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University Daliv Kansan. March 25. 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
House gives final approval to $4.6 billion relief bill
WASHINGTON — The House gave final approval yesterday to a $4.6 billion package of new jobs and recession relief, but the measure did not reach President Reagan in time to keep jobless pay flowing to thousands of people.
About 2 million jobless people nationwide depended on Reagan's signature yesterday to continue getting benefits attached to the legislation. But White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the signing would not occur until today.
In addition to public works construction projects and social programs that might provide up to a half-million jobs — and $550 million in humanitarian aid — the bill contains $5 billion in money for the federal fund that lends money to states to pay their unemployment compensation claims.
The fund ran dry Tuesday, and 28 states scramble to find funds to meet claims for an estimated 2 million people.
Search for bodies continues in Peru
LIMA, Peru — Rescue workers dug through waist-deep mud and fought rushing flood waters yesterday in search of at least 50 charter bus passengers swept away in two avalanches 35 miles east of Lima.
bus passenger. The bodies of 40 passengers, who died when two buses were swept into a river Tuesday night, have been recovered, police said. Ten survivors said they escaped through the bus windows.
At least 50 were still thought missing in tons of mud, rocks and water which also destroyed the homes of more than 1,000 area residents and destroyed the drinking water supply to about half of Lima, police said.
Officials said the two packed charter buses were swept off of the main highway that leads from Peru's central mountains by an avalanche of mud and carried down the flooded Rimac River.
Senate panel OKs anti-abortion rule
WASHINGTON - A constitutional amendment to reverse the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion was approved yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Constitution subcommittee, but its future seems doubtful.
doubt:
The 10-word amendment, sponsored by subcommittee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Uttah, and Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., says in its entirety, "A right to abortion is not secured by this Constitution."
The vote was 3-0, with Sens. Strom Thurmond, R.S.C., Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Hatch voting for it. Eagleton is not a member of the panel.
the panel. The amendment now goes to the full Senate Judiciary Committee, and Hatch said he had a commitment from the Senate leadership for floor debate before this summer.
Marines OK communications link
Marine peacekeepers in Beirut yesterday yielded to an Israeli request for a special "channel of communication" to head off clashes between Israelis and U.S. forces, ending a 6-month-old U.S. refusal to expand military contacts.
"It is expected that this channel for exchange of information needed by the two forces would eliminate the possibility of misunderstandings between them." a U.S. Embassy statement said.
U. S. military officers previously had refused meetings and direct communications with Israeli troops, claiming that would jeopardize the neutrality of peacekeeping force.
The U.S. Embassy statement said the new channel was set up to prevent unnecessary tensions between Israeli troops and Marines.
Bebels say troops killed in ambush
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Nicaraguan government claimed yesterday it repelled rebels from two northern towns, but exiles — vowing to oust the leftist regime and hold free elections — said they killed 35 government troops in an ambush and spread their invasion to four provinces.
tour provinces.
In a strident warning, Interior Minister Tomas Borge said Honduras was "playing with fire" by aiding the exiles and warned that there was a limit to Nicaragua's patience with its U.S.-backed neighbor.
Rebels invaded three weeks ago from bases along the Honduran border
The insurgents' Honduran-based radio "15 de septiembre" said anti-government forces were fighting in Nicaragua's northwestern and eastern provinces.
Gromvko named deputy premier
MOSCOW — The Soviet leadership yesterday increased the responsibilities of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyky by naming him a first deputy premier, apparently striking a political blow against the late Leondii Brezhnev's protege, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov.
Gromyko's appointment as the third first deputy premier under Tikhonov seemed likely to deprive the premier of many of his foreign affairs duties. Previously, there were only two deputies.
armies to liberate Yugoslavia.
Tikhonov, the highest-ranking Brezhnev protege in the Kremlin, was on an official trip to Yugoslavia when the announcement was made. He was named premier when Alexei Kosygin retired in 1980.
"We're seeing the first of a series of moves," said a Western diplomat specializing in Kremlin politics. "It's very strange that it happened while Tikhonov was gone."
Amerasian children leave Vietnam
It was the fifth and largest group of Vietnamese-Americans allowed to leave Vietnam. They were accompanied by 67 of their mothers, brothers and sisters on a crowded Air France flight to Bangkok from Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon.
BANGKOK, Thailand — Seweyn- nine children fathered by Americans during the Vietnam War left the land that scorned them yesterday for the United States, as Hanoi promised to allow monthly airlifts bringing out thousands more.
