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University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Chinese and Vietnamese escalate fighting on border
PEKING — Chinese and Vietnamese gunners traded fierce artillery fire along their common border yesterday in a sharp escalation of fighting that claimed many lives on both sides, the official Xinhua news agency said.
agency staff.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman blamed the Vietnamese for the escalation and said, "They will be held responsible for all the consequences" unless "all border provocations immediately stop."
xesterday was the third and bloodiest day of artillery exchanges since fighting has been stepped up along the Thai-Cambodian frontier where Vietnamese troops are battling Chinese-backed Cambodian rebels.
GREENHAM COMMON, England — Police yesterday tore down six camps of women anti-nuclear protesters outside Greenham Common Air Base, evicting some 100 women and arresting 31.
Police crash 'peace camp'
The destruction of the "peace camp" outside the main gate and five smaller camps around the air base was a serious blow to the two-year-old protest against the installation of U.S.-built cruise missiles at the base.
Although police and sheriff's balliiffs ripped apart and hauled away the women's flimsy plastic shelters, the women fled to the nearby woods and vowed to continue their protest.
Between 300 and 400 police and bailiffs descended on the women's main camp in the pre-dawn hours and dragged away those who refused to go.
The camp had been ordered cleared by the High Court to make way for road-widening planned by the government. The protesters said they would form a new camp on public land near the gate.
Chernenko asks to renew arms talks
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko called on Washington to "clear the obstacles" created by the placement of new U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe that are blocking any resumption of nuclear arms talks.
The Soviet Union would welcome talks with the United States, Chenkenko said in a letter to former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt that was reported by the official Soviet news agency Tass.
But, he said, "each U.S. nuclear missile deployed on 'European soil' belies Washington's call to resume arms talks."
The Soviets broke off the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces talks last fall when NATO began to deploy its medium-range cruise and Pershing 2 nuclear missiles in western Europe.
Meese bank linked to civil rights job
WASHINGTON — Clarence Pendleton, who earned $58,385 last year as chief of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, got the part-time post while director of a bank that let Edwin Meese skip 15 months of house payments, officials said yesterday.
Pendleton, a San Diego businessman, is the third official of Great American Federal Savings and Loan of San Diego to receive a federal appointment.
Meese, who has been nominated as attorney general, owed nearly $423,000 to the savings and loan while in the White House. A special prosecutor was appointed this week to investigate Meese's finances, including his financial links with seven others who later received government jobs.
March car sales up 26.5% from '83
DETROIT — U.S. automakers yesterday turned in their best March performance in five years — a 26.5 percent increase—and officials said the nation's economy would benefit from even stronger first quarter sales.
Import automakers saw their share of the domestic market drop for the second month in a row. Japanese companies blamed slim supplies due to import quotas, which reached the end of their third year in March.
The six U.S. firms — General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., American Motors Corp., Volkswagen of America and American Honda Inc. — sold 756,164 cars in March compared with 597,705 in 1983.
King says segregation still evident
ATLANTA — The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. said yesterday on the 16th anniversary of her husband's assassination that traces of segregation remain in this country, despite "fundamental and radical changes in race relations."
King was remembered during wreath-laying ceremonies at his white-marbled crypt in the area near downtown Atlanta known as "Sweet Anthur" where he was raised.
The civil rights leader and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was killed by an assassin while on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., April 4, 1968. He was preparing to lead a boycott by garbage workers when he was shot.
Lovemaking distinguishes species
LONDON — One anthropologist thinks that man's closest relative among the apes is the orangutan because, among other reasons, it compulates for a longer period than other members of the ape family.
Writing in the current issue of "Nature" magazine, Jeffrey H. Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh said evidence from molecular, biochemical and chromosomal data did not necessarily support the theory that humans and African apes were closely related.
“However, some data do seem to point to the evolutionary closeness of humans and the orangutan,” he said.
He listed 26 biological points of similarity between man and the orangutan.
WEATHER FACTS
Today, rain will fall on both coasts with fair weather predicted for the rest of the nation.
Locally, today will be sunny and warmer with a high of 60, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
the Night will be mostly clear with a low of 40.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny and warmer with a high in the mid-to- upper 60s.
