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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Friday, Feb. 21, 1986
News Briefs
Iran says Iraqi jet shot civilian plane
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian passenger plane on a domestic flight was shot down by an Iraqi fighter yet jested, and a representative of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was among the 40 people thought killed, Iran's official news agency reported.
Iraq denied the Iranian report, saying its attacks were confined to military targets.
The Islamic Republic News Agency said several members of the Majlis, Iran's parliament, also were on the plane.
Both sides reported shooting down military aircraft. However, this could not be confirmed by independent observers.
ATLANTA — The Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that it had found no production problems at Gerber plants that would account for the glass fragments reported to have been found in baby foods in seven states.
FDA finds no glass
Gerber spokesman Steve Poole suggested that the sudden rash of complaints might be a reaction to the Tyleneol incident.
Gerber and New York agriculture officials also announced that plant inspections and sample tests had revealed no glass particles inside unopened jars of the company's food products.
AIDS chances go up
WASHINGTON - The number of people most likely to develop AIDS after being infected by the virus may be as much as 29 percent higher than previously estimated, a new study said yesterday.
Studies by researchers at the National Cancer Institute had indicated that 5 percent to 19 percent of those infected with the virus would develop acquired immune deficiency syndrome. But the NCI raised the numbers after another year of study, said Dr. James Goedert, principal author of the study in the journal Science.
From Kansan wires.
U.S. favors mutual inspection talk
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The State Department welcomed a Soviet proposal yesterday for mutual inspections to verify compliance with a nuclear test ban treaty but reiterated American reservations about such an agreement.
"To the extent that this general Soviet statement may reflect development of common ground on this critical issue, it's hopeful," department spokesman Charles Redman said. "We welcome any dialogue with the Soviets that would narrow our differences on the issue."
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in a message to a 40-nation Disarmament Conference in Geneva, earlier repeated his call for a total ban on nuclear tests and also agreed to a longstanding U.S. demand for on-site inspections to verify compliance with any such treaty.
"We've long advocated a dialogue with the Soviet Union to arrive at the improved verification procedures necessary for any nuclear testing limitations," Redman said. "This includes on-site inspections."
But Redman said the issue of how to verify compliance with a test ban agreement was not the only problem
the administration has with such an accord.
He had the State Department reissue a statement expressing a longstanding position that such an agreement should come only in the context of deep cuts in both superpowers' nuclear arsenals.
The statement said a comprehensive test ban was "a long-term objective of the United States in the context of achieving broad, deep and verifiable arms reductions, substantially improved verification capabilities, extended confidence building measures, greater balance in conventional forces, and at a time
when a nuclear deterrent is no longer as essential an element as currently for international security and stability."
The United States and Soviet Union are negotiating in those areas. They have yet to achieve agreements.
Redman noted that President Reagan last year invited Soviet experts to visit the U.S. nuclear testing site in Nevada to measure the yield of an American nuclear test, but as yet there has been no positive response from Moscow.
was tendered," he said.
"We remain hopeful the Soviet Union will accept this invitation in the spirit of good will with which it
Gorbachev's statement did not address the Reagan invitation and proposed on-site inspections after a ban is instituted. It said the Soviet Union "is agreeable to the most strict control over a ban on nuclear weapon tests, including on-site inspections."
All but underground nuclear tests were banned by a partial test ban treaty signed in 1963. Subsequent negotiations on a complete ban stalled because the Soviets rejected U.S. demands for on-site inspections. Reagan broke off test ban talks in 1981.
Subcommittee votes to stop aid
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee voted unanimously yesterday to end military aid to the Philippines and to cut off economic help to President Ferdinand Marcos until "a legitimate government" rules in Manila.
The bill passed over the objections of the House and Senate Republican leadership and the warnings of two senior administration officials that the severance could shatter the unity of the Philippine military.
Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., one of the most bitter congressional critics of Marcos, and Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., an ardent defender of U.S. security interests in the Philippines, pressed for passage of the bill.
"We can't condone what happened in the Philippines," Solomon said of the fraud-tainted, violent election of Marcos. "There is no way we in America can promote and believe in democracy and condone this type of action."
The bill would allow the U.S. aid program to the Philippines government to restart when Reagan reports to Congress "that a legitimate government has been established in the Philippines which commands the support of the people" and Congress passes a resolution agreeing with the finding.
Congressional critics have called on President Reagan to tell Marcos to step down in favor of opponent Corazon Aquino or risk a violent overthrow by communist insurgents.
Under the bill, the current $54.7
million in military aid would be put in escrow. Economic and humanitarian aid, now set at $181.2 million, would be channeled through private voluntary organizations and the Roman Catholic Church.
Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told congressional leaders Wednesday that a swift aid cutoff could endanger U.S. interests in the Philippines.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and House Republican Leader Bob Michel of Illinois said Congress should avoid a significant policy action until special envoy Philip Habib returned from Manila.
"I think it's very important that we not rush to judgment in some of these areas," Dole said.
Solomon and Solarz said a cutoff of
aid or redirecting economic assistance through private groups would have no immediate effect on Marcos's government.
Solomon and Solarz said the full Foreign Affairs Committee wanted to hear Habb's report on his talks with church, business and political leaders before it took any definitive action.
Paul Wolfowitz, assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, and Richard Armitage, assistant defense secretary for international security, made no hard effort to block the bill.
But they warned that the United States could not walk out on its responsibilities in the Philippines, which is beset by a stagnant economy, political polarization and growing Communist insurgency.
Marcos' allies are inching away
Europeans may boycott inauguration
earliest possible time.
Aquino, Marcos' opponent in the disputed Feb. 7 election, met diplomats — including 12 ambassadors — from 14 European countries and Japan. She told them she was determined to assume the presidency of the Philippines at the
The Associated Press
None of the ambassadors specifically endorsed Aquino's claim that she won the election but was cheated out of victory. She had asked them not to recognize Marcos' government.
The election has been widely criticized as fraudulent.
MANILA, Philippines — Some traditional allies of President Ferdinand Marcos appeared to distance themselves from his government yesterday, as European countries considered boycotting his inauguration and several ambassadors met with Corazon Aquino.
Ambassador Wieger Hellema of the Netherlands, acting as spokesman for envoys of the 12 European Common Market countries, was asked about reported plans for ambassadors from the trade bloc not to attend the Marcos inauguration, scheduled for Tuesday. He said it
was under consideration in the capitals because of the fraud allegations.
When asked whether any of the countries were considering withdrawing recognition of Marcos' government, he said there had been no word on that.
In Strasburg, France, the European Parliament voted unanimously to blame Marcos for most of the reported abuses in the special election, called by Marcos in an effort to prove his popularity.
Japanese Ambassador Kiyoshi Sumiya, after meeting with Aquino, told Japanese reporters she had asked him not to attend the inauguration. He said he told her he would relay the message to Tokyo.
Pilots'union and Eastern resume talks
sumya said that his country had no intention of intervening in Philippine affairs but that he hoped a bloody struggle would be avoided.
Aquino, widow of assassinated opposition leader Benigno Aquino, has launched a countrywide campaign to keep Marcos from continuing his 29-year rule. Among the things being done are strike protests, school walkouts and boycots of companies associated with Marcos and his friends.
The government has provided no details of Marcos' inauguration
United Press International
MIAMI — Eastern Airlines and its pilots' union sued contract talks yesterday. Chairman Frank Borman said a few zealots were keeping the financially troubled carrier from reaching a new wage agreement.
"There are some zealots out there that don't seem to either be capable of understanding or don't want to understand what a marketplace is all about," Borman said in a televised interview on WPBT's Nightly Business Report.
The company and representatives of the Air Line Pilots Association met with a federal mediator shortly after an Eastern announcement that it would shut down and lay off nonessential employees if there is a strike.
The airline had said earlier it would fly a limited schedule during a strike, as United Airlines did last spring.
It would be in the best interests of the airline to shut down if there is a strike, Jerry Cosley, Eastern spokesman, said. "All non-essential personnel would be notified not to come back to work."
A federally mandated 30-day cooling off period expires midnight Tuesday and if no agreement is reached by then, the pilots will be free to strike. A similar period ends at midnight Feb. 28 for flight attendants.
The ALPA confirmed it was counting authorization ballots for a possible strike that could come as early as midnight Tuesday.
FIND OUT WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE
(and see who KU sends to the MTV Regional Competition)
AT PARTY No.3 (after we bust K-State,we're gonna bust M.S.)
The Final Lip-Sync Competition including...
The S.A.M.S. Jayhawk Shuffle!!
Steve Pope as Billy Idol
IN COOPERATION WITH:
TV-30
KLZR
7TH HEAVEN
RAMONA STUDIOS
You've seen them on campus...
Lana Pace as Ann Wilson
Linda Proctor as Madonna
They are the Celebrity/Rock Look-A-Like Contestants and they're S.A.M.S. buster's competing for a campus grand prize trip to the BAHAMAS (come see who wins)! Vote for your favorite Look-A-Like and help bust M.S.!
STUDENTS AGAINST MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
EVENT TAKES PLACE:
February 22
10:00 p.m.
KU Ballroom
We're Out To Tie Up & Bust M.S.