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University Daily Kansan, April 8. 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Salvadoran leftists gather prepare possible offensive
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — About 4,000 to 5,000 leftist guerrillas — in one of their greatest concentrations ever — massed yesterday in a town about 32 miles northeast of San Salvador for a possible offensive, military sources said.
The offensive was thought to be aimed at marking the 13th anniversary of the founding of the Salvadoran Popular Liberation Forces, known as the FPL, the most radical of the five guerrilla groups operating in the country...
Rebel radio stations have announced unspecified "actions" by the FPL to celebrate the anniversary Sunday.
Military sources said about 5,000 guerrillas were camped in the northern Chalatenango province.
U. S. officials in El Salvador have placed the total rebel strength at about 6,000 to 8,000 combatants but it remains unclear how many supporters the guerrillas have.
Senate panel trims defense increase
WASHINGTON — In a stinging rebuke, the Republican-led Senate Budget Committee defied President Reagan and voted 17-4 yesterday to cut in half his proposed 10 percent defense spending increase for 1984.
The committee approved a bipartisan compromise plan that contained $267 billion for defense spending in fiscal 1984 and calls for spending $1.68 trillion over the next five years. This amounts to a 5 percent spending increase next year, after adjusting for inflation.
The president had asked for $280 billion for defense spending authority in 1984 and $1.8 trillion over five years.
Spending authority allows the Pentagon to enter into long-term contracts and to spend money over several years.
Legislator indicted for false report
WASHINGTON — Rep. George Hansen, R-Idaho, was indicted yesterday on charges he failed to disclose nearly a quarter of a million dollars in loans from silver magnate Nelson Bunker Hunt and from a convicted swindler.
Hansen was accused of failing to report an $87,475 profit he and his wife reaped on the silver futures market in two days, as well as personal loans totalling $246,000 from Texas billionaire Hunt and from a man recently convicted of swindling a southern Virginia bank.
The four-count indictment was the first time a public official had been criminally charged with making false statements on the financial disclosure forms required to be filed annually under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
Brazil's rioting, looting shifts to Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Violence shifted yesterday to Rio de Janiero, where dozens of people looted a supermarket for milk, rice, meat and liquor in the fourth day of Brazilian rioting sparked by unemployment and inflation.
In Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, heavy police patrols brought a tentative halt to riots that left one man dead and property losses estimated as high as $25 million during three days.
Many stores remained closed in Sao Paulo, however, as rumors of angry mores seeking to plunder businesses spread through the city.
Officials, meanwhile, announced that the inflation in March rose 10.1 percent, bringing the total for the last 12 months to 110 percent.
Pact officials favor missile reduction
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — The foreign ministers of the communist Warsaw Pact alliance said yesterday they supported elimination of all nuclear weapons from Europe and a general arms reduction that includes shelving NATO plans to deploy U.S. medium-range missiles.
The final communique after a two-day closed-door session, which focused particularly on "the nuclear arms race on the European continent," also repeated the Warsaw Pact leaders' January proposal for a non-aggression treaty with the West.
The communique made no mention of President Reagan's interim arms control proposal, which suggested a smaller deployment of Pershing 2 and cruise medium-range missiles if the Soviets dismantle some of their comparable weapons.
Walesa agrees to speak at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University spokesmen said yesterday that Lech Walesa, the former leader of Poland's banned Solidarity labor union, had accepted an invitation to speak at Harvard University's 322nd commencement.
University's social commitment. It is not known whether Walesa, who was released in November from 11 months of confinement while martial law was imposed in Poland, will be able to get permission to leave his country.
If he does, it is likely he will also receive an honorary degree from Harvard at the June 9 ceremonies, according to school sources.
the invitation was extended by Harvard President Derek Bok on behalf of the Harvard Alumni Association.
watt reverses ban on rock 'n roll
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary James Watt, the joys of surf music pounded into him by the First Family, said yesterday he would welcome the Beach Boys to perform at the nation's Independence Day celebration.
Watt, emerging from a White House meeting with President Reagan, told reporters he was reversing a ban on rock 'n' roll performances at Washington's Fourth of July festival.
The secretary's comments led to some confusion over whether Watt was extending a formal invitation or merely rolling out the welcome mat.
Previously, Watt had suggested that groups like the Beach Boys had polluted the patriotic July 4 festivities by luring thousands of rowdy drinkers and drug users to the park-like Mall during concerts in 1980 and 1981.
