University Daily Kansan, January 31, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
Rebel attack kills Marine wounds three
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The U.S. Marines came under rebel attack at the city's airport yesterday and fired back with tanks, mortars and machine guns in a day of heavy fighting that killed one Marine and at least five other people. Three other Marines were also wounded.
The dead Marine, whose identity was withheld pending notification of his family, was the 25th American serviceman killed in the U.S. forces arrived 17 months ago.
Three American soldiers were wounded in the fighting around Beirut airport, bringing the number of Americans wounded in Lebanon to 131.
The fighting began with an artillery barrage from areas suspected to be Druse Muslim positions in the Shouf mountains. The barrage was answered by the Marines and the Lebanese army. Shiite Muslim rebels in Bouchra el Salam el Syrian said they then struck at Marine emplacements in self-defense.
"We reiterate that the southern suburbs and the mountains are always ready to respond to any call, be it peace or war." Alma said in a statement.
"The U.S. Marines stationed near Beirut airport started shelling Hayel el Sullom, using all sorts of weapons without mercy, hitting children and school buses," said the Shiite militia, Amal.
The Marines had no comment on the Shiite charges and could not say from which direction the attack came that killed the American soldier.
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A house catches fire after being shelled. One Marine was killed and three were injured during fighting that started yesterday in Beirut.
Shamir's leadership faces new foes
By United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir faced calls yesterday to hold national elections a year early. He said he would to his fragile coalition government.
The tiny Shimu faction, formally allied with the opposition Labor party, announced plans to initiate legislation to dissolve the Knesset, or parliament.
Unless the prime minister steps down or his government is voted down, such enactment is necessary for new balletting which can be initiated only once session.
Shamir has come out against early elections, and his five-party coalition formally has until November 1985 to serve out its full term.
BUT THE RESIGNATION on Sunday
of minister without portfolio Mordechal Ben-Porat appeared to raise new doubts about the survivability of the Shamir government.
Ben-Porat said he was not crossing the lines into the opposition, and his sole aim was to work toward a national unity government to save the Israeli economy, beset by 190 percent inflation and labor unrest over spending cuts.
But he acknowledged that prospects for a broad-based emergency Cabinet were slim and that in the end he would be forced to opt for early elections.
The Shiniu motion requires the support of 61 of 120 members of the Knesset to pass, but at the moment it is not possible for a member member function can muster such a vote.
There is no clear-cut support for new elections, either among Shamir's supporters or against him.
parliamentary opponents, Shimon Peres' Labor party.
THE TAMI PARTY, a coalition partner, has gone on record as favoring new elections. Last week it played an important role in giving Shamir a mayority in beating Labor and Communist party no-confidence challenges 62:56.
But the National Religious party that has been part of every government coalition government in Israel's history is against early balloting because of a
Labor leaders have said they will support new elections, having apparently lost hope to take over the reins of government without balloting through parliamentary defections and backroom politicking.
But Labor itself has leadership problems.
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WASHINGTON — The House approved legislation yesterday to provide $5 million a year in benefits to veterans who suffer health problems as a result of exposure to Agent Orange or radiation.
By United Press International
The bill, approved on a voice vote,
now goes to the Senate.
medical studies were needed to determine the connection between exposure and health problems.
The bill would authorize a fairly modest program that would cost about $5 million a year through 1988 but could be expanded later.
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Agent Orange was used as a defoliant in Vietnam where some 52 million pounds were sprayed over the country-side. Some veterans who were exposed to the chemical reported serious health problems, but the government has been reluctant to acknowledge a connection between the chemical and the illnesses.
THE LEGISLATION represents a compromise between those who wanted a more comprehensive program to aid the veterans and those who said more
The CDC STUDY is expected to be completed in 1988. The benefits program approved by the House yesterday would expire in 1988.
Congress. As a result, the VA asked the Centers for Disease Control to do a thorough study and report.
Veterans have cited an increased incidence of cancer among personnel who served in Iraq.
The Veterans Administration reviewed the problem, but its efforts were widely criticized as inadequate by veterans groups and members of
The bill also would provide benefits for veterans who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests in Nevada or the South Pacific, or who were exposed to radioactive materials. Nagasaki shortly after the first atomic bomb struck the Japanese cities.
In the case of Agent Orange, the bill would provide temporary disability or death allowances to veterans who suffer from softskin sarcoma, a liver condition
Japan official pledges to reduce trade deficit
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Hintaro said yesterday that his "frank" talks with U.S. officials would pave the way for better economic and military cooperation between Tokyo and Washington.
Bae said that his talks with Reagan administration officials included "frank exchanges of views" and that he stressed "Japan's foreign, defense and economic policies vis-a-vis the United States remained unchanged."
Abe also told a news conference that Japan's recent efforts to increase its defense budget were "evidence of the importance we've attached to our relationship with the United States."
DURING HIS SIX-DAY U.S. visit, Abe pleaded that Japan would swiftly make the "atmosm effort" to reduce the trade deficit with the United States.
Abe also discussed Japan's restrictions on beef and citrus imports from the United States.
"Both the United States and Japan should make maximum efforts to set a stage for an agreement" on beef and citrus fruit trade, Abe said, noting that the two nations were still far from reaching an accord.
The current agreement regulating beef and citrus fruit trade expires March 31.
BEFORE MEETING with reporters, Abe signed an agreement with U.S. Trade Representative William Brock to renew an accord that gives U.S. firms the right to compete on equal terms for research and development contracts with Japan's government-owned telephone system.
U. S. officials have been disappointed with the 3-year-old agreement designed to give U.S. firms equal treatment in bidding to sell equipment to the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corp.
NTT's procurement budget is $3
billion a year. American sales to NTT
totaled $12 million in 1981, $40 million in
1982 and $140 million in 1983.
Joint exercise in Honduras winds down
Bv United Press International
SAN ESTEBAN, Honduras
About 5,000 LOS and Honduran troops, wrapping up the longest joint military maneuvers ever held in Central America, began a mock invasion of the terrain of eastern Honduras.
Lt. Col. Alvaro Antonio Romero, commander of the force that led the maneuvers, said the counter-insurgency campaign, aimed at capturing enemy reinforcements, followed a hypothetical war with a neighboring country.
"As a whole, the Big Pine dills have left our forces prepared to meet a conventional conflict on the border and a non-conventional conflict in the interior." Romero said.
The mock sweep, scheduled to last a week, will mark the final operation of the seven month joint exercises in the United States and costiest ever in Central America.
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