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University Daily Kansan, April 22, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Syria steps up army effort, Israel warns of a new war
The Israeli army has been put on alert in response to increased Syrian military activity in Syria and Lebanon, Israel news reports said yesterday, and Israel's Labor Party warned that "another war is round the corner."
the formal Israeli newspapers, picking up on Defense Minister Moshe Aronsi's briefing to the Israeli parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee, gave front-page prominence to a possible confrontation with Syria.
The Ma'ariv newspaper said the Syrian activity observed from forward Israel positions in Lebanon's Shouf Mountains included digging-in and fortification work in the Bekaa Valley.
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Chrysler's first-quarter profits up
DETROIT — A triumphant Chrysler Corp. yesterday announced it earned $172.1 million in the first quarter, the highest quarterly profit in the No. 3 automaker's history and a solid comeback from its brush with bankrupty two years ago.
"This quarter's evidence of the Chrysler turnaround," said Chrysler Executive Vice President Robert S. Miller, Miller said that the first-quarter profit was more than the $170 million Chrysler made in all of 1982.
of 1982.
Last year, Chrysler made $149.9 million in the first quarter. But that profit included a $239 million profit from the sale of Chrysler Defense Inc. in General Dynamics Corp.
General Dynamics Corp.
This year, Chrysler made $172.8 million on its sale of cars and trucks
Tax withholding delay passed 91-5
WASHINGTON — The Senate, hoping to avoid a presidential veto, yesterday overwhelmingly approved a Republican compromise that would indefinitely delay tax withholding on interest and dividends.
would indeterminetely delay withdrawal of the Senate first voted 55-40 against an outright repeal of the 10 percent withholding scheduled to take effect July 1. Then it approved the delay compromise 91-5.
the delay compromise 39.3. The Senate later approved by voice vote a secondary trade bill, to which the withholding provision was attached, and sent it to an uncertain fate in the House.
House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill yesterday denounced repeal of withholding and the banking lobby that initially supported it, but has taken no position on the compromise.
Presser named head of Teamsters
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Jackie Presser, who was chosen new president of the Teamsisters yesterday, promised "an open, honest administration," and denied allegations that the nation's largest union was rife with ties to organized crime.
rife with ties to organize the Reagan administration, was picked unanimously by the union's 17-member general executive board. He succeeds Roy Williams, who resigned Wednesday to fight conviction for conspiring to bribe a U.S. senator.
conspiring to bribe a U.S. senator.
Presser will serve the remaining three years of Williams' term. His salary and pay for his other Teamsters jobs will total more than half a million dollars, making him the nation's highest paid union official.
Leaders back existing silo MX plan
WASHINGTON — America's top military leaders unanimously agreed yesterday with a presidential commission's recommendations to deploy about 100 MX missiles in existing sites, saying that can best meet the "crucial need" for the 10-warhead missile.
nested for the to-warhead department. Their unanimity was a marked departure from their widely publicized split late last year over a since-abandoned proposal to base the MX in a closely clustered "dense pack" formation.
the President Reagan this week endorsed the findings of the 11-member, bipartisan panel that recommended installing about 100 of the 10-warhead MX missiles in hardened Minuteman III silos in Wyoming and Nebraska beginning in 1986.
Democrats choose San Francisco
BUSHINGTON — Setting their sights on the electoral vote bonanza in Ronald Reagan's California, the Democrats selected San Francisco yesterday to hold their 1984 national convention.
then 1944 national convention. The party meeting, expected to run July 16-20, will be the first Democratic convention on the West Coast since John F. Kennedy won the nomination in Los Angeles in 1960. It also will help the Democrats to challenge Reagan, if he runs for a second term, on the president's home turf.
San Francisco beat Chicago, Detroit, New York and Washington in some of the most spirited campaigning for the convention in years. The city got 23 of 27 Democratic site selection committee votes on the second ballot.
Soviet docking failed, expert says
had no comment.
But, in an indication that the docking mission failed, Moscow Radio downplayed the activities of the cosmonauts by dropping all references to docking plans.
MOSCOW "Three Soviet cosmonauts yesterday failed to dock their Soyuz T-8 spacecraft with the 40-ton orbiting space Salyut-7, one of the world's leading spacewatchers said in England. Soviet officials bad no comment.
Geoffrey Perry, of the Satellite Monitoring Group in Kettering England, said he saw both spacecraft pass over Kettering at 9:43 p.m. London time.
London time.
