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2 Press-Republican—Wednesday, August 15,1984 News in Brief INTERNATIONAL •r Afghan attacks kill 350 Soviet troops NEW DELHI, India (UPI) - Afghan rebels killed more than 350 Soviet and government soldiers in fierce attacks on Soviet convoys trying to open a supply route south of the capital, Western diplomats said Tuos4ay, In earlier fighting around Kabul, the capital city, Afghan guer- rillas killed more than 200 Soviet troops and their Afghan allies, the diplomats said. Uruguay to hold first elections in 13 years MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (UPI) — The military government Tuesday announced the country's first elections in 13 years would be held in November for a civilian president and congress. A government decree issued by the armed forces, which took power in a 1973 coup, said elections would be held Nov. 25 for a president, vice president, congress and provincial officials. The elections, the first in Uruguay since 1971, are considered a first step toward ending rule by the military, which overthrew the government afte a wave of guerrilla violence and strikes weaken- ed the nation's long-time democracy. Population conference weighs settlement issue MEXICO CITY (UPI) - The U.N. World Population Con- ference on its final day Tuesday considered whether a controver- sial resolution condemning the Israeli settlement policy should be included in a final statement. The overwhelming passage of the clause by the main commit- tee was strongly opposed by the U.S. delegation to the nine-day population meeting, but only Israel joined the United States in voting against it during a marathon session that considered 91 resolutions. British patrol fired on in Ulster BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI) — A suspected IRA gun- man fired on a British patrol Tuesday as police throughout Nor- thern Ireland were on alert against violence marking the 15th an- niversary of the deployment of British troops in the province. No one was injured in the attack on the patrol shortly after mid- night in Catholic Falls Road area of west Belfast, police said. Walesa commemorates birth of Solidarity GDANSK, Poland (UPI) — A conciliatory Lech Walesa, mark- ing the fourth anniversary of the shipyard strike that led to the birth of Solidarity, said Tuesday the banned union wanted recon- ciliation with the communist regime and would no longer stage street demonstrations. In the southern city of Czestochowa, the first of more than 200,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims began arriving early Wednes- day at Poland's most sacred religious shrine for celebrations marking the anniversary of the historic strike at Gdansk's Lenin shipyard. Martial law declared in Peru LIMA, Peru (UPI) — President Fernando Belaunde Terry declared martial law Tuesday in 13 mountain provinces where two weeks of guerrilla violence has left 131 people dead — in- cluding 15 children whose throats were slit by rebels. Belaunde Terry imposed military rule for 60 days and declared a state of emergency in the Andean regions the government says have been targeted for guerrilla attacks because residents have refused to join the rebels. NATIONAL Mondale 'can't force' opening of tax return LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) — Walter Mondale said Tuesday he is not in a position to force running mate Geraldine Ferraro's husband to open his income tax returns to public scrutiny. Mondale, who delivered an address on military policy before taking questions from the audience during a citizens' meeting at the Old Statehouse museum, was asked from the floor about Ms. Ferraro. Romanian journalist granted asylum in U.S. LOS ANGELES (UPI) — A Romanian journalist in the United States to cover the Olympics for a San Diego newspaper was granted political asylum Tuesday, less thanJM hours after he defected, immigration officials said. ~~ SU cheerleader sues school SYRACUSE* N.Y. (UPI) — A former Syracuse University cheerleader* who suffered a fractured skull when she fell from a human pyramid while performing at a basketball game, is suing the school for $1 million. Michelle Munn BUrkhart, 23, of Melbourne, Fla., was injured after she fell from the top of a three-person human pyramid head- first onto the Carrier Dome's hardwood floor in front of 25,000 basketball fans Jan. 17,1982. The 5-foot-l former cheerleader charges the university failed to provide cheerleaders with adequate training, supervision and safety devices. In court papers, she faulted the school for allow- ing her to \participate in an inherently dangerous activity,\ which caused her to be permanently injured. She did not specify the nature of her permanent injury. The university, in papers filed in U.S. District Court, denied the charges and attributed the accident to Mrs. Burkhari's Culpable conduct.\ University attorney Robert Duell of Syracuse Monday said Mrs. Burkhart acknowledged in pre-trial proceedings that she returned to the cheerleading squad 11 months after the accident. She was also able to work at her $19,500-a-year job as a quality engineer at Brunswick Corp. in Deland, Fla., shortly after her graduation from the university, he said. \If you were sitting on a jury wouldn't you be interested in knowing whether a person was able to go out and work in what they trained in subsquent to an accident?\ Duell asked. In response to the allegation the cheerleaders didn't practice the human pyramid, cheerleading coach Kathryn Bearss said, \We never got on the floor without practicing. Pyramid crumbles Michelle AAunn Burhart falls from the human pyramid Jan. 17, 1982. She fractured her skull and is suing the university as a result. (UPI) Cuomo: Ferraro remark ill-advised By WILLIAM STEVENS ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - Gov. Mario Cuomo says Geralciine Ferraro's reference to Italians regarding her husband's refusal to make public his income, tax returns was ill-advised but no more significant than President Reagan's jesting remark about bombing Russia. Ms. Ferraro. the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said that anyone married to an Italian man would understand there was nothing she could do about the decision by her husband, John Zaccaro. \I don't know what Con- gresswoman Ferraro meant. I assume it was a flip comment/' Cuomo said during WAMC's public radio talk show Tuesday, \It didn't play well.