Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1982-05-16

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British destroy 11 Argentine planes in ground raid
By United Press International
Dropping from helicopters, British com-mandos
staged their first ground assault on
one of the Falkland Islands Friday night,
raiding an Argentine airfield and destroying
11 planes before returning safely to tbe fleet,
the British Defense Ministry said Saturday.
A Defense Ministry spokesman said two
commandos were " slightly injured" in the
raid on Pebble Island, a few miles north of
West Falkland, one of the two main islands
in the Falklands chain.
Signs and expectations mounted that
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would
make a decision this weekend to order a full- sca- le
invasion to reclaim its colony of 149
years. Peace talks at the United Nations
were suspended as Mrs. Thatcher sun
moned her top negotiatorshome to London.
British officials said Mrs. Thatcher would
meet over the weekend with her United Na-tions
and Washington envoys. Sir Anthony
Parsons and Sir Nicholas Henderson.
" At the moment the seismograph is. nei-ther
up nor down. It is poised," said Pa ts,
who has been conducting Britain's side of ihe
. negotiations at the United Nations.
" The talks I am having do not denote panic
but there will be a general expectation when
I get back to New York on Monday and
things will move very rapidly one way or an-other,"
he said.
The Argentine military command said
British naval vessels shelled Pebble Island,
but damaged only three planes, and made no
mention of the troop landing or casualties.
The command said Argentine forces " re-pelled
the attack."
In Buenos Aires, President Leopoldo GaP- tier- i
said officially for the first time that
more than 400 Argentines had been killed in
the fighting so far. Britain claims 24 dead.
If Britain invades, he said, Argentina is
willing to fight for years and " accept not
only 400 deaths but 4,000 or 40,000 or more."
A British Defense Ministry statement said
the commandos dropped onto Pebble Island
island from helicopters under cover of dark-ness
and a heavy artillery bombardment
from British warships.
They destroyed 11 aircraft, including six
Pucara ground- attac- k planes, one Short Sky- va- n
and four unidentified light aircraft, and
blew up an ammunition dump, Britain said.
The Defense Ministry said it had no word
on Argentine casualties but defense sources
thought there were at least several.
It was the first use of ground forces in the
6- week-
- old Falklands crisis since April 26,
when British Royal Marines recaptured the
island of South Georgia, another British de-pendency
seized by Argentina a day after it
invaded April 2.
It was also the first landing of British
troops on one of the Falklands.
Defense Ministry spokesman John Wright
stressed the attack " was a raid and not an
invasion of the Falkland Islands ... a lim-ited
military action designed and executed
as part of the task force's continuing role in
enforcing the total exclusion zone" around
the islands.
In Buenos Aires, Galtieri met with his fel-low
junta members to assess military strate-gy
and their next step when the U. N. peace
effort resumes Monday. Argentine military
officials repeated their warnings that a Brit-ish
invasion appeared imminent.
" If Britain insists on . . . taking the con-flict
to its last consequences ... we will
maintain the military situation five or six
months, or five or six years," Galtieri said.
The Argentine military command also said
efforts to locate a supply ship listed as miss-ing
since Friday had been " futile" and that
it feared the ship had been sunk. It said the
ship Isla de los Estados had been ferrying
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ByElizabethMcGowan
Missoarian staff writer
A little pomp and circumstance re-placed
the bounce of a basketball
and the roar of a crowd at the Uni-versity's
140th annual commence-ment
in the Hearses Center Satur-day.
More than 3,000 students received --
undergraduate and graduate de-grees
from the University's 12
schools and colleges. Chancellor
Barbara Uehling, President James
Olson and Provost Ron Bonn pre-- ,
sated over the ceremony.
Keynote speaker J. William Ful-bright
told the graduates and guests
that an education race is more im-portant
than an armsrace.
Fulbright, 77, served as a US- - seaiix
ator- fro- m Arkansas for 30 years. He
was born in Sumner, Mo., but moved
to Arkansas early in life.
" Education is as important to the
Russians as it is to us. Therefore, it
seems to me that, rather than the
arms which our government is cur-rently
fostering, we should have an
' education' race to produce the best'
possible schools,'' he said.
The former senator, who spon-sored
the Fulbright- Hay- s Act of 1961,
which expanded and modernized stu-dent
exchange program legislation,
said that an education race would
produce only winners.
' It is urgent that we do all that we
can to slow down or halt the arms
race now to give . tune for interna-tional
education.''
Fulbright told his audience that he
disapproved of Reagan's plan to al-lot
so much money to defense. His
rpmrngnt, " Just think what we in ed-ucation
could do with one- thir- d of the
money spent on building UJS. arms,"
was well- receive- d bylisteners."
Fulbright said he felt a fait guilty
for discussing such " serious" mat-ters
on such a " festive" occasion,
but he said avoiding nuclear war is
an absolute requirement for any oth-er
aspirations the human race has.
He again questioned Reagan's pol-icies
when he asked if the country's
leaders wanted America to be a
great empire or a great society. " Do
they want our country to be the
world'sponceman, the arbiter of ev-ery
conflict and therefore an imperi-al
power, or do they want it to be
what it has sometimes been in the
past an intelligent and humane so-ciety
whose principal contribution to
the outside world has been the power
of its own example, a nation which
cooperates with other countries to
maintain the peace?"
