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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Friday. Dec. 6, 1985
News Briefs Violence continues
JOHANNESBURG South Africa
JOHANNESBORG, South Africa - Racial violence flared yesterday as the Rev. Allan Boesak assailed the white-minority government for a police attack on his mixed-race parishioners as they left a candelight church protest.
In Seweto, the largest black ghetto in white-ruled South Africa, a black police officer was seriously wounded and a black woman was injured in the second hand grenade attack in two days in the township.
Boesak's church council sent a telegram to Law and Order Minister Louis le Grande demanding to know whether the government had declared war on the Christian church.
Cancer victim seized
DETROIT — A cancer-striken boy, taken by state authorities from his father who opposes chemotherapy, will undergo medical tests but no immediate treatment, the family attorney said yesterday.
Brian Lamphar, 9, was seized Tuesday at his grandmother's home and taken to the hospital by Michigan state police.
Oldest veteran dies
LEBANON, Pa. — Walter B.
Pleate, the nation's oldest surviving military veteran, died yesterday at Lebanon Veterans Administration Medical Center, officials said. He was 109.
Pleate, born Oct. 10, 1876, was one of the last dozen surviving Spanish-American War veterans. He had been a patient in VA hospitals since 1936.
Pleate, who died of bronchial pneumonia, enlisted Feb. 24, 1899 and served in the 2nd Infantry
Thais queue for cut
BANGKOK, Thailand — Nearly 900 men observed the king of Thailand's 58th birthday yesterday by lining up inside a government building and undergoing a free vasectomy.
The vasectomy festival also featured sidewalk displays of the male sex organ, family planning movies, birth control' advice and a daylong concert sponsored by the fast-growing Vasectomy Members Club of Thailand.
From Kansan wire reports.
More spies for Israel suspected
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The case of Jonathan Pollard, accused of spying for Israel, is "the tip of the iceberg" of covert Israeli operations in the United States. U.S. officials said yesterday.
One official said that both the Justice Department and the Central Intelligence Agency were examining evidence that Pollard, a 31-year-old Navy intelligence specialist, was not the only one giving the Israelis information
Such actions violate not only U.S. law, but also a 1981 written agreement between the two governments in which they promised to exchange intelligence and not to conduct secret operations against each other.
In Jerusalem, Ehud Gol, an Israeli government spokesman, said, "I have no comment to make. I don't know who said it. I don't know what he is talking about."
In Washington, Bernard Kalb,
State Department spokesman, said,
"No one in the State Department
who's informed on the subject has
that sort of information."
A Justice Department source said it would be premature to say there would be other agents arrested, but State Department officials said it was clear that Pollard, a Navy specialist on counter-terrorism, was not the only Israeli intelligence asset operating secretly in the United States.
Government officials said the apparently conflicting viewpoints between the two agencies meant that the Justice Department's FBI investigation did not yet have evidence against individuals that was admissible in court, but that the U.S. intelligence community had evidence that its ranks may have been penetrated and that national security had been endangered.
Officials said the belief that agents other than Pollard and his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard, were involved was based on the reaction so far from the Israeli government and from Pollard, as well as from the documents that were recovered.
After more than a week of confrontation with the United States, Israel agreed to cooperate in the U.S. investigation by providing access to the officials involved and to the
documents stolen by Pollard. This access has not yet been provided.
Administration officials said an indication of further Israeli spy operations was evident in the recent offer to close down the offices of Israeli science attaches in Washington, New York, Boston and Los Angeles. The science branch of the Israel oversees missions, known under the Hebrew acronym of Lemek, was the point of contact with Pollard. However, Pollard appeared to have dealt only with Israel's Embassy in Washington, and not with the other three, which presumably had some contact with other agents.
Two science attaches — one in Washington and one in New York — have been recalled to Israel.
Unborn boy not human, court rules
John Soto, accused of driving while intoxicated, crashed into a car driven by Jannet Anne Johnson, who was $8\frac{1}{2}$ months pregnant, at a St. Paul intersection Nov. 8, 1984. Johnson suffered bone fractures and the male fetus died of head injuries.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today that an unborn boy killed when an allegedly drunken driver crashed into his mother's car was not a human being under state law.
United Press International
The high court, in a 6-1 ruling, agreed that a Ramsey County trial court properly dropped a charge of "vehicular homicide" because a fetus is not a human being until it is born live and living separate from the mother.
Associate Justice Lawrence Yetka disagreed, saying the "born alive" rule is obsolete.
A Ramsey County grand jury charged Soto with criminal vehicular operation resulting in the injury of Johnson and the death of her unborn child.
The trial judge dismissed the latter charge, saying that in such a case the death must be that of a human being.
