University Daily Kansan, February 25, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
U.S. marshals arrest fugitive
MIAMI — U.S. marshals have arrested the only woman on their "15 most wanted list" at a motel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Friday, where nearly a month, officials said yesterday.
Judith Haas McNeilis, 41, was arrested without resistance Saturday evening at the Ontario Coroner's Court.
McNelis has been a fugitive since July, when she escaped from the Valdaosta, Ga., city jail. She had been awaiting trial there for drug violations. McNelis also had been sentenced to a-degree murder in the drug-related killing of Frank Maars in Palm Beach, Fla.
Police say that before her arrest in Macon, Ga., McNelis was the leader of a drug organization that took in $250 million a year.
250 killed in raids, rebels say
BANGKOK, Thailand — Khmer Rouge guerrillas, forced to flee into the interior of Cambodia because of a fierce Vietnamese offensive, killed nearly 250 Vietnam troops in command raids over an 11-day span, rebel radio said yesterday.
Thai military sources at the Thai Cambodian border said the area was quiet yesterday and that the Vietnamese were in control of a wide area south of Anaryapathet, which formerly was held by the Khmer Rouge — the strongest of three groups in a coalition trying to oust the Vietnamese from Cambodia.
Walesa renews call to strike
WARSAW, Poland — Following a decision by the Communist Party-controlled unions to oppose upcoming food price increases, Lech Walesa, founder of arguedrops.com yesterday again urged Poles to comply with a 15-minute general strike on Feb. 28.
Earlier this month, leaders of the underground Solidarity movement asked Poles to stop working for 15 minutes to protest the food price increases of 12 to 13 percent planned for next month.
Second Indian 'wolf boy' dies
NEW DELHI — A teen-ager who died last week at a missionary home for the destitute was reported Sunday to be the youngest person discovered in India in the past 20 years.
A spokeswoman at the home said India's main newspapers erroneously reported that the teenager was Ramu, the original "wolf boy" found in 1954.
The Press Trust of India said Bhaskar, the second "wolf boy," was about 8 years old when he was found in 1976.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Legislators make plea for federal farm relief
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Kansas Gov. John Carlin, leader of the nation's governors, said yesterday that President Reagan did not realize the depth of the farm credit crisis, so governors would make it clear to him this week that "the crisis is real."
Carlin said Farm Belt governors had listened to constitutions affected by economic distress in rural America and had seen an increase in failures of small town businesses. He said the governor's federal aid one out of three farmers perhaps more — could be forced off the land.
teagan, in his weekend radio address, expressed sympathy for debt-ridgers farmers, but said, "Taxpayers must not be asked to bail out every farmer hopelessly in debt."
Two-thirds of American farmers have no debt problems, Reagan said, and only a minority of the remainder are severely in debt.
AGRICULTURE SECRETARY John R. Block, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," said yesterday that no one in
washington was "more sensitive and has greater love for rural America than President Ronald Reagan."
But Carlin, chairman of the National Governors' Association, said Reagan could not be as aware as the governors of the magnitude of the crisis.
Montana Gov. Ted Schwinden, a Democrat, said help for farmers so far was just a Band Aid. However, he said, farmers and farmers need a tourniquet to stop the bleeding."
Last September, as Election Day approached, Reagan announced $650 million in federal loan guarantees for farm debts, but only $25 million was used through January.
UNDER POLITICAL pressure, the plan has been modified twice this month to help more farmers — the second change forced by Senate Democrats who filibustered the confirmation of Edwin Meese III as attorney general. Unsatisfied with those adjustments, conservatives held out their promise to debate more debt relief on the Senate floor.
nicate the depth of the problem and the absolute necessity for significant action — unless this country by policy simply wants to consider it a positive to wipe out a third or more of the American farmers with all the consequences for rural America."
When governors meet Reagan today at the White House, Carlin said, they will "commu-
Carlin said he was "antys" because in Kansas the "farm situation is about to go into a depression." He said Farm Belt governors had told him that the crisis is real, both short and long term.
STATE LEGISLATORS also are meeting in Washington, and special delegations from at least 15 farm states will join governors in a debate on the need to relief for farmers than Reagan has approved.
All 108 members of the South Dakota Legislature, in which Republicans control both the House and Senate, are in Washington; they were denied a meeting with Reagan.
