University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 27, 1989
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WASHINGTON — A new study of U.S. weather records from the past century may raise questions about the theory that the Earth is being warmed like the inside of a greenhouse.
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report that they can find no evidence of any overall temperature increase in United States, although weather does vary considerably from year to year.
The report, in the January edition of Geophysical Research Letters, showed no significant change in the nation's energy profile between 1895 and 1897.
Researchers agree, however, that since the study covers only a small portion of the Earth, studies of other areas might have different results. And although the new study is not necessarily inconsistent with a so-called greenhouse effect, it fuels an escalating scientific debate.
Claims that a greenhouse-like warming has already begun have
attracted widespread publicity recently, with the heat and drought this past summer attracting additional attention.
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According to the theory, the increasing amount of carbon dioxide and some other gases in the atmosphere tend to trap heat from the sun, warming the earth in from the same way as the glass warms a greenhouse.
greenhouse.
Such a warming could damage crop growing areas, melt the polar ice caps, raise sea levels and have other dire effects, according to a variety of analyses.
Some climate experts say that any warming would likely result in more cloudiness and that that would tend to increase the collecting some sunlight back into space.
sulphate. In addition, a study published in the Journal of Climate in November disclosed that an apparent climate warming of as much as 1 degree Fahrenheit could be attributed to the heat generated by growing cities because many weather stations are located in urban areas.
Anti-Semitism rising Jewish group reports Occurrences reach a five-year high
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NEW YORK — The number of anti-Semitic incidents rose to a five-year high in 1988, with reports of harassment incidents up 41 percent and vandalism up 19 percent, a Jewish group said yesterday.
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of Bai nui B'rith, said he could not point to a single factor for the increase but there were "stimulants" such as neo Nazi skinheads, the 50th anniversary of the start of the Holocaust and developments in the Middle East.
development is it ironic that in our lifetime, we've conquered space and even eradicated smallpox," Foxman said, "yet we have not developed a vaccine against the virus of hate."
An ADL survey released here included nearly 1,300 incidents reported by law enforcement authorities in 40 states, the District of Columbia and Puero Rico. Ten states reported no incidents, said ADL spokesman Richard Klein.
New York led the nation with 208 incidents, half of those in New York City. California had 121, Florida had 89 and New Jersey had 67.
"We may never be able to completely eradicate mindless bigotry or the violence of hate." U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh wrote in a forward to the ADL survey. But "we can pursue swift and sure prosecution of these crimes against the American dream."
An unusually large number of vandalism incidents were reported in the South - 172 cases in 12 states, up from 115 in 1987 - where there are mostly smaller Jewish populations, the report said.
Past leaders meet in Moscow
the first unit of classes "A lot of things were done, a lot of things were said that created a great deal of bitterness," said James Blight of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which organized the conference.
the conference.
"This is a rather risky experience. We don't know quite what is going to happen," he told reporters yesterday.
MOSCOW — Twenty-six years after the confrontation that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, Americans and Cubans who led their countries through the Cuban Missile Crisis met here for the first time to discuss it.
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nuclear missiles in Cuba at conferences sponsored by the Kennedy school in 1987.
report that Americans and Soviets had discussed the October 1962 crisis over the deployment of Soviet forces.
Scheduled to be among the participants were former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Sergei DelVale, a long-time confident of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. DelVale is a member of the Cuban Communist Party's Central Committee and was the military chief of staff in 1962.
But the conference that began last night with a private reception was the first time that the U.S. has sent any American officials to Pakistan.
Washington, Anatoly F. Dobrynin, were expected to attend. Gromyko, 79, was the Soviet foreign minister in 1962.
Among the other U.S. participants were Marianne Cox, Pierre Salinger and Sen. Edward Kennedy.
From the Soviet side, former President Andrei A. Gromyko and the former ambassador to
Organizers said that only in isolated cases had any top officials of the administration of John F. Kennedy ever met any of the Cuban officials who held leadership spots of their country during the 1962 crisis.
