University Daily Kansan, February 7, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Senate OKs 3 more for cabinet
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed three members of President Reagan's second-term cabinet yesterday — overwhelmingly approving William Bennett at education, Donald Hodel at interior and John Herrington at energy.
Bennett, Hodel and Herrington joined James Baker, the new treasury secretary, in having won Senate confirmation. Attorney general-designate Edwin Meine still must be approved before Reagan's new Cabinet is fully in place.
A Senate committee voted unanimously to ask the full Senate to confirm Reagan's nomination of Lee Thomas, acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, to head the agency on a permanent basis.
Billions offered for oil stock
NEW YORK — New York financier Carl Icahn has made his first multi-billion-dollar bid to acquire 100 percent of the Phillips Petroleum Co. for $8.90 billion.
Icahn, 48, one of the richest men in the world, Monday night told Phillips that unless it sweetened its buy-back offer to shareholders to $55 a share, he would launch a hostile bid to buy the nation's 10th largest oil company at the same price.
Icahn, who already owns 7.5 million shares of Phillips stock, gave the Bartlesville, Okla., firm until the end of business yesterday to respond to his offer.
Monopoly celebrates 50 years
SALEM, Mass. — Monopoly, the game of capitalism once turned down by Parker Brothers as too complicated, celebrated billionaire; today with its 83 million sets sold, worldwide.
The anniversary edition of the game was rolled down the Parker Brothers' plant in Salem under the eyes of several members of the 1935 plant team that made the first rookie in the National Parks. The kicker who first brought the game to the company; and the local high school band.
Man shoots leg while asleep
TWIN FALLS, Idaho — A sleepwalking college student apparently shot himself in the leg and ankle with a rifle but didn't realize it until he woke up, police said.
Robert Izagirre, a student at the College of Southern Idaho, told police that he was sleepwalking Tuesday and woke up in his bed holding the rifle. He then realized.
The 22-caliber bullet entered Izagurre's lower right leg and passed through his left ankle, said Tim Qualls, public safety director.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Israel denies Lebanese report of car bombing
By United Press International
State-owned Beirut radio reported that an unidentified driver detonated a car packed with explosives in a suicide attack on Israeli troops, killing or wounding more than 100 Israeli soldiers. Israel immediately denied the report.
BEIRUT — Lebanese radio stations reported a suicide bomb attack yesterday against Israeli troops with as many as 100 casualties near the southern port of Beirut.
The Beirut radio report, which also was carried by several other radio stations in Lebanon, said the attack was in apparent retaliation for the killing of students Tuesday in a Moslem orphanage in Tyre.
In Tel Avil, Israeli army spokesman Zev Chafets issued an "official denial," saying that the attack "never happened" and that the report was "a lie."
U. N. PEACEKEEPING forces in Naqoura had no immediate comment on the reported suicide car-bomb attack.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Edward Dijerejian said, "We have seen various conflicting reports. We have no specific comment on them except to note that we have expressed on many occasions our concern about continuing violence and the need to protect innocent civilian lives throughout Lebanon."
In Beirut, Shiite Moslem leader Nabih Berri, the Cabinet minister with overall responsibility for the Israeli-occupied south.
said 48 suicide bombers were "on their way" to attack Israeli forces in the south, where Israeli troops reportedly stormed a village and arrested seven people.
Speaking at a rally to mark the first anniversary of a Muslim revolt against Lebanon's Christian-dominated government, Berri proposed that his ministry aid Lebanese guerrillas in the south, both politically and militarily.
soldiers Tuesday in the Burg Shemih refugee camp east of Tyre, Israel military sources said a booby-trapped car may have been involved.
"INSIDE EVERYONE OF us there is Amel . . . Amel is the name of one of the brothers who yesterday staged a suicide attack," said Berri, leader of the powerful Shite militia. Amal. "Forty-eight more are on their way."
Security sources said Berri apparently was referring to a blast that murdered 10 Israeli
The sources said the Burg Shemali bombing appeared to be the source of Beirut radio's report that a suicide bomber killed or injured five people outskirts of Tyre, 46 miles south of Beirut.
Officials at Beirut radio and the state-run National News Agency later attributed the confusion over the exact timing of the attack telephone communications" with the south.
Israel announced last month that its troops, which invaded Lebanon in June 1982 to counter an anguished guerrilla, would withdraw in three weeks and the new pullback being completed by Feb. 18.
