University Daily Kansan, May 2, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Sniper fires at crowd in park
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A shotgun-wielding sniper fired two blasts into a crowded park near the state Capitol during the lunch hour yesterday, hitting at least six people, police said.
Officers said none of the victims was seriously injured. The blasts were fired from across the street, beyond the effective range of 75 to 100 yards.
A SWAT team raced to the area but the sniper eluded them.
Four people were taken to a nearby hospital with pellet wounds to the upper body. A spokeswoman said all were in good condition.
Ford gives grads special deal
DETROIT — Ford Motor yesterday said it will offer eligible graduating college seniors a $400 certificate and pre-approved credit through Ford Credit towards the purchase of selected cars and trucks.
Ford said the certificates were being mailed to more than 550,000 students from 500 colleges and universities. The $400 allowance may be used either as a down payment or a direct reimbursement from Ford after the sale.
NEW YORK — Packaged meats sold in supermarkets nationwide soon will carry labels showing nutritional content on a plate. The meat industry announced yesterday
John Francis, director of the National Meat and Livestock Board, said the labels would show the content of cholesterol, fat, as well as calories, vitamins and minerals.
The program will be introduced to retailers at the Food Marketing Institute in New York.
Ferraro caught with Coke
NEW YORK - Geraldine Ferraro said in a TV commercial that she was part of Diet Pepsi's new generation, but she was also accustomed to him with a can of the "real thing." - Cokes.
Sitting atop Ferraro's desk during an interview with WCHS-TV was a can of sunscreen.
As part of the $750,000 deal for her Pepsi commercial, Ferraro cannot appear in public using a competing soft drink.
Upon realizing that the conflict-of interest Coke could get her into hot water, Ferraro protested the interview, maintaining that the footage was deceptive because the Coca-Cola belonged to her secretary.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Reagan rides storm of protest to summit
BONN, West Germany — President Reagan arrived in Europe yesterday plagued by problems back home — a trade embargo against Nicaragua, potential budget defeats and a storm over his plans to visit a German military cemetery containing the graves of Nazi soldiers.
By United Press International
The greeting, although relatively low key and under cloudy skies, contrasted with sharp criticism Reagan received at home for his plans to place a wreath at a German military cemetery in Biburg, where 49 Nazi lie among hundreds of German war dead.
The president and Nancy Reagan arrived to a 21-gun salute and cheers of a welcoming crowd and then went into seclusion at a moated castle to prepare for the seventh nation economic summit and private talks with allied leaders.
IN THE ONLY incident to mar the arrival, police disarmed a bomb in a diplomatic suburb of Bonn, less than a mile from the U.S. Embassy, timed to explode 10 minutes after the president landed. A tight security net has been placed around Bonn for the gathering of the main allied leaders attending the economic summit.
About 300 Germans, waving tiny American
flags, sent up a roar from the balcony of the Cologne-Bonn airport when Reagan and his wife stepped down from Air Force One onto a red carpet.
Security was tight at the airport where Reagan was greeted by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Burns.
The Reagans were whisked by helicopter to Gymnich Schloss, a 14th-century mated castle, owned by Baron Joerg Adolf of Holzschuer und Harrach, a godson of Adolf Hitler. The Reagans stayed at the same castle during the 1982 Bonn summit.
REAGAN WILL NOT meet with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl until
Thursday, but the two leaders have decided to ride out the storm and to go through with a controversial visit to the German military cemetery at Bitturg, where the 49 members of the Waffen SS are buried.
"He has made a commitment and he will stick to that commitment." Larry Speakes, White House spokesman, told reporters on the seven-hour flight to Bonn.
Both houses of Congress have adopted resolutions urging Reagan to cancel his visit to the cemetery, which has evoked widespread protests, particularly among Jewish groups.
May Day marked by riots, rallies
Bv United Press International
Polish police fought bloody street battles with supporters of the outlawed Solidarity trade union during May Day protests yesterday, and riot squads dispersed antigovernment demonstrations in Chile.
Two firemen were killed in a May Day bombing in Brussels, Belgium. In Havana, a half million Cubans said Castro lost the customary anti-American rhetoric.
