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News Briefs From United Press International
Panel OKs Reagan request for increase in foreign aid
WASHINGTON — The Senate Budget Committee yesterday accepted President Reagan's proposed $12.7 billion foreign aid increase for 1984, but also approved spending billions of dollars more than he wanted for non-defense programs.
The Republican-controlled committee, drafting a fiscal 1984 budget resolution, so far has added $5.9 billion more than Reagan requested for energy, science, agriculture, housing, transportation and other domestic programs.
The committee earlier reduced Reagan's proposed military increase by $3.3 billion for 1984, so the committee is still $2.6 billion above the Reagan budget. And the most costly programs, such as education and Medicare, still are to be decided.
The Reagan administration, in a report yesterday updating a variety of economic projections, forecast a record $210.2 billion deficit for this year and a $190.2 billion deficit for 1984. The previous record was $110.6 billion in 1982.
Habib joins troop withdrawal talks
BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Reagan's Middle East envoy Philip Habib joined the Israeli-Lebanese troop withdrawal talks for the first time yesterday and an Israeli official said the intensified talks might produce an agreement within a few weeks.
In Casablanca, Morocco, government sources said Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat may meet King Hassan II today for emergency talks to revive negotiations between the PLO and Jordan.
Jordan. The sources said Hassan might be prepared to mediate between Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein following the breakdown of their talks last weekend on President Reagan's Middle East peace plan.
Walesa secretly meets with activists
WARSAW, Poland — Former Solidarity Chief Lech Walesa disclosed yesterday that he spent the past three days secretly mapping strategy with the outlawed union's top underground activists, a move that could lead to his arrest.
These are the first known meetings that Wales has had with underground leaders since his release last November from nine months of internment under martial law. The action is seen as a daring challenge to Poland's Communist authorities.
challenge to Boris Boutin's Commission. The biggest mystery about the clandestine summit conference is how the participants arranged three days of talks between Poland's most-watched man and its most-wanted fugitives.
Iranians say new attack launched
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iranian government officials said that they launched the second phase of the latest offensive against Iraq before dawn yesterday, but officials in Baghdad said that the operation was crushed.
More than 5,000 casualties were inflicted, Iranian officials said.
The new fighting in the $2\frac{1}{2}$-year-old war inhibited prospects of Iraq agreeing to a cease-fire to permit clean up of a giant oil slick threatening the coasts and vital desalination plants of six Persian Gulf nations.
The oil slick — estimated to be growing at a rate of up to 10,000 barrels of crude per day — is spewing from Iran's offshore Nowruz oil wells. The wells were damaged more than a month ago. There have been conflicting reports saying that the wells were hit by Iraqi air strikes and also damaged in a tanker collision.
Assassin suspect jailed in Portugal
LISBON, Portugal A judge yesterday ordered a suspect held without bail in the assassination of a prominent Palestine Liberation Organization envoy who advocated talks with Israel.
Organization survey showed that no formal accusation was made, but after an 80-minute arraignment, Judge Joaquim Marques Borges "validated the capture of the suspect," an official statement said.
The judge ordered the continued "imprisonment without bail" of the man, who police said carried a Moroccan passport identifying him as Youssef Al-Award, 26, of Casablanca.
The suspect was arrested shortly after Issam Sartawi, a PLO envoy known as a moderate, was shot to death in a hotel lobby in the southern resort town of Albufeira.
B-52 still missing in Nevada desert
LAS VEGAS. Nevada - Air Force planes crisscrossed the Nevada desert yesterday in a search for a B-52 bomber which vanished during a war games exercise with seven crewmen aboard, including a Salina man.
One of the crewmen was identified as Col. Caroll D. Gunther, 45, an extra crew member and safety observer from Salina.
The missing B-52 left Robins Air Force Base at Macon, Ga., at 8:30 a.m. Monday on a "round-robin" mission and was scheduled to return to its home base in Georgia at 5:40 p.m. with no intermediate stops. It disappeared somewhere in the vast Nellis Air Force Base range north of Las Vegas.
