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University Daily Kansan, March 4, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan pledges federal aid to California flood victims
LOS ANGELES — President Reagan yesterday flew over some of the damage left by a fierce storm that pummed California with tornadoes, floods and destructive surf, then promised quick federal assistance to storm victims.
Although the storm's main fury appeared to be over, scattered showers continued and new levee and dam breaks threatened to flood more homes. A weaker storm was expected to hit over the weekend.
Reagan surveyed the storm damage while flying by helicopter from his sun-soaked rack north of Santa Barbara to a fund-raising luncheon.
During his speech, the president said he had spoken to Gov. George Deukmejian. He jokingly referred to himself as "old hard-hearted me," and then said he had told the governor that all requests for federal assistance would be expedited.
China urged to boost nuclear forces
PEKING — Defense Minister Zhang Aiping, in a major shift from the Maoist policy of guerrilla warfare, said yesterday that China must concentrate its military spending on developing more and better strategic nuclear weapons.
The official Xinhua news agency quoted Zhang as calling for a "speed up in the modernization of national defense" to meet "the needs of the army in a defensive war."
Zhang made the major defense policy statement in an article in the latest edition of a Communist Party theoretical journal, which has not yet been publicly released.
"Defense funds should be concentrated on those programs which are badly needed and the most important areas which affect the overall situation, such as strategic guided missiles and centers for producing nuclear fuel and bombs." Zhang said.
House passes $4.9 billion jobs bill
WASHINGTON — With its Democratic leadership arguing the bill is "bread and butter, not pork," the House passed a bipartisan $4.9 billion job package yesterday and sent it to the Senate. The vote was 324 to 95.
Sponsors say the bill will create up to 600,000 jobs. Critics say it is a "pork barrel" measure that will benefit sponsoring congressmen more.
The House passed amendments that added $61 million for mass transit and $200 million for health services to the $4.6 billion measure that was speedily drafted and approved by the House Appropriations Committee after President Reagan agreed to the measure in principle.
Before final passage, the House also adopted an amendment requiring that 75 percent of the money be spent in areas of high unemployment.
East Germany attacks Helmut Kohl
BONN, West Germany — East Germany joined the Soviets yesterday in a denunciation of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in an effort to swing support away from the front-runner in Sunday's election and block the deployment of U.S. missiles in West Germany.
With the election three days away, an official East German Communist Party newspaper called Kohl's determination to deploy the medium-range missiles to counter Soviet SS-20s would turn West Germany into a "powder keg."
Commenting on the East German editorial, Kohl aide Philipp Jenninger said, "It is a regrettable mistake of the type the Soviet Union long has made, to influence the election a few days before it takes place."
The East German attack on Kohl was printed as West German newspapers accused the Soviets of massive interference in the election.
Senate confirms Heckler for Cabinet
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 82-3 yesterday to confirm Margaret Heckler, a staunch opponent of abortion, as head of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Heckler, chosen by President Reagan to take over the federal government's largest agency, will become the second female Cabinet secretary in his administration.
The three votes against her were cast by Republicans — conservative North Carolinians Jesse Helms and John East, who said she was too liberal, and Bob Packwood of Oregon, a leader in the Senate of those supporting a woman's right to abortion.
Heckler, a former Massachusetts congresswoman, succeeds Richard Schweiker, who took a job with an insurance trade package.
Shortly after the vote, Heckler said she was "delighted" by her confirmation.
Flood of lava destroys two homes
KALAPANA, Hawaii — A wall of lava 25 feet high bulldozed two houses in a fiery display yesterday as the flow from a furiously erupting Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawaii began winding its way toward the coastline.
No other homes were threatened, but because of the lava's erratic movement, Hawaii Civil Defense officials said that "fingers" from the main flow might split off and hit other structures.
All the Hawaiian islands were enshrouded in a heavy haze from the eruptions's smoke and fumes. U.S. Geological Survey scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said activity at the erosion site had intensified since it began spouting Jan. 3.
