University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Personal income rises 0.5%
WASHINGTON — The nation's personal income rose a modest 0.5 percent in January, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. The rise was attributed to cost-of-living increases for federal workers and Social Security recipients.
The economic slowdown's effect on private wages and salaries would have kept the month's income improvement to a scarcely discernible 0.1 percent had the government's various inflation adjustments been disregarded.
Total spending, the other figure in the latest report watched most closely by economists, was up 0.6 percent.
NEW YORK — John Zaccaro, husband of last fall's Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro, was ordered yesterday to perform 150 hours of community service for his role in an illegal scheme to buy five apartment houses.
Zaccaro ordered to do service
scientist to our office.
Zaccaro's chief attorney said his client had been prosecuted because of who he was, not what he did.
Zacarole, 51. pleaded guilty Jan. 7 to a misdemeanor fraud charge involving inflating his own assets and the value of his personal property negotiating a real estate deal for a client.
U.S. denies parole to Moon
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Parole Commission denied parole to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon yesterday, saying it saw no reason to justify reducing Moon's 13-month sentence for tax invasion.
A Justice Department spokesman said the commission set a projected release date for Moon of Aug. 20, which meant Moond would spend 13 months and one day al
Moon, a native of South Korea and the spiritual leader of the Unification Church, began serving his sentence July 20, 1984. He was convicted of failing to pay taxes on interest income of church funds held in his name.
Irate students raid bookstore
DAVIS, Calif. — Students were so worked up by a speech against sexism that they raided the University of California bookstore and ripped up Playboy and Penthouse magazines, campus officials said.
The incident at the Corral bookstore followed a speech Tuesday by former cover girl Ann Simonton, 32, who criticized models as "glamorized prostitutes." She also showed examples from men's magazines depicting violence against women.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Farm filibuster delays vote on Meese
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Farm Belt senators demanding a congressional bailout for credit-strapped farmers used a filibuster yesterday to delay Edwin Meese's embattled nomination for attorney general. President Reagan called the action ridiculous.
Sen. David Boren, D-Okla., took over the Senate floor and began reading the 385-page special prosecutor's report that cleared Meese of any criminal wrongdoing relating to his personal finances.
Senate's borne action came just hours after Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas accused the Farm Belt senators of attempting to nominate the nomination baggage for their own gain.
Dole. attempting to work out a deal with
the senators not to link Meese's nomination to the worst farm crisis since the Great Depression, appeared to be losing patience late in the day.
"WE HAVEN't REACHED any compromise, and I'm not certain whether we will." Dole said. "We're in good faith. I think my word is good around here. If they don't want to accept it, they'll just get the chance to talk a few days.
"I'm getting to the point where we want to solve the farmer's problems, at least those we can. We can't solve them all. But trying to create a political straw man on the Senate floor. I'm not certain we can resolve anything.
"It's a problem, but one we're not going to solve by yelling at each other on the Senate
In an impromptu talk with reporters after
the tumbler began, Reagan was asked what he thought of the development.
"You know what I think of it. I think it's ridiculous." he said.
"I think Ed Meese would like to go to work," Dole told reporters before meeting with Agriculture Secretary John Block and 11 GOP farm state legislators to try to hammer out a strategy.
BLOCK SAID THE government had already gone the extra mile, and he ruled out more federal help to farmers. By midafternoon, Farm Belt Republicans said they had achieved a "major breakthrough" with new promises from Block, though they wanted more concessions before dropping the filibuster against Meese...
Sen. Mark Andrews, R-N.D., and Sen.
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Block had
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promised to provide more loans to farmers through the Farmers Home Administration.
A House subcommittee yesterday approved $1 billion in extra farm debt aid and set full committee action for today, and House Democratic leaders promise to provide another $1 billion of mother-fear debt relief bill would begin in a House Agriculture subcommittee today.
Dole threatened to keep the Senate in session through Saturday if necessary to bring the Meese nomination to a vote.
