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News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan to discuss budget with congressional leaders
WASHINGTON—President Reagan, indicating he will accept some form of tax increase to break the budget impasse, arranged yesterday to go to Capitol Hill to meet with Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill and Senate Republican leader Howard Baker.
David Gorgen, White House communications director, said the meeting would take place in the President's room of the Senate chamber today at 3
After the negotiations broke up late yesterday, Larry Speakes, White House deputy press secretary, told reporters the "narratives" have narrowed the differences on the range of most issues" and "felt the time was right to bring in the leaders."
O'Neill's spokesman, Chris Matthews, said that Speakes' comment was incorrect and that negotiators had not narrowed their differences.
Security is still very much in place. No matter Matthews said Reagan wanted a meeting just between himself, O'Neill and Baker, but o'Nell persuaded Reagan to include Rep. Richard Bolling, D-Mo., and House Democratic leader Jim Wright.
Bush to solidify relations in Peking
WASHINGTON—In a bid to improve sensitive U.S. relations with Peking, Vice President George Bush will visit China at the conclusion of his current trip.
Bush will be the highest ranking U.S. emissary to Peking since Reagan took office 15 months ago. President Reagan conferred with Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang in October at the summit meeting of developing countries, Mexico, Mexico, and Secretary of State Alexander Haug visited China in August.
Bush, who was in Singapore on Tuesday, is expected to visit Peking sometime between May 5 and 9 at the conclusion of his current trip, which will be scheduled for October.
Officials said they expect Bush to confer with Chinese Vice President Deng Xiaoping, among others, during his stay. The exact itinerary has not been worked out, officials said, and it is unclear what, if any, other cities Bush will visit.
Jetliner crashes in China, kills 112
PEKING-A Chinese jetliner on a popular tourist run from Canton to Gulson crashed in a mountainous region of Southern China, killing all 112
people aboard including 14 Ambulance, Chinese airlines say they were the worst crash of a Chinese domestic airliner on record, officials said.
The U.S. Consulate in Canton quoted officials the state-run domestic airline CAAC as saying two American tourists were among the dead. Their flights to Boston and New York came in March.
Confirming the crash more than 24 hours after it occurred, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said there were no survivors among the 104 passengers and eight crew members aboard the British-made three-engine trident jet.
Former policy gave Sirhan parole
SOLIDA, Calif.-Former state policy encouraged setting a parole date for Sirhan B. Siran, assassin of Sen. Robert Kennedy, according to James Carroll, the state attorney general.
"We knew that this case was going to come back and haunt us," said Hoover, a member of the board that in 1975 granted the September 1984 parole date to Sirhan. The current board is considering revocation of that date.
"The emphasis was on granting parole dates," Hoover said of the system seven years ago.
Sirhan, 38, shot and killed Kennedy in June 1968 in Los Angeles the night of the Senator's victory in the California presidential primary. In 1969, Sirhan was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death, but the sentence was overturned in 2010 when the California Supreme Court overturned the state's death penalty law.
Because the parole board could find no record of disciplinary or psychiatric troubles and because Sirman had no prior convictions, he
Reporter's ordeal to be investigated
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The Air Force Inspector General said he would be interviewed by air base personnel a journalist's spokran newspaper yesterday.
Lt. Gen. Howard W. Leaf announced the investigation in response to a request made to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, said John M. Wylie II, Kansas City city president of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi.
Wylie called for the investigation on behalf of the society after Pennis Crabtree, a 1981 KU graduate and former reporter for the University Daily Kansan, was detained April 13 at gunpoint and then forced to stand for two hours and be eagled against a fence outside a missile silo at Whitman Air Base.
Crabtre, on assignment for the Kansas City-based National Catholic Reporter, said she did not enter the air force compound and was later released.
Nat'l Wildlife Federation sues Watt
WASHINGTON—The National Wildlife Federation yesterday sued Interior Secretary James Watt in an attempt to block coal lease sales in the state.
