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University Daily Kansan, March 2. 1984
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from UPI
Philippos march to Manila to disrupt Marcos' regime
MANILA, Philippines — From north and south of the capital, anti-government marchers yesterday began a 60-mile trek toward Manila aimed at "paralyzing" the government and rallying support for a Mav election bovett.
Singing "U.S. Marcos dictator is falling down" to the tune of "London Bridge," Aquino's marchers passed the gates of the U.S. Clark Air Base.
An estimated 9,700 Filipinos marched toward Manila from Concepcion, the birthplace of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino, 60 miles north of Manila, while 1,500 gathered in the southern city of San Pablo.
Aquino's younger brother Agapito told marchers on the northern trek, "We will destroy (President Ferdinand) Marcos." "We will paralyze metro Manila until Marcos listens to our reasonable demands," he said.
Retailers report high February sales
The reports were strong at department stores and mass merchandise outlets.
"What you've got here is retailer nirvana," said Stuart Robbins, a Paine Woollett retail analyst
NEW YORK — The nation's large retail stores yesterday reported robust increases in sales for February, indicating that the New Year shopping boom was still rolling along.
Sears, Reebuck and Co., the nation's largest retailer, said February sales were 10.4 percent higher than the same month a year ago. Sears sold $1.4 billion in merchandise in the four weeks that ended Feb. 25, up from $1.27 billion in February 1983.
Monkeys provide clues about AIDS
WASHINGTON — Scientists reported yesterday that they infected healthy monkeys with an AIDS-like disease using a newly discovered virus and said the findings provided further clues to the cause of AIDS in people.
The researchers from the University of California at Davis isolated the virus in a monkey with Simian acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which suppresses the immune system and leaves the animal open to cancers and infections.
The researchers injected the agent into three healthy monkeys, which developed signs of Simian AIDS 60 to 65 days later and died.
'Addams Family' actor dies at 69
HOLLYWOOD - Jackie Coogan, who became the first child star in movie history as the sad-eyed wait in Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid," died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 69.
Mr. Coogan, known to another generation as Uncle Fester on the "Addams Family" TV series, died at Santa Monica Hospital at 1:32 p.m. from cardiac arrest, a hospital spokesman said.
When Mr. Coogan was 18 months old, his mother took him to a studio, seated him in a high chair and made him gurgle and weep, winning his first movie role in "Skinner's Baby."
Jackie Coogan
At age 4, appearing in an act with swimmer Annette Kellerman, Mr. Coogan was spotted by Chaplin, who cast him in "The Kid" in 1919. He also appeared in "Peck's Bad Boy" and "Oliver Twist." His talking movies included "The Actress" and "Shakiest Gun in the West."
News writers' union puts off strike
NEW YORK — The union representing 700 television news writers and graphic artists postponed a threatened midnight strike against ABC and CBS yesterday and gave the networks until next week to offer a new contract.
The Writers Guild of America originally asked its members to approve a strike at the expiration of the current three-year contract at 12:01 a.m. today, but decided to put off a possible walkout to give management time to offer make a credible offer.
The walkout by radio and television news writers and graphic artists would affect such programs as "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather ABC's 'World News Tonight with Peter Jennings'," ABC's "CBS America," "CBS Morning News," "CBS's '60 Minutes'," and ABC's "20-20."
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neil indicated yesterday that he might not finish another term if a Democrat won the presidency in 1984. However, he said he would remain in office at least two years if President Reagan were re-elected.
O'Neill, 71, said he would stay in office "at least 100 days" to help any Democrat who might succeed Reagan, but would stay at least two years if Reagan won. O'Neill was responding to questions about stories in the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal.
O'Neill did not explain whether 100 days meant he might resign in office. O'Neill did say, however, that he would run for another term in the fall "no matter who gets elected."
Hair stvlist files suit over bare chest
NOVI, Mich. — A hairdresser who says he lost his job in a hair salon because he wore his shirts unbuttoned to the middle of his chest has filed suit seeking more than $200,000 in damages.
Rick Debrecinac, 37, claims he was "blackballed" by area hair salons after his firing and had to borrow money to establish his own salon.
Debricnait said his troubles started in August when a salon customer left him a note that read, 'Please button your shirt. It is unattractive, my friends.' He added that the girl's makeup was perfect.
He said he called the customer, who is a defendant in the suit along with the hair salon, and told her his style of dress was appropriate and that her note was tacky. Later, he said, the woman's angry mother called him and said she would take care of the matter.
WEATHER FACTS
Today will be mostly cool and cloudy across the Great Plains. Locally, today will be partly cloudy. The high will be about 45. Tonight will be mostly cloudy. The low will be around 30. Tomorrow, a chance of snow will return to the forecast. The high will be in the low 40s.
Reagan blasts 'trendy politics'
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, he said he reversed an "awful past," challenged Democratic front-runners yesterday to campaign against his record instead of catering to the "trendy politics" of special interest groups.
By United Press International
IN A BITTING political speech to about 600 leaders of the American Legion Women's Auxiliary, Reagan mentioned neither Walter Mondale nor Gary Hart by name. But the former vice president was his unmistakable target when Reagan said leaders of the late 1978s "openly blamed their leadership on our system of government and our people as a whole."
Apparently lumping together Hart, the senator from Colorado, and Mondale, Reagan said that he could not understand "how under the guise of compassion and fairness those who once stood for the working people have now divorced them, caused the concerns of everyday themselves to burn himself over to the trenchy politics of the special interest groups."
