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University Daily Kansan, October 14, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan plans to aid Sudan; plan includes arms, troops
WASHINGTON—President Reagan plans to move swiftly to send new weapons to Sudan, but his top aides said Reagan's plan did not include direct American military involvement.
A White House spokesman said Congress would have to approve the proposed $20 million in economic and military aid to Sudan, but he expected
The spokesman also said U.S. troops sent to Sudan would show the Sudanese troops only how to operate and maintain their new equipment.
Secretary of State Alexander Haig said yesterday it would be "somewhat overdrawn" to say the United States was prepared to defend Sudan against
A State department spokesman said the "mobile training teams," or U.S. technical advisers, would accompany the equipment and the advisers would guide the trainers.
to the Sudanese with intelligence control duties.
The nominee, he said, "to assist the Sudanese to defend themselves."
Next month, U.S. soldiers, ships and planes will work with Egyptian and possibly Sudanese troops in "Operation Bright Star," a military exercise in northern Africa.
Haïg said yesterday the United States would expand its military role in Egypt and Sudan and would accelerate delivery of weapons to those countries because of the uncertainty that followed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's killing.
The Pentagon, however, seemed to contradict Haig.
"Sadat's death has not, as of now, resulted in a considerable step-up of arms deliveries," a Pentagon spokesman said.
As for "Operation Bright Star," the spokesman said, "Nothing has been altered as a result of Sadat's death."
Politburo to discuss labor unrest
WARSAW, Poland—The Polish Communist Party politybure said yesterday its 200-member Central Committee would meet Friday to assess the current political situation in Poland. The meeting was announced against a backdrop of mounting labor unrest.
The announcement coincided with the Kremlin's first comments on the recent Solidarity Union Congress. A Western diplomat said the messages were "a clear sign of Soviet dissatisfaction" with Stanislaw Kania, the Polish Communist Party chief.
An article in Pravda, the official Soviet Communist报纸 newspaper, accusedunion leaders of plotting to push Poland out of the Soviet bloc, and accused Russia of attempting to block it.
At its meeting, the Central Committee will discuss the unions. The committee's press office said the meeting was originally scheduled for today, but observers said its postponement indicated political infighting among top party leaders.
Lansing guards call security lax
TOPEKA-Guards at Lansing State Penitentiary, who said they were charged with kidnapping a former police officer, told Gov. John Carlin yesterday that Lansing's security was inadequate.
Among the guards' 26 security recommendations were requests for metal detectors, more security workers in the dining hall and cell houses, and a fire alarm system.
Gov. Carlin made a surprise, hour-long visit at the meeting of about 50 Lansing workers to listen to their problems.
"They are angry, they are frustrated, the are somewhat fearful over them," an aide of Patrick McManus, corrections secretary, said yesterday.
The aide said tensions were high at the meeting that followed the Sunday killing of Sgt. Robert Hurd, a 41-year-old guard from Olathe. Hurd allegedly was killed by an inmate whom he planned to file a disciplinary report on.
OPEC may hold emergency meeting
KUWAIT-Members of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will have an emergency meeting this month to try to agree on oil prices before the cartel's regular December meeting, a Kuwaiti newspaper said yesterday.
A Kawaiti government spokesman denied that an emergency meeting had been set for yesterday, as the newspaper reported, but said OPEC ministers had rejected the proposal.
"Intensified contacts are under way between oil ministers of OPEC on the pricing issue," the spokesman said. "If oil ministers consider holding an expansion in their supply, they must do so."
The newspaper said the Kuwaiti oil minister persuaded Venezuela and Algeria to lower their prices to $34 a barrel in return for a Saudi price increase to $34.
Carter criticizes Reagan promises
WASHINGTON - Jimmy Carter said yesterday that the Reagan administration's promises had caused suffering.
Carter had said he intended to speak to Reagan about his concerns, but after his 30-minute meeting in the Oval Office, he said that he and Reagan merely had "a good, constructive and friendly meeting." He described what was discussed.
Carter, on his first extended visit to Washington since inauguration day in January, criticized Reagan at a press conference yesterday.
"These late and erroneous promises are coming home now to roost," he said. "And people now are beginning to experience suffering from it."
As a result, he said, Democrats would be highly successful in the 1982 Congressional elections.
Carter also said the United States should begin negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
O'Neill predicts AWACS defeat
"There can be no peace in the Middle East until the Palestinian issue is resolved," he said.
WASHINGTON—House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill predicted yesterday that the House would defeat the Saudi Arabian AWACS package by a 3-1 margin.
