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University Daily Kansan, April 28, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Members of the European Parliament said yesterday the Common Market must create at least a million jobs a year to stem the economic tides that have already left 12 million Europeans jobless and pose a threat to democracy.
The European Parliament advises the European Commission, the Common Market's executive steering body.
Common Market countries need more jobs, panel says
In a special two-day meeting, the European Parliament focused on a resolution to adopt a pact under which governments and industries in the 10-nation Common Market could agree on a joint course of action.
BANGKOK, Thailand — More than 100 children fathered by Americans during the Vietnam war era leave today on the first leg of a journey to new lives in the United States.
journey to new lives in the United States The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok said 109 Amerasian children — the largest group yet — would be on the monthly flight from Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon.
Georges Debunne, president of the European Trade Union Congress, said the crisis had brought the Common Market nations — some of the richest in the world — to the brink of a socio-economic crisis similar to the one that heralded the Nazi rise to power in the 1930s.
109 Amerasians begin trip to U.S.
A representative of a Western humanitarian agency said a number of the Amerasian youngsters on today's flight would be "street kids" from the former South Vietnamese capital — the mixed-race children who can be seen hanging around big hotels.
U.S. to distribute more food to poor
WASHINGTON - The government is prepared to donate 50 million pounds of food a month to charitable programs to feed the poor, Agriculture Secretary John Block said yesterday.
A total of 175 Amerasian children have left Vietnam on the airlifts so far, accompanied by hundreds of relatives.
Congress approved legislation earlier this year that authorized the donations.
Block said the Agriculture Department intended to distribute between 25 million and 35 million pounds of cheese under the program each month, along with to million pounds of butter. 5 million pounds of non-fat dry milk million pounds of corn meal. 2 million pounds of rice million pounds of cheese.
The department also will provide $75 million worth of other perishable foods for use in emergency feeding programs for the poor, Block said.
Norway seeks foreign sub off coast
STAVANGER, Norway — A Norwegian warship, airplanes and two submarines hunted yesterday for a trespassing foreign submarine sighted off Norway's west coast just 30 miles south of the center of Norway's naval defense, officials said.
The report came after Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme warned Moscow that his country would attack any foreign submarine caught trespassing near its naval defenses — as Soviet subs repeatedly did last winter, according to a Swedish presidential committee.
In moscow, the official news agency Tass denounced "the complete groundlessness" and "highly dubious evidence" of the Swedish charges and said the hostility was part of a NATO ploy to "aggravate the situation in the north of Europe."
MUNCOW — Soviet leader Yuri Andropov told American scientists yesterday that his country did not want to be drawn into an arms race in outer space and assured them of Soviet support for their effort to block such "similar plans."
Andropov made his remarks in a letter addressed to a group of American scientists and politicians who sent identical telegrams to President Reagan and the Soviet leader appealing for a ban on space weapons.
Space arms 'sinister,' Andropov says
"I would like to hope that scientists and public figures of the whole world will contribute to keeping the cosmos forever free of any kind of weapons." Anroovoy wrote.
"I can assure you that the Soviet Union will expend maximum effort to forestall the sinister plans for taking the arms race into space."
Webster defends FBI's new powers
WASHINGTON — FBI director William Webster, defending the bureau's broadened authority to probe domestic political groups, said yesterday that the government was not interested in investigating people just because they voice unpopular ideas.
Webster told a House Judiciary subcommittee on constitutional rights that under the FBI's new guidelines it was unlikely the FBI would open an investigation solely by a person advocated criminal activity
It was one of 14,519 books that poured into the Central Library, its 18 branches and its Allegheny County bookmobiles last week when Carnegie granted amnesty to long overdue borrowers.
At issue are the FBI's new domestic security guidelines, which relax 1977 rules governing the bureau's surveillance of domestic groups that advocate social change through violence.
Library grants amnesty from fines
PITTSBURGH — Patrons of Carnegie Library will be glad to know that the book "Poems to Read Aloud" is back on the shelf — for the first time in 26 years.
Also brought back without fear of fines were 596 records, 256 pamphlets, 229 magazines, 225 slides, 121 pictures and 59 audio cassettes.
But for those who lost their library books, there was no forgiveness. "Poems to Read Aloud" held the distinction of being the item longest in the collection.
Kenneth Logan, 19, of Ardmore, Md., was charged with 10 counts of theft of government property and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each count, said FBI spokesman Ron Dervish.
Smithsonian clerk jailed after theft
overdue, having had a return date of June 14, 2007.
One patron brought back 30 overdue books on a variety of subjects.
WASHINGTON — A Smithsonian Institution mail clerk was charged yesterday with stealing 10 rare French books worth about $4,000 from the Smithsonian's main library, the FBI announced.
