University Daily Kansan, January 31, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
2 more spv suspects arrested
NEW DELHI, India — Authorities arrested two more businessmen on spy charges, raising to 14 the number of suspects apprehended in the biggest espionage scandal in Indian history, the Press Trust of India said yesterday.
The domestic news agency identified the latest suspects as Ashok Kumar Jaitkha, a businessman based in northern Punjab state, and Basant Kumar Aggarwal, who operates an import-export concern in New Delhi.
Study verifies AIDS blood test
Officials did not disclose their alleged roles in the spy case.
BOSTON — A Swiss study confirms American research showing that a fast and inexpensive AIDS test is an effective way to screen blood donors to prevent the spread of the deadly disease, it was reported yesterday.
The test for acquired immune deficiency syndrome is expected to be approved soon by the Food and Drug Administration for blood by blood banks in the United States.
Public health officials are optimistic the test, called ELISA, will prevent the spread of AIDS to people who receive blood transfusions.
Ex-cadet charged in hazing
BRYAN, Texas — A former Texas A&M cadet leader tore up a list of exercises that may have been involved in the death of a recruit, a Corps of Cadets officer testified yesterday.
Gabriel Cudra, 21, Houston, is charged with hazing and tampering with evidence in the Aug. 30 death of Bruce Dean Goodrich, 20, of Webster, N.Y. If convicted of both misdemeanor charges, Cudra and face two years in jail and be fined $800.
Former cadets Louis Fancher III, San Antonio, and Jason Miles and Anthony D'Allesandre, both of Houston, are charged with hazing and criminally negligent homicide in Goodrich's death.
Man should eat like ancestors
BOSTON — If modern man were to eat the same diet as his caveman ancestors, modern illnesses such as heart attacks, strokes, cancer and obesity might be eliminated, an Atlanta scientist reported yesterday.
Cavemen ate a large amount of wild game and many varieties of wild plants, but practically no grain or dairy products, according to a detailed analysis of the prehistoric diet.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
U.S. pledges increase in military aid to Israel
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United States pledged yesterday to boost military aid to Israel to $1.8 billion next year, and Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin expressed optimism about more U.S. assistance when his country repairs its battered economy.
his country repairs its卫星线.
Meet Israel requests only half way, the White House announced the administration will grant Israel $40 million more in military assistance for fiscal 1986 than the $1.4 billion it received this year. Israel sought $2.2 billion, administration and Israeli officials said.
"We wanted more," Rabin said.
"I leave this country with the feeling that there is understanding, readiness to support
Israel during this crucial period of our life," he told a news conference before leaving for home via New York City for a brief private ston.
ONCE ISRAEL GETS its beileaguered economy revived with tough austerity measures, he said, "I will not be surprised if it will never exceed the $1.2 billion this year."
Israel seeks $1.9 billion in economic help for next year plus another $800 million this year.
Rabin said most of the $1.8 billion in military aid will be spent in the United States for weapons, spare parts and other equipment. Of the total, $200 million will go toward developing Israel's Lavi fighter-bomber, he said.
Wrapping up three days of talks with U.S.
officials, Rabin said that strengthening the Israel economy was an essential first step toward finding new avenues for peace in the Middle East because "with a weak Israel, very few Arab countries will negotiate seriously."
"I'M AN OPTIMIST about what will be done by the United States in support of our efforts - serious efforts - in Israel to bring about the recovery of our economy," he said.
Rabin — the first of several Middle Eastern leaders scheduled to visit Washington in the early weeks of Reagan's second term — met with the president for almost 30 minutes. The aid issue was at the top of their agenda.
As in earlier meetings with Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, however, he also took
the opportunity to warn against inviting the Soviet Union into the peace process.
wnoever will bring the Soviets to be a party to the peace process in the region, there will be no peace and no process," he later told reporters.
Hinting at Israeli concern over plans for U.S. Soviet talks on the Middle East, Rabin said the two superpowers have a legitimate need to discuss issues not specifically related to the peace process in the region."
"AND I HOPE . . it will not develop into a different course of action in advancing the peace process," he said.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan had assured Rabin the U.S.-Soviet talks would not be negotiations.
U.S. trade deficit reaches record $123 billion in 1984
By United Press International
WASHIGTON — The U.S. merchandise trade deficit reached a record $123.3 billion in 1984—nearly doubling the 1983 figure—and is likely to be even higher this year, according to a Commerce Department report released yesterday.
