NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 27, 1983
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Senate votes to create office to curtail illegal drug trade
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted yesterday to establish a new Cabinet-level Office of National and International Drug Operations and Policy to diminish the flow of illegal drugs into and within the United States.
The Senate approved the proposal by voice vote and attached it to a supplemental spending bill expected to be passed today.
A similar proposal passed in the
Senate last year, 63-33, but President Reagan vetoed it.
The new proposal, sponsored by Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., also would establish a national committee to develop a comprehensive, drug plan to be carried out by the secretary of the new drug office.
Biden said that the director of the new drug office would be "to the drug enforcement community what we are doing," he added, the officer is to the intelligence community.
BOSTON — President John F. Kennedy, working against a ticking clock, considered an invasion of Cuba to knock out medium-range missiles smuggled in by the Soviet Union in 1962, records released yesterday show.
Kennedy, in tense White House meetings with close advisers on Oct. 16, 1982, considered three alternatives to counter the Russian missile deployment, which threatened the south and eastern coasts of the United States.
By United Press International
Kennedy pondered attack on Cuba, records show
He eventually decided on a naval blockade of the island nation.
edited to delete sensitive material — of the two off-the-record meetings were released yesterday at the JFK Library. A U.S. invasion of Grenada this week.
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"I DON'T THINK we got much time on these missiles . . ." said Kennedy, "Maybe (we) just have to take them out and continue our other preparations if we decide to do that. That may be where we wind up."
Military advisers estimated JFK had between six hours and two weeks before the missiles — capable of carrying nuclear warheads — would be operational. A decision had to be made before the weapons could be fired.
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara outlined three options, arguing
against the one he described as "political" to call for diplomatic confrontations with Cuban Premier and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
NcMamara felt that tipping the U.S. hand too early would have seriously hurt the chances of success for the two men, who were on air or air strikes followed by an invasion.
KENNEDY WAS AWARE that the U.S. would be on its own and could not warn its NATO allies or friends in South America of planned action.
"But of course warning them,uh,it seems to me is warning everybody," Kennedy said. "And I,I obviously, you can't sort announce that in four days
from now you're going to take them (the missiles) out.
"They may announce within three days they're going to have warheads on 'em, if we come and attack, they're going to fire them. Then what'll we do? Then we don't take them out. Of course, then we announce, we, if they do that, then we're going to attack with nuclear weapons."
Most of the discussion concerned the feasibility air strikes, either limited to the launch sites or broadened to include support facilities.
THE TRANSCRIPTS SEEM to indicate Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Gen Maxwell D Taylor, chairman of the Air Force Joint Air strikes followed by an invasion.
Stationing to end talks on arms, Andropov says
By United Press International
MOSCOW — President Yuri Andropov said yesterday that the Soviet Union would stop negotiating in Geneva if NATO stationed new American-made nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
Andropov also announced a new Soviet proposal on missile reductions for consideration at the arms talks in Geneva. Switzerland.
"The appearance of new American missiles in Western Europe will make a continuation of the present talks in Geneva impossible," Andropov said in an interview carried by the Tass news agency.
A Western diplomat said the threat to walk out of the talks appeared to be a last attempt to postpone positioning of the 572 U.S. cruise and Pershing 2 ship scheduled to begin in December if no agreement was reached in Geneva.
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Andropov also said that Soviets would bring "additional flexibility" to the talks, but insisted that British and American missiles be included in the negotiations.
Soviet insistence on inclusion of the
British and French missiles has been a sticking point since the negotiations
Britain and France say their 162 missiles are for their own protection, not part of the NATO defenses.
Andropov said that the Soviet Union was prepared to have parity in warheads while accepting a smaller number of missile launchers.
UNTIL, NOW, the Soviet Union has demanded either equality in warheads or nuclear weapons.
"The Soviet Union could have in Europe about 140 SS-20 launchers. That is noticeably less than the number of medium-range missile launchers in the possession Britain and France," Andropov said.
The official said that the United States would examine the offer, especially the limit of 140 launchers on the Soviet-European side, the parity of warheads and the limit of Soviet weapons in Asia. The point was to counter the U.S.'s approach. Andropov's threat to leave the talks if the U.S. began the scheduled stationing.
The United States has repeatedly said that positioning will go on as scheduled unless there is a negotiated disposition of the weapons on both sides.
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U.S. oil exploration vessel vanishes in tropical storm
By United Press International
PEKING - The Glomar Java Sea, an American oil exploration vessel, vanished yesterday in the storm-tossed South China Sea with 74 people aboard and may have been saved by waters of Vietnam, officials said.
Nine Chinese search vessels were dispatched early yesterday but "so far we have received no information about the Java Sea's whereabouts," the Chinese and Keesman said. "It is very important we now towards the Vietnamese coast."
A spokesman for China's National Offshore Oil Corporation said the last communication from the vessel was a distress signal sent Tuesday evening as tropical storm Lex buffeted the South China Sea.
IN HOUSTON. Dick Vermeer,
vice president of Global Marine Inc.
of Houston, which owns the rig, said
74 people were aboard the 400-foot vessel, a self-propelled, semi-merged drilling rig.
He said those aboard included 30 workers from Global Marine, 29 Chinese nationalists and at least 15 employees of subcontractors. A list was withheld until officials could better determine the ship's fate.
"The FACT THAT we haven't been able to establish radio contact has us concerned, but we're doing everything within time constraints to try to find the rig." Vermeer said late yesterday.
Vermeer said officials lost radio contact when the ship was buffeted by 75 mph winds and 26-foot seas.
Built in 1975, the rig is part of about a 10-ship helm drilling and survey fleet. A sister ship is the Glomar Explorer, which when owned by Howard Hughes in the 1970s was involved in a secret operation to raise a sunken Soviet submarine in the Pacific.
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Ratio of government workers to civilians falls to low point
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WASHINGTON - The ratio of federal, state and local government workers to the rest of the civilian population fell in 1982 to its lowest point in nearly a decade, the Census Bureau reported yesterday.
The actual number of civilian government employees also decreased by 35,000 in 1892 after a reduction of 250,000 in 1981, the bureau said, but total pay to government employees increased more than 6 percent.
THE TOTAL FULL-TIME public sector work force of 15.9 million includes 2.9 million federal civilian workers, 3.7 million state workers and 9.3 million working for local governments. About half of state and local government jobs were education-related, while about 60 percent of the federal civilian employees worked in national defense, international relations, the postal service and space research and technology.
The ratio of government workers to
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10,000 people, virtually the same as
in 1974. The peak was 497 per 10,000
in 1979.
Alaska, with its high proportion of federally controlled land, had a higher ratio of bureaucrats to private sector workers - 820 per 10,000.
OTHER STATES WITH larger numbers of full-time government employees per 10,000 people were Wyoming, 659; Nebraska, 563; New Mexico, 664; and New York, 546. Those with the lowest numbers were Pennsylvania, 386; Kentucky, 406; New Hampshire, 418; Ohio, 424; and Illinois, 425.
Though governments had fewer employees overall, the bureau said October 1982 payrolls for all three levels of government were 6.4 percent higher than the previous October, rising to $2.6 billion. State government payrolls were up 7.7 percent to $5 billion, while local government payrolls rose 7.5 percent to $12.5 billion. The federal total was $5.4 billion, up 3 percent.
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