Britain renounces UNESCO
United Press International
LONDON — Britain announced yesterday that it was following the lead of the United States and was withdrawing from UNESCO because of the agency's inefficient management and hostility toward the West.
The United States pulled out of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization last year, citing the same complaints.
"The organization has been used to attack those very values which it was designed to uphold." Timothy Raison, Minister for Overseas Development, told Parliament
agencies and lack of discrimination or creation of projects."
UNESCO director General Adamou M'Bow in Paris that Britain's withdrawal came as a surprise to all of those who had tried in the last two years to reform UNESCO's systems, management and budget.
At the United Nations in New York, UNESCO official Doudou Diene said the British withdrawal would be a loss to Third World countries that received aid to upgrade their educational programs.
"Then there has been inefficient management," he said. "This has led to programs which contain vague and meaningless studies, duplication with the work of other
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government has charged UNESCO with being inefficient, over-politicized and hostile to the West.
Britain formally notified UNESCO a year ago of its intention to withdraw if satisfactory reforms were not carried out.
Senate OKs $485 billion extension
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday approved a bill to finance nine major areas of government past Dec. 12, despite President Reagan's near assurances he will veto the catch-all measure.
"The continuing resolution is a candidate for veto," White House spokesman Larry Speakes said just prior to the Senate committee's voice-vote passage of a bill similar to one that narrowly passed the House Wednesday.
Though different in several specific areas, the two bills, called "continuing resolutions," are almost equal amounts, about $480 billion in
the House and $485 billion in the Senate committee.
Reagan says the bills are about $2.6 billion over his request on domestic spending and about $9 billion under his defense spending request. The umbrella bill is needed by midnight Dec. 12 to keep nine major areas of government, including agriculture and the military, in business, and to allow Congress to begin its December holiday vacation.
Should any regular appropriation bill become law between now and the time the continuing resolution is signed, the regular bill takes precedence.
the Internal Revenue Service that the House included. In addition, the Senate panel took out two agriculture sections inserted by the House that opponents said would cost $10 billion.
In an attempt to address some of Reagan's concerns, the Senate committee deleted $162 million in postal subsidies and increased funding of
In the defense area, the Senate committee's bill is about $10 billion higher than the House's, closer to Reagan's request but still short.
The full Senate planned to take up the stoppap bill today and if it passes, the differences will have to be ironed out by a House-Senate conference committee before the bill can be sent to Reagan.
The short amount of time and the large amount of work ahead led senators to contemplate the possibility of a short-term continuing resolution.
NATO talk tries to cut troop sizes
United Press International
VIENNA, Austria — NATO yesterday proposed a limited U.S.-Soviet troop withdrawal from Central Europe, but the Soviet Union said the new plan did not warrant optimism.
In a change of position at the 12-year-old Mutual Balanced Force Reduction talks, the West agreed to drop its insistence on more complete data on Warsaw Pact troop strength in Central Europe.
"The West has this morning taken a major step," said Michael Alexander, British delegate to the talks. "It brings the possibility of a limited agreement on force levels in Central Europe within reach."
The proposal calls for a reduction of 11,500 Soviet troops and 5,000 U.S. troops from Central Europe, followed by a three-year freeze on troop levels.
The United States has 207,000 ground troops in Central Europe and the Soviet Union has 475,000 ground forces, according to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Air forces, which are not included in the NATO proposal, are not tallied in the figures.
To verify the reduction, NATO proposed that each side be allowed to conduct 30 inspections in each of the three years of the freeze. For the first time, NATO used the contents of the last Warsaw Pact proposal presented 'Feb. 14 as a framework for its own proposal.
The key element in the NATO proposal is the dropping of a longstanding Western demand for more complete data on Warsaw Pact troop strength in Central Europe. NATO maintains that the Soviet bloc has at least 210,000 more troops than it reports.
In the last official exchange of figures in 1980, the Warsaw Pact said it had 980,000 troops, both ground and air, stationed in Europe. NATO claimed the Warsaw Pact had 1,190,000 troops, while placing its own force level at 990,000.
The initial response to the new NATO proposal from the East, made by Soviet delegate Valerian Mikhailov, was not encouraging.
INTERNATIONAL CLUB
The International Club would like to thank our sponsors who contributed generously in bringing Mrs. Anwar Sadat (Jihan Sadat) to speak at the University of Kansas on the 22nd of January,1986. This includes:
The Association of University Residence Halls McCollum Hall SUA Forums Ellsworth Hall Templin Hall Joseph R. Pearson Hall Women's Studies Department Political Science Department Egyptian Student Organization and would also like to thank the following for their generous cooperation and assistance: The Office of the Chancellor KU Police Department The Office of Organizations and Activities
The club would like to invite everyone to attend the lecture next semester:
January 22
7:30 p.m.
Hoch Auditorium
Paid for by Student Activity Fee