University Daily Kansan, February 1, 198F
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Leading indicators drop again
WASHINGTON — The index of leading indicators, a sensitive economic barometer, dropped 0.2 in December, the government reported yesterday, but a White House spokesman said the economy remains "exceptionally strong."
Brazil's president visits U.S.
It was the fifth setback in seven months for the index, the kind of trend that often points to a new recession. Another report yesterday showed new factory orders down 0.7 percent.
WASHINGTON — The first civilian to be elected president of Brazil in 21 years traveled to Washington yesterday for meetings with ton administration officials.
Tamcredo Neves, 74, was elected two weeks ago but does not take over from Brazil's military government until March 15.
Neves was expected to air strong feelings on U.S. trade barriers to Brazilian steel, leather and textile exports and to discuss bilateral relations and U.S. policies in Latin America.
First-class stamps to get a 'D'
WASHINGTON - Stamps bearing the letter "D" go on sale today at post offices nationwide to ensure there will be enough first-class stamps when postal rates increase to 22 cents Feb. 17.
The stamps will have a green background and will be issued in sheet, coil and booklet formats. Embossed envelopes may also be postage designation also will be available.
Commemorative stamps, starting with the Jerome Kern stamp that was issued Jan. 23, and other 22-cent stamps are expected to replace the "D" stamps by the end of March.
Medicine may have killed Fae
LOS ANGELES — Baby Fae, the infant who survived three weeks with a transplanted baboon heart, may have died from her medication rather than rejection of the organ, as doctors first reported. A University Medical Center for women in Los Angeles University Medical Center said yesterday.
the university issued a statement yesterday after Dr. Jack Provonsha, director of the Center for Christian Bioethics at the college, told a small audience that he had learned from that "some kind of toxic phenomenon" caused by improper dosages of anti-rejection drugs probably caused Baby Fae's death on Nov. 15.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Cabinet officials hail the West, scold Soviets
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday that a resurgent United States had blunted Soviet aggression, but Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger warned that the Kremlin was ambitiously arming and seeking to extend its rule by force.
The key Cabinet officers offered a sober view of the Soviet political, economic and military system in separate appearances before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The appearances were the start of a series of hearings on American foreign policy called by new committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
The Soviets will use "force directly or indirectly through proxies, and use it mercilessly" to dominate Eastern Europe and to take their system around the world, Ohrig said.
SHULTZ SAID THE United States was restoring its military strength, had regained its confidence and had a strong economy to support its foreign policy.
"The Soviets, in contrast, face profound structural economic difficulties, a continuing succession problem and restless allies." Shultz said. "Its diplomacy and its clients are on the defensive in many parts of the world.
In his comments, Shultz stressed the strengthened Western alliance. Weinberger emphasized Soviet aims.
"Today the supreme irony is that the
Communist system looks bankrupt, morally as well as economically. The West is resilient and resurgent."
Shultz and Weinberger urged that Congress continue support of the MX missile and research on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a space-based anti-ballistic missile defense system informally known as "Star Wars."
"We are in the 12th year of debate over the MX missile and while we debate, the Soviets deploy," Weinberger said. "They continue to test and field new and more accurate missiles and to improve all their strategic nuclear forces."
WEINBERGER SAID THE SDI offered the West the chance for defense against ballistic
missiles. Other research to defend against subsonic cruise missiles also is being pursued by the Soviets, Weinberger said.
"They shot down one of their own cruise missiles that got away from them and was starting to work its way across Norway and the German coast," the official American comment on the stray missile
Both secretaries told the missile defense system and American arms buildup was essential to support US negotiators in the Middle East and to Saskatoon that begin March 12 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Shultz said the "Soviets will have little incentive to negotiate seriously for reductions to lower, equal levels if we hand them on a silver platter their long-cherished goal of unilateral American reductions."
Pope tells Indians to shun alcohol
By United Press International
CUENCA, Ecuador — Greeted by former headhunters and a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Pope John Paul II told 200,000 Indians yesterday to shun the evils of alcohol and support their flagging religious faith.
The pontiff spent about an hour speaking to the Indians who stood mutely in colorful attire on a sunlit grassy field before snow-covered Cotopaxi, the world's second highest active volcano.
