University Daily Kansan, January 16, 1984
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NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Israeli civil workers protest record-high inflation rate
TEL AVIV, Israel — Amid news that the annual inflation rate had reached a record 190.7 percent, civil servants staged a two-hour warning strike yesterday in the strongest challenge yet to the Israeli government's austerity program.
The previous high was 132.9 percent in 1980.
"We will definitely intensify our actions," said Reuven Ben-Ami, secretary of the civil servants' union.
About 60,000 civil servants walked off the job to protest inflation's erosion of their wages.
Reagan to make overture to Soviets
Thousands of government employees from tax collectors to passport clerks have staged protests in the past two weeks. But unrest worsened last week after negotiations between the treasury and civil service on cost-of-living increments collapsed.
Hoping to provide the impetus needed to ease tensions that have fueled political anxiety at home and abroad, Reagan will point the way toward improved relations with the Soviet Union in a speech at 9 a.m. today at the White House.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan will turn away from three years of harsh anti-Soviet rhetoric today by insisting in a national address this morning that "there is no rational alternative" to "peaceful war" don't between the superpowers, a White House official said yesterday.
"I believe 1984 finds the United States in its strongest position in years to establish a constructive and realistic working relationship with the Soviet Union," Reagan said in a partial text released yesterday by the White House.
GI, feared kidnapped, found asleep
STUTTGART, West Germany — An American soldier feared kidnapped by anti-nuclear activists was found asleep in a farmyard yesterday 38 hours after disappearing from his Pershing-2 missile unit, police said.
A police spokesman said a farmer's wife found Army Cpl. Liam Fowler, 21, a member of the 56th Field Artillery Brigade, lying asleep in her farmyard near the town of Miesbach, 30 miles south of Munich, at 6:15 a.m.
He said police were investigating whether the Port Orange, Fla. soldier was kidnapped by anti-nuclear activists who threatened to kill him, as he told his wife in a telephone call Saturday.
U.S. resists pressure for arms talks
LONDON — Secretary of State George Shultz told Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday that the Reagan administration would resist pressure to make concessions to get the Soviet Union to return to nuclear arms talks.
A senior administration official traveling with Shultz, who is to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Wednesday, said the president was in Ukraine.
But the official said the recessed talks in Geneva on medium-range missiles was only one of the problems in the American-Soviet relationship.
1983 hard on Soviet diplomat spies
WASHINGTON - 1983 was a tough year for Soviet diplomats engaged in spying around the world, according to figures compiled by the State Department.
The figures show that that 147 Soviet diplomats around the world were expelled for spying. The figures do not include other Soviet diplomats asked to leave for other reasons, such as brushes with the law, nor does it imply that all Soviet diplomats whose information is shared with Soviet intelligencelers
In 1983, according to the figures, 47 Soviet diplomats were expelled from France, 18 from Bangladesh, 18 from Iran, and three from the United States.
McDonald's founder dies at age 81
SAN DIEGO — Flags at McDonald's franchises around the world flew at half-staff yesterday to mourn the death of founder Ray Kroc, who built a multimillion-dollar empire on hamburgers and french fries.
A memorial service for Kroc, who died Saturday at age 81, is scheduled for Friday in Oak Brook, Ill., where McDonald's is operating.
in 1854. Kroc, then executive director of a company that manufactured milkshake machines, talked brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald into expanding their successful San Bernardino, Calif., barber stands into a nationwide franchise.
Girdle case to take shape in court
LOS ANGELES — A man who won and then lost a $31 million verdict on his claim that his idea for a garterless girdle was stolen has been given another round in court.
A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday ordered a new trial on charges of fraud and trade secret misappropriation.
Knut L. Bjorn-Larsen, 61, said he invented the girdle, the Hollywood Vassarette, because his wife said that ordinary girdles made her stockings run. He said it was his idea to place adhesive material in the girdles to hold up the hosiery.
Larsen is suing Munsingwear, Inc. The case was first tried in 1975. It has been thrown out twice. The court Friday dismissed the claims of patent and contract violations but ordered a new trial on the fraud and trade secret charges.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Kansan wishes to credit the National Geographic Society for the copyrighted pictures that appeared with a news story in Thursday's paper about an archeological dig.
