University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 12
Chinese say arms pact is welcome
PEKING - Chinese leaders said yesterday they would welcome an agreement at the U.S.-Soviet arms talk in Switzerland as long as it was not detrimental to a third country.
By United Press International
Chinese officials this week met with Michael Armastock, U.S. undersecretary of state, and told him that Peking favored a relaxation of U.S.-Soviet ties and progress in the new grape talks, which resumed last month more than a year growing tensions between the superpowers.
Ma's remarks about U.S.-Soviet relations came just days after Peking extended its own olive branch to Moscow, despite political obstacles which still separate the communist rivals.
"The Chinese side expressed China's wish to see a relaxation of U.S.-Soviet relations and a hope that the United States and the Soviet Union could, through negotiations, reach an agreement that would not be detrimental to a third country." Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Yuzhen said in a briefing on the discussions with Armacost.
THE REFERENCE TO a third country indicated China's concern that any U.S. Soviet arms reduction agreement contain clauses prohibiting Moscow from placing its SS 20 missiles now aimed at Western Europe in Asia.
Ma said Armacost and his Chinese counterpart, Vice Foreign Minister Zhu Qichen, discussed peace and security issues with U.S.-Soviet and Sino-Soviet relations.
High-ranking Chinese and Soviet officials called for better relations immediately after Mikhail Gorbachev replaced Konstantin Chernenko as the top Soviet leader last week.
And in a move that suprised Western diplomats, China's Communist Party last week made a dramatic gesture toward mending a 20-year rift with its Soviet rival by initiating the first direct exchange between the world's largest communist organizations since 1966.
Armacost on Tuesday stressed that the United States didn't fear an improvement in ties between China and the Soviet Union. He downplayed, however. Peking's growing flirtation with Moscow, saying it was normal for the two nations to re-evaluate their relations in the wake of Moscow's change in leadership.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Army troops were ordered into the streets of La Paz yesterday to help police quell violent protests by more than 10,000 miners and other workers at a two-week-old general strike.
Bv United Press International
Miners in Bolivia protest; army ordered into streets
"The streets of La Paz are in the army's power and the situation is tense, but this does not mean a cup is under way." former Vice President Katherine said in a telephone interview with a Colombian radio station.
PRESIDENT HERNAN SILES Zuazo, warning that his "tolerance has a limit and patience is not infinite," ordered the troops to prevent protesters from marching into the capital.
It was the first time in 29 months of power that Siles Zuaozo was forced to call on the military to restore order to the impoverished Andean nation, convulsed by labor unrest and economic chaos.
Air force helicopters and planes flew over the capital of 1 million people to support the troops and police patrolling the streets during the strike, which began March 8 as workers' demands for higher pay.
POLICE fired tear gas to disperse small groups of workers who tried to rally down downtown streets, injure injuries or arrests were reported.
The decision to deploy the troops was made in an emergency
meeting late Tuesday among Siles Zuao, his Cabinet and the military High Command. It was not clear, however, if the decision was Siles Zuozo's or if he was pressured by the military.
SILES ZUAZO'S ORDER followed protests by more than 10,000 miners and other workers who blocked all major roads into the city Tuesday, set off random dynamite charges and ended the presidential palace. The charges damage but scared residents.
Officials said the strike had cost the nation $110 million so far.
Traops in armored cars with sirens blaring moved onto roads leading into the city early yesterday and took up positions in industrial neighborhoods, government buildings — including the police office — and command headquarters at the airport.
"The armed forces will not permit repetition of (Tuesday's) acts of violence," military commander Gen. Simon Seias said.
Unions are demanding raises to keep up with Bolivia's inflation, which at 2.177 percent last year and close to 3.000 percent this year is considered the highest in the world.
Labor leader Juan Lechin called on miners Tuesday to take up weapons and storm La Paz "because the only way to power is revolution and the armed struggle." he said.
Grand jury will hear Goetz
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Confessed subway gunman Bernhard Beetz decided yesterday that he would testify before a grand jury investigating new evidence in the shooting of four boys boarded a subway train, his lawyer said.
Meanwhile, state Judge George Roberts refused yesterday to require that Manhattan's district attorney, Robert Morgenthu, present the same evidence to the new grand jury. The first grand jury decided against indicting Goetz on attempted murder charges.
Goetz, who did not appear before the first grand jury, is scheduled to testify March 29, a spokeswoman for defense lawyer Barry Slotnick said.
Slotnick said Goetz wanted to give his version of the shootings.
BASED ON THE evidence, including taped confessions favorable to Goetz, the first grand jury in January indicted the defendant on a charge Goetz, 37, pleaded not guilty to the charges. He is free on $5,000 bail.
Goetz, requested that the court order Morgentau to call the 15 witnesses, who were on the subway train when Goetz shot four teenagers Dec. 22.
Mark Baker, another lawver for
"I do not have to remind the district attorney of his responsibility to do justice." Roberts said in rejecting the defense requests and asking for a plea day by Justice Stephen Crane, who refused to disband the grand jury.
Morgentha has said he has a mystery witness in the case but has been acquainted with it. James Ramsure, one of the four men shot by Goetz, or another person.
Hindus protest enrollment quotas
By United Press International
Reports from Gujarat said mobs
NEW DELHI, India — Hindu mobs opposed to enlarged college enrollment quotas for India's lowest caste
— the "untouchables" — rioted for the third straight day yesterday in western Gujarat state, where eight people have been killed.
The news agency also said more than 15 incidents of arson were reported yesterday from various areas of the city, including attempts to burn down a bank, a post office and a milk booth.
The Press Trust of India said 10 people were injured yesterday when police opened fire on arsonists and looters in two areas of the curfew-bound old section of the state capital on Friday, 500 miles southwest of New Delhi.
also rioted in six other districts of the
and government building.
EIGHT PEOPLE HAVE been killed since Monday in the worst sustained anti-Sikh riots following the outbreak of violence Indira Gandhi's assassination October, which left 2,461 people dead.
THE "UNTOUCHABLES" are relegated to the lowest rung of Hindu
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi told Parliament yesterday that he was immediately dispatching Home Minister S.B. Chavan to the state capital, saying "the situation in Ahmedabad has gone worse."
Gandhi sent the army into the state Tuesday to quell the rioting that erupted over a state government decision to allow more members of the Hindu's lowest caste — the "untouchables" — into college.
society and given lowly occupations such as cleaning toilets and collecting garbage.
Opposition members of Parliament had earlier demanded a government statement on the riots but Gandhi said he would address Parliament as soon as the home minister returned from Ahmedabad.
The violence capped a six-week campaign against the plan to increase from 10 percent to 28 percent the places reserved for students from India and other castes, a euphemism for India's 120 million Hindu untouchables.
Castes are distinct, hereditary Hindu social classes that are traditionally — but no longer officially — excluded from social dealings with others. Although caste discrimination is prohibited by the constitution, it remains widespread and occasionally leads to violence.