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University Daily Kansan, September 26, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Weinberger offers high-tech to improve U.S.-China ties
PEKING — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger enthusiastically wooed China to forge closer strategic ties with the United States yesterday, dangling the promise of American technology sales to Peking.
But his Chinese counterpart, Zhang Aiping, publicly shied away from direct acceptance of the U.S. offer although he encouraged a dialogue on the subject between the two countries.
Arriving from Tokyo for a four-day visit in the communist nation, Weinberger was to hold his first round of talks with Zhang Monday about the transfer of U.S. technology under new U.S. guidelines yet to be published.
The new regulations put China in the category of "non-aligned, friendly" nations that can receive U.S. high technology equipment. The agreement may help ease a period of chilly relations between the two countries.
38 terrorists escape from British jail
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Thirty-eight of Northern Ireland's most-hardened Republican terrorists hijacked a kitchen truck yesterday and escaped from the infamous Maze prison in Britain's biggest-ever jailbreak.
One guard was stabbed to death and six others were injured.
One guard was stabbed to death and six others were injured. The Northern Ireland Office said a huge police and army dragonet had recaptured 11 tigrites by nightfall, including one injured prisoner, while police courses maintained that up to 16 had been rounded up.
Police and British army troops poured into Catholic neighborhoods of nearby Lurgan and Belfast to search for fugitives.
LA educators OK tentative contract
LOS ANGELES — Negotiators for teachers and the board of education in the nation's second largest school district agreed to a tentative contract yesterday, averting a threatened strike that would have affected 550,000 students.
The tentative one-year agreement was reached shortly before 7 a.m. CDT following a 17-hour bargaining session that began Saturday, district spokesman Pat Spencer said. The agreement is subject to further discussion among the officers, who have been working without a contract for more than a year.
Details of the contract will not be released until negotiators formally announce the agreement. Spencer said.
Kohl's party suffers at German polls
WIESBADEN, West Germany — Cancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Party yesterday suffered major defeats in regional state elections in Hesse and Bremen in which the Social Democrats won significant victories.
"It is not the result we expected and to that extent it is a bitter disappointment, but we still consider our national policies to be the right ones. They cannot succeed overnight," Kohl said in a television interview.
The results appeared to be a clear endorsement for the Social Democratic Party, which has recently strongly opposed the deployment of U.S. missiles in West Germany if no agreement is reached at the Geneva arms talks with the Soviet Union.
Kenvan guard saves boss, wounds 5
NAIROBI, Kenya — The bodyguard of a government minister fired into a mob that was attacking his boss's car yesterday, wounding five people in a bloody wrap-up to a violent six-week election campaign, official reports said.
The report said the unidentified bodyguard opened fire with a sidearm when a mob attacked Economic Planning Minister Zachary Onyonka's car at the end of a political rally.
The campaign for today's general elections, that had no major issues and no opposition candidate for president, was marked by at least eight killings, mob violence and even witchcraft.
The official Kenyan News Agency said the latest violent incident occurred in the town of Kisii, 150 miles northwest of Nairobi.
Report notes Soc. Sec. benefit drop
WASHINGTON — Social Security Administration pressures on administrative law judges to trim disability payments has resulted in a 15 percent drop in the number of benefits, a Senate subcommittee report alleged yesterday.
The report, prepared by the government management oversight committee said the Social Security Administration was subtly intimidating judges by ordering reviews and increased caseloads unless they had a record of upholding disability payment cutoffs.
The pressure has led to a dramatic decline in the number of benefits allowed on appeal by the judges — shrinking from 67.2 percent to 51.9 percent in the past year.
Papers start carrier protection plans
DES MOINES, Iowa — The disappearance of two paperboys, one of whom was found stabbed to death, has prompted Iowa and Nebraska newspapers to adopt or consider carrier protection programs to assure youngsters' safety.
The Des Moines Register was reportedly the first newspaper in the country to initiate a protection program soon after one of its carriers, Johnny Gosch, 12, disappeared while delivering newspapers on Sept. 5, 1982.