Military chief contradicts Westmoreland's testimony
By United Press International
NEW YORK — The chief of military intelligence in Vietnam yesterday contradicted Gen. William Westmoreland's testimony in his $120 million libel suit against CBS. He said the general had injected politics into intelligence reporting.
Gen. Joseph McChristian said he told Westmoreland in May 1967, seven months before the disastrous Tet offensive, to revise the count of irregular Viet Cong attacks, create a battle, but Westmoreland had said to so would create a "political bombshell."
Westmoreland testified earlier in the
week-old trial of a political
businessman in his lexicon.
McChristian was asked by CBS attorney David Boies, "At any time before have superior officers discussed political implications?"
"Never," McChristian replied.
"DO YOU BELIEVE it was improper?"
Robies asked
"I think for a military man to withhold information it would be improper." *Must*.
Westmoreland claims that CBS liberated him in a documentary that said the general purposely reduced the number of irregulars in the official enemy troop count so he could convince President Johnson to commit more U.S. troops to the war.
McChristian said his training had taught him that the Army was to remain nonpartisan.
upgraded and updated estimate of irregular enemy troops, the Viet Cong's Self Defense and Secret Self Defense forces, to commander of allied forces in Vietnam.
MCCHRISTIAN, WHO served as an intelligence officer in World War II under Gen. George Patton, said the cable was to the commander in chief Pacific and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be signed by Westmoreland.
He testified that in May 1967, he took an
"I took that cable into Gen. Westwater and briefed him on it," McChristian said.
"Did he read it?" asked Boies
"What did he say?"
Korean ends self-exile, goes home
"I if I send that cable to Washington that will create a political bombshell," McChristian quoted Westmoreland as saying.
"Are you absolutely positive he said 'political bombshell'"? Bpask asked.
"I MUST AS sure as I'm seeing people sitting in front of me," McChristian said as he looked at the jury. "Those words burned in mv mind."
He said Westmoreland didn't ask him any questions as to the methodology or technique used in gathering the "sub-team" of his higher" estimate of the enemy's strength.
"Did he ask for a briefing?" Boies asked.
"No, he did not," McChristian said. Westmorelandtested that he requested a briefing, was given it about a week later, then shelved the cable.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — South Korean opposition leader Kim Dae Jung, saying he must return even though his life would be in "permanent danger" under the current government, left for home yesterday after two years of self-exile in the United States.
More than 100 supporters, waving signs and shouting "Man sei!" or "Long live!" gave Kimo a noise send-off at Washington's National Airport. Kim has a one-day stop in Los Angeles before tomorrow, four days before the first parliamentary elections in South Korea since 1881.
His 38-member delegation included 24 Americans who went along to ensure his safety. The relied on Reps. Edward Feighan, D-Dhoio, and Tom Foglietta, D-Pa.; and the former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Robert E. White.
Feighan said Kim's journey was similar to the return of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino in August 1983 to Manila, where he was shot to death at the airport.
"WE ARE CERTAINLY all trying to
be the one who is no harm that comes to
Mr. Kim."
Kim, 59, who was nearly elected South Korea's president in 1971, was imprisoned for sedition in 1980 but was released two years later to seek medical treatment in the United States. He still faces 17 years of his 20-year term.
The popular opposition leader said he was returning to promote enthusiasm among his supporters for the elections and for a return to democracy. He also said he wanted to begin a dialogue with the government of President Chun Doo Hwan.
Kim said that although he believed he would arrive safely, his long-term prospects were bleak.
Aide predicts Stockman will stay
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Budget director David Stockman's long rumored departure from government is not imminent despite the blistering attack he directed at portions of President Reagan's Pentagon budget and a bill that would retire military officers an aide said today.
Edwin Dale, spokesman for Stockman,
denied the budget director was quitting.
"Those rumors have been around for months," said Dale.
an appearance before the Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday.
STOCKMAN AGREED WITH Reagan's proposal to slash farm programs. But he broke with his boss when he went after military retirement.
Stockman was giving his "own personal outfit" said he, expressing his outrage at the attack.
"It's a scandal. It's an outrage." Stockman said. "The institutional forces of the military are more concerned about protecting their interests than protecting the security of the American people."
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Leroy J. Manor, executive vice president of the Retired Officers Association, which has 340,000 members worldwide, sent Reagan a message Tuesday night calling for Stockman's resignation.