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University Daily Kansan, February 7, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Chinese say Shultz's trip failed to improve relations
PEKING — The Peking government said yesterday that Secretary of State George Shultz's trip to China failed to remove serious obstacles from Sino-U.S. relations and improved ties were for the moment out of the question.
"Chinese leaders told Shultz that China attaches importance to Sino-U.S. relations," the official Xinhua news agency said in a harsh commentary hours after Shultz's departure for South Korea. "But they said to improve these relations, it is imperative to remove the obstacles in the way, chiefly the Taiwan question and especially U.S. arms sales in Taiwan."
Referring to Taiwan and other obstacles, Xinhua said that "unless this problem is resolved, mutual trust between China and the United States is out of the question and bilateral relations cannot possibly develop on a sound basis."
The commentary also added weight to speculation that Premier Zhao Ziyang may postpone a visit to the United States this year — a trip Zhao himself hinted might be delayed by the failure to resolve the Taiwan dispute.
Steelworkers to begin negotiations
PTITSBURGH — The United Steelworkers and the ailing steel industry open high-stakes labor negotiations today in an attempt to ward off the threat of a nationwide steel strike.
Negotiators plan to tackle local plant and company issues this week and begin top-level bargaining on wages and benefits Feb. 15.
The present three-year labor pact runs until Aug. 1, but steel customers have warned that if a new contract is not settled by March 1, they will turn to foreign steelmakers to ensure a steady supply of steel
The current round of talks marks the third time in eight months that the USW and the eight of the largest steelmakers have tried to reach a labor settlement.
It's either jobs or guns, study shows
WASHINGTON — Enactment of President Reagan's $238.6 billion defense budget for 1984 would cause a net loss of 2.2 million jobs in the civilian economy, according to a new study released yesterday.
The study, by Employment Research Associates of Lansing, Mich., an economic consulting firm specializing in the impact of military spending, sought to apply Reagan's budget request to previous research on the issue.
According to the study, every $1 billion "transferred from purchases by the taxpayer to purchases by the Pentagon caused a net loss of 18,000 jobs in industry and commerce."
With unemployment at 10.4 percent and Reagan proposing a $30 billion defense increase for 1984, the impact of the defense budget on the economy is expected to play a critical role in the budget debate on Capitol Hill.
Experts say volcano to erupt again
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Volatile Mount St. Helens probably will erupt violently within the next week, resulting in explosions, mudflows and clouds of ash and steam. U.S. Geological Survey officials said yesterday
Steven Brantley, spokesman for the Geological Survey, said recent readings of rates of seismic energy release, gas emission, deformation of the lava dome and crater floor and the glow of the dome had increased during the past week.
If the trend continues, he said, an eruption will begin within the next two weeks, most likely within the next week.
Brantley said the possibility of a lava flow resulting from the anticipated eruption was not likely.
Mount St. Helens rumbled to life again late Tuesday, sending plumes of steam and ash to an altitude of 20,000 feet. Friday, the volcano again shot a burst of steam and ash high into the sky.
Crowded inmates to live in tents
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As spring comes to California, more than 2,000 state prison inmates may find themselves living behind canvas walls instead of steel bars.
The state is planning "tent cities" for 1,000 inmates each at San Quentin, north of San Francisco, and the California Institution for Men at Chino. Prison officials plan to pitch the tents in April at San Quentin and by July at Chino.
"We couldn't think of anything else we could get fast enough," said Phil Guthrie of the California Department of Corrections. "We certainly don't regard tents as an adequate way to house the prisoners. But it's only on an emergency basis."
California's prison population this month reached 23,939. The 12 existing state institutions were built to house 25,600.
examining hard materials.
About 130 inmates a week have flowed into prisons since December under tougher anti-crime laws. Many convicts are sharing cells or sleeping in make-shift dormitories.
John Paul II to visit Central America
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II announced yesterday he would visit eight countries in strife-torn Central America and the Caribbean March 2-9.
The trip will be his 17th trip abroad since he was elected leader of the Roman Catholic church in 1978.
Speaking at his noon blessing yesterday, the pope also appealed for help for the hundreds of thousands of refugees deported from Nigeria whose plight filled his "soul with profound sadness and great apprehension."
the pope's announcement was the first official confirmation of the dates of the visit. Several Central American bishops already have announced that the pope would be visiting their countries.