Kissinger calls combat troops last resort
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - El Salvador would become another Vietnam if U.S. troops were ordered into combat there, but U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua cannot be ruled out, Heinry Kissinger said yesterday.
Kissinger, chairman of the special presidential task force on Central American policy that made its report Wednesday, stressed that the United States was defending its own interests in the region, not doing its allies a favor and collapsed the collapse of the Salvadoran government would trigger a crisis.
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam were also interviewed on Brinkley's program.
KISSINGER, FORMER secretary of state, was interviewed on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley." Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Donn, a member
Former Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss, a member of Kissinger's commission, was interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Strauss rejected suggestions that the Central American situation now represents a security threat to the United States.
Kissinger would not rule out military intervention in Nicaragua, which he said has become a haven for communist intelligence operations.
"WE HAVE SAID that if vital national interests are involved and American national security is directly threatened, that it must be considered as a last recourse — which is a general statement that you can make about just
But be ruled out sending U.S. troops into combat in El Salvador if the Salvadoran government, with U.S. aid, cannot win its war with communist-backed guerrillas, likening the situation to Vietnam.
about any critical area of the world." Kissinger said of direct U.S. military action against Iran.
"We would again be fighting a war where there is a privileged sanctuary close by, in which the level of our casualties can be regulated by our allies and in which no clearcut outcome can therefore be achieved." Kissinger said.
BUT, HE WARNED: "If Salvador collapses, for whatever reason, even if its their own fault, we are going to have a crisis in Central America that will affect at least Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala, which will
then become centers for the same sort of intelligence activities that we've been talking about.
"And the threat to all surrounding areas so close to the border will measurably increase. We should not kid ourselves about it."
Kissinger argued against making improvement in human rights a condition of U.S. aid to El Salvador — an issue on which he disembarked from his country's military — saying there are other ways to press for human rights improvement
"I would favor all pressures short of collapsing the government that we are defending — and that we are defending in our own national interest. If we think it is making it as a favor to these countries we should be to begin with," he said.
Rebels reach the center of key Salvadoran capital
By United Press International
Salvadoran rebels fought their way to the central plaza of a major provincial capital yesterday in a six-hour battle that left seven soldiers dead and 15 wounded, the Salvadoran Defense Ministry said.
The Nicaraguan Roman Catholic Church, meanwhile, said it would take an active role in 1983 elections an afternoon by the Sandinista government.
The Salvadoran Defense Ministry said seven soldiers were killed and 15 wounded when several hundred rebels attacked the 1,000-man array garrison in Chalatenango, a city of about 15,000. They were 29 miles northeast of San Salvador.
automatic weapons fire at midnight Saturday, fighting their way into the house.
MILITARY SOURCES said guerrilla of the Popular Liberation Force, or jihadist group, fighting in Syria.
Residents said the bodies of rebels lay on the city streets hours after the attack ended, but guerrilla casualty reports were not immediately availa-
The guerrilla Radio Farabundo Marti, operated by the FFL, said the rebels took 30 government weapons and equipment in an operation "from the corrupt system of justice."
A DEFENSE MINISTRY spokesman
hails Salvador salva rebel mortar fire
bill passed to the Senate.
The rebel radio station charged that a U.S. supplied "push-and-spot" spotter plane fired at least six rockets into the air. The charge could not be confirmed
The attack was the first significant guerrilla action since New Year's Day 2016.
voice opinion over the elections are mistaken," said Bishop Bismarck Carbillo the church has repeatedly denied while the event over broadcasting Sunday misses.
"We want to be able to criticize whatever process is given in Nicaragua."
Luis Rivas Leva, head of the opposition Social Democratic party, appealed to the government to relax the country's State of Emergency law and "demonstrate the pluralistic society of the Nicaraguan revolution."
bridge across the Lempa River on the Pan American Highway.
In Nicaragua, the Marxist government announced that elections for president, vice president and a 90-member constituent assembly would be in 1985. The exact date was to be announced Feb. 21.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, influential in the largely Catholic country, yesterday vowed to play an active part in the elections.
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