University Daily Kansan, February 6, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Soviets accused of shootings
NEW DELHI, India — Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan killed 45 civilians and wounded 17 others in a machine gun attack, in revenge for the slaying by rebels of an Afghan regime official, Western diplomats said yesterday.
Diplomatic sources said Moslem guerrillas shot to death "an important regime target in the Islamic world" marketplace of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, 300 miles southwest of Kabul.
Group says forced labor exists
GENEVA, Switzerland — Workers' freedoms and working conditions have deteriorated in most parts of the world. Labor Organization reported yesterday.
The group, which is affiliated with the United Nations, said forced labor still existed in many countries, especially as a means of political coercion or punishment.
Egypt, Guatemala, El Salvador, Czechoslovakia, Romania and the Soviet still punish dissenters with forced labor, it said.
Filipinos killed in attacks
MANILA, Philippines — At least 34 people have been killed in a series of attacks by the communist New Peoples militant and news reports said yesterday.
The New Peoples Army, estimated to have 10,000 members, is the armed wing of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines. It is seeking to overthrow President Ferdinand Marcos' 20-year-old government.
Fourteen of the 34 dead were executed in Turkuran, Zambanga del Sur, about 500 miles south of Manila, after they refused to pay taxes to the communists, a Manila newspaper said.
Show would expose weapons
RALEIGH, N.C. — A conservative political group appealed yesterday for more than $150,000 to make a TV show accusing the Soviet Union of mixing flu virus and snake genes into a “horrifying new secret weapon.”
"Since 1976, the Soviet Union has used 'genetic engineering' to create silent, invisible killers!" according to a fundraising letter circulated by The National Congressional Club's Coalition for Free Speech. "The national organization of Sen. Jesse Helps, R-N.C."
The show would feature Helms, the letter said.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Meese nomination approved by Senate panel
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee yesterday approved the nomination of Edwin Meese as attorney general by a 2-1 margin. Senate committees also unanimously approved the nominations of Donald Hodel as secretary of the interior and John Herrington as energy secretary.
Meese, a top White House aide and Reagan confidant, was nominated a year ago to be attorney general. He was approved by the committee after three days of renewed hearings.
THE COMMITTEE'S 10 Republicans voted for Meese's approval and were joined by two conservative Democrats Democrates Howard Hewlett Helfin of Alabama — to give Meese a 12-majority.
The committee approved the nomination of Meese, 53, after he was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by a special prosecutor who investigated the connection between favorable financial deals given to Meese by persons who later received top government
Cabinet nomination since 1969, plans to act on the Meese nomination after it returns from the President's Day recess that begins Feb. 18. Meese is expected to win confirmation.
He will succeed Attorney General William French Smith, who has wanted to return to private life for the past year but agreed to remain until Meese's confirmation.
The Senate, which has not rejected a
In contrast to Meese's turbulent confirm-
ing went through their hearing unscathed.
THE SENATE ENERGY and Natural Resources Committee, which handled both nominations, voted 20-0 in favor of Hodel and Herrington, without prior discussion.
Reagan nominated Hodel, 49, currently the energy secretary, for a more visible post at the Department of the Interior. Reagan picked Herrington, 45, a former assistant secretary and now the personnel chief at the White House, to head the Department of Energy.
Even Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, a Democrat who criticized Hodel's close links to former interior Secretary James Watt has said the department is at that department, voted for the nominee.
succeed William Clark, a longtime Reagan aide who is returning to his California ranch. Herrington would succeed Hodel.
President Reagan's choice for education secretary, William Bennett, won committee approval last week. Senate confirmation is scheduled for today.
Hodel, a native of Portland, Ore., would
Senate Republican leader Robert Dole said he hoped the Senate could also act on the RI law.
WESTERDAY REAGAN also added a strong conservative voice to his new circle of advisers, by naming ex-Nixon aide Patrick Hillman as head of director of White House communications.
Buchanan, a columnist and television commentator, will see White House meetings in new positions.
The appointment was announced by Donald Regan, the new White House chief of staff. Regan assumed the post two days after he was appointed to the treasury, which he had held for four years.
"I was looking for a good communicator, and he fit the bill," Regan said, explaining why he had to take the job during much of Reagan's term by the less-ideological David Geren.
