University Daily Kansan, January 13. 1984
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NEWS BRIEFS
From United Press International
ACLU files lawsuit to stop Bible giveaway in schools
DENVER — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit to stop Gideon International from handing out free Bibles to children in public schools.
The ACLU filed suit Wednesday in federal court against a school district in Idaho and said it might pursue legal action against districts in three other states because the Bible distribution violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
August Hein, superintendent of schools in the Meridian school district outside Boise, said he did not see anything wrong with any religious group handing out material in the schools.
Ever said the ACU also had been told that Gideon had distributed the books, all to fifth graders, in Meridian, Idaho; Rapid City, S.D., and in Montana. An attempt to hand out the Bibles in Gillette, Wyo., was halted, he said.
Reason for general's firing disputed
Gen. Guenter Kiessling was dismissed last month as the West German deputy to NATO commander Gen. Bernard Rogers on grounds of sexual misconduct.
BONN, West Germany — A West German general who was dismissed as deputy NATO commander last month was fired because of allegations that he was homosexual, the general's lawyer said yesterday.
Woerner said the West German military intelligence service reported on Dec. 6 that a "Guenter from the Bundeswehr (German army)" had been a frequent visitor to two Colleges homosexual bars, Redeker said. In an interview in Quick, a picture magazine, yesterday, Kliessling wrote:
Indian officials intercept hashish
"I give my word of honor that I never in my whole life had anything resembling homosexual relations," he said.
NEW DELHI, India — Authorities seized more than $3 million worth of hashish at New Delhi's airport in a shipment headed for San Francisco, one of the biggest hauls of the drug in India's history, officials said yesterday.
Investigators said the hashish came from the Golden Crescent — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran — and was further proof that India was a major transit point for the flow of hashish and heroin to the United States and Europe.
Acting on a tip, investigators intercepted a shipment of 14 boxes of silverware that had been booked by the suspects on behalf of an Indian firm "Swan Metal Industries, Moradabad" for "Standard Specialties Company. San Francisco."
According to narcotics officials, the total haul of 1,650 pounds had a street value in the United States of about $3.3 million.
Reward offered for White
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A lawyer says six "right-wing conservatives" are offering a $10,000 reward for information on the whereabouts of political assassin Dan White, who was released from prison last week to a secret location.
Attorney Jeff Walsworth said he intended to file a lawsuit against the state Department of Corrections for refusing to disclose the location of Walsworth's job.
White was released from prison Jan. 6 after serving five years for the murders of San Francisco Mayor George Mosee and gay supervisor Harvey Milk. Officials said only that White was living in Los Angeles County, a 4,000-square-mile area, with a population of 7.1 million.
Shuttle is transported to launch pad
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle Challenger was removed from its giant assembly building yesterday and sent to the seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, still on target for a Feb. 3 launch.
Challenger was strapped on top of a huge land crawler that started on its tedious $3 \frac{1}{2}$-mile journey at 3:30 p.m. The trip was expected to take five hours.
by McCandless and Stewart.
NASA officials said that Challenger was right on schedule for an 7 a.m. blastoff on Feb. 3. The flight will be America's 10th shuttle mission. The mission will be highlighted by a pair of spectacular spacewalks by McCandless and Stewart.
Chrysler sues to block joint venture
WASHINGTON — Chrysler Corp. filed suit yesterday to block plans by General Motors and Toyota to build a new line of subcompact cars, saying the venture might create a monopoly and is "clearly illegal."
Chrysler asked a U.S. District Court judge to stop the two auto giants from consummating the deal, which received preliminary approval last month.
GM, the world's biggest car maker, and Toyota, the third largest, plan to begin production late this year, designed car with a hybrid engine, in France.
Although the venture would create 12,000 jobs, most of them at the now-idle GM plant in Fremont, Calif., Chrysler contends it eventually would eliminate 300,000 others in the U.S. auto industry by damaging competition.
Clark plan would trim oil leasing
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary William Clark outlined a plan yesterday that could cut back some of James Watt's massive program to lease virtually the entire U.S. coastline for offshore oil and gas exploration.
But Clark stressed that his program did not alter the Reagan administration's basic policy of expeditiously exploring the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf and Alaskan coasts for oil and gas.
The plan he detailed for a government advisory panel on Outer Continental Shelf development focuses on quickly screening out offshore areas that offer little energy potential.
WEATHER FACTS
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A cold front hit the northeast part of the country, and another storm brewing in the Southwest is expected to hit the Northeast this weekend. Locally today, the weather will be cloudy and colder with an 80 percent chance of snow tonight. The low will be around 10, and the high will be between 15 and 25. Tomorrow will be cloudy and cold with a chance of snow flurries.
Shultz, Gromyko will talk about missiles
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz will bring complaints about Soviet arms to his meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko next week. Shultz said yesterday.
"If I thought the situation was hopeless, I wouldn't bother sitting down," Shultz said of the Jan. 18 meeting in Stockholm with his Soviet counterpart. "I presume Mr. Gromyko feels the same way.
