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University Daily Kansan, November 2, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Post office will raise price of first-class stamp in '84
WASHINGTON — The Postal Service announced yesterday that it was seeking approval of a 15 percent increase in the price of a first-class stamp — from 20 to 23 cents — and that it also wanted to boost other mail rates late next year.
other mail rates last year.
Postmaster General William Bolger said increases for most classes of mail were needed to avoid a projected $800 million loss next year. The price of mailing a card would jump from 13 to 15 cents.
The rate request must be approved by the Postal Rate Commission, a process that takes about 10 months. The increases would likely go into effect in October 1984.
The Postal Service last raised rates for first class letters in 1981.
Democrats sav Clark evading issues
WASHINGTON — William Clark breezed toward confirmation as interior secretary yesterday, but came under fire from Senate Democrats who charged he was dancing around key policy issues.
Clark, chosen by President Reagan to be James Watt's successor in the Cabinet, also frustrated Democratic members of the Senate Energy Committee by refusing to criticize Watt.
"I hear you're good at stonewelling." Sen Wendell Ford, D-Ky., said. "I think you should to decide." replied Clark.
"That's for others to decide. Replenish it," Clark's sharpest critic in the first day of confirmation hearings was Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, who accused him of "dancing the light fantastic" around issues.
South Africa to vote on constitution
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South Africa's white minority readied for today's vote on a proposed new constitution that would grant unprecedented political rights to some non-white but would ignore the majority 20 million blacks.
majority 20 million whites. The constitution, designed to blunt criticism of South Africa's regime and soften the world's image of apartheid, its institutionalized system of racial discrimination, has sharply split the country's 4.5 million whites.
raca'a distimin 'a day approached, South Africans were "more sharply divided than at any time in the country's turbulent past," said Chris Freimond, political correspondent of the leading liberal newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail.
Autoworkers strike against Chrysler
TWINSBURG, Ohio — An estimated 3,200 autoworkers went on strike against a Chrysler Corp. stamping plant yesterday, forcing the layoff of 6,300 workers at two other Chrysler production plants, the nation's No. 3 automaker said.
automaker said. Chrysler said the Twinsburg strike closed two of it eight U.S. and Canadian assembly plants yesterday, and the company will review the future of four other plants on "a day-by-day basis."
nature of Japan to keep up with. Meanwhile, the United States and Japan agreed yesterday to raise the number of Japanese automobiles that can be sold on the U.S. market during the 1984 fiscal year to 1.85 million.
U. S. automakers were outraged by the new import ceiling.
Publisher Murdoch buys Sun-Times
CHICAGO — Publisher Rupert Murdoch yesterday bought the nation's eighth-largest daily newspaper, the Chicago Sun Times, for $90 million cash, ending three generations of ownership by the Marshall Field family.
Field family Murdoch, Australian owner of communications companies on three continents, outbid an offer of $63 million by Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge.
Marshall Field V, who sold the paper with his half-brother Frederick, said. "To be perfectly frank, my brother felt from his position that he wanted to maximize his return out of the paper. The agreement ... between us took control of the decision out of my hands and I don't want a big fight with him anyway."
Drifter retracts murder confession
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — A homosexual drifter who confessed to killing 6-year-old Adam Walsh and dumping his severed head in a canal now says he did not murder Adam or anyone else, his attorney said yesterday.
Ottis Elwood Toole, 36, has retracted the confession that was the evidence linking him to the notorious 1981 kidnap-slaying of Walsh, said
police, citing gory details Toohe provided, remain convinced that he killed Adam.
Kirkland, "You can take (Toole's denial) and do whatever you want with it," Hollywood Police Chief Sam Martin said yesterday. "I still feel we have a prime suspect, Toole, in this crime."
Workers continue to strike in Tahiti
PAPEETE, Tahiti - Striking workers picketed four luxury hotels and harassed beach-going tourists yesterday in the sixth day of a bitter labor dispute that could shut down parts of this South Pacific island paradise.
The hotel employees, demanding higher pay and a shorter work week, resumed picketing at the Maeva Beach, Tahaara, Beachcomber and Maetavai hotels.
