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University Daily Kansan, April 18, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Low March housing starts set monthly decline record
WASHINGTON — Housing starts fell 27 percent in March, the biggest month-to-month drop on record, the government said yesterday.
White House officials and private analysts attributed the decline to bad weather in March, rising interest rates and the volatility that monthly housing figures often exhibit. They said that the sharp drop did not happen in March, which was estimated between 1.7 million and 1.8 million housing starts.
The 27 percent drop in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.6 million units followed a revised 12.7 percent increase in February to an annual rate of 2.2 million units.
White House spokesman Larry Speaks said that, in addition to severe March weather, starts probably were slowed by builders' and buyers' concern over interest rates in the past couple of months — even mortgage rates changed little in March.
jobless rate decreases in 45 states
WASHINGTON — Unemployment declined in 45 states in February, led by decreases in Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Oregon, the Labor Department reported yesterday.
West Virginia once again had the nation's highest unemployment rate, with 16.5 percent of its work force looking for jobs.
The raw data, which do not take into account seasonal factors, showed unemployment increasing in only three states — Iowa, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
In all of the other 45 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, unemployment declined over the month from January.
The greatest decreases came in Texas, down 1.4 percentage points from 7.3 percent to 5.9 percent, and in Florida, where it dipped from 7.4 percent to 6.1 percent.
Four-star Gen. Clark dies of cancer
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Four-star Gen. Mark CII Allied invasion of Italy in World War II and signed the treaty ending the Korean War, died yesterday of cancer. He was 87.
Gen. Clark suffered from cancer of the pancreas which had spread to his liver. He also had a history of heart problems, doctors said. He had been hospitalized nearly a month.
Gen. Clark, dubbed "The American Eagle" by Winston Churchill, commanded alongside Gens. Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Omar Bradley and Douglas MacArthur in the second world war.
Clark Gen. Clark was president of The Citadel, South
Carolina's military college, from 1954 to 1965 after retiring from the Army after 36 years.
Six die in terrorist attack in India
NEW DELHI, India - Terrorists yesterday killed six people, including a Hindu leader, in a rash of slayings blamed on extremists in the Sikh religious community in Punjab state.
In one incident, motorcycle-riding terrorists carrying grenades and firearms attacked a marketplace in the Punjab capital of Chandigarh, killing one person and wounding seven others, officials said.
The deaths pushed to 149 the number of people killed in nine weeks of bloodshed in Punjab and neighboring areas. Most of the deaths are blamed on Sikh extremists waging a battle for greater control of the state and religious recognition.
Ohio judge indicted in bribery case
CLEVELAND — A judge was indicted yesterday for allegedly taking a $5,000 bribe from a federal undercover agent who offered the judge the money to use his influence in a murder case pending against a member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge James McGettrick was named in a two-count bribery indictment for allegedly soliciting a bribe April 2 and then receiving the $5,000 April 12.
McGetrick allegedly took the money to handle a murder case involving Frank Fencl, a Hell's Angel member, in a favorable manner, the indictment said. Fencl, 33, Cleveland, was scheduled to go on trial before McGetrick这走 on a charge of aggravated murder in the 1980 slaying of Joseph Bonarrigo. McGetrick, 65, was arrested Friday in his chambers.
America's oldest man dies at 123
OAKLAND. Calif. — Arthur Reed, who was born the year Abraham Lincoln was elected president and who possibly was the oldest man in the United States, died Sunday, two months short of his 124th birthday.
Details about Reed's death were not available from relatives yesterday, but he always had been in relatively vigorous health. Friends said he looked 40 years younger than his age. He was born June 28, 1860.
Reed has been married three times but had said he had no children "because I work all the time."
Reed's age had been verified by the Social Security Administration, which has been paying him benefits since 1944, just seven years after the agency was established.
Aide may get fired for striptease act
ARLINGTON, Va. — A Missouri congressman will decide in two weeks whether to fire an aide who pleaded guilty to performing a striptease in front of some stunned female college students, a spokesman said yesterday.
James Webb, 33, a St. Louis native and a Democratic Rep. Robert Young, pleaded guilty Monday in Arlington General District Court to presenting an obscene performance at Marymount College on Feb. 20.
Webb is accused of conning his way into the dormitory at the college by saying that some students paid his "agency" $100 to send a male stripper to another student on the fourth floor.
The young women threw the man out when he took off all his clothes with the exception of an unbuttoned shirt.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 4-18-84
Today rain will fall in the Pacific Coast states, as well as in parts of the lower Plains and the Ohio Valley.
Locally, today will be mostly sunny with a high of 65 to
Locally, today will be mostly sunny with a high of 65 to 70.
Twilight will be nearly cloudy with a low around 40.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-to upper 60s.
