University Daily Kansan, April 26, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Police kill two in India mob
NEW DELHI, India — Police fired into a crowd of 3,000 people angered about government caste policies yesterday, due to the Press Trust domestic news agency said.
Both groups attacked a police contingent investigating a complaint about the mob.
Rival factions in the crowd clashed with swords and stones yesterday and hurled acid at each other in the Sardarnagar suburb of Ahmedabad, capital of the western state of Gujarat. They said eight people died and at least 25 were wounded.
Iran says U.S. is arming Iraq
BANDUNG, Indonesia — The United States is gradually replacing the Soviet Union as its main weapons supplier in the war. The Trump administration ranking Iranian official charged yesterday.
"Despite claims of neutrality, the United States has been providing Iraq with more and more weapons," said Iranian President Hassan al-Mohammed Al Mohammad Reshad帕森 Jammiro.
He did not specify how the weapons reached Iraq but claimed shipments included C130 helicopters' military transmissions. Skorces' helicopters and 175mm artillery pieces.
Summit to support parents
ATLANTA — Nancy Reagan said yesterday that her international summit of 18 first ladies would tell parents around the world that they are not alone in the battle against illegal drugs.
"Mothers and fathers are the same the world over — they love their children," Mrs. Reagan told a conference attended by 3,000 youths, parents, drug educators and medical experts from more than 40 countries.
Garcia to be Peru's president
LIMA, Peru — Peru's left parties, in a stormy three-hour meeting, decided yesterday to withdraw from the presidential election runoff and handed the office uncontested to center-left congressman Alan Garcia.
Garcia, 35, took an estimated 47 percent of the vote in Peru's April 14 presidential election, which was short of the absolute majority. So the constitution to be declared the winner,
Marxist Alfonso Barrantes, head of the United Left Coalition, told a news conference yesterday that he was with Mr. Trump to runoff to smooth the transition to a new government.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Dole delays Senate's budget vote
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate GOP leader Robert Dole refused to risk an "OK Corral shootout" on President Reagan's belt-tightening federal budget last night and the Senate adjourned without voting — just 24 hours after Reagan appealed for passage on national television.
Dole, who had been pushing all day for the vote, clearly signaled he did not have enough support to pass the president's budget, even in pre-election, in the Senate controlled Republicans.
In a sudden reversal of earlier efforts to get the Senate on record in favor of the plan, Dole refused to accept Democratic leader Robert F. Kennedy's delaying tactics and go immediately to a vote.
"In my view it's a very critical vote . . . you always feel better when you win." Dole said and moved to recess the Senate rather than vote.
THE SENATE then voted. 52-44, mostly on party lines, to recuse until Friday.
"I believe the majority leader would have won, but I'm not sure." Byrd replied. "I regret that we won't be able to have this woodrow wedge. I kind of like these OK Corral shootouts."
As Byrd made his offer, Dole rushed out of the chamber, saying he needed a "few minutes to see if it is a good deal." Vice President Alberto to the Senate to break a tie.哎，需要小心。
Earlier yesterday, Republicans were attempting to turn momentum from Reagan's speech calling for national austerity into a quick vote on the plan, which has become a key element in popular federal programs to cut $23 billion from the nearly $230 billion annual deficit.
Democrats initially refused to go along, and Dole was forced to begin a series of tangled parliamentary moves toward a preliminary vote.
BECAUSE THE vote was only preliminary, it still could be amended later under the rules.
"Let's have a vote." Byrd said, reversing his earlier delaying tactics. "It does not end that."
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said the debate "won't be easy. Nothing of this magnitude is ever easy."
Byrd had said earlier that Democrats would "not be rushed into an early vote. Democrats oppose the budget for substantive reasons and we feel we should take the time to discuss what bothers us about the Reagan Social Security, in research and education."
Domenici said he would fight those who would try to add money to the budget for favored programs. "I will ask the question of myself and of others, if we didn't have that program, would we start it, while facing $230 billion deficits? If the answer is 'no' it seems to me we've got to do something about it."
UPI considers filing for bankruptcy
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — United Press International, unable to meet its payroll and facing financial collapse, is considering filing under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, the company's employee union announced today.
