University Daily Kansan, June 13, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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News briefs from United Press International
Police say president safe during shooting incident
WASHINGTON — Two men shooting at birds in the "wrong place" were arrested at a fence bordering Vice President George Bush's official residence last night during a visit by President Reagan to celebrate Bush's 60th birthday.
Neither Reagan nor Bush was in any danger, police said, and Reagan returned safely to the White House.
The incident caused the security team that carries machine guns and accompanies the president's motorcade to speed out of the grounds, but it returned within five minutes.
The two men were arrested near the Naval Observatory, less than a mile from of their northwest Washington home.
The two were discovered outside the fence of the vice president's expansive estate around 5:15 p.m. CDT, said Shirley Green, a spokeswoman for Bush.
Ban on aid for Mozambique lifted
U. S. Embassy spokesman Howard Leeb said the embargo was rescinded quietly two months ago, despite the strenuous opposition in Congress. He gave no explanation for the delay in announcing the move.
MAPUTO, Mozambique — Despite opposition in the U.S. Congress, a Congressional ban on development aid for Marxist Mozambique has been lifted amid warming relations between the two countries.
The announcement came only four days after the Soviet Union delivered $13 million of consumer goods in Maputo harbor to help Mozambique with its agricultural marketing schemes.
Leeb said initial aid would total about $500,000.
Relations between the United States and Mozambique, which last year signed a trade agreement with the Soviet Union, plummeted after Maputo expelled four U.S. diplomats in 1981 for allegedly spying.
Language amendment proposed
WASHINGTON — A Senate subcommittee held hearings yesterday on a proposed amendment to declare English the official language of the United States for the first time in the nation's history.
The constitutional amendment is being pushed by a several of lawmakers who fear the U.S. role as a "melting pot" for foreign cultures and languages is being subverted by practices allowing immigrants to "get by" without ever learning English
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, supporters of the amendment attacked extensive reliance on bilingual education and the printing of U.S. voting ballots in foreign languages as examples of how English is losing its dominance in the country.
The United States has never legally declared an official language.
report fuels steel import debate
WASHINGTON — The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled 3-2 yesterday that imports have been a substantial cause of serious injury to the American steel industry on most of its major products.
The ruling sets the stage for an administration decision, due shortly before the November election, whether to impose quotas or tariffs limiting steel imports from all parts of the world.
On Capitol Hill, House sponsors of legislation to impose steel import quotas welcomed the commission decision, but said they
Quotas imposed either by Congress or the president would affect all steel-producing countries, but especially those in the Third World
tariffs or quotas could be imposed regardless of whether unfair trade practices were involved.
Paper to pav to bury heart donor
NEW YORK - The New York Daily News said yesterday it would pay for the funeral of a 4-year-old Harlem boy whose transplanted heart saved the life of a 4-year-old Colorado child, the world's youngest heart recipient.
Several thousand phone calls nationwide jammed the lines of the New York Daily News after it印制 the story of Dorothy Ford, 38, a welfare mother so poor she could not afford to bury the son whose heart saved the dying boy.
Ford's son, John Nathan, 4, fell to his death Friday from a sixth-story fire escape.
His heart was transplanted into the chest of J. P. Lovette, also 4, the following day, making the Colorado boy the最 surviving
Pope urges unity in Swiss speech
John Paul, speaking to leaders of the World Council of Churches, representing 400 million Protestant Christians around the world, stressed that Catholics and Protestants shared a common concern for human freedom and justice.
Christian churches face "the forces of destruction which assail the human family, erode its spiritual foundation and lead it to the brink of the abyss," he told the council in his seven-page speech in French.
GENEVA, Switzerland — Pope John Paul II reaffirmed his "irreversible" commitment to Christian unity on his arrival yesterday in Switzerland, one of the mother countries of the Protestant Reformation.
The council's officials said the pontiff was "heartily welcome," but few concrete results were expected given John Paul's conservative views on such subjects as birth control, celibacy and women priests.
Maine worm digger walkout ends
WISCASSET, Maine — The last of the state's striking worm diggers yesterday ended a seven-week labor dispute that disrupted a little known, yet colorful industry that ships worms as far away as California and France.
The Maine worm industry — a $4 million a year business with about 1,300 part-time and full-time diggers and 18 dealers — reaps both sandworms and bloodworms.
But during the weekend, the loosely-knit group grudgingly decided to resume selling sandworms at whatever price they could get.
Depending on conditions and locations, diggers can get anywhere from a few hundred to 1,200 worms during a low tide.
WEATHER
Temperatures tomorrow will be in the high 80s to low 90s, under mostly sunny skies.
Today, skies will be partly cloudy with temperatures rising to the mid to upper 80s. Winds should be from the southeast at about 5 to 15 mph. Temperatures tonight will drop to the mid to upper 60s with partly cloudy skies.
history sunny skies In the nation, showers will hit the northern Rockies while thunderstorms will be scattered over the upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region. The Eastern states, the West Coast and the southern half of the country will have sunny skies with temperatures ranging in the 90s to 100s.
