University Daily Kansan, April 2, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Firebombs kill 25 in Taiwan
TAINAN, Taiwan — Passengers in a passing taxicab two firebombs into a hotel at midnight last night, igniting a fire that killed at least 25 people and injured nine, police in this southern Taiwanese city said.
The motive for the attack was not known, police said, but earlier in the evening a brawl broke out between some guests and the management of the hotel, after which the guests threatened to retaliate.
retardant.
The bombs exploded and fire quickly spread to the top floor of the six-story building, where most guests were asleep.
Found body may be priest's
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Police said yesterday that a decomposed body found in the eastern Beka'a Valley was believed to be that of a kidnapped Dutch Jesuit priest who disappeared more than two weeks ago.
weeks ago.
A police source in the eastern Beka Valley, where the Rev. Nicholas Klutters disappeared March 14, said an investigation had not made a definite identification of the body.
Sergeant's child found killed
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Cape Town police Sgt. Beno Cloete was sent to investigate a murder over the weekend and discovered that the victim was his own 19-year-old daughter, authorities said yesterday.
A pedestrian Saturday reported finding the body of a woman lying on the ground at Kui rsriver about 20 miles from the coastal city, police said.
Clotee was sent to investigate. When he reached the scene, police said he identified the victim as his daughter, Elana. She had been raped and killed.
Three suspects were later arrested and charged with the crime, police said.
'Service' had a dubious ring
BOSTON — A woman pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that she was a "madam" who ran a call-girl ring from her $120,000 suburban home under the guise of an escort service.
Gavin Givens, 32, was arrested Friday night at her home in Weston, a wealthy Boston suburb. A dozen other women, allegedly prostitutes employed by Anahail escort services, were arrested after police made appointments for their services.
Boston Police Lt. William Lang said police were tipped off by a disgruntled escort service employee who said the other women were being mistreated.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Soviets create launch system for large loads
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union continued deploying new nuclear and conventional weapons during 1984 and has developed a heavy lift launch vehicle that can put 150-ton payloads into earth orbit, the Washington Times reported yesterday.
The report was based on a copy of the Pentagon's 1983 edition of "Soviet Military Power," which is to be released today. The book describes the military strategies of the booklet from non-Pentagon sources.
Soviet and Soviet bloc forces "continue to expand, modernize and deploy with increasingly capable weapons systems designed for the entire spectrum of strategic, theater nuclear and conventional conflict," it quoted the booklet as
Theater nuclear forces are those whose ranges are confined to a specific theater of operations, such as Europe, and do not include continent-spanning missiles, bombers or submarines, which are strategic forces.
The Times quoted the booklet as saying the Soviets have developed a new heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of putting 150-ton payloads into orbit as part of their extremely high priority military related program.
It said that emphasis in the program had been put on long duration, manned missions for military research.
The 143-page booklet also included information about:
- The launching of two new Delta IV class missile-carrying submarines, to be fitted with the SS-NX-23 missile now undergoing testing.
- A third 25,000-ton Typhoon missile sub that has completed sea trials and that has joined the Soviet fleet, fitting with 20 SS-N-20 missiles that carry between six and nine warheads each with ranges up to 5,000 miles.
- Advance testing and development of the Blackjack bomber, while the Backfire bomber continues to join Soviet forces at the rate of 30 a year.
- Research continued on high energy lasers for ground and space-based anti-satellite weapons.
Although the booklet, according to the Times, said the Soviets continued test firing of the SS-X-24 and SS-X-25 intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Pentagon officially acknowledged the tests several weeks ago.
Budget talks hit agriculture snag
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The White House indicated it might compromise with Senate Republicans on defense spending next fiscal year, but budget talks between the two sides hit another snag yesterday / how much to spend on agriculture.
White House aides met with Senate Republican leaders for nearly three hours, but reached no agreement. Defense was still a major hang-up, and senators emerged talking about disagreements on farm programs as well.
President Reagan wanted to cut $2.6 billion from agriculture in fiscal 1986, but the Republican-led Senate Budget Committee voted to freeze programs at current levels.
The two sides started out far apart on military spending as well, with President Reagan seeking a 6 percent hike above inflation and the Budget Committee advocating nothing above the inflation rate for the Pentagon in fiscal 1986.
SEN, THAD COCHRAN, R-Miss., said the group discussed the "areas of sharpest
disagreement," which included farm programs.
