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El Salvador conditions improve, Honduran foreign minister says
By FREDDY CUEVAS election May 6, and took office June 1. transfer program began in June more than 12,500
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Associated Press Writer About 20,000 Salvadoran refugees living in Guatemalan refugees have been moved to the
three major camps within a few miles of the state of Campeche, on, the Yucatan, from camps
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Foreign Min- border have refused to return to their homeland. in the jungle area of Mexico's southernmost state
ister Edgardo Paz Bernice said yesterday that They also oppose being transferred deeper into of Chiapas.
conditions have improved in war-ravaged El Honduras. The government estimates there are The 600 mile-trip takes two days, and the rainy
Salvador so that 30,000 Salvadoran refugees in at least another 10,000 Salvadoran refugees liv- season has made the trek difficult. Some of the
Honduras can return home safely. ing in villages in other parts of the country. refugees have refused to move, saying the Yuca
"The Salvadoran refugees should return to In Mexico City, meanwhile, the head of the tan climate is too hot and they would be too far
their country as soon as possible because we government committee aiding the estimated 46,- from their families in Guatemala.
simply believe that the government of President 000 Guatemalan refugees in Mexico said a pro- The Mexican government announced the relo-
Jose Napoleon Duarte can guarantee their secu- gram to move them from the Guatemalan border cation program in May, saying the refugees
rity," Paz Barnica said in a telephone interview to Yucatan peninsula in the north will go for- would have better living conditions and security
with The Associated Press. ward, despite heavy rains and some of the away from the border. The refugees, most of
Duarte, a leader of the moderate Christian refugees' objections to the transfer. them Indian peasants, started coming to Mexico
Democratic Party in El Salvador, defeated right- Oscar Gonzalez, coordinator of the Mexican in large numbers in 1980, when leftist guerrilla
ist candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson in a runoff Commission to Aid Refugees, said that-since the activity intensified in their country.
Lebanon official
escapes death
By MONA ZIADE
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon Education
and Labor Minister Selim Hoss
escaped assassination yesterday
by a remote-controlled car bomb
that exploded as he was driven
past on the way to dawn prayers.
The blast killed his driver, two
police escorts and a women pedes
trian, and injured 25 other people.
The 55-year-old former prime
minister was rushed to the Ameri
can University Hospital where he
was treated for cuts on his head
and face, police and hospital
The Daily Collegian
Thursday, Sept. 6, 1984
Landslide
surprises
Canadians
By CHARLES CAMPBELL
Associated Press Writer
TORONTO Businessmen
were delighted yesterday and
nearly all Canadians astonished
at the record-setting Progressive
Conservative victory that will
make Brian Mulroney prime
minister later this month.
But the business euphoria did
not show in major stock and
currency markets, apparently
because most investors had been
aware for weeks that a Tory
landslide was developing.
The Toronto and Montreal
stock exchanges both lost ground
in the early trading yesterday,
and the Canadian dollar fell by
three-tenths of a cent to 76.66
cents U.S.
"The prospect of a big majority
Tory victory had already been
discounted by the market weeks
ago," George Chisholm, the pres
ident of an investment firm, told
the Canadian Press.
Conservatives won 211 of the
282 seats in Parliament in Tues
day's election, the most in Ca
nadian history. The Liberals of
Prime Minister John Turner
were battered, emerging with 40
seats. The left-leaning New Dem
ocrats won 30 seats and one inde
pendent was elected. . .
"It's an overwhelming majori
ty, more than I ever imagined,"
said John Bulloch, president of
the Canadian Federation of Inde
pendent business. "It's a very
exciting time."
President Reagan called Mul
roney from Chicago to offer con
gratulations and "expressed his
readiness to work closely with
Mr. Mulroney to the mutual bene
fit of both Canada and the United
States," White House spokesman
Larry Speakes reported.
sources said.
There was no immediate claim
of responsibility.
The bomb was in a green Re
nault parked 80 yards from the
home of Grand Mufti Hassan
Khaled, Lebanon's chief Sunni
Moslem leader. Police said it was
detonated by remote control and
estimated it contained 245 pounds
of explosives.
Hoss was on his way to pick up
Khaled and the chief Shiite Mos
lem religious leader, Sheik Mo
hammed Mehdi Shamseddin, to
accompany them to dawn prayers
state news bkiefs •
Thornburgh reshuffles administration
HARRISBURG (AP) Gov. Dick Thornburgh, faced with the
departure of some key members of his administration, yesterday
announced a major reshuffling of the cabinet.
The governor named Secretary of Labor and Industry Barry H.
Stern to a new cabinet-level position of special assistant to the
governor for government operations.
James W. Knepper Jr., a former state lawmaker who is
executive director of the Human Resources Committee, was
nominated by Thornburgh to replace Stern.
The governor also named Margaret A. Smith, the state's basic
education commissioner, as acting secretary of education. Smith,
43, replaces Robert C. Wilburn, who left the cabinet to become
chief executive officer of the Carnegie Institute and Carnegie
Library in Pittsburgh.
And David R. Runkel was appointed Thornburgh's press secre
tary and director of communications to replace Paul W. Critch
low, who has been one of the governor's closest advisers.
