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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 17, 1986
Nation/World
News Briefs
Soviet ship sinks;
sailor thought dead
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A Soviet cruise ship carrying more than 700 passengers and crew struck rocks and sank in stormy seas yesterday. Officials reported that a Soviet sailor was presumed dead.
Chief Police Inspector Owen Dowse today said all others aboard the 20,000-ton Mikhail Lermontov were saved. The first reports had said 34 people were missing.
100 feared drowned
Ten people were hospitalized in Wellington with minor injuries, Dowse said.
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A crowded bus being transported across the Buringaga River on a ferry yesterday plunged through the ferry's railing. More than 100 people were believed drowned and 11 bodies were recovered, officials said.
The bus was on the way to the capital, Dhaka, from Maway, about 40 miles away. About 100 people were inside the bus and about 20 on the roof when it slipped through the railing, witnesses said.
University to divest
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University officials voted Saturday for limited, phased divestment by next February of their stocks in U.S. companies that do business in South Africa.
The measure bases Brown's investment policy on the extent to which companies adhere to the Sullivan Principles, which mandate non-segregation and equal pay for South African employees of U.S. companies.
Plane called a waste
WASHINGTON — Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., awarded his golden fleece to the Air Force yesterday for what he calls a waste of taxpayers' money to specialize equip a Strategic Air Command plane for Air Force officials.
Proxmire said the SAC fleet in cluded a converted KC-135 tanker used to fly officials in high style. Last year the plane cost $600,536 to operate and two-thirds of that time was spent ferrying top Air Force officers, he said.
From Kansan wires.
The Associated Press
Nonviolent protests called for in Manila
MANILA, Philippines — Corazon Aquino yesterday called for nonviolent protests against newly reelected President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who declared he would not be driven out.
Marcos, president for 20 years, also announced yesterday the resignation of his most powerful military commander, Gen. Fabian C. Ver
A day after the National Assembly declared Marcos the winner of an election marked by charges of fraud and terrorism, more than half a million Filipinos joined Aquino in a downtown park rally. The crowd was much bigger than any that had gathered in the campaign leading to the Feb. 7 presidential election.
Aquino called for strikes and school shutdowns on the day after
Marcos' Feb. 26 inauguration for a new six-year term, and urged a boycott of banks and newspapers owned by Marcos' "cronies."
"Although unarmed, I feel like the young boy David prepared to face the giant Goliath," she said. "If Goliath refuses to yield, we shall escalate our nonviolent struggle."
Marcos again rejected charges that he won the election through fraud.
"I am the president. They are not going to drive me out. The people are behind me," he said.
Marcos also announced that he had accepted Ver's resignation, but he said Ver would remain available as a consultant.
Constabulatory Chief Lt. Gen. Fidel V. Ramos was appointed interim chief of staff, Marcos said.
Ver, 66, was charged in the August
1983 assassination of Aquino's hus-
tle.
band, opposition leader Benigno Aquino, court later acquitted him for embezzlement.
U. S. officials, concerned about a growing communist insurgency in the Phillipines, saw Ver as a hindrance to military reforms.
Ver's resignation was announced a day before Marcos, Aquino, and other Filipino leaders were to meet with Philibus Hipab, a special envoy sent by President Reagan to observe the aftermath of the divisive election.
"I am convinced that if there was any fraud, it may have been committed by the lower levels and was not authorized by the upper leadership," Marcos said. "Probably that might also be true about the opposition."
Asked to comment on Reagan's statement that his victory over Aquino was marked by fraud, Marcos said Reagan was misinformed.
Rebel leader warns U.S. against Philippines battle
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — A communist rebel leader warned that the Philippines would become an American graveyard if U.S. military advisers helped to fight the growing communist insurgency.
Antonio Zumel, 53, a leader of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines, said direct aggression between rebels and U.S. military advisers was becoming increasingly possible.
"We have information that there are special operations forces in the
American bases even now," Zumel said.
He referred to a recent report that Washington planned to send advisers to train soldiers.
U. S. military intervention would mean the unjust shedding of Filipino blood," Zumel said. "For many well-meaning American boys, unfortunately, our country will be a graveyard for them as well."
Zumel said it was not the policy of the 16,000-strong communist New Peoples Army to attack the approximately 20,000 U.S. servicemen in the Philippines.
Tampering possible in Tvlenol poisoning
United Press International
NEW YORK — Investigators yesterday added the possibility of tampering in the distribution of Tylenol to theories of how two bottles of Tylenol were poisoned, killing one woman.
