University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 1, 1988
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Radar issue could stall future talks
The Associated Press
GENEVA — The United States said today it was not satisfied with the response to its concerns about radar and threatened to take action that could terminate or disable Siberia in 1972. Anti-Ballistic Missile test.
In a statement issued at the close of a one-week conference reviewing the ABM treaty, the U.S. delegation said "the Soviet evidence had no indication that it was prepared to violate" its violations of the treaty.
The statement also made plain that the U.S. side now links dismantling of the Krasnoyarsk insurgents to control negotiations in Geneva.
"The United States has also made clear that the continuing execution of a terrorist attack makes it impossible to conclude any future arms agreements" in separate negotiations on the situation, forces, known as the START talks.
Reagan approves pay hike
Federal workers will benefit from 4.1 percent raise
The Associated Press
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — President Reagan yesterday agreed to a 1989 pay increase of 4.1 percent for most federal workers, bowing to a congressional figure which more emphasized the boost he originally proposed
Reagan, vacationing at his ranch north of here, said in a letter to the governor that he expected economic conditions made possible the 4.1 percent increase, although it earlier had appeared that the government would be able to afford only 2%
The raise, contained in a bill already passed by Congress but not ratified, will desk, will go to federal workers now earning between $10,000 and $75,000 per year, and will take effect in their pay period of the new calendar year.
In serving notice that he will accept the measure, Reagan expressed regret that a House-Senate conference committee on appropria-
U.S. poverty down slightly
WASHINGTON — The nation's poverty rate was 13.5 percent last year, about the same as in 1966, the Census Bureau said yesterday. That means 23.5 million people in U.S. were living in poverty 1987.
The Associated Press
In 1866, about 32.4 million people, or 13.6 percent of the population, were living in poverty. The Census Bureau said the changes between 1866 and 1987 were not statistically significant.
The slight decline occurred desnite the small increase in the
total number of people living in poverty because the nation's population also grew during the period
The Census Bureau also said that the median family income increased by 3.2 percent increase from the year before adjusting for the rise in earnings.
The report said that the nation's poverty rate for whites fell by 6.5 percent from 27.3 percent to 28.2 percent. The poverty rate for blacks was 33.1 percent, up 2 percentage points. The rate for Hispanics dropped from 27.3 percent to 28.2 percent.
did not extend the pay raises to higher-paid federal employees, since they are the ones who lag most seriously behind their sector-sector pay.
He said he would recommend increases for them in the final budget message that he will send to Congress before leaving office on Jan. 20.
Reagan noted the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay had told him that increases in pay averaging 26.28 percent, effective in October, would require him to make federal pay comparable with that in private employment
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said he did not know how much the pay increases would cost or that many employees would be covered.
Fitwater said this calculation did not take account of employee benefits, which often are higher for政府 employees than for those in private industry.
News Roundup
SOVIETS BUILD SUBS: The Soviet Union is committed to a highly advanced, nuclear-powered submarine force even though the Kremlin faces the same type of aggression from Russia, according to a new blueprint for the Soviet navy now being studied in the West.
**CAMPAIGN TRAILS ON:** Republican *CAMPAIGN BUSH* pledged his support for a program to combat acid rain, and he should pay" for environmental damage while Democrat Michael Trump is in the Iran-contra affair.
POLISH LEADERS MEET: Solidarity leader Leech Waleh meets with the government officials, talking about strikers' grievances and setting up a further meeting to end the violence that still cripples to workstations.
SPACE CAPSULES CONNECT:
Two Soviet and the first Afghan in space station, with the capsule with the Mir orbiting space station today, joining two Soviet cosmonauts who have been there for more than eight months. Tass reported.
AFGHAN FIGHTING CONTINUES: A government spokesman today confirmed that Soviet-backed troops recently to aid Afghan ground troops as they battled for control of the northern Afghanistan city of Kabul.
BURMA ISSUES WARNING: The Burmese government today warned demonstrators who have taken over state offices to leave Burma, saying they were meanwhile, went from house-to-house searching for striking engineers who closed Burma's largest oil refinery, sources said. The engineers and other workers had on strike to press for democracy.
IAUR GUERRILLAS CAPTURED:
A师们 CAUTIONED taught two people believed to be IRA guerrillas as they tried to cross into West Germany from the Netherlands with a plane. A teacher, a radio station reported today.
EXPLOSION INJURES 23: An explosion early today in Johannesburg's staterio office building used by church and anti-apartheid groups. Police said 23 people were injured, three declared unsafe for further use.
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