South Dakota Gov. William J. Janklow, a Republican, also on "Meet the Press," said that White House aides "said the president would be meeting with her so we'll be meeting with the vice president."
Before leaving for Washington, he de
scribed the meeting with Vice President George Bush as a "dog and pony show."
At a special meeting on agriculture at the governors' conference, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican, said there would be a farm protest rally in Ames, Iowa, Wednesday "that's going to surpass anything that we've seen yet."
Michael Boehjeh, an economist at Iowa State University, arguing for restructuring of farm debt, told the governors that the most heavily indebted farmers would be unable to pay $2.2 billion in interest or make $6.2 billion in principal payments this year.
"We think that's a significant number that should not be ignored," he said.
Boehji said the decline in the farm economy already had caused a direct and indirect loss of 260,000 jobs and $5.1 billion in income off the farm.
At a special farm meeting of the state legislators, State Rep. Sam Morris, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said that the problem was not so bad in his state but that "it doesn't take much imagination to see it coming."
Khadafy volunteers arms for creation of black army
By United Press International
CHICAGO - Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadiyaf offered yesterday to arm a black army in the United States to create a separate state and destroy white America
Speaking in broken English through a live satellite feed to the 1985 Nation of Islam International Savior's Day Convention, Khadifa urged the 400,000 black soldiers in the U.S. Army to leave the military and create a separate force.
"You have the force. You have the soldiers," Khadifa told the thousands of people at the convention. "Call them now to leave immediately. This number is enough to keep them armed to the future enemy. We are ready to give you arms because your cause is just."
KHADAFY WAS introduced by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whose controversial remarks prompted the Rev. Jesse Jackson to disassociate himself from Farrakhan during Jackson's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.
Khadya said he would be fighting beside those blacks who took up his call.
Jewish leaders denounced Farrakhan for praising Adolf Hitler as a "very great man" and later-calling Judaism a "gutter religion."
"We are with you," he said. "Don't worry. You have to trust us. We will fight together shoulder by shoulder. The final victory will be soon."
Khadifa said that blacks must destroy white America and form a separate state.
"THIS COUNTRY must be destroyed," he said. "They refuse to accept you as American citizens. This means you are unable to create a separate and independent state."
He said whites had seated their fate by failing to accept blacks.
"The whites force you to do this by refusing you in political and social life," he said. "It would be an act of mercy to end the white struggle for equality." He added that you and us and all of humanity, he said.
He called on American Indians and whites sympathetic to minorities to join blacks.
Farrakhan called for the formation of a group called People Organized Working for Economic Rebirth, or POWER, to work toward black independence by establishing a black-run corporation to supply goods and services to their race.
He said blacks spent $196 billion in 1984 in the United States and should take that buying power and use it to revitalize their own communities.
Dole tells farm meeting that money is available
By United Press International
Dole, speaking to the State of the American Farm Conference, said the administration would pump as much money into its present farm-debt assistance program as it took to help all eligible farmers who applied.
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Robert Dole told farm state legislators yesterday not to expect much more from Washington to solve the farm-debt problem and called for suggestions that "don't cost any money."
"We have not used what we have now ($650 million)," he said. "All these Democrats say the sky is falling down so we haven't even used what we have."
Dole, who comes from the wheat country of western Kansas, repeatedly told his audience, "There's no cap, there's no lid.
"IT'S GOING TO BE adequate. If it's going to be $1 billion, it's going to be $1 billion. If it's going to be $2 billion, it's going to be $2 billion. There's no limit."
But while promising to make enough money available to help eligible farmers straighten out their credit problems, Dole
said not all farmers could be saved by Washington.
"We're concerned about the farmer. But I also believe we have to be very candid. We can't help every farmer in every state," he said.
Despite a promise to filibuster Senate Democrats that more short-term financial aid to farmers will be considered, Dole told the farm state legislators to learn to deal with the current farm debt program because it was unlikely they would get more.
"If you don't like what we have, I'm not certain you're going to get much more," he said. "I kind of believe we've reached a point where we're going to happen in the immediate future."
He touted the president's farm debt program as being adequate and said farm state legislators who came to Washington seeking more than what Reagan had proposed were wasting their time.
Though not directly endorsing Reagan's proposed farm program cuts and intent to build a market-oriented agriculture economy, Dole said that at least the president had fuelled a long overdue debate on what direction agriculture should take.
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