University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 10, 1989
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China's Deng leaves last party post
The Associated Press
BEIJING — Deng Xiaping, China's senior leader, passed his last formal leadership post to his chosen successor yesterday, and the Communist Party laid out an austere economic plan for the next two years.
Deng, 85, resigned as chairman of the party's powerful Central Military Commission in favor of party chief Jiang Zemin. Deng is still chairman of the State Mililtry Commission, a mirror of the party group, but said in a letter released yesterday that he also would leave that job.
The move solidifies Jiang's position and appears at
least to suspend a reported power struggle between him and President Yang Shangkun, Jiang, 63, had not had a national position until becoming party leader after the pro-democracy movement was crushed in June.
Yang, an 82-year-old former general with strong army connections, was named vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, which sets military policy. He is reported to have sought the chairmanship to consolidate his power base.
Sandinistas, contras start truce negotiations
In Washington, Richard Solomon, assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs, said the United States was not surprised by Deng's move and added, "I suspect he will remain an influence."
UNITED NATIONS — Nicaragua's foreign minister said yesterday his government would meet contra demands for a truce and amnesty if the rebels agree to begin disbanding by the end of the month.
The U.S. backed contras and Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government began their first direct talks in more than a year yesterday in an effort to end an 8-year-old war that has taken an estimated 12,000 lives.
The Associated Press
U. N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and his organization of American States counterpart, Joao Clemente Baena Saena, opened the meeting, then turned
the mediation effort over to aides.
Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto of Nicaragua said before the meeting that the key contra demands would be met if demobilization began by the end of November.
The contras insist on resumption of the cease-fire President Daniel Ortega ended last week, a general amnesty and a visit by a contra delegation to Nicaragua to make sure it is safe for the rebels to return.
"They say they require three things; the three things are met by what we are offering," d'Escoto said, waving a copy of the Sandinista proposals.
"This is a very generous option that Nicaragua is proposing." he said.
HOUSE APPOYES CUTE: The house yesterday approved a cut in capital gains taxes, setting the stage for Senate debate next week on a bill that is given virtually no chance of passage this year.
House approval was part of a plan worked out by House and Senate leaders to dispose of the volatile issue, at least for this year. Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole told reporters that he would not attempt to offer a capital gains amendment on any other bill this year.
President Bush, who began pushing for a cut in capital gains taxes during last year's campaign, and Republican leaders agreed last week to quit trying to attach the tax cuts to debt-cilling and deficit-reduction legislation. That apparently ended any chance of getting a reduction this year in capital gains taxes.
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Republicans hope to use debate in the Senate next week to show that most senators favor a reduction. But most members of Congress agree that Republicans will be unable to muster the 60 votes necessary to shut off a Democratic
filbuster against the reduction.
The House approved the bill by voice vote and without debate.
The House approves voice vote and without debate. PAY INCREASE: House Speaker Thomas S. Foley said yesterday that Congress would consider giving itself a pay increase even if it fails to resolve the budget crisis that is squeezing federal programs.
Foley, D-Wash., has been meeting with leaders of both parties in an effort to push through a pay increase this year as part of a package that also would tighten congressional ethics regulations, scraping down on accepting fees for speeches to interest groups.
Members of Congress are paid $89,500 a year. A plan to boost the number percent was killed earlier this year after a storm of public protest.
The House leadership has been briefing members this week on their new plan, which includes a pay raise of about 8 percent that would go into effect Jan. 1 and another 25 percent boost a year later. The increase would apply to members of Congress, federal
judges and top executive branch officials.
STAR WARS BUDGET CUTS: The House yesterday approved a $205 billion defense bill that would cut President Bush's request for Star Wars by $1.1 billion, the first budget reduction in the six-year-old program.
By a vote of 236-172, the Democrat-controlled House adopted legislation to provide many of the funds Bush sought for the MX and Midgetman nuclear missiles and the B-2 stealth bomber and to restore money for four of the 10 conventional programs the president tried to kill.
The bill will go to the Senate for consideration.
Among the provisions is $4.3 billion for the B-2, $430 million less than the administration requested for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
The bill provides $3.8 billion for Star Wars, about $279 million less than was spent in fiscal 1989. This is the first decrease in Star Wars spending since President Reagan proposed the anti-missile shield six years ago.
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