Page 2 University Daily Kansan, February 27, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Britain's Thatcher visits Reagan
WASHINGTON—President Reagan, welcoming Britain's Margaret Thatcher to the White House, said yesterday that the free world must do "whatever is necessary" to guard its security, but also said he wanted to pursue a "constructive dialogue" with the Soviets.
Reagan and Thatcher met for two hours in the Oval Office following a colorful welcome ceremony for the British Prime Minister on the White House.
"Together we are confronting an extremely grave international situation," said Reagan, who earlier warned against Soviet intervention in Poland.
In her farewell remarks, Thatcher said she regarded her meeting with Reagan as the "beginning of a process of consultation."
"We do so with determination and optimism," he said. "We're both committed to safeguarding fundamental Western interests worldwide, including Europe, the Persian Gulf, Southwest Asia and Central America."
Thatcher, the first head of a major allied country to visit Reagan in the White House, said they discussed "President Breenzev's recent speech, the problems in Africa, the problems in the Middle East, and the problems in Central and South America."
"Today, once again, our sense of common purpose and common resolution is being tested," Thatcher said. "It will not be found wanting."
Soviets serious about U.S. summit
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union said yesterday that it was laying the groundwork for a summit meeting between Leonid Brezhnev and President Reagan and emphasized that the idea was to be taken seriously.
Vadim Zagladin, a spokesman for the Communist Party's Central Committee, criticized those who have suggested the summit idea is premature, saying, "any negotiations, any dialogue, involve not the deaf but those people who can hear."
Zagladin's remarks on the fourth day of the Communist Party congress indicated that the Soviet Union was intent on getting a definitive response from Reagan to the idea of meeting Brezhnev, who proposed the summit Monday.
The U.S.-Soviet exchange of signals on a summit began Monday, when Brezhnev said he was ready for a meeting with Reagan. On Tuesday, the president said he was "most interested."
Chrysler 1980 losses largest ever
A deficit of that magnitude would boost overall domestic auto industry losses last year to about $4.2 billion, by far the worst financial performance in its history.
DETROIT—Chrysler Crop, is expected today to report a 1980 loss of about $1.7 billion, the largest in U.S. business history, the same day it receives $400 million in lifesaving federal loan guarantees.
Barring an unforeseen snag, the Federal Chrysler Loan Guarantee Board will rule that the number three automaker compiled with a complex series of financial requirements and will approve the new dole of loan guarantees. The company then can begin immediately its sale of government-backed notes.
The bonds were priced to yield 15.31 percent interest at maturity. Wall Street sources said "advance indications," which in fact become sales once the issue is approved, showed "good" investor interest.
The last major obstacle was cleared Wednesday when the final holdouts among Chrysler's 150 bankers agreed to a plan restructuring the $1.1 billion Chrysler owes them.
More Jews to settle in West Bank
JERUSALEM—The government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin plans to move another 8,000 Jews to settlements in the occupied West Bank by the end of the year, an official said yesterday.
"This is the largest settlement drive that the Zionist movement has ever known," Matityahu Drobless, chairman of the Settlement Department of the World Zionist Organization, told a news conference. "We have changed the map of the land of Israel."
The plan would bring the total of Jewish settlers in the region to more than 29% of the land begin responsible for almost 50 percent of the Jews living in the disputed area.
In conjunction with the drive, the military government has laid claim to 5,151 acres of West Bank land since October as belonging to the state and has made use of another 1,075 acres south of Bethlehem, which the government maintains belongs to Jewish owners.
There were only 3,200 Jewish settlers in the West Bank when Begin took office in June 1977. With the opposition Labor party favored to win the June 1978 election, Benjamin's government has given top priority to completing his settlement program and a Labor government would be more moderate about establishing outposts.
Atlanta death toll continues to rise
**ATLANTA** - the number of slain or missing Atlanta black children was yesterday for another street-wise youth whose body was found in the area another day a rival
Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee P. Brown said the case of Patrick Rogers, 15, who knew at least one of the other victims, had been turned over to a special task force investigating the baffling string of crimes.
Nineteen young black children, who all but two were boys, have been found dead over the past 19 months. Two others are listed as missing. Many have been what the police called "street-wise kids," always looking for a way to make pocket money.
Although the bodies of most of the victims have been found in Fulton (Anasota) County, Rogers County was discovered near the Chattahoochee River.
Cobb County investigators had repeatedly said that the Rogers case should be handled by the Atlanta task force, but Brown had insisted that he did not believe it was related to the others.
Asked why he changed his mind, Brown replied, "We never said we wouldn't add his name."
