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University Daily Kansan, November 9. 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Economist warns Congress about possible fiscal crisis
WASHINGTON — A top Reagan administration official, wary of last minute congressional enthusiasm for new taxes, urged legislators yesterday to reconsider White House contingency taxes that they rejected 10 months ago.
"We are facing a fiscal crisis," administration economist Martin Feldstein told reporters after appearing before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.
He said President Reagan's statement last week that he would reject any new taxes "no matter how they arrive" did not mean he was threatening to veto his own proposal for 1986 taxes on oil and a temporary surcharge on income taxes.
Salvadoran denies reports of coup
El Salvador's president went on nationwide radio yesterday to deny rebel claims that a military coup was imminent, but a reform-minded general broke openly with the government and condemned its direction of the war against leftists.
"I believe that no matter how bad another government could be, it could never be like this one." said Gen. Jaime Abdul Gurtierez.
He told UP1 "for the moment, a coup is almost impossible in the country," but he criticized Magana for leading a government unable to
A clandestine rebel radio station said it had detected a "rumor of a coup d'etat" by Gutierrez.
Discovery of crew's bodies denied
HOUSTON — A Chinese newspaper reported that divers had found the bodies of 78 crew members of the sunken drill ship Glomar Java Sea off the coast of China, but owners of the ship yesterday said the reports were unconfirmed.
In a dispatch from Canton Monday, the Chinese-language newspaper Ta Kung Poa said that the 78 boys included 37 Americans, 34 Chinese, and 10 Japanese.
The newspaper report did not give the source of its information or attempt to account for the other three workers reported on the ship.
Gary Kott, president of Global Marine Drilling Inc., a subsidiary of Global Marine Inc. which owns the Glomar Java Sea, said the report was false.
Consumer confidence reaches peak
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Consumers have more confidence in the economy now than at any other time in more than 10 years, researchers at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research reported yesterday.
The ISR Index of Consumer Sentiment reached 91.6 percent in the third quarter, just above the 91.5 figure recorded in the second quarter, and the highest quarterly reading since the peak of 94.4 was recorded in 1972. The figures are based on the February 1966 index of 100.
Of the families surveyed, 63 percent thought that overall business conditions had improved during the past year, a higher proportion than recorded following any of the six prior recessions during the past 30 years.
Report saves gas users overcharged
WASHINGTON — Consumers might have paid millions of dollars too much for natural gas because the government failed to detect illegal overcharges, a new congressional report says.
In releasing the report Monday, Rep John Dingell, D-Mich., pointed the finger of blame at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees natural gas pricing laws.
"Through lack of interest or sheer incompetence due to primitive data collection and methods, (FERC) may simply have failed to enforce ceiling prices for older vintages of old gas," said Dingell, who heads the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which sponsored the report.
U.S. will double food aid to Africa
ROME — The Reagan administration, expressing "great concern ... for the plight of the hungry people in Africa," said yesterday it would double its emergency food aid to 22 drought-stricken countries to $50 million in 1983.
Agriculture Secretary John Block, attending the 22nd biennial conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization, also said he is lobbying against a move by Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., to cut funds for the FAO. The administration seeks to keep its pledge at last year's record level of $250 million.
The administration has no intention of withholding its contribution to the FAO as it did two years ago to protest the way the money was spent, Block said.
Pulitzer Prize winner Friendly dies
WASHINGTON — Pulitzer Prize winner Alfred Friendly, 71, a former managing editor of The Washington Post, died Monday.
Friendly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Georgetown home. A newspaper spokesman said Friendly had been suffering from terminal throat and lung cancer for some time.
"We've lost a dear friend and a great journalist," said Katherine Graham, chairman of The Wheeler Report.
Shortly after stepping down as managing editor of the Post, Friendily went to the Middle East in 1967 as a special correspondent and sent back dispatches that earned him the Pulitzer.
Friendly
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Reagan, describing himself as a messenger for "peace and prosperity." began his Asian visit yesterday to strengthen ties with Japan and South Korea and his own image as a world leader.
Reagan hopes trip will bolster Asian ties
By United Press International
"My visit to Japan and Korea will, I hope, underline the significance we place on our ties with northeast Asia and the countries of the Pacific." Reagan told a cheering crowd at Elmendorf Air Force Base.
Air Force One landed in snowy Alaska for refueling on its way to Tokyo, where discussion of trade and security issues await the president.
At a cost of $1.3 million, the Japanese government mobilized 90,000 policemen to back the 150 American Secret agents accompanying the president.
Officials said that at least 23,000 policemen would be on the streets at all times during Reagan's stay, which included straying to disguise eneded to disguish with demonstrations.
Reagan and his wife, Nancy, were the objects of the largest security operation mounted in Japan since the leaders of the Soviet democracies met in Tokyo in 1979.
IN WHITE HOUSE remarks, Reugan emphasized the economic inter-dependence of the three countries, pledging to "work hard to foster a new equality and economic cooperation" and to compromise where necessary.
