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University Daily Kansan, October 24, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Caribbean leaders discuss U.S. options for Grenada
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - Caribbean leaders yesterday discussed the possibility of U.S.-backed military intervention in Grenada, where the Cuban-trained army killed Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bison in a bloody coup that left 17 dead and 69 injured.
In Grenada, military council member Maj. Basil Ghagan told UPI by telephone that the 16-mann council was bracing for possible invasion of Papua New Guinea.
Nicaragua may evacuate port city
Pentagon sources said the task force, diverted from its course to Lebanon, would "swing by" the Caribbean island. The sources gave no information on when the ships would arrive.
Nicaragua accused President Reagan of institutionalizing international terrorism by supporting rebel attacks and is considering evacuating all 23,000 residents from a key port city as a safety measure, the government newspaper said yesterday.
Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega said a rebel attack Oct. 10 on Corinto, a Pacific port 36 miles northwest of Managua, endangered the lives of all the city's residents, reported Barricada, the official newspaper of the Sandinista Front.
Ortega said, "We are thinking in terms of moving the entire population of Corinto because it is exposed to being blown up, to disappear because of those attacks."
Relatives mourn slain judge, lawyer
CHICAGO — Relatives at separate wakes yesterday mourned a judge and a lawyer slain at a courtroom divorce hearing for the suspect in the killing, a former policeman. The attorney's widow issued a plea for handgun control.
The suspect, Hutchie T. Moore, 55, was held without bond. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing today, the day of the funerals for Cook County Circuit Court Judge Henry A. Gentile, 63, and attorney James Piszczek, 34.
The shootings occurred Friday during a post-decree hearing on a money matter in Moore's divorce. Piszczor was representing Moore's ex-wife at the hearing.
Contadora group blasts intervention
PANAMA CITY, Panama — The Contadora group, warning that the situation in Central America was deteriorating, Saturday denounced the "dangerous proliferation of foreign military interference" in the volatile region.
"The number and intensity of armed incidents, acts of terrorism and sabotage, destabilizing accusations, mutual accusations and repriminations are increasing and the flow of arms is increasing." said a joint communique issued by the foreign ministers of the Contadora countries: Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama, at the end of a two-day meeting.
"Violations of human rights are multiplying and there is a dangerous proliferation of foreign interference, especially in the military field," the communique said.
Chinese unionists pass new charter
PEKING — Chinese trade unions passed a new constitution yesterday and hinted at using small-scale strikes to protect worker interests from state abuses.
In what trade unionists called a "victory against leftist errors," the new 36-article constitution de-emphasized the shared goals of the state and working class and underscored labor's special interests.
About 150 million people are classified as factory and enterprise workers in China.
The new charter, passed by the 19th National Trade Union Congress, replaced the 1978 workers' constitution.
The document paid special attention to the rights of women workers against discrimination, maltreatment, torture and persecution, none of which was mentioned in the 1978 charter.
U.S. prisoner total reaches record
WASHINGTON — The number of federal and state prisoners grew by 4.2 percent during the first six months of this year to a record 413,829, the government said yesterday.
In its midyear report on prison populations, the Justice Department said total inmate populations ranged from a low of 402 in North Dakota to a high of 37,238 in California.
California, Texas, New York and Florida accounted for one-third of all state inmates, the report said.
The combined federal and state population increase of 4.2 percent for six months was the lowest increase since quarterly statistical summaries began in 1981.
"This is a record number of inmates," said Steven Schlesinger, director of the department's Bureau of Justice Statistics."
Hertz breaks record with car orders
DETROIT - Hertz Corp., the nation's largest auto leasing-rental firm, said yesterday it had placed orders for a record 153,000 1984 cars, with an estimated retail value of nearly $1.5 billion.
Hertz is buying 40 percent more cars than it did last year and nearly 26 percent more than the previous high, set in 1980.
"The new purchases are by far the largest Hertz and its licensees have ever made," said Frank A. Olson, chairman of RCA, Hertz's parent company.