"We talked about an hour on agriculture ... trying to seek a common ground," Cochran told reporters, but said they planned to meet again Tuesday.
White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan indicated the group hoped to finish this week, before Congress' spring recess, but others decided that timetable would be difficult to meet.
"We didn't get an agreement on agriculture," said Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R.N.M., "We're narrowing the areas of disagreement."
EARLIER YESTERDAY, WHITE House spokesman Larry Speakes said no deal had been struck with Senate leaders on limiting the growth in defense spending next year to a compromise figure of 3 percent. But he said a report that Reagan might accept 3 percent Pentagon budget growth in exchange for more funding from federal aid to farmers and other domestic programs "omits a few items that we're still talking to them about."
"Nothing is settled and be not until we agree on an entire package," he said.
Senate Republican leader Robert Dole of Kansas also discounted the reported 3 percent compromise on military spending.
"We're talking about dollars (not percentages)." he told reporters. Asked if those dollars added up to a 3 percent hike, Dole replied "no."
The White House had hoped to reach a budget agreement with the Republican senators by Friday, the beginning of spring in 2015. The Senate is not about it going to the Senate floor by then.
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia said he would prefer that the Republicans get a budget on the floor and then let Democrats "work their will" on it, rather than include Democrats in private meetings.
Byrd decided not to have Democrates meet privately on the budget, aides said.
"We Democrats have not seen their
“我 Democrats don't think they have one yet."
"他们不会。"
Speakes also discounted a weekend report that the Senate Armadied Services subcommittee had voted in secret to cut the Pentagon budget over two years to help reduce spending.
Liberian leader escapes attempt on life
By United Press International
MONROVIA Liberia - Liberian President Samuel K. Doe narrowly escaped death yesterday when would be assassins sprayed his car with automatic weapons fire and seriously wounded two bodyguards, the Liberian news agency said.
accusing Col. Moses M.D. Flanzanmaton deputy commander of his palace guard, of masterminding the assassination attempt.
LINA, the state-controlled agency, said an unknown number of men fired about 30 rounds from two sides of Doe's Mitsubishi as it was entering his official residence in Monrovia, causing the car to crash into a utility pole.
Police launched a nationwide manhunt for Flanatzamn, the radio said. It said he was last seen speeding off in an American-made immediately after the aborted assassination.
LINA DID NOT say what matter Doe was injured. There were unconfirmed reports that on one pleaser plaster was used to cover the windows' crushed glass shards from the windows to spray the car's occupant*
fairly poor.
The state radio later quoted Doe as
In 1980, Doe, then a 29-year-old army master sergeant, led a military revolt against an elite of wealthy freemasons.
descendents of former American slaves who settled in the pro-U.S. West African nation.
Doe ruled the country at the head of a National Redemption Council, whose first action was to order a public firing squad execution of 13 members of the old regime.
In February 1984, following a coup attempt a few months before. Doe recessed the Redemption Council to clear the way for elections, now scheduled for October and November. The inauguration of a new president is set for next January.
But Doe has outlawed one of the leading opposition parties, the United People's Party led by former Foreign Minister Gabriel Matthews.
Chinese pack theaters for U.S. movies
By United Press International
PEKING - Hundreds of thousands of Chinese packed movie theaters yesterday for China's first public showing of American films in four years.
Eager Chinese movie fans rushed to buy the 20 million tickets at 10 cents each to the five films showing in Peking, Shanghai Canton, Chengdu and Changchun from April 1 to 14.
outside the "Great China" downtown cinema before the screening of "On Golden Pond." one of the five U.S. films showing in the capital.
An audience watched in silence as Henry Fonda spoke frankly about sex, bikini-clad Jane Fonda displayed her well-toned muscles and other characters flaunted wealth unimaginable to most Chinese.
In Peking, ticket scalpers were hustling
ine earthiest episodes, of "On Golden Pond" — about an old man's fear of death — unleashed waves of laughter, while heated
arguments and emotion-rent scenes appeared to draw little reaction.
Chinese cultural officials deleted nude scenes in the "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "The Turning Point," because they were "found to be inappropriate," said one U.S. embassy cultural attache. None of the other films, including "Star Wars," were censored.
The U.S. attache said Chinese authorities chose the films because they addressed sensitive social issues such as divorce, which only recently emerged as a problem in China.
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