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Universitv Dailv Kansan. Januarv 31. 1984
NATION AND WORLD
News briefs from UPI
Commission will question Marcos' wife about 'plot'
MANILA, Philippines — The commission investigating the assassination of opposition leader Benigo Aquino will summon first lady Imelda Marcos to testify because she warned of a "plot" to kill him, officials said yesterday.
A former colleague of Aquino testified yesterday that Marcos twice warned him that Aquino would be killed if he returned from the United States.
Reacting to the testimony, Deputy Prosecutor Francisco Villa said the commission probing the murder would be eager to question Marcos wife as "it is now definite that she has some information about a plot."
The developments in the inquiry came as Marcos authorized 300 followers of Aquino to proceed with their 90-mile protest run to the airport, where Aquino was shot to death Aug. 21.
Chinese satellite reportedly in orbit
PEKING — China announced yesterday that it had launched an experimental space mission that Western observers said might be the nation's first communications satellite bound for a "permanent" orbit 22,300 miles high.
in a two-sentence report, the official Xinhua News Agency said the satellite was launched Sunday and that "important results" had been achieved.
No other details were reported. Western aviation and diplomatic sources said the satellite might be China's first permanently orbiting communications satellite or its experimental forerunner.
Chinese officials announced last year that they would launch a geostationary communications satellite, but it was delayed for unknown reasons.
Gav legislator seeking second term
WASHINGTON — Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass., who announced on the floor of the House that he was a homosexual and was censured for having sex with a male page, has decided to seek re-election, an aide said yesterday.
Studds made no formal public announcement, but his press secretary, Peter Fleischer, said yesterday that the congressman informed constituent of his candidacy in a newsletter.
constituents of his candidacy in the elections.
Fleischer said the newsletter was mailed to the district Friday
Studds, 46, was censured last summer after a House ethics committee investigation. The panel reported that Studds had sex with a 17-year-old male page in 1973 — his first year in Congress.
'Dav After' is illusorv, Japanese say
TOKYO — Residents of Hiroshima who survived the first nuclear attack said yesterday that the American film "The Day After" failed to capture the horror of a real atomic bombing.
capture the horizons of technology The television film, depicting a nuclear attack on Kansas City, Mo., has been seen by about 5,000 Hiroshima residents since its first screening at a cinema in the southern Japanese city.
"It didn't reflect the magnitude of human suffering after a nuclear bombing," said Yasuo Miyazaki, Secretary General of Hiroshima's Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.
Akhiro Takashi, a man who was badly burned when the bomb was dropped 39 years ago, said that no film could show the gruesome realities of skin being torn off by a nuclear blast.
Refugees protest delays of asylum
MIAMI — More than 120 refugees, half of them Haitians, are on a hunger strike protesting the slow processing of their requests for asylum at a detention center west of Miami.
George Waldrup of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which operates the Krome Avenue camp, said yesterday that the refugees "are upset with delays in the processing of their cases, so they are getting attention by not eating."
Waldrup said the hunger strike began last Tuesday and the protesters consisted of 67 Haitians, 26 Indians, 25 Bangladesh natives and five Latinos.
G. O. Wagner, the camp's operations chief, said it was the largest hunger strike at Krome since September 1982.
U.S. orders correspondent to leave
WASHINGTON — The administration has ordered the only reporter covering the United States for a Cuban news agency to leave, the State Department said yesterday.
The reporter, Robert Rutka, a Canadian national based in New York, represented Prensa Latina Ltd., which had a contract to cover U.S. events for Prensa Latina, the government-run Cuban news agency.
Rutka was informed by the U.S. government in early January that he was violating U.S. regulations requiring him to register for a special court case. The U.S. Justice Department said
Two other Prema Latina reporters are based at the United Nations but are allowed to write only about U.N.-related events.
Pity the fool who took Mr. T's truck
LOS ANGELES — An unmarked truck carrying special-effects explosives and equipment for filming the hit television series "The A-Team" was hijacked, police reported yesterday.
Officers said the truck was stolen from a suburban street corner where it had been parked during the weekend.
Inside the vehicle were six black powder bombs, blasting caps and firecrackers for use on the action TV series, a spokesman for Ridin' High Rentals said. The truck also contained about $50,000 worth of tools and other camera and gear used in filming.
