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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Jan. 27, 1986
Nation/World
News Briefs
Fickle weather fouls shuttle launch time
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Florida's fickle weather tricked space teacher Christa McAuliffe and her shuttle Challenger crewmates out of one launch try yesterday and threatened today's scheduled launch of their mission
Air Force weather forecasters, who had predicted good weather for today, said yesterday that clouds might develop over the spaceport by launch time.
Challenger's flight has been delayed four times in the past two weeks.
Subway clerk fooled
NEW YORK — Three men, one dressed as a policeman pretending to arrest fear jumpers, robbed a subway clerk of $11,000 in cash and tokens vesterday, police said.
Two of the robbers jumped a Brooklyn turntle at 3:22 a.m. A few minutes later the third man, dressed in a police uniform, arrived. The uniformed man apprehended the two men, returned with them and asked to use the clerk's phone. When the clerk opened the door to give access to the phone, the men robbed him of $11,000 in cash and tokens, police said.
Newspaper returns
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which suspended publication Dec. 6 because of financial problems, returns to newstands today under its third set of owners in the last two years.
The Globe's new owners, John B. Prentis III and William E. Franke, have said the newspaper's editorial position would continue to be conservative.
Town buries 'Herb'
CRAIGSVILLE, W.Va. — "Herb" was buried in a frozen lake in West Virginia, his wish for a hamburger joint in Craigsville unanswered
The ceremony came after business leaders - hoping to coax Burger King to build a restaurant in the small town - bought television and newspaper advertisements announcing that Herb lived in Craigsville.
From Kansan wires.
New Ugandan ruler plans civilian rule
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — The commander of the Ugandan rebel army said yesterday that he had replaced the 6-month-old ruling military council with one of his own and promised to form a broad-based government and to punish criminals from previous regimes.
Yoweri Museveni, the rebel commander, outlined his plans during a speech on the government-owned radio a day after his National Resistance Army captured the capital, Kampala, and sent thousands of government soldiers fleeing.
The Radio Uganda broadcast was monitored in Nairobi. It was the first time since midday Friday that the radio had been on the air and the first formal announcement to Ugandans that Kampala had fallen to the NRA.
Deserting army troops were robbing and beating civilians and looting as they retreated, said a group of evacuated people who reached Nairobi late yesterday afternoon from Northern Uganda.
Earlier yesterday, Museveni met with U.S. Ambassador Robert Houdek, British High Commissioner Colin MacLean and a representative
The four discussed the evacuation of expatriates and restoration of electric, water and telephone services in the city, said the commission.
of the European Common Market, the British High Commission (embassy) in Nairobi said.
In Washington, the State Department said a chartered aircraft would take some embassy personnel and American citizens out of Kampala tomorrow or Wednesday.
The State Department had no details on how many people were leaving, but said there were about 170 Americans in Uganda, 21 of them connected with the embassy.
All Americans in Kampala were safe, but were advised to stay in accommodation.
The high commissioner said that the British also were planning to evacuate some of their personnel and citizens, but did not have an exact number.
The first group of people evacuated from of Uganda — seven employees of the United Nations World Food Program and three Lutheran World Foundation workers — arrived aboard a crowded Cessna 560 from Moroto, 218 miles north of Kampala.
The 10 — two Irishmen, two Kenyans, three Ghanaians, a F毕菲o, a
Bangladeshi and an Ethiopian — asked to be evacuated by air after they found themselves cut off by road and in the path of marauding army deserters.
They said some fleeing soldiers were being massacred by soldiers from rival tribes.
Museveni appealed for calm in his radio broadcast and said he would appoint non-partisan village committees to handle local affairs in NRA-controlled areas.
He also promised to form a broad-based, civilian administration in the shortest time possible.
"Uganda has been messed up by incompetent and politically bankrupt leaders for the past 24 years," Museveni said. "Their main interests have been sectarianism, corruption and subsistence to foreign interests."
Since gaining independence from Britain in 1962, Uganda's 14 million people have seen leaders deposed three times by coups - Milton Obote twice and dictator Idi Amin once.
Museeni said now that a large part of Uganda was "liberated, the people of Uganda would have the opportunity to see for themselves the skeletons of the victims of those regimes."
Rebel leader in Uganda for free-market economy
United Press International
NAIROIB, Kenya — Ugandan rebel leader Woyeri Museeni admires Cuba's Fidel Castro and the Russian Revolution, but his recovery program for Uganda is all Western free-market style.
Museveni, whose National Resistance Army seized the Ugandan capital of Kampala and declared itself the country's new government yesterday, promised a 10-point recovery plan that has a mixed economy based on Western models and a free-market agricultural sector.
The former high school teacher, who has a degree in political science and economics, also promised to eliminate tribalism and introduce health and literacy programs for the country's 18 million people, most of whom cannot read or write.
overnationalization of the so.1st economies that burdens the state at the micro-economic level. With the benefit of hindsight we should be able to see that the state should have confined itself to the crucial sectors and let private enterprise deal with the rest," wrote Museveni in his economic manifesto published last year.
