University Daily Kansan, February 4, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Baker takes oath for new post
WASHINGTON — James A. Baker III, who has guided President Reagan's political fortunes for four years, was sworn in as treasury secretary yesterday in a private ceremony.
The White House announced only that Baker, Reagan's chief of staff for the last four years, had completed a job swap with Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan. Baker's oath will be repeated Friday in the Oval Office.
Regan, who has been secretary of the treasury since Jan. 22, 1981, takes over today as White House chief of staff.
Completion of the Baker-Regan job swap is only the first of several significant personnel shifts and policy moves that will set the stage for Reagan's second term and give a new look to his administration.
Salvadoran vaccinations begin
Children under the age of six will be vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles and polio. These diseases are responsible for 60 percent of children's deaths in El Salvador, said Roman Alvarez, regional director of the Pan American Health Organization.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Fighting stopped in El Salvador for a day yesterday as health officials began a drive through five states against five deadly diseases, authorities said.
Pope condemns rebels in Peru
AYACUCHO, Peru — Pope John Paul II traveled to the heartland of Peru's guerrilla war yesterday and delivered a stinging condemnation of the group trying to topple the government, warning that "evil is never the road to good."
"The cruel logic of violence leads nowhere," the heavily protected pontiff told 40,000 people at the Avacucho airport.
The pope's statements represented his strongest attack yet against the violence that has led to the deaths of nearly 5,000 people in four years.
The Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group is trying to oust the conservative, civilian government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry.
Pantv nilferers anger feminists
NEW DELHI, India — Police and paramilitary troops yesterday guarded St. Stephen's College amid fears of retaliation by feminists angered at male students who staged a paniy raid Wednesday night and hung the underwear from a crucifix on the school tower.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Budget outline boosts military outlays
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan will propose a $97.3 billion budget that nearly freezes overall federal spending but cuts many social programs and allows a hefty hike for the Pentagon, budget documents showed yesterday.
1 the fiscal 1986 budget proposal, which was to go to Congress today, would cut the federal deficit, more than $220 billion this fiscal year, by 1983 and by 1988, the end of Reagan's second term.
In a statement accompanying the documents, the president acknowledged that the
figure was far from his goal of a balanced budget, but was a step in the right direction
The 1986 figure is $44 billion more than Reagan's previously stated goal of cutting the deficit to $100 billion by the end of his presidency.
REAGAN'S BUDGET priorities were evident in the document that calls for a 9.9 percent increase, after inflation, in military spending and the next fiscal year from the current $294.6 billion.
His budget cuts eliminate a wide range of government programs — from reductions in Medicare and farm programs, to ending the $5-per-person subsidy for Amtrak, the $5-per-passenger subsidy for Amtrak.
Because of the rising cost of paying interest on the national debt, the budget calls for a 1.5 percent increase in federal spending, up from this year's $859 billion budget. However, actual spending on federal programs remains the same.
Senate Republican leader Robert Dole said yesterday that Congress was likely to halve Reagan's proposed increase in military spending, cutting the increase to 3 percent from 5.9 percent. Such a cut would be about $10 billion less than Reagan's proposal.
loans although "maybe not as much as the president wants."
BUT DOLE ALSO predicted that the Senate would agree to Reagan's proposed cuts in farm programs, housing, and student
But Sen Lawton Chiles, ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, said that it would be hard to freeze spending for other states because defense was allowed even a 3 percent increase.
REP. WILLIAM GRAY, D-Pa., chairman of the House Budget Committee, appearing yesterday on CBS's "Face the Nation" said the budget outline was a "failure" because it neither froze spending nor balanced the budget.
Twenty-nine cents of every federal dollar goes into national defense.
Castro sees thaw in U.S. relations
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Cuban President Fidel Castro said in an interview published yesterday that he saw constructive and positive signs for improved relations between his country and the United States.
In an interview in Havana with three editors from The Washington Post, Castro said, "we are not impatient, nor . . . we are anxious" for an improvement in relations.
