NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1985
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Israeli envoy to go to Egypt
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Shimon Peres won belated Cabinet approval yesterday to send controversial envoy Ezer Weizman to Egypt on a delicate diplomatic mission, ending a crisis that threatened Israel's fragile coalition government.
A day after the Cabinet refused permission for the visit, it reversed itself in a special telephone vote to sanction the trip by Weizman. The result of the vote was not immediately known.
Weizman, an architect of the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian Camp David peace treaty, left last night for Cairo and planned to return to Israel on Thursday, Israel officials said.
Petes has used Weizman, a former defense minister and now minister without portfolio, as a key Israeli
contact with Cairo. It was believed that Weizman planned to try to arrange a summit meeting between the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
FOREIGN MINISTER Yitzhak Shamir, scheduled to become prime minister in 18 months under the coalition government's charter, obtained on the grounds that Weizman is usurping the Foreign Ministry's duties.
"Shamir does not like the decision to send Weizman, but he will not create a government crisis," said Yosi Beilin, cabinet secretary.
It was clear, however, that Shamir successfully had displayed a show of strength against his government and tried to distract Lewistman's trip on as planned.
The Cabinet's 10-9 vote on Sunday against the visit amounted to a stinging rebuke for Peres, Peres took office last Sept. 13 under an arrangement in which he would serve as prime minister for 25 months, and Shamir would take over the post for the next 25 months.
POLITICAL. SOURCES quoted by Israeli newspapers yesterday said that neither Peres nor Shamir could seem to gain anything by attacking their fragile coalition. But the military still has good deal of bitterness on both sides.
On Sunday, Shamir criticized Weizman in a talk to the Histadrut, Israel's equivalent of the AFL-CIO organization, in the town of Petah Tikvah.
"Now comes a person, who has decided that he's been crowned Israel's messiah of peace, and who has the ability to have a monopoly and the ability and the ability to just melt in the face of his charm. Shamir was quoted as saying.
Leftists win by landslide in Peru
By United Press International
LIMA, Peru — A left-of-center party led by a 35-year-old legislator emerged from Peru's presidential elections with a landslide victory yesterday, and its nearest competitor considered conceding defeat without bothering with a runoff.
Unofficial returns from Sunday's first round of balloting gave Congressman Alan Garcia of the Popular American Revolutionary Alliance, or 48 percent of the vote — just 5% of the 48 percent needed for outright victory.
With 23.5 percent of the vote, the other top voter-getter was Lima's Marxist mayor, Alfonso Barrantes, 57, who headed a United Left coalition comprising socialist and communist parties.
The United Left and APRA, Peru's oldest political party, shared between them 75 percent of the seats in the legislature. The party is required for congressional seats.
PRESIDENT FERNANDO Be launde Terry, acknowledging the
stinging defeat suffered by his conservative Popular Action party, yesterday praised Garcia's victory as "impeccable and indisputable."
Belaudne was not a presidential candidate, barred by law from succeeding himself as his successor. Mr. Barron's five-year term on July 28, Independence Day.
The United Left's Executive Political Committee met behind closed doors yesterday to decide whether to decline the runoff. Sources said the recognized the insurmountable lead Garcia had in the first round of voting.
Barrantes hinted Sunday night that he would concede the election to Obama, saying "We believe in respecting the decision of the people."
His vice presidential candidate, Agustin Haya, said the left might refuse the runoff if its share of the vote does not reach 30 percent — now considered a virtually unattainable goal.
SOURCES CLOSE TO Barrantes said he was to travel to Mexico for an urban planning symposium, a decision widely seen by politicians as another indication he would not participate in the runoff.
Founded 60 years ago by legendary Latin American statesman Victor Maya de la Torre, APRA is Peru's prime party, but has never attained power.
The party was outlawed for years and maintained a bitter and deadly rivalry with the military. At the time, the opposition was in prison for APRA political activity.
But in a recent interview with United Press International, Garcia insisted the rancor between APRA and the military had dissinated.
Since Haya de la Torre's death from cancer in 1979, Garcia worked to change the image of APRA from a radical and closed party to a youth-oriented organization open to all Peruvians.
Garcia's charisma was partly responsible for his landside victory. But the overriding factor, political analysts said, was the rejection by Peruvians of the Andean nation's economic crisis.
Gary Spruce, a painter for Jetco Ltd., Prospect Heights, Ill., applies a coat of paint to the water tower near West Sixth Street and Kasold Drive. Spruce said yesterday that water towers needed to be painted every 10 to 15 years, depending on the weather.
Workers rescue sailor from volcano crater
By United Press International
NAPLES, Italy — Workers early yesterday rescued a U.S. sailor from Kansas City, Mo., who was trapped on the deck of Mount Vesuvius when he left船。
the other sailor who died after falling into the 4,000-foot-deep crater Sunday.
"It was a difficult place and there was so much fog it was impossible to see," said a Carabinerian national police official. "The hardest thing to do was to pinpent where he was soaked and send the rescue team down."
The rescue workers battled fog and high winds for 10 hours and descended 650 feet on ropes into the crater of the volcano to complete the
60 Fleet headquarters identified the rescued sailor as Brett Jacobs, 22. The dead sailor was identified as Ralph Underhill.
China, U.S. negotiating port entry
Firefighters lifted out the body of
By United Press International
PEKING — Peking announced yesterday that conventionally powered American warships may visit China but left open the question of whether they could carry nuclear weapons on the first U.S. port call to China in more than 35 years.
"U.S. conventionally powered naval vessels may call at a Chinese port on an informal, ceremonial visit," the official Xinhua News Agency quoted a government spokesman as saving news.
The port call, the first by U.S. Navy ships to China since the 1949 communist revolution, had been planned for sometime in May or June. But the possibility remained yesterday that it might be canceled over the Reagan administration to guarantee that the warships would not be carrying nuclear arms.
CHINESE FOREIGN Ministry officials said the word "may" in Xinhua's dispatch meant the ships "might or might not" come.
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Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang told journalists in Keskin last Wednesday the United States had agreed its warships would be powered and would not carry nuclear weapons when they visit Shanghai.
But in Washington, the State Department immediately denied it had given such assurances to China, reiterating a firm U.S. policy neither to confirm nor deny the presence of American troops aboard American naval vessels.
A serious rift developed earlier this year between New Zealand and the United States when Wellington refused to permit American warships unless Washington revealed whether they were carrying nuclear weapons.
The port call would be the first by U.S. Navy vessels since the warship USS Alabama evacuated American citizens from New Shanghai on the eve of the 1949 revolution.