"You may not like what he's said, but you know what he's saying." Ragan quipped.
COMBATIVE AND fiercely ideological, Buchanan wrote speeches for President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. He has been a frequent critic of what he calls a media elite that carries an Eastern liberal bias.
In a column last year, Buchanan wrote: "An ideological bulwark of the Democratic Party, polemic and publicity arm of American liberalism, the big media are the strategic reserve of the Mondale campaign."
But Regan said he did not believe Buchanan considered the press or the media an enemy.
Regan assured reporters they would not deal directly with Buchanan on a regular basis. He said White House spokesman Larry Speakes would continue to oversee day-to-day media matters, while Buchanan tended to long-range strategy.
Buchanan's appointment ensures the White House will have at least one high-profile conservative voice after Meese is confirmed by the Senate as attorney general.
U.S. cancels joint exercise more sanctions threatened
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The administration, signaling allies that anti-nuclear policies will not be "cost-free," yesterday canceled a deal with the United States and is partial of access to U.S. warship.
Administration spokesmen hinted at further retaliations against New Zealand in the wake of cancellation of the Sea Eagle 1435 aircraft and Australia scheduled for next month.
The cancellation, announced by the White House and State Department, appeared to jeopardize the 34-year-old ANZUS treaty signed by Australia, New Zealand and the United States as a mutual defense pact in the South Pacific.
The dispute was prompted by New Zealand's rejection Monday of a second U.S. request to permit the destroyer USS Buchanan to dock at one of its ports at the conclusion of the exercises.
PRIME MINISTER David Lange, who swept into power in July on an anti-nuclear platform, has declared his Labor government will not allow any nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed vessels into New Zealand ports
powered, the New Zealand government wants assurances that the ship is not carrying nuclear weapons. The U.S.政府refuses to disclose such information.
"We deeply regret the decision to deny port access to a U.S. Navy ship contributing to the common defense of the ANZUS alliance," White House spokesman Larry Spears said. This is a matter of grave concern that goes to the core of our mutual obligations as allies."
Although the destroyer is not nuclear-
Speaks said that along with Australia, the United States was pulling out of the Sea Eagle exercises. The administration is also "considering the implications for our overall cooperation with New Zealand under ANZUS," he said.
STATE DEPARTMENT spokesman Bernard Kalb said the action was intended to signal to other Western nations, which he declined to identify, the perils of anti-nuclear policies.
"Some Western countries have anti-nuclear and other movements which seek to diminish defense cooperation among the allied states," he said. "We would hope that our response to New Zealand would signal that the course these movements advocate would not be cost-free in terms of the security relationships with the United States."
Exiled opposition leader voices fears about return
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Korean opposition leader Kim Dae Jung, on the eve of his departure for home, said yesterday he feared assassination by the government and had strong indications he would be put under house arrest.
But Kim, in a news conference marking the end of two years of exile in the United States, commended Seoul's pledge not to arrest him when he returned Thursday.
Kim said he had requested a meeting with President Reagan but was told "he didn't have the time to meet with me." Kim said he was "not so upset" and understood Reagan's position "in the present situation."
STATE DEPARTMENT officials reportedly tried to persuade Kim to delay his return until May, after Korean President Chun Doo Hwan's April visit to Washington. But Kim commended the department for making a "very sincere and effective" effort "to ensure my safe return to Korea."
Kim said he had found no grounds to believe reports, which he blamed on the South Korean government, that Communist North Korean agents might kill him. Instead, he said, he fears an assassination similar to that of Philippine opposition leader Benigo Aqino, who was gunned down in 1838 as he returned home from self-imposed exile in the United States.
"I'm afraid there will be another Aquino case committed by the government disguising 'Communist assassination,'" said Kim.
Kim said Seoul showed "the beginning of a reasonable attitude" by pledging Monday, under pressure from Washington, not to arrest hien when he returned.
"I note, however, that there is no mention in the government statement as to whether I can avoid house arrest for killing someone who would despire me of freedom," he said.
Kim said he had been banned from participating in politics and said he did not intend to take part in the parliamentary session being held four days after his arrival.
LATE YESTERDAY, Lee Shin Bom, 35, a Korean member of the delegation accompanying Kim, said he had been denied a visa by the Japanese government that would allow him to stop there on the way to Seoul.
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