"We are rejecting the option of
Museveni, who told a Dec. 26 press conference he was "an intellectual, not a soldier," nurtured a reputation as Uganda's Robin Hood. Last year his troops robbed the government's central bank branch at Mbarara and used some of the $700,000 body to buy lunch and clothes for town residents.
In a country where army troops have robbed, raped and murdered civilians, there have been few reports of NRA atrocities in areas of Uganda it controlled.
Khadafy returns from sea cruise
The Associated Press
Museveni's plan for the country includes regular elections.
MISURATA, Libya - Col. Moammar Khadifa returned Saturday to Misurata harbor hours after he announced he was sailing to meet the U.S. 6th Fleet aboard a 350-ton patrol boat carrying four missiles.
Khadafy arranged to have a group of foreign reporters flown 125 miles from Tripoli to the Misurata naval base on Saturday to watch him board the craft. He said he would sail to Benghazi at the eastern side of the Gulf of Sidra to prove to Americans that he was there.
Khadafy urged Mediterranean countries to remove U.S. military bases from their soil and an Arab League leader called on Washington to end its naval maneuvers off the Libyan coast.
On Friday, the U.S. 6th Fleet announced it would conduct naval air exercises off Libya, including the strategic Gulf of Sidra.
In an interview with the Greek newspaper Ethos, Khadiyah referred to President Reagan as a mad man and an idiot and indicated he believed Arab nations and the Soviet Union
would come to Libya's assistance if war were to erupt between the United States and Libya.
"All our friends support us," Khadiya said. "Any attack against Libya is an attack against all peace-loving people and against the whole Arab world."
Khadady praised Andreas Papandreou, Greek prime minister, for his decision to eventually remove U.S. bases from Greece.
"We hold in esteem the Greek people and the stance of their government," Khadafy said. "What we ask is that the U.S. military bases be withdrawn and the U.S. military presence in the region made extinct.
"We call on all Europeans to intensify their struggle so that all U.S. military bases be removed because they constitute a great danger . . . a great threat to our peoples," Khadiyaf said.
any vessel of the 6th Fleet was in the area, and Khadafy did not indicate what he would do if he met one.
The United States and all other Western powers have refused to recognize Khadafy's claim to the Gulf of Sidra as within Libyan territorial waters beyond the traditional 12-mile limit.
The reporters followed on Khadafy's luxurious personal yacht, Farah. They last saw him proceeding at full speed northeast into the gulf on the bridge of the patrol boat, escorted by a sister ship.
A film broadcast by state television yesterday showed Khadya stepping ashore at Misurata Harbor later Saturday to the cheers of Libyan sailors.
There was no indication whether
A Western ambassador in Tripoli said, "Like he often does, Khadafy probably intended his gesture of sailing out to confront the 8th Fleet to be taken symbolically rather than literally."
Earlier, Khadafy told reporters he was declaring a new confrontation with the United States over Libya's right to bar the 6th Fleet from Libya's entire continental shelf zone stretching across the central Mediterranean from the Greek island of Crete to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Khadafy said he put all his armed forces on total alert.
Clouds of dust and streaks discovered circling Uranus
United Press International
PASADENA, Calif. — Voyager 2 sent back a picture yesterday showing Uranus was circled by a cloud of dust between rings of rock or ice.
* Scientists said that the stunning pictures of the Uranus moon Miranda revealed a world of wonder that might take years to understand.
The new dust picture plus the breath-taking Miranda images added to the surprises being produced by what might be the last exploration of Uranus for more than a century.
Ten rings of frozen debris had been identified around the planet and scientists found what appeared to be fragments of 10 additional rings. But the new picture, a 96-second exposure taken with the sun behind the rings, showed a vast cloud of dust and streaks that may indicate the presence of even more rings.
The eight close-up shots of Miranda showing a rugged, confused gray surface streaked with coal-black material indicate the 310-mile-thick moon has an extremely complex 4.5
billion-year story of evolution to tell
Geologists starting to put together the first pieces of the evolutionary puzzle note that Miranda is the closest of the five big moons to Uranus itself. The farther the big moons are from Uranus, the less severe surface deformation they seem to have undergone.
"What we're seeing — and maybe it will give you a glimmer of what we're beginning to think about — is that as we move closer to Uranus we see an increasing ferocity in the way these bodies have been tectonically shuffled in a cataclysmic fashion," geologist Laurence Soderblom said.
Upper atmospheric temperatures of Uranus range from 1,800 degrees at the sunlit south pole to a surprising 2,400 degrees at the darkened north pole.
The heat could be explained by inefficient cooling processes, he said.
Sodderblom, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey, said Mirlanda was a bizarre hybrid of valleys and layered deposits seen on Mars.
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