By United Press International
It will be the first meeting between Shultz and Gromyko since they exchanged blunt remarks last September after a Soviet fighter shot down a Korean airliner and killed 269 passengers.
"The question of whether or not something useful results from our discussions remains to be seen." Shultz told a news conference.
— George Shultz,
Secretary of State
'The question of whether or not something useful results from our discussions remains to be seen.'
THE SOVIETS WALKED walked out of two sets of negotiations late last year in Geneva, Switzerland, on limiting medium-range missiles in Europe and the strategic nuclear arsenals of both superpowers. They also broke off talks with their major force limitations. No date has been set for a resumption of the talks.
"We're prepared to talk about a full range of matters, including arms control."
The Soviets have more than 300 triple-warhead SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe, and the deployment of 48 Fragmented triple-warhead missiles has hardly begun.
Despite the stalemate and chilly relations, Shultz said the United States would not grasp for an arms agreement
Shultz said that before deployment
Soviets had an unacceptable policy.
simply for the sake of having one
"I think that the acceptance of proposals that would lead the alliance to a condition of agreeing to a monopoly of Soviet weapons of this kind would be a very destabilizing and undesirable kind of an agreement," he said.
Washington remains in favor of maintaining the dialogue with the Soviets, he said, as long as it is understood that both sides are defending their own interests in the negotiations.
"We have to be in favor of negotiations and agreements if the agreement is valid."
Shultz said the United States is dealing with the Kremlin despite questions raised about Soviet President Yuri Andropov's health.
Administration officials said members of Congress might be briefed today on classified evidence about allegations that the Kremlin has breached terms of existing arms agreements.
Shultz said calling attention to such violations reflected a realistic attitude that demanded that "unpleasant facts" be out forward.
Reagan, Chinese leader sign pacts of cooperation
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Premier Zhao Ziyang and President Reagan signed scientific and industrial cooperation agreements yesterday that symbolize improving U.S.-Chinese relations, the leaders said.
"we are helping ourselves by helping each other," Reagan told the Chinese leader during a cordial East Room signing ceremony near the end of Zhao's official visit to Washington. He should be the basis of our friendship."
One agreement extends a pact on
cooperation in science and technology. Another accord signed by the two men sets the framework for American businesses to invest in and arrange industrial projects for the world's most populous nation and developing country.
"TODAY WE SIGN two agreements aimed at making China's tomorrow, as well as our own, a better day," Reagan declared.
"Premier Zhao, any business deal that makes sense is based on mutual benefit," the president said of the industrial accord, which skirts lingering differences in U.S.-Chinese relations over Taiwan.
Zhao, who later flew to San Francisco to visit its high technology industries, warmly agreed. The chief purpose of his visits to Washington, California and New York is to secure American technology and investment credits.
"The signing symbolizes that we should preserve what we have already achieved and open up new areas in our industry. The 64 year old industrial manager said."
"It shows there are broad visitas for the development of Sino-U.S. relations."
THE CEREMONY IN the East
River City, N.Y.
Martha Washington, was relaxed and
cheerful.
festive. Reagan joked about where he and Zhao would sit at the small table. And Zhao ignored his ceremonial signing pen, pulling his own out of his Western business suit to seal the accord.
There are still many problems in the relationship — U.S. support of nationalist Taiwan, which China considers a rebel province, and hard bargaining ahead on a nuclear technology transfer agreement that is compliant with international law. But the visit secured a clear pledge by Zhao to adhere to U.S. objectives in curtailing the spread of possible nuclear weapons technology.
Former government officials support taxes, spending cuts
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of former government officials warned yesterday that failure to curb federal budget deficits could wipe out all the gains the nation recently has made against inflation.
The group, calling itself the Committee to Fight Inflation, urged the president and Congress to enact this year a package of spending cuts and tax reductions that would ultimately reduce deficits otherwise projected by the $200 billion range for several years.
"Every delay in acting to reduce the prospective deficits contributes to the size of the outstanding public debt and the interest charges on it, increases the difficulty of reaching a solution and increases the financial risk facing the country," the group said.
The committee formed itself in 1980 to call attention to the dangers of what he termed 'the child welfare crisis.'
Though consumer price inflation is now down to 3 percent, the group's co-chairman, Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Nixon years, and Henry Fowler, Treasury secretary under the Democrats, said members do not yet feel it is time for them to disband.
They told reporters big budget
deficits threaten to undo progress against inflation in three ways;
- By crowding out business investment needed to increase productivity and thereby keep inflation low. The present now borrows $1 of every $4 it spends.
*By raising interest rates, thereby putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to relax its anti-inflation policy of recent years.
It called for a package of spending cuts and tax increases, saying neither alone would be enough and neither can pay for it. Rugan has said he will not raise taxes.
- By keeping the dollar overvalued, due to high interest rates, thereby hurting U.S. trade and creating pressures for Congress to enact present legislation, preventing cheaper imports from entering the country
Spending cuts, the committee suggested, will by sheer arithmetic have to focus on so-called entitlement programs and defense.
The committee urged enactment this year of legislation to put a steadily declining limit on deficits over the next five years.
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Tax increases, the group said, preferably should take the form of bipartite tax credits.
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