SEN. JAMES EXON, D-Neb., pressing Block for a promise of more aid, said, "It looks to me the Meese nomination is in even greater than we thought it was yesterday."
he also warned that the filibuster would tie up a multibillion-dollar highway fund bill providing 150,000 jobs.
Pilot lauded for saving Chinese jet after dive
Bv United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — A China Airlines jumbo jet with 268 people on board was 36 seconds away from crashing into the ocean when the pilot wrenched the airliner out of a mysterious 6-mile dive, officials said yesterday.
"We all just locked arms and held on to each other," said Seksan Caniyo, Los Angeles, one of the 243 shaken passengers on the 747 flight from Taiwan.
"We just said goodbye. Everyone was just praying. Everybody without a seat belt was just hitting up and down on the ceiling," he said.
The unidentified pilot was lauded as a hero for being able to maneuver the airliner out of its plunge and fly the damaged craft to a safe landing at San Francisco International Airport 500 miles away. More than 50 people were hurt from being tossed around and many suffered severe nausea.
WHILE CRUSISING AT an elevation of 41,000-feet during a flight from Taipei to Los
Angeles on Tuesday, China Airlines Flight 6 developed engine trouble when a powerful blast of turbulence slammed into the jet.
according to passengers and crew members. Federal officials were investigating the possibility that all four engines failed momentarily. The flight recorder was expected to help find answers to that question.
my chest. I couldn't breathe. The whole thing was really terrible."
Steve Wies, a Los Angeles garment manufacturer, said, "I felt a real pressure on
The pilot lowered the plane's landing gear to slow the descent. Two bay doors that were torn from the plane by the force of the drop were repaired, and the aircraft had huge sections of the horizontal stabilizers.
THE 325-TON PLANE vibrated severely during the sudden plummet and a small flap on the right wing used for turning was twisted. The plane leveled at 9,000 feet, just 36 seconds before it would have smashed into the water, officials said.
Colombian diplomat says mob planned to kill him
By United Press International
BOGOTA, Colombia — U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs confirmed in a broadcast report yesterday that presumed drug traffickers tried to bribe embassy guards to assassinate him.
Tambs, 57, told Bogota television station TV-HOY in an interview that there was proof someone had tried to bribe the security agents at the U.S. Embassy in the Colombian capital.
Tambs said presumed drug traffickers were planning to kill him for defending an extradition treaty that has sent four Colombians to the United States for trial on charges related to drug trafficking.
The ambassador, who reportedly is about to be reassigned to Costa Rica, referred to
two car-bomb attacks — one near his Bogota residence last May and a Nov. 26 blast that killed a Colombia woman behind the U.S. Embassy.
In Washington earlier this week, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed reports that Colombian drug traffickers had offered $300,000 for the kidnapping of DEA chief Francis Mullen
In November, a group of U.S. diplomats and their families were evacuated from the country. The diplomats had been threatened when Betancur began granting extradition requests.
On Jan. 5, the first Colombian drug-trafficking suspects were extradited to the United States. Soon after that, the embassy evacuated all school-age children of embassy personnel.
U.S. cancels maneuvers to punish New Zealand
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — In further retaliation for New Zealand's refusal to admit a U.S. warship to their port, the administration has canceled more military exercises with its Pacific ally, the State Department said yesterday.
At the same time, Secretary of State George Shultz commended the Australian cabinet for reaffirming the embattled ANZUS alliance with the United States and New Zealand and praised Prime Minister Bob Hawke's statement that visits by U.S. ships were fundamental to that alliance.
"We welcome this reaffirmation of Australia's commitment to its ties with the United States," Shultz said in a written statement.
New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, whose anti-nuclear policies have caused a serious rift with Washington, arrives in California on Monday for a brief visit on his way to Great Britain. He said he would defend his government's nuclear ban while affirming its commitment to ANZUS.
New Zealand's refusal to grant port access to a U.S. destroyer last month, because the United States refused to say whether it carried nuclear weapons, triggered a rupture of the 34-year-old ANZUS alliance. New Zealand will not allow any nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed warship to dock at its ports.
The Reagan administration angrily canceled three-way maneuvers in the South Pacific that had been scheduled for March.
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