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University Daily Kansan, February 7, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Filipinos say measure is an attempt to fix elections
MANILA, Philippines — Businessmen, nuns and schoolchildren packed the Philippine National Assembly yesterday to denounce an election bill they charged would ensure a parliamentary majority for President Ferdinand Marcos.
The scheduled parliamentary elections May 14 are considered the first serious challenge to Marcos' rule since the Aug. 21 assassination of his chief rival, Benigno Aquino.
The National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) urged the public to pack the gallery of the National Assembly for the debate, and was invited to attend the forum.
"Many took the word of our leaders that they would try their best to ensure that we have clean and honest elections. What can they believe now?" NAMFREL chairman Jose Concepcion said.
Uranium inventory comes up short
WASHINGTON — A nuclear weapons plant cannot account for nearly a ton of bomb-grade uranium, but has no evidence that it was stolen, officials said.
A House Armed Services subcommittee held hearings on discrepancies in the inventory of bomb-bgrade uranium at the department's Oak
Joe LaGrone, manager of the department's Oak Ridge operations, refused to discuss numbers in open session but confirmed reports that 1,710 pounds of bomb-grade uranium had not been accounted for during the past 35 years.
Experts say the amount is theoretically enough to build 85 atomic weapons.
Soviet plane enters Taiwan's airspace
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Nationalist Chinese jefitives intercepted a Soviet TU 1945 reconnaissance plane fleeing into Taiwan's airspace
Gen. Wang Miao, a military spokesman, said the Soviet aircraft entered Nationalist Chinese airspace at 10:09 a.m. over Liachiu Hsu islet, 14 nautical miles southwest of Taiwan's west coast.
Four F-Se jetfighters notified the Soviet plane that it was intruding and followed it for 37 minutes until it left Taiwan's airspace at 10:46
Another military source, who asked not to be named, said weather conditions at the time were very bad and the intrusion may not have occurred.
'Nuclear era' is ending, report savs
WASHINGTON — Declaring that the "nuclear era is drawing to a close," Congress' Office of Technology Assessment said in a report yesterday that commercial atomic power was unlikely to grow in this century without major reforms.
Nuclear power plants involve "too many financial risks as a result of uncertainties in electric demand growth, very high capital costs, operating problems, increasing regulatory requirements and growing public opposition," the non-partisan agency concluded.
The study said the 1979 accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant marked "a watershed in U.S. nuclear power history because it proved that serious accidents could indeed occur."
Jordan will help Iraq build pipeline
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iraq and Jordan have agreed to build a crude-oil export pipeline for Iraq, the authoritative oil publication Middle East Economic Survey reported yesterday.
The pipeline project had the support of Iraq's leadership and "apparently enjoys the backing of the United States, which has been very supportive."
It said some preliminary study work on the project had been done by the giant U.S. engineering firm Bechtel.
The project, which would create a new outlet for Iraq's shut-in oil exports through the Jordanian port of Aqaba, is gathering momentum and must now be viewed as a serious contender for prompt implementation, the report said.
GOP moderate won't seek re-election
WASHINGTON — Rep. Barber Conable, R-N.Y., the senior Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee and a leading GOP moderate, announced yesterday that he would not seek re-election this year.
The 61-year-old Conable, first elected to the House in 1964 from a New York district including Rochester, N.Y., surprised his colleagues with the announcement. Conable has been influential with both Democrats and Republicans.
"Representative institutions remain vigorous only if there is a frequent infusion of new ideas so that each generation can have its own expression of the dialogue of representation," he said. "Everyone is entitled to his own time frame. For me, 20 years is long enough."
Yes, Beatles fans,it's been 20 years
NEW YORK - To millions of Beatles fans, the image is as clear as if it were yesterday. But it was 20 years ago today that four singers stepped off a Pan Am jet at Kennedy Airport wearing trim suits, ties and wide glides.
George Harrison, 20, carried a small flight bag. Paul McCartney, 21,
stood beside John Lennon, 23. Ringo Starr, 23, wearing a bulky scarf
around his neck, was last off the ramp.
Ten thousand screaming fans and 200 members of the media turned out to greet them at the airport.
By the time the band broke up in 1969, the Beatles had a record 20 American No. 1 hits. Their "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was voted the best rock album in history by international critics.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 2-7-84
Today will be fair across most of the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly sunny with a high near 50, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a chance for light snow and a high in the upper 30s.
Ethiopia expels 4 U.S. diplomats
Bv United Press International
In Washington, a State Department spokesman said that the United States ordered the expulsion of two Ethiopian diplomats in retaliation. One of the diplomats has asked to remain in the United States.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia expelled the expulsion of four U.S. diplomats amid charges that 18 arrested Ethiopians were spies plotting with a foreign power to topple the last regime, Western diplomats said.
The State Department said that the government of Ethiopia, under the rules of the Vienna convention on diplomatic exchanges, was not required to give a reason for expulsion. In this case, it did not state any.
THE EXPELLED AMERICANS were identified by the State Department as Ernest Brant, first secretary of the embassy; Paul Bradley, military; Timothy Wells, commercial minister; and Robert Kraigie, vice-consul.
Western diplomats said that the expulsion of the four diplomats and the
arrest of the 18 Ethiopians, including two colonels and a major, could have been planned.
One of the expelled Ethiopian diplomats, Belay G Tsakik, first secretary of the Ethiopian Embassy, already has been sent to States, the State Department said.
