University Daily Kansan, January 17, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Gunman's hearing postponed
NEW YORK — A lawyer for accused "Death Wish" gunman Bernhard Goetz told a judge yesterday that he wanted to see his client's confession before advising him whether to testify before a grand jury, but prosecutors refused to release the statements.
At a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, defense lawyer Joseph Kelner requested the videotaped and written subpoena of Lorenzo Cain, arrested two weeks ago in Concord, N.H.
The judge told Kehler that he could not order the district attorney to turn over the tapes and postponed the hearing for a second time until Feb. 6.
Definition of Jew rejected
JERUSALEM — Israel's parliament yesterday killed an amendment that would define "who is a Jew" by strict orthodox rules, and the nation "who has been Orthodox Jewish leadership."
The 62-51 vote ended, at least temporarily, a 15-year battle by the religious lobby to restrict Jews to those born of a mother or converted by orthodox rabbits.
The measure would have excluded conversions by the Reform and Conservative Jewy — the major branches of Judaism in the United States.
U.S. to aid Mozambique
WASHINGTON — The United States plans to open a "limited military assistance relationship" with the Marxist-led African nation of Mozambique and will supply non-lethal military equipment and materials to State Department official said yesterday.
The official said that two weeks ago the administration had notified Congress that it wanted to "reprogram" a $1 million grant for non-lethal military equipment and $250,000 for military training. Congress would have 50 days to stop the transfer of funds for fiscal year 1985, which ends Sept. 30.
Bo Derek heads dullest list
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Actress Bo Derek, corpom mogn Orville Rendebacher and evangelist Jerry Fawlwell in *The list of 10 Dullear Americans for 1985*.
Other winners were: comedian Rodney Dangerfield; Lite Beer commercial actor Bob Uecker; comic strip character Mike Doenbsury; journalist Barbara Walters; automobile heir Alfred Ford; Barbara Bush, wife of Vice President George Bush; and Gary Collins, television host of "Hour Magazine."
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Dave Foster, Omaha, Neb., sophomore, takes advantage of the cold weather to practice his hockey skills. Foster played hockey with friends Tuesday at Central Park. Sixth and Tennessee streets.
Sharon gets partial victory in libel suit against Time
By United Press International
NEW YORK — A jury yesterday gave Israeli Gen. Ariel Sharon a partial victory in his $50 million libel suit by ruling that Time magazine defamed him in a paragraph about his actions on the eve of a massacre of Palestinians.
After returning a partial verdict in its third day of deliberations in U.S. District Court, the panel of four women and two men retired from jury room to delibrate two other issues.
For Sharon to win his suit, the jury must also conclude that the Time paragraph is false and that Time published it maliciously. How much money Time must pay Sharon.
If the jury returns only one verdict in Time's fayor, Sharon loses his case.
"One down, two to go." Milton Gould, Sharon's attorney, said outside the courtroom. "Gen. Sharon and I are delighted."
TIME MAGAZINE MANAGING editor Ray Cave criticized the partial verdict, saying jurors "completely misread" the disputed paragraph by finding that it defamed the former Israeli defense minister.
The jurors found the Time paragraph defamatory because it implied Sharon consciously intended "Israel's philanthropist" better Palestinian civilians in Beirut in 1983.
"Of course, we are disappointed," Cave said, adding that Time Inc. remains confident it will win on the remaining two issues.
The jury rejected another possible meaning claimed by Sharon: that the paragraph also meant he "actively encouraged" the slaughter.
The paragraph in Time's Feb. 21, 1983 edition reported that on Sept. 15, 1982, Sharon "discussed" with Lebanon's Phalangist leaders "the need to take revenge for the assassination" of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, commander of the Phalangist militia.
Republicans say cutbacks will miss Reagan's goals
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Chairman Bob Packwood predicted yesterday that President Reagan's budget would fall short of his budget-cutting goals, and House GOP leader Robert Michel said Congress would be hard pressed to cut more than Reagan proposes.
Packwood said that the fiscal 1966 budget, due to reach Congress next month, may be about $50 billion shi of Reagan's goal of cutting the deficit by more than half by 1988.
leaders are working on a budget aimed at reducing the $225 billion annual deficit to $100 billion by 1988. They are trying to cut $50 billion in the first year with an across-the-board budget freeze, including Social Security cost-of-living raises and military spending.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD Chairman Paul Volcker says a $50 billion cut is the amount needed to push interest rates down.
But Michel R-III, said Congress might not be able to cut $50 billion in fiscal 1986 — especially if Reagan doesn't reach that goal in his spending plan.
Packwood, R-Ore., and other Senate GOP
Jamaican riots over fuel price hikes continue
By United Press International
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Demonstrators blocked major highways with burning barricades for a second day yesterday in protests against government-ordered fuel price increases, authorities said. Six people were rerouted wounded.
Six thousand security police, some armed
with M-16 rifles, patrolled streets in the
official police statement called the situation.
A commercial radio station, Radio Jamaica, quoted a police statement that said a mob of 400 people attacked police in lower Kingston and were fenced off with tear gas bombs. The radio gave no details, and the report could not be confirmed.
The radio quoted sources at Kingston
Public Hospital saying six people were wounded yesterday, including a 34-year-old woman who was shot in the chest. How the six were wounded was not explained.
THE GOVERNMENT SAID three people were killed, at least nine wounded and "several" people arrested in roiding Tissue across the Caribbean island. Radio Jamaica said police arrested 23 people in the northern parish of Trelawwin in the last two days.
Widespread violence — the worst since some 700 died in the 1960 campaign — followed an announcement Monday that gasoline prices would be raised. The announcement said prices would increase from $1.85 per gallon to $2.20 per gallon, and the price of a 100-pound cylinder of natural gas would be boosted $3.
Prime Minister Edward Seaga told foreign journalists there were blockades around Kingston but said the situation had calmed
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