But he reiterated his willingness to "exchange views with the United States on any topic" and to cooperate in achieving an international settlement of armed conflicts in Central America or to pull Cuban troops out of Angola.
Castro said a December agreement on U.S.-Cuban immigration could signal a
larger discourse that may ease difficult relations between the two countries.
HE TOLD THE newspaper that initial discussions could center on coast guard activities, fishing rights, radio signal interference and air hijacking and that negotiations could constitute "an expression of good will on both sides."
The December agreement grew out of the first substantial diplomatic contact between Cuba and the Reagan administration. It provided for the immigration of up to 20,000 Cubans to the United States each year and the return to Cuba of nearly 2,000 immigrants found undesirable or ineligible for U.S. residency.
The United States has emphasized the limited nature of the immigration accord and its belief that relations will not improve until
The paper said Castro believed the administration was showing "a possible tendency to be more realistic during this second term."
Cuba's close ties with the Soviet Union are altered, the Post said.
THE CUBAN LEADER said there were "some positive signs internationally," including imminent U.S.-Soviet arms control and sighs "vis-a viz Cuba itself."
Castro also told the newspaper that the Reagan administration was "one of the most hostile" ever toward Cuba in terms of economic sanctions and military pressure
But at the same time, he said the administration was the first since he took power in 1959 to stop anti-Castro exile attacks launched from the United States.
Castro said the United States needed to change some of its views about Cuba.
Soviets blast Reagan military proposals
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union warned yesterday that the Reagan administration's attempt to increase the U.S. military budget was creating an unfavorable atmosphere for the Geveva arms talks that open in five weeks.
In a series of articles and broadcasts, the official Soviet media attacked the proposed U.S. defense budget, especially President Hussein's "Star Wars" shield against Soviet missiles.
"A number of figures of the Washington administration have not missed a chance to make public statements, claiming that if the U.S.A. does not build up its nuclear muscle, the Soviets will have no incentive for talks."
the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said
SECRETARY OF Defense Caspar Weinberger has appealed to Congress to continue large increases in the military budget, saying cuts would weaken the U.S. position in the talks with Moscow opening March 12.
"The continuing manifestations of political mentality from the positions of strength can only be deplored." Pravda said. "This can be explained by a favorable atmosphere for the Geneva talks."
THAT ARTICLE AND others critical of the United States were repeated by the official
Pravda repeated the Soviet warning that there can be no agreement on nuclear missiles — the main concern to Washington and Russia, whose agreements to halt its space weapons program.
Tass news agency, while Moscow Radio said the U.S. administration was seeking a record military budget at the expense of social programs.
Reagan's proposed $313.7 billion military budget for fiscal 1986 is 10 percent higher than the fiscal 1985 budget. The New York Times said Saturday the administration wants to triple the amount spent on the "Star Wars" research projects research from $1.3 billion to $3.7 billion.
The budget, to be formally released Monday, also calls for a stepped-up $4 billion program for 48 more of the controversial 10-warhead MX missiles, the Times said.
Tass quoted television and Pravda warnings that the Geneva talks, which are to cover intermediate and strategic missiles and space weapons, will be difficult.
Famine victims from Ethiopia flee to Sudan
Bv United Press International
GEDAREF, Sudan — The number of Ethiopians fleeing famine and persecution was expected to top 1 million in the next few days, arousing fears of an epidemic in the crowded Sudan refugee camps, officials said yesterday.
For the past six weeks, more than 3,000 Ethiopian refugees have been crossing daily into neighboring Sudan, a nation struggling to cope with a famine threat. The UN mission has placed emphasis according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
"At the present rate of inflow we expect to have a million Ethiopians in the Sudan before the end of the week," a spokesman for the government refugee commission said
"This is a catastrophic nightmare situation," said Francis Charion, director of the charity doctors' organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres, based in Paris.
"We are already trying to cope with a measles epidemic that is claiming the lives of over 30 people . . . every day," he said, gazing at hundreds of families huddled on open ground under a burning sun at Wad Kowil, the largest of four new camps that have sprung up in recent weeks.
"The head of every person we have examined here so far is a nest of lice," Charhon said
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