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University Daily Kansan. November 8. 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Senate favors MX missile permits production to start
WASHINGTON — The Senate endorsed the MX nuclear missile yesterday, casting the last major congressional vote needed before full-scale production of the weapon begins and handing President Reagan a key victory for his military buildup campaign.
On a 56-73 vote, the Senate rejected an amendment offered by Sen. D. Bumpers, D-Aark, that would have cut out $21 billion for building the TransCanada Highway.
The outcome in the Senate was never in doubt. Last July, it endorsed the 10-warhead weapon 58-41 despite delaying tactics by Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and other opponents. Only one senator, Arlen Specter, R-Pa., was persuaded to change his vote, from favoring MX to opposing it.
Three Mile Island utility indicted
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal grand jury indicted Metropolitan Edison Co. yesterday on charges of covering up by "trick, scheme and device" falsified records at Three Mile Island before the 1979 accident at the nuclear plant.
U. S. Attorney David Dart Queen said at a morning news conference that the grand jury returned an 11-count indictment against MetEd, which operated the nuclear plant when it was the site of the worst commercial nuclear power accident in history.
The indictment, which named no people,
stemmed from an investigation by the grand jury,
Queen's office and the FBI. The maximum fine for conviction on all
counts would be $85,000. Queen said
Earthquake in central China kills 30
PEKING — A strong earthquake jolted an agricultural area of central China before dawn yesterday, killing at least 30 people and damaging thousands of homes and buildings, officials said.
Seismologists in Shandong province said the quake struck shortly after 5 a.m. and measured 5,9 on the open-ended Richter scale.
The focus of the quake was only 12.4 miles below the epicenter and shook areas along the borders of Shandong, Hebei and Henan provinces, the seismologists said.
The official Xinhua news agency said that five hours after the quake 30 people were reported dead in Heze and Dongming counties in Shandong. Several thousand houses in Heze county were destroyed, Xinhua said.
Reagan considers contingency tax
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said yesterday that President Reagan is confident that an economic recovery will shrink the deficit without new taxes but could sign a contingency tax bill if spending cuts are included.
In a question-and-answer session with wire service reporters, Regan made it clear that the White House will keep its contingency tax offer open, under narrow restrictions, only during the remaining two weeks that Congress plans to be in session.
"The president at that point might consider some type of contingency tax." with enough spending cuts. Regan said.
As written, such a tax would take effect on Oct. 1, 1985, if deficits remained very large.
Ex-CIA agent to get a new sentence
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the gun-running convictions of former CIA agent Edwin. Wilson but overturned his sentence, saying it was unconstitutionally severe.
A new trial was unnecessary but Wilson must be resentenced, said a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Court Circuit of Appeals. He had been sentenced to 15 years in prison and finned $200,000 after being convicted in Alexandria in 1982 for selling weapons to Libya.
The court ruled the sentence violated Wilson's constitutional right against double jeopardy because it was greater than the maximum sentences prescribed by law for convictions on the two gun-running charges.
Andropov misses military parade
MOSCOW — President Yuri Andropov was absent from the annual military parade on Red Square yesterday, persuading Western diplomats that he has more wrong with him than the cold cited by the Soviets.
An hour after the parade, a man set himself on fire in Red Square in an apparent protest, witnesses said. His condition was not known, nor was his face.
A spokesman for Andropov, who has not been seen in public for 81 days, said the 69-year-old leader was recovering from a cold.
Several Western diplomats said they were certain a more serious illness kept Andropov from appearing at Lenin's Tomb to review the parade, which featured a pronounced anti-American theme.
St. Louis newspaper to close down
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the largest morning newspaper in a city that also supports the afternoon St. Louis Post-Dispatch, stunned its employees last night by announcing it would cease publication Dec. 31.
The Globe-Democrat, which has published since 1852, is the 34th largest paper in America, according to the 1883 edition of Editor & Publisher, Thomas G. Blakeman.
The Globe-Democrat's circulation was listed as 260,572, compared to the Post-Dispatch's circulation of 235,520. The Post-Dispatch was listed as the country's 41st largest newspaper.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 11-8-83
Today, showers are expected in parts of the central Rockies and along the lower Atlantic coast. The weather will be mostly fair elsewhere across the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain and a high around 65, according to the National Weather Service in
Tenight will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and a low around 45.
Tomorrow will be cloudy and colder with a high around 50 and a chance of rain.
