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University Daily Kansan, February 24, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Vietnamese troops pound anti-communist guerrillas
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand — Vietnamese troops occupying Cambodia pounded anti-communist guerrillas with artillery fire and carried out attacks yesterday near the biggest resistance base in the country. Thai military sources said.
Country. This first time the sources said Vietnamese troops and guerrillas loyal to anti-communist leader Son Sann fought running battles that began Wednesday morning and continued late yesterday.
They said at least eight Cambodians were seriously wounded in the shelling.
A spokesman for former Prime Minister Sann's Khmer People's National Liberation Front said Vietnamese infantry units made two probing attacks near Ampil, a village 120 miles east of Bangkok. A KPNL spokesman said the Vietnamese infantry came within three miles of Ampil and fought sporadically with KPNL forward defenders.
Cardinal urges Marcos concessions
MANILA, Philippines — The prelate of the Philippine Roman Catholic church yesterday warned of "blood running through our streets" unless President Ferdinand Marcos surrendered his authoritarian powers before the May 14 elections.
Cardinal Jaime Sin, in his strongest statement yet on the National Assembly elections, said Marcos should grant six concessions demanded by some opposition parties as conditions for their participation.
The opposition wants Marcos to relinquish his powers to legislate by decree, declare martial law and detain alleged subversives without trial.
"The demands are reasonable and within the power of the president to give, and he must grant them not out of charity but out of justice," said Sin, the archbishop of Manila and a frequent Marcos critic.
Soviets vow to keep up in arms race
MOSCOW — Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov accused the Reagan administration yesterday of seeking world domination and vowed that the Soviet Union's military would keep step with Western armed forces.
"The present level of industrial, scientific and technological development of our country makes it possible to develop — if this is needed to respond to the military challenge from imperialism — any types of arms in the required quantities and equip the army and navy with them," he said.
The remarks by Ustinov, who had been a potential successor to the late Yuri Andropov as Soviet leader before the choice of Konstantin Chernenko, appeared in his annual Armed Forces Day article in Pravda, the official Communist Party newspaper.
Truckers block European highways
PARIS — Mammoth traffic jams paralyzed major European highways yesterday as thousands of truckers protesting fuel taxes blocked roads in France for a seventh day and choked Italian border crossings despite an end to a customs strike.
Motorists in Switzerland, Austria, Italy and West Germany were stranded along roads to the Italian border, some stalled in snow and cold. French ski resorts, which have been cut off from deliveries, reported gasoline and heating-fuel shortages.
Reported goods In France, 10,000 rigs choked roads for the seventh straight day affecting more than half the country, halting shipments of goods and temporarily idling 38,000 workers.
the mittertuer government, which earlier in the week agreed to meet truckers' concerns, refused their demand for a lower fuel tax in return for an end to the roadblocks.
February auto sales hit 11-year high
DETROIT — Domestic automakers yesterday announced their best mid-February performance in 11 years, reporting a stunning 73.3 percent increase that touched every segment of the market.
The six companies — the "big four" automakers along with Volkswagen of America and Honda — sold a combined 225,260 cars, up from 129,996 last year. The daily selling rate of 28,157 was the best since 1973 when 33,791 cars a day were sold.
"What we had last year was higher income people with high confidence," said one company analyst. "Now we have the middle income people buying cars again."
Contraceptives safe, researchers say
CHICAGO — A study indicates that women who use contraceptives for birth control have no increased risk of death, Center for Disease Control researchers said yesterday.
Howard W. Ory and colleagues studied the death rates of 30,580 women enrolled in an Atlanta family planning clinic.
The women used oral contraceptives, intrauterine devices, injectable Depo-Provera or barrier methods such as foam and condoms.
In the women studied, 218 died during an 11-year period - 40 percent from accidents and violence. Only two deaths were associated with pregnancy and childbirth, compared with the 24 deaths expected.
The study found no evidence that IUDs, oral contraceptives or barrier methods of contraception were harmful to the women.
Money flies as woman drives away
SAN CARLOS, Calif. — Aro Sadakian put an envelope containing $800 on the roof of her car while she searched her purse for the keys. But she drove off with the envelope still on the roof. Money floated away in the wind with both pressing block police said yesterday.
Officers said that honesty won the day and that more than $600 was turned in by three people who got out of their cars and scooped up the bills as they fluttered along the streets.
Police Lt. Jerry Hellman said Sadakian was speechless when she reported the loss.
"We told her we already had most of it at the station," Hellman said. One of the people who found the cash, Hamalore Herd, said, "It sure was a nice feeling to see the money in the street. But I couldn't have kept it. I've got to sleep at night."
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST. 2-24-84
Today will be sunny and warm on the Plains. Locally, today will be mostly sunny with the high in the lower 50s. Tonight will be fair with the low around 30. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with the high in the mid-50s.
Today will be sunny and warm on the Plains.
By United Press International
Democrats debate on eve of first primary
No new differences surface among candidates
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The eight Democratic presidential candidates ended their open warfare yesterday in a debate that showed that they had no new differences on the eve of the nation's first primary.
Some of the candidates insisted that the debate was simply a healthy exchange between candidates. "I think you are doing the same differences," George McGovern said.
McCover said, "I have not attacked anyone," said Sen. Gary Hart, echoing the theme taken by many of the candidates that discussion of differences is not always an attack.
BUT THE EIGHT could not avoid an occasional barb during the 90-minute debate, sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
Ohio Sen. John Glenn, whose fifthplace finish in Iowa has left his campaign scrambling, criticized Walter Mondale's labor support.
Glenn acknowledged that he sought the endorsement of *the* powerful Mr. Obama to lead the nation.
South Carolina Sen. Ernest Hollings, sitting next to Glenn, said he has been pushing the need for fiscal responsibility in his office. That is where it in that Iowa, but he flunked the test. "10"
"I don't think we can go before the American people, and expect to win in November, by over-promising." Glenn Banyard, by taking a slap at the former vice president.
make the big promises that he (Mondale) made."
CALIFORNIA SEN. Alan Cranston defended the exchanges, saying "the testing that we do reveals each other's strengths and weaknesses."
Jesse Jackson told the audience at St. Anselm's College that "we're not fighting for unity, we're fighting for distinction."
The eight found some matters on which to agree, however. All said they would take some form of action to keep the Strait of Hormuz open if it were blocked by Iran, although each said that as president they would formulate policies to prevent such a thing from ocurring.
"Those sea lanes must stay open," Mondale said.
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According to the survey of 500 Democrats, taken Wednesday, Monday led into the debate being favored by 32 percent of the electorate.
Glenn, who had undisputed claim to second place for months, slipped into a tie with Hart for the runner-up spot, with both drawing 15 percent.
THE CANDIDATES were trying to woo a sizable number of voters who have yet to make up their minds. At least 14 percent of New Hampshire voters were not responding according to a poll released last night by Boston television station WBZ.
"It is worth fighting for," said Jackson.
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The poll, released yesterday, also showed Jackson with 8 percent; Cranston, 4 percent; McGovern, 3 percent.
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The big change from an earlier WHZ poll, conducted Jan. 18, was in the figures for Hart, then with 7 percent, and Glenn, who claimed 18 percent.
CRANSTON'S CAMPAIGN manager, Sergio Bendixen, was quoted in The Washington Post as saying that Cranston would return to California after the primary and "announce his political plans" at that time.
Hollings, 2 percent; and Askew, percent.
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McGovern, who qualified yesterday for federal matching funds, and Jackon appeared likely to stay in the race longer.
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