University Daily Kansan, January 24, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
400 battle 10-alarm blaze
NEW YORK — Four hundred firefighters battled a 10-alarm blaze last night that engulfed a Manhattan furniture warehouse, destroyed an adjacent firehouse and forced the evacuation of fire officials from nearby buildings, fire officials said.
Eight firefighters suffered minor injuries fighting the rapidly spreading fire in the eight-story Wieser Piano Co. warehouse, which raged out of control for three hours, said John Mulligan, assistant fire commissioner.
The fire may have started in a defective
house, the house's basement,
Chick John O'Rourke.
Mulligan said the blaze was the largest single-building fire since an 11-alarm blaze Dec. 13, 1967, at a Postal Service annex.
Inflation rate 4% in 1984
WASHINGTON — Consumer prices rose only 0.2 percent in December, giving 1984 an inflation rate of just 4 percent and capping the easiest three years of price rises since the late 1960s, the government said yesterday.
From January 1982 through December 1984, prices went up 12.1 percent — less than they did in 1980 alone, whenobile phones were in its last appearance at 12.3 percent.
By the end of last year, the 1967 dollar — the standard for measuring the present day inflation rate — was worth 31.7 cents, having lost a penny's worth of purchasing power in 12 months.
Raker recommended to Senate
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff James Baker breezed through his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing yesterday and was unanimously recommended for approval by the full Senate to be secretary of treasury.
The vote was 20-0, with only a handful of members actually present to cast their ballots and the rest voting by proxy. White House spokesman Peter Roussel said Baker was "extremely pleased and gratified" by the vote.
Ice weather delays Discovery
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Winter's grip forced a 24-hour delay of the launching of the space shuttle Discovery to catch up with the Secret satellite to cavesdrop on the Soviets.
Engineers had worried that ice would cake Discovery's external fuel tank and break off at blastoff, damaging the ship's fragile heat shield tiles.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Reagan says Soviets will bargain on weapons
By HELEN THOMAS
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, voicing optimism that nuclear arms cuts can be won, said yesterday that the Soviet Union agreed to return to the bargaining table when forced to choose between "reduction of arms or face an arms race."
While the Kremlin has not responded to his proposal to meet in Geneva in early March, Reagan said he expected agreement soon on a time and place for talks on strategic arms, medium-range nuclear missiles and weapons in space.
In a wide-ranging Oval Office interview with United Press International, Reagan said Washington and Moscow were entering the new negotiations "with both sides having said their ultimate goal would be . . . to eliminate nuclear weapons entirely."
ASSESSING THE prospects for success in the negotiations, Reagan said. "I don't think anyone, looking back over history, should be euphoric."
"But," he said, "I just have to claim some optimism when you look at the situation and
realize that this is the first time that they have ever publicly stated a desire to reduce the number of weapons."
"Before," he said, "it seemed we sat down to negotiations to see how fast we were going to happen there."
The president was relaxed as he covered a range of subjects that touched on the major issues.
Reagan, who faced strenuous criticism during his first four years for an unprecedented military buildup, defended his tough attitude toward Moscow.
"I THINK THE reason we're coming to the table is that they know, as we know, the choice now is — have some legitimate armies of arms, or face an arms race," he said.
Reagan also said he would like to see the Soviet Union press ahead with work on its own "War Wars" missile system — an idea he has said would make nuclear
Seated in an arm chair in front of the fireplace. Reagan also:
- Said a political settlement in Central America was "very much still on the agenda for us," but complained that Marxist
Nicaragua was still "trying to get the overthrow" of the U.S.-backed government of El Salvador.
*Said he had found a new foreign policy job for U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. However, he would not identify the job beyond saying it was not physically in the White House. He did not say whether Kirkpatrick had been formally offered the post.
- Said Soviet leader Konstantin Cherenko was "sick" and indicated that he did not expect a summit meeting soon with the Kremlin leader.
- Stated that he was fully in charge of his administration, despite claims his top aides had ruled the White House. Pointing to his desk, Reagan said, "The buck actually stops there."
- *Said abortion was “a civil rights” issue rather than a religious one, and that there was “incontrovertible” evidence that a fetus is “a living human being.”
