University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Fire areas declared a disaster
Gov. Jim Martin declared a disaster yesterday in fire-favored North Carolina while hundreds of Marines and farmers joined forest raiders in fighting to subdue a 10-mile-wide inferno raging on the state's coast.
Martin declared 34 counties a disaster area and pleaded for emergency federal aid to cope with the wildfires, which have destroyed 74 homes and 119,000 acres of forest and caused $51 million damage in a 10-day rampage across the state.
The governor said the wind-whipped wildfires have destroyed homes worth $4.4 million and woodlands worth $47 million since April 1. More than 30 people have been injured, mostly firefighters felled by smoke.
Hong Kong transfer ratified
PEKING — China's nominal parliament yesterday unanimously ratified a historic Sino-British accord transferring capitalist Hong Kong to communist rule July 1.1997.
About 2.700 deputies seated in Peking's Great Hall of the People simultaneously raised their hands in favor of the accord on the last day of a two-week session of the National People's Congress.
The pact guarantees the port city its capitalist lifestyle and social system for 50 years after 1997, when Britain's 99-year lease on most of the colony expires.
142 CIA protesters arrested
BOULDER, Colo. — Police arrested 142 protesters yesterday in the second day of peaceful demonstrations against CIA officers at the University of Colorado campus, officials said.
It was the second arrest in two days for some of those taken into custody yesterday. They were required to either pay a $100 bond or agree to the conditions of the personal recognition bond, said Capt. Jim Fadendrech of the CU Police. About a dozen people who refused to agree to the bond were held in jail
A total of 314 arrests were made Tuesday and yesterday. The protest was scheduled to continue today.
Kangaroo crashes barbecue
PERTH, Australia — A barbecue broke up in hysteria when a large red kangaroo attacked a group of people at Narrungulu north of Perth, witnesses said yesterday.
The 5 foot-9 inch kangaroo bit a man and his daughter and repeatedly came after the guests until one of them killed it by hitting it with a post.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
O'Neill sees few changes in Soviet policy
By United Press International
MOSCOW — House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neil emerged from a meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tremendously impressed yesterday but said he discerned no major change in Soviet policy.
O'Neill and three fellow congressmen met with Gorbachev for nearly four hours — the new Soviet leader's first meeting with U.S. officials since the funeral of President Konstantin Chernenko when he met with Vice President George Bush.
O'Neill gave Gorbachev a letter from President Reagan but the contents were not revealed. Reagan and Gorbachev had previously exchanged letters expressing hope for a meeting, but no date or time was set.
The Kremlin meeting between Gorbachev and the U.S. lawmakers lasted three hours and 43 minutes — far longer than planned — but O'Neill refused to discuss details of the talks before reporting to Secretary of State George Shultz.
issues in a direct and frank manner," O'Neill said.
"These exchanges over arms control, trade, human rights and regional issues highlighted many significant differences between our members and their officials on these issues."
"WE HAVE DISCUSSED a wide range of
The official Tass news agency said Gorbachev told the Americans that "the difference in the social systems, in the ideology of our countries, is no cause for curtailing relations, much less kindling hatred."
O'Neill had high praise for the new Soviet leader as a politician and a diplomat.
"ABOUT HIS ABILITY, his talents, his frankness, his openness, I was tremendously impressed," O'Neill said. "There is no question that he is a master of words, a master in the art of politics and diplomacy. 'He's hard, he's tough, he's strong.'"
He's a scholar's tough, he's a strong.
But, O'Neill added, "We did not hear any major changes in Soviet policy with respect to these issues."
O'Neill headed a 13-member bipartisan congressional delegation to Moscow.
Sudanese ruler vows to maintain U.S. ties
By United Press International
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan's new military ruler said yesterday he would form a new Cabinet, which would include civilian members, within weeks and vowed to maintain Sudan's close ties with the United States.
Gen. Abdul Rahman Suwar al-Dahab, the defense minister who led a bloodless coup against President Jaafar Nuremey on Saturday, also defended the military for seizing power while Nuremey was in Carro following a weeklong ban during a weeklong visit to Washington.
