0 ter! 7 t u Kennedys announce plans to divore WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Edward Kennedy and his wife Joan announced yesterday plans to divorce after 22 years of marriage that were plagued at times by her drinking problems and reports of his relationships with other women. The divorce plans were announced less than six months after the end of Kennedy's unsuccessful attempt to win the Democratic presidential nomination-a campaign in which his wife participated partly in an effort to quell rumors of trouble in their marriage. "With regret, yet with respect and consideration for each other, we have agreed to terminate our marriage. We have reached this decision together, with the understanding of our children, and after pastoral counseling," the Kennedys said in a brief joint statement issued by his Senate office. "Appropriate legal proceedings will be commenced in due course, and we intend to resolve as friends all matters relating to the dissolution of our marriage." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports , SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY and his wife, Joan, are seen here campaigning in Oregon during his unsuccessful bid for the presidency. Yesterday the couple announced plans for a divorce. Haig wins Senate approval WASHINGTON (AP)-The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed Alexander, Haig as President Reagan's secretary of state yesterday amid praise for his tough foreign-policy stance and reservations about his role in Watergate. Three other Cabinet-level Reagan nominees also won Senate approval. Haig's nomination was approved 93-6. While few questioned Haig's capabilities, his former White House role haunted him throughout lengthy confirmation hearings and the Senate debate which began soon after President Reagan was sworn in Tuesday. Later yesterday, the Senate voted unanimously to confirm Sen. Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania as secretary of health and human services, and Bill Brock, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, as trade representative. Also confirmed was Donald Regan, former chairman of Merrill Lynch Co. as secretary of the treasury. He is expected to be chief economic spokesman for the administration. Hatch to clear way for Donovan WASHINGTON-The head of a Senate committee, saying the FBI has been unable to substantiate the latest allegation against Raymond Donovan, vowed yesterday to clear away obstacles barring confirmation of President Reagan's choice to be secretary of labor. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said a team of FBI agents found nothing to support an allegation that Donovan, as senior vice president of a New, Jersey construction company, made a series of payoffs in the late 1960s to buy labor peace from the Teamsters Union. Hatch said Donovan ". . . feels he's been terribly maligned, and I do too. The longer this is dragged out, the more crackpot calls the Donovan family is going to get." Donovan is the only one of Reagan's high-level appointees to suffer a delay in the confirmation process. Polish leaders hold talks to head off labor unrest WARSAW, Poland-Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's independent unions, rushed to Warsaw yesterday for urgent talks with the government in a bid to stem a fresh unsurge of warning strikes in four Polish provinces. The talks came after a union spokesman said workers, angry over gover- nment inaction on their demands, would strike for four hours in Gdansk, Lodz, Bydgoszcz, and Czestochowa provinces, The meeting in Warsaw with Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski and other senior government officials was seen as an urgent attempt at com- promise by both the government and union moderates who fear an escalation of labor unrest. MSU denies drug patent earned million EAST LANSING-Michigan State University officials denied yesterday that MSU has earned $1.8 million in royalties on the drug cisplatin, but cautioned modest patent revenues on such projects will not ease the univer- sity's severe budget cruch. According to a report in Business Week magazine, the patent management firm Research Corp. said MSU earned $1.8 million on the anti-cancer drug developed in its biophysics department and expects additional revenues of $25 million. MSU Vice-president for Research John Cantlon said cisplatin will likely be the top money-rhaking patent in MSU history. The first society for the abolition of slavery was oranized in 1775 by -.Quakers in Philadelphia. Hostage release lessens big power tension in Iran TAIF, Saudi Arabia (AP)-Release of the American hostages from Iran has 3 Michigan Locations reduced the chances of big power con- frontation in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region, Arab and Islamic diplomatic sources said yesterday. A conference of Islamic foreign ministers announced it would send a five-man delegation to Tehran today to try to