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Thursday, February 5, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World Lebanese fear military attack
BEIRUT — Syria yesterday accused the United States of using the hostage crisis as a pretext for an attack on Lebanon, where a major Navy and Marine force was being built in the coast in the eastern Mediterranean.
"We would not urge you to jump to conclusions on any military activity," the spokesman said.
In Washington, a White House spokesman urged "a little downdressing of the speculation" during U.S. intentions in the area.
Fears of a U.S. attack have mounted over the past few days in war-torn Beirut, although diplomatic sources predicted any strike could result in heavy
casualties among U.S.forces and death for U.S.hostages.
Security sources said three kidnapped U.S. citizens and an Indian-born U.S. resident seized last month and threatened with death were being held in Beirut's southern suburbs at the house of a relative of Mohammed Ali Hamadei, who was arrested Jan. 13 at a Frankfurt, West Germany, airport.
Militia sources said they believed Church of England envoy and hostage negotiator Terry Waite, missing for two weeks, also was being held in Beirut's southern suburbs — a center of Muslim fundamentalism and rumored to be a possible U.S. military target.
Aquino urges citizens and military to unite
MANILA, Philippines — President Corazon Aquino yesterday urged the military to "be one with the Filipino people" and her defense minister ordered troops to pledge allegiance to the nation's new constitution or face expulsion from the armed forces.
The new U.S.-style constitution won approval in a popular vote Monday, winning support from nearly 80 percent of the voters, according to unofficial returns. The "yes" vote in the military ranks.
however, was only about 60 percent.
"The tremendous vote of confidence reaffirms the new unquestionable legitimacy and democratic power of our government," Aquino said in a nationally televised speech yesterday."
Defense Minister Rafael Ileto told a Cabinet meeting yesterday that once the charter was formally ratified next week, all soldiers will be required to swear allegiance to the charter or leave the military.
Across the Country
Senate overrides Reagan veto of water bill
WASHINGTON — The Senate, in a crushing defeat yesterday for President Reagan, overrode his veto of a popular $20 billion clean water bill that he called a "budget-buster" and made it law.
The Senate vote was 86-14 and came one day after the House voted 401-26 to override the president. The bill is now law.
The veto of the bill was Reagan's 60th; the Senate vote marked the seventh time a Reagan veto was overridden.
When the clean water bill passed Congress in October, Reagan took no action and the measure died. The 100th Congress passed the bill again as the first order of business, but Friday, Reagan vetored it as a "budget-buster," fat with pork-barrel amendments.
The bill calls for $18 billion in grants spread over nine years to help cities build sewage treatment plants, and an additional $2 billion for other pollution control programs.
Pianist Liberace, 67, dies of emphysema
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Mr Liberace, the bejeweled pianist whose glittering wardrobe, trademark candelabra and self-effacing humor made him a showbusiness legend, died yesterday of anemia, emphysema and heart disease, his publicist said. He was 62.
Scores of fans maintaining a death watch began gathering outside the sprawling mansion on
Monday, when it was announced that Mr. Liberace was near death.
Seymour Heller, Liberace's longtime manager, denied a report by The Las Vegas Sun that Mr. Liberace had had AIDS. Heller demanded a retraction and said Mr. Liberace was suffering from anemia resulting from two months on a weight-loss watermelon diet. The newspaper said it would stand by its story.
Tape reveals mother threatened 'Baby M'
HACKENSACK, N.J. — "Baby M's' murderate mother threatened to kill the infant and commit suicide rather than lose custody, saying 'I gave her life, I can take her life away,' in tapes of a telephone conversation played in court yesterday.
In the July 15 conversation, Mary Beth Whitehead told the man who hired her to become the surrogate mother that she would "rather be dead" than give up the infant born four months earlier.
Baby M could be heard crying in the background as the recording of the conservation with William Stern was played for the judge hearing the landmark custody trial. Whitehead, sitting in court, dropped her head to the side and sobbed.
But Whitehead told reporters yesterday that she never considered carrying out a pledge to kill Baby M and commit suicide. She said she made the threats only to scare away Stern.
From Kansan wires
LAWRENCE FORECAST
From the KU Weather Service
and finally snow by night. Tomorrow a high pressure system will move in and bring partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid 40s..WEATHER FACT.The greatest rainfall amount for the month of February was 3.14 inches in 1961.
Weather
Rain is likely today as skies remain cloudy with increasingly colder conditions. After reaching a high this afternoon of 38 degrees, temperatures will drop to near 26 degrees and the rain may change to freezing rain
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Israeli Scholar-in-Residence Eveline Goodman-Thau February 5-8,1987
Thursday, February 5
Lecture: "Democracy and the Jewish State"
7:30 p.m., Pine Room, Kansas Union
Friday, February 6
Shabbat Dinner, 5:00 p.m. & Services, 7:45 p.m.
"The Holocaust from a Personal Perspective"
Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland
R.S.V.P. to Hillel for dinner by Feb. 5.
Saturday, February 7
10:00 a.m., Services and Kiddush Lunch
6:15 p.m., Havdalad, Potluck Supper and Israeli Dancing
Lawrence Jewish Community Center
Sunday, February 8
12:30 p.m., Lox and bagel brunch
Discussion: "Defending Israel in Public Debate"
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$3.00 non-members, $1.00 members
5:00—7:00 p.m., Graduate and Faculty Forum
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