Fourth bomb found in Las Vegas
An employee of Neiman Marcus Co. discovered the bomb in a cardboard box wrapped with duct tape—the same type package used to conceal bombs found Monday outside the Stardust, Frontier and Desert Inn hotels.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A fourth dynamite bomb was found yesterday outside a fashionable department store within walking distance of three hotels where similar bombs were discovered Monday.
"The fourth bomb is similar to those placed outside the Strip hotels," Lt. Jerry Cunningham said. "A man who works at Neiman Marcus discovered it about 8 a.m., before the shopping mall opened."
Each of the bombs contained nine or 10 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device operated by batteries. No money demands were made. Identification numbers on the dynamite had been removed.
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Assam official grants army more power
GAUHATI, India — Vowing to be ruthless, Assam's governor granted the army sweeping powers over half the state yesterday as Bengali immigrants staged retaliatory raids to avenge massacres by native Assamese.
In the latest violence, the Bengali immigrants, who have been the target of a wave of slaughter, raided scattered villages and burned district, 900 miles east of New Delhi.
By United Press International
Officials in the state capital of Gauhati said the raiders set fire to homes and killed at least six native
The latest stayings hiked to 3,701 the number of people killed since the ethnic strife began Feb 1, according to compilation of official reports.
In a raid by 1,000 Assamese Wednesday, 41 died, including 2 Bengali-speaking Hindu fishermen whose lugages were set ablaze while they slept.
Assumes before federal troops moved in to restore order.
THE RAIDS were staged in the same district in which 2,000 Bengalis were massacred Feb. 18-19.
Assam's violence has been directed mostly against Bengalis — many of them immigrants from Bangladesh —
In response to the violence, 20,000 federal troops yesterday were given a virtual right to rule over the violence. The Army's Valley, which makes up half of Asema.
whose expulsion from the overcrowded northern state is demanded by a court.
THE TROOPS' deployment in their new role began when the state's new Chief Minister, Hitshema Saikia, admitted all other measures had failed and invoked the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
Under the act, the army has powers to arrest, search and conduct raids without warrant in "disturbed areas" for the purpose of maintaining law and
order, but the deployment falls short of constituting marial law.
The act also empowers officers above the rank of sergeant to shoot on sight to preserve order, but that section of the law was under a court-ordered stay.
In New Delhi, nearly all opposition party members, except the Marxists, walked out of Parliament when speaker Balram Jakah refused to admit a motion condemning the government for the violence in Assam.
This worst wave of ethnic violence to rock India since independence in 1947 is likely to prove embarrassing to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the host at the summit of non-aligned leaders starting in New Delhi Sunday.
Soviets gain some secrets by normal trade, leaks
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Soviets gain about half of their intelligence about the U.S. military by spying, but most of the rest is through leaks or legitimate means such as trade documents, a Pentagon official said yesterday.
Richard DeLauer, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, discussed the problem of technology transfer to the Soviets during a presentation of the Pentagon's proposed $124 billion weapon budget to the
Senate defense appropriations subcommittee...
PRESIDENT REAGAN is seeking a total military budget of $238.6 billion, which includes money for operations and maintenance and personnel costs.
DeLauer said leaks, espionage and normal trade accounted for the Soviet intelligence agency.
"Our estimate is about half of it goes out by espionage," he said, while 25 percent occurs through leaks and about 20 percent through normal trade, including information contained in export licenses.
intelligence went through the civilian sector. Some allies, such as Japan, posed real problems in that regard, he said.
Delauber said efforts were being made to strengthen the Coordinating Committee, the voluntary multinational group commonly referred to as COCOM control Western transfers of strategic equipment and data to the Soviet Union.
COCOM HAS completed the first round of a two-year review of materials that should be limited for export, and COCOM MAY arrange May is scheduled to start in April or May.
DeLauer said a large portion of the
"COCAM is a joke," Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis, said at the presentation "They've had one meeting in 25 years. We don't care." He can't we get more sergoes on this?"
DeLauer also repeated an assertion made Wednesday in another committee that Congress had rejected the concept of super-hardening MX missile silos understanding it, and was immediately backed up by Sense. Jack Garn, R-Utah.
"The subject was never really discussed," Garn said. "It turned into a congressional debate on the basing mode. The political die was cast."
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