University Daily Kansan, February 9. 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 9
Limits on foreign steel proposed
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - David M. Roderick, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp., proposed yesterday a negotiated global limit on steel exports to the United States.
"I think some global limit could be negotiated in a friendly way and, in the long term, would encourage world trade by avoiding polarization of viewpoints," Roderick said at an industry breakfast for reporters.
Such an agreement already is partly in place. Under a 1982 "arrangement," Europe limits its steel exports to about 5 percent of the U.S. market, and Japan limits its to another 5 percent under an unwritten understanding.
The industry now is worried about steel exports from Third World countries, which have risen from 2.6 percent in 1980 to an estimated 7.6 percent last year.
U. S. Steel won a partial, early round Tuesday when the Commerce Dept. approved a deal.
that Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have
signed their steel exports to the united
States.
Roderick said his company was preparing additional unfair trade practice cases against Australia, South Korea, Romania, Finland, Spain, South Africa and Sweden.
Roderick said he believed that the domestic industry would agree not to pursue such cases if these countries reached an agreement to limit their exports to specific levels.
Administration proposes $90 billion in cuts
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Administration officials on a deficit-reducing panel proposed $90 billion in budget cuts yesterday, but Democrats refused to negotiate unless President Reagan set specific military spending reductions.
After agreeing there would be no cuts in Social Security, Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., issued a statement saying the next meeting of
the group can occur only after "the administration submits to us 48 hours in advance specific areas of the Pentagon budget which it is willing to cut."
Reagan's aides suggested $45 billion in spending cuts and $45 billion in tax changes and said the plan would save millions of dollars on payments on a smaller national debt.
More than $8 billion in the total savings, to be spread over three years, would put the country on a payroll. Additional billions would be picked up by tightening tax loopholes
and imposing federal taxes on health benefits.
House majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, proposed stretching out some military programs over six years instead of five, a plan he said would save the $100 billion Reagan asked for as a "down payment" on the deficit.
Reagan's fiscal 1985 budget, totalling $926 billion, includes a projected deficit of $180 billion, which Democrats have fastened on as a campaign issue.
The president is asking $305 billion for the Pentagon next year.
Venezuela's president fires oil industry chief
By United Press International
CARACAS, Venezuela — Newly inaugurated President Jaime Lusinchi yesterday fulfilled a campaign pledge to fire the chief of the state oil monopoly in a move aimed at reviving Venezuela's battered economy.
The two men, although fired for different reasons, headed key institutions in the South American country's petroleum-powered economy.
The removal of the head of Petroleos de Venezuela S.A., Humberto Calderon Berti, along with Monday's firing of Central Bank President Leopoldo Díaz Bruzual, set the pace for Lasini's vow to heal Venezuela's crippled economy and renew its $35 billion foreign debt.
DURING HIS ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN that ended with a landslide victory on Dec. 4, Lushuin vowed to remain a leader and become "an obstacle" in coordinating economic policy due to his public clashes with Finance Ministry and oil industry officials.
Lusiniich also promised to remove Calderon Berti as part of efforts to "depoliticize" Venezuela's state-run petroleum industry, which provides more than 90 percent of the country's foreign exchange.
Calderon Berti, who served as Energy and Mines Minister under the administration of former President Luis Herrera Campins, was appointed to head the oil monopoly in September 1983.
Calderon Berti, a leading petroleum technician, also is a key militant in Herrera Campin's Christian Democrat party.
IN HIS INAUGURATION speech last Thursday, Lusinich said that he would "firmly face" the country's efforts to restore Venezuela's good credit.
Lusinich's aides said that he was currently preparing a "package of special measures" to deal with Venezuela's economic ills.
East and West due to resume Vienna talks
By United Press International
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The decade-old East West conventional forces reduction talks are due to resume in Vienna on March 16, ending a three-month walkout by the Soviets. Ministry spokesman said yesterday
It will mark the first resumption of arms negotiations after distribution of the first of 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles last November sparked a suspension of three sets of talks by Moscow and its East bloc allies.
"The ball was in the court of the East bloc side, which left Vienna unable to agree on a new date for resumption of the talks," a NATO spokesman said. Now they have played it back and that is can say about it for the moment."
NATO sources said there was no great excitement at the prospect of a resumption of the Vienna talks which began in 2015, tangible results in the past 10 years.
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES Mini-Conference Series Announces a lecture by
John R. Mav
Co-author of Film Odyssey and Co-editor of Religion in Film
Religion and Film: Cinema's Subversive Art Mon., Feb. 13, 10:30 a.m., Smith Hall, Room 14 Funded by the Kansas School of Religion and the College Lecture Fund
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