Al-Dahab's remarks came during his first news conference since he and senior military leaders deposed Numeiry.
When asked how long it would take to form a Cabinet, al-Dahab said the project was one of the most important tasks facing the 15-man Military Council he established Tuesday to run Sudan until the transition to civil rule.
"THIS DEPENDS ON the progress of the consultations," he said at army headquarters a few blocks from Numeiry's presidential palace on the banks of the Nile River.
But Western diplomats in the capital have said hopes for a quick return to civilian rule were set back by al-Dahab's appointment of the Military Council. They predicted the transition could take up to 18 months.
"It can be formed within weeks, if not days," al-Dahab said. "The army has decided to assume power to transfer it to the people — not to keep it."
The United States had considered the stuntshy anti-communist Nismirey a value. The United States had considered the stuntshy anti-communist Nismirey a value.
Ethiopia. Al-Dahab said close ties would be maintained with Washington despite the harsh anti-American rhetoric expressed by some labor unions during street protests last
"I WOULD LIKE to say that relations of friendship with the United States will continue," said al-Dahab, 50, a career military man.
"We are intent on maintaining close relations with all countries and also those friends who give us aid at a time when we are suffering from drought and a shortage of food, such as the United States in particular," he said.
The United States virtually feeds the drought-streken northeast African nation single-handedly, supplying 843,000 tons of food a year.
The United States has offered Sudan a $40 million grant to buy oil, the first material show of support by a foreign country for al-Dahab's military junta.
AL-DAHAB SAID THE new government was concerned with a reconciliation with the mainly Christian south and an end to a 2-year-old civil war with the Muslim north, a practical approach to Sudan's pressing economic problems and a transfer of power from the military to a civilian administration.
Shortages of basic commodities and recent food price hikes under U.S. and International Monetary Fund pressure led to a week of extreme volatility, which culminated in the coup against Numeryi.
Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, the first foreign leader to recognize the new Sudanese government, declared yesterday that "Sudan is ours" and warned President Reagan against U.S. interference in the north African nation.
Administration declines Nicaragua's offer to talk
By United Press International
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The administration yesterday rejected an offer by the Nicaraguan government for direct peace talks with the United States on grounds that the Sandinistas' disagreement is with their own rebels.
At a news conference in Santa Barbara with the White House press covering President Reagan on his Easter vacation, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane turned down the offer by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
Ortega denounced Reagan's proposed peace plan, which calls for negotiations between the Sandinistas and the Contra rebels, as an ultimatum but said his
government "has always been disposed to speak with the government of the United States."
McFarlane gave a flat "no" to Ortega's proposal.
"THE PROBLEM IS between Nicaragua and its people and its neighbors." McFarlane said. "It is not a problem with the United States."
He said that "Nicaragua is seeking to subvert the stability of its neighboring country."
McFarlane said that the United States had found that direct negotiations with Nicaragua were pointless and that "Nicaragua had nothing to say" in the meetings, he explained. McFarlene said that the Sandinistas had engaged in "delaying tactics" at those meetings.
Rebels attack Philippine convoy; army commander among 6 dead
By United Press International
BUTUAN, Philippines — Communist rebels ambushed a threevehicle military convoy on a dirt road, killing an army sergeant and five other soldiers, officials said yesterday.
Lt. Col. Osito Bahian, 52, commander of the 30th infantry battalion, was the highest ranking military official to be slain by New People's Army rebels this year.
Bahian was with 11 other soldiers when the attack occurred about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday approximately 10 miles from Buantan City, the provincial capital of Agusan del Norte
province, 513 miles south of Manila on Mindanao island.
Bahian, battalion commander for about two years, was killed along with five other soldiers, said regional commander Brig. Gen. Madrino Munoz.
Three soldiers were wounded and three others riding in an armored personnel carrier escorted unarmed after engaging about 30 rebels in a 15-minute firefight, he said.
Munoz said the rebels, armed with at least one M-60 machine gun and other automatic weapons, had been dug in on a hilltop overlooking the rugged dirt road for more than 24 hours when Bahian's convoy passed.
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