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News Briefs From United Press International
Salvadoran military chief resigns in face of mutiny
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Facing another mutiny in his ranks, Defense Minister Jose Guillermo García resigned yesterday, triggering an important shake-up in the Salvadoran military command.
The Constituent Assembly must ratify the nomination
Gen Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, commander of the national guard, was nominated the new defense minister, according to a statement from the president's office that was read on a local radio station.
The Constituent Assembly must rattle the nomination. Garcia, who had been under pressure from junior officers for his handling of the war against leftist guerrillas, had survived numerous government reorganizations a since he helped lead Leo 15. 1979.
Military sources had said that Vides Casanova was in line to succeed Garcia and that a large shakeup was underway in the command of El
Salvador's security forces.
U.S. Cabinet members visit Mexico
MEXICO CITY — More than 30 percent of Mexico's farm workers are unemployed and three million peasants have no hope of finding land to work. a peasant union leader said yesterday.
"We are a country figuring among the 15 richest in the world but we are not even in the 30 with an adequate standard of living," said peasant leader Heladio Ramirez, official spokesman for the National Peasant Confederation.
Confederation.
U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz is in Mexico and pledged yesterday "may attention" to Mexican views on Central America, despite long standing differences of opinion on how to end strife in the troubled region.
Shultz, along with Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge, will hold joint sessions with Mexican
officials during their visit
Nicaraguan rebels claim killings
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Anti-government Nicaraguan rebels said yesterday that they shot down a Sandista air force plane piloted by a Condúdan mercenary and killed 133 soldiers in weekend fighting.
Canadian mercenaries in independent confirmation of the claims of the rebels, who are fighting to overthrow the leftist regime in Managua.
going to overthrow the ledger engineer in charge. The rebels claimed to have killed 43 Nicaraguan army regulars, wounded another 30 and destroyed army vehicles and an electric power transformer.
transformer. A Ministry of Defense spokesman said a Nicaraguan army battalion stationed along the southern border with Costa Rica was mortared and
shelled by artillery fire.
jobless blacks lack hope, official savs
WASHINGTON—Labor Statistics Commissioner Janet Norwood said yesterday that the startlingly high unemployment rate among America's black teenagers was the result of lack of skills and lack of hope.
hope.
She called the situation "one of the most important social problems we have."
In March, the unemployment rate for all 16 to 19-year-olds was 23.5 percent, for 20 to 24-year-olds, 14.9 percent, and for black teenagers, about 45 percent.
about 45 percent. Norwark, testifying before a Congressional committee, said she believed the problem stemmed from a "lack of education and low-income homes where there is very little hope and encouragement."
Carter MX plan better, panelists sav
WASHINGTON — Top members of President Reagan's special MX panel acknowledged yesterday after a Senate hearing that political concerns figured in their unanimous recommendation for basing the new nuclear missile.
Engel chairman Brew Scowcroft and former Defense Secretary Harold Brown also conceded that from a purely military standpoint, they would have favored the "race-track" scheme favored by the Carter administration but scrapped by Reagan when he took office.
Carrier administrated analysis of where we are now, which did include political practicality elements ... we feel that at this time, this solution is an optimum solution," Scowcroft told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
services Committee.
Reagan will announce his decision on the MX at 10 a.m. today.
Police again question, free Walesa
WANSAW, Palmdale — Police yesterday seized Solidarity leader Lech Walens for the second time in six days and questioned him for nine hours in what his parish priest called a government campaign of "personal harassment."
"personal harassment." Police intercepted Wales on the way from Gdansk to Warsaw, where he intended to take part in services mourning the victims of the World War II unrising at the Jewish ghetto.
He arrived home in Gdansk shortly before 11 p.m. exhausted by his ordeal, his wife, Danuta, said. He refused to answer reporters' questions, saying only that he would answer a police summons to
appear at Gdansk militia headquarters this morning
New West Bank settlement picketed
NAHAL BRACHA, Israeli-occupied West Bank — About 8,000 Peace Now supporters, shivering in driving rain and hail, yesterday picketed the dedication of a Jewish settlement in the most heavily populated sector of the West Bank.
in the West Bank.
The ceremony itself became a secret affair with Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Mushaiyed, who huddled with some of the new settlers in a trailer home at the hilltop Nahal Bracha settlement overlooking Nablus, the largest Palestinian city in the occupied territory.
largest Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank. The opposition Labor Party protested the choice of Independence Day to dedicate the settlement in an occupied area. Labor called it a further blow toward peace and called an emergency session of Israel's
Economy better, Soviet leader says
Parliament Thursday to debate the move.
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Yuri Andropov said yesterday the Soviet Union's key economic indicators were up for the first time in years, but called for an all-out drive to save the grain harvest.
the car out drive to save the great company. Andropow cited previously unreleased figures showing that industry surpassed its production goals by 2 percent in the first two months of the year.
Labor productivity increased by 3.9 percent in the first quarter of 1983 compared with a 1.5 percent rise for the same period last year, he said.
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Vietnamese may attack Cambodian camp
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By United Press International
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand — Vietnamese forces took up new positions yesterday in apparent preparation for an attack on the biggest refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border that could force 100,000 Cambodians into Thailand.
