December 5.1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 2
The University Daily KANSAN
Jordanian diplomat slain; student named as suspect
VIENNA — A Jordanian diplomat with close ties to King Hussein was shot to death in Bucharest, Romania, yesterday as he carried his 5-year-old son to school, officials said.
The diplomat, Counselor Azmi al Mufti, was shot in the head four times, a Jordanian Embassy spokesman said. Mufti's son was not injured.
House sales rise in October
WASHINGTON — Sales of new houses rose another 2.1 percent in October but factory orders dropped 2.5 percent, the Commerce Department said yesterday. The mixed signals made it difficult to make economic projections.
The improvement in house sales was not nearly as spectacular as the 18.3 percent increase in September, but it kept sales heading up at a time of the year when many analysts thought they would be motionless or declining.
For that reason some analysts hope the encouraging house sales figures are more meaningful for the future than the more October figures on factory orders.
Co-inventor of Pill dead at 94
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — Dr. John Rock, co-developer of the birth control pill whose work often placed him at odds with his Roman Catholic faith, died of massive heart failure in his sleep yesterday. He was 94.
Mr. Rock, who lived the past 15 years in the southwest New Hampshire community of Temple, died in his sleep at 3:10 a.m. at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peoria, a spokeswoman said. She said the cause of death was massive heart failure.
Man's home is his doghouse
INDIANAPOLIS - Living in a plywood doghouse is a lot like living in a showcase home - you have to watch out for burelars. Bill Porch said yesterday.
Porch, 34. built the doghouse, 68 inches high, $33.1$ wide and $88.2$ inches long, on a construction site across from the new downtown Hoosier Dome.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Tape shows Flynt found ad hilarious
By United Press International
ROANOKE, Va. — Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt said in a videotape statement yesterday he believed Jerry Falwell had sex with his own mother and printed a parody advertisement portraying him as an innocent drunk because "it's hilarious."
Flytn's attorneys immediately disavowed the videotape shown to a federal court jury hearing Falwell's libel suit against Flytn, saying the California publisher was depressed and under the influence of drugs at the time.
Falwell, who said the parody advertisement upset him so much he almost wept, is suing Flynt for $45 million to clear his name and avenge the insult to his dead mother.
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., appeared as a character witness for Falwell and told the court, "There is no finer citizen than Jerry Falwell."
in the videotaped statement, Flynt said he had signed affidavits from three boys who saw a teenage Falwell having sex with his mother.
"I didn't care then and I don't care now" if the allegations were false, Flynt said. "I think it's hilarious."
Flyt, whose videotaped statement was laced with profanity, said he withheld the affidavits because he was "waiting to settle the score with Jerry Fallow. to assasin-
Flynt, the self-proclaimed "King of Sleaze," is expected to testify in person before the week-long federal trial ends.
After court recessed for the day, Falwell said it was difficult for him to view the videotape, although he had seen it once before.
"I have long since forgiven, but the scars are there," said Failwell, adding he believed that God had intervened.
Flynt's attorneys said the ad in the sexually explicit magazine was clearly labeled as a parody — a joke not to be taken seriously.
Attorney Alan Issacman said the idea for the ad was purchased from an outside agency and Flint was not the author.
"I have never been as angry as I was at the moment (when I read the ad)," said Falwell.
The ad, which ran in the November 1983 and January 1984 issues of Hustler, pictured Mr. Wagner to a bottle of liquor with the headline: "Jerry Failwell Talks About His First Time."
WASHINGTON - Archaeologists photograph and map the wreck of a Bronze Age ship that sank in the 14th century B.C. or earlier off the coast of Turkey, now the most extensive find of trade goods ever found undersea. George Bass, director of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, yesterday announced the discovery of the ship, the oldest ship ever excavated by archaeologists. The wreck was first spotted by a Turkish sponge diver.
Reagan seeking way to cut deficit
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, avoiding comment on what he might do to hold down military spending, said yesterday he and his top aide admired the president's bulging budget to cut the deficit.
"but no decisions were made on anything."
how does the BART school respond to shouted questions on his return to the White House from Walter Reed Hospital where he visited Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss, whose cancerous left leg was amputated last week.
"He seemed like himself again, just a Reagan. Stenius, of Stenius, the Krager or the Sempri."
Asked whether he had decided to cut the Pentagon's latest spending request, the president said: "We're looking at all these things. We've nothing to say yet. We're still
WHITE HOUSE CHIEF of staff James Baker told reporters that Reagan has made "some assumptions" in terms of budget cuts.
Reagan has shied away from answering questions on his budget deliberations, but increasing attention has focused on scaling back military expenditures. He met for a fifth consecutive working day yesterday with his "core group" of a dozen fiscal advisers, the only business meeting of a day filled with ceremony.
The president accepted this year's Easter seals from entertainer Pearl Bailey before taking the six-mile helicopter flight to visit Stennis in the afternoon.
He also arranged a formal state dinner last night for visiting Venezuelan President Maduro.
PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN LARRY Speakes issued a statement saying that Reagan met with his budget group for more details on the issue of nondefense spending decisions to date.
"There was a general discussion of the department of Defense budget, but no agreement on it."
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger from a NATO meeting in Europe," Speaks said. He said Reagan will present the budget cuts to the Cabinet at a meeting this morning.
The administration is seeking about $42 billion in cuts from department spending projections as part of a three-year plan to delete more than half of a deficit.
Last week, officials said Reagan was considering holding next year's overall spending level at the same $866 billion current level, although programs could be raised or lowered before reaching the identical bottom line.
Speakes confirmed that budget director David Stockman had proposed a cutback of $8 billion in Weinberger's apparent request of $296 billion for fiscal 1986.
Sparring with reporters for a second week on the nature of budget cuts, Speaks said that while Reagan had not expressed an opinion during the meetings about how to curb the Pentagon request. "We have made some decisions in the last two weeks."
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