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Thursday, July 15, 1982
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kays Shultz
United Press International
Washington—George Shultz,
mmsing the need to reconcile dilter-
Wks in the Middle East and have a
yWegy of confidence in dealing with
Soviet Union, today was set to be-
ple the nation’s 60th secretary of
following two days of testimony
Ire the Senate Foreign Relations
limittee, the 17-member panel
Jnesday unanimously approved
pihultz to succeed Alexander Haig,
[he full Senate was expected to con-
i his nomination today.
He told the committee Wednesday
United States should develop
Jistructive and mutually heneli-
|" ties with the Soviet Union, but
uld not hesitate to criticize Soviet
lavior “when we feel it s reprehen-
v"
W^n. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass., a li-
pjho last year opposed Haig’s
nomination as secretary of state,
Wednesday dismissed as a “non
issue” the only real controversy that
surfaced about Shultz’s nomination
— his business ties to the Arab world
through the Bechtel Group Inc.,
which Shultz headed for the past
year.
“Bechtel is a remarkable com-
C any,” said Tsongas, whose father-in-
iw and brother-in-law work for the
construction and engineering Firm.
He expressed enthusiastic support
for Shultz, whom he described as
“thoughtful and pragmatic.”
Throughout the hearings, Shultz
denied Bechtel’s dealings with the
Arabs might tilt him away from Israel.
On another matter, he told the
panel he favors continuing selling de
fensive arms to Taiwan — as long as
Taiwan needs them — even though
China opposes such sales.
Oman shoots
five in shacks
United Press International
lIVE OAK — Five people who
yed to Texas to escape the cold
economic hard times of the
hh were shot in their small, ram-
[■dle apartment by a neighbor who
police she was shooting “at rats
I snakes.”
pne woman died Wednesday, two
Iple were in serious condition and
^ were stable.
Police captured the neighbor,
Ice Ann Van Guilder, 42, after she
]20to 30 feet from a freeway access
Id down an embankment to the
lulder of Interstate 35. She frac-
ed both ankles and broke a foot
I her back in the fall, hospital offi-
Is said.
J“There’s not been any indication
■jumped,” Live Oak Mayor Ralph
■lip said. “She stated she was shoot-
m snakes or rats,” Cullip said. “She
was incoherent. We can’t say whether
she was intoxicated.”
Officials said the suspect would be
charged with murder and attempted
murder.
Police, who were called to the six-
unit Ferrell Apartments about 11:15
a.m., said they did not know the mo
tive for the shooting. They said the
suspect burst into the two-room No. 5
bungalow and fired at the five people.
Officials believe a .22 caliber revolver
was used in the shootings, Cullip said.
The victims were members of four
families who had moved together
from Lebanon, Pa., last year to escape
the hard bite of the recession on the
northern steel industry.
The dead woman, Sue Bunder-
man, 29, a divorcee with a 9-year-old
son, was quoted in a newspaper ear
lier this year as saying she enjoyed the
relaxed atmosphere of south Texas.
Iraq claims
Iranians have
been purged
United Press International
Iraq claimed Wednesday that it had
defeated invading Iranian troops and
pushed them out of all Iraqi territory
captured by the forces of Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini.
There was no independent confir
mation of the claim, made by the high
command of the Iraqi armed forces in
a report by the Iraqi News Agency in
Baghdad.
“Iraqi forces managed to purge
Iraqi’s soil of the Iranian invading
forces,” the Iraqi agency said.
Quoting a war communique, the
agency said “operations were com
pleted early Thursday after the
enemy was defeated and fled the bat
tlefield.”
Iran made no immediate comment
on the Iraqi claim but on Wednesday
promised to send “this infidel regime
to hell” and said its estimated 80,000
invasion troops had achieved strate
gic victories in the explosive Persian
Gulf war.
Iraq warned oil tankers Wednes
day to avoid the “war zone” and ner
vous U.S. officials worried the conflict
could spread to threaten Western oil
supplies.
Iranian troops pushed 6 miles into
southern Iraq but Iraq said it coun
tered with air raids on Iran’s key oil
ports and repelled the Iranian attack
near Basra, leaving the battlefield “fil
led with the corpses of enemy sol
diers.”
