University Daily Kansan, January 12. 1984
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NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Ex-president of Argentina questioned in federal court
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Former President Reynaldo Bignone, escorted by three guards, appeared in federal court yesterday for interrogation on charges stemming from the disappearance of two communists.
Carrying a briefcase and wearing a dark suit, Bignone, president from July 1982 until civilian rule returned to Argentina last month, appeared for his second straight day of questioning.
Bignone spent the night at the Campo de Mayo army base outside Buenos Aires after he was arrested for investigation Tuesday. He was charged with covering up the disappearance of two communist army officers on the grounds of Argentina's war college in 1976 when Bignone was the chief.
There was no immediate indication of what happened yesterday in the federal court.
Spree called price of 'open society'
ORLANDO, Fla. — Officials said yesterday that a bloody courthouse shooting spree by a misdemeanor defendant that left one bailiff dead and two others in critical condition "is the price we pay for an open society."
The suspect, Thomas Provenzano, 34, was charged with first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder after the Tuesday shooting.
"What happened was tragic, but it is the price we pay for an open society," Sheriff Lawson Lamar said yesterday.
Several Orange County judges have called for increased courthouse security, but County administrator Jim Harris said "it's awfully difficult to protect against one person who wants to perpetrate a crime for whatever reason."
IRA claims responsibility for killing
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The outlawed Irish Republic Army claimed responsibility yesterday for killing an off-duty police officer.
The IRA issued a brief statement in Belfast saying its guerrillas ambushed and killed police Constable William Fulerton, 48. Tuesday night while he was driving his car on the outskirts of Newry, a border town in South Armagh.
Fullerton was found slumped over in the driver's seat of his Volkswagen, with the engine still running, police said. He died from
The attack came as Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary James Prior visited Dublin for talks on security with the Irish government.
State legislators' fight injures one
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two legislators attempting to settle a political dispute peacefully in the Missouri House speaker's office yesterday engaged in bloody fistfuls that sent one of the politicians to the hospital.
State Rep. Louis Ford, D-St.Louis, was treated for a cut forehead, which required stitches, and a blackened, swollen-suthe eye. Fellow representative Charles Troup, D-St. Louis, came through the altercation unscathed.
Witnesses said that House Speaker Bob Griffin and another St. Louis Democrat, State Rep. Fred Williams, had been attempting to mediate a dispute between the two angry lawmakers when Group suddenly threw a cup of coffee in Ford's face and the fight ensued. Both Griffin and Williams wrested Troupe away from the fallen Ford.
Polish officials revoke price hikes
WARSAW, Poland — The Communist government bowed to sharp, widespread public criticism yesterday and revoked a set of steep food price hikes, but officials said smaller increases would still be imposed.
Brushing off concern that the increases might provoke demonstrations, the regime said that its latest version would be final and awaited formal approval by Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski and his cabinet.
The ultimatum brought a "stormy" reaction even from leaders of the government-sanctioned trade unions, which replaced the banned Solidarity, when the leaders got a preview of the hikes, the government's chief spokesman said.
MOSCOW — A fire damaged a compressor station on the Siberia-to-Europe gas pipeline, but scheduled deliveries of the natural gas to Western Europe have not been affected, a top Soviet official said yesterday.
Vasily Dinkov, minister of the Soviet gas industry, denied Western news reports of an explosion at a major compressor station that threatened to delay completion of the controversial 2,766-mile pipeline.
"The rumors circulated by bourgeois mass media that serious damage supposedly has been inflicted to the Uruengo-Uhrgord gas pipeline as a result of an explosion and fire and that its commissioning was not successful, we have nothing to do with reality." Dinkyo saw in an interview with Tass.
AT&T expands credit card system
NEW YORK American Express and AT&T announced an agreement yesterday that will allow American Express card carriers to chase AT&T's credit cards.
The phones are being installed in hotels, airports and other locations around the country. They are equipped to read credit cards and automatically charge calls to the appropriate account.
American Express will be the only credit card other than those issued by AT&T itself that will be used on the phones, the company said. The AT&T cards are being distributed to 47 million existing calling card customers in January.
American Express has more than 16 million card holders, including 4 million who live overseas.
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Israeli cutbacks to affect West Bank
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, averting a government crisis yesterday by winning support from his coalition partners for a $800 million budget reduction, said the plan will mean cutbacks on West Bank settlements.
west bank branch "There will be cutbacks in many spheres of activity, the settlements will be no exception," Shamir said in a television interview.
Science and Technology Minister Yuval Neeman, a member of the right-wing Tehya Party, said the plan will mean a settlement "cutback proportionate to the 9 percent reduction set" for the total $22 billion budget.
ENDING A MARATHON 14-hour session at dawn, the Cabinet's Ministerial Economics Committee approved budget cuts of about $800 million — $100 million less than Finance Ministry Yigal Cohen-Oberadam
"When we set our budget ceiling, we knew some ministries would balk," a smiling Cohen-Orgad said afterward. "It ended just how we thought it would three weeks ago. On balance, I'm very satisfied."
The proposed cuts must now be presented to the full Cabinet for approval. It then goes to Israel's
parliament, the Kneset, where it faces further debate before a final vote.
The small Tami Party, which controls the Labor and Social Welfare Ministry, had threatened to bolt the mandated social services were reduced by the mandated 8 percent. In the end, Tami accepted a 6 percent cutback
Tamis's apparent decision to stay in the Shamir-led coalition once again dashed the hopes of opposition groups in German Shimon Peres, who has been vigorously courting and other dissatisfied coalition members for weeks.
"We have agreed to make do with this," said Deputy Social Welfare Minister and Tami leader Benz-Zion Rabbi Sultan.