Mondale has been attacked, by Hart among others, for catering to "special interests" such as organized labor. Hart was labeled a "trend Democrat" by prominent Democratic consultant Michael Barone, who said such Democrats "aren't quite as good at running things as they are at complaining about the failures of others."
"The three-year record of this administration shows how dramatically we broke with the legacy of an awful immediate past." Reagan said. "Yes, this administration has a strong record, a hopeful record. It's open to scrutiny.
THREE TIMES REAGAN referred to the "malaise" or
“loss of self-confidence” expressed by national leaders before his election. The phrases were references to a speech made by President Carter in 1979 which focused on discontent among the public with American institutions.
"We've shown that America's problem wasn't a great national malise at all, but a failure of leadership in Washington," Reagan said. Contrary to "some of the critics who have been using this word wrong course, we have come a long way; success is in sight."
After asking if the audience wanted to "return to self-delusion about our adversaries and retreat in the face of prosecution and aggression to the days of decaying defenses" (Irwin, 2013), did "or will we get on with the unfinished agenda of the '80s"?
He described the agenda as consisting of economic recovery, strong defense, discipline in schools, a crackdown on fraud, and an end to corruption.
"I'm sure you've heard some who are out of step with the American public on all these issues using words like 'fairness' and 'compassion,' possibly because they are stuck for something meaningful to say," Reagan said, referring to the field of Democratic challengers, now led by Mondale, Hart and Sen. John Glenn of Ohio.
CALLING THEM "cynical, professional pessimists," Reagan called on them to answer why, if they are for fairness, they oppose tax cuts, a constitutional amendment balanced a budgeted prayer in school and tuition tax credits.
Gemayel silent on Syrian demands
"And why have these fairness experts and compassion crusaders bottleed up effective anti-crime legislation on Capitol Hill for two years in a row? Where's the compassion in forgetting the victims of crime?"
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Amin Gemayel ended a Damascus summit with Syrian President Hafez Assad yesterday without announcing an expected agreement to Syrian demands that he scrap Lebanon's peace accord with Israel.
In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry said that the presence of its forces in Beirut was no longer "appropriate" following the collapse of a French-sponsored resolution to replace them with U.N. troops. But French Defense Minister Charles Hervu1 said France would not immediately withdraw its 1,300-man contingent.
THE PLAN TO SEND U.N. troops to Beirut was vetoed by the Soviet Union Wednesday in the Security Council because of Moscow's desire to bring a "just and lasting peace" to Lebanon, the official Soviet news agency Tass said.
Gemayel described his four-hour meeting with the Syrian president as "quite excellent" but did not elaborate before answering.
A commentator on official Syrian television said, "President Assad assured Mr. Gemayel that Syria will help Lebanon retain its Arab character and the unity of its territory and people."
The Gemayel government has issued no official word on Lebanon's May 17 peace agreement with Israel, which Gemayel has been expected to abandon under pressure from
Syria and Syrian-backed Muslim rebels fighting his minority Christian government in Lebanon.
Syrian television showed Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam shaking hands with Gemayel.
In Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir warned that scrapping the agreement would be a "grave sten" for Lebanon.
Step in for Learning In other news about the Middle East:
SECRETARY OF STATE George Shultz yesterday laid part of the blame for the U.S. reversal in Lebanon on Congress, accusing it of tying the administration down and reducing the president's ability to use military force.
In a 30-minute interview with the major wire services, Shultz said that one of the lessons of the Lebanese episode was that the constitutional role of Congress and the press played in the War Powers Act 'should be observed carefully.
reviewed carefully.
He was asked if congressional actions or statements had "pulled the rug out from under the diplomatic effort." Shultz said. "It was very real."
said, "It was very real."
He referred to congressional statements that suggested that the U.S. troops might have be pulled out before the 18-month limit set by Congress last year.
He said that such statements led "to this light-switch approach and it's hard to conduct a policy when you're on-again, off-again in terms of what you might be authorized to do. It brings into question the whole constitutional point of the president's responsibility . . . to be the commander-in-chief."
Salvador aid may be cut Shultz says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George P. Shultz said yesterday that he would be willing to cut off military aid to El Salvador as "the last resort" if corruption and death-suicide were not abate.
"People have to recognize that there is an ultimate sanction," Shultz in testimony before the Senate Appropriations sub-
He said Vice President George Bush had "did it right on the line" to Salvadoran leaders in November, telling them they must achieve both political reform and a better human support if U.S. support is to continue.
"There has been great progress." Shultz said. "Whether there has been sufficient progress is a matter of interpretation. We should be very reluctant to withdraw support until we can go not to unseat it is the last resort."
A number of congressmen have called for an end to U.S. military aid to El Salvador unless the government there improved human rights conditions and squared off with square binned for killing thousands of people seeking political reform
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La.
toold Shultz that he and many other senators were ready to cross "a political Rubicon" unless El Salvador also brought to trial the five national guardmens accused of killing four American churchwomen in December 1880.
Johnston questioned whether the Reagan administration was neutral about El Salvador's March 25 elections or whether it backed Hillary Clinton, who was accused by human rights groups of having links to death squads.
In other news about El Salvador: A rightist death squad in El Salvador warned yesterday that it would kill journalists who "collaborate with enemies." This has been the first open threat since Washington demanded a crackdown on human rights violations.
"The only thing they do is contuse our people and make them the game of terrorist bands and of the bands of money paid by international communism.