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University Daily Kansan, September 25, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Polish dissidents warned;
Army troops patrol Warsaw
WAARSHA, Poland—Poland's prime minister sternly warned the Solidarity labor union yesterday to moderate its policies and said the army would help police curb "anti-state and anti-Soviet excesses." Within hours of his warning, a small number of troops appeared on Warsaw's streets.
It was the second time troops had been called to back police in the 13 months of social upheaval since Solidarity's birth. However, it was the first time troops had been used in Warsaw.
Steel-heLMeted helmet in groups of three and four patrolled downtown Warsaw in jeeps and on foot, with submachine guns at their sides.
Opening a critically timed session of Parliament, Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski said Poland stood on the brink of "anarchy" and its fate depended on Solidarity's rejecting "anti-socialism" and respecting Communist authority.
WASHINGTON - Sandra O'Connor, who becomes the first female member of the Supreme Court today, was honored at a Rose Garden reception and will be at the Capitol on Friday.
"In a society founded on law, we must take all reasonable steps to ensure the best among us are called to serve and be able to serve for life." Resemble.
At the reception, which drew 150 federal judges from district and appellate benches, Benagre promised to strive "to enhance the prestige and quality of the judicial system."
After the reception, Reagan led O'Connor into the White House where she had lunch with Chief Justice Warren Burger and the other memebers of the high Court.
Reagan to retire Titan II missiles
WASHINGTON—The Reagan administration marked the Air Force's Titan II missiles for early retirement as part of its plan to shave $13 billion from the defense budget in the next three years.
Titan II. American's oldest and most powerful missile, packs a nuclear
capacity of 75 kilotons and the bomb has the bomb-like Hbisonium.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, told the House Budget Committee Wednesday that all 52 Titan II missiles would be retired early.
The missiles, which cost about $115 million a year to maintain, will be pulled out of service between 1983 and 1987, the Washington Post reported.
Inflation up .8 percent in August
WASHINGTON - The high cost of housing helped push the government's
annual rate of 10.6 percent, the Department of Labor reported yesterday.
It was the second consecutive month that double-digit inflation had disturbed a trend of moderate price increase that began in March. July's
Housing costs rose the most in August, contributing 54 percent to the monthly increase. the department said.
In contrast, fuel price increases made up only 1.1 percent of the monthly increase. Gasoline and natural gas prices dropped in August.
If projected for an entire year, the 9.8 percent August increase in the price index would equal a 10.6 rate of increase. To consumers, that means goods will have a higher price than they did last year.
Armenians free hostages in Paris
PARIS—Four Armenian nationalists who shot their way into the Turkish city of Kars, where they were held hostages, surrendered early today and released all the captives upon release.
The gunneman had threatened to kill the hostages unless Turkey freed all its armenian prisoners. But a Turkey embassy spokesman said no Armenian prisoner was charged with the attack.
"Our government does not negotiate with any bunch of terrorists," he said.
The incident began yesterday morning when the four gunmen shipped past two police officers guarding the consulate. It ended at 7 p.m. CDT when the men surrendered and released their hostages.
Angacin ad ruled deceptive by FTC
WASHINGTON—the makers of Anacin will have to tell consumers that the “pain reliever doctors recommend most” in their product is simply painkiller.
The decision is the commission's first in a case it started in 1972 against all major aspirin makers. The companies were accused of saying their products were "terrible."
The order also prohibits claims of superiority unless they can be backed up by tests.
"The strained syntax of many of the advertisements . . . fosters the impression that Anacin contains something other than aspirat," a comment on
The commission will later lacerse cases against the makers of pain-relievers such as Bufferin, Excedrin, Vanguish and Midol.
The two dozen senators tried the official school lunch designated as the minimum requirement under new agriculture department standards
Most of the companies maintain that their advertising is truthful.
Democrats denounce lunch cuts
WASHINGTON—As President Reagan prepared to serve up new
food for his day after a skimpy meal of ketchup,
milk a neat meat-pantry and French fries.
Democratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia said the lunch was an example of "some of the decent programs that will suffer." He added, "We don't think the American people intended . . . to deprive the school children of this nation of adequate food."
Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, called the president's program an "affirmative action move to ensure that all Americans have equal access to public services."