Both sides reported hundreds of
C risoners captured in ground and air
allies.
Despite its concern, the White
House admitted the United States
had little influence in the region and
stressed American neutrality in the
22-month-old conflict.
The invasion of Iraq, code-named
“Ramadan” after the Moslem holy
month, began late Tuesday when ab
out 80,000 Iranian troops overran
frontline Iraqi positions and swarmed
over the border toward the Iraqi port
city of Basra on the disputed Shatt
alArab waterway.
The Iraq News Agency said Iran
invaded “on a front 6 miles wide,
pushing 6 miles inside Iraqi terri
tory.”
It said the advance was halted at
dawn and Iraq began a “counterof
fensive.”
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini urged Moslems in Iraq to
help overthrow of the secular rule of
President Saddam Hussein.
“You, army of Iraq your brothers
have come to save you and, with self-
sacrifice and dependence on God, will
send this infidel regime to hell,”
Khomeini said in a message to Iraq’s
armed forces.
staff photo by Octavio Garcia
Book worm alley
This dedicated student chooses to spend his time in the
Sterling Evans Library instead of basking in the sun,
throwing a Frisbee, eating ice cream or goofing off in
general. Notice that he is the only person in the aisle.
Lebanon wants
PLO, others out
Resident calls it a ‘whitewash
EPA says Love Canal habitable
_ United Press International
iNlAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — A fed
eral report says the Love Canal neigh-
jrhood which became a symbol of
ItKe nation’s hazardous waste prob-
f letns in 1978, is now “habitable” but a
(former resident says the study is a
J whitewash.
The Environmental Protection
(Agency’s two-year, $5.4 million study
[was released Wednesday and con-
f ceded environmental problems — the
kentamination of storm sewers, creek
Bd river sediments — remain. It re
commended money from the federal
toxic waste superfund be used to eli-
I minate them.
■ The report covered the area 1 '/a
locks away from the dump. Earlier
il the week state Attorney General
Robert Abrams released a study
saying high levels of the deadly che
mical dioxin still are in homes nearest
the canal. Gov. Hugh Carey said those
homes are being demolished.
About 1,000 families had to be re
located from the Love Canal area at
government expense in 1980 because
toxic chemicals had seeped into their
homes from the Hooker Chemical
Co. waste dump. Chemical sludge be
gan appearing in backyards and
swimming pools and health problems
were thought to be caused by the
wastes.
Hooker dumped about 20,000 tons
of chemical waste into the clay-walled
canal in the 1940s and 1950s.
The EPA’s report said chemicals
leaching from the Love Canal had
contaminated homes but said the pro
cess was halted by a run-off collection
system and a remedial construction
project that capped the landfill.
“We have made the decision that
the area, based on information pro
vided by the EPA, is habitable,” said
Dr. Clark Heath Jr. of the Centers for
Disease Control, who reviewed the
EPA study.
Lois Gibbs, a former Love Canal
resident who was instrumental in
securing government-funded reloca
tion for herself and neighbors, called
the EPA report a “whitewash” and
vowed to oppose revitalization.
“I think this is appalling,” said Mrs.
Gibbs, who heads a non-profit organi
zation that helps citizens fight hazar
dous waste problems nationwide.
“The area should not be inhabited.
There should be no one living in the
Love Canal area. I will try to stop (it).”
Carey said the EPA findings
opened the door for revitalization of
the area.
“Based on the report,” he said, “all
possible efforts will be made to
achieve revitalization of the declara
tion area and reoccupancy of homes”
in areas where residences have not
been destroyed.
The Love Canal Revitalization
Agency, established by the state, said
a number of people have shown an
interest in purchasing abandoned
homes near the landfill.
The EPA’s findings were reviewed
by scientists from the Public Health
Service of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
United Press International
The long-divided Lebanese gov
ernment, trying to prevent a blood
bath in its capital, staged a rare show
of solidarity to demand all foreign
forces, including the Palestine Libera
tion Organization, leave its war-torn
nation.
