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News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan says U.S. seeking Central American peace
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday the United States was "not planning a war" in Central America and a solution to the region's troubles can be reached peacefully — not "through the barrel of a gun."
Reagan lashed out at critics he said were unleashing a "drumbeat of confusion" about U.S. intentions.
In a nationally broadcast news conference that centered almost entirely on his Central American policies, Reagan insisted that he sought to bring "a new era of peace and social justice" to the region and that it would never become another Vietnam.
"Too much attention is being paid to those efforts we are making to provide a security shield, and not enough to the other elements of our
The news conference came as Reagan's requests for more aid for Central America bogged down in Congress and his policies were under attack by Democrats who warned his actions could lead the nation into war.
Senate approves MX production bill
WASHINGTON — In a resounding victory for President Reagan's military strategy, Senate last night approved full-scale production of the $10 billion nuclear reactor.
Senate approval of MX production funds, part of the $200 billion 1984 military authorization bill later approved 83-15, came despite more than two weeks of speeches and arguments by Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., other opponents — mostly Democratic of the 10-warhead weapon
As approved by the Senate, the bill authorizes building 21 missiles in 1984 for deployment and another six as sares or for testing purposes.
The House version, passed last week, calls for actual production of only 21 missiles in all and contains similar strings linking further developments.
The administration argues that the MX is needed to counter the Soviet Union's huge SS-18 and SS-19 missiles and as leverage at the time.
Honduras praises military exercises
Honduras yesterday hailed President Reagan's dispatch of naval forces to Nicaraguan coastal waters and plans for military maneuvers in Honduras, but other Central American nations expressed concern over the action.
The military moves came as the United States also stepped up diplomatic efforts to prevent Nicaraguan-Honduran border tensions and the civil war in El Salvador from developing into a region-wide conflict.
Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova called the growing U.S. military role in his country "necessary and urgent." But Honduran legislator Efrain Diaz Arrivillaga of the Christian Democratic Party said, "Even with Nicaragua's peace proposal and the favorable reaction from the U.S. government, they are sending warships to the region."
Chrysler-UAW agreement expected
DETROIT — Chrysler Corp. said yesterday it was confident an agreement could be reached on the demand by the United Auto Workers for an immediate pay hike for workers, but cautioned that its financial resources were limited.
Miner refused to elaborate on Chrysler's response to the union's bid for an immediate 1 hour raise for Chrysler's 47,100 U.S. workers and 48,200 U.S. workers.
Chrysler workers currently make $2 an hour less than their counterparts at the other Big Three automakers.
Chrysler recently announced a record quarterly profit and plans to repay $1.2 billion in federally backed loans made to help the firm avoid bankruptcy.
Craft testifies in discrimination case
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A television news anchorwoman sued her former employers in a sex discrimination case told a federal jury yesterday she was removed from her job because the station said she was too unattractive, too old and too unstylish to succeed in the ratings.
Christine Craft, 38, was the first witness called in the trial of her $1.2 million civil suit against Metromedia, Inc., former owner of station KMBC.TV.
Deenia Egan, one of Craft's two lawyers, said Craft told KMCB, now called KMZB, before the station hired her in January 1981 that she did
"From day one there was a constant criticism of her appearance." Egan said of KMBC.
Craft, now an anchorman for a Santa Barbara, Calif., station,
claims that she was fired Aug. 14, 1981, from the job she hired to do.
She is a certified nurse educator.
Mexico claims economy on the rise
MEXICO CITY — Debt-strapped Mexico appeared headed toward financial recovery yesterday, announcing it will postpone the use of two available loans for more than $1.4 billion because of a huge trade surplus.
A spokesman for the Finance Ministry said that Mexico would not draw on pending loans from the International Monetary Fund and the international banking community at the present time.
Deputy Finance Minister Francisco Suarez said Monday that the country had a $4 billion surplus in the trade balance for the first six months.
Mexico's foreign debt is estimated at $84 billion, the second largest in the world after Brazil, which owes $90 billion.
Typhoon downs Philippine bridge
MANILA, Philippines — Rescuers yesterday searched for an estimated 100 people who were swept away when an overcrowded footbridge, weakened by Typhoon Wayne, collapsed into a raging river in the central Philippines.
Reports from Cebu City, 360 miles south of Manila, said the unofficial death toll from the Monday night accident was 42.
Officials said the seldom-used bridge, spanning the Mananga River, was packed with homeward-bound commuters unable to drive across a nearby spillway flooded by rains from Typhoon Wayne, which swept the Philippines late Sunday.
Castro attacks U.S. Latin policy
SANTIAGO DE. CUBA, Cuba — President Fidel Castro, speaking on the 30th anniversary of the start of his revolution, warned yesterday that the United States was heading toward an "error of incalculable consequences" in its Latin American policy.
"Cuba is prepared to fight, including under the conditions of an occupied country," Castro said in his speech to thousands of people gathered in Antonio Maceo Plaza in Santiago de Cuba.
Castro assailed the Reagan administration for backing El Salvador's government in its war against leftist guerrillas and for converting Honduras into a launching pad for aggression against Nicaragua.
President of Qatar University visits KU
By MARY ANN COSTELLO Staff Reporter
The president of the University of Qatar was at the University of Kansas this weekend visiting friends at his alma mater.
Mohamad Kazem, president of the University of Qatar, received a master's degree in 1955 and a doctorate in 1967 from the University of Kangas.
Kazem, a native of Cairo, Egypt, said Saturday that the university, which has about 4,000 students and 400 faculty, will move in a few months to a new ultramodern campus in a suburb of Doha, the capital of Qatar.
TEN YEARS AGO he started the University of Qatar, the first university in Qatar, a country of 220,000 people on the west coast of the Persian Gulf.
He said the new campus would have the latest technology, including new schools of journalism and mass communication and economics and administration
But modernization is not easy for the people of Ozers, Karen said.
"We are trying to modernize while
Ridgway is one of several KU faculty in the School of Education who has visited the University of Qatar in the summer to consult to its School of Education.
AMONG THE FRIENDS that Kazem visits on his frequent trips to KU is Robert Ridgway, KU professor in curriculum and instruction.
keeping our roots," he said. "For us modernization is not just following the rules."
"To me it was indicative of the progress that is being made in the nation from a very underdeveloped country to one that can pull its own weight with the rest of the world," he said.
He said yesterday that the most vivid memory of his visit to Qatar last winter was the country's sharp contrast of old and new.
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SEVENTY PERCENT of the students at the university are Qatarians, Kazem said. Other students are from neighboring Arab nations, Australia.
Ridgway said the University of Qatar was more cosmopolitan than most universities its size.
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Kazem said the greatest difference between the University of Qatar and KU was that students go to the University of Qatar for free.
WHILE HE WAS HERE, Kazem invited Chancellor Gene A. Budig to visit the University of Qatar. Budig will visit sometime in the next 16 months.
All students at the university, including foreign students, receive full
Qatar will also pay for its citizens to study abroad if the University of Qatar does not offer a program in their area of study, he said.
He has published nine books on education in English and Arabic, he said. He is working on a comparative study of the development of student values in American and Egyptian universities.
Kazem said he had been a visiting professor at several Arab universities and the University of Nevada, and a faculty member of education in several Arab countries.
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