Skeleton may yield evolution clues
WASHINGTON — A human skeleton between 60,000 and 80,000 years old, unearthed in a desolate region of Egypt, may yield important clues about the origin of man, an expert studying the remains said yesterday.
about the origin of man, an expert studying the return of the skeleton, still encased in its sandstone grave, was flown this week to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History for study.
T. Dale Stewart, a physical anthropologist who will free the bones from the rock using a compressed-air drill, said it was too early to tell where the remains fit into the evolution of man.
where he the skeleton may help settle a dispute about whether man evolved from Neanderthals or developed separately along a line that led directly to modern man.
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Exchanges deferred in asylum protest
By United Press International
PEIKING — China suspended all official cultural and sports exchanges with the United States yesterday to protest Washington's decision to grant political asylum to Chinese tennis player Hu Na. A Western diplomat called the suspension a "major step backwards" in U.S. visa relations.
Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang later called the United States a "hegemonic" power that interfered in China's internal affairs.
Zhang Wenjin, who was to present his credentials as China's ambassador to the United States to President Reagan at the White House yesterday, called the decision to grant asylum to Miss Hu "commived, deliberate a provocation."
ALTHOUGH CHINA cut back on U.S. imports in a trade dispute earlier this year, it was the first time since the normalization of relations in 1979 that China has cancelled an existing agreement with the United States.
The retaliation was announced less than 24 hours after China bitterly protested the United States' decision on Monday to grant political asylum to Miss Hu, who detected in July during a tennis tournament in Santa Clara,
A U.S. Embassy spokesman called the measures "an overreaction" by China and a "matter of regret to us." He declined to comment further.
IN ANOTHER sign of China's displeasure, Communist Party chief Hu spoke strongly against the United States.
He told a visiting Swedish Communist Party delegation that the United States acted like a "hegemonistic" power toward China and "persisted in its arms sales to Taiwan, connived in the entitlement and coercion of Chinese workers in collusion with Taiwan agents and even granted "political avulum."
The decision to suspend all further contacts under a two-year-old cultural exchange agreement was announced by the Ministry of Culture, which accused the United States of purposefully denying the "customer" to set back Sino-U.S. relations.
A similar decision was later announced by the Sports Federation, which said the granting of asylum to its star tennis player had "impaired the normal atmosphere in sports exchanges between China and the U.S."
DIPLOMATIC SOURCES said U.S. Charge d'Affaires Charles Freeman was called to the Culture Ministry yesterday afternoon to receive the decision from Ding Gu, director of the Foreign Relations with Foreign Countries.
The canceled events included a summer tour by the Julliard String Quartet, an exhibition of paintings from the Brooklyn Museum, a U.S. film week, trips by journalists and an exchange of visits by the directors of Peking Radio and the Voice of America.
Canceled sports events included tournaments in water polo, softball, track and field, cycling, swimming, canoeing and volleyball scheduled for May through October.
Louisiana rains kill 3 thousands evacuated
By United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — The heaviest rains in recent memory gushed across southeast Louisiana yesterday, killing three people and forcing the evacuation of at least 20,000 more, including thousands in New Orleans.
By nightfall, Gov. Dave Treen declared a general state of emergency.
"NEW ORLEANS is isolated from the rest of the world," said Gail Purpuro, spokeswoman for American Telephone and Telegraph's long distance service. "Our building in New Orleans has taken in 14 inches of water and we can't get power to our equipment.
State officials said at least 130 roads were closed statewide, including some major throughfares in the Southeast. Authorities said at least three people died from accidents on rain-drenched highways.
THE RED CROSS said the homes of 90,000 families in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and nearby parishes were taking in floodwater, and the governor's office reported at least 20,000 people had been evacuated, thousands from the New Orleans area.
By late yesterday, the Red Cross established 19 shelters and aid stations to handle the evacuees.
Officials in metropolitan New Orleans, with a population of one million, reported streets were under 7 feet of water in some places.
U.S. agrees to speed up arms deliveries to Thais
By United Press International
BANGKO, Thailand — The United States pledged yesterday to speed up arms deliveries to Thailand, whose troops exchanged with Vietnamese units that were pressing a week-old offensive along the Cambodian border.
U. S. Assistant Secretary of State Paul Wolfzwitz he conferred with
Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prem Tinsulananda and promised accelerated deliveries of American weapons to meet the Vietnamese threat on Thailand's eastern border with Cambodia.
THE UNITED STATES will provide "strong and effective support to Thailand," an official said, but he declined to specify the amount or type of military aid to be delivered.
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