persuade Iran to attend the LSAT Meting Wed. Jon.2U,1 911at3:30 Islamic summit due to open Sunday in .hAMONG DIPLOMATS gathered for a meeting of 38 foreign ministers to prepare a summit agenda there was also belief that resolution of the hostage crisis gave Iran an opportunity to im- prove the international image of its Islamic revolution. "The release has eliminated one disturbing motive for U.S. military in- tervention in the gulf region," one Saudi official said. Another source said it had been a positive step toward defusing a possible superpower con- frontation in the region. A Tunisian diplomat said, "release of the hostages has ended a silly predicament for the United States and Iran alike. It is high time the Iranians did something to brighten the image of Islam in Western eyes, the image which they have tarnished with runaway violence and the unnecessary hostage issue." DIPLOMATIC sources close to the foreign ministers conference said the foreign ministers were deeply relieved by the release of the hostages. The delegation to Iran headed by Habib Shatti, the Tunisian secretary- general of the 42-nation Islamic con- ference, was another attempt to arrange a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war. The Islamic foreign ministers hoped to convince revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to send President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr to the summit. Iran has vowed to boycott the summit if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein 'at- tends, and Hussein's office said last week he would. WHILE THE diplomatic sources viewed the end of the hostage crisis as a positive development for the gulf region, they expressed concern that the West might now be more willing to sup- ply arms to Iran for use against Iraq in the four-month-old war. The Arab foreign ministers here are particularly worried about the possibility of Iran obtaining shipments of military hardward jand spare parts from the -United States, the sources said. A new supply of weapons and spare parts would refuel the war, they said. A Kuwaiti diplomat said Iran has also been seeking spare parts from Britain for its Chieftain tanks, adding that release of the hostages will "nw doubt enable Tehran to start a dialogue with the West and obtain arms from some European powers, mainly Britain." 10 1 AE -I looking for a fratoriy to make your own? Rush Pi Lambda Phi A new fraternity forming on campus. 1029 Vaughn St. 662-4540 Texan scion's wife under investigation I 4* Carter: Hostages suffered savagery (continued from Page 1) r ALL WIN ITER COATrS 20-.40% OFF what we have learned so far, we have further evidence of serious mistreat- ment in a number of cases during the period of their captivity." It did not elaborate. The hostages, who gave the former president a welcome as exuberant as the one they received upon arriving in Wiesbaden hours earlier, told their families by telephone of beatings and other abuses endured at the hands of their Iranian captors. Summing up 444 days in three words, hostage Air Force Lt. Col. David Roeder said: "It was hell.". In telephone calls that sent the words "I love you," across the Atlantic hun- dreds of times, some of the hostages told their relatives of mock executions, months of solitary confinement, beatings and cruel deceptions per- petrated by their captors. One hostage was told his mother had died when she had not. A Carter aide said the former president's private, 80-minute meeting with the hostages was "emotional to the point of awkwardness," so moving that a photographer was asked at one point to stop taking pictures. LIBERTY, Texas-Investigators sought to determine yesterday if the estranged wife of Price Daniel Jr. scion of a Texas political family that counts Sam Houston as an ancestor, fired a warning shot and then killed her husband in self defense. Vickie Daniel, 33, unhurt but hysterical after the Monday night shooting, was in Kersting Memorial Hospital where she was taken after her 39-year- old husband was found slain in their home. She had filed for divorce twice in their troubled four-year marriage, most recently last Dec. 31. Right to Lifers to rally LANSING-Local Right to Life members will mark the 8th anniversity of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion today by rallying at the Capitol to protest welfare abortions in Michigan. The local rally, which interfaces with a national march in Washington, is aimed at Gov. William Milliken, who has incurred the wrath of abortion foes by using his veto to preserve state funding for the operations in Michigan. The Right to Life movement was dealt a severe setback last month when a long-sought effort to override Milliken's veto fell short in the House. Vol. XCI, No. 96 Thursday, January 22, 1981 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); 13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Saturday mornings. 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