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University Daily Kansan, March 30, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Trade deficit sets a record and surprises economists
WASHINGTON — The economy is growing at a slower rate and
will continue to grow, a record $10.1
billion in February, the government reported yesterday.
The trade deficit in February was higher than anticipated and came as a surprise to most analysts. It was the second consecutive month during which the merchandise trade deficit set a new record. David Lund said there may be a $110 billion shortfall in trade this year.
Housing sales grew 7.8 percent in February. The average price of a new house increased $2,100 to $49,500, the department said.
Even though the economy has been growing at a 7.2 percent annual rate, Commerce Department economist Robert Orner said, "This trade deficit is probably going to worsen."
300 police replace French in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese police replaced French troops at the only open crossing between east and west Beirut yesterday and the nation's warring factions agreed to halt their devastating bombardments of residential areas of the city.
With 26 dead and 136 people wounded as a result of heavy shelling inside the city Wednesday, the faction leaders agreed at a meeting chaired by President Amin Gemayel to stop artillery attacks on residential areas.
Only scattered light arms fire was heard during the day after the latest truce was reached early yesterday at the presidential palace in Baabda.
Lava flows within 12 miles of Hilo
HILO, Hawaii — The flow of fiery lava from the Mauna Loa volcano pushed a stage of emergency, but officials still saw a state of emergency.
They said the flow has the potential to destroy everything in its path. It might be several days before the molten rock river reaches the nearest homes. Still, officials advised people to begin preparing to evacuate.
Hilo Mayor Herbert Matayoshi said it was not "a panic situation," but declared the emergence for the east and southeast sections of the island of Hawaii.
Iraq savs it hit Iranian naval targets
LONDON — Iraqi jets and warships hit four large Iranian naval targets and downed two Iranian helicopters at the head of the Persian Gulf yesterday, Iraq's official news agency said.
In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Al Akbar Velayati met with foreign envoys but Iran did not immediately comment on Iraq's strategy.
Iraqi forces scored "direct and effective hits on four large naval targets" detected in the Gulf at dawn, said the Iraqi news agency INA.
Hijacked ietliner returns from Cuba
GRAPEVINE, Texas — Disheveled passengers who had ridden a hijacked Delta Air Lines jet to Cuba arrived home yesterday to hugs, kisses and flowers from relatives and with stories of their less-than-harrowing 13-hour ordeal.
One passenger wore a baseball cap sporting the legend, "I Love Cuba," which he bought during two hours of souvenir shopping at Havana's Jose Marti Airport.
Delta Flight 357 carrying 26 passengers and crew was hijacked Wednesday night 30 minutes after takeoff from New Orleans by a Cuban-born man who threatened to set fire to the plane with a bottle of flammable liquid.
360 protesters arrested in London
LONDON — Police arrested 360 protesters they described as punk-clad anarchists, homosexuals and peace activists who invaded London's financial district yesterday to register their scorn for big business and government.
Protesters smashed windows and hurled smoke bombs at police. Two officers were injured.
Groups of teen-agers in colorful hairdos and tight leather clothes backpacks and disrupted traffic in what they called "Stop the City" demonstration.
Police described the protesters as "anarchists, animal liberation members and gay groups" demonstrating against financial institutions and international arms trade.
"If that was my daughter, I'd have drowned her at birth," said one businessman, referring to a teen-ager with pink hair and 11 earrings.
Pravda calls for architecture reform
MOSCOW — You can close a boring book, turn from a bad picture or leave an unpleasant concert, but ugly, unimaginative buildings are a different matter. Pravda reported yesterday.
The Communist Party daily newspaper called on architects to recognize that the country had gone beyond the stage of merely building apartments to house people. Design standards must be raised, Pravda reported.
"Architecture is an art which exerts influence upon people constantly and independently." Praveda reported "Town planning needs far more than any other industry."
Thirty years ago the Soviet Union was interested only in the number of dwellings, Pravda reported.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 3-30-84
UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST
Today will be partly cloudy in northeast Kansas, with a chance of storms for tonight and tomorrow. Rain and thunderstorms are forecast from today.
Locally, the high today will be about 45. Tonight will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain or snow. The low will be around 30. Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of snow. The high will be in the 30s. Thundershowers and a high in the 50s are expected for Sunday.
CORRECTION
Because of a reporter's error, a story about Girl Scout cookies in yesterday's Kansas incorrectly identified June Preston. She is one of seven cookie captains for the Sunrise District of the Kaw Valley Girl Scout Council. Also, four bakeries bake the cookies, not five as reported. Also, there are 100 Sunrise district troops, not 10 as reported.
Meese kept cuff links illegally, CBS says
By United Press International
Meesel, the nominee for attorney general, and presidential spokesman Larry Speaks both turned in pairs of the cuff links this week to White House reporters asked questions about the jewelry, a White House aide said.
WASHINGTON — Edwin Meese kept a pair of jade and gold cuff links he received from South Korea last year against federal law, CBS News reported yesterday. CBS also reported that Meese failed to note the gift on his financial disclosure statement.
UNDER FEDERAL regulations,
officials have 60 days to donate to the
National Archives any gifts from
The cuff links that Meese, Speakes and 10 other top government officials received when they visited South Korea with President Reagan last November are valued at $75 by the White House Gift Unit.
foreign governments worth more than $140.
Among the allegations being investigated is Meese's failure to reveal a $15,000 loan to his wife on financial disclosure statements. The friend who loaned the money later got a government job.
The cuff link incident came to light during an intensive investigation into Meese's financial background and the appointment of a special prosecutor to determine any wrongdoing prior to the arrival of Meese's confirmation hearings.
THREE OFFICIALS turned over their jewelry to the government two weeks after returning from South Korea, a White House aide said. They are James Baker, White House chief of staff; Michael Deaver, deputy chief; and Robert McFarlane, national security affairs adviser.
Secretary of State George Shultz turned in his set of cuff links, bearing the South Korean government insignia, in January.
After the publicity over Meese keeping his cuff links, Paul Woolfowitz, assistant secretary of state for Asian affairs, turned over his cuff links yesterday to the protocol division of the State Department.
White House aides refused to identify the five remaining officials who received cuff links and have not yet
surrendered them. There are no criminal penalties for failing to relinquish
Speakes said he did not give up his cuff links right away because, "I didn't believe they were worth that much."
A WHITE HOUSE aide said others who failed to turn over the cuff links initially "didn't take them seriously at all." South Korean officials knew about the $140 limit when they presented the jewelry, the aide said.
On a financial disclosure statement filed Feb. 23, 1984, in conjunction with his nomination to attorney general, Meese, who is Reagan's White House counselor, listed five other gifts he or his wife received from foreign governments in 1983. But the cuff links are not mentioned.
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