University Daily Kansan, April 4, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Japan to send trade envoy
TOKYO — Alarmed by moves on Capitol Hill to enact protection legislation, Japan said yesterday that it would send a special envoy to Washington in a bid to defuse a mounting trade dispute with the United States.
United States
A Foreign Ministry official said Reishi Teshima, deputy foreign minister for economic affairs, would leave today for Washington to explain the Japanese position to U.S. officials."
Masayuki Fujio, chairman of the policy board of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, also said Japanese officials probably would invite U.S. senators and congressmen to Tokyo in mid-April to discuss trade issues.
Kirkpatrick turns Republican
WASHINGTON — Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, 58, saying "I was born a Democrat," jumped the fence yesterday and joined the Republican Party.
"I didn't feel like a Democrat anymore." Kirkpatrick said at a news conference. She said the party had moved away from her views.
The Democratic National Committee, however, questioned why Kirkpatrick would want to join the party of conservatives Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and the Rev. Jerry Falwell.
Air Force investigates crash
WOLFEBORO, N.H. — Air Force investigators yesterday tried to determine why two Air National Flag F-106 fighters collided at 30,000 feet, forcing one pilot to bail out and ditch his plane while the second plane landed safely.
second pilot in the pilot was injured in the collision, which occurred about 7:50 p.m. Tuesday over east-central New Hampshire, said Maj. Ernest Keating, public affairs officer for Ots Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, Mass., where the pilots are based.
Mix-up causes student detour
LOS ANGELES — Oakland or Auckland.
Pronounced by an employee of Air New
Zealand, the two words sounded alike to
a 21-year-old student, who mistakenly
boarded a flight to Auckland rather than
home to Oakland.
home to Oakland. Michael Lewis, a student at Sacramento Community College, was returning home from a three-month visit to Germany, and after a brief stopover in Los Angeles, boarded the wrong plane.
His mistake, Lewis insisted Tuesday evening after returning from New Zealand, courtesy of the airline, was the fault of the airline's staff.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Aid unlikely without change, Michel says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — House Republican leader Robert Michel warned President Reagan yesterday that his request for renewed aid to Nicaraguan rebels was "dead in the water" without a change in U.S. policy.
Speaking to reporters after a 45-minute meeting between Reagan and GOP congressional leaders, Michel said he had spoken to some Democrats and sensed a little adjustment in their thinking on the issue of aid to the contests.
the contras.
When asked what Reagan could do to
assure passage of the controversial aid request, Michel replied, "I'm not exactly sure what. I want to see something fly, and we can't put our fingers yet on what exactly that might be."
the ring. Reagan is planning a new bid to persuade Congress to lift a ban on further aid to the contrains, who have received millions of dollars in aid from the United States over the last several years.
HOWEVER, THE PRESIDENT faces formidable opposition in Congress, and the White House has not yet set a timetable for Reagan's drive to provide the contrasts with a
requested $14 million for the remainder of the current fiscal year.
"I wanted the administration to clearly understand that without any change in formulation of policy there, we're dead in the water for the moment in the House of Representatives and we've got to have some flex and a little bit of movement there to get us what we'd eventually like to get," Michel said.
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Michel and Senate GOP leader Robert Dole said National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane had been working with key members of Congress on options expected to be presented to Reagan in the next few days.
SOME KEY MEMBERS of Congress have suggested Reagan could improve chances for his aid policy to the contrs if the aid was provided overly.
However, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the notion of covert aid had been pretty well ruled out. In the past, administration officials have said Reagan is limited by law in how openly the United States could support the contras.
Speakes said the options under development by McFarlane dealt with the form the aid would take as well as the manner in which the case for contra support would be sold to the public.
Tea for Tutu ends S. Africa march
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1894 Nobel Peace Prize, defied South Africa's ban on outdoor demonstrations yesterday and led a surprise march on Johannesburg's security police headquarters, where he sipped tea with a senior officer.
with a senior officer.
In suburban Port Elizabeth, a black youth charged that policemen shot his 9-year-old niece in the eye and murdered her mother at their house. Police said both victims were shot while putting up street barricades.
After a Johannesburg church service for the Rev. Geoff Moselle, who has been imprisoned since October without being charged, Tutu and 50 worshippers marched about a mite to the downtown John Vorster Square police headquarters.