Fulbright said he supported the
grass- root- s movement for a freeze
on nuclear arms because that is the
type of action necessary to stop the
nuclear arms race.
He left the graduates holding a
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received his doctoral degree in education at graduation
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ceremonies Saturday. Graduates from the School of Arts and
Science, top, received their drplomas from the heads of each
department during commencement at the Hearnes Center.
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Journalism
graduates
hear a pro
ByTom Dixon
Missoorian staff writer
When the managing editor of The
Mew York Times talks, people listen.
Especially journalists
The graduates of the University
School of Journalism listened intent-ly
Saturday as Seymour Topping, a
1943 graduate of the school, spoke of
thechallenges the media face.
Topping criticized attempts by the
Reagan pfr" tn'ftitr11 Congress
and some judges to erode freedom of
the press.
, " The straggle for the preservation
of the First Amendment goes on
the struggle which history teaches
. wiH be unending but always crucial
to the safeguarding of democracy in
this country," he said.
Topping said the VS. Supreme
Court has held that " sloppy journal-ism"
is not protected under the First
Amendment, and because of that, he
said, journalists must practice then- cra- ft
carefully.
Topping, who has worked for the
Times since 1359, served as its chief
Moscow correspondent and foreign
editor before becoming managing
editor in 1977. He covered Southeast
Asia from 1963 through 1965.
Before joining the Times, Topping
worked for The Associated Press
from 1946 through 1959 and was bu-reau
chief in Berlin when he left the
cooperative.
" The new generation of reporters"
is better trained and better equipped
than its predecessors, Topping said,
and needs to be as responsible.
" H I am impelled to give advice to
future reporters of this graduating
class," he said, " it would be to urge
a degree of more humility in judging
what is fact and truth and a degree
of more sensitivity to what your
printed and spoken words can do to
the lives of individuals."
The graduates and their families
heard one of the leading figures in
American journalism give a bleak
assessment of the future of metro-politan
daily newspapers.
Topping noted that the number of
US. cities with competing daily
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Inside today
A new arena
Rep. Betty Cooper Hearnes,
wife of former Gov. Warren
Hearnes, has been active on
the sidelines of state politics
for years as campaign speak-er
and First Lady. Bat now
she's in a new political arena
and loves it See Page 6A.
Kewpies roll on
The Hickman Kewpies, led
by pitcher Tim Brown's 13
strikeouts, defeated Sedalia
Smith- Cotto- n, 6-- 2, Saturday
at Hickman High School to
capture the Class 4A district
title and advance to regional
competiton. See Page IB.
In town today
Noon Stephens College commence-ment,
Assembly HalL
2 pan. Columbia College com-mencement,
Jesse Auditorium.
Monday
7 pjn. City Council meets in Coun-cil
Chambers of the County- Cit- y
Building.
Mining law
could boost
mid- Missou- ri
coal industry
By Bruce Auchly
Missoorian staff writer
A law passed during the last- minu- te
rush of the recently completed
legislative session may lead to a re-surgence
' in mid- Missou- ri coal min-ing,
and the Columbia area may be
one of its first beneficiaries.
The law reduces the bond that
mining companies would normally
have to post for land reclamation
from $ 160,000 to $ 25,000. Mining and
government officials say it is a
workable compromise between in-dustry
and the environment.
The law is also a compromise that
could result in a new mine and 45
jobs at Renick, Mo., 21 miles ( 33.6 ki-lometers
north of Columbia.
" The bill is good," says Mike Sini- crop- i,
president of Universal Coal.
" It protects the environment and the
mining industry."
Universal is located 19 miles ( 30.4
Insight
kilometers) northwest of Columbia.
It wants to open the Renick mine.
The new law sets bonding limits at
$ 500 an acre and levies additional
charges on the amount of coal mined
up to 100,000 tons ( 90,000 metric
tons). The maxirnmn any coal mine
will pay is $ 25,000 per year.
The Missouri Land Reclamation
Commission wanted the cost to be
from $ 2,000 to $ 15,000 per acre. Sin- crop- pi
once estimated the rules
would cost every mining company in
the state $ 160,000 a year.
Before a company is issued a min-ing
permit, it has to have a reclama--
tion plan. When the company files its '
plan with the state, it posts a bond." ' The bond is to ensure that the com-pany
returns the land to something
near its original condition. If the
company were to default on its plan,
it would lose the insurance bond, to '
say nothing of the problems the com-pany
would encounter in getting an-other
mining permit
A more realistic possibility is a
mining company going bankrupt.
The state would be responsible for
the reclamation effort, and the bond
would cover the cost to the state.
Although the process seems sim-ple
enough, before the new law there
was no state law governing reclama-tion.
Into the vacuum jumped the
state's Land Reclamation Commis-sion.
It proposed the rules the coal
industry says would have put small
mine operators out of business.
Since the mining industry is an im-portant
part of the economy in mid- Missou- n,
such a loss would be hard.
" The best part of the state's coal
industry is in mid- Missour- i," Sini- crop- pi
says. " This state has three
billion tons ( 2.7 billion metric tons)
ofcoaL"
Last year Missouri's coal output
dropped one- ha- lf million tons to 4.5
million tons ( 5 million metric tons) .
'" The state is buying 18 million
tons ( 16 minion metric tons) of coal
a year from other states," Sinicropi
says. To him, the out- of- sta- te pur--
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