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University Daily Kansan, July 13, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Poland says U.S. sanctions delayed lift of martial law
WARSAW, Poland — Poland yesterday blamed U.S. economic sanctions for the communist regime's failure to lift marital law and said Washington would be presented a bill for the damages caused to the country's economy.
Jerzy Urban, chief government spokesman, hinted that the regime would act soon to restore full civilian rule. Although he refused to set a date for the action, speculation centered on July 22, Poland's national day.
The Communist Party Politburo heard appeals for lifting martial law and issued a statement supporting such moves, the PAP news agency reported.
"If it were not for the U.S. sanctions, total lifting (of marital law) would have been possible earlier than it will take place." Urban said.
"At an appropriate moment, Poland will present to the United States a balance sheet of the losses it has suffered. . . and we shall demand compensation."
Officials have estimated the sanctions have caused up to $12 billion in damages since martial law was declared on Dec. 13, 1981.
TOKYO — The Japanese Cabinet approved an austerity budget proposal yesterday that allows for a small increase in defense spending for fiscal 1984 but cuts outlays for most government agencies by about 10 percent.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasane's Cabinet approved the hard fought proposal, which sets a $12.2 billion ceiling on fiscal 1984 defense spending, according to the office of Chief Cabinet Secretary Masaharu Gotoda.
The 6.88 percent increase fell short of the 8.9 percent hike sought by the Defense Agency to meet a military acquisition schedule outlined in an $18.3 billion buildup plan undertaken this year in response to U.S. pressure.
The budget proposal must be approved by the Diet, or parliament, but since the body is controlled by Nakasone's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, approval is virtually assured.
Albosta seeks compromise on files
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee chairman seeking complete access to Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign files offered yesterday to negotiate a compromise with the White House to avert a subpoena battle.
Rep. Donald Albsta, D-Mich., whose committee is investigating the Reagan administration's involvement in obtaining the Carter campaign briefing books, still threatened to seek to subpoena the files if no agreement were reached promptly.
Albosta said it seemed "self-serving" for the administration to screen the files before providing them to the subcommittee.
He noted that Reagan and two top aides, presidential counselor Edwin Meese and deputy White House chief of staff Michael Daver, serve as trustees controlling the Hoover campaign files, while Attorney General Ben S. McPhail Smith, a close friend of the president, heads the Justice Department.
Official vows to cut defense waste
WASHINGTON — Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Thayer pledged yesterday to fire Pentagon officials, if necessary, to cut waste in military spending and raised the "ultimate threat" of cutting off some defense contractors.
Thayer, who is responsible for day-to-day Pentagon operations, spoke with reporters about a draft report by Defense Department auditors who charged that millions of dollars were wasted between 1980 and 1982 in the purchase of aircraft spare parts by the Air Force and the
Prices for almost 30 percent of the 15,000 spare parts checked by the Pentagon inspector general's office soared 500 percent or more in those periods.
He indicated he is trying to lower the projected $322.4 billion defense budget for fiscal 1985, which the Pentagon is drawing up now, but declined to go into details.
U.S. base worries OAS court head
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The head of an Organization of American States human rights court warned yesterday that U.S. training of Salvadoran troops in Honduras could drag that country deeper into Central American turmoil.
Carlos Roberto Reina, president of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, was referring to the U.S. base in eastern Honduras where 120 Green Berets began training 58 Salvadoran troops June 30.
Reina conceded that protests against the training base have been futile.
The Inter-American Human Rights Court, sponsored by the OAS, was created in 1969 to hear cases of human rights violations in the hemisphere, but has not received any cases.
PLO official, Gromyko discuss Syria
MOSCOW — A high-ranking Palestine Liberation Organization official met yesterday with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to seek the Kremlin's help in resolving the PLO's dispute with Syria, a Palestinian spokesman said.
Western observers had predicted the official, Farouk Kaddouri, might be preparing the way for a visit by PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. But in Tunis, Arafat told the British Broadcasting Corp. he did not intend to come to the Soviet capital — "at least not at this stage."
Kaddoumi, head of the Palestinian organization's political department, and Gromyko discussed "political problems between the PLO and Syria," the spokesman said.
'Sex' tapes were stolen,lawyer says
LOS ANGELES — A lawyer who claimed to possess three videotapes showing government officials at "sex parties" told the White House and local prosecutors yesterday the tapes had been stolen from his office.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Jim Bascue said lawyer Robert K. Steinberg had informed his office yesterday morning of the alleged theft of an identity card from a bank in Queens.
Steinberg said Monday he was given the videotapes Saturday after being asked to provide legal counsel to Marvin Pancoast, 33, accused of killing Vicki Morgan, longtime mistress to the late Alfred Bloomingdale.