The Eurocar will be wager on the senate next week, he said. With former President Jimmy Carter lobbying for the $8.5 billion arms sale, the administration has predicted that the Senate would vote in favor of the deal next Tuesday or Wednesday.
But O'Neill said he was sure it would fail in the House.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee last week rejected the sale 28-6. O'Nell met yesterday with Carter, who in 1977 overcame congressional
The real battle will be waged on the Senate floor next week, he said.
With Senator Orrin Hatch nominating Gov. Ben Scalia to serve as the next
opposition to a sale of seven AWACS aircraft to Iran. But O'Nell said, "He did convince me then, and I guess he can't con-
But O'Nell said, "He didn't convince me then, and I guess he can't convince me now."
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote on the sale tomorrow. A majority of the committee's 17 members oppose the package, but it will go to the floor next week.
Spain pledges help in Middle East
WASHINGTON-King Juan Carlos of Spain met President Reagan at the White House yesterday and promised to help negotiate with Arab states in the search of peace in the Middle East.
An American official said Juan Carlos, who maintains warm relations with leaders in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, told Reagan, "Spain would like to maintain ties."
Reagan called his guest "a champion of democracy" and agreed to strongly support Spain's expected entry into NATO and the Common Market. And Juan Carlos promised that the United States and Spain would have reliable relations in the future.
Juan Carlos called off his original visit to the United States in January when a political crisis in Spain led to an attempted military coup.
Spanish officials said the rebellion was defeated because of Juan Carlos' authority with the armed forces.
Dole says Congress to slice budget cuts
WASHINGTON—Robert Dole, the Senate Finance Committee chairman and a key Republican figure in the budget debate, said yesterday Congress might approve only three-quarters of the Reagan's proposed new budget cuts.
By United Press International
The Kansas Republican made his predictions as the administration package of deferrals that official said套销比去年7.5 billion in fiscal 1982 spending.
CONGRESS ALREADY has approved a large package of cuts, and Dole said many members had "sort of learned how to do more," going to take magic to do much more."
Dole said Reagan might get only $10 or $12 billion of the $16 billion in cuts he proposed last month.
Dole, a member of a five-man task force working on a Republican package to replace Reagan's, said the budget package that Congress approved would not be the one that the president asked for.
His statement was the latest sign that Reagan's program will be greatly rewritten even in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Office of Management and Budget officials said the deterrents would apply to all new cases.
The deferrals be in effect only until Congress acts on the actual cuts or until either house overrides the earlier, which could save $7.5 billion this year.
targeted in his latest request for budget cuts.
THEY WOULD HOLD spending to the levels Reagan requested in September, compared to higher levels of inflation. The fiscal year that began this month.
Dole and Howard Baker, the Senate majority leader, said they accepted nominations for the position.
"the president has no other practical option," an aide quoted Bauer as saying.
But Thomas O'Neill, speaker of the House, said the administration was using backdoor methods by withholding the funds.
DOLE SAID the president's deferrals made sense because it could take Congress until next March to complete action on the new budget proposals. The proposed budget cuts include $11 billion in cuts in federal domestic programs, $2 billion in defense and $3 billion in tax-raising measures.
O'Nell said the White House was sending Congress more than 500 deferrals, or plans to delay new spending. He charged that the action "frustrates the will, desire and intent of Congress."
Pigeon test wins October Golden Fleece award
WASHINGTON—The National Science Foundation won Sen. William Proxmire's October Golden Fleece award for spending $144,102 to use pigeons to test economic supply and demand patterns, Proxmire said yesterday.
By United Press International
Democrat said. "While it may be said that our current economy is going to the dogs, the NSP apparently felt it had to be answered and proved to it." he said in a statement.
"The researchers coo while the taxpayers got billed," the Wisconsin
Proxmire gives his Golden Fleece award every month to what he considers the biggest, most ironic or most humorous of losses of taxpayer money for the period."
"This is one project that should be pigeonholed pronto."
The agency responded that the pigeon study was valid.
"The scientists found that laboratory animals sometimes behave just as economic theories predict humans would behave," the agency said.
Proxmire said the foundation's pigeon tests merely confirmed commonly accepted, historically priced principles and economic principles of supply and demand.
The tests, he said, suggested that
animals, consumers and workers were governed by the same behavioral laws as humans.
The foundation statement said it awarded a grant in 1973 to two Texas A&M professors who wanted to find new opportunities for animals to improve economic ideas.
The foundation said no one yet completely understood how and why U.S. and world economics fluctuate.
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