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News briefs from United Press International Brazil's president rejects plans for direct election
BRASILJA, Brazil — President Joao Figueiredo yesterday rejected plans for a direct presidential election in 1988, igniting protests from opposition leaders who want the vote this year to end two decades of military rule.
University Daily Kansan, June 29, 1984
The proposed constitutional amendment to restore direct presidential elections in 1988 was withdrawn just hours before the bill was due for a vote in Brazil's Congress.
The move left Latin America's largest nation without a fixed date for a popular presidential poll, despite a pledge by Figueiredo, the nation's fifth military president since a 1964 coup, to return the country to democracy.
Under current rules, Brazil's next president is to be chosen in January 1985 by a 686-man electoral college composed of the upper and lower chambers of Congress plus 138 representatives from state assemblies.
Street demonstrations by more than 1 million people have demanded that the next president be elected by popular vote.
Iraq missiles ignite Iranian tanker
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Firefighters battled yesterday to prevent 250,000 tons of oil, worth $45 million, from igniting on a supertanker that was hit in an Iraqi missile attack. The attack left eight crewmen dead and seven others missing.
"This is already the single biggest shipping disaster in the gulf since the war started between Iran and Iraq," a spokesman for the ship's Swiss owners said in Zurich.
It was the second Iraqi attack this week on a tanker in the Persian Gulf. Iraq is seeking to cut off Iran's oil exports, on which Tehran relies to pay for arms and munitions for the nearly 4-year-old war with Iraq.
A spokesman for a Dutch salvage firm battling the tanker blaze said a bulkhead protecting the fuel storage tanks was heating up and if the blaze reached the tanks, "The vessel and the sea all around would be on fire for days and days."
The two bitter enemies also turned over war dead in an exchange supervised by U.N. officials and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Anxious relatives and well-wishers on both sides of the Syrian-Iraeli frontier cheered and applaused as they welcomed home the captured men.
KUNEITRA, Syria — Syria and Israel swapped prisoners yesterday for the first time in a decade, when six Israelis were traded for more than 300 Syrians at an abandoned town that was the site of major battles in two Middle East wars.
Svria, Israel exchange prisoners
The prisoner exchange was the most conciliatory move between the two countries since their armies battled in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley two years ago.
It also was their first prisoner exchange since a U.S. arranged swap a decade ago, a year after the 1973 Middle East war.
ROME — Armenian terrorists threatened yesterday to mount a “vendetta” attack against the Turkish team at the Los Angeles Olympics to avenge the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks nearly 70 years ago.
Terrorists threaten Turkish team
The threat by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia was made in a letter written in French and received yesterday at the Rome office of the Italian news agency, ANSA.
"We warn governments, regimes, organizations and companies that our vendetta operations will strike all those who give help and assistance to our brothers."
Armenian terrorists are seeking revenge for what they claim was the intentional slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks in 1915. The Turkish government denies the charge.
The letter was the second threat to the Olympics in four days. A news organization in Paris received another letter, purportedly from Armenian terrorists, last Monday.
More Amerasian children to U.S.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Dozens of children fathered by American soldiers during the Vietnam War left yesterday with their relatives following a compromise over refugee quotas between Hanoi and Washington.
The 69 Amerasian children and 124 accompanying relatives flew to Bangkok for final processing before heading for their new homes in the United States.
Their departure raised the total number of children leaving Vietnam since the special flights began Sept. 30, 1982 to 1,372. Another 1,624 relatives of the children also have gone to the United States under the program.
The Hanoi government has insisted that the United States should take all children fathered by American servicemen during the Vietnam War.
Woman meets pen pals all 5,000
NORFOLK, Va. - A retired California school teacher cried yesterday while sharing more than 15 years of memories with her pen pals - the 5,000-member crew of the USS Kennedy.
Catherine Mervyn, 69, and her husband, William, 64, of Oxnard, Calif., received a special tour of the aircraft carrier, to which she began sending letters when the shin was commissioned in 1968.
The ship's crew collected more than $000 to pay for the couple's trip to the Norfolk Naval Base, returning the favor she gave them by brightening lonely days away from home.
The day had another special meaning for Mervyn. It was 56 years yesterday that she arrived in America as an Italian immigrant at the age of 13.
Since 1968, Mervyn and her elementary school students have written letters to the 5,000-man ship.
'Luckie' bov finds bag of $5,000
DETROIT — A 14-year-old boy named Luckie found a brown paper bag containing more than $5,000 in cash, but he was convinced the money was stolen and took it to the nearest police station.
Luckie Winters told police that he and his friend, Arthur Sims, 12, saw a man standing on the second floor balcony of a house.
After pondering the situation for a few hours, Luckie took the bag to the police station.
Luckie said he grabbed the bag and ran over to his friend. "Then we opened it up and saw the money," he said.
