University Daily Kansan, February 26, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Explosions kill 6 in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two booby-trapped vehicles exploded yesterday in a crowded Shite Muslim suburb of Beirut, at least six people and wounding 43 others.
China encourages cremation
No one claimed responsibility for the bombings.
Police said the booby-trapped truck exploded first, bringing ambulances and rescue workers hurrying to the scene to transport the dead and wounded. Ten minutes later, a car packed with explosives rolled down 30 feet from where the pickup detonated.
PEKING — Chinese officials, urging the population to renounce ancient burial traditions, yesterday published harsh regulations ordering mandatory cremations and banning religious graveyards in heavily populated areas.
A front-page article in the official Communist Party organ — Peoples Daily — said China, where a quarter of the world's people live on less than 6 percent of its arable land, must save space for cultivation and industry.
According to the regulations, "cremation should be adopted step by step in areas which are heavily populated and have little available land."
LOS ANGELES — Tina Turner, Cydi
Lauper, Lionel, Lionel Richie and
Springsteen lead Grammy Award nomi-
cal winner. Be an all-American
music screen tonight.
Americans top Grammy list
Turner, Laucer and Prince received five nominations apiece in the competition for the Ralph Lauren Prize.
The 27th annual Grammy Awards show, which will be televised on CBS at 8 p.m., represents the peak of musical excellence within the industry.
Boy makes 'heroic' rescue
DETROIT — A paperboy rescued an 11-year-old girl from a suspected would-be rapist about twice his size and felt "like an ant looking up at a giant."
Police and neighbors are unanimous in calling Collin Boatright 14, a hero.
Boatright, who is 4 feet 9 inches tall,
used a stick about the size of a baseball bat
to frighten the would-be rapist, who is 6
feet 2 inches and weighs 220 pounds.
Boatright had just finished delivering copies of the Detroit News in a northeast neighborhood on Sunday morning when he saw a woman with a bandaged house, police said.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
U.S. responds to Poles' treatment of diplomat
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration expelled a Polish diplomat and his wife from the United States yesterday in response to the expulsion of a U.S. diplomat in Poland and the "crude" and "outrageous" treatment of his wife.
Gornaias said Barbara Myer, wife of U.S. military attack collec Col. Frederick Myer, was forced to disobey and perform exercises before Polish security officers following the couple's arrest last week in Poland. The couple was also held incommunicado for six hours. The Myers were expelled as spies from Poland yesterday.
The U.S. expulsion of Col. Zygunt Szymanski, the Polish military attache in Washington, and his wife, was one of several steals announced by the State Department
against Poland. The department announced that talks on a science and technology agreement were postponed, and the return to most of the top U.S. diplomat was being delayed.
POLISH CHARGE d'affaires Zisdal Ludwizak, Poland's top diplomat in Washington, was summoned to the State Department late yesterday to be informed of the measures. As he left the department, Ludwizak said the measures would harm relations between the two countries, which had been warming.
The expulsion of the Polish diplomat and his wife was expected. It is customary for a government to take corresponding action when its diplomats are expelled. Myer and Szymanski hold corresponding positions in the two embassies.
"We have declared their attachment persona non gratra," a State Department spokesman
said. "We also have made clear in the strongest possible terms that any repetition of such an outrageous action would have an even more serious impact on our relations."
THE PENTAGON SAID that Lt. Gen. James Williams, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, informed Szymanski that he and his wife must leave the United States within 48 hours, the same order given to the Myers by Polish officials yesterday.
"General Williams' action was taken in response to Poland's serious violations of the Vienna convention of 1963," the Pentagon reported, "which were committed against the persons of the U.S. defense attach. Col. Frederick Myer, and his wife, Barbara, who were detained by Polish security forces on Feb. 21, 1985.
"Colonel and Mrs. Myer were forcibly taken from a U.S. government automobile, after which they were separated and held
incommunicado for nearly six hours. The manner in which Mrs. Myer was treated was particularly outrageous.
"MRS. MYER'S clothing was taken from her and only upon Mrs. Myer's protestation did males leave the room where she was detained. She was then forced to perform exercises before Polish security personnel."
"Nothing could excuse the government's disgraceful treatment of Mrs. Meyer. Nevertheless, the Polish government was given an opportunity to clarify this matter and to take compensatory and remedial steps against this kind of crude and illegal behavior."
