University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1984
Page 11
NATION AND WORLD
Protesters rock Lima with bombs
By United Press International
LIMA, Peru — At least six bombs exploded last night — one near the U.S. Embassy — and gunfire broke out in the Peruvian capital just hours after the government declared a state of emergency on the eve of a general strike.
The explosions, which police said were apparently the work of the Maoiist guerrilla group Shring Path, blew out windows and shattered brick walls from the presidential palace.
Dynamite also exploded near the U.S. Embassy and Sheraton Hotel, but no damage was reported, police said. Authorities said other explosions rocked the affluent suburb of Mirroring, seven miles from downtown, another residential area. Public Libre, where a military barracks is located.
Witnesses said they heard a gun battle as police in speeding cars chased suspected guerrillas downtown and near a shopping center, where dynamite charges also exploded.
No injuries were reported in any of the attacks.
The explosions came after the Peruvian government declared a national state of emergency and suspended efforts to stop a 24-hour general strike.
Labor leaders and opposition politicians labeled the three-day suspension of rights "a provocation" and vowed it would not deter today's strike.
Spokesmen for the four major labor coalitions organizing the one-day strike said most of Peru's 8-million-member work force, including miners, bank employees, teachers, farmers and doctors, will join the protest.
Reagan picking next term's staff
By NORMAN SANDLER United Press International
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Call it presumptuous or merely preparatory. But with the political landscape still hazy, the White House already is deciding who will be invited to serve in the second Reagan administration.
John Herrington, director of presiden tional personnel, has begun eval uating the loyalty and performance of 400 to 500 political appointees "to find out who stays, who goes, and who gets fired" if President Reagan wives re-election.
Herrington describes the undertaking as an effort to determine how many vacancies may occur between now and Election Day and how many he may have to fill at the start of a second term.
"We want to know who's done a good job for us," Herrington said. "I want to put good people in good jobs."
But there is another compelling reason for the sweeping review:
Reagan from the start, and less ideological converts drawn from the camps of Vice President George Bush and other Republicans, has been present within the administration from the outset.
Herrington wants to root out malcontents and embarrassments and ensure that those who serve the church so with loyalty and commitment.
Tension between conservatives, the "true believers" who have supported
Sometimes the friction has been difficult to conceal, as in the case of White House infighting and rough-and-tumble internal debates over foreign policy. At other times, it has simmered beneath the surface.
ANALYSIS
Herrington said the administration had little use for political appointees who openly questioned Reagan's policies or members of boards or
commissions who engaged "in public flights with fellow appointees." He mentioned no examples, but may have been referring to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — both irritants to the White House.
By November, Herrington hopes to have reviewed the files of assistant Cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and members of regulatory boards. The commission would expire in the next four years, and have a master plan ready.
Given the uncertainties of election-year politics, the work may seem premature. But Herrington, known for unquestioned loyalty to the president and a no-nonsense approach to political jobs, wants to be prepared.
"We're going to have people working on the campaign who will want to work in government after the election," he said. "We have to know what we've got in terms of people and vacancies."
Nicaragua accuses U.S. of terrorism
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Nicaraguan government accused the Reagan administration yesterday of pursuing “a policy of terrorism” after a mine planted by U.S.-backed rebels ripped a hole in a Soviet oil tanker.
The Soviet Union also issued a protest, charging the United States with "piracy" for the explosion Tuesday that damaged the Soviet tanker Lugansk and injured five crewmen at the port of Sandino. 40 miles southwest of Managua.
by the Reagan administration in its eagerness to re-establish its dominance over our country," said a communique issued by the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry.
"This confirms once again the aggressive and criminal nature of the policy of terrorism of the state pursued
In the past month, all three of Nicaragua's major ports have been mined by U.S.-backed rebels trying to oust the left Sandinista government. Two foreign ships and three Nicaraguan vessels have collided with the mines.
Charge d'Afaires Warren Zimmerman charging Washington with direct interference in the affairs of Central America, including "equipping and training anti-government rebels."
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko also blamed Washington for the blast and demanded compensation for damage and injury to five sailors being treated in a Soviet-run hospital in Chinandegea and the ship's clinic.
In other developments in Central America:
Gromvko wrote a protest note to U.S.