Tutu, who wore church vestments as he led the marchers to security police headquarters. Tutu won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle against apartheid, South Africa's policy of racial segregation.
NO ONE WAS arrested but one demonstrator said the police locked everyone in a courtyard and took their names and addresses before allowing them to leave.
Col. Fred Bull, the security police spokesman, said no action was taken and Tutu left police headquarters after sipping tea with a senior police officer, who was not identified.
Blacks cheered and white onlookers jeered
The march appeared to be spontaneous and seemed to catch the police by surprise.
Moselean was detained when the government imposed strict security laws — including a ban on outdoor demonstrations — during a sweep by police through riot-torn black townships south of Johannesburg.
The government has said Moselle allowed church property to be used for meetings on a rent dispute that triggered months of racial unrest.
ALMOST 200 PEOPLE died in racial violence last year and at least 103 have been killed since January — 41 in the past two weeks.
In the Motherwell black township outside Port Elizabeth, a black youth denied police claims that his mother was killed and his 9-year-old niece was gravely wounded when officers opened fire on demonstrators who were erecting street barricades.
Buyane Fulani, said to be in his early 20s, told reporters that his niece, Ntemboxelo, was wounded in the right eye while standing at the kitchen door of their home, and his mother, Nogameni, was killed when she went to see what had happened.
He said gunfire erupted as his mother prepared tea Tuesday.
Rio Grande group fights trucking limits
By United Press International
Gary Sollier, head of a coalition of Rio Grande Valley groups seeking to change the 1984 Motor Carriers Safety Act, said its restrictions would be so severe that all Mexican trucks would be halted at the border and commerce along the 1,933-mile U.S.-Mexico border would stand still.
MCALLEN, Texas — A Congressional act limiting access of Mexican trucks to the U.S. interior threats at least 700,000 jobs on both sides of the border if it goes into effect July 1, South Texas industrial and agricultural groups said yesterday.
The act would allow Mexican trucks licensed by the Interstate Commerce Commission to enter the country, but Sollner said a 1982 moratorium on interstate licensing of
Mexican trucks had been extended to September 1986, and none could enter the county until then.
country unto the
THE BORDER STILL suffers from
Mexico's massive peso devaluations, and the measure would mean thousands of people
would be out of work on both sides of the
border. Sollier said.
Solinier, a Zenth official and president of the Maquiladora Industry Association, released a position paper sent to President Reagan, the ICC and the Department of Transportation urging quick revisions to the regulations.
He said members of Congress from border areas were meeting in Washington to discuss the situation.
competition and the public from unsafe Mexican trucks, amounts to overreaction to a regional problem, Sollier said.
The act, introduced by Rep. Glenn Anderson, D-Calif., to protect Southern California trucking interests from unfair
U. S. OFFICIALS HAVE said the restrictions on Mexican trucking were designed as retaliation against Mexico, which had refused to allow all except a few U.S. trucks to haul goods south of the border, insisting that motor carriers be completely Mexican owned.
Shultz urges U.S.to fight war on terror
The legislation, approved by Congress on Oct. 11, did not consider the mammoth economic impact on the border economy, said several representatives of associations representing agriculture, customs brokers, bridge owners, shipping and economic development interests and the Port of Brownsville .
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday that some foreign governments were using terrorism as a warlike tactic and that the United States should be ready to go one step beyond passive self-defense to combat terrorism.
Shultz told a Senate subcommittee that administration actions to respond to international terrorism had increased significantly including making facilities overseas more secure and increasing intelligence activity.
But he said the nation should be prepared to take further steps if foreign governments were found to be involved in terrorist attacks against the United States.
Shultz's comments followed a vow by President Reagan Tuesday to go to the source if foreign governments are found to sponsor of terrorism.
The State Department warned Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy Tuesday that he would be held responsible for terrorist actions against Americans or U.S. interests. And Shultz has reportedly warned Iran that it would attack a sequel to Islamic fundamentalist presidents execute any of the five Americans held in Lebanon.
Shultz was careful not to reveal intelligence information.
Shultz also said the United States would not pull its pared-down diplomatic staff out of Lebanon, despite repeated attacks and threats.
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