The trip follows his repeated condemnation of violence in the area and his continued disapproval of priests who have taken up political causes or assumed political office in Central America.
Eubie won't attend birthday bash
NEW YORK — Friends, colleagues and devoted admirers of composer Eubie Blake from the worlds of ragtime, jazz, Broadway and classical music gathered yesterday to prepare a 100th birthday salute.
But the birthday boy was not expected to attend the private and public celebrations today, when he will round out a century of robust life.
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Eubie, whose last public piano performance was in June, was recovering from a bout with pneumonia and was reported to have been taking oxygen and smoking in between, or vice versa. His fever had subsided but the odds were against his being able to go from his Brooklyn home to Manhattan, N.Y.
friends were preparing a special phone wire today to bring the music and praise from a 1,500-guest private party at the Shubert Theater into the bedroom of his home.
Violence erupts in Lebanese mountains
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Druze and Christian militants fought artillery and mortar battles in the Israeli-occupied mountains southeast of Beirut yesterday, following a week of bloody fighting in and around the Lebanese capital.
Twenty-six people were killed and more than 100 others wounded in a spate of terrorist attacks against Palestinian, Israeli and French targets in the internationally policed capital, Lebanese police said.
By United Press International
The fighting between the Christian and Druze forces in the Israeli-occupied Aley mountains escalated after a night of sniper fire and rapidly engulfed a string of snow-covered villages and towns.
"The fighting is heavy and shells are crashing at the rate of six per minute," the rightist Phalangist-owned Voice of Lebanon radio said.
LEBANESE ARMY units deployed in the Aley foothills cut the main highway leading to the region in a bid to avoid "outsiders from being trapped in crossfire," state-run Beirut Radio said
The fighting was most intense
between the Druze village of Aitat and the nearby Christian militia-controlled city of Zarqa.
Beirut radio said efforts were under way to check the violence, which twice last week triggered a Druze artillery half of Barka, killing 19 people.
In Israel, military sources confirmed a newspaper report that Lt. Col. Rafi, the tank commander involved in last week's encounter with U.S. Marines in Beirut, said he "smelled alcohol on the breath" of Marine Carl. Charles Johnson, who drew his pistol to prevent three Israeli tanks passing U.S. lines.
A MARINE SPOKESMAN in Beirut.
Capt. Dale Dye, called the Haan'ertz newspaper report "absolute nonsense."
Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin dismissed the report as "superfluous" and irrelevant to the main issue of the crisis, including the involvement and U.S. forces, Israel Radio reported.
Rafi himself — last names are withheld for security — was slightly wounded yesterday by a bomb detonated along a road south of Beirut as his vehicle was passing by, the Israeli army said.
Violence forces Palestinians to flee Sidon homes
By United Press International
SIDON. Lebanon - Hundreds of
SIDON, Lebanon.
Palestinians are fleeing their long-time homes in Sidon and moving into refugee camps because of a campaign of violence and threats against them, area residents say.
Most of the refugees are moving into the devastated Ain Helw refugee camp in east Sidon, a coastal town midway between Beirut and the Israeli border. One international agency working with the Palestinians said as
many as 400 families have already left their homes.
A RELIEF WORKER said the Palestinians were afraid another massacre like the one last September in two refugees camps in Beirut might occur.
"For the first time," said a foreign worker, "the rightists are acting against established 1948 refugees." — the Palestinians who settled in Lebanon when Israel was created and who were officially registered as refugees.
"The they are frightened that the Phalangists want to herd them all together and then dispose of them," the relief worker said, referring to the rightist Christian militia blamed by the Palestinians for the Beirut massacres.
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The leaflets warned that the group was pledged to ejecting all Palestinians from Lebanon "no matter what the obstacles in our path."
"Noble sons of Sidon and its environs," the leaflets said, "help us to drive the strangers from the land of Lebanon, especially from your heroic city of Sidon which was oppressed by Palestinian tyranny and sabotage.
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"Despite all our good will, we cannot be everywhere." the source said. He said some of those being forced to leave their homes could be squatters who moved into semi-finished buildings during the Lebanese civil war. Now the Lebanese were moving them out.
In Tel Aviv, a military source said it was capable residents were being scared out of their homes in Sidon, but he denied such action was sanctioned by Israel.
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