He said he didn't eat his plastic cup of ketchup because it was half sugar, and charged that new school lunch standards would teach children bad habits.
Iran schoolgirls face dress code
Fear of unrest among students, a key part of the revolution that overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, has prompted executions for "political activities in school" and the reported dismissal of non-Islamic teachers since the school year opened this week.
TEHRAN—Schoolgirls trying to enter Iran's segregated classrooms are reportedly being turned away unless they wear ankle-length gowns over their dresses and cover their heads with scarves.
Tehran radio reported another 29 dissidents executed in the bloody campaign by the Islamic regime to wipe out resistance, bringing to 1,167 the total executed since the ouster of President Abolhasan Bani-Sadr.
Because of a reporting error, Albert Lemone was incorrectly identified yesterday as chairman of the University of Kansas Medical Center's ophthalmology department. He recently retired from that position.
Correction
Retirement benefits restored
By United Press International
The Senate Finance Committee yesterday voted to restore most of the Social Security minimum benefit and to hold a vote that would bail out the system for a decade.
"We've done the responsible thing by making a couple of minor changes," said committee Chairman Bob Dole, Bran. And he said he hoped the committee would make long-term reforms of the system.
In his speech last night, President Reagan said major reforms in the system were dead "for the immediate future."
THE PRESIDENT, in his speech on additional budget cuts, supported the restoration of the minimum benefit "for those who truly need it." He said Social Security could borrow from other programs in order to stay afloat.
Reagan also acknowledged Democratic resistance to the long-range changes he proposed, including penalties for early retirement, lower benefits, and tighter disability rules, effectively killed them for this year.
for changes that included continuing the $123-a-month minimum benefit for more than 80 percent of the 3 million people who now receive it. Many of those people would have been cut off banning in March under an earlier bill.
The Senate Finance panel voted 19-0
The House voted to restore the benefit completely.
THE ONLY RECIPIENTS who would lose benefits, according to the committee vote, would be people living overseas and government pensioners who now receive more than $300 a month.
The committee voted to make up the revenue loss by taxing some sick pay and putting minor limitations on Social retirement and survivor benefits.
The president also retreated from his proposal to delay Syrian Security cost of war.
"We did a very good thing," said Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y. "We made clear that the American government its promises on Social Security."
"Our feet were never embedded in concrete on this proposal," he said.
In a letter to Speaker of the House Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, Reagan said
legislative debate on Social Security had “reached an apparent state of impasse.” He called for a task force to work with the government to the program's financial needs.
BUT DEMOCRATS were cool to the idea, noting that Reagan's proposal would let Republicans name two-thirds of the task force members.
"I think Speaker O'Neill can count better than that," Jim Wright, the Democratic House leader, said. "The answer in my opinion, is probably no."
But he said Democrats would do whatever is necessary to keep Social Security.
In other action yesterday, senators did themselves a good turn as well. Members voted themselves higher pay and lower taxes.
Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis, called the two actions, "a real Christmas tree for her."
FIRST THE SENATE voted 50-48 to eliminate a $3,000 limit of the tax deductions members can take for their living expenses in Washington.
Then, an hour before Reagan's new austerity speech, members voted 45-43 to lift a $25,000 a year limit on what they can earn from making speeches.
The Senate also voted to lift the pay
But Sen. Ted Stevens, the Senate major whip, defended the measure, and said the 29-year-old $3,000 expense would be sufficient to maintain two homes in distant cities.
ceiling that had frozen top civil service salaries for five years.
The actions were included in a catchall bill to fund government agencies.
"There's no question it's a back-door salary increase," Proxmire said after the tax deduction vote.
Sen. Mack Mattingly, R-Ga., said the Senate had waited to consider the tax and honorarium amendments.
"This is the wrong time and the wrong place," he said. "The president will talk tonight about the need to cut the budget and the question will be: 'Who are we looking after, the public, or ourselves?'"
BEFORE THE HONORARUM limit for public speaking was imposed, some senators earned as much as $100,000 what they called the "rubber chicken" on
House Republican Leader Bob Michel said he was delighted at the Senate's tax reduction move.
Michel said he had tried to get the ridiculous limit eliminated in a recent tattoo.
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