Last week, when Omaha World-Herald newsboy Danny Joe Eberle, 13, disappeared and was later found stabbed to death, the World-Herald contacted the Des Moines newspaper about setting up its own program, Register officials said.
WEATHER FACTS
Today will be mostly fair across the nation.
Today will be dark.
Locally, tomorrow will be sunny and mild with a high in the low to mid-80s, according to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka.
Tonight will be clear with a low in the mid-50s.
Tomorrow will be sunny with a high in the mid-to upper 80s.
Reagan tells U.N. that he's committed to peace
By United Press International
Reagan flew from Washington to New York for a round of private meetings with visiting foreign dignitaries and U.S. officials in session of the U.N. General Assembly.
NEW YORK — President Reagan began a two-day, two-pronged diplomatic mission yesterday that will mix condemnation of the Soviet Union with assurances that he is deeply committed to its control and the cause of world peace.
Reagan took time out from his meetings to pay a private call on terminated Republican Cooke, a superior leader of New York's large Roman Catholic community.
Cooke, archbishop of New York, was among Reagan's first visitors in the hospital after the March 30, 1981, attempt on the president's life
Speakes told reporters that Reagan had news seemed to have lifted Cook's recipe.
Officials disclosed late last month that Cooke, 62, is dying of leukemia.
WHITE HOUSE spokesman Larry Speakens said the president and Mrs. Reagan visited with the cardinal in his second floor bedroom and Reagan told Cook of 'the good news' that a message in Lebanon had been announced.
Reagan arrived at Newark International Airport aboard Air Force One before noon and flew by helicopter to Manhattan.
The president arranged a two-hour working lunch at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel with U.N. Secretary-Gavriel Perez de Cuellar, and scheduled meetings or visits that touched on important spot, the Middle-East, Southeast Asia and Poland among others.
Diplomats and heads of government are gathering under a cloud created by the Soviet attack on Korean Air Lines Flight 007 more than three weeks ago and an ensuing war of words between Washington and Moscow.
THE SOVIETS were not invited to a Sunday evening reception hosted by Reagan. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko decided to boycott the U.N. session altogether after being evicted from airports in the New York area. Reagan sat Saturday he was not bothered that Gromyko would be absent.
In a curtain-raising radio speech Saturday, Reagan said he was going to the United Nations on behalf of "the cause of peace." The address was set into 40 languages and beamed around the world by the Voice of America.
For Reagan, the trip represents an ambitious plunge into diplomacy at a time of international tension and uncertainty. His visit also comes amid heightened criticism of the United Nations at home.
THE TREATMENT of Gromyko angered some diplomats. The controversy intensified when Charles Lichtenstein, the deputy U.S. envoy to Syria, would not object if U.N. members decided to move the organization.
U. S. officials said Reagan would reaffirm full support for the United Nations during his meeting with Perez de Cuellar, despite a vote Thursday by the Senate to cut U.S. payments to the organization.
ADMINISTRATION officials said, however, Reagan's recent fierce anti-Soviet rhetoric would be tempered with a dramatic effort to break the negotiating deadlock with Moscow over limiting medium-range nuclear missile
Reagan will discuss the situation in the Middle East with King Hassan of Morocco, underscore U.S. support for the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia and discuss the conflict in Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Underly the political dialogue, Reagan aides say, will be the Sept. 1 Soviet attack on the South Korean jumbo jet and the deaths of 289 people aboard — an act the president has repeatedly denounced as barbaric.
"He will emphasize that as tragic and unforgivable as the KAL incident was, he won't let it stand in the way of what he sees as essential foreign policy objectives: peace and arms control," a senior U.S. official said.
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Administration sources said the new U.S. position would allow higher ceilings on missiles and warheads, which would require less drastic reductions by the Soviets. The sources argue that the Russian not insist on matching the Soviets in missile-for-missile deployment, only the right to do so.
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Although Reagan is expected to speak at length about arms control and the relations between the superpowers, which will probably contain few specifics.
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