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University Daily Kansan, October 6, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
AFL-CIO re-elects Kirkland, pledges support to Mondale
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — AFLCIO President Lane Kirkland, who rebuilt organized labor into a powerful force in next year's presidential primaries, was re-elected yesterday as head of the labor federation.
The shouted endorsement for the former vice president was nearly unanimous.
Nearly 800 union delegates, cheering and chanting "We want Fritz," also gave Democrat Walter Mondale the highly-prized presidential nomination.
An aide said Monday would have no statement until he appeared before the convention's closing session Thursday.
The endorsement, which carries an army of campaign volunteers and millions of dollars in contributions, came after an hour of speeches in which a score of labor leaders rose as often to condemn the Reagan administration as to praise Mondale.
Cardinal Cooke reported near death
NEW YORK - Cardinal Terence Cooke, spiritual leader of nearly 2 million Roman Catholics in the archdiocese of New York, was reported "profoundly weak" and barely able to speak yesterday as he lay near death from leukemia.
The Rev. Peter Finn, spokesman for the archdiocese, said the cardinal and his family decided against a visit because "he and they would like to remember each other at better moments in the course of his illness."
"He is profoundly weak and finding it difficult to speak. He is communicating by expressions and by sound and by slight motions." Fint told reporters during an evening briefing.
The cardinal's condition took a turn for the worse Tuesday, and he was given the church's last rites.
WASHINGTON — West German President Karl Carstens, saying "good intentions alone are not enough," told a joint session of Congress yesterday that his nation would not waiver in its commitment to strengthen the Western alliance.
"We are dealing with a highly armed superpower which is making great efforts in order to increase its influence in many parts of the world."
West Germany seeks strong alliance
CHICAGO — Yesterday, during the third day of a strike in Chicago, the nation's third-largest school district, about 20 parents joined teachers on picket lines, and the president of the teachers' union sought a 10 percent pay increase from the financially pinched school board.
"Good intentions alone are not enough to preserve peace. To safeguard peace today is of greater importance than ever before. To reach that goal we must keep a balance of power. We want a balance at the lowest possible level of armaments."
parents join teachers' picket lines
Students jammed libraries and tuned in to classes broadcast on educational radio.
Operation PUSH leaders threatened to sue teachers and the board if the strike was not settled by Friday, and Mayor Harold Washington dismissed suggestions that he should dictate a settlement.
One teacher was arrested for allegedly scratching the cars of working employees with a key.
Beagan plan offered at arms talks
GENEVIA, Switzerland — U.S. arms negotiator Edward L. Rowny, declaring that "no one loses" under Washington's latest proposals, yesterday opened talks with the Soviets aimed at reducing the number of nuclear missiles.
Rowny described President Reagan's proposal, which would eliminate two warheads for each new one installed, to Soviet negotiator Victor Karpov at a preliminary meeting of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks.
The talks formally begin today.
The Soviet news agency Tass described the new proposal as "nothing but words" that designed to acquire Congressional approval for money to build "more accurate and perfect means of destructive war," such as the MX missile.
House bans federal oil, coal leases
WASHINGTON — The House voted yesterday to place a moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands and to ban offshore oil drilling in wide areas along the California and New England coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico.
The bill "puts a muzzle" on Interior Secretary Jim Watt in several areas. Rep. William Ratchford, D-Conn. said. But conservatives, including Rep. Tom Loefler, R-Texas, said Congress was simply tying up the country's energy resources.
The limitations were included in a compromise $7.95 billion money bill for the Interior Department, which passed 296-95. The Senate is expected to approve the bill and President Reagan to sign it, despite misgivings. The bill is $1.25 billion more than he requested.
Weather delays final Everest ascent
KATMANDU, Nepal - Jet streams of more than 50 mph on Mount Everest's summit and two days of heavy snowfall forced a U.S. team to postpone its final ascent of the world's highest mountain, the Ministry of Tourism said yesterday.