SHAMIR'S POLITICAL respite, however, may be short-lived since the civil service union representing 70,000 municipal workers served notice it would
conduct a general strike in 15 days unless their wage demands were met.
The workers have been staging escalating job slowdowns to press demands for salary increases to offset income erosion caused by Israel's 160 percent inflation rate.
Though government economists congratulated themselves on shepherding the budget reductions through the shaky coalition, the cutbacks will not be delivered to services for the public and increased unemployment
"From an economic point of view, this step was needed and is good. From a political point of view, people will be very unhappy," said Shlomo Lorincz, chairman of the parliament finance committee.
Premier says China eager for world trade
"It was difficult to ask the Reagan administration to increase aid, to take more money for the American taxpayer, while we were unwilling to make tough decisions." Lorenz said.
Lorincez, whose Agudat Israel Party belongs to the coalition, said the Cabinet Committee's decision was also important to Israel's relations with the United States.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Premier Zhao Ziyang said yesterday that China was eager to reap the technology and know-how of the industrial world and would never again close its doors to world trade.
But the premier, in a speech to American businessmen, warned that political difficulties with the United States could jeopardize the emergence of a flourishing trade.
"I hope that you will use your influence to help overcome these difficulties." he said.
The Chinese leader, in the second full day of his visit, emphasized the primary goal of his mission — to gain greater American technology in energy exploration, transportation and communications systems, and business credits. He arranged talks with Commerce Secretary Gavin Saltige and Defense Secretary Cosco Weingerberg.
WEARING A BLUE-GREY business suit and speaking through an interpreter, Zhao, 64, told the
businessmen that for 30 years after the 1949 Communist revolution China was virtually cut off from trade with the West despite a willingness to open its markets.
He did not refer to the chases the Cultural Revolution had made of Chinese society, but said that Peking's new leaders had embarked on a rapid program of technology and the technology and managers of the developed world.
"We resolve to blaze a new trail and build socialism with Chinese characteristics." Zhao toil the National Congress.
"China has opened its door and will never close it again," he said, pledging a national policy of "opening the door."
ZHAO, RELAXED AND often smiling while the interpreter read his remarks, said that the world's most populous nation was improving its agricultural production, building railways, harbors and communication systems, and developing tastes for such products as television sets.
"In all these endeavors, massive capital and
advanced technology are required." he said.
He said that U.S. business, with its credits and know-how, was in a good position to develop the vast Chinese market despite the "difference social and economic systems" of the two nations.
In comparison, he said that China is relatively inexperienced in international economic affairs and is "aware of the complaints our foreign friends have" about its system.
"We are doing our utmost to make improvements in this field." Zhao said.
But he said that China needed another form of help from American businessmen — on the political level.
from American businessmen — on the political level.
In an apparent reference to the chronic problem of Tiananmen Square purchases, Zhao said that it was impossible to separate political considerations from economic activities.
"The expansion of Sino-U.S. economic relations will promote Sino-U.S. political relations," he said. "Conversely, setbacks in Sino-U.S. political relations should adversely affect Sino-U.S. economic relations."
China policy may hurt Reagan
By United Press International
Gary Jarmar, chairman of the American Council for Free Asia, said Reagan's conservative backers would be "demoralized and alienated" by concessions he might make to China's Premier Zhao Ziyang.
WASHINGTON — Conservatives warned yesterday that President Reagan could lose their re-election support if he makes any new concessions to China by reducing U.S. support of Taiwan.
"For most of us representing Reagan's conservative base, we consider his commitment to Taiwan a major litmus test in determining whether or not he deserves our support." Jarman told reporters at a news conference during which he and other conservatives called for continued support of Taiwan.
MOST PRAISED REAGAN for refusing to give ground during Zhao's visit but expressed concern that he will come under increased pressure for further concessions when he goes to Peking in April.
Asked where conservatives will turn if Reagan dispatches them on the Taiwan issue, Jarman repeated that it would have a "demoralizing effect" on conservatives.
But he said this did not mean conservatives would
"go running" to former Vice President Mondale or another Democratic candidate. "Of course not," he
He said "the last thing that President Reagan needs in an election year" would be for conservatives to refrain from actively campaigning for him and to "stay home and watch the basketball game instead."
REP. PHILIP CRANE, R-III, that support for Taiwan was a bipartisan issue with broad support and that Mondale or any other Democrat could "take that issue and run with it" if Reagan fumbles.
The Illinois Republican gave Democratic Sens Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Alan Cranston of California credit for taking the lead in getting Congress to pass the Taiwan Relations Act, after what he called President Carter's "betrayal" of Taiwan by withdrawing its U.S. recognition.
Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress said it would be "a tragic mistake" for Rikuten to be involved in the debate.
"The president will face not only political problems at home but credibility problems worldwide if any action taken during the visit of the Red Chinese delegations can in any legitimate way be interpreted as undercutting a loyal friend of the U.S." Weyrich said.
Female vice president would increase votes
WASHINGTON — Women's rights activist Eleanor Smeal said yesterday that the Democratic Party could increase its presidential vote about 10 percent by running a woman for vice president.
Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women, made the assessment in presenting a $10,000 study conducted for the Democratic Party to show it can maximize the women's vote in the 1984 elections
The report said the gap between men and women in support for President Reagan has slowly increased and in some public opinion polls is up to 15 percent.
"With 6 million more women than men expected to vote in 1984, the idea of a woman on the presidential ticket has become a matter for serious consideration," the report said.
Polls by George Gallup. The Washington Post-ABC News, Louis Harris and Penn and Schoen "all reflect strong majorities in favor of such a ticket." Smal wrote.
"There is a significant showing that a woman on the ticket would substantially the vote-giving power of that ticket," Smeal said.
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