Nicaraguan troops run rebels out of port
The Defense Ministry issued a communique late yesterday saying that the remote Caribbean port of San Juan was under siege and ceptured after a day of fierce fighting.
Nicargara forces firing from gunboats and aircraft yesterday flushed anti-Sandista rebels out of a southern town where they had hoped to set up a provisional government and name a president, the Defense Ministry said.
By United Press International
It said the Costa Rica-based rebels fled in five boats and that Sandinista planes had sunk two of them as they sped away on the San Juan River,
The ministry communique said rebel forces of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, or ARDE, were raining mortars and heavy artillery on Sandista troops inside the port as fighting continued.
The claims by either side could not be immediately confirmed because re-
viewing the claim is not appropriate.
which divides Costa Rica from Nicaragua.
It was the first town the guerrillas had been able to take and ARDE leader
The rebels had seized the town Friday after a week-long siege.
A rebel spokesman in San Jose, the Costa Rican capital, denied that the group had been involved.
Eden Pastora declared Monday that his rebels would establish a provisional government in the town and name Robelo as the provisional president.
He said that Sandistas could retake the port but that the town would be envisioned.
San Juan Del Norte is located near El Bluff, one of three Nicaraguan ports mined by Nicaraguan rebels with U.S. support.
Pastora said earlier in the day that nine gumbats "are bombarding us with lead" and aircraft and helicopters hit them. Norte, 230 miles southeast of Managua.
Pastora, known as Commander Zero.
had also said that ARDE rebels planned to attack a Nicaraguan military base in Bluefields, a harbor and on San Juan del Norte.
Pastora, a Sandinista hero until he broke with the government over its Marxist drift, said in a radio interview monitored in Managua that the rebels needed "everything from shoes to rocket launchers" to keep fighting.
"Above all we need medicine, food," Pastora said.
The ARDE is the only one of three rebel groups that claims it has not received any of some $53 million in CIA funding from the three organizations in the last two years.
AMPIL, Cambodia — Vietnamese troops in Cambodia yesterday attacked three sprawling camps that house tens of thousands of refugees and guerrillas
Vietnamese attack Cambodian border camps
The The Thai government called the offensive calls and unjustifiable attacks against them.
Rv United Press International
Vietnamese gunners firing 130mm
artillery launched a barrage on Ampli, an encampment just inside the Cambodian border, shortly before dawn and assaulted the defenses of the Khmer Rouge People's National Liberation Front.
The camp, about 25 miles northeast of the key Thai town of Aranyaprathet, was the guerrillas' biggest stronghold until a Vietnamese attack Sunday set it afire and scattered most of its 32,000 residents.
By late yesterday, guerrillas still held part of the camp, but Thai army officers at the border said the defenders had a large number of holding out more than a day or two.
The guerrillas belong to a three-faction coalition trying to oust Vietnamese troops from Cambodia. Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978 and installed a government in Phnom Penh.
In China, the official Xinhua News
Agency said that Chinese militiamen killed at least 21 Vietnam soldiers
Western diplomats said the flare-up on that border probably reflected a Chinese attempt to relieve pressure on China's territories in Southeast Asia under attack along the Thai frontier.
Thai military sources said that Vietnamese gunners early yesterday fired into two other densely populated refugee camps.
BINK AND TIFFY DO THE GAMMONS THING.
Honestly Bink, I thought we were slumming tonight. So why are we at Gammons?
Tiff, I just needed to go somewhere where I knew I'd find a good stiff G&T for a change. If I have one more bad cocktail, I'll be driving the porcelian bus all night long!
You're a panic, Bink. But seriously, we're slumming because daddy didn't put any money in your checking account, right? Gammons looks like a pretty expensive place, you know.
No chance, Tiff! Tonight, we can suck all the cocktails we want from 8 'til 11 for three bucks apiece. Here-have a beezo-or a bloodie even! Tiffy, you're the cheapest date I'll ever have!
Your generosity overwhelms me, Bink. But I don't like being called cheap and besides, just how many other dates do you plan on having anwhow?
Oh, mellow out. What say we pop out on the dance floor and chew face for a bit?
Tiffy, you know you're the only girl for me — I mean it. Besides, we'll be Yumpies pretty soon, so let's have some fun while we still
Oh, I-I just don't know, Bink.
ooh, so let's have some fun while we still can
Oh, all right. Let's have that dance.
Actually, you know what? Tiffy, I think we've reached a turning point in our relationship, and at a time like this, we should be alone. What say we go home and smash mouth in a big way?
But Bink, this place is so key, and besides, you know perfectly well how I feel about —
Sshh!
Oh all right, Bink. I won't embarrass you in public. Let's cruise.
Outstanding. We're history. But really, Tiff-
to come here more often.
DRINK AND DROWN TONIGHT! ALL YOU CAN DRINK FROM 8 TIL 11, A MEASLY THREE BUCKS.
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