Hertz, which is thought to buy more motor vehicles than any other private firm in the world, bought 110,300 cars worth an estimated $1 billion in the 1983 model year.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 10-24-83
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly cloudy with a high around 65, according to the National Weather Service.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 35.
Tomorrow will be sunny with a high around 60.
Gunman a Reagan supporter, friend says
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The man who crashed his pickup truck into a posh golf club on Saturday, took hostages and demanded to see President Reagan was described as a 'Reagan voter' who liked good old boy 'troubled by drink'
Charles Raymond Harris faces charges of threatening the president for driving through a gate of the Augusta National Golf Club. He held seven hostages for more than two hours, then released them unharmed before being subdued by Secret Service agents.
By United Press International
Harris, 45, was admitted to University Hospital in August following his arrest, complaining of chest pains. Doctors said Saturday that he was being for observation because of an enzyme in his urine but otherwise was in no health danger.
REAGAN WAS ENJOYING a golfing weekend and was never in danger from
the intrusion by Harris, an unemployed millwright who was drowning in personal problems and liquor and railroad ties, a history to his political hero, officials said.
John O'Bryant, a co-worker who described himself as Harris's best friend, said that Harris had lost his job at Continental Forest Industries for reporting to work under the influence of alcohol.
O'Bryan said that Harris was not a threat, he was just a "Reagan voter."
U. S. District Judge Dudley Bowen scheduled a Monday afternoon arraignment for Harris on the federal charges. Harris also could face state charges of kidnapping and aggravated assault.
Harris, who was celebrating his first wedding anniversary Saturday, drove his four-wheel drive pickup through the golf club gate, brandished a 38-caliber pistol and said that someone might be there he weren't able to see the president.
coon hunter and good ole boy with a drinking problem."
HIS ONLY DEMANDS were that he be allowed to talk to Reagan and that whiskey and food be brought to him in the camp where he held the seven hostages.
The president, who had been playing golf on the back nine of the course famed for its annual Masters tournament, tried repeatedly to telephone Harris, but each time he called the pro shop, Harris bung up on him.
The bearded Harris, wearing a red hat emblazoned with "Dixie / The Closest Thing to Heaven," red suspenders, a flannel shirt, jeans and tennis shoes, allowed his hostages in the golf shop to leave, one by one, after hearing appeals from his mother and a brother.
REAGAN MET WITH six of the seven hostages Saturday night to convey his relief at their safety, aides said. The seventh hostage could not be located for the meeting.
House will consider Reagan's defense proposals
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, adroit at winning showdowns with Congress, faces a major challenge to his military weapons buildup this week when the House acts on MX missile bombs, nerve gas and the B1 bomber.
Reagan will have to use all his noted powers of persuasion to persuade the House to include the controversial weapons systems in the $246.2 billion
military money bill approved by the Appropriations Committee last week
Otherwise, Reagan will have to rely on the Republican-controlled Senate to rescue major items in the fiscal 1984 Pentagon budget.
WITH ONLY FOUR work weeks left before the Nov. 18 adjournment target, congressional leaders are starting to cram the schedule and Senate GOP leader Howard Baker has not ruled out Saturday sessions.
Baker's hopes of speedy action may be drenaled when the Senate early this
week reaches a supplemental appropriations bill swollen by the addition of $1.5 billion for the Clinch River breeder reactor. The reactor, work on which was shut down by President Carter, is in Baker's home state of Tennessee.
Even more threatening is Baker's promise, made when the Senate passed a stoppage money resolution just before the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30, that the supplemental legislation would increase the vehicle for any and all amendments.
The Senate also wants to act on an
THE EQUALLY AMBITIOUS House may play out its charade on the congressional budget during the week
increase in the debt ceiling, which will reach the $1.3 trillion lid by Oct 31, and the intelligence authorization bill that is awaiting a vote on outlawing covert action in Nicaragua.
charge on the congressional budget during the week To reduce the size of the congressional budget. Congress wrote in an anticipated $73 billion in new revenues over three years. But taxwriters have come up with less than $10 billion of that amount.
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