University Daily Kansan, January 11, 1984
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NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
General Motors to realign car-manufacturing groups
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. announced yesterday a realignment of its five car-building divisions into large and small-car groups, a move executives said would enable GM to respond more quickly to marketplace demands.
"This will enable us to deliver our products at a higher quality, lower cost and in a shorter amount of time." GM Chairman Roger Smith said of the plan, which was implemented immediately.
The automaker said the plan was approved Monday in New York by its board of directors and implementation would begin immediately.
Under the plan, the five divisions will keep their current名plateps and general managers, sales, marketing and service operations.
building and server operations:
But design, development, engineering and manufacturing operations will be convoluted under the two levels.
Pennzoil wants Getty to honor pact
NEW YORK — Pennzoil Co., which was outbid in Texas Inc.'s $9.9 billion takeover of Getty Oil Co., yesterday filed a lawsuit demanding that Getty honor its earlier $5.3 billion merger agreement with Pennzoil.
Getty went to court to have the merger proposal with Pennzoil declared invalid. Getty said it never closed a binding agreement with Pennzoil and accused the Houston oil firm of trying "to interfere with, obstruct and delay the Texaco transaction."
Texaco Inc., the third-largest U.S. oil company, Sunday signed a formal agreement to buy 56.6 percent of Getty stock at $125 a share in a deal worth $9.89 billion — the largest acquisition in U.S. history.
Bailiff killed in Florida courtroom
ORLANDO, Fla. — A man who went to court yesterday to answer charges of resisting arrest whipped out a pistol, a shotgun and a rifle and opened fire in the courtroom, killing one bailiff and critically wounding two others.
Police said another bailiff shot the suspect, Thomas Provenzano, 34, as he fled the courtroom.
Provenzano, who was wounded in the stomach, was charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder and possession of a firearm, police said.
Soviets offer chemical-weapon ban
MOSCOW — The Soviet-led Warsaw Pact yesterday proposed a ban on the use of chemical weapons in Europe to be negotiated at an East-West conference later this year.
The proposal came a week before Secretary of State George Shultz is scheduled to meet with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Stockholm, Sweden.
"The Warsaw Treaty member states consider it advisable to hold in 1984 a meeting of plenipotentiary representatives for a preliminary exchange of views with the NATO member countries and other member states, and the question of riding Europe of chemical weapons," the proposal said.
482 unknown in Argentine graves
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Almost 500 unidentified people are buried in cemetery graves in La Plata, a town about 60 miles south of Buenos Aires, the director of the cemetery said yesterday.
Oscar Nicoletti, the director, said 482 unidentified bodies were buried between 1976 and 1982, and 229 of them had been shot in the head.
They were thought to be victims of repression by security forces during the military's so-called dirty war against leftist guerrilla suspects during the 1970s. About 6,000 persons disappeared in Argentina during the 1970s and are believed dead.
The area police chief and infantry regiment ordered the burials. Nicoletti said.
Union will strike against Arco Oil
DENVER — The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, negotiating with three oil companies for new contracts for more than 50,000 workers, authorized a strike late yesterday against one of the three, Arco Oil Co.
Union President Joe Misbrener said union members at most locations continued to work without contracts while negotiators tried to reach settlements patterned after a contract offered yesterday by Gulf Oil Corporation. The company agreed to apply the Gulf monetary settlement, equally to all classifications.
Mibsreiner said Arco also was including local issues in its negotiations "involving craft consolidation and flexibility."
Jackson's "Beat It" won nominations for best single of the year and best new song. His single "Billie Jean" was also nominated best new song.
Lionel Richie collected five nominations, followed by Quincy Jones, who produced Jackson's "Thriller" album, with four.
Also earning four nominations was the rock band The Police, conductor Sir Georg Soli, violinist Izhak Perlan and 22-year-old trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis, who became the first person in his history to be nominated in both the jazz and classical music fields.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 11-84
Today, the weather will be cold across the southern Plains. Locally, today will cloudy and cold with a high in the low to mid-30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Tonight there will be a 50 percent chance of snow that could begin as freezing rain, with lows in the mid-30s. Tomorrow will be cloudy and cold with snow likely and highs in the mid- to upper 20s.
Congressmen disagree on aid plan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Republican senators endorsed as realistic the Kissinger Commission's recommendation for dramatically increased U.S. aid to Central America yesterday, but a key question he would prolong fighting in the region.
Senators who were briefed on the report — due to be made public today — said that the committee proposes about $8 billion in aid for the region over the next five years and that the report identifies a need for $24 billion through 1990 contingent upon progress in human rights.
But the larger amount "would have to be met from other sources" as well as the United States, Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., said after commission Chairman Henry Kissinger met with GOP lawmakers.
Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N-M, called the package "very realistic. It's not too."
"THE MOST enlightening part of it is that there has to be significant short-term assistance, because the long-term approach is terribly fragile." Domenci said. "These countries, principally because of their heavy indebtedness, are in very bad shape right now."
Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif., said the
"The conditioning of military assistance on substantial progress in human rights is a condition which I think is not only acceptable but desirable."
committee is recommending "both military and economic assistance in the form of funds"
But Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., said the commission offered "a blueprint for continued warfare"
Cranston, assistant Senate Democratic leader and a candidate for his party's presidential nomination, objected to continued aid to Nicaragua and more military assistance to El Salvador that will keep the fighting going."
He endorsed the committee's recommension that further aid be tied to the project.
KISSINGER SOUGHT TO gloss over White House comments that President Reagan is likely to oppose the linking of aid to human rights progress. "I am alarmed by the positive about it," the veteran statesman said reporters after the Senate briefing.
"What I want to stress is that the essence of this commission was a bipartisan agreement on all its essential recommendations." Kissinger said
"That I think is what people should remember ... that 12 Americans of very different points of view got together and achieved a consensus."
In the afternoon Kissinger briefed
REP. DAN DANIEL, D-Va, said foreign aid programs, with the exception of the Marshall Plan, "have not been too successful." He said the proposal to tie future aid to certification of human rights programs "certainly is going to be a problem in Congress."
members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Several of whom had been arrested.
Rep. Robert Matsui, D-Calif., said it would be "very difficult to pass this," but should be submitted as a single response; if it is to have any chance of passing"
Hep. Michael Barnes, D-Md., chairman of the subcommittee on Western Hemisphere affairs, indicated changes are in store for the plan. "Congress should take action."
WHITE HOUSE spokesman Larry Speaks said Monday Reagan would be "inclined" to reject conditions being placed on aid to El Salvador.
While making it clear that Reagan opposes the link with human rights progress, Speakes insisted yesterday that he would "keep an open mind on everything."
One commission member, Mayor Henry Ciseros of San Antonio, said Monday night, "I think the administration would be making a terrible mistake . . . to let conditionality go, and in the process risk the outlandish
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continuation of the brutalization" in El Salvador.
Senate Republican leader Howard Baker said "the important thing is that the Kissinger Commission agreed unanimously on the major features, which are not to let El Salvador go down the drain and that Cuba and the United States are not going to run Central America through a surrogate in Nicaragua."
Reagan gives hungry a pledge but no plan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A task force told President Reagan yesterday that people were going hungry in America. Reagan pledged to meet the challenge with intelligence, prudence and cooperation, though he offered no specific plan.
The task force said that the government must be more generous and more efficient in feeding the poor. But one critic said that the committee's recommendations could take food from the mouths of the hungry. Another called the task force report a "candidate for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction."
J. Clayburn LaForce, task force chairman and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Management, told a news conference that the committee's report called for a $500 million increase in spending on government nutrition programs and "increments in the targeting and the efficiency of the programs."
"We find hunger to be a real and significant problem throughout our nation. We call for immediate action to remedy the problem and for removing impediments to providing food assistance to all who need it," he said.
BUT ROBERT GREENSTEIN, a former Carter administration official, said that after fiscal 1986, the task force proposals could actually reduce the amount of money the government spends to feed the poor.
Some task force members met with Reagan at the White House to brief him on the committee's report, which was released Monday.
Afterward, Reagan issued a statement saying he had "directed the members of our administration to increase the recommendations of this report."
"By reminding us that in this land of plenty, there can be no excuse for hunger, the Task Force on Food Assistance has presented us with a challenge. Ragan said, "We will challenge charitable organizations with private resources — and we will do so with intelligence, prudence and compassion."
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY Larry Speakes said Reagan had yet to study the report and would wait for recommendations from the appropriate Cabinet agencies and from his own Office of Private Sector Initiatives before adopting any proposals in the new budget.
Some of the things recommended by
the committee are already included in a tentative fiscal 1986 budget, Speaks said. He said other nutrition programs the president wants to act on could be sent to Congress in the form of supplemental requests.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio,
issued a statement labeling the task force report an "election-year document" and a "candidate for the governor" defiction. He said it "calledously ignores the facts about hunger in America."
HOUSE AGRICULTURE Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, said Congress would review any serious suggestions the administration makes for improving anti-hunger programs, "but I can predict right now that there is not likely to be much support" for one of the key task force proposals, which will present an option to devise their own antihunger programs with block grants.
Thirty-nine groups, headed by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and including major religious organizations, senior citizens and consumers, groups, issued a joint government decreey deparing the task force report.
"After working for four months and spending the taxpayers' money, the
task force tells us little more than that hunger exists. And then proposes recommendations that would, on balancing the problem, tragic problem, yet worse," they said.
DAVID GRAMM, a member of the task force staff, said recommendations to speed a rule change boosting benefits by an average of 80 cents to 90 cents a month for million food stamp recipients and that the rules would increase federal spending.
But Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said the Congressional Budget Office has found the liberalized eligibility for tax credits to increase spending by only $150 million / half what the task force estimated
And he said a proposal to make states financially responsible for any over-payments could force states to cut welfare benefits.
"When you look at all of them as a whole, there's no significant increase, and starting in 1986 the reductions may be greater that larger than the uptake." DC.5408
"Of all the presidential commissions we've seen, none really were as biased to begin with as this one was." Greenstein said.
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