North Sea oil could last 30 years
In a study released yesterday, the department found there were about 25.5 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil left in the known fields in the North Sea.
WASHINGTON — The Energy Department reports that oil from the North Sea — a major restraint on OPEC for western nations — could last 30 years at production levels slightly higher than current output.
The current oil flow from the North Sea is about 2.3 million barrels a day. Using a slightly higher rate of 2.5 million barrels daily for its calculations, government experts found that from both known and undiscovered oil deposits, production could be maintained until the year 2013.
Nazi hunter asks for Reagan's help
MIAMI  Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal has asked President Reagan to use his influence to help extradite to the United States two accused ex-Nazis living in South America who allegedly executed more than 250,000 Jews during World War II.
250,000 news stories on Hong Kong Wiesenthal told a news conference yesterday such an action on Reagan's part would be "a symbol of justice" for the new generation that had not experienced the holocaust.
He identified the two ex-Nazis as Walter Rauff and Walter Kutschman.
Kulscmian.
Reports show that Rauff oversaw the death of more than 250,000
Wiesenhall described Kutschman as a "small criminal" by comparison, who was responsible for the death of "only 2,000 people."
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Investigators say arson cause of K.C. fire
Rv United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Arson caused a fire that gutted a four-story apartment building, killed one woman and injured nearly a dozen other people, investigators said yesterday.
number of arson fires had occurred in the building recently, including one during the weekend that took fire three trips to the building to extinguish.
Opal P. Robison, 51, died in the fire, which began at 9 p.m. Monday, and several other residents leaped from balconies to escape flames and smoke. Police classified the woman's death
and sometimes Residents told authorities that a
Eleven people, including five firefighters and two paramedics, were injured in the latest blaze, which took four hours to extinguish. Three people were admitted to hospitals with injuries. Two were in good and one in fair condition.
Police classified the woman's death as a homicide.
SMOKE ALARM'S WENT OFF in the building, but the building apparently
Randy Sorenson, manager of the building, said he tried to put out the fire, located in a first-floor apartment, with the building's two small fire alarm systems. He smoked smoke and flames while running through the halls warning the tenants.
lacked fire escapes and fire alarms, residents said.
("One woman dropped her two babies
(to the ground)." Sorenson said, "I caught one and another man caught the other one. There were both all right."
The mother was injured when she jumped from the building, he said.
Fire Capt. Joe Galetti said residents quickly scattered when the fire broke out.
About 25 people, some from an adjoining apartment building that was evacuated, spent Monday night at a nearby school where the Red Cross had set up a shelter.
Fire officials said 29 units of the 35-unit building were occupied. The building incurred damage of about $250,000 dollars. No immediate value was placed on the loss of contents. Galetti said.
3,500 flood victims still homeless in Louisiana
Bv United Press International
SILDELL, La. — Several flood victims trekked home yesterday fearful that deadly water moissains might be lurking in their houses, but another 3,500 evacuees continued their vigil for receding water.
The cost of damage from a week of relentless floods in southeast Louisiana was $10 million.
according to officials in the state's Office of Emergency Preparedness in the city.
"I think the request will go forward at the end of this week, and I would hope it would be acted on at the beginning of the middle of next week," Treen said.
Gove, Dave Treen he would
request federal disaster funds for 16 parishs.
Sgt. Clark Thomas of the St. Tammany Parish sheriff's office said,
"We've still got lots of water. And we've got lots of snakes, but no reports of any bites.
Sheriff Pat Canuletta predicted that most homes would be free of water by Friday. Meanwhile, the Red Cross served 2,000 breakfasts yesterday and offered hot meals of red beans and chili dogs last night.
"PEOPLE HERE KNOW how to deal with snakes — you shoot them."
Interstate 10 from Slidell east to Mississippi remained closed, with no prediction on when it would be opened.
Louisiana's two U.S. senators said yesterday they would press the Corps of Engineers to hasten flood control studies for the Amite and Pearl River basins, even in the Long and Midwest, where skies are like the corps for advice on "what steps are necessary to complete (the study) as rapidly as possible."
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