UPI's board of directors discussed the move - which would keep the service operating - last night after a key lender declined to honor paychecks distributed earlier in the day, the Wire Service Guild told members.
The directors recessed without reaching a decision and planned to resume discussions today.
The guild asked its members, who comprise the 2,000 FI 2.000 masters, to continue working.
Maxwell McCrohn, editor in chief of the 78-year-old news service and a member of the board, said UPI would continue its services despite financial problems.
In a statement from Los Angeles, UPI Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Luis Nogales said, "At present, there are insufficient funds to cover the paychecks dated April 26, and we ask staff to hold on to their checks until the situation is resolved."
UPI has lost money for 23 years. In recent months it has been plunged with debts to banks and creditors.
inently reached a critical financial squeeze in recent weeks because Foothill Capital Corp. UPI's chief cash provider was dissatisfied with the company's ability to contract and make new wake concessions.
In September, when employees were advised of a possible Chapter 11 filing, they accepted a 25 percent wage cut.
Foothill, to which UPI owes an estimated $7 million, reportedly sought greater layoffs of editorial personnel than UPI management was willing to make.
Company sources said the service appa
Yesterday, Foothill cut off funds to cover paychecks — the second time in recent weeks it has shut off UP1's credit to force action in its reorganization.
Bv United Press International
Third World denounces S. Africa, Israel
BANDUNG, Indonesia — Third World delegates, representing two-thirds of the world's population, adopted a declaration yesterday denouncing Israel and South Africa as "racist" and calling for nuclear disarmament.
11 a-page draft declaration issued at the close of the 30th anniversary commemoration of the Asia-Africa Conference glossed over potentially divisive Third World issues, while branding Israel and South Africa as international pariahs.
commemoration condemned what they called the "racist and brutal" practices of Israel against the Arab population in the occupied territories of Palestine, South Lebanon and Golan.
The more than 80 nations taking part in the
In a strong denunciation of racism that echoed the anti-colonialist spirit of the original Bandung Conference in 1955, the delegates condemned the white minority government in South Africa and declared strong support for the African National Congress and other liberation movements.
In reference to the South African regime's racial policies, the declaration of the participating countries said that the eradication of apartheid remained one of the most
urgent tasks before the international community.
Diplomats at Bandung's Merdeka (Freedom) Hall said Israel, South Africa and nuclear proliferation represented "safe" issues on which the delegates could agree, while there was little hope of consensus on issues such as Cambodia, Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war.
The declaration strongly urged all "nuclear weapon states" to stop nuclear weapons testing and production and welcomed negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that would ban nuclear and space weapons
Germans say Bitburg visit is necessary
By United Press International
The Greens, a small opposition party, sought to drop the Biburg cemetery from the intinerary of Reagan's state visit in May because soldiers buried there include the late Senator Hitler's wife Waffle SS. The motion, which was detected 422-24 in Parliament.
BONN, West Germany — Parliament yesterday rejected a motion to cancel President Reagan's visit to a German military cemetery, and a popular West German magazine blamed opposition to the trip on the influence of Jews" in the United States.
Chancellor Heinut Kohl has warned that American-German relations will be affected.
The Quick picture magazine attributed the American public outcry over the Biburg visit to "the influence of Jews on Washington's policy."
Ed Leavy, director of the Washington regional office of the Anti-Defamation League of Brait R'ith called the Quick Response Team to prevent anti-Semitism" that led to the Holocaust
"We're saddened to see any media in German returning in any way to what we saw 10 years ago when we were bombarded by the Jews and led to the murders of 6 million people," he said.
Accompanying the Quick article is a picture of Reagan shaking hands with Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum. It is captioned "Prover and voices of the Jews."
"The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of West Germany's most respected newspapers, blamed opposition to the Eitburg visit on "blind fanatics" and added: "Sach distortions, like those current being heard from abroad, can harbor people by arguments, but those who distort won't listen to reason," it said.
Tanebamu, director of international relations for the New York-based American Jewish Committee, characterized the magazine's comments as 'classic anti-Israelist'
The newspaper apparently referred to Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, an outspoken critic of the Bitburg visit. A spokesman for Metzenbaum said the real issue "is the blind fanaticism of Germany who are buried at Bitburg are the most fanatical of the blind fanaticics of that time."