THAI MILITARY SOURCES SAID elements of two Vietnamese divisions; backed by heavy artillery and about 15 tanks, were poised to attack the Nong Samet refuge camp, two miles inside Cambodia and 120 miles east of the Thai capital Bangkok.
into Thailand.
"The Vietnamese are like mad dogs. They bite whatever they see." Thai Maj. Gen. Prachum Pibunbhanuwat told reporters at the Thai-Cambodian border.
border.
He said Thai troops were being rushed to the area to prevent a spillover of fighting into Thai territory and added he was concerned for the safety of some 100,000 civilians living in the path of the expected Vietnamese onslaught.
Thai capital Bangkok
Radio Thailand reported a Vietnamese buildup opposite Nong Samet, and Cambodian guerrilla sources reported seeing Vietnamese soldiers advancing toward the camp.
Such an attack would show Hanoi's two-week-old offensive against Peking-backed Cambodian rebels has not been discouraged by Chinese artillery strikes against positions in northern Vietnam during the weekend.
Thai military sources here said the long-expected attack could come today.
bushed and killed four Vietnamese "special agents" who slipped across the border to attack Chinese positions in Yunnan province, China's official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. It said a fifth intruder escaped.
Chinese militiamen Sunday am-
VIETNAMESE TROOPS ENTERED Thailand at least three times in pursuit of Cambodian guerrillas since Hanoi opened its offensive March 31.
The offensive has forced more than 60,000 Cambodians refugees into Thailand.
"I am worried that Thailand will have to bear the burden when the Vietnamese attack again because there are more than 500 people in the country," Fradau said.
United Nations and Red Cross officials in Thailand said they made preparations to cope with the expected
evacuation of Nong Samet's approximately 70,000 civilians and another 23,000 from the nearby camp at Ban Sa-ngae.
Both camps are controlled by about 4,000 guerrillas of the Khmer People's National Liberation Front led by Son Sann, one of three Cambodian leaders in a coalition pledged to drive the Vietnamese from their country.
THE COALITION HAS SET UP a "government" under the leadership of Prince Norodom Shanauk, deposed in a military coup in 1970. ..
The coalition also includes the China-backed Khmer Rouge, whose three-year reign of terror in Cambodia ended when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia late 1978 and installed a formidable Khmer Rouge commander, a former state Killer.
Western states watch Apache case
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — States with Indian reservations are closely watching a Supreme Court case involving Apache claims of sovereignty over non-Indians who hunt and fish on tribal lands.
Attorneys in a 5-year-old case involving the state of New Mexico and the MesaShelter Apache Tribe go before the Supreme Court today to argue who has jurisdiction over non-Indians hunting and fishing on reservations.
Both sides already agree the Indians have the right to govern themselves.
for the right to govern this country. NEW MEXICO ATTORNEY TOM Dunigan said the court's final decision would apply to all 26 reservations in New Mexico, as well as reservations across the country.
"It's a recurring case of interest to other states nationally," he said.
The Mescaleros say that an 1852 treaty gives the tribe power over all hunting, fishing and wildlife on its
460,000-acre reservation near Ruidooso, N.M.
But the state believes it has jurisdiction over all non-Indians who hunt or fish in New Mexico, either on or off reservations. State officials say they also are concerned about animals that migrate off reservations to state lands.
The controversy began after the 2,000-member tribe built a deluxe resort in 1977, and with the approval of federal officials issued reservation regulations saying no state hunting or fishing licences were allowed. The tribes set fish and game seasons and bag limits that conflicted with state regulations.
WHEN NEW MEXICO GAME and Fish officers began arresting non-Indians who had followed the reservation regulations while hunting on Indian lands, the tribe fitted suit.
hands, the court has been debated
the case has twice been debated
before a federal district court, twice
before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeal.
and now is before the Supreme Court for the second time. Each time, the Indians have prevailed.
Arizona, California, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming have all filed court documents on behalf of New Mexico.
Also supporting the Mescaleros' contention are the Uintah and Ouray Tribe of Utah, the Southern Ute Tribe in Colorado and the White Mountain Apache Tribe, which has a similar court battle pending with the state of Arizona.
THE SUPREME COURT IN November decided to rehear the case after the state said the 10th Circuit had ignored the court's order that the case be re-examined in light of a decision involving Indian sovereignty in Montana.
In that case, the court said Montana could regulate fishing and hunting by non-Indians on land owned by non-Indians within a reservation.
GOP, protestors clash over food tax
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A new kind of food fight erupted on the Capitol lawn yesterday, with Republicans and a group of counter-demonstrators each displaying thousands of dollars in groceries to the media.
make a point about economic policy.
As a GOP employee shouted,
"Man your carts," Republicans pushed 37 grocery carts loaded with $3,500 worth of food and household supplies along a three-block route from party headquarters to the Capitol.
REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS, said the carts, laden with items such as beans, spaghetti, potatoes, and toilet paper, symbolized what an average U.S. family will not be able to buy if tax increases in the Democratic budget resolution pass.
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