One official called for a ban on all drugs in capsule form to prevent similar incidents.
"It's happened twice. We don't learn from history only because people are dumb." Andrew O'Rourke, a Westchester County, N.Y., executive, said on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley."
He called for a ban on all capsules nationwide.
Sales of Tylenol capsules have been banned in 18 states, Washington, D.C., and in Italy since Diane Elsroth, 23, of Westchester County, took two Extra-Strength capsules containing cyanide. She died Feb. 8 at her boyfriend's home in Yonkers, N.Y.
Another 15 states have advised against selling the product.
distribution, storage and employee records were being reviewed as part of the investigation.
Officials announced last Thursday that a second poisoned bottle was found in a store near the Bronxville A&P where the first was bought. The seals on both bottles were unbroken. Since then, tens of thousands of Tylenol capsules have been tested with no more poisonings discovered.
The Food and Drug Administration has said all tests and facts to date seemed to rule out factory tampering, but New York authorities said it was possible.
Johnson & Johnson, makers of Tylenol, and authorities said
The FDA also said the cyanide could have been put in the capsules several months ago.
Bruce Bendish, a Westchester County prosecutor, said that New York authorities this week would visit the Fort Washington, Pa., plant where the bottle that killed Elseth was produced. The other poisoned bottle came from a plant in Puerto Rico.
O'Rourke, appearing on the ABC show with Johnson & Johnson Chairman James Burke and FDA Commissioner Frank Young, called for a three-part plan to deal with the problem.
He said all capsules should be banned nationwide unless a medical reason could be shown to keep them.
Rail wrecks shake Canada
Falling that, O'Rourke said, pharmacists should sell them behind counters or the capsules be made tamper-resistant.
Burke said putting Tylenol behind counters would limit public access to it
Banning capsules is possible and efforts to make capsules tamperresistant are under way, he said.
United Press International
OTTWAA - The Canadian government stepped up safety inspections after the worst series of train wrecks in that country's history.
Transport Minister Donald Mazankowski had an emergency meeting with railway executives Saturday after a transcontinental train with about 250 passengers collided with a freight train in Quebec, injuring 42 people.
One of the cars was leaking the poisonous chemical, but the leak was under control and posed no threat, officials said.
In a second rail accident late Saturday, 17 cars of a freight train derailed at Fort Langely, 40 miles east of Vancouver. Officials said nine of the cars were carrying highly volatile ethylene dichloride.
The wrecks were Canada's third and fourth bad accidents in a week — the worst occurring Feb. 8 when a nine-car train slammed head-on into a 114-car train near Hinton, Alberta, killing 35 people.
Prime Minister Brian Muruloney ordered a rare judicial inquiry into that crash, which authorities blamed on human error.
Mazankowski told reporters that the railways would immediately launch a safety campaign among engineers, linemen, dispatchers and other operating personnel to ensure
safety procedures were understood and followed.
The Canadian Transport Commission said it would increase inspections of operating practices. Rail companies were ordered to closely monitor crew performance.
"We are looking at all aspects related to the operation of the railroad system. Human and mechanical elements will be closely monitored." Mazankowski said.
Armand Passaretti, head of a union representing 15,000 railway workers, said the campaign would accomplish little. The union demanded an inquiry two weeks ago into railroad safety but received no government response, he said.
NASA reorganizes investigation
United Press International
WASHINGTON — NASA has reorganized its upper tier of managers in the wake of the Challenger disaster and will comply with a directive to remove key project officials from its own investigation of the tragedy, a spokesman said yesterday.
Former secretary of state William Rogers, chairman of the presidential commission investigating the shuttle accident, asked acting NASA administrator William Graham to bar any officials involved in the decision to launch Challenger Jan. 28 from the NASA investigation.
The request was made Saturday, a commission spokesman said, because the commission's investigation suspects that the decision-making process may have been flawed.
A source close to the commission said Rogers made the request because the commissioners wanted NASA investigators to avoid any conflict of interest or the appearance of one.
NASA's internal investigation into the accident was led by Jesse Moore, the associate administrator in charge of the shuttle program and the person with ultimate responsibility for the decision to launch
Challenger. Other members of the NASA task force included managers involved in clearing the ship for flight.
"People shouldn't be put into the very difficult position of having to run an investigation which ultimately may challenge the decisions they made," said the source who asked not to be identified.
Vice chairman Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, Rogers and Moore are to testify tomorrow afternoon at a Senate subcommittee hearing that is expected to address some of the panel's concerns.
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