Police learned the money had been stolen from a retired Chrysler worker, who said the money was rent he had gathered from property he owned.
p. 278 "That little boy really surprised me," the man said. "I gave him a little donation of $200."
WEATHER
Today should be mostly sunny with highs in the mid 60s. Winds will be blowing from the northeast at 5 to 15 mph. Skies tonight will be fair with temperatures in the low 60s.
Tomorrow, temperatures should range in the low to mid 80s under sunny skies. The lows will be in the 60s. There is a slight chance of rain.
The extended forecast calls for little, if any, precipitation Sunday and Monday. Highs will be in the 80s to 90s and lows will be in the 60s to 70s.
Communist visitors face possible shut out
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The administration opposed a bill yesterday that would repeal communist ideology as a reason to exclude foreign visitors, a provision used to deny visas to many prominent writers and political figures.
State Department official Joan Clark told a House immigration subcommittee that communist or anarchist affiliation might be sufficient reason to bar a visit although the government does not deny visas "solely on ideological grounds."
provision of the 1952 law had been used over 30 years to bar many prominent literary figures solely because their "political beliefs or associations were unpopular with certain people in Washington."
Under a bill sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the focus of the law would be shifted from considering ideology and association to actual threats to national security.
"We have had people kept out of the United States because people in the State Department and other places didn't like what they had to say." Frank said at the first of a series of bearings on the proposal.
"The list, the quality of the list, is staggering." Styron told the subcommittee.
Writer William Styron said that the
The law has been used to deny visas to such writers as Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Italian playwright Dario Fo, and novelists Doris Lessing and Graham Grevy. Stron said.
Critics of the law maintain that the Reagan administration is using the exclusion provisions to "muzzle" foreign critics of its policies, particularly on Central America and nuclear arms.
"The United States is the only Western democracy that imposes a political test for visas for visitors." The U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee, the U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee,
The law is now being challenged by two Cuban feminists who had been invited last year to speak to women's groups but were denied visas.
NOW wants woman for VP and a victory over Reagan
By United Press International
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The National Organization for Women will devote much of its time at a university in Florida to help now to defeat President Reagan.
Walter Mondale will address the delegates tomorrow, and several prominent NOW members plan to meet with Mondale to stress their belief that if he is the Democratic presidential nominee, his best chance of beating Reagan is to name a woman as his vice presidential running mate.
NOW, which has endorsed Mondale, will concentrate on his candidacy in several workshop sessions on Iowa and where to focus campaign efforts.
Attending the three-day convention will be several women viewed as
possible vice presidential candidates, including Reps. Geraldine Ferraro of New York and Pat Schroeder of Colorado. Mondale has said Ferraro is a potential running mate, and will meet with her next week.
The Miami Beach meeting will be the first NOW convention held in Florida since the group began boycotting states that had not ratified the ERA.
Ferraro, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill's first choice for the second spot on the ticket, has said she has no disagreements with Mondale that would keep her from joining his ticket.
Florida first refused to pass the ERA in 1973, and has been boycotted by women's organization since April 1977 because of the refusal. The Florida Legislature last defeated the measure in 1982.
Court gives Reagan power to restrict travel to Cuba
WASHINGTON — By one vote, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that President Reagan has power to bum U.S. tourist travel to Cuba, brushing aside arguments that the restriction violates First Amendment freedoms.
By United Press International
The 5-4 decision overturned a federal appeals court ruling that lifted travel restrictions imposed by the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department restrictions prohibited most Americans from traveling to the communist-run Caribbean island just 90 miles off the Florida coast.
Routine tourist travel to Cuba has been banned since last July, as the Supreme Court reviewed the appeals court ruling during its consideration of the government's appeal.
Government lawyers argued that the ban was essential to prevent the "flow of hard currency" to Cuba.
Those arguments apparently conviced a majority of the court.
Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the majority, noted that Cuba, "with the political economic and military backing of the Soviet Union, has provided widespread support for armed violence and terrorism in the Western Hemisphere."
THE TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS were challenged by a group of citizens, including religious leaders and college professors, who claimed their First Amendment rights to travel were being violated.
Reagan tightened Cuba travel restrictions in April 1982, allowing only a limited number of people — including journalists and people with close relatives on the island — to travel there.
Between March 1977 and Reagan's action, unrestricted travel to Cuba had been permitted.
The question before the court was whether unrestricted travel to Cuba was permitted after Congress amended the Trading with the Enemies Act in 1977, which curbed presidential authority in peacetime situations.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAWYERS said that in issuing restrictions on travel to Cuba, the administration was merely exercising its authority to deny U.S. dollars to an unfriendly government. They said the rules banned financial transactions, such as tourists paying hotel bills.
Justice Lewis Powell dissented saying the law "unmistakably demonstrates that Congress in tended to bar the president from expanding the exercise of emergency authority."
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