- Jose Napoleon Duarte, a leading Salvadoran presidential candidate, said yesterday a serious split had opened in the leftist rebell movement over the use of violence to disrupt March 25 elections. Duarte, 57, the moderate Christian Democrat who supported the rebels blockading highways and taking identification documents from potential voters were guilty of "gangsterism."
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If the Mayor continues to progress and thus recognizes the validity of the Downtown Comprehensive Plan, which advocates strengthening downtown Lawrence by rendering it "a compact, pedestrian-oriented area . . . (with its) primary focal point. . . the intersection of Massachusetts Street and Eighth Street. . . (and) the primary retail core . . . within the area bounded by Seventh Street, Tenth Street, Vermont Street, and Rhode Island Street", perhaps he could persuade other local dignitaries that any redevelopmental effort which circumstances this carefully determined thesis would probably fail.
Many concerned Lawrencians were heartened to read, in the Journal-World's March 8th issue, of Mayor Longhurst's overdue advance. After attending the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's International Council of Shopping Centers Downtown Development Retail Conference in Washington D.C., the Mayor told the Downtown Improvement Committee that he, too, now realized that Lawrence's downtown would probably suffer "a very significant deterioration" without redevelopment. This conference, he admitted, also convinced him that any redevelopmental effort must both concentrate retail "services in one area" and win community support.
For instance, instead of allowing Journal-World Editor and Publisher Dolph C. Simons Jr. to think those opposed to the current proposal are simply malcontents, in Mr. Simons' words, "who really don't want" development anywhere, the Mayor might explain that a redevelopmental effort which puts to practical use the information so painstakingly acquired these last three years has a much greater chance of succeeding than does Town Center Venture's plan which ignores this accumulated data.
Or the Mayor could entrap the Journal-World editorialist who feels that "the issue of Town Center Venture Corp. project's being too far from the rest of the downtown" is unimportant and refer him to the Urban Land Institute's Shopping Center Developmental Handbook passage which says. "The maximum walking distance from a car to the store should be 400 feet" and Teska Associates' Work Paper's conclusion "that the four block area chosen for the JVJ mail proposal. . . (with its) 1000 foot maximum length guideline (1000 feet from one end of shopping center to the other). . . is the most appropriate one for major future retail change in Downtown".
As Mayor Longhurst sees the need to strengthen our existing retail core and thereby gain community support, let's hope he champions a corporate entity committed to the same goals.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Terr.
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Reagan asks for support of plan to reduce deficit
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan threatened yesterday to veto the $150 billion deficit reduction package that he supported unless Congress approved it intact — with both spending cuts and minor tax increases.
Reagan went to Capitol Hill to rally Republican support for the three-year plan to cut the national debt by slowing the increase of military spending to 7.5 percent this year, cutting social programs and closing tax loopholes.
The package is an effort to head off the danger of the federal government soaking up funds needed for growth and endangering economic recovery. Reagan's $1.7 trillion fund of his proposed $925 billion 1985 budget which runs $180 billion in the red.
"If anyone sends me this tax package and at the same time does not include the spending cuts, I will veto the tax package." Reagan said to House Republicans. He delivered the same message to GOP senators.
which runs. Reagan told GOP lawmakers that he also would veto any effort to raise taxes across the board this year, but he said future tax changes might be needed if annual deficits were not tamed. Economists estimate the debt will top $1.5 trillion this year.
Democrats have devised their own
deficit reduction plan. Over the next three years, they want to institute a $185 billion "pay-as-you-go" plan that would allow defense and social welfare taxes to increase by 3.5 percent if taxes were raised that would off so the increase.
In a letter to Senate colleagues, the three urged support for the freeze to ensure that the deficit reduction program is in effect in an suitable, broad-based manner.
Sens. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan.
Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said they would propose a one-year freeze on all spending when the president's plan came to the floor.
Serin, Orn Hatch, R-Ultah, criticized the Democratic plan yesterday, saying. The president was appalled ... at the militaries military spending programs.
Hatch said the Democrats suggested cutting twice as much from the Pentagon budget over a three-year period as Reagan agreed to accept.
The Senate Finance Committee also completed work on a tax and spending-cut package that totals about $73 billion. Nearly $50 billion is in tax increases, changing business tax income by 10 percent, increasing by 20 percent, keeping the 3 percent telephone tax and making corporate tax adjustments.
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