Detective Jerry Ostertholt said the explosives were "mostly minor stuff — not enough to start a war, but enough to injure somebody."
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Today will be fair except for some snow in the North Atlantic states. Locally, today will be sunny and warmer with a high around 50, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be fair with a low around 25.
Tight will be thin. Wet will be moist. Tomorrow will be sunny and very mild with a high around 55.
Reagan reluctant to say, but manager sees a win
WASHINGTON — President Reagan declined yesterday to predict whether he would win a second term, but his predecessor would win it. He was a landslide year for the Republicans.
Asked about debating his opponent,
Bequed said, "I said in principle, I
would be a liberal."
By United Press International
Reagan, in a chipper mood after his formal announcement Sunday night, said he favored a debate with his Democratic opponent during the fall campaign, but, as is his habit, shied away from a victory prediction.
"YOU KNOW ME. I never say anything like that. I'm too superstitious," he told reporters in the White House, which just 10 hours after his announcement.
Asked about the charge of front-running Democrat Walt Monday that Reagan served "special interests, like the wealth," the president said, "our tax program is fair and square across the board."
"The actual facts and figures reveal that our tax program actually benefits more of the lower range than even the Kennedy tax cut back in the '60s." Reagan said. "A higher percentage of our taxes is actually higher, if you bracket thanks than is true of ours. A higher percentage went to big business than is true of ours."
EDWARD ROLLINS, the political professional running Reagan's campaign, told wire service interviewers at a dawn breakfast, "We've got tremen- tial hands." "We understand this is not going to be the case nine months from now."
"Today if the election were held it would be far more of a rout than in
1980," when Reagan加44 states and crushed Jimmy Carter, Rollsins. In recent polls, he said, "We could win a war with which we were trailed in the country."
Even so, he said, "My assumption is Ronald Reagan can win by a landslide or a close election, but Mondale can't win by a landslide" and may not win a close race.
ROLLINIS ALSO revealed that the "Reagan-Bush" "84" committee is holding off asking for federal matching benefits, see what mail solicitations bring in.
Rollins predicted that Mondale would win the Democratic nomination and that the Democrats "will be unified" by the time of their convention in July.
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The basic campaign strategy is for Reagan to be "above the fray" during the months leading to the national conventions. Rollins said.
"I don't see him doing a lot of campaigning," he said. "I think the most important thing for him is to remain presidential."
Most of the campaigning will be done by a team of roughly 25 officials headed by Vice President George Bush, he has said. The team will head the road three or four days a month.
Reagan said in a Newsweek interview, timed to his bid for a second term, that he thought campaigns are too long, and voter apathy was because "we've bored them to death." He said the most frustrating thing he had experienced was the suggestion that he was not concerned about the poor and disadvantaged, and that he would recklessly take the country into war.
Rollins said the president would respond to the "fairness" issue by pointing out "there's nothing fair about high inflation and about high taxes."
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Anticipated Reagan budget to lessen non-defense cuts
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan is expected to propose a $925 billion election year budget tomorrow that contains no significant tax increases and only a fraction of the spending cuts he previously sought in non-defense programs.
The fiscal 1985 spending blueprint will continue Reagan's military buildup plans by seeking $305 billion or a 13 percent "real" increase—for the military, but also will be burdened with a deficit of around $186 billion, according to an earlier document and congressional audits.
Budget director David Stockman, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Martin Feldstein, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, arranged to brief congressional leaders on the 185 budget request.
A PRELIMINARY budget document leaked early this month outlined $8.4 billion in spending cuts in non-f defense domestic programs, but Reagan reportedly was persuaded by military officials of those cuts in the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs for the poor and elderly.
These proposed cuts are only a fraction of the $43 billion in "savings" Reagan proposed in his budget last year.
OF THE REMAINING $5 billion in spending cuts, $2.9 billion are in legal services, education, job training and mass transit; $1.8 billion in Aid to Families with Dependent Children, low-income housing and social services; federal civilian retirement and unemployment compensation.
The deficit in fiscal 1983 was a record $195.4 billion, and this year it is expected to be around $185 billion.
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