GOP leaders ask for summit
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Two leading Senate Republicans urgled President Reagan yesterday to start holding annual summit meetings with Soviet leaders to discuss world problems and some way not to blow each other up.
But the White House appeared to reject the idea, saying the president would only take part in a carefully prepared meeting where there was advance assurance of "tangible results."
"It's been five years since we met with our chief adversaries," Percy said, referring to the 1979 Vienna meeting between President Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, in which they signed the SALT II agreement that was never ratified by the Senate.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles Percy, R-Ill., and Senate GOF leader Howard E. Grassley, the idea during an Oval Office meeting.
today that we ought to be willing no later than next year to begin regular annual meetings, without high expectations but to take the agenda as to what the problems of the world are facing you said. "It is dangerous not to do it."
Baker told reporters after the meeting, "The world is so dangerous and the Russians are so stubborn and obstinate right now on coming back to the table on arms control, we ought to say, 'Look, OK, forget about that. Let's just get together and talk about the general world situation because we've got to figure out some way not to blow each other up."
"I think we ought to announce
White House spokesman Peter Roussel said, "We would only see that any such meetings be carefully planned and the impact of repeating tangible results."
Asked about Reagan's response, Baker said, "He didn't give an extensive reaction. He also didn't shoot it down."
A senior administration official said Reagan wanted to keep the issue focused on a Soviet return to the arms control talks. "We want to keep them on the main road and not take any side roads," he said.
Roussel said the president was ready to meet with the Soviets "as soon as they return to the bargaining table," but later withdrew that as a
condition for a summit.
The summit question is likely to come up at a Reagan news conference at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, his news conference since taking office.
The issue came up at a time when Republican campaign strategists are worried about Reagan's image on the war and peace issue.
Democratic presidential contender Walter Mondale has been calling for such summits for months, and Democratic television ads are playing up the fact that Reagan is the most popular president in the United States recognized the Soviet Union in 1933 not to meet with a Soviet chief executive.
"The president has been to Peking, and to go to Moscow would be perfectly appropriate." Percy said.
Court upholds seniority in layoffs
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Workers with seniority have top job priority when cities are forced to cut their payrolls, even if that means massive layoffs for newly hired minorities, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
The 6-3 ruling — a crucial decision on reverse discrimination — will affect cities across the nation that are being forced to lay off police officers, firefighters and other workers because of dwindling revenues.
Workers who are part of a "bona fide senior system" — one that does not have a discriminatory purpose — must be insulated from economically motivated layoffs, the Supreme Court majority declared.
"IT IS INAPPROPRIATE to deny an employee the benefits of his seniority in order to provide a remedy in the pattern of practice (of
discrimination) suit such as this." Justice Byron White wrote for the majority.
Black firefighters in Memphis, Tenn., where the case originated, reacted angrily. They have been fighting since 1977 to bring more blacks into the fire department, the most exclusively white until the 1970s.
"I think that the Supreme Court handed Mr. Reagan a very good re-election present." said Ulysses Crewell of the black firefighters union.
The court's decision overturns a lower court ruling that said the fire department's "last-hired, first-fired" principle of laying off workers and restoring wages in 1981 but the department had to retain a certain percentage of blacks.
The Reagan administration had pushed the high court for a ruling favoring seniority rights.
which forced the city to lay off some veteran white workers.
JUSTICE WHITE WROTE that the city did not intend, in a 1980 settlement of a race discrimination case brought by black firefighters, to place black firemen higher on the seniority ladder.
Leading the dissenters, Justice Harry Blackmun wrote that "race-conscious remedies" were not barred by federal bias law. Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall joined him.
White also ruled that the court could did not find that any of the blacks involved in the layoff had been actual victims of bias.
The dissenters argued against deciding the case, contending that — as in a case from Boston last year — the issues were no longer alive legally because Memphis rehired all but one firefighter within a month after the layoffs.
Committee plan cuts $1 billion from Medicare
WASHINGTON — House-Senate negotiators considering cuts in Medicare agreed yesterday to trim more than $1 billion from the health program for the elderly, but still not cutting recipients pay more for care.
There are currently 30 million Medicare beneficiaries.
By United Press International
The Senate proposed cutting $9 billion from Medicare, while the House plan would cut only $1 billion.
THE HOUSE PLAN totals $182 billion in reductions during the next three years, while the Senate's is $140 billion
The Medicare cuts are among the most controversial items in the overall attempt to reduce the federal deficit, estimated in President Reagan's budget at nearly 200 billion in fiscal 1985.
The $1 billion agreement reached yesterday would require a national fee schedule for Medicare payments to independent laboratories and lab work conducted in doctors' offices. Labs now are reimbursed a percentage of what they charge.
Senate proposals include increasing the premiums Medicare patients pay for doctors' care; limiting payments to hospital care; expanding care for a month and freezing fees that Medicare pays to doctors.
Rep. Marty Russo, D-Ill., called on the negotiators to "look at what are doing on the other side of the ledger" — taxes — before attacking programs for the elderly and the poor.
But Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which approved most of the Medicare cuts, said his committee tried to be very careful with how we were able to restrain spending. We share the need to protect older groups."
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