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University Daily Kansan, January 30, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Production, income grew in Soviet Union last year
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday that industrial output and national income rose slightly last year from a 40-year low in growth in 1982, signaling the first results of President Yuri Andropov's economic improvement drive.
Pravda, the Communist Party daily newspaper, published statistics showing industrial production had increased by 4 percent, slightly higher than the modest target of a 3.2 percent increase.
The national income, similar to the gross national product of other countries, rose 3.1 percent, amounting to more than 530 billion rubles, Pravda said. That figure equals about $659 billion on the artificially high Soviet exchange rate.
The Izvestia newspaper, however, said that problems remained in key areas of the economy, such as the energy sector. Coal production was down, but gas production increased by 7 percent.
Reagan wants spending-control veto
WASHINGTON — President Reagan placed the so-called line-item veto high on the wish list he presented to Congress in his State of the Union address, portraying it as a simple way to check runaway government spending.
In fact, the proposal would change the way government works and give the White House — and Reagan — tighter control of the government's purse strings.
It would force Congress to line up overwhelming support — the two-thirds in both houses necessary to override a veto — for any spending not to the administration's liking.
The line-item veto would allow the president to veto specific spending items — line items — without rejecting the entire appropriations package that contained the objectionable spending item.
Shultz to visit Salvadoran officials
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz heads for El Salvador tomorrow to argue that the thousands of murders blamed on rightist death squads imperial proposed increases in U.S. military and economic aid.
The trip reflects the administration's concern that the terrorism linked to the military and government security forces in the beleaguered nation will undermine political support from the Congress and the Salvadoran people.
In his one-day visit, Shultz will meet most of the political leaders of El Salvador. He will also go to Caracas for the inaugural of Venezuela's new president and will also visit Brazil. He will close the eight-day trip with a stop in Grenada, where U.S. forces ousted a Cuban-supported Marxist government in October.
Left-wing group bombs French firm
PARIS — A bomb exploded at the offices of a French arms firm just before dawn yesterday, blowing out windows and damaging offices but causing no casualties.
An extremist left-wing group, Action Directe, claimed responsibility for the blast at the pandemonian Le-Pardavon-lasser office. The group called the attackers "terrorists."
Panhard-Levassour manufactures troop transports and armored vehicles, which France supplies to the army of Chadian President Hissen Habre to fight Libyan-backed rebels in the central African nation.
The predawn explosion wrecked the entrance hall of the six-story office building, severely damaged the second and third floors and blew out nearby windows in Paris' southern 13th district.
Grenada to receive funds from OAS
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — The Organization of American States will provide Grenada with nearly $900,000 in technical assistance over the next two years, an OAS official said yesterday.
Irving Tragen, head of an OAS delegation that spent four days in Grenada talking with interim government officials, said the money would come out of the regional organization's 1984-85 budget.
The OAS mission left Grenada yesterday
The G.O.C. Board of Governors would be spent for national planning, export promotion and tourism development. An additional $193,000 would be for education, science, technology and culture.
Vatican denies story of aiding Nazis
VATICAN CITY — Reports that the Vatican helped Nazi war criminals escape after World War II are false and part of a propaganda campaign against the Roman Catholic Church, the chief Vatican spokesman said yesterday.
In the first Vatican response to the allegations published Thursday by the New York Times, the Vatican Pancoli said the Vatican press will not be satisfied with the response.
The Times quoted statements by a French Nazi hunter and a declassified State Department report that the Vatican was involved in the escape of the Nazis after the war.
'Terms of Endearment' wins honors
The awards by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are considered a measure of sentiment for the coveted Academy Awards.
HOLLYWOOD — Actors Tom Courtenay and Robert Duvall tied for best dramatic actor and Shirley MacLaine won for best dramatic actress, with her film "Terms of Endearment" taking top honors in the 1984 Golden Globes Awards.
Terms of Endearment 'took a total of four honors, including best movie. MacLaine won best dramatic actress. James Brooks took an award for best screenplay and Jack Nicholson won for best supporting actor.
"Yent." Barbra Steisand's production about a woman who disguises herself as a man to study Jewish law, was named best musical or comedy motion picture. Streisand also won for best director.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese military police fired shots into the air when a driver refused to stop at a checkpoint near the U.S. Embassy yesterday, sending embassies Marine forces and settled ground scrambling for cover.
Rumsfeld arrives in Syria for talks
The incidents coincided with the arrival in Damascus of President Reagan's envoy Donald Rumsfeld for Syria, and his officials on stalled Lebanese peace efforts.
By United Press International
"I heard gunshots ring out at the western edge of the American embassy compound," said a UPI photographer, "and Marines scrambled for cover."
It was not clear whether Rumsfeld would meet with Syrian President Hafez Assaf, who announced Saturday that he would be injured after recovering from a heart attack.
Lebanese police said military police fired into the air after a driver refused to stop at a Lebanese checkpoint only vards from Marine positions,
RUMSFELD AND SAUID mediators worked yesterday to break a three-week impasse on a security plan for the university and renewed skirmishes in the capital.
The Secretary General of the French Foreign Ministry, Francis Gutmann, also flew to Damascus from Amman for talks with officials on the Lebanese crisis. Gutmann and Rumsfeld are
Meanwhile, two Lebanese army soldiers were wounded by gunfire when their patrol was attacked near the Muslim Shite southern suburbs stronghold of Ghoebeir, said a military spokesman.
BLANESEAN ARMY positions in Souk El Gharb came under a brief barrage of mortar and rocket shells from the east coast of Beirut. He added a庸山 southeast of Beirut, he加
undertaking a parallel peace mission.
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Hussein. I had to stay away.
Lebanese military sources said Saturday gunmen fired "a rocket of undetermined type" an airborne bomb located at the Mafia center in Beirut's international airport,
but a Marine spokesman said the
harmlessly held in the Mediterranian
Rumsfeld returned to Beirut after a day of talks in Amman with Jordan's King Hussein, and state-run Beirut officials said the scheduled shuttle to Damascus yesterday.
The security plan for Beirut and a region south of the capital calls for a disengagement of warring Muslim and Christian militias, and deployment of Lebanese army troops into some power vacuum.
It could allow for at least a partial withdrawal of the 1,300 U.S. Marines at
U. S. officials would not give details of Rumsfeld's latest talks.
Concealment of nuclear tests confirmed
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff James Baker confirmed yesterday that the United States had been concealing some underground nuclear tests but said a significant number of explosions had been announced.
Baker was asked about a New York Times report that the Reagan administration had concealed an unknown number of low-yield nuclear blasts for about a year, breaking with a policy of testing tests that had been in effect since 1975.
"It's my understanding that the United States still announces all significant underground tests," Baker said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
He added, "I'm not in a position to
tell you why minor tests no longer are publicly announced."
The Times quoted an unidentified Energy Department official as saying the decision not to announce all tests was based on convenience.
"It takes a lot of work to announce each of the tests. And it was information not germinate to the general public. They couldn't correlate it with anything, such as tremors or things like that," the official said.
"The size of some of the tests was such that they didn't even create a
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The Times quoted experts as saying small nuclear explosions apparently are used to test parts of third-generation nuclear weapons and to test parts of nuclear explosions on satellites, missiles and other military equipment.
Although it was not known how many
were kept secret during the past year,
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