410,000 line on each sheet. Logan, a temporary employee at the main 900,000-volume Smithsonian Library in the Natural History Building, was arrested at work, the FBI said.
He is accused of taking the books, valued at $3,925, in January and February, and selling them in two batches to two Washington book stores for a total of $1,025, Dervish said.
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French farmers, students protest policies
PARIS — Rampaging French farmers angry over Common Market pricing policies hijacked produce trucks, hung dead piglets from railings and burned other imported meat yesterday. And in Paris, students marched to protest proposed educational reforms.
By United Press International
Police battled briefly with members of a crowd of about 4,000 law students opposed to government plans for educational reform that revise examination procedures and the makeup of university councils.
Farmers in several regions of the country pressed their protest against Common Market policies that allow lower-priced imported products to be sold in France. They said the policies also prevented them from taking advantage of the recent devaluation of the franc to export cheaply.
Parliament suspended its session for 10 minutes and opposition deputies protested the "excessive" police presence outside.
POLICE CHARGED AND FIRED
rear gas to disperse the marchers from outside the Parliament building. A few students retaliated by throwing stones.
President Francois Mitterrand was booed on a visit to northern France Tuesday by farmers apparently not
placated by his pledge to take their grievances up with France's Common Market partners.
ABOUT 1,000 FARM WORKERS dumped 50 tons of Spanish strawberries and West German vegetables in the center of Avignon yesterday. The trucks carrying the produce were intercepted and taken over on a highway, near the southern French town.
Other farmers hung the bodies of imported piglets on railings at Auxerre, southeast of Paris, while other groups in the area disrupted rail and road traffic, daubed tax offices with paint and forced their way into slaughter-
houses to check refrigerators for imported meat.
Protesters in Brittany seized a truck and emptied it of two tons of Belgian ammunition.
THE STUDENTS' DEMONSTRATION in Paris followed similar protests earlier this week by pharmaceutical students and a continuing three-month stroke$^{1}$ by medical students over patient reforms of the examination system
Mitterrand, possibly mindful of the wave of 1968 student protests that almost toppled President Charles de Gaulle's government, made it clear Tuesday that he was ready to meet with the students.
Salvadoran association blasts U.S. envoy plan
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The powerful Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce yesterday condemned as “offensive and humiliating” a U.S. plan to send a special envoy to negotiate peace with El Salvador’s leftist guerrilla.
The Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest businessmen's association, issued a communique blasting the suggestion that a special U.S. envoy should visit Brazil under which guerrillas could participate in December elections.
The proposal was made by Rep. Clarence Long, D-Md., and accepted by the administration in exchange for winning approval Tuesday from Long's appropriations subcommittee for $30 in new military aid for El Salvador.
THE PRETENTIONS OF MR. Clarence Long to name a species of
penplenitarian agent that will come to direct the electoral process in which we are going to decide the future of our country and humiliating it the communical said.
"EI Salvador does not form part of the colonial world of any power and if it needs the help of the government of the United States that is because it is the victim of aggression of nations bent on destroying the democratic system."
Guerrillas, on their clandestine Radio Vencerosm, rejected any moves by the United States to negotiate a path from left to participate in the electorgs.
"THE ELECTORAL FARCE WILL turn out to be a failure. The military aid will not detain the advance of the force of the people." Venceremos said.
Guerrillas have said they would negotiate only if no prior conditions were attached, while the government and the United States say talks cannot begin until the rebels declare a cease-fire and lay down their arms.
Costa Rica plans to release ship laden with dynamite
By United Press International
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A Costa Rican official today said dawnish finger aboard a freighter bound for Nicaragua may not have been meant for "war purposes" and the shipment would be released.
A Costa Rican Security Ministry communique said authorities in the Pacific port of Puntarenas discovered 100 tons of explosives and detonators, intended for the Nicaragua embassy, aboard the 500-foot ship Lewbi.
The Panamanian-registered ship was towed into Puntanare, 72 miles west of San Jose, when it developed engine trouble Tuesday on the way to Nicaragua's Pacific port of Corintos, the communique said.
CREW MEMBERS TOLD authorities the ship was transporting Swiss-made agricultural chemicals, but the船's documents showed it
was also carrying explosives, the communique said.
Referring to the four Libyan planes carrying weapons to Nicaragua that were detained in Brazil last week, a Defense Ministry spokesman said "it has nothing to do with Brazil."
Brazil, still trying to resolve that incident, has asked Italy to help break a diplomatic stalemate over the seizure diplomatic sources said.
Brazilian air force officers unloaded several tons of arms and munitions from the Libyan aircraft last weekend and said they were free to go. The crews, however, have refused to take off.
DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAID the 47 crew members of the three Soviet-built Ilyushin jets parked at Manus airport in the Amazon and a U.S. made Hercules at Recife on the Atlantic coast were staying put pending firm instructions from Tripoli.
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