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University Daily Kansan, August 26, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS
From United Press International
Druze Moslem head warns of conflict with Christians
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Druze Moslem leader warned yesterday of major clashes with Maronite Christian fighters in the Shouf mountains, where Israeli troops are preparing to end their 14-month-old occupation.
the government of a Palestinian state. Gemayel went on television to urge Moslems and Christians to allow the army to take control of "explosive" regions to be evacuated by Israeli occupation troops.
Walid Jumblatt, blaming the United States and Israel, said the Druze had no choice but to fight because no agreement could be reached with the government of President Amin Gemavel, a Maronite.
He told the nation that the Israeli pullback from the mountains to consolidated positions in south Lebanon would begin soon.
"The return of the land is our biggest challenge and it is the state's right and duty to establish and strengthen its control over every inch of Lebanese territory and then protect its citizens," said Gemayel in the half-hour address.
U.S. begins war games in Honduras
PUERTO CORTES, Honduras — The U.S. Navy assault ship Nassau anchored off Honduras yesterday and began unloading military equipment and troops taking part in U.S.-Honduran war games.
The six-month air, sea and land maneuvers, called Big Pine II, will involve up to 10,000 troops, including 4,000 Americans and 6,000 Honduran troops
Honduran troops.
Local officials in Puerto Cortes, 120 miles north of the capital of Tegucigalpa, said the Honduran army tightened security in the Caribbean port in preparation for the early-morning landing.
A U.S. military source said the Nassau anchored several miles offshore early alarm and troop transport helicopters "took off right off the deck" to transport soldiers to joint task force headquarters in Comapayra. 96 miles south of the port.
Mrs. King predicts success for rally
WASHINGTON — Coretta Scott King predicted yesterday that the weekend rally to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the historic civil rights march led by her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., would draw a huge and diverse crowd committed to his dream.
"I'm excited." Mrs. King said just after stepping off a plane from Atlanta. "I think we're going to see a tremendous outpouring of people representing a broad spectrum of American society."
As she greeted other march organizers waiting for her, she looked back to the beginning of her involvement in the civil rights movement years before.
years before.
"What I have been doing for the last 28 years has been leading to this march," Mrs. King said. She countered any suggestions that the diversity of groups would confuse the message of the day.
Philippine officer warns of violence
MANILA. Philippines — A top army officer warned yesterday of civil disturbances by radicals following a protest by Filipinos shouting "Free our country" in a huge procession mourning slain opposition leader Benigno Guino.
Chicago's budget plan axes city jobs
Aquino's flag-draped coffin was moved from his family's home to the Santo Domingo Church 2 $\frac{1}{2}$ miles away, in a slow-moving hearse followed by an estimated 500,000 mourners, including thousands of chanting but peaceful demonstrators.
CHICAGO — Nearly 1,000 police officers and firefighters will be among 2,045 city employees who will be laid off in Mayor Harold Washington's budget plan to erase a $17 million deficit, city officials announced yesterday.
A total of 415 firefighters and 332 police officers are scheduled for layoffs in the slashing of 2,045 jobs from Chicago's 1983 budget, said Budget Director David Schulz. About 11,500 police officers and 5,000 firefighters are on the city payroll.
The layoffs, which will save the city an estimated $16.8 million, were ordered by the new mayor after the City Council refused to rescind a $22 million property-tax cut approved by former Mayor Jane M. Byrne's administration.
French defense minister visits Chad
N'DIJAMENA, Chad — French Defense Minister Charles Hermu arrived in N'Dijamaena yesterday for talks with government officials and an inspection of French troops helping Chadian forces in their battle with Libyan-backed rebels.
Hernan arrived aboard a French military transport aircraft from Paris and was met at the airport by Chadian officials. French ambassador Claude Soubeste and Brig. Gen. Jean Poli, commander of the more than 1,000 French troops stationed in Chad.
Diplomats said Hernu's mission to Chad was partly to persuade President Hissene Habre of Chad not to launch a counter offensive against Libyan and rebel positions in the country's occupied north, but instead to pursue a peaceful settlement of the conflict.
MOSCOW — President Yuri Andropov personally stripped the former Soviet representative of Amnesty International, a human rights organization, of his citizenship for discrediting the country, official records disclosed yesterday.
The weekly edition of the published decrees of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet showed that Andropov signed the revocation order against Georgi Vladimov on July 1.
Vladimov, 52, is a dissident author who left the Soviet Union in May after writing to Andropov declaring he would rather go to prison than give in to KGB demands that he reform his writing. He left on a one-year exit visa and accepted a position at the University of Cologne in West Germany.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST TO 7 PM EST 8-26-83
he weather will be mostly fair across the nation.
Today, the weather will be mostly fair across the nation. Locally, today will be sunny and hot with a high around 102, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tongtun will be mostly clear with a low in the mid-70s. Tomorrow will be sunny and hot with a high around 100.
Reagan says dream is alive in Hispanics
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — President Reagan won applaud yesterday from Hispanic business leaders, the most recent target of his political courtship, when he told them they represented proof that the American dream was alive well.
Accenting family values and free enterprise, Reagan addressed an economic outlook lunchoon organized by four Hispanic business groups in Los
Reagan's speech was interrupted by applause several times, and he received a prolonged ovation when he
Reagan had lunch with the group.
Before he spoke, Hispanic leaders took their turns at the microphone, predicting that Hispanics in California "will be the majority... and the leaders in the next 10 years."
There were shouts of "Bueno, buenо
(good, good)."
concluded with the words "Vaya con Dios," Spanish for "Go with God."
One speaker also predicted an eventual Hispanic president.
- Outside the hotel, about 150 demonstrators marched peacefully, carrying banners and signs opposing U.S. immigration policies, and marching in front of mounting investigation of the assasin-
A group of four women dubbed themselves the "Bunny Gap," in reference to presidential spokesman Larry Speakes' comments Wednesday about former Justice Department staffer and Reagan critic Barbara Honegge. One carried a sign saying, "Bunnies Do Multiply."
nation or Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, and condemning Reagan's policies with women.
Inside, Reagan was making his sixth appearance in less than three weeks to Hispanic groups.
"To every cynic who says the American dream is dead, I say look at the Americans of Hispanic descent who
are making it in the business world," he said.
On the eve of the appearance, officials of three Hispanic groups held a news conference in Los Angeles to blast his spending cuts and criticize his policies as being detrimental to the community.
"The president's recent courtship of Hispanics is belated, superficial and fraudulent," said Mario Obledo, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens. He charged that the president set out to aggressively woo Hispanic voters for support in a prospective 1984 re-election race only after losing the support of blacks and women.
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