"A serious problem currently in your society is losing precious values which can enrich other cultures," the pope said. "The religious feeling is weakening and God is forgotten," the pope said.
"There are other dangers that threaten you with death. I will only mention alcoholism, which is destroying the vigor of your people."
THE POPE THEN traveled to Cuenca, Ecuador's third largest city, and celebrated an outdoor mass in which he repeated his
endorsement of marriage and the family as an unbreakable holy unit.
Afterward, the pontifex arrived in the coastal city of Guayquail, the country's largest city, to give a speech commemorating the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the Virgin Mary and visit a chapel built in his honor.
Trouge
Church officials planning for John Paul's arrival in Peru asked Lima's brothels to close for the five-day papal visit and authorities banned liquor sales and rounded up more than 5,000 "undesirables."
Guajuayá is the pope's last stop in Ecuador before leaving for Peru this afternoon. The pope's four-country tour of Latin America began in Venezuela and will end in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad- Tobago.
ENDORSING THE ECUADORAN Indians' push for equal rights, the pope told them that Catholic missionaries had fought for their rights since Spanish conquerers arrived in the New World more than 400 years ago.
"You are right to want to be respected as people and citizens," he said. "The church takes this as its own aspiration, because your self is less than that of any other person or race."
The pope was given a silver-covered wooden staff by Luis Felipe Atalahua Duchichela XXVIII, a descendant of Atalahua, the last Ica ruler.
Among those attending the ceremony were Jibaro Indians, former headhunters who traveled 27 hours by car from Ecuador's eastern jungles.
THE INDIANS stopped headhunting 20 years ago because a priest told them it was a sin to kill someone.
In Managua, Nicaragua, a leader of the Salvadoran leftist opposition said yesterday a rebel coalition would welcome efforts by the United States to mediate an end to their country's civil war.
The pope has offered to mediate the Central American conflict if all other negotiating efforts failed.
Meese made no ethics lapses, panel told
By United Press International
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WASHINGTON — The government's top ethics official told the Senate yesterday that Attorney General-nominee Edwin Meese "did not violate any ethical standards" and said he was not pressured to kill a staff report to the contrary.
David Martin, director of the Office of Government Ethics, acknowledged that Meese appeared to have skirted ethical requirements in regard to a $60,000 loan at favorable rates arranged by accountant John
But Meese violated no code of ethics, Martin told the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of hearings on Meese's confirmation as head of the Justice Department. The committee plans to vote on the nomination Tuesday.
Martin and the two staff lawyers, Nancy Feathers and Gary Davis, were summoned to testify about the report, in which the lawyers determined that two of Meese's financial deals violated federal conflict-of-interest standards.
THE THREE LAWYERS spent several hours explaining their conclusions, and how they reached a "mutual decision" that there had been no ethical lapses.
Meese was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by a special prosecutor last year. His critics maintain that his ethical standards still are an issue, which prompted the lengthy questioning of Martin and his staff lawyers.
Disinvestment sought for end to apartheid
Meese, now President Reagan's White House counselor, defended his actions. He said he had maintained the highest ethical standards and was well-qualified to be the nation's top law enforcement official.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Apartheid fees urged Congress yesterday to put pressure on South Africa to end its segregationist racial policies by requiring U.S. corporations to withdraw their investments from the country.
Jean Sindab, director of the Washington Office on Africa, told a House foreign affairs subcommittee, "The United States should take a leadership role in this battle for freedom. We strongly urge Congress to pass legislation that would mandate corporate disinvestment from South Africa."
The group is a lobbying organization sponsored by Protestant and Catholic churches.
However, Ford Motor Co. Vice President William Broderick, speaking on behalf of companies that have signed voluntary fair employment guidelines known as the Sullivan Principiles, said withdrawal of corporate investments would damage chances for forcing change Pretoria government's apartheid policy
"Sullivan signatory companies fully share the sense of frustration felt and expressed by many, including our critics, in South Africa's racial laws," he said.
Sindab said just 1 percent of South Africa's total black work force is covered by the 128 firms that signed the employment guidelines.
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