Cobb County investigators said Rogers suffered blows to the head, but the cause of death was never determined.
Oil import rate down but cost up
American consumers received good news and bad news about the U.S. energy situation in reports released this week.
U. S. payments for foreign oil rose to $82 billion despite revised trade figures that showed the United States imported 7.01 million barrels of oil a day—the lowest rate since 1975.
The Commerce Department reported yesterday that the United States had nearly 20 percent less foreign oil last year than in 1979, but the total cost included $50 billion.
That rate dropped even lower during the first two months of this year, according to the American Petroleum Institute. The nation's crude oil implem-
tation rose 6 million barrels a day during the first two weeks in February after averaging 8.1 million barrels a day in January, the institute reported yesterday.
Also, the government's estimate of the amount of undiscovered natural gas that lies in U.S. reserves has been boosted by 22 percent on the basis of a 16-month study, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday.
However, not all of the energy news was so cheery. Mobil Corp., Gulf Oil Corp. and Conoco公井, yesterday raised their wholesale fuel prices between $2.40 and $2.85 a gallon in the ongoing price wave that has prompted U.S. refiners to last 58 price increases since controls on oil were lifted by President Reagan.
U.S. helicopters fired at in El Salvador
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—Government troops yesterday set fire to the bodies of 60 alleged leftist guerrillas killed in an 18-hour attack against some 300 rebels who had held positions northeastern town of San Lorenzo.
In Washington, official sources disclosed that U.S. Army helicopters and U.S. pilots attached to the organization of American states were flying Honduras along the El Salvador-Honduras border and that some have been fired upon.
The helicopters' mission, begun in July 1976, is to monitor the peace between El Salvador and Honduras, who fought a war in 1989 that left 500 people dead. They do not observe guerrilla movements, the sources said.
Despite special markings, the UJ-1H Huey helicopters have been fired on and, in December, one of them sustained a hit and returned to base in Salvador with three bullet holes in it, one source said. No one was wounded.
the helicopters fly at least two patrols a week that take them over and into guerrilla strongholds on what the sources described as hazardous duty, although the air crews do not receive combat pay.
A MILITARY SPOKESMAN said 600 troops, backed by jet fighters, helicopter gunnies and artillery, the latest assault, the third in 10 days.
Napoleon Alvarado, military commander of the region around San Lorenzo, said his troops killed 60 guerrillas and suffered one casualty in capturing the town midnight Tuesday after an 18-hour battle.
Leaders of both the ruling junta and its leftist foes denied reports of impending speech talks that were to have been mediated by West German Foreign Minister Otto Genscher. A Bonn spokesman announced the mediation offer Wednesday.
Alvarado said the 60 corpses were doused with gasoline and set ablaze to prevent outbreaks of disease.
In Washington, Pentagon spokesman dismissed claims by leftist guillotias that a U.S. Air Force sergeant was killed in battle alongside Salvadoran government troops last November in the northeastern province of Morazon.
The guerrillas base their claim on a U.S. Air Force identification card belonging to Sgt. Jerome Racine, Pentagon sources said.
Racine reportedly told the Pentagon he had lost his military identification card while on temporary assignment in El Salvador from April 17 to May 27.
THE SOURCES said Racine, a radio operator, had been stationed at Alboreto FO Force base in Panama but he is forced to Fort Lauderdale now is a college student in New York.
The prospect of additional U.S. aid to El Salvador is triggering emotional warnings of a new Vietnam, countered by claims that such fears are unfounded.
"There is going to be gunboat
diplomacy all over again," Rep. Clarence Long, D-Md, warned Wednesday during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing that brought out emotions on Capitol Hill for several days.
Long said the administration may make the same mistake that my own Democratic administration did 18 years ago, but it should not be good indications the whole time."
THE CONCERNS expressed by Long and others are echoed in a telegram house members planned to send to President Reagan yesterday.
John Bushnell, acting assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, disputed Long's reasoning and the U.S.-backed government in El Salvador needs more help to combat Communist-armed insurgents.
But Robert White, the former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, spoke against more aid before a House Appropriations Committee.
He said there is "no demonstrable need" for U.S. military advisers, who would put the country in "the position of being a vessel of the United States."
At the United Nations yesterday, the Soviet Union charged that the United States was producing 'unverifiable documents' to try to prove that the attack on Cuba ally were providing Salvadoran rebels with military weapons.
Ambassador Richard Owinnik, Soviet deputy permanent representative at the United Nations said the United States was inflating the situation in El Salvador for possible military intervention in the country.
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