\ \I'm sure if she had it to do over, she wouldn't use that frame of reference,\ Cuomo said. \It's never good to use ethnic stereotypes. I will not applaud her remark,\ the governor add- ed. Cuomo referred to Reagan's joking remark about bombing Russia arid said, \It's more fun to talk about. the gaffes and Soviets dispatch supplies to Salyut quips, but the truth is it's just a distraction\ away from serious issues such as the federal deficit and taxes. ' The governor said, however, that he found it \disconcerting\ that Reagan could casually talk about bombing the Soviet Union, even though it was obviously meant in jest and was said off- the-air. On another topic, Cuomo said his office was still pursuing a plan to help people register to vote by providing registration cards in public offices even though a court has ordered the plan not be implemented pending a hearing. He said Republican charges that using state offices to distribute voter registration forms would favor Democrats were \absurd.\ He said Republicans did not want more people voting because they were afraid of the outcome. The GOP obtained a court rul- ing to block the governor's ex- ecutive order from going into ef- fect and actual implementation of the plan is still on hold pending appeal of the legal challenge. Cuomo said the public displayed \deplorable indif- ference\ to voting and that the purpose of the registration aid was to bring as many people as possible into the political pro- cess. NEW FALL HAGGAR SLACKS Reg.$28 &$29 TODAY ONLY! u n c o m f An Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman said the writer, Vladimir Moraru, 33, officially filed for asylum early Tuesday morning, and his application was granted by State Department and local INS officials within hours. Prison guard pleads innocent to shooting ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) — A state prison guard has pleaded inno- cent to charges be shot a man at the Colonie Coliseum theater in June. Thomas Andrews, 31. a guard at Downstate Correctional Facility in Beacon, pleaded innocent Monday in Albany County Court to second-degree manslaughter and five other charges in the June 9 shooting. Andrews is accused of fatally sfisbfiiijT Robert Parmlee, 39, of Poughkeepsie with a handgun in the theater's parking lot after a concert sponsored by the Union of Federated Corrections Officers. Indian land claim draws county caveat WATERLOO, N.Y. (UPI) - Seneca County officials have vow- ed to oppose use of any county land to settle a 64,800-acre Indian land claim dispute in central New York. The Seneca County Board of Supervisors Monday decided to stand behind its resolutions already on the books that support litigation and oppose use of any county land to settle the claim. Fault found with Sotheby's book sale NEW YORK (UPI) - Sotheby's auction house illegally sold $1.45 million worth of rare Hebrew books and manuscripts smug- gled out of Nazi Germany in the 1940s, the state attorney general charged Tuesday. The lawsuit concerns 59 rare Hebrew books and manuscripts that belonged to a Berlin rabbinical seminary — the College for the Scientific Study of Jewish Culture — closed by the Nazis in 1942. Jackson concert in Buffalo moved up a month BUFFALO. NY (UPI) - Officials with the Jacksons' 'Vic- tory Tour\ say Michael Jackson and hi* brothers will appear in Buffalo a little earlier than planned. The Jacksoos' concert was originally scheduled in Buffalo's Rich Stadium on Sept. 28 and 29. but the traveling extravaganza will instead come to Buffalo Aug. 25 and 2$. An announcement on les should be made by Wednesday and tickets should be available by the* Keep up the strike, Asner urges workers NEW YORK (UPI) - Actor Ed Asner told a rally of striking fcocpfta! workers Tuesday to \keep up the good fight\ as striken blew whistles and banged oe pott, pans and hubcaps. Hundreds of police officers were assigned to the protest*. which cause as bargaining continued m an effort to emd the tt- day-otd strtte against 4$ botpitals and nursing homes By LOUISE BRANSON MOSCOW (UPI) - The Soviet Union Tuesday launched an un- manned rocket loaded with fresh supplies for three cosmonauts on the orbiting Salyut-7 space sta- tion who are nearing the 211-day record for remaining in space. \The automatic cargo spacecraft Progress-23 was laun- ched in the Soviet Union today at 10:28 a.m. Moscow time (3:28 EDT), in accordance with the program for ensuring the further functioning of the Salyut-7 orbital -station,\ the official Soviet news agency Tass said. Tass did not say when the supp- ly rocket would link up with Salyut-7 which has been in- habited by cosmonauts Leonid Kizim. Vladimir Solovyov and Oleg Atkov since Feb. 9. The sending of additional sup- plies to the three cosmonauts was an indication the team is aiming to stay on board the sta- tion past Sept. 6> when they would match the 211-day space endurance record set by Soviet cosmonauts in December 1&2. Soviet space officials have declined to say when the team is scheduled to return to Earth. Tass said radio monitoring showed all systems on Progress- 23 \are functioning normally.\ It said only that the craft was car- rying \expendable materials an* various cargo*\ without giving further details. A twig of absinthe was pro- bably among the supplies — the team asked three cosmonauts who visited them last month to send up one to remind them of the Motherland Though Salyut-7 is 5# feet kmg. the cosmonauts live and work in a confined area 20 4 feet long and about 13 feet in diameter The living area is fitted with a table, shower, toilets and sleep- ing berths attached to the wails as well as an exercise bicycle and running track to keep muscles from atrophying m weightiest cooditxms M*rk*l's, Visa. MasterCard Accepted • (518) 5*3-1300 DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH in a swin conditioned Famous Maker BATH TOWELS (Slightly irregular), Values to $10.50 plus POIY/COTTON NAPKINS Reg $2 50 ea 6 f Or $3.99 DOMESTICS • THIRD \ ^^^^^^ Hurry, Sah mnd% Sat., Aug. 1 § 563-1300 •Merkel's, V.so, MosterCord Mon.-Sot. 9:45-5, Wed. & Fn. 'til 9 DOWNTOWN PLATTSSURGH