In its first call for a PLO exit, the
Lebanese Cabinet asked Wednesday
for “the assistance of a multi-national
force to secure Palestinian withdrawal
from Beirut to save the western sector
from dangers.”
The action came as diplomats sent
out mixed signals about the progress
of peace negotiations. A cease-fire
around Beirut held shakily despite
sporadic artillery fire from both sides
and a mock air strike by Israeli war
planes.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,
emerging from a meeting with for
mer Lebanese Prime Minister Saeb
Salam, told reporters “definitely
there is progress,” but gave no details.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir said his government stands by
“our decision to give our American
friends more time and chance to go
on with the negotiations until the ob
jectives are achieved.”
But the Beirut newspaper An
Nahar quoted U.S. envoy Philip
Habib as telling Lebanese officials
that Israel had given him “only a few
more days” to bring his negotiations
to a successful conclusion.
Shamir, speaking on Israeli televi
sion, said Israel “has not given up on
any option” to force the 6,000 PLO
guerrillas trapped in west Beirut to
leave Lebanon, including an invasion
of the city by the 35,000 Israeli troops
surrounding the capital.
“Their game is up. They must
leave,” he said.
The Lebanese Cabinet, made up of
both Christian and Moslem represen
tatives, met for the first time in three
weeks Wednesday and repeated ear
lier calls on Syrian and Israeli troops
to withdraw from the country.
For the first time, the Cabinet also
demanded the withdrawal of the
PLO.
It also called for the restoration of
Lebanese authority throughout the
country and the deployment of the
Lebanese army and internal security
forces on “all Lebanese soil.”
Former Prime Minister Salam said
Khalid Hassan, a member of the
PLO’s central committee, had been
granted a visa to go to Washington
July 19 as part of an Arab League
delegation on the Lebanese war.
He hinted Hassan might meet Sen
ate and congressional leaders and
named Sen. Charles Percy, chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee and an outspoken critic of
Israel’s action in Lebanon.
vrum speaker criticizes government intervention
Politics threaten academic freedom
Dr. Russell Kirk
by Colette Hutchings
Battalion Staff
Government has begun to act on
the assumption that universities re
quire central direction, not acade
mic independence, Dr. Russell Kirk
told an audience of about 90 in Rud
der Forum Wednesday night.
“Now a days the present threat to
academic freedom comes from an
old source — the intervention of a
political power,” Kirk said.
Kirk, a noted historian, political
and educational theorist and author
of over 23 books on academia, was
sponsored by the MSC Political
Forum.
He said government intervention
in the past four to five years has
been increasingly troubling such as
the attempts by state goverments to
regulate independent schools and
church schools.
“Increasing attempts to force all
schools to form to state patterns is in
virtual disregard to the First
Amendment,” he said.
The more conspicious cases of in
tervention are the affirmative action
cases, Kirk said, in which the federal
and state governments compel col
leges to comply with the civil rights
acts.
For example, Kirk said, a woman
at a women’s college in New York,
which had an equal number of men
and women faculty, was rejected
unanimously by the tenure commit
tee for a promotion. She later filed a
discrimination complaint, although
she was not as qualified as the male
candidates.
Kirk said the complaint was re
viewed and the woman won.
“This is a small instance of the
way litigation is brought about by
attempts top enforce the moral code
by justice,” Kirk said.
“A good university should not
discriminate in race or sex, but after
all shouldn’t we trust university not
to do this?,” Kirk said.
Although Kirk said there’s been
no systematic attempt of govern
ment to intervene he told of an inci
dent of government intervention at
a community college in Georgia.
He said the college was given a
mansion to use for classes and the
federal authorities intervened.
“They said ‘get rid of the chande
liers,”’ Kirk said, ‘“and put in
flourescent lighting.’”
Kirk said the different lighting
was requested because what was
there didn’t meet federal standards
for universities.
“Much of the meddling is from
appetites of those holding petty
powers,” Kirk said.
“Universities were founded to
sustain faith by reason and to maim
tain order in the soul and in the
commonwealth,” Kirk said.
Academic freedom cannot en
dure without order but the role of a
university is to maintain tension be
tween the two, Kirk said.
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