POLAND'S SOLIDARITY underground urged supporters to boycott official celebrations and to stage protests demanding the release of political prisoners and pay hikes to compensate for increases in food prices imposed by the government.
President Reagan's son, Ron, in Moscow as a tourist, was a guest at the Soviet Union's May Day parade in Red Square. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told memoirs followers watched from stop Lennin's Tomb and waved as waken from past with flags and banners.
Police armed with clubs and shields battled at close quarters with as many as 3,000 protesters who pelted them with rocks and bricks. The Gdansk-Wrzescz area, witnesses said.
In Chile, riot police used water cannons to break up anti-government demonstrations in Santiago and in nearby Concepción.
President Augusto Pinochet said during the official May Day ceremony that his government had energetically safeguarded the rights of the workers.
A car bomb killed two firemen in central Brussels early yesterday. It was the first
fatal attack of an eight-month wave of
a community group claimed responsibility.
Half a million Cubans chanting "Fide! Fide!" joined in May Day observances in Havana. Castro waved to the crowd but did not speak.
The main speech was delivered by the head of the Cuban Workers' Central. It included one reference to "Yankee imperialism" but Western observers said there were fewer anti-American barbs than was customary for May Day speeches.
In Honduras, some 20,000 workers at a May day rally heard a call for the expulsion of U.S. military personnel from their country.
President Reagan was a target of May Day rallies in Spain and Portugal — countries he is to visit next week.
Free trade to top summit agenda
By United Press International
BONN West Germany — President Reagan, on the eve of a summit of industrial democracies, prepared yesterday to urge America's allies to fight for free trade while resisting French pressure to bring the runaway dollar under control.
For the first time since the annual series of economic summits began in Bamrouillet, France, in 1975, the growing threat to the world trade moved to the top of the agenda.
Community open this Thursday.
Faced with the worst trade deficit in its
The three-day meeting of leaders of the United States, West Germany, Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Germany will be held in the economic Community, opens Thursday.
history, the United States is particularly sensitive about the protectionist threat to free trade.
"AT THIS YEAR'S summit, we will strive for agreement to meet the challenge of greatest growth on which our good fortunes depend." Reagan said in a statement before leaving for Europe. "In doing so, we will work to ensure cooperation among our economies. We approach this challenge with vigor, vision and optimism."
The Reagan administration is under intense pressure from Congress to raise barriers against Japanese imports as a result of a $37 billion trade deficit with Japan last year. And a Senate committee is studying a 15 percent surcharge on all imports to reduce the overall trade deficit, which totaled $123 billion last year.
Reagan will press other leaders at the
summit to launch a new round of global trade negotiations early next year to reduce barriers to trade — particularly non-tariff measures such as quotas and import ceilings, and the kind of restrictive testing and technical requirements that have prevented U.S. manufacturers from penetrating Japanese markets.
IN A JOINT statement with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said after arriving for the summit, "We are in agreement to introduce measures to reduce growing trade protectionism. We shall be discussing this in days to come."
But in what threatens to blow up into a serious dispute at the summit, French President Francois Mitterrand said he wouldn't agree to a new round of trade talks unless two conditions were met.
Budget cut discarded by senators
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday tentatively agreed to fully finance Social Security cost-of-living payments next year, restoring money to one of the most controversial program cuts in President Reagan's budget.
In a 65-34 vote, the Senate discarded the plan to limit Social Security cost of living increases to 2 percent in fiscal 1986, a savings of almost $3 billion in fiscal 1986 and $22 billion if continued for the next three years. Under current law, the recipients can look forward to a 4 percent increase next year.
Nineteen Republicans joined 46 Democrats in voting for the amendment, the first to the package. Of the Republicans, 11 face re-election next year. Only one Democrat, Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi, voted against the change.
The Senate then began debating an amendment by Sen Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, that would freeze funding for the military next fiscal year, allowing it to increase only to cover inflation. That plan would cut $10.3 billion from the Reagan budget that would allow a 3 percent increase for the Pentagon.
Under the unusual procedures established for the budget, all votes were preliminary until a final vote on an entire budget.
Domenici indicated that sentiment was building for an entire across-the-board budget freeze, although that was a long way away.
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