The federation's action, on the eve of Wednesday's scheduled interior department bidding for the leases, was taken in the U.S. District Court for
The suit does not affect the bidding process, a federation spokesman said. Thirteen tracts of land covering about 32,000 acres that contain almost 1.5 billion tons of coal reserves are involved in the suit. The federation noted that current U.S. coal production is just over 800 million tons per year.
The federation asked the court to prevent lease sales until comprehensive land-use plans could be developed for the region.
"This sale could provoke social and environmental change over the next 50 to 100 years in a region that already is experiencing some of the ravages of profound change," Jay Hair, federation executive vice president, said.
Cody's estate left to elderly priests
CHICAGO—Cardinal John Patrick Cody left the bulk of his estate to the sick and elderly priests in the Roman Catholic Archdioceses of Chicago.
The will did not mention Helen Dolan Wilson, Cody's life-long friend and the object of a federal investigation into his alleged mishandling of tax documents.
The document was filed as thousands of mourners paid their last respects as Holly Narie Cathedral, where Cody's body was displayed for public view.
Cody, 74, died early Sunday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital of an apparent heart attack. His body, dressed in blue and white wessels, was found in the house on Greenwich Street.
A funeral is scheduled for noon tomorrow. Apostolic delegate Plo Ligah, pope John Paul II's personal representative in the United States, will be the catechist.
City to finance hospital ambulance station
By RICK DULLEA Staff Reporter
a second Douglas County ambulance station will be built on a tract of land on Second Street between Missouri and New York near Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
The Lawrence City Commission made possible the construction of the new ambulance station last night by acquiring the land to Douglas County for $10,825.
"The purpose is to build a second county ambulance station on hospital grounds," Ted McArlane, director of ambulance service, told the commission.
"Being at the hospital will be a critical advantage, since we train our personnel at the hospital."
McFarlane said the new station would speed ambulance response time in Lawrence by 14 percent, making it an average of four minutes from the time
In other action, the commission unanimously voted to "respectfully decline" an offer from the Union Pacific Railroad to split the cost of constructing it and pedestrian access at Fourth Street on the railroad tracks in North Lawrence.
the ambulance service received a call to the time ambulance attendants walked through the front door of a victim's home.
COMMISSIONERS AGREED that the railroad's original offer to pay the entire cost of the overpass was more expensive than the most in the railroad's most recent proposal.
The railroad changed its offer when the city denied the railroad's request to close Eighth Street at its intersection with the railroad. The commission had approved the railroad's request to close Eighth Street at its intersection with the railroad.
Union Pacific representative W.A.
Bridge asked the commission to seize
the company stock.
In other business, a proposed progress on Naismith Valley residential development was stalled at the meeting when Commissioner Nancy Shontz presented a list of questions about storm-water drainage and the flood plain at the development site, located between 24th and 26th streets.
$100,000 offer to build the pedestrian overpass. The commission assigned the city staff to investigate the possibility of state funds being available.
"I don't see how we can seriously entertain passage until these questions are addressed," Shontz said.
THE QUESTIONS concerned the developer's plan to alter the flood plain and any possible harm that might result from that.
The commission also approved a plan for improvements at Johnny's' barn, the fourth. Second. The plan was remodeled into the room of Johnny's to be remodeled into a private club.
"Any restriction in the flow will harm the value of the property," Shontz said, adding that she was concerned about existing residential properties downstream and how a change in the flood flow could affect property values.
The improvements, which are expected to be complete by the end of the summer, will add 1,300 square feet to include a stairway and restrooms.
A split in the commission developed when commissioners discussed whether to authorize City Manager Buford Watson to seek preliminary work on the construction of a new airport terminal at Lawrence Municipal Airport.
The commission decided to authorize the order, in a 4 to 1 vote with Mayor Marci Francisco dissenting, contingent on the approval of funds for the airport at the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meeting tonight, when the airport's capital improvement plan will be discussed.
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