The report brought new calls from inside and outside the government for steps to reduce another trade deficit, believed by some economist to be closely tied to the federal government's budget deficits.
The worsening trade deficit - up from $69.4 million in 1983 - came from a 26.4 percent rise in U.S. imports, while U.S. exports grew only 8.7 percent.
Commerce Department economist David Lund attributed the deterioration to faster economic growth in the United States than abroad and to continued strengthening of the dollar, which rose 10 percent against other major currencies during 1984.
"The dollar's strength reflects a hospitable climate in the United States for investment and a solid performance in restraining
COMMERCE SECRETARY Malcolm Baldridge noted that the trade deficit in the fourth quarter of 1984 was running at an annual rate of $109 billion, compared to a $146 billion annual rate in the third. But he said some of that improvement may be temporary — the result of U.S. firms selling from inventories rather than importing.
"Resumed growth in the economy and the continuing impact of the dollar's rise during 1984 indicate higher imports in the months to 2015, while record trade deficit for 1985." Baldriga said.
inflation. But at the same time, our import-competing and exporting industries are being hurt. Progress in reducing the federal budget deficit would help to lower interest rates and the exchange value of the dollar." Baldrige said.
C. FRED BERGSTEN, director of the Institute for International Economics, said the U.S. economy would have grown 2 percent more quickly if the trade deficit had remained at 1983 levels. He also said there would be more than a million more American jobs.
Bergsten also said the worsening trade deficit means the United States, for the first time since World War I, had become a net debtor nation.
"That means we soon will be paying more to foreigners on their investments here than we're earning on our investments abroad." Bergsten said. "That is a huge structural shift that reduces the welfare and prosperity of America as a country and of individual Americans."
BERGSTEN SAID IT was too late for anything short of a recession to prevent a further rise in the trade deficit this year. Beyond that, he said, the solution is to reduce the budget deficit, thereby allowing lower U.S. interest rates and a more realistic exchange rate for the dollar.
The trade deficit took place with a broad spectrum of countries. Included were U.S. trade deficits of $36.8 billion with Japan, $20.4 billion with Canada, $13.3 billion with the European Community and $38.8 billion with developing countries outside the OPEC oil cartel.
GOP leaders continue to debate cuts in defense, Social Security
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders agreed yesterday on many of the domestic spending cuts needed to reduce the federal deficit but failed to resolve the two most difficult issues — Social Security and defense spending.
Consequently, it is unlikely the senators will meet their self-imposed Feb. 1 deadline for fashioning a budget savings package that would trim $50 billion or more from the fiscal 1986 deficit projected at $3 million. However, the GP leaders ultimately optimistic that they would ultimately attain their deficit-reduction goal.
"We're committed to doing it. We haven't changed that. We don't believe we've lost anything," said Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, who has tried, unsuccessfully, for weeks to put together a budget savings package as his first act as Senate Republican leader.
"WE ARE FURTHER along in terms of consensus than we have ever been," said Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenic, R-N.M. "If I had to put it in writing, I would have placed on the domestics side about 60 percent of the commitments that we need are there."
But, he added, "I would put a caveat. They are all conditioned upon the package being $50 billion or more . . . because they don't want to go through this procedure year after year."
Dole said most committee chairmen
promised to meet certain budget cutting targets, including a pledge from Senate Finance Committee chairman Robert Packwood, R-Ore., to cut $8 billion over domestic programs under his jurisdiction that range from welfare to Medicare.
He said Senate Armed Forces Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. said he would not commit himself to a budget recommendation for the budget recommendations this weekend.
"WE'RE NOT TRYING to contest Weinberger," said Dole, one of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's most vocal critics. "We're just suggesting that we give our own committee plans are contingent on other people's (figures)."
So far, Weinberger, with the president's support, has refused all but about $8 billion of cuts from his original budget request, arguing that the military budget must be sheltered from the deficit-reduction effort so as not to upset further domestic industry jobs. A freeze in military spending would save about $20 billion.
Domenici said some of the domestic savings that Senate leaders agreed to in principle would come from pension reforms, Medicare, a freeze on all annually appropriated federal programs, cutting back on veteran's hospitalization benefits when illness was not service-related, and trimming about $24 billion from farm subsidies over the next three years.
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