He said the tapes showed six people involved in "sadomasochistic sex acts," with Morgan and claimed they posed a "high risk to the national security of the country if released."
Church considering abortion stance
ST. LOUIS — The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, North America's second-largest Lutheran body, today will take up a resolution endorsing abortion only to save a mother's life.
"Abortion is not a moral option except as a tragically unavoidable by-product of medical procedures necessary to prevent the death of a human life."
The Rev. Ralph A. Bohmann, the synod president, said he wanted the church's position established as the most conservative of large U.S. Lutheran bodies.
WASHINGTON — Saying the law housing law has not worked, President Reagan yesterday sent Congress a proposal, already criticized as cumbersome and costly, to supply "the same ingredient" for effective enforcement.
Reagan proposes change in housing law
Under the current law, the Housing and Urban Development Department must rely on conciliation between governmental bodies in nation and landlords or real estate
The Justice Department's civil rights chief, William Bradford Reynolds, predicted the plan will gain wider acceptance after administration officials sit down and talk with civil rights leaders. He said he could enrol enough to end racial discrimination.
agents. Under the Reagan amendments, the Justice Department would be empowered to bring lawsuits on behalf of individuals instead of entering a case only upon discovery of a pattern or practice of discrimination.
THE 1988 FAIR Housing Act forbids discrimination in the sale or rental of housing because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Opponents, including most civil rights groups and a number of congressional Republicans, favor a bill to give HUD's administrative law judges the authority to backers of that bill say it is a briefer and less costly process than lawsuits.
REAGAN'S HOUSING PROPOSAL comes on the eve of Senate hearings on three controversial Reagan appointees to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, which has been critical of administration civil rights policy.
The administration argues that the law judge approach adds layers of bureaucracy and could delay bringing disputes to court for final resolution.
“This is a terribly strong antidiscrimination bill” that will result in “a quick and fair result,” said Reynolds, the leading figure in an administration campaign to show that it is wrong for schools to despite vocal criticism of its policies.
In New Orleans, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave former Vice President Walker Mondale top rating yesterday in a "report card" ranking of Democratic presidential candidates.
Mondale and Sens. Alan Craston of California, Gary Hart of Colorado and John Glenn of Ohio each received ratings in the 80s, while Sen. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina received an average ranking of less than 40 percent.
ALTHEA SIMMONS, director of the NAACP's Washington bureau, said the group is seeking $150 million.
the NAACP's stand on 379 recorded
competitive votes taken between 1965
and 1981.
The issues included school designation, voting rights, civil rights enforcement, social funding and job training programs. Simmons said.
She said each rated candidate, who will have appeared before the NAACP convention this week, would rate a B. except Hollings, whose voting records are years but still is significantly worse than the other Democratic candidates.
Even though President Reagan does not have a congressional voting record and was not formally rated, Simmons said his first two years in office would entitle him to a grade of 50 percent or less.
The NAACP report card does not function as an endorsement, she said.
Dole to ask for separate review of food stamp bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Worried that a cash crunch could shut down the food stamp program, Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., said yesterday he would push for separate congressional action on a money bill to keep the food aid flowing.
The food stamp program will run out of money next month unless Congress passes a $1.2 billion supplemental appropriation, which is part of a larger effort to approve a review on Capitol Hill and also the object of a veto threat by President Reagan.
nutrition subcommittee he heads, Dole said he would recommend Congress separate the food stamp appropriation measure from the larger bill to prevent any reduction or cutoff in benefits to 22 million Americans who receive the
Dole's opinion carries a great deal of weight because he is the key Senate candidate.
AT A HEARING of the Senate
Because funds are close to running out, the Agriculture Department last Friday notified state welfare commissioners that they may have to reduce benefits in August by 20 percent and eliminate them in September because Congress has not acted on the spending bill.
IF THE CUTBACK were necessary,
a monthly allotment of $253 for a
household of four people would be
reduced to $202 in August.
Appearing before Dole's subcommittee, John Bode, deputy assistant secretary of agriculture, said he could see no problem with making the food stamp money a separate measure.
"We're very confident that the funds ultimately will be appropriated," Bode said.
The government lacks $260 million of the money it needs for August and $1 billion for September. Congress appropriated just $10.8 billion for the $12
billion needed to keep the program running through September 30, the end of the fiscal year.
THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT requested the $1.2 billion supplemental appropriation in January. The money has not yet been received. The department required to tell states to begin making in-house preparations for cutbacks.
In past years, the government has informed states by less formal notification that money was running out, but each time Congress has come through the budget, the official said this was the first time formal notices have been sent to the states.
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