Perry, whose work is often incorporated into reports by the U.S. space agency, said that the two crafts should have docked at 3:30 p.m. London time, but they didn't.
Soviets dislike Americans' banner
MOSCOW — Five Americans sent a 6-foot banner declaring "Free Balls" on balloons to the ceiling of a Moscow hotel lobby yesterday as part of a 4-year campaign to win an exit visa for the Russian husband of a Boston wyman.
Lewis Pollock, one of the Americans, said that the group just wanted to bring the case to the attention of Communist Party leader Yuri Andropov. He and another member of the group were taken away by police and held for two hours.
"If Andropov knew about this he'd expedite it," said Mrs. Pollock, 53, whose daughter, Ann, married Boris Molchanov, in 1979.
Both Americans were released with a warning not to repeat the incident.
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Security heightened in Beirut, 45 dead
By United Press International
nese employees of the embassy confirmed dead and 11 missing and presumed dead. The remainder of the 45 confirmed dead were believed to be Lebanese caught in or around the building.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Stringent security measures were instituted at foreign missions across Beirut yesterday as U.S. officials announced that the death toll in the bombing of their embassy stood at 49 known dead and 12
American casualties in the embassy bombing included 15 confirmed dead, one of them an unidentified reporter who was at the embassy for an interview, and one missing and presumed dead.
Another unidentified American feared killed in the avalanche of concrete, glass and steel following Monday's bombing was discovered to have been out of the country at the time.
surnamed dead.
OTHER VICTIMS included 17 Leba-
Nervous U.S. Marines, forming a cordon around the shattered embassy, hit the ground when three shots rang out yesterday morning.
had fired in the air when a speeding car failed to stop, although the incident was not serious. It was indicative of the tension in the city since the entire city was under siege and bussy's mid-section was ripped apart by a massive bomb Monday.
The police said one of their officers
IN WASHINGTON, Secretary of State George Shultz promised a further review of security arrangements for U.S. embassies, but he told members of a Senate appropriations subcommittee that a "risk-free" situation was probable.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., urged Shultz to seek more funding.
to seek more training.
"If it takes a small army in places
like Iran and places like Beirut, my sense is that Congress would support whatever it costs." Specter said.
A nine-man delegation of U.S. officials led by Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger left Washington to attend in coming to escort the American dead home.
The attack plunged Beirut back into a frenzy of security precautions that residents had hoped were a thing of the past.
THE AMERICAN University, fearful of more car bombs, closed its gates to any traffic, forcing even the university president to walk to his office.
Senate committee OKs $848.8 billion budget
By United Press International
THE WHITE HOUSE said the budget approved 13-4 would be "a gross disservice to the American people" if enacted and vowed to fight for its position before the full Senate.
WASHINGTON — The Senate Budget Committee, its Republican majority in tatters, yesterday adopted an $489.8 billion 1984 budget that would raise $30 billion in taxes, slash defense growth and increase domestic spending much more than President Reagan wants.
Four committee Republicans defected to vote for the mostly Democratic budget. It contains a $162.1 billion deficit in 1984, compared to Reagan's plan with a deficit of $191.5 billion.
"I will work with the White House and other Republican leaders in the Senate to try to put together a package more to the liking of the president," said frustrated committee chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M.
DOMENCI SAID that the full Senate might debate the plan late next week, and that he would try to get the Senate to change the budget by cutting back on the tax increases and raising the 5 percent increase in defense spending.
Nixon speaks in K.C., but GOP won't listen
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former President Richard Nixon arrived yesterday for another of his "off-the-record" foreign policy briefings to Republican, but the governor and other top GOP officeholders ignored the fund-raising visit.
NIXON TOLD reporters at an impromta airport news conference that America should not withdraw from Lebanon or El Salvador and said he questioned the judgment of favoring a nuclear arms freeze.
Kansas City's Republican mayor, Richard Berkley, refused to attend the "ill-conceived" event or even welcome Nixon to the city.
Only one Republican state official indicated he would definitely attend — state auditor James Antonio. A party officials said the GOP could realize more than $60,000 from Nixon's visit.
MORE THAN 500 people had paid $100 apiece to hobnob with the former president over cocktails, then listen to his assessment of the nation's foreign policy.
DRINKING BEER IS LIKE
PUTTING TOGETHER A BASKETBALL TEAM. START OFF WITH A COUPLE OF TALL ONES.
Red Auerbach
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED IN A BEER. AND LESS.