U. S. officials at Bangkok airport said they had been assured by Vietnamese authorities that between 100 and 200 Amerasian children would be allowed to leave Vietnam each month.
would be allowed. The monthly airlifts will continue until the applications of 3,000 to 4,000 American-fathered children are processed and they are resettled in the United States, the U.S. officials said.
Correction
Because of a reporting error, an article in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly stated that Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kennedy is a member of the committee. Sen. Charles Percy, R-III., is the committee chairman.
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Congress passes Social Security package
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate, acting just hours after the House, gave final approval early today to a $165 billion Social Security rescue package that raises taxes, curbs benefits and cuts unemployment retirement age to 20 in the 21st century.
By United Press International
The package, designed to ensure the retirement system's solvency over the next 75 years, now goes to President Reagan for his expected signature.
THE BILL, which also includes a first-time tax on well-to-door pensioners and mandatory coverage of federal workers, moved through Congress with the support of the State of Texas negotiations agreed on a compromise package yesterday afternoon.
The Senate easily approved the measure, which would hours after the adoption it took on a 24-hour basis.
Leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn, delivered an impassioned plea for the measure's support.
Just before the Senate vote, Majority
"The country is telling us to fix the Social Security system," he said. "There is a fundamental responsibility to deal with the issue.
HOUSE WAYS and Means Committee Chairman Dian Restenkowski, D-III., said the package was perhaps too wide to issue this Congress would ever address.
U. S. Rep. Barber Conable, R-N-Y, said of the package that may not be a requirement for the package.
Conable, the senior Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, said, "It will do what it what it was supposed to do. It will save the nation's basic social insurance system from imminent disaster."
In addition, the legislation extends federal unemployment benefits, due to expire March 31, for six months and
changes the way Medicare pays hospitals.
Under the compromise bill, the retirement age would rise by two months each year beginning in 2003, and reach 66 in 2009. The age would rise again by two months a year in 2021, reaching 67 in 2027.
THE LEGISLATION also includes the House recommendation to include new federal workers next year, which would account for about a quarter of the over the next decade.
Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., criticizing the decision to raise the age to 67, said, "The evidence is that 67 is probably not all that attainable for many people."
Rep. J.J. Pickle, D-Texas, who is chairman of the House Social Security subcommittee, said, "We're all getting older," and the result of the sensitive retirement age issue
The legislation also softens the so-called "retirement test," under
which benefits are reduced if a retiree under age 70 earns above a set income ceiling. Benefits are now cut $1 for every $2 earned over the limit; the reduction now will be $1 for every $3 earned.
ALSO DROPPED was a controversial Senate provision under which the annual cost-of-living increase would automatically be cut if Social Security's trust funds fall below 20 percent of a year's benefits.
Also, as part of the package, federal unemployment benefits, due to expire March 31, will be extended for six months, which means an additional 10 weeks of benefits for jobless workers in hardest-hit areas.
Instead, the annual inflation adjustment will be based on the lower of either wages or prices — instead of sticking to the current system pegged to the inflation rate, which trop below 10 percent, which is considered unlikely.
Salvadoran rightist warns of internal army crisis
Bv United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A leader of the rightist Army party warned yesterday of an internal army crisis if controversial Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia does not resign as he had promised.
The government, meanwhile, has nearly run out of money, with only enough funds to pay its workers until
July, said one official of the moderate Christian Democratic Party.
HE SAID THE Central Reserve Bank estimated that El Salvador needed at least $150 million in U.S. economic aid this year to survive economically. Otherwise, the currency would have to be devalued. According to the official, this would lead to the collapse of the economy.
President Reagan has asked Congress for more military and economic aid for El Salvador, a request that has
been met with stiff opposition from Congress.
Another top government source said Finance Minister Jorge Eduardo Tenorio would probably resign rather than ask for a devaluation.
Tenerio refused to answer questions from journalists about reports of his death.
The leader in the rightist Arena party, who did not want to identified, said that a winter revolt by Col. Sigredfeir Ochoa still had repercussions
in the national defense and that García would have to keep his word and retire.
OCHOA  DEMANDEDhat Garcia resign and charged him with incompetence in directing the war against rebels.
Ochoa, one of the army's top commanders, ended his barracks mutiny when Garcia pledged to resign.
Arena supported Ochoa's mutiny, but Ochoa said he was not a master.
Good friends will help you study angles when all you can think about is curves.
It didn't take a genius to tell your mind wasn't on your studies. But it did take a couple of smart roomies to do something about it.
So out came the calculators. And the doughnuts. And they started drilling you
until you knew physics as well as
you know yourself.
When it was all over, you showed them that there was one more thing you knew something about-gratitude. Tonight, let it be Löwenbräu
Löwenbräu. Here's to good friends.
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