The U.S. expedition includes 5 women, who would be the first American women to reach the 29.028-foot peak in the Himalayan mountains. The expedition is also attempting to complete the first autumn conquest through a treacherous western ridge.
Initial reports from base camp said the expedition planned its summit attempt Tuesday after two previous postponements, but poor weather prevented them.
The health of all the climbers — six men and the five women — continues to be good despite the weather conditions, the ministry said.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST 10 7 PM EST 10=6=83
Today will be generally fair across the nation.
Today will be generally fair across the habitat.
Locally, today will be partly cloudy with a high between 75 and 80
according to the National Bureau of Topека.
Tight will be partly cloudy with a low around 50.
Friday will be partly cloudy with a high around 80.
More than $250 billion sought for military Reagan wants spending bills by Thanksgiving
WASHINGTON — President Reagan told Republican congressional leaders yesterday that he wanted a $250 billion-plus military spending bill including an amendment to the national debt limit on his desk before Thanksgiving.
Reagan, reviewing the legislative agenda which was cited as the reason he curtailed a planned Asian trip, also called for action on his plan for tuition tax credits, repeated his backing for a bill to allow prayer in public schools and stood by his bid to shake up the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
The White House meeting with the GOP chiefs of the House and Senate was described by Reagan spokesman Larry Speakes, who quoted the president as saying, "I attach great importance to the defense bill, included in the MX."
SPEAKES SAID REAGAN said his "first priority is to complete action on all outstanding appropriations bills." Only six of the 13 major appropriations bills for the 1984 fiscal year have been accorded by Congress, and only four have
Congress is scheduled to adjourn Nov. 18. The survey of remaining topics was held as lawmakers prepared to vote for a week's Columbus Day recess.
been signed by Reagan, although the spending cycle began last week.
the defense appropriations bill pending in Congress carries a $251 million bond.
House and Senate subcommittees are working on the bill. Battles on the MX and nerve gas weapons included in the bill also it reaches the floor of both chambers.
House GOP leader Rob Michel of Illinois said that Reagan had explained that he had to postpone and shorten his Asian trip set for early October because there was so much on the legislative "griddle."
EARLIER THIS WEEK, the White House announced that Reagan was dropping the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia from his itinerary, since he needed to remain in Washington to ride herd on the appropriations bills.
Reagan told reporters Tuesday night that he was "really mad" at reports suggesting that the real cause was concern over security in Manila, where
During the legislative review, Reagan also called for Congress to present a "united front" on a new U.S. proposal to increase Armies Reduction Talks in Geneva.
there have been anti-government demonstrations since the assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino.
The new proposal, keyed to the "build-down" concept first floated on Capitol Hill, is designed to meet both political concerns at home and Soviet worries. It seeks to eliminate old military bases and produces, and includes an offer to trade cuts in U.S. bomber forces for reductions in Soviet land-based missiles.
SPEAKES SAID THE president also called attention to the need to extend the federal debt limit to keep the country going. The rowing authority early next month.
The current debt ceiling is $1,389 trillion. The House has approved a debt ceiling increase to $1,615 trillion, but Finance Committee has not yet acted.
said that Reagan had a pledge from Senate GOP leader Howard Baker and Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Committee. "to get
On tuition tax credits for parents with children in private schools. Speakes
In addition, Reagan told the leaders he remained committed to his three controversial appointees to the Civil Rights Commission — whose approval was in the Senate and to legislation permitting prayer in the schools.
HE ALSO URGED the Senate to consider a natural gas deregulation
Later in the day, Reagan visited the Labor Department to mark the start of a new job-training program he said he had to jobs people can build lives and develop.
In a swipe at Democratic presidential candidates, Reagan said, "There are some people who currently have plenty of money. I don't think we seem to have any time for new ideas."
Reagan described his opponents who advocate broader government-sponsored jobs bills as "political Rip." He followed along in programs of the past.
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