Each side has its own name for the crisis and its own version of events, and "for the first time we will try to merge those three crises into one oral history," said Bruce Allyn of the Kennedy school.
Much of the conference was closed to the press, but organizers said that the opening session today and a round-table discussion Saturday would be open.
Reports predict release of two hostages
BEIRUIT — Radio and press reports yesterday said that the release of two British hostages might be imminent, and British Ambassador Allan Ramsey crossed into Muslim west Beirut.
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After Ramsay's return to the British Embassy, in the Christian sector of the divided capital, an embassy official said, "We have no additional information."
Asked whether a hostage release was expected, he said, "All I can tell you is that we're not on alert.
The British Embassy and Ram-say's residence are in east Beirut. Most hostages are believed to be held in west Beirut's Shite Muslim slums.
leaving his west Beirut hotel to negotiate with people holding American hostages
The reports said that kidnappee, British journalist John McCarthy, Brian Keenan, who has Irish and British citizenship, could be freed within days.
Patrick McCabe, who is Ireland's ambassador to Lebanon but is based in Iraq, said he would fly to Beirut immediately to investigate.
Reports of the possible release came from the Voice of Lebanon, a Christian radio station, and AlHayat, an Arabic-language newspaper published in London that reports on under way between Iran and countries involved" about freeing McCarthy and Keenan.
McCarthy and Keenan are among 15 foreigners missing in Lebanon. Included are two more Britons and nine Americans.
one of the other Britons is Terry Waite, a Church of England envoy who disappeared Jan. 20, 1987, after
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is the process unfolded, former Republican
Sen. John Tower of Texas told the Senate Armed
Services Committee that the $763,777 he made as
a defense consultant during the past three years
would not influence his actions if he is confirmed
as secretary of defense.
SENATE QUESTIONS TOWER: Senate committees worked yesterday to fill vacancies at President Bush's Cabinet table by examining one nominee's relationships to defense contractors.
ONE KILLED: Israeli troops shot and killed one Palestinian and wounded three in a clash that occurred after the soldiers prevented a West Bank village from holding a funeral march, the army said yesterday.
Also yesterday, troops bulldozed four houses in the West Bank village of Aqraba, blew up one in the town of Tulkarem, and sealed one in each of the two sites, the army said. The houses belonged to families of Palestinians suspected of throwing firebombs at Israeli troops and cars
an army spokeswoman said.
The United States and human rights groups have criticized demolitions as a violation of international law because no legal hearing is held first.
CANDIDACY ANNOUNCED: Lt. Gov. L. Doug Wilder, who confounded political experts in 1985 by winning statewide office in Virginia, opened a bid yesterday to become the nation's first elected black governor.
Wilder announced a "three for Virginia" plan - permanent tax relief, a fight against drugs and drug-related crime, and creation of jobs and housing for rural Virginians.
Wilder has no opposition for the Democratic nomination, which will be decided at the party convention in June.
SAVING ENCOURAGED: State bankers in Poland are resorting to a lottery to convince citizens to save their money rather than emptying stores of what little there is to buy.
ming bank counters to pledge they will keep 50,000 zlotys, about a month's salary, on deposit for six to nine months in order to be eligible for winning cash prizes.
Poles don't seem concerned that the zlotys they put into the bank will have lost value when withdrawn because of inflation. Instead, they dream of pocketing the prizes and putting the money toward cars, apartments or educations abroad.
Savers are responding enthusiastically, jam-
AT&T REPORTS LOSS: American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. yesterday reported the first annual loss in its 104-year history, the result of a huge write-off to streamline for long-distance phone wars.
The historic loss was no surprise to shareholders — AT&T forecast it last month — but it nevertheless signaled the growing urgency of competition in the long-distance phone business.
The company is scrapping outdated analog phone equipment and moving, retiring or laying
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