Reagan to discuss trade defense on Far East trip
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that he would oppose protectionism and urge a strong but reasoned response to terrorism during his six-day journey to Japan and South Korea this week.
By United Press International
In an interview before leaving for Asia today, Reagan said that the Pacific was "the area of the future" and that "a strong Japan — a Japan whose image more of its own defense — will be a great factor for stability in that area."
The recent destruction of the Korean airliner and the terrorist attack on South Korean officials in Burma, Reagan said, "make it even more difficult to protect ourselves, strengthen the bonds" between the United States and South Korea.
PRAIISING THE SOUTH Korean government for its "restraint" under the "extreme provocation" of the terrorist attack which Seoul and Tokyo were put on alert. Reagan rejected the use of swift retaliation in response to such acts.
"But getting the people directly responsible and doing something to indicate that terrorism does have its origins is not a different from just blindly striking out."
"I'ts very easy and I know it' s only human to want to strike out in retaliation. " Reagan said. "I had those feelings about the tragedy in Beirut.
The president will also discuss trade problems while he is in Japan and South Korea. The countries are two of the largest trading partners of the United States. Reagan said he would make a point about "the short-term advantages, "destroys prosperity" and damages trade relations in the long run.
Reagan made the remarks during separate interviews with Japanese and American students.
REAGAN MADE CLEAR that he also would pressure Japanese leaders to take further steps to open their
Deputy White House chief of staff Michael Deaver had said he told Reagan the Asian journey would be "the toughest trip he has ever made" because of the tiring 15,800-mile round trip. He let him. He will in the air 32 1/2 hours.
markets to American goods and ease "a dangerous imbalance" that now exists between the United States and Japan.
Presidential advisers decided that because of the "overriding importance" of the two nations, Reagan should go ahead with the long-planned visit despite turmoil in Lebanon and involvement in Grenada. Deaver said
As for the president's personal safety on the Asian swan, Deaver said "we're always anxious about security," but he also said if he was thought to be in danger."
NANCY REAGAN, WHO will accompany
more appreciative, Denver said.
"We just try to keep reassuring the president is not in danger," he said.
In Tokyo, the Japanese government has begun to mobilize 90,000 policemen to help prevent violence during Reagan's four-day stay.
And in Seoul, President Chun Doo Hwan has taken personal charge of security arrangements, inspecting the places where Reagan will appear. South Korea is nervous because of the threat to the country by Soviet fighters Sept. 1, and the death of Cabin ministers and 17 other Koreans in a terrorist bombing Oct. 9.
Deaver said Reagan, who has travelled to Mexico, Canada, Europe and Latin America since taking office, had wanted to make the Asian trip for a long time. The president believes Japan and South Korea are America's two most important allies in Asia, he said.
REAGAN HAS CLOSE relations with presidents of both nations, particularly Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nishiki to be meeting for the fourth time this year.
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Supreme Court rejects 2 controversial cases
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, sidestepped an emotional issue, refused yesterday to consider whether "Baby Doe" = a deformed child who could not eat food and medical care — had a right to life-sustaining treatment
The court also declined to review a controversial California ruling that could deny Los Angeles access to Monke Lake near Yosemite National Park, where the water level has been dropping dramatically.
The justices also agreed to decide whether prisoners and their visitors at a jail have a right to touch.
The widely publicized Baby Doe case involves a child born with Downs Syndrome, or monoglossum, as well as a detached esophagus that causes food intolerance and aliment feeding. The baby died in a Bloomington, IN, hospital April 15, 1982.
The parents denied the infant food and medical treatment. The baby died while his court-appointed guardian, Lawrence Brodeur, was asked the Supreme Court for an order requiring the hospital to treat the child.
In other action yesterday, the court:
*Agreed to hear an appeal term by the Los Angeles county sheriff challenging a lower court ruling allowing prisoners awaiting trial to have physical contact with a federal district judge found that loss of contact for a long period was unreasonable for low-risk prisoners.
*Refused to review a California Supreme Court ruling on Mono Lake that said the "scene views" the purity of the air, and the use of the lake ... by birds' are protected by the public trust doctrine and must be weighed against Los Angeles' water rights.
- Agreed to consider an appeal by a man convicted of racketeering who contends his right to a public trial was violated because part of the trial — dealing with admitting crimes into evidence — was closed.
- Agreed to consider whether a credit reporting company, Dun and Bradstreet, is entitled to similar protections against label suits enjoyed by newspapers and broadcasters.
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