Farm crisis not understood, Carlin says
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — Neither President Reagan nor his top advisers fully understand the financial despair facing American farmers, the group said yesterday after a meeting with Reagan.
Carlin, chairman of the National Governors' Association, joined other chiefs' executive at an hourlong meeting with Reagan and his top aides at the White House on the second day of the association's annual winter meeting.
Carlin, a democrat, and Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, a Republican and the association's vice-chairman, said the chief commissioner asked the slush spending and reduce budget deficits.
In Warsaw, Polish government spokesman, Jerzy Urban said the Myers had been caught taking photographs of military installations in the city, which are aimed at aggravating. U.S.-Polish relations.
"He said basically he will stay with his plan." Carlin said.
Though the governors told Reagan that defense and Social Security cost of living entitlements must be cut along with domestic spending, Reagan is determined not to cut those programs.
Carlin said Reagan also made it clear that he was among those from taxes, were not to be discussed.
But, Carlin said, "In 30 days, 60 days, the president will be dealing with Congress (on
Carlin said, "He acknowledged and was reiterating what the administration has said that the administration is not going to
Carlin also said he was not convinced Reagan understood the extent of problems facing farmers because of low commodity prices, declining land values, high interest rates and the strong dollar in overseas markets.
The governors also talked to Reagan about the plight of Americans and little new federal laws, he added.
"Their view is pretty direct," he said. "Just let happen what's going to happen. We'll always have farmers. We'll always have food. That bothers me, that there's a lot of talk that we're simply going through a transition."
Carlin said the end result of such complacency about the survival of the family farm would be a transition to corporate farming and higher food prices.
"The president is being advised by people who don't know much about agriculture," Carlin said of budget director David Stockman and Chief of Staff Donald Regan.
"Consumers won't like it," he said.
Carlin also was critical of key Reagan aides who are telling the president that states have ample budget surpluses to absorb extensive cuts in federal aid.
"The fact is we don't have surpluses," Carlin said. "It's a reality that he really should understand."
Carlin and Alexander said Reagan had given little indication that he would consider their suggestions on budget cuts and the national farm crisis.
Chairman endorses federal tax measure
By United Press International
"All it takes is a lot of education, a lot of pushing and a lot of negotiating - all against the clock," he said
The backing by Bostenkowski gives a boost to Reagan's stated desire for action this year in reforming and simplifying the federal tax code.
The Treasury Department has drafted a tax simplification plan that would eliminate most deductions and throw all taxpayers into lower brackets. The tax system is 33 percent / but Treasury Secretary
James Baker says Reagan would not accept the proposal as written.
Rostenkowski said Reagan must "bang the drum loudly" for tax reform. In addition, he said reform must not exempt any special tax on capital gains, even the most popular and the most rational.
WASHINGTON — Rep Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, yesterday endorsed tax simplification, saying Congress only gets "a chance for profound reform every decade or so."
Rostenkiowski said the tax reform plan must be revenue-neutral — that is, raise no more money than the present system, and reduce the evenness that puts the rich in higher brackets.
By United Press International
Goetz acted out of fear, official says
In a speech prepared for the Economic Club of New York, Rostenkowski, D-III," said if President Reagan leads the charge for tax reform, it ought to be done, and it could be done.
NEW YORK — Manhattan U.S. attorney Rudolph Giuliani yesterday ruled out a federal grand jury investigation of subway gunman Bernard Goetz, saying there was no basis for such an investigation under civil laws.
"we have come to the conclusion that his motive was self-defense, not harassment," said
He said the result of his preliminary investigation showed Goetz acted out of fear — not racial hatred — when he shot four black youths aboard a subway train after they asked him for money.
But it is up to the state to determine whether a fear was justified and his action reasoned by a rational basis.
"That is a matter to be determined solely under statute, or a preliminary judgment against someone."
Delegations of minority leaders three weeks ago asked Giuliani to review whether Goetz had violated formal civil rights in the attack. He rejected Goetz only on gun-possession charges
To conduct a civil rights investigation, Giuliani said, facts would have to show that Goetz — with or without racial motivation — shot the men to stop them from using a federally funded activity, such as the subway.
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