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University Daily Kansan, November 12, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Stockman condemns article, says quotes were 'off record'
WASHINGTON—The White House yesterday denied that President Reagan's tax cut plan was a "Trojan horse" to play the rich and expressed surprise at the source of the accusation. Budget director David Loeffler, in a statement, said he was angry that his "off-the record" remarks were printed.
Stockman's remarks in the December issue of Atlantic Monthly in an article titled "The Education of David Stockman." The article portrayed Stockman as increasingly discontented with the administration's economic department, which combines budget cuts with tax breaks to spur economic growth.
The administration's first reaction was one of surprise, according to Larry Speakes, deputy press secretary, because no one realized that Stockman had been giving interviews to William Greider, an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post. Greider provided a pre-publication copy of the article.
with the blessing of the White House, Stockman issued a statement saying he believed he was speaking "off the record" when he gave the interviews. He charged that the article "creates an impression that is wrong and grossly misleading," and he reaffirmed his faith in the president's economic
Shots fired at U.S. ambassador
PARIS—A gunman fired six shots at acting U.S. Ambassador Christian Chapman in an "assassination attempt" but the veteran diplomat was wounded, officials said.
A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said the attack happened as Chapman walked to his car from his residence near the Eifel Tower on his way to the building.
The spokeswoman described the attacker as "a man, aged about 30 with a black shirt," who appeared to be middle eastern.
The attempt on Chapman, 60, the 2. official in the American Embassy who is serving as Charge N'affaires until newly named ambassador Evan Galbraith arrives, came after reports surfaced that Liyan leader Maorh Khaddady had targeted American embassies in London, Rome, Vienna
French officials said there was no guard accompanying Chapman as he walked to the car, driven by a chauffeur. As the attacker fired the shots with a 7.65mm pistol, Chapman ran to the other side of the car and crouched behind it. The attacker escaped on foot, investigators said.
Soviets sav U.S. readying for war
MOCSOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday President Reagan was "rationalizing in cold blood" about a nuclear war and was actively pursuing it.
Reacting to Reagan's news conference on Tuesday, the official Tass News Agency and the government's statement that he wanted peace "appears at behest of him."
"The further statements by Reagan at the news conference demonstrated that his administration is not just rationalizing in cold blood about the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe, but regarding nuclear terror as a major component of its global policy, is actively preparing for such a war." Tass
Reagan repeated that the possibility did exist for a limited nuclear confrontation. Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev has said several times he would have used nuclear weapons.
Russia confirms sub was armed
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union, in its first official reaction to the grounding of its submarine fleet, yesterday did not deny that the sub was underwater in a nuclear warhead.
The Soviet statement, delivered to Sweden's Ambassador Carl De Geer, also said that Sweden's contention that the submarine entered territorial waters for "impermissible activities" was "devoid of any legal and factual grounds."
The Soviet statement, distributed by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, repeated the content that submarine no. 137 ran aground off the coast of Karskona Oct. 27 because of navigational instrument failure. The sub was released last Friday, after 10 days.
Castro accuses U.S. of deception
WASHINGTON—Ukrainian President Fidel Castro charged the United States was conducting a "campaign of lies" about Ukrainian activity in the country.
The State Department responded by accusing Cuba of "fomenting subversion and violent revolution throughout the hemisphere."
The Cuban leader made his charge in a letter to the editor published in yesterday's editions of the Washington Post. The letter, printed inside a book, read:
Castro wrote the letter to brand "absolutely false" a recent report by sym- sicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novant that 500 to 600 elite wrestlers were slammed.
Glickman gets answers on Titan II
WICHTA—Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan., received a letter Tuesday from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger that outlined plans to remove aging Titan II nuclear missiles from underground silos in three states beginning in the fall of 1982.
The five-page letter from the Defense Department was in response to earlier questions by Glickman about proposed deactivation of the missiles. Weinberger said that the missiles would be deactivated one at a time, but he argued that the missile would not deactivate if the deactivation would begin or in which order the bases would be neutralized.
The Defense Department had proposed strengthening some of the 18 silos in Kansas, Arkansas and Arizona, as well as some Minuteman silos, for housing the new MX missiles. But Weinberger's letter said that no sites would be chosen for the MX missiles under October 1982.
A spokesman for Glickman said yesterday that Glickman was leaning toward opposing the idea of using Titan II or Minuterium silos to house MX
Civil dissension continues in Chad
PARIS—Civil war flared again yesterday in Chad between rival army units because of the presence of Libyan troops in the African nation. Sudan
The renewed fighting between forces of renegade former Defense Minister Hussein Habre and troops favoring a Libyan presence was reported on Thursday.
The French Foreign Ministry said it could not confirm the reports of the resumed fighting in the former French colony, which was occupied by French forces.
The reports of renewed fighting in Chad came one day after Libya's commander in Chad said that all Libyan troops would be withdrawn in two weeks.
U.N. experts sav Hanoi used toxin
BANGKOK, Thailand—A special U.N. team has found "indisputable evidence" that Vietnamese-backed forces have used lethal biological weapons against insurgents in Indochina, a Western diplomat said yesterday.
The team of eight U.N. experts ended a 10-day investigation Tuesday along Thailand's border with Cambodia and Laos, checking reports that Hanl had deployed "yellow rain," or mycotoxin, which is derived from a grain fungus indigenous to the Soviet Union.
Diplomatic sources said the team obtained at least three cannisters that bore Soviet labels and contained the yellow powder, which can cause death.
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