Hours before Reagan was to land in Japan, about 1,500 anti-Reagan demonstrators wearing white helmets and helmets for safety fists through a suburban Tokyo park.
Police earlier this week also said that they seized maps and documents indicating that one radical group, the Chukau-ha, or Middle Core Faction, guerrilla attacks on the U.S. Embassy and American military installations.
harmful to the economic interests of all concerned.
Reagan is expected to ask Prime Minister Yasuhi Nakasone to go further to reduce the $20 billion trade surplus Japan enjoys with the United States by eliminating quotas on U.S. farm products and revaluing the yen.
But in an interview before his departure, Reagan indicated he would deliver a blunt warning — especially in Japan — that a failure to agree on ways to promote freer trade could spawn a dangerous cycle of protectionism
OVER THE PAST week, negotiators from the two nations have rushed to complete agreements on the thorniest issue confronting the two leaders — setting quotas on Japanese auto exports to the United States.
Other economic agreements worked out before the visit include abolishing tariffs on the import of U.S. manufactured semi-conductor products and reducing the transfer of sophistically trained Japanese technology to the United States.
Bush breaks tie as Senate OKs nerve-gas funds
If the funds were to survive the conference committee, it would set the stage for resuming production of nerve gas for the first time since 1969, when President Nixon banned the production of new lethal chemical weapons.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The Senate agreed by one vote yesterday to provide funds for nerve-gas production for the first time since 1969, with Vice President George Bush casting the tie-breaking vote as he did last July.
The Senate then overwhelmingly passed a $233 billion military appropriations bill, 86.6- which also contains the first 21 MX nuclear missiles.
The Senate's military bill contains $767 million for the Pentagon's chemical weapons program, most of it for protective equipment and maintaining existing weapons and $4.07 million for estimated research on chemical weapons.
Bush's vote made the nerve-gas tally 47-46, keeping the issue alive for the conference committee that will reconcile the two chambers' military appropriations bills. It was on an amendment offered by Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, to restore $124 million for the nerve gas program.
However, the military authorization bill signed by Reagan last summer imposes several conditions before the weapons could actually be assembled.
The House refused to appropriate the money for two controversial new nerve gas weapons last week when it wrapped up work on its military bill.
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Grenada invasion justified, group says
Washington — House Speaker Thomas O'Neill said yesterday that a fact-finding delegation he sent to Grenada concluded the U.S. invasion was justified to protect American lives and that he accepted its findings.
By United Press International
"The overwhelming consensus of the members of the delegation was that a real potential threat to the American citizens existed in Grenada," O'Neill said in a statement shortly after meeting with the member representing the delegation. "Since this was the case, I believe that sending American forces into combat was justified under these particular circumstances."
MEANWHILE, the last 103 Cuban prisoners held on Grenada left for Havana despite a delay in returning the bodies of 42 Cubans killed during the American-led invasion of the island, U.S. officials said.
A U.S. spokesman said negotiations between Cuba and the United States over return of the bodies were stalemated.
The bodies were being held at a morgue in Grenada "because the Cubans won't take them back," said Mr. Lowe of the U.S. Information Agency.
ada to examine the bodies, but Governor General Paul Scoon turned down the proposal.
Walsh said Cuban officials wanted to send forensic specialists to Gren-
In Washington, O'Neill said the administration's failure to consult Congress before the invasion and refusal to allow news coverage made the fact-finding trip necessary. He said he hopes U.S. troops can come home as soon as possible.
O'Neill's statement came shortly after Rep. Thomas Foley, D-Wash, told reporters of the group's decision, but warned it should not be viewed as blanket approval of intervention anywhere in the world.
A KEY CONGRESSMAN to back Reagan was Rep Michael Barnes, D-Md, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Western Hemisphere affairs, Barnes, often a critic of Reagan's policies in the region, told a news conference he approved the invasion.
Troops from the United States and six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada Oct. 25 after Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, a friend of Cuban President Fidel Castro, was killed a week earlier by hardline radicals.
Cuban Embassy First Secretary Gaston Diaz said the American officials had overestimated the number of Cuban dead and had not
identified their remains properly. He also demanded the return of what he called "a couple of million dollars" of Cuban equipment on Grenada, including a plane that flew Cuban military officer Col. Pedro Tortoil to the eastern Caribbean island just before the U.S. landing Oct. 25.
A U.S. PARATROOP unit searching for bodies on Grenada, said the burned remains of what was believed to be three or four bodies had been uncovered in Calvigny U.S. spokesman Jim Dandridge said those searching for bishop's body found one of the four bodies in the dian army training field at Point Calvigny barracks, 4 miles southeast of St. George's.
"The bodies were burned, which makes identification difficult," a U.S. spokesman said as workers placed the remains in four olive-colored plastic body bags. Wallets, rings and printed Talent were also found near the bodies.
A member of the search team told reporters army officials believe the bodies are those of Bishop and three cabinet members, killed after 3,000 followers freed him from house arrest and marched on the capital.
Lino Gutierrez, a U.S diplomat,
said: "We are still negotiating with
the Cubans," who have asked to keep
a four-member staff in Grenada.
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