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Tuesday, March 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
Thousands homeless as quake wrecks three New Zealand towns
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — An earthquake, rolling the ground like the sea and opening a crevice more than a mile long, destroyed three towns yesterday and left thousands homeless.
Civil defense authorities said an elderly man died of a heart attack, two people were missing and dozens of others were reported injured in New Zealand's worst quake in 65 years.
The officials declared a state of emergency in the Bay of Plenty area that has a population of 400,000. Police said 95 percent of
the houses in the North Island towns of Whakatane, Kawerau and Edgecumb were uninhabitable.
The quake jolted bridges from their foundations, severed railroad lines and uprooted telephone and power outages in a massive telephone power outages.
Quakes measuring between 6 and 7 cause severe damage.
The quake, measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, was the strongest in New Zealand since 1922. It sent out more than 100 aftershocks late yesterday, the largest measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale.
China vows to retain open foreign policy
BEJIING, China — Chinese leaders assured Secretary of State George Shultz yesterday that Beijing's independent foreign policy and economic reforms would be unaffected by a mounting campaign against capitalist trends.
China's acting Communist Party leader Zhao Zhiyang, who replaced Hu Yaobang on Jan. 16 when Yaobang was blamed for the student rallies for democracy, told students to open the country to the rest of the world" while fighting capitalist tendencies.
Shultz, who met with five senior Chinese officials, said the meetings "reinforced my confidence in the durability of our relations and the firmness of your commitment to the policies that have brought us closer to our country the unparalleled successes of the past decade."
But Shultz obliquely criticized Beijing for expelling two foreign correspondents since July, and Chinese and U.S. officials described the talks as “candid” — meaning that there were disputes.
Across the Country
Baker says he won't go on a firing spree
WASHINGTON — Former Senate Republican leader Howard Baker took over yesterday as White House chief of staff, saying that there would be "no wholesale requests for resignation requests."
Baker was named Friday to replace Donald Regan as President Reagan's top aide at the White House, which still feels shaken by the revelations of the Iran-contra arms scandal.
Marlin Fitzwater said that Bak er would contemplate staff changes later on and would have private consultations if any staff members were asked to leave.
Demjanjuk calls witness a liar in court
JERUSALEM — John Demjanjuk, accused of being the war criminal, "Ivan the Terrible" blurted out, "You're a liar," yesterday at a prosecution witness who testified that the U.S. immigrant was the sadistic guard at a Nazi death camp.
The remark, in response to an angry outburst by witness Elijah Rosenberg, was the first time he told out during his death penalty trial.
"How could I?" Rosenberg shouted angrily. "What could I have done?"
Rosenberg, who was forced to work hauling corpses from the Treblinka gas chambers, lost his compose during cross-examination by chief defense attorney Mark O'Connor of Buffalo, N.Y.
who asked him if he ever considered doing anything to help victims in the camp.
He then pointed at Demjanjuk and yelled, "Ask him. Ask him what he would have done to me."
Demjanjuk leaned forward and muttered something, which O'Connor told the court was, "You're a liar" in Hebrew.
Among the curious onlookers packing the courtroom was Isaeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who arrived briefly disrupted the trial.
Danny Kaye in extremely critical condition
LOS ANGELES — Entertainer Danny Kaye was in extremely critical condition last night after being hospitalized with hepatitis and intestinal bleeding, a spokesman said.
Kaye, 74, was admitted Sunday to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said hospital spokesman Ron Wise.
Wise said the comic actor was gravely ill and that the entertainer's family was at his side last night.
"They had a personal message, thanking his fans," the spokesman said.
Kaye, whose entertainment career spans television, movies and music, recently was hospitalized for three weeks. Wise said. Kaye was released last week after being treated for a leg condition, but was readmitted Sunday, Wise said.
The nature of the leg ailment was not immediately known.
"His condition is bad," Wise said.
Kaye was in such classics of screen comedy and fantasy as "The Inspector General," "The Man Who Loved Christmas" and "Hans Christian Andersen."
From Kansan wires.
From the KANSAN Weather Service
Weather
LAWRENCE FORECAST
Today will be mostly sunny. Light winds will bring a high temperature of 59 degrees. Tonight will be most clear with a low near 35 degrees. Tomorrow, skies will continue to be mostly sunny with a high in the low 60s.
avg hi 48.6°
avg lo 32.3°
snow 2.3 in.
FEBRUARY SUMMARY
highest temp 66° on 2nd lowest temp 20° on 18th Rain .818 inches
norm hi 44.6°
norm lo 24.1°
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