Police fired tear gas Monday to break up protests after violence erupted among the strikers, who rampaged through several hotels, breaking glass, damaging buildings and heaving at least two tourists into a swimming pool.
The hotel managers agreed to close their hotels unless the walkout was settled.
WEATHER FACTS
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Today, nationally, today will be partly cloudy with a high near 70, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low near 45. Tomorrow will be clouds and cooler with a high near 65.
House approves funds for MX production
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The House narrowly approved funds for full-scale production of the powerful MX nuclear missile Tuesday in a crucial victory for President Reagan's military buildup
advanced funding plan for the B-1 bomber, rejecting arguments that approving money for future years is a violation of the design of the aircraft is not yet complete.
On a 217-208 vote, the house rejected an amendment by Rep. Joseph Addabbo, R-N.Y., to delete $2.2 billion for building the first 21 of the intercontinental 10-warhead weapons.
It was the last House vote needed before production of the weapon, developed over a decade, begins. The weapon is expected to approve the weapon.
Earlier, the House endorsed an
MX opponents appealed to about a dozen undecided members to consider the ramifications of approving a decision. The decision will be vulnerable to Soviet attack
"If we fund this weapon, we are in a hair-trigger state and that gives the incentive to one side or the other" to win the war, warned Rep. Les AuCun, D-Ore.
THE AMENDMENT TO delete $438.7 million for certain long-term contracts for the bomber, also offered by Addbadda, was turned back 247-175.
But Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis, one of the architects of a compromise worked out with the White House calling for MX distribution in exchange for renewed efforts at arms control, argued now to come back down on that agreement.
Reagan, who wants the MX to counter the Soviets' huge SS-18 and SS-19 strategic missiles, changed his arm to put more emphasis on arms control.
target, and putting greater emphasis on arms control.
He strongly endorsed the findings of his Scoyworc Commission, which called for placing 100 MX missiles in existing Minton silos in Wyoming and extending the range to single-warbred missile that would presumably offer a less tempting
DURING THE PROCESS of authorizing Pentagon weapons programs earlier this year, both the House and Senate added further conditions tying distribution to arms control. Specifically, they called for production of 21 missiles in 1984 instead of the 27 the administration sought.
"This compromise isn't perfect," said Rep. Normie Dicks, D-Wash, another Democrat who, like Aspin, initially opposed the MX. "But on balance, the best way to get an arms control agreement is to keep this bargain, (to) work toward all three elements of the Scowcroft report."
Druse rebels free 209 Christian refugees
By United Press International
DEIR EL QAMAR, Lebanon — Drusen Muslim rebels freed 209 aged, ailing or orphaned Christians yesterday as a humanitarian gesture and promised to release hundreds more of the 25,000 refugees besieged in a Shofu mountain town since September.
Drusen leader Walid Jumblatt said the evacuation was timed to coincide with peace talks among Lebanon's waring factions in Geneva as a good-will
gesture to the Christian-led central government.
The talks continued for a second day but there were no reports President Amin Gemayel had acceded to Muslim demands for greater control of the government and abrogation of the May 17 withdrawal accord with Israel.
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THE REFUGEES WERE helped by Red Cross workers into five buses and driven to a soccer stadium for reunion with their families in the predominantly Christian sector of east Beirut, 13 miles to the north.
A Red Cross spokesman said 209 Christians were evacuated and that the Drusse Muslims circling the town gave a total of 1,000 people over five days.
About 5,500 people lived in the town before a three-week Drusue drive for control of the Shofu forced thousands of Christians in surrounding villages to seek refuge in Deir el Qamar beginning Sept. 6.
George Dib Nehme, the mayor of
Deel the Qamar, said between 20,000 and 25,000 refugees had been "packed like sardines" in houses, churches, the mosque and the synagogue since then.
"There are about six persons for every bed," he said.
THEERE IS NO heat or electricity and a single fountain in the main square is the only source of water. Nehme said there is a particular hygiene problem at a hospital housing 350 retarded children and that three people have been killed and 11 others wounded by snipers.
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