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University Daily Kansan, September 11, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
FBI reports crime increase: a murder every 24 seconds
WASHINGTON—The nation's crime rate jumped 9 percent last year with
the FBI aggrandized assault committed every 24 seconds,
the FBI reported yesterday.
The agency's annual index of reported serious crimes showed that 13 million offenses were reported by more than 15,000 law enforcement agencies.
The murder rate rose by 7 percent to 23,044 cases—one every 24 minutes, the index said. Men between ages of 20 and 29 were in larger group of murderers than women.
The FBI said all offenses counted in the index increased last year.
The violent crimes of murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault increased 11 percent during 1980, and worked out to one such offense every 24 seconds. Property crimes, such as burglary, larceny, theft and motor vehicle theft, rose by 9 percent.
Attorney General William French Smith said combating violent crime was a top priority.
A task force last month recommended ways the federal government could help solve the problem, including increased spending for prisons, abolishing parole in some cases, tightening bail laws and other measures designed to ensure the punishment of violent offenders.
Since 1976, the number of violent crimes committed increased by 33 percent and the number of property crimes rose 16 percent.
Israel, U.S. agree to military plan
WASHINGTON—Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said yesterday that the United States and Israel had agreed on closer military cooperation to meet the threat of Soviet Aggression in the Middle East.
At a news conference following two days of talks at the White House with President Reagan, Bean described the new military relationship as "strategic cooperation" against "the force of totalitarianism and aggression."
At another news conference, Secretary of State Alexander Haig called the agreement a "strategic alliance" and said it probably would focus on three
MADRID, Spain—Pablo Picasso's anti-war masterpiece, "Guernica," was sent home to Spain yesterday after 42 years in the United States and as the artist wished, the painting will hang in the Prado Museum—behind bullet-proof glass.
Began said Israel was not asking for American troops to defend Israel, only "the tools to it with."
Picasso painting returned to Spain
"It will be safe from any fool or barbarian who might want to damage it," said Ingo Cavareo, the minister of culture who arranged for the return of the patrol car in a bid to prevent it.
The 24-by-11 foot black and white canvas, which Cavero called “the last battle of the 1850s Spanish Civil War, was unloaded at united the airport amid tensions.”
The painting hung in the New York museum for 42 years where the late painter said it should be kept until Spain returned to democracy.
Picasso painted "Girernica" when he was a refugee from the war that installed Generalissimus Francisco Franc for 40 years of authoritarian rule.
The painting depicts the horror of an attack by Nazi warplanes on the bourne town of Guernica, on April 26, 1937. That day, 1,000 people were killed.
Afghan rebels claim large victory
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Afghan rebels yesterday said they killed more than 1,000 Russian soldiers in a single battle, their biggest victory yet in the war against ISIS.
There was no independent confirmation of their claim. The guerrillas often have been inaccurate in their battle accounts. Diplomats, however, but not guerrillas, are not fully reliable.
In a separate report from New Delhi, India, diplomats said Afghan soldiers backed by armored troops opened fire to break up a riot of school girls in Kabul, Afghanistan, who were protesting Afghanistan's tough new draft laws.
The protests began Tuesday, a day after the government announced a bailout recalling almost all former soldiers under 35 years old to fight Islamic militants.
Hearing held on Atlanta murders
Prosecutors called the three witnesses during a hearing on a denial motion seeking to bar all evidence obtained when police questioned Williams and searched his car at about 3 a.m., May 22 near a Chattahoochee River bridge, northwest of Atlanta.
Williams's attorneys said their client's rights were violated that morning and that there was no probable cause meriting search or an interrogation.
ATLANTA—Two FBI agents and an Atlanta policeman testified yesterday that Wayne B. Williams, charged in two of 28 black slayings, was questioned in the pre-dawn hours May 22 because they suspected he was "responsible for dumping bodies" from a bridge.
During the hearing, Clarence Cooper, a Fulton County superior court judge, published his rulings on 12 other defense motions heard last Friday. Cooper had also required the state to hire an investigator to aid Williams' defense team and finance a poll to determine whether an impartial jury could be found.
O'Connor repeats abortion stand
WASHINGTON—Sandra O'Connor, the first woman Supreme Court nominee, yesterday repeated her personal opposition to abortion in the second day of Senate confirmation hearings, but she said she could condone abortion to save the life of a mother.
The former Arizona state senate and state appeals court judge also said the Supreme Court delivered its decision, issues such as abortion and childbirth, on a legal position on the applesuit.
O'Connor also said that she had not excluded cameras from her trial court, and that she felt it had worked well.
In yesterday's hearing, O'Connor said she had opposed busing for desegregation as an Arizona legislator, and said she opposed women soldiers being in combat. But "pushing a button" behind the lines would be different, she said.
Even her potential awards praised O'Connor's handling of the controversial questions from Judiciary Committee members.
The three days of hearings wind up today, and O'Connor's supporters say they expect a successful confirmation vote in time for her to join the high court on Oct. 5—its opening day.
Pat Solbach was incorrectly identified in yesterday's Kansan. He is a doctor of philosophy and a research psychologist at the Meningger Foundation.
Corrections
In a Sept. 9 Kansan story about 100 engineering fellowships to be awarded to minority students, the fellowships were incorrectly identified as available solely to KU students. The 100 fellowships are offered on a nationwide basis. The Kansan regrets the errors.
Reagan sits new agency spending limits
By United Press International
"This is not going to be a happy meeting for you," Reagan told his cabinets officers as they sat down to a two-hour session during which Budget Stockman offered rough allocation estimates for fiscal years 1983 and 1984.
WASHINGTON—President Reagan, who yesterday said he was facing "a helluva challenge," gave his cabinet a look at the new spending limits he will make to forestall what he called the potential for "economic collapse."
annually in either year, and no agency, including the defense department, would escape with a budget reduction of less than $500 million a year.
Stockman said no department would be asked to cut more than $4 billion
Meanwhile, the congressional budget office said yesterday that Reagan would have to make about $32 billion in additional budget cuts for the ad-hoc effort to meet its projected budget deficit of $42 billion in fiscal 1982.
The total cuts will add up to about $30 billion in federal spending annually in 1983 and $44 billion in 1984, a White House spokesman said. But he also said the Pentagon spending levels were not included in those figures.
But an administration spokesman attributed the huge disparity in deficit estimates to 'an honest forecasting difference', and said budget office officials lack knowledge that Reagan's policies could have a positive effect on the economy.
magnitude were doubtful, the 1982
deficit probably would be about $65
million and could rise to $80 billion
and could found additional
saving immediately.
The office said that since cuts of that
Reagan still hopes to hold the deficit to $42.5 billion in the fiscal year that will begin Oct. 1, the spokesman said.
To his cabinet members, Reagan vented frustration at the lukewarm reception Wall Street had given his
economic policy. He told them he understood the "nervousness" because there has been no instant recovery, but said, "We never promised it would be easy and we never promised it would be quick."
The president plans to release agency-by-agency budget limits at a cabinet meeting tentatively set for Tuesday.
"If no one does it (cuts spending)
happens to the country?" the president
In the interim, Stockman and cabinet officers will meet to discuss how they will reconcile the departmental needs of the administration's new austerity.
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Friends sometimes question your taste in movies. But they'll see them with you anyway.
It sounded fantastic in the newspaper.
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see it too.
You've already heard a barrage of jokes about your taste in movies since the curtain came down. And, knowing your friends, it'll go on for weeks.
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