Thornburgh's second and final term as governor ends in
January 1987 and some of his top officers already have left the
administration to take private-sector jobs.
Democrats name Mellow chairman
HARRISBURG (AP) Sen. Robert Mellow of Lackawanna
County was appointed chairman of the statewide Democratic
campaign organization, the party announced yesterday.
Mellow will coordinate the state committee's activities for
Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale's Pennsylva
nia campaign as well as state, legislative and local campaigns.
State chairman Edward Mezvinsky said he appointed the 41-
year-old lawmaker because he possesses the necessary lead
ership to rally the state behind the Democratic Party.
Mellow said President Reagan's policies have hurt the state's
steel and textile industries.
"It is imperative that we elect Walter Mondale as president in
November," he said. " . . . Pennsylvania deserves better lead
ership."
Teachers picket in 4 more states
(AP) New strikes by teachers broke out in four states
yesterday, raising the number of strikers to more than 10,000 and
disrupting education for about 153,000 students nationwide.
In Chicago and San Francisco, however, classes began as
scheduled this year despite earlier threats of disruptions.
One teacher picketing in Grand Rapids, Mich., where schools
opened despite a strike by 1,800 educators, was slightly injured
yesterday after being hit by a car, witnesses said.
The teacher injured was struck by a car outside Ottawa Hills
High School, witnesses said. She was treated at Blodgett Memori
al Medical Center and released. No further details of the accident
were available.
The new strikes began yesterday in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey. All four states already had districts on
strike. Walkouts also continued yesterday in Rhode Island,
Louisiana and New York.
nation news briefs
Reagan may veto U.N. resolution
WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration would
probably veto a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on Israel
to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon, a State Depart
ment spokesman said yesterday.
"Experience convinces us that a contentious Security Council
debate on southern Lebanon is not likely to help Lebanon regain
its full sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity," said
spokesman John Hughes.
Asked if that meant the United States would veto a resolution
focusing on southern Lebanon, Hughes said, "it certainly seems to
be the implication" of the U.S. position.
' Lebanon has asked the Security Council to call on Israel to
withdraw from the southern portion of its country; and its request
is currently being debated behind closed doors.
However, it is widely assumed that Lebanon does not want to
press the issue so far as to risk U.S. veto, and that it will therefore
allow the debate to lapse without pressing for a vote on a
resolution.
Air Force One in need of makeover
WASHINGTON (AP) A seal on a stove vent broke on Air
Force One as President Reagan flew to Washington yesterday,
forcing the pilot to drop altitude because of a loss of pressure.
But an Air Force steward said neither the president nor any of
the other 60 or so passengers was in any danger, and the aircraft
landed safely about 20 minutes after the incident occurred.
Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said
Reagan "experienced some minor discomfokt. He could feel it in
his ears, but no problems."
world news briefs
Pope urges Catholics to procreate
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John Paul II yesterday warned
that sometimes Roman Catholic couples must not even use the
church-approved natural family planning method to limit the size
of their families.
During his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, the
pontiff gave the eighth in a series of a dozen planned lectures
aimed at reinforcing the church's ban on artificial birth control.
"The use of infertile periods in married life can become the
source of abuses if the couples seek in such a way to avoid without
just reasons procreation, lowering procreation below the morally
correct level of births for their family," the pontiff told a crowd of
several thousand tourists and pilgrims.
The pontiff said, "This level (of procreation) must be estab
lished not only by taking into account the good of the family and
the health and financial opportunities of the married spouses, but
also the good of society they belong to and the good of the church
and even all humanity."
The only means of birth control currently approved by the
Roman Catholic Church is what it calls natural family planning
abstinence from sex during a woman's fertile period.
Crews tally typhoon deaths at 830
(AP) Disaster crews pulled more bodies from the wreckage
of Philippiness villages yesterday, raising to 830 the number of
known dead from the worst typhoon to hit the Philippines in four
decades.
In Bangkok, Thailand, the Meteorological Department said
Typhoon Ike swirled over the Chinese island of Hainan yesterday,
200 miles off the Vietnamese coast. It said the typhoon was
moving northwest into the Gulf of Tonkin at 15 mph, carrying
winds as high as 100 mph, and was expected to hit Hanoi, the
Vietnamese capital, today.
The • typhoon battered central and southern islands in the
Philippines last weekend and Monday with winds up to 115 mph.
Local officials said the Philippines toll may rise as floods ebb and
government workers restore communications in areas that have
been isolated by the disaster.
Surigao Del Norte province, 650 miles southeast of Manila, was
hardest hit, with 565 dead, according to statistics released by
provincial officials. On the island of Negros in the central
Philippines, 101 people were killed, most of them drowned.
The typhoon was the worst to hit the Philippines since 1947,
according to Red Cross figures.
About 200,000 people were homeless.
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- Thursday, September 6
Board of Trustees meeting. Also Sept. 7.
Cinematheque, Fellini: A Retrospective, Variety Lights, 7 and 9 p.m.,
HUB Assembly Room. Also Sept. 7.
Gamma Sigma Sigma meeting, 6:30 p.m., Room 265 Willard.
History Roundtable meeting, 7:30 p.m., Room 119 Boucke.
Alpha Phi Omega meeting, 8 p.m., Room 320, 321, 322 HUB.
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