NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, January 25, 1985
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Chinese peasants abused for wealth
By United Press International
PEKING — Peasants who are profiting from China's capitalist-style economic reforms are being blackmail, physically abused and even driven to suicide by jealous, notorious notices, it was reported yesterday.
"Red-eye disease," Chinese slang for envy, has stirred rampant, brutal attacks on, has wealthy peasants as China moves from its 35-year-old, stringent "Rice Bowl" economy to the "get-rich" policies of top leader Deng Xiaping, a radio broadcast said.
The broadcast, from China's vast Western region of Xinjiang, described how Liu Guozhzi, a peasant who took advantage of agricultural reforms to start a profitable orchard, poisoned himself to escape harassment and extortion from jealous neighbors.
"Ili Guozhi was honest, diligent and competent," the broadcast said. "Through sweat and toil he reaped a lot of money from his family when his whole family was sharing
the joys brought about by the bumper harvest, a calamity befell them."
ENVIOS NEIGHBORS surrounded Lu's yard, poisoned his chickens, stude hundreds of pounds of apples and oranges in the crates and windows of his house, it said.
Later, the neighbors stormed into Liu's home, beat and kicked him, demanded money and threatened to return.
"Liu Guozhi could not tolerate this insult," the broadcast said. "And he said to his wife, crying: 'Oth people here insult and beat me up. I cannot live on.'"
His body was later found - a victim of suicide by poisoning.
The broadcast urged peasants who "got rich first on the strength of the (Communists) Party's policies" to oppose them, but who have not worked hard, in particular have gained petty advantages at the expense of other people.
"We must advise those who have gotten rich: When your legitimate interests are encroached upon, you must withdraw from departments to resolve the matter."
President omits wars during talk
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan told visiting Western Hemisphere legislators yesterday that there had "never been a war between two free countries."
The president's reading of history apparently skipped past an era of early American history, the War of 1812, in which an independent United States declared war on Great Britain, one of the world's oldest parliamentary democracies.
The Boer War at the turn of the century was fought between Great Britain and Dutch settlers in South Africa, and, more recently, the democracies of Israel and Egypt have fought. Also, Chile and Peru, and El Salvador and Honduras have battled in recent years.
ROME — Nazi war criminal Walter Reder, serving a life sentence for the massacre of at least 600 women, men and children and possibly as many as 1,800, was freed by Italy yesterday and flown to his native Austria where he said he wanted to “die in silence.”
and a police chief met Reder, 69, at the airport and accompanied him to the Martinek military barracks near Baden, a small town about 12 miles south of Vienna.
Freed Nazi leaves Italy for Austria
By United Press International
"He doesn't want to be contacted," a government spokesman said of Reder. It was not known where he could make his home in Austria.
In Vienna, Austrian Defense Minister Friedhelm Frischenschlager
Released from a military prison in the resort city of Gaeta, north of Naples, Reder was the last major
Nazi war criminal held in an Italian jail.
He had been serving a life term for the massacre at least 600 Italian women, men and children in mountainous Bologna and Florence in 1944.
Witnesses testified that the 29-year-old major led his battalion in a "march of death" from August through September in which they sacked and burned villages in the mountains.
Republican leaders pound away at budget
By United International
WASHINGTON — Top Republicans in Congress, pounding away at the two budget areas President Reagan considers sacred, said yes to the military and Social Security musclethe effort to cut the federal deficit.
contain only slight reductions in the Pentagon's budget request and will not freeze Social Security cost-of-living increases. Reagan has set a goal to raise the minimum wage, which would be a $230 billion annual deficit without changes from this year.
Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., said that deficit reduction must be precedence over growth in our economic goal this year — tax reform.
Although they seemed to be in agreement on defense cuts, Dole and Robert Michel, House GOP leader, disagreed on a Social Security freeze.
Reagan's fiscal 1986 budget, which he sends to Congress Feb.4, will
Michel, R-III., noted that freezing Social Security benefits was only a small part of the defect puzzle. But he would favor to favor the idea, he said, it "would be much,
much more difficult to orchestrate in the House."
Reagan is aiming for about a 6 percent hike in the military budget and insists he will not agree to freeze Social Security cost-of-living unless faced with an "overwhelming" congressional mandate.
Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. dean of the Senate conservatives, sounded the only discordant note. He said it was not enough to cut the defense budget and that taxes might have to be raised to reduce the deficit. Other GOP leaders have firmly rejected taxes.
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TIMOTHY HUTTON stars in "TURK 1822" as Jimmy Lynch, a young man whose crusade to redeem his brother's reputation allies on his side.
TIMOTHY HUTTON CAPTURES NEW YORK CITY IN "TURK 182!"
Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton plays a very new kind of hero in "Turk 1821!" As the fighting mad, hip and resourceful Jimmy Lynch, he sets out to prove you can battle City Hall to right a wrong. His older brother, a firefighter, is injured while saving a child from a burning tenement. But since he was off-duty and having a drink in the local bar, an
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TIMOTHY HUTTON (right) is Jimmy Lynch and ROBERT URICH (center) is his big brother Terry in this roaring adventure-drama.
When the mayor is too busy running for re-election to hear his case, Jimmy Lynch takes matters into his own hands. Using only his wits, Jimmy sets out to prove that you can fight City Hall, and the entire city rallies behind the mysterious crusader known as Turk 182.
Hutton proves riveting as Jimmy Lynch, a budding artist pushed into action to fight for his brother's life—and justice. Recently starring with Sean Penn and Lori Singer in "The Falcon and the Snowman",
Hutton has followed his Oscar-winning debut in "Ordinary People" with extraordinary
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performances in films such as "Taps", "Daniel" and "Iceman". Joining Hutton in this exciting urban adventure are Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp, Darren McGavin and Peter Boyle.
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You'll discover a different side
of Timothy Hutton in "Turk 182!" He's a new breed of leader, willing to risk everything—including his life—to bring justice to a city and its people. He's a true fighter, a New Wave David who brings a crooked Goliath of a mayor to his knees. New York thrills to Timothy Hutton as Turk 182—and so will you.
Boy & girl in search of contact lens
FEBRUARY MEANS "MISCHIEF" FOR MOVIEGOERS
Doug McKeon is burning up—he's getting dangerously close to college without hitting a "home run" with any girl, much less Kelly Preston, the cutest one in the class. Let's face it—it's the 1950's, and Doug would settle for a "single". That is, until big city buddy (and screen newcomer) Chris Nash arrives at school and bets
that he can help Doug hit a grand slam.
A winning cast
The cast of "Mischief" is particularly hip. Doug McKeon is best known as the "suck-face" kid in "On Golden Pond". Kelly Kristen, soon to be seen in the upcoming "Secret Admirer", played the
"Please, Marilyn — it's been 18 years!"
luscious damsel in distress in "Metal Storm". Catherine Mary Stewart, who plays Chris Nash's girlfriend, has a smash hit as the lead in both "Night of the Comet" and "The Last Starfighter".
Major league mischief
Together, Doug, Kelly, Chris and Catherine stir up more rowdy "mischief" than little Nelsonville, Ohio can take in one year. We're talking major league tomfooolery here; motorcycles on sidewalks, cars on fire hydrants, parents on the warpath, romance on the sly. In short, all the things that make life worth living before college.
The cars may have changed, but the action in the back seat has not!
Kelly Preston: up to her ankles
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