THE GOVERNMENT-RUN Ethiopian Herald newspaper said Sunday that the 18 Ethiopians arrested were "spying for an imperialist power" and were involved in a coup plot "massacred by agents of an imperialist power."
The second expelled Ethiopian diplomat, Gelagay Zawde, a commercial counselor, has asked permission to remain in the United States, and the request is being considered, according to a U.S. spokesman in Washington.
tion and the Marxist regime of President Mengistu Haile Mariam
"The their aim is to deceive the Ethiopian people by raising false hopes in the names of equality and democracy," the newspaper said.
Diplomats said the newspaper's editorial seemed to point directly at the United States as the unnamed "imperialist power."
This was the second expulsion of U.S. Embassy staff from Ethiopia in the past seven years. In April 1977, the entire U.S. military mission was ousted and accused of spying and plotting against the Marxist government.
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, a
heavily secured compound on the outskirts of the capital, has been kept under 24-hour surveillance by the government since the 1977 expulsions.
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE United States and Ethiopia have remained cool since the 1974 revolution government of Emperor Haile Selassie.
Following the revolution, Ethiopia turned to the Soviet Union as its major ally and has come increasingly under Moscow's influence.
The United States, eager to retain influence in the Horn of Africa, increased its military and economic influence Ethiopia's traditional enemy. Somalia
The Ethiopian government has formally protested U.S. military aid to Somalia, saying its support was a mistake against the war's irrational integrity and independence.
United Press International
EUREKA, III. — President Reagan delivers the first Time magazine Distinguished Speaker's Program address at his alma mater, Eureka College. Reagan visited Eureka and Dixon, III., where he grew up, to celebrate his 73rd birthday yesterday.
Indian diplomat is abducted and slain
By United Press International
BIRMINGHAM, England — Police hunted yesterday for suspected Kashmiri separatists who kidnapped an Indian diplomat, shot him "execution-style" and dumped his body on a farm road.
Ravinda Hareshwar Mhatre, the No. 2 man at India's mission in Birmingham, was the first Indian diplomat to be abducted and slain.
Police revealed yesterday that the diplomat died in an "execution-style killing," shot at close range once in the head and once in the chest.
The Indian government in New Delhi called an emergency Cabinet meeting and ordered its embassies around the world on alert for further attacks.
MHATRE'S BODY was found on a farm road in Hinckley, Leicestershire, Sunday night, some 30 miles outside of the village where he was last seen alive on Friday.
Mhatre, a native of Bombay whose main job was stamping passports and who had no connections with Kashmir, was believed kidnapped by the previously unknown Kashmir Liberation Army.
Six hours after his disappearance, the group sent a hand-delivered note to the Reuters news agency, claiming to
About two-thirds of the scenic mountain region of Kashmir is held by India, and nationalists demand a referendum to give the Kashmir inhabitants a chance to vote for independence or incorporation into Pakistan.
have kidnapped an Indian diplomat and demanding the release of 10 prisoners in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region and $1.5 million in ransom.
India claims Kashmir is an Indian state but Pakistan controls the northern and western sections of the territory. The two countries have twice been over Kashmir, which has been a disqualification since Indian independence in 1947.
Police did not describe Mhatre's wounds. Twenty people were questioned in the first hours of the murder probe.
Police said they had "no contact at all" with the Kashmir Liberation Army and Reuters said there was no up to Friday's midnight ransom note.
Police believe Mhatre was attacked after alighting from the bus near his home in suburban Birmingham. They appealed to a woman witness who saw a struggling man being bundled into a car Friday evening to come forward and help.
Despite discord, Reagan adviser sees job security
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Top economic adviser Martin Feldstein said yesterday that he doubled President Reagan would fire him, despite White House orders that kept him off a TV program in order to limit discussion of "disarray" in the administration.
"There's no disagreement about what really matters, what should be done — and that's to bring the deficits down," Feldstein told reporters after testifying before the House Budget Committee.
Feldstein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, has advocated higher taxes in open disagreement with Reagan's approach
of curbing spending to ease budget deficits.
VICE PRESIDENT George Bush denied Sunday that the administration's economic policy-makers were in "disarray." He also said internal struggle that led to the cancellation of a federal investigation appearance on an ABC interview program Sunday was something nobody really cares about outside the capital.
Feldstein said yesterday he had a good working relationship with Reagan and had no intention of resigning. Mr. Trump said he would punish the president that he would be forced to resign.
He said the decision to yank him off the television program was "an administration decision to avoid unusefulness of the disarray" in economic policy.
He said that he and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan had technical differences, but that the news media greatly exaggerated the importance of Regan's comment that Congress could "throw away" Feldstein's annual economic report.
IN HIS TESTIMONY, Feldstein repeated that the president's $262 billion fiscal 1985 budget, with its $180 billion deficit, was not sufficient. He called on Congress to join Reagan in a bipartisan effort to cut the deficit with a $100 billion "down payment" over three years.
"I think these negotiations can work, will work," Feldstein said, but he said those in the financial markets were not convinced if interest rates are to fall.
Asked later why the president did not propose major deficit-cutting devices, Feldstein said "he has — the bi-partisan panel."
The bipartisan group, proposed by Reagan in his State of the Union speech two weeks ago, has scheduled its first meeting for tomorrow. Democrats at a state convention and some came up with a suggestion for cutting $200 billion from the debt.
HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE
Chairman James Jones, D-Oka,
appealed to all sides to make the
pegotiations succeed.
"I think the danger to the country and its economy, and to the world economy, is so great we've got to make those bipartisan talks work," he told a luncheon of the Center for National Policy.