Page 2 University Daily Kansan, February 12, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Dwyer returns to United States
NEW YORK -Cynthia Dewyer, the free-lance journalist who went to Iran to write a sympathetic account of the country's revolution but got thrown in with her brother.
Dewyer, who was arrested by Iranian militants last May and charged with espionage, was met at New York's Kennedy Airport by her husband, John.
Known as the 53rd hostage during her nine months in captivity, Dwyer returned to America as a free woman on the second anniversary of the attack.
She dismised her espionage conviction as "complete nonsense" and told reporters that she would like to return to Iran someday.
Dwyer admitted that she still did not understand the revolution she went to write about last year.
"It's all very confusing there," she said, "and I don't think that the people themselves really know and understand what is going on."
She refused to immediately divulge details of her ordeal, saying that she and the four Britons still jailed in Iran had agreed that whoever was freed would never be allowed to travel.
The Islamic regime of Ayatollah Rubilah Khomeini convicted Dwyer as a spy Sunny but then ordered her expelled from the country, saying her nine children were held captive.
Economic plan generates debate
WASHINGTON—Although President Reagan's economic recovery plan is not yet complete, debate over the proposals has already begun.
Sen. William Proxmire, D-Win, said yesterday that Reagan's $20 million budget cuts were a move in the direction but "far too feeble," to avoid further harm.
However, economist Leon Keysering said the idea that a budget deficit was the main cause of inflation "should be consigned to limbo."
And Roninn Barnard, president of the U.S. Savings League Association,
will encourage both savings and investments to stimulate the economy and fund
Proxmire said that although Reagan's program was moving in the right direction, "only wholesale eliminations of federal programs in housing, education, urban assistance and elsewhere can do the job unless the president is willing to forget the Kemp-Roth tax reductions." The Kemp-Roth bill calls for business tax reductions and individual tax cuts of 10 percent a year for three years.
Arms talks with Russia ruled out
WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger yesterday ruled out any immediate resumption of arms control talks with the Soviet Union, saying that the United States must negotiate from a position of greater military strength.
He also said that although the neutron bomb could help restore an East-West warfare in Europe, the United States would not force the weapon on its Europe.
In an interview with United Press International, Weinberger said that negotiations now would not be profitable and that he would like a "different change of attitude on the part of the Soviets."
He said the Soviets had made "very, very marked" additions to their weaponry since 1975 and that this was something "which we have to be very aware of."
"One of the real dangers is when a very substantial lead is built up or when the forces of the two countries get markedly out of balance." Weinberger said "and that's why I think this is a decade of very considerable danger to us."
He said he favored deployment of the neutron warhead in Europe 'to deal with the Soviet tanks and to discourage large masses of troops being used against it'.
However, in an interview with the Washington Post, he added assurances to U.S. allies in NATO: "It's nothing we're going to force on them. It's nothing we are going to say, 'All right. It's here. You've got to take it or leave it.'"
Arms smuggling reports block sale
WASHINGTON—The State Department has blocked approval of a $9.6 million wheat sale to Nicaragua pending review of reports that arms are being smuggled through the Central American country to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, officials said yesterday.
Nicaragua has denied any involvement in the arms smuggling, which, if proved, would automatically terminate a $75 million economic aid program approved by Congress last year.
The Agency for International Development approved the contract calling for the delivery of 20,000 metric tons of American wheat to Nicaragua last December. But the State Department, in the final weeks of the Carter administration, delayed its approval because of the arms-smuggling reports.
The State Department said yesterday that the contract would review. It cited mounting evidence that Russian and Czechoslovakian arms were being used to infiltrate the U.S. government.
But officials said there was no firm evidence that the arms, reportedly including American weapons captured by Communists in Vietnam, were flowing through Nicaragua.
FTC abandons drug ad project
WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission yesterday killed a 5-year-old project designed to impose special truth-in-advertising rules on the sellers of cough medicines, cold remedies and other non-prescription drugs.
Instead, the agency said, it will continue to police the **$4 billion-a-year** instance in existing laws that prohibit deception and unfairness in the marketplace.
The decision was a victory for the advertising and drug industries, which had said the FTC project would lead to a "gag rule" and deprive consumers of information vital to self-medication.
The rule that was scrapped would have ordered makers of over-the-counter drugs to make their advertising adherely close to findings of the Food and Drug Administration, which is reviewing all such drugs for safety and effectiveness.
The move also was considered an example of an emerging trend at the FTC, where projects launched in the 1970s' bloom of consumer activism are undergoing increasing scrutiny as public and political attitudes change.
One proposal would have limited the words used in advertising to the language that the FDA would allow on the actual product label. That approach was suggested as a way to end fanciful statements about medical conditions.
Terms such as "upset stomach" or "common cold" for example, might have a way to more precise phrases such as "acid indigestion" or "oxy nose and sore throat."
Sinatra given a six-month license
LAS VEGAS, Nev.-Frank Sinatra, denying long-alleged mob ties and boasting President Ronald Reagan as a character reference, yesterday was tentatively granted a comeback into Nevada gambling after a 17-year absence.
"I am happy," Sinatra told reporters as he left the meeting of the Nevada Gaming Board surrounded by bodyguards and security personnel.
The three-member board voted unanimously to give Sinatra a six-month license to be an entertainment and public relations consultant at Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas. The State Gaming Commission will consider the recommendation Feb. 19 and make a final decision.
The six-month license, if approved by the five-member commission, could be made permanent if no hitches develop.
The 65-year-old singer told the board during the six-hour hearing that reports that his career had been aided by organized crime were ridiculous.
Mr. Harra lost his gumball license in 1983 when reputed Chicago moggie Sam Gillan kidnapped a farming official, was a guest at the singer's Cal Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe.
Bus boy arrested for Vegas hotel fire
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A 23-year-old at the Las Vegas Hilton may have set the $10 million killer blaze at the hotel-casino for "sensual gratification," a source close to the investigation said early this morning.
Phillip Bruce Cline, who has several felony arrests on his record, was arrested for arson and murder in the Tuesday night blaze, which swept through the east tower, killing eight people and injuring 300 others.
"Investigators believe the motive was sensual gratification, apparently some kind of sex hang-up," said the source.
Cline also was employed as a bus boy at the MGM Grand, which burned last
Commander Eric Cooper of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Cline was arrested after being interrogated more than two hours.
November, killing 84 people. The cause of that blaze was not arson, however.
"Certain inconsistencies in his statements to question him
Cooper gas."
Cooper said Cline was the person who initially reported the first of four fires that hit the resort over a period of several hours Tuesday night. The first and major fire started on the eighth floor.
Nevada Gov. Robert List said arson was a capital offense punishable by death in the state gas chamber.
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Nineteen teams from six local colleges will compete in a basketball tournament this weekend as a fundraiser for amytrophic lateral sclerosis, a cripping muscle disease. The disease's most famous victim was Hall of Fame baseball player Lou Gehrig.
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