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Inauguration ends military regime
Cerezo takes presidential oath
Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY — Vinicio
Cerezo became Guatemala’s first ci
vilian president in 16 years Tuesday,
facing ruinous inflation and the deli
cate task of dealing with human
rights abuses without alienating the
powerful military.
Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia Vic-
tores, the retiring chief of state who
seized power in a 1983 coup, admin
istered the oath of office to the 43-
year-old lawyer from the centrist
Christian Democratic Party.
Vice President George Bush, who
led the U.S. delegation to the inau
gural, said soon after arrival that it
was “a most historic occasion. We
view this as a turning point not just
in Guatemala’s history but also a
milestone in this hemisphere.”
The 100 members of Congress, 51
of them from Cerezo’s party, were
sworn in earlier Tuesday.
About 400 demonstrators en
gaged in a pushing match with po
lice outside the theater. They were
from the International Peace March
in Central America that left Panama
on a journey to Mexico in December _
and the Mutual Support Group, rel
atives of people wno have disap
peared in the military campaign
against leftists.
Cerezo was elected to serve a five-
year term. His inauguration ends
four years of rule by decree begun
by a coup March 23, 1982, that
brought Gen. Efrain Rios Montt to
power. Mejia Victores replaced him
in a coup Aug. 8, 1983.
The new president faces tough
challenges even with a congressional
majority and the initial cooperation
of those anxious to solve economic
problems and glad for an end to mil
itary rule.
He must balance the interests of
workers impoverished by high infla
tion, which is put officially at 50 per
cent and estimated by some econo
mists at double that, against those of
a powerful private sector that guards
its own interests and resists higher
taxes.
Inflation was in single digits in
1982 and rose only to 11 percent by
1984.
Group reveals unannounced nuclear tests
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United
States conducted at least 12 and pos
sibly as many as 19 unannounced
underground nuclear weapons tests
between 1980 and 1984, an environ
mental group asserted Tuesday.
Citing research based on public
sources of information, the Natural
Resources Defense Council said the
tests showed the Reagan administra
tion had stepped up the pace of nu
clear weapons research, despite gov
ernment figures indicating a stable
rate of testing from the Carter ad
ministration.
Eight of the unannounced tests
could be confirmed based on infor
mation obtained from the U.S. Geo
logical Survey or the Hagfors Obser
vatory in Sweden, which detected
them in 1983 and 1984, the report
said.
“At least four — and possibly as
many as 1 1 — (other) tests appar-
endy escaped detection,” suggesting
experiments with very small nuclear
devices, the report added.
Robert S. Norris, a political scien
tist-and one of four researchers who
collaborated on the study, said,
“This is indicative of an accelerated
pattern that goes directly contrary to
many of the things that Mr. Reagan
and (Defense Secretary Caspar)
Weinberger publicly state.
“They speak of their desire to get
rid of nuclear weapons, but they’re
building more of them and they are
spending more on nuclear testing.
And they are operating under a pol
icy of keeping some tests secret on a
theory, I believe, that announcing all
tests would draw attention to the
weapons buildup that they would
like to avoid.”
While no concrete evidence was
available, Norris suggested the
smallest tests could be related to
President Reagan’s “Star Wars” re
search effort. Published scientific
papers also suggest that scientists at
Lawrence Livermore National Labo
ratory in California have worked on
“low-yield fission warheads” for use
on anti-satellite weapons, he said.
The Natural Resources Defense
Council has frequently been critical
of Reagan administration policies.
The Pentagon declined immedi
ate comment on the report, citing a
standard policy not to discuss any
details of nuclear testing.
Norris, in an interview, said the
Reagan administration was not the
first to keep nuclear tests secret. He
said evidence indicated three unan
nounced tests had been conducted
during the Carter administration.
During the Carter years of 1977
through 1980, 58 nuclear tests were
publicly announced, he said. During
the first four years of the Reagan ad
ministration, 65 such tests were pub
licly announced.
Researcher builds
new blood pumps
with muscle tissue
Associated Press
SARASOTA, Fla. — Spare
muscle from elsewhere in the
body may soon be used to build
new blood pumps for victims of
severe congestive heart failure,
sparing them from heart trans
plants or artificial hearts, a re
searcher said Tuesday.
