University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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The University Daily KANSAN
Rebels killed in Sri Lanka after massacre of civilians
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Tamil separatist guerrillas massacred 57 civilians in two northern fishing villages, and navy patrol boats killed about 60 separatists in small boats off the northwest coast, the government said yesterday.
the hit-and-run attacks by the Tamil rebels late Saturday, Sinhalese men, women and children were slaughtered, and their bodies were thrown across roads, National Security Minister Lalith Athulathumudi said.
He said government patrol boats off the coastal town of Mannar opened fire shortly after midnight Saturday on a flotilla of eight 20-foot boats as they approached the beach. The boats carried about 10 rebels each, he said.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan. and newly elected majority leader, answers questions yesterday on NBC's "Meet The Press." Dole said that deficit reduction would be the top priority in Congress next year and that the military could not be excluded from the necessary budget cuts.
Chicago teachers plan strike
CHICAGO— The Chicago Teachers Union yesterday prepared a strike to shut down the nation's third largest school district today while parks, libraries and the public radio station planned alternatives for 440,000 students.
The Chicago union's 28,000 teachers, who have been working without a contract since August, are demanding a pay raise and a rollback of deductions in medical benefits the board imposed last month to erase a $40 million operating deficit.
Russian vodka boycott fades
A boycott of Russia's Stolichnaya vodka, which spread like moonshine during Prohibition after Soviet fighters shot down a Korean jetliner over the Sea of Japan and killed 269 people, has died to a sober whimmer just 15 months later.
Of 15 state liquor boards boycoting Stolichnaya sales after the Sept. 1, 1983 attack on Korean Air Lines flight 007, all four stores returned the trendy booze to shelves.
The boycott at its height had only a minimal impact on "Stoli" sales and didn't dim Americans' thirsty yen for the top-shelf vodka so popular among the upwardly mobile.
Deficit to take priority, Dole says
Rain is kiss of death at protest
MILAN, Italy — Cold rain dampened the passions of the 300 teenagers gathered Saturday for a kiss-in to protest legislation against sexual activity for teenagers.
"We must kiss each other now so as to be free to do it when we want to," a leader
But most of the crowd remained uninterested.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sen Robert Dole, R-Kan., the newly elected majority leader, said yesterday that deficit reduction would be the top priority for next year and that the military could not be excluded from necessary budget cuts.
sary budget cuts.
Dole said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the new Senate would "move on budget cuts very rapidly."
He also predicted that the necessary budget reductions could not be achieved through a domestic spending freeze, but would have to include cuts in military spending and perhaps the elimination of some government - with tax receipts as a last resort.
Dole said he hoped to "pick up $170 billion to $200 billion that way" over the next four
years.
"PUBLICANS DON'T BELIEVE in big deficits and I do not think the president wants to leave that legacy," Dole said.
He called deficient reduction "the first order of business" for the new Senate, and said, "I will be there."
On ABC's "This Week With Dr. Brinkley," Sen. Robert Packard, R-Ore., the new chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said that Congress must be Congress' top priority in January.
Both Packwood and Dole minimized the importance of a controversial tax reform plan offered last week by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan that would substantially alter the tax system but generate the same amount of money for the government.
DOLE PREDICTED IT would take a couple of years to pass a major tax package and said, "We have to include cuts in defense systems eliminating some (domestic) programs."
"I think we are looking at $30-40-billion cuts in defense" over the next three years
But Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, Democratic chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, also appearing on "This Week With David Brinkley," said, "If we want to attack the deficit, there's no way we can do that with spending cuts alone."
Further, he said, "Tax reform on a revenue-neutral basis does not do the country, I think, is crying out has to be done, and that is reduce the deficit."
Rostenkowski called the tax reform package "a test balloon" and said, "The imminent danger is the deficit."
ASKED ABOUT THE tax reform plan, asked “Giving the deficit down is the top priority.”
"Are we going to try to close the deficit by spending cuts or tax increases?" As far as I'm concerned it isn't going to be tax increases.
"I don't think we need to worry about tax
increases yet, until we have done everything we can to squeeze every ounce of blood out of the turnip "
Regan, also appearing on "This Week With David Brinkley," said the Defense Department budget must be restrained to preside President Reagan's goal of cutting $45 billion from the fiscal 1986 budget, the first step in his plan to cut the deficit in half by 1988.
Regan defended the tax package and, while acknowledging "deficit reduction must come first," said, "I think we can maintain the two-track system."
He said he hadn't heard of any programs being eliminated in White House budget talks, but said many would be cut back or frozen at this year's level. Other administration officials have said some programs may be killed altogether under a plan to cap spending at this year's level.
Regan said the question of Pentagon spending "has been pushed aside" while other programs are debated, but, "I feel the Defense Department must be part of the package."
Jackson says jail not part of his protest
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that the time was not right for him to go to jail for protesting apartheid in South Africa and that he hoped the arrests of prominent Americans would pressure the Reagan administration into action.
Jackson spoke at a news conference across town from the South African Embassy, site of the arrests of 16 members of Congress and religious, civil rights and labor leaders in demonstrations over the past 12 days.
"We would hope that the credible leadership that has been going to jail and that will go to jail this week would create a new assessment by our government to look at its African policy," Jackson said.
But Jackson, a Baptist minister who campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination this year, indicated that he did not plan to join those who have been arrested.
"If I go to jail, it constitutes a real escalation in our struggle that would last for a long period of time and it must be paced properly," he said.
"I if go (to the embassy);" Jackson said, "I expect to be respected enough to be accepted by the ambassador himself."
Jackson later attended an afternoon service at the Washington Cathedral, led by South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize
Tutu, who has been outspoken in criticizing his government's policy of strict racial separation, told the congregation he was grateful for the growing anti-apartheid movement in the United States.
"Just when the power of evil seems to be on the rampage, that's when God says 'I show you who's boss around here.' " Tutu said.
At the news conference, Jackson said he planned to seek a meeting with President Reagan to discuss a new Africa policy and travel to South Africa to meet with leaders there. He indicated that being arrested at the embassy would interfere with his getting a visa for the trip.
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