party congress since succeeding Konstantin Chernenko almost a year ago. For the most part, three Soviet diplomats referred reporters to Gorbachev's speech.
In that address, Gorbachev said he found it hard to detect in Reagan's response "any serious preparedness of the U.S. administration to get down to the cardinal problems."
Tylenol capsule found near body Cvanide claims victim in Tennessee
United Press International
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A man found dead with a single capsule of Extra-Strength Tylenol under his bed was killed by a massive dose of cyanide, the Nashville area medical examiner reported yesterday.
The level of cyanide found in the remains of Timothy Green, 32, was 20 times the lethal dose, Medical Examiner Charles Harlan said, but he stopped short of saying the poison came from a Tylenol capsule.
from," he said, but he noted that the Tylenol bottle smelled of cyanide and that traces of material that appeared to be cyanide were in the only remaining capsule.
"At this time we have not determined where the cyanide came
Hours later, the FBI in Washington said it had discovered that the cyanide involved in two New York cases earlier this month had been introduced into the capsules after the packaging process.
The Nashville capsule was in the hands of the state crime laboratory, and Harlan said it would be given to the Food and Drug Administration for testing.
The FDA said it would send the
capsule to its labs in Cincinnati as soon as it was received from the state crime lab. The FDA said no results of tests could be expected before late today at the earliest.
Green, a Minnesota native, was found Sunday on his bed in the apartment where he lived alone. Harlan said he had been dead four or five days.
Tests on the remains were negative for alcohol and drugs - including acetominophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, Harlan said.
He said that could mean that Green did not take a Tylenol, or the Tyienol could have been
removed from the capsule and replaced with cyanide.
The FBI moved into the case and the Tennessee Health Department issued a ban on the sale of whatever Tylenol capsules might remain for sale in the state.
The Health Department also warned that Tylenol in capsule-form must not be taken by anyone and that the capsules not be disposed of but retained.
Johnson & Johnson, makers of Tylenol, refused to discuss whether the bottle came through the same distribution point as the cyanide-tainted bottles found earlier this month in New York.
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