University Daily Kansan, April 12, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Repairs clear wav for blastoff
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Technicians fixed a leaking commercial medicine-processing machine aboard the space shuttle Discovery yesterday, clearening the morning this morning and saving a spot on the seven-person crew for engineer Charles Walker.
The primary job of today's flight is to carry two communications satellites into orbit.
Walker, whose job is to operate the drug machine, joins Sen. Jake Garn, R-Ultah, and five NASA astronauts for the scheduling of the shuttle mission in exactly four years.
March retail sales plummet
The Commerce Department announced the decline and said only construction firms and clothing stores showed improvement in March.
WASHINGTON — Retail sales plunged 1.9 percent in March, the steepest monthly decline in more than seven years, but the White House dismissed the figures yesterday as a volatile indicator that fluctuates monthly.
"It is unlikely this consumer retrenchment will turn into another recession," economist Ed Friedman, of the Chase Econometrics analysis firm, said.
U.S. won't comment on nukes
PEKING - The United States denied yesterday that it assured Peking that American warships expected to make the first U.S. Navy port call to China since the 1949 communist revolution will not carry nuclear weapons.
"The U.S. government does not confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on any of its ships," said U.S. Embassy spokesman Tony Saritil.
Chinese Communist Party Chief Hu Yaobang said Wednesday that U.S. officials told Peking U.S. warships would be deployed against weapons aboard during a port visit coming
Anti-CIA arrests reach 350
BOULDER, Colo. — A peaceful anti-CIA demonstration was in its third day on the University of Colorado campus yesterday about 500 protestors have been arrested
Pauline Coker, CU spokeswoman, said an undetermined number of protestors arrested yesterday morning had been charged with violating charges of interfering with school officials.
The protestors were demonstrating against the presence of CIA recruiters who are on campus to interview applicants for jobs.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Congressman to fight Reagan aid to Contras
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — An American congressman touring Nicaragua promised yesterday to try to persuade Congress to reject President Reagan's plea for more aid to U.S.-backed rebels fighting the Sandinista government.
"I think if all 435 members of Congress could come here and see this, there is no question that the vote on Contra aid would be defeated and those who voted for it in the past
Markey, Rep, Richard Bouchier, D-Va., LL. Col. John Buchanan, author Ted Soren and columnist Mary McGregor lived a third day on the mop on the last day of their three-day visit to Nicraugua.
will realize they made a great mistake," said Rep. Edward Markev, D-Mass.
"We are going to state our case," said Markey, a longtime critic of Reagan's Nicaraguan policy, shortly after visiting the camp where nine camp some 110 miles north of Managua.
The ruling Sandistas have begun a controversial project of resettling 50,000
peasants away from the northern border to create what Reagan administration officials say are free-free zones to fight the U.S.-backed Contra rebels.
Members of the U.S. delegation said they were visiting the camp to gather information to use in upcoming congressional debates on Reagan's request for an additional $14 billion in aid to labelebs received about $80 million in CIA aid until Congress cut off the funds last spring.
After meeting one displaced peasant family, Markey told a woman "to pray the vote goes against the Contras."
"I do that twice a day," said the woman, who told the group her family was forced to leave their former village because of rebel attacks.
About 14,000 rebels of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force operate across the country's north in a bid to overthrow the leftist Sandinista regime.
Although the displaced families are now crowded into housing for former workers, a Sandinista spokeswoman said the government would build houses and parcel out land to them.
U.S commission rejects comparable worth plan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said yesterday the concept of comparable worth — called "the loosest idea since Looney Tunes" by its chairman — should not be used to end pay discrimination against women.
On a 5-2 vote, with one abstention, the predominantly conservative commission adopted a statement urging Congress and the Justice Department to reject the concept in setting wages in either federal or private jobs.
"There are currently existing ways to remedy (sex-based discrimination) and the implementation of the unsound and muscular language would be a serious error." (the commission said.
The concept of comparable worth involves the notion that equal pay should be granted to men and women who hold jobs of comparable skill, knowledge and responsibility. Because this covers different jobs, it is not the same as equal pay for the same job.
The report strongly reflects the thinking of outgoing staff director Linda Chavez. Chavez was named earlier this week to the post of White House public liaison.
ADOPTION OF THE statement, which does not have the force of law, was immediately attacked by unions and women's organizations.
Judy Goldsmith, head of the National Organization for Women, said that the report made a mackery of the once independent, dedicated and credible civil rights commission.
Eileen Stein of the National Committee on Pay Equity said the report reflected the preconceptions of commission Chairman Clarence Pendleton Jr. and Chavez.
and Municipal Employees called the action "insupponable as a matter of law or policy"
The American Federation of State, County
Rape conviction is upheld after woman's confession
PENDLETON, WHO once called the concept "the loomiest idea since Looney Tunes came on the screen," said that the adoption of comparable worth would be an enterprise system to create enterprise system into a state-controlled economy under the gause of fairness.
But commissioners Mary Frances Berry and Blandina Cardenas Rieraiz said that the concept, if applied prudently with a full recognition of any limitations that might exist, could be an important weapon against employment discrimination.
By United Press International
MARKHAM, III. — A judge yesterday uphold the conviction of a man who has spent six years in prison for a rape that the alleged victim now says never occurred, declaring that he did not believe the woman's new statement.
"I really don't know for what unfaithful reason Cathy recanted," Cook County Circuit Court Judge Richard Samuelu told a packed courtroom, referring to Catherine Crowell Webb, now a New England housewife.
The defendant, Gary Dotson, his mother and Webb were visibly upset when the judge sent him back to prison.
Samuels revoked the $100,000 bond he had set for Dotson last week but said Dotson could possibly win an appeal bond.
Samuels denied a defense motion to vacate Dotson's rape and kidnap conviction, saying that he did not believe Webb when she
testified last week that she fabricated the rape.
Citing Illinois case law, which considers recantation testimony "very unrelieved," the judge said he believed the jury's original 1979 conviction was correct.
"Her testimony (at the original trial) itself was clear and convening. Both the jury and I observed her," said Samuel, who presided at the original trial. "The jury found her testimony to be credible. I would say the jury was correct."
Earlier yesterday, Dotson, 28, testified he bad never seen Webb until after she accused
Webb, 23, now a New Hampshire resident and mother of two, claims she scratched her body and tore her clothes to fabricate the rape story because she feared she was pregnant with her former boyfriend's child
Delson, who said he had been drinking on July 9, 1777, the night of the alleged rape, testified he had spent part of the evening in a car while his friends attended a party.
Office says budget cuts would increase poverty
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Social Security and other cuts proposed by President Reagan and Republican senators in a compromise budget would plunge 650,000 Americans—most of them elderly—into poverty, the Congressional Budget Office said yesterday.
Under the compromise budget agreed to last week by Reagan and Senate Republican leaders, Social Security and other programs will be limited to a 2 percent increase next year.
In the following two years, the 2 percent cap would still apply unless inflation drops.
The non-partisan budget office, in the first independent study of the compro-
mension, would be the elderly as a result of the coef-living changes in Social Security.
railroad retirement, military retirement and civil service retirement benefits.
Supplemental Security Income payments, which go to the very poor, would be less costly than traditional welfare.
Senate Republican leader Robert Dole hopes to bring the budget up the week of April 22 with tough opposition expected from Democrats and some Republicans.
Senior citizen groups said a nationwide effort opposing the cuts was being launched this week while congressional representatives are in their home districts on press.
In Los Angeles, Leon Kaplan, 72,
chairman of the Save Our Social Security
Committee, said of the effort. "We're
going to fight this, and Reagan — he's
going to pay a price for it."
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