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University Daily Kansan, March 29, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Shultz warns of backlash if Congress moves embassy
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz warned a Senate subcommittee yesterday of a Muslim backlash if Congress passed legislation that would move the U.S. Embassy to Israel's disputed capital of Jerusalem.
"If we do it and the residence is actually moved, I'm sure there will be a tremendous set of implications to that and we'll just have to cope with it."
Shultz testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee after ambassadors from 23 Islamic countries warned him that moving the embassy would create problems for the United States throughout the Islamic world.
President Reagan and Shultz have said that moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would in effect certify Israel's annexation of the entire city.
Israel held only East Jerusalem until it ousted Jordanian forces in the 1967 war.
Freighter wreck creates sticky mess
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — a freighter carrying 10,000 tons of molasses hit a mine planted by U.S. backed rebels and sustained unspecified damage as it left one of Nicaragua's main Pacific ports yesterday, the government said.
No immediate reports were made regarding injuries among the crew of the Liberian registered freighter Inchaser. The precise extent of
The Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry said the Inderacher hit a powerful mine about 10 a.m. CDT just outside the port of Corinto, about 55 miles northwest of Managua. The owner of the freighter was not identified.
The ministry said the mine was planted by U.S.-supported rebels seeking to overthrow the Sandinista government and blamed the United
Quinlan's 30th birthday observed
TRENTON, N.J. — Eight years after the New Jersey Supreme Court permitted her parents to pull the plug on a respirator that doctors said she could not live without, Karen Ann Quinlan remains comatose as she turns 30 today.
Her adoptive parents, Julia and Joseph Quinlan, friends and other family members are marking her birthday as they have in past years, with a bedside mass in Quinlan's nursing home room in Morris Plains
Quinlan lapsed into a coma April 15, 1975, after apparently mixing tranquilizers and alcohol during or after a party the night before.
Israeli elections to be held July 23
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Shamir and the opposition Labor Party agreed yesterday to hold national elections on July 23, more than a year ahead of schedule.
The agreement, announced after the second meeting in two days between Shamir and Labor leader Shimon Peres, came as the nation was suffering from a 300 percent annual inflation rate and the death toll in the Lebanon war was pearcing 600.
The Jerusalem Post said that voters now have a choice between two major parties — Likud and Labor. Likud has ruled for the past seven years. Labor was in power for the state's first 29 years.
Cleanup of radioactive waste begins
OTTAWA, Ill.  The first phase began yesterday in a project to clean up radiative waste at the Luminous Processes plant, linked to as many as 40 deaths in 60 years. The cleanup was handled by Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc. of Oak Brook, Ill.
Roger Johnson, spokesman for the company, said 44 drums containing radioactive material will be trucked to the U.S. Ecology Barrel plant in Hanford. Wash.
In the past, female employees painted glow-in-the-dark numbers on watch and clock dials and became contaminated when they dipped brushes into water, twirled the brushes in their mouths to get a fine tip and then dipped the brushes into radium luminous power.
Rights panel asks for end of quotas
WASHINGTON — A sharply divided U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urged Congress yesterday to change key laws that protect minorities by limiting the link between federal aid and equal rights.
The commission also recommended that lawmakers stop the use of racial or sexual quotas to stop violations of civil rights.
The policy statement, adopted on a 5-2 vote, drew strong dissents from Commissioners Mary Frances Berry and Bladina Cardenas Ramirez, both holdovers who survived President Reagan's efforts last year to reconstitute the panel.
Mouse-milking machine developed
ULM, West Germany - Scientists have developed a thimble-scale milking machine designed for milking mice, a research group spokesman said yesterday.
The purpose of the device, which will be exhibited next week at the annual Hanover Spring Trade Fair, is to facilitate the analysis of a certain type of albumin occurring in both mouse's milk and human mother's milk, a spokesman for scientists from Ulm University said. 'This lactate albumin has been shown to retard the proliferation of bacteria.
The mouse-milking machine consists of a vacuum pump and a system of tiny tubes connected to three centimeter-high plastic milk pails. The rodent is anaesthetized and placed on its back during the process, not because it is painful, but because mice won't stand still to be milked.
WEATHER FACTS
Today snow will fall in the northern Rockies and rain in the Northeast. Locally, today will be partly sunny and warmer with a high in the mid- to upper 40s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Tonight will be fair with a low of 25 to 30.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high near 50.
CORRECTION
Because of incorrect information provided to a reporter, a story in yesterday's Kansan said that the Student Senate Finance Committee voted to open its budget deliberations to the public. The committee tabled a proposal to conduct open meetings.
Panel OKs plan to cut deficit
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House Budget Committee approved a plan yesterday that would cut the federal deficit by $182 billion over three years — the Democratic leaders' answer to President Reagan's $150 billion proposal.
The budget blueprint endorsed by the Democratic-led panel would limit most federal spending to a nominal 3.5 percent increase, less than the rate of inflation, which is about 4 percent. Social Security and guaranteed benefit programs such as foodamps and distribution programs would be exempt.
On a separate 19-9 vote along party lines, the committee agreed expenditures for military and welfare programs could increase 3.5 percent above the base level to compensate for the hikes, to give the proposal a "pay-as-you-go" label.
THE IDEA IS TO finance increases with a $49 billion three-year tax bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee to spend more to agree to higher taxes.
"If we want a 3.5 percent real growth in social safety net spending, if we want
3. 5 percent real increases in defense, the cost of that is $49 billion," said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., "and we ought to put it out there and the people see it."
Reagan and Republican Senate leaders have agreed on a $150 billion three-year deficit-reduction package that allows military spending to increase by 7.5 percent, raises some taxes and makes social program cuts.
Committee aides said they hope to get the $918 billion fiscal 1965 budget plan to the Rules Committee Tuesday and to the full House Wednesday. Committee Chairman James Jones, D-Okla., set the rus panel council on the "pay-as-you-go" amendment or allow separate votes on each.
GOP LEADERS HAD hoped to bring that plan, which would be separate from the annual budget, to the Senate this week by attaching it to a small tax bill left over from last year.
But objections to that approach mounted yesterday as Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., senior Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, added hi-
A Chiles aide said the senator is "not an obstructionist, but a traditionalist" who wants the regular procedure followed.
protest to the list. Sens, Mark Hatfield,
Steve Long, D-La.
previously on the oppose
A number of other deficit-reduction plans have come to light on Capitol Hill in recent weeks, including a spending package and several modified freeze proposals.
HOUSE SPEAKER Thomas O'Neil, D-Mass., said that the House would get to vote on all of the proposals, but that he hoped members eventually would go along with the Budget Committee's version.
"I think everyone's entitled to get his day in court," he said.
All of the effort is aimed at trimming the annual deficits, which will be about $200 billion a year through fiscal 1987 if nothing is done. The high deficits are blamed for keeping interest rates up and Wall Street nervous.
House Republicans also are working on a plan that is expected to include more military spending and deeper social program cuts.
Twisters kill 61 people in the South
Tornadoes bowled across the Carolinas last night, hurling oak trees like javelins, collapsing a forest of 61 people. Hundreds were injured.
By United Press International
Forty-four died in North Carolina and 17 in South Carolina. Eleven were confirmed dead at Bennettville, S.C., on the North Carolina border, and seven more were reported missing. Ten died in Pitt County. Twelve were lost in Campbell County and seven in Aulander, near the North Carolina Coast.
Nine were confirmed dead in Greene County, N.C.; two in Scotland County, across the border from Bennettville; one in Dupin County, two in Robeson County, two in Wayne County, one in Cumberland County, one in Herford County and one in Periquimans County.
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