- Declined to say whether he would support Vice President George Bush in a 1988 run for the presidency, declaring with a
smile, "I'm not going to talk about candidates for '88."
*·Said he knew of no other impending departures of Cabinet officials, but added, "I wouldn't be surprised" if more top figures leave. Noting many came to government from high-paying jobs, he said, "There's going to come a time for most of them when they're going to have to say, 'Well, that's all the time I can give.'"
While the renewed arms talks and other global matters figured heavily in the interview — one of the first Reagan has granted since he began his new term — he also said his domestic goals were basically the same as in his first term, "continued economic expansion with low or no inflation."
"And on the international scene," he said, "to pursue the goal of getting rid of nuclear weapons entirely and bringing about the possibility of peace in the world."
On his Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed "Star Wars," Reagan said he would like the vowels to work on a similar system that uses alphabetic characters when we would eliminate nuclear weapons.
Farmers halt Chicago protests as states, senators move to help
By United Press International
Angry Midwestern farmers who staged two days of protests in Chicago said yesterday that they had made their point while others sent delegations to Washington to get help easing farmers' biggest small crunch since the Great Depression.
The American Agriculture Movement, hoping to stop trading, staged two protests Monday and Tuesday at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Association. The commodity futures exchanges. Tight security kept the exchanges open.
A third protest scheduled for yesterday caused farmers said they had made their point.
"We think they got the message, said AAM Missouri president Wayne Cryts. "We got a chance to sit down with them and meet with them and felt we accompanied our guest." The problems will not be solved instantly but at least we got the wheels in motion to get something done. So, we decided to go home last night."
arrested Tuesday. They were released on their own recognizance.
THIRTY-FIVE FARMERS were arrested in Chicago on Monday and 12 were
Eleven U.S. senators sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan urging the administration to strengthen the farm debt restructuring program, which they said did little to help farmers with commercial bank financing.
Farmers, facing the worst financial crunch since the Great Depression, already have supervised a record number of agricultural operations and voluntary liquidations in the last few years.
The senators who signed the letter were Majority Leader Robert Dole, James Abdnor, R-S.D.; Jesse Helms, R-N.C.; Rudy Boschyus, R-Minn; Thad Cochran, R-Miss.; Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan.; Robert Egan, R-Iowa; David Durenberger, R-Min; Robert Kasten, R-Wis.; and Don Nickles, R-Okla.
EVERY ONE OF SOUTH Dakota's 105 lawmakers may travel to Washington with Gov. Bill Janklow to lobby Congress. Sen. Larry Pressler, D.S.D., urged farm organization leaders to rally in Washington the week of Feb. 25.
"The timing of the rally is important, since late February will be when Congress really begins work on the budget and the 1985 farm bill," he said.
Explosion at Shell refinery injures 7; one is missing
By United Press International
ROXANA, Ill. — A fiery explosion at a Shell Oil Co. refinery injured at least seven people yesterday, and one employee was missing in the blast, company officials said.
About 3:50 p.m. the explosion tore through a unit that removes wax and other foreign matter from lubricating oil. The fire was controlled by the company's 50-member firefighting crew within an hour, Shell spokesman Dave McKinney said.
extent of the damage were not known, McKinney said it could be several days before officials learned what sparked the blast.
However, the waxy oil continued to burn into the evening.
THE INJURED WERE taken to hospitals in Wood River and Alton. Two of the more seriously injured were moved to the burn unit at St. John's Mercy Hospital in nearby St. Louis.
The cause of the explosion and fire and
While initial reports indicted seven injuries, Eugene Cowsert, president of Wood River Township Hospital in nearby Wood River, said as many as 18 could have been hurt.
Colombian planes missing
By United Press International
Search planes looked for signs of wreckage
BOGOTA, Colombia — Two Colombian airplanes carrying a total of 39 people disappeared in separate parts of Colombia yesterday, Civil Aeronautics authorities said.
from both missing aircraft, but efforts were hammered by thick cloud cover.
The other aircraft, owned by the company Aces, left the city of Quibdo, 195 miles northwest of Bogota, for Medellin, 160 miles northwest. It carried 20 passengers and two crew members. Authorities said it strapped from its flight path and then disappeared.
The routes of the two missing planes were about 150 miles apart.
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