The experimental technique
would call for doctors to remove
the muscle, treat it with electric
shocks to strengthen it, then form
it into a cone and attach it to a
major artery anywhere in the
body. They would then attach a
pacemaker to make the muscle
contract like a healthy heart.
Dr. Larry Stephenson, a sur
geon from the University of
Pennsylvania Hospital, said he
believes the strategy could be
tried in humans within two years.
“It would be an extra pump,”
he said. “It would be used as an
assist device to pump additional
blood to somebody who was in
fairly profound heart failure.”
About 10,000 people in the
United States are diagnosed each
year as having irreversible con
gestive heart failure. Half of
these people die within a year.
Because of damage to their
heart muscle, their hearts don’t
beat strongly enough.
Stephenson, w'ho began work
ing on the idea of fashioning
pumps from muscle about seven
years ago, described the research
at a science writers’ forum spon
sored by the American Heart As
sociation.
He says he believes the pumps
could assist the failing heart by
pumping two liters of blood a
minute.
Stephenson has identified four
muscles that he said could be
used to make the pumps: the dia
phragm muscle, which is used in
breathing; the latissimus dorsi,
the large muscles in the back; the
pectoralis, the muscles in the up
per chest, and the rectus abdomi-
nus, the muscles in the abdomen.
Since the body has two of each of
these muscles, he said, one could
be removed without causing se
rious disability.
He said his technique would be
safer than heart transplants, and
it also could be more widely used,
since not enough hearts are avail
able for all the people who need
heart transplants.
KKK to hold march against King’s birthday observance
Associated Press
PULASKI, Tenn. — Many whites
in this southern Tennessee town of
7,500 are proud their forefathers or
ganized the Ku Klux Klan 120 years
ago to stop blacks and Northerners
from seizing political power after the
Civil War.
But those were different times
and a different Klan, and residents
say they are unenthusiastic about
plans by the Klan to parade this
weekend in protest of the first na
tional observance of Martin Luther
King Jr.’s birthday.
Stacey Aymett Garner, who’s
served as mayor for 21 years, said, “I
The original Ku Klux
Klan. . . was formed by
community leaders con
cerned about lawlessness
and the rise to power of
northern whites and for
mer slaves. .. .
think the general reaction is that
(residents) would prefer it not to
happen. But I don’t think anybody is
real, real excited about the thing.”
Mitchell Birdsong Jr., who two
years ago became the first black al
derman in the city that is about 20
percent black, said the town’s image
is the main worry.
“Everybody’s concerned and
they’d rather for them not to come,”
he said. “If they (townspeople) had a
choice in the matter, they
(Klansmen) wouldn’t be here. But
this is something, unfortunately, we
don’t have a choice about.”
The six-block march by the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is set
for Saturday.
A man officials identified as
Grand Wizard Stanley McCullom
applied for the parade permit on
Dec. 17. City Attorney Jack Henry
said the Klan had a right to march as
long as members wore no hoods and
did not litter or obstruct traffic.
City Recorder Bob Abernathy-
said McCullom lives in Tuscumbia,
Ala., although initial news reports
listed his home as Tuscaloosa.
The Klan is scheduled to assemble
just off the town square in front of a
modest brick building where the
first KKK meeting took place.
Townsfolk say today’s Klan does
not resemble the 19th Century orga
nization.
The original Ku Klux Klan, whose
name stems from the Greek word
“I think the general reac
tion is that (residents)
would prefer it not to hap-
pen. ”
— Stacey Aymett Garner,
mayor of Pulaski.
for circle, was formed by community
leaders concerned about lawlessness
and the rise to power of northern
whites and former slaves in the Re-
constructionist South.
It developed into a vigilante
group that used disguises such as
colorful hoods and robes and mid
night rides to play on the fears and
superstitions of those former slaves.
The Klan spread and in 1867 for
mer Confederate Gen. Nathan Bed
ford Forrest became Grand Wizard.
The Tennessee Legislature passed
an anti-Klan law in 1869, and For
rest ordered the group disbanded,
saying it had accomplished its goal
by protecting the lifestyles of south
ern whites.
In 1915, a’sfeond Ku Klux Klan
was formed in Georgia by ex-min
ister William J. Simmons, incorpo
rating anti-Semitism and anti-Ca
tholicism.
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