Senate rejects troop bill
WASHINGTON - The Senate turned back a new effort yesterday to limit President Reagan's authority in Central America, refusing to bar him from sending combat troops to El Salvador without congressional approval.
"The administration has repeatedly stated it has no intention of introducing U.S. troops in El Salvador," Sen. Bob Penney said, a measure by Patrick Leahy, D-VI.
By United Press International
But Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del, said, "We can see where this fellow is taking us I believe the day after he left us," he added. The American troops fighting in Latin America."
The proposal — an amendment to a bill providing emergency aid to El Salvador — was rejected 59-36.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass,
failed in a similar attempt last week,
but the new amendment picked up the
support of some Democrats who had
opposed his earlier efforts to bury
their president. Salvador Nicaragua and Honduras.
Kennedy said that the latest amendment would mean "no blank check for Ronald Reagan to send combat troops into El Salvador."
Earlier in the day, the Senate sent a warning to the Salvadoran military by approving an amendment that would halt U.S. aid to the embattled country if the army overthrew El Salvador's duly elected president.
Although the proposal by Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Aark, does not mention any individual, it was clearly intended to protect moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte, who faces a runoff election with rightist Roberto d'Aubusson.
A closed-door session to discuss the Nicaragua aid and other matters had been suggested, but the leadership was not interested in such a move would not be necessary.
The amendments were offered to a bill containing $62 million in emergency military aid that Reagan has requested for El Salvador and $21 million he has requested to support CIA-backed rebels in Nicaragua.
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., called the proposal to keep troops from El Salvador a "seriously flawed policy" that would undermine the president's authority.
Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz, said he would do anything to avoid war "but not go down on my knees and put my tail between my legs."
Senate Republican leader Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee pushed the Senate to finish the overall bill within the next two days.
NEW YORK — Firefighters look over the rubble of two collapsed brick buildings on New York's lower East Side. The buildings collapsed yesterday killing two workers, injuring 18 people and trapping three others.
United Press International
Debate begins on 1985 budget
HOUSE DEMOCRATIC leader Jim Wright, Texas said that the Reagan budget would be voted on just to "show how little support there is."
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Budget Committee chairman James Jones, D-Okla. opened debate on the fiscal 1985 budget yesterday by calling on the House to pass the "honest, enforceable" blueprint supported by Democratic leaders.
Reagan himself abandoned the document when he agreed with Senate Republican leaders to a compromise that would trim his original military spending request of $113 billion and
The Democratic budget, approved by Jones's committee last week, would trim $182 billion from the deficit in the next three years — cutting $96 billion from defense and $16 billion from social programs, and increasing taxes nearly $50 billion.
House leaders were confident that the compromise would pass. But it is only one of eight different plans, some of which would cut more from the debt either by raising taxes or cutting spending dramatically, especially in the military.
Wright said it was "always a possibility" that the House would reject all of the budgets, as it did two years ago, but said, "I think, however, that we will overcome it this year."
BY LETTING THE HOUSE vote on the various plans, Wright said that he hoped those whose favorite was defeated would agree to the Democratic plan.
raise nearly $50 billion in taxes
But, he warned, "There is a certain amount of chewing gum and bailing
wire and fishing gear we we've used to tie this all together."
Jones questioned whether the House could adhere to any of the alternatives. "Any budget you support must be honest and realistic," he told the House.
He said that the financial markets "expect realistic deficit reduction in the range of $150 billion to $200 billion over the next three years."
The House scheduled two days of debate on the budgets, hoping to pass $598 billion in spending.
5-million-year-old fossil found
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Scientists reported yesterday the discovery of a 5-million-year-old fossil bone of a bionid, a humanlike creature that dates back 1 million years before the oldest known ancestor of mankind.
The National Science Foundation said the fossil, a fragment of a lower jaw with two mollars, was found in a cave in the southern Appalachian Mountains Harvard University and the National
Museums of Kenya. Scientists found the fossil in an arid region of Kenya.
The fossil, which is about 2 inches long and 1 inch deep, is similar to those of small members of the species Australopithecus afarensis, which were found in Tanzia and Ethiopia and date from about 4 million years, scientists said.
The Baringo Paleontological Research Project, the joint expedition that made the new discovery, was led by Andrew Hill of Harvard. Kiptalam Chepboi, a member of the Kenyan expedition队, found the fossil
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