NATION AND WORLD
November 30,1984 Page 2
The University Dahl KANSAN
U.S. Embassy enclosure fired upon in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Unidentified assailants passing in a speeding vehicle sprayed gunfire into the walls surrounding the U.S. Embassy yesterday but injured no one, an embassy spokesman said.
security guards at the embassy found 10 spent rounds of 5.56 caliber ammunition, and up to 12 shots could have been fired, the spokesman said.
the spokesman said.
The bullets hit the outside wall of the bunker-like embassy, trees in the embassy compound and the outside wall of a nearby house, an embassy statement said. Peruvian strikers dispersed
GAMA, Peru — Police enforcing a state o emergency fire tired gas and water cannons yesterday to disperse hundreds of workers and students who blocked roads and burned buses during a general strike to protest economic conditions.
At least 580 people were arrested and four people were injured in violence in the capital and at least two northern cities. The violence occurred during a 24-hour general strike called by leftist labor unions to protest high unemployment and annual inflation of more than 100 percent.
The injured included three students wounded by birdshot fired by police, authorities said.
Lawsuit filed to stop hunting
WASHINGTON — The Humane Society of the United States, in a bid to halt a "repugnant" practice, filed suit yesterday against the government to stop sport hunting in hundreds of federal wildlife refuges.
John Grandy, Humane Society vice president, said that within the last six months, 22 wildlife refuges had opened new hunting programs. He said the government was permitting hunting on 244 refugees in all 50 states and that more than 400,000 animals were killed or wounded each year.
Bar sued over fallen stripper
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla.
A woman is sung the Crazy Horse Sailor charging she has on her shoes and embarrassment" when a naked male stripper fell on her.
The Dade County Circuit Court lawsuit, charging the bar with negligence, did not mention the name of the stripper, nor say he was a stripper. It said only that Audrey Hartke of Fort Lauderdale was "injured seriously when an empley performed the activities designated to him by the defendant, did fall on" her.
The bar bills the designated activity as "the male strip show for the ladies, where everything comes off."
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Reagan plans government spending freeze
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - President Reagan directed his advisers yesterday to cut spending enough to reduce the deficit by half in three years and has decided to freeze total government spending in the 1986 fiscal year to 1983 levels, an administration official said.
The official, who asked not to be identified, said that Reagan made the decision to freeze spending at a meeting with his chief fiscal advisers where he tentatively approved an array of cuts in government programs.
the president will meet again with his so-called budget "core" group today to wrap up this phase of the budget process.
REAGAN'S DIRECTIVE TO his advisers came just hours after Republican congressional leaders warned that any plan that slashes such politically sensitive areas as Medicare, Civil Service and veterans' benefits must be accompanied by scaled-
back military spending to stand a chance of passage on Capitol Hill.
passage on capital Administration officials indicated the proposals could result in spending cuts of $45 billion in fiscal 1986, $85 billion in 1987 and $110 billion in 1988, with the annual budget deficit falling to 4 percent, 3 percent and finally 2 percent of the gross national product.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan made "tentative decisions" on how to meet his fiscal goals during a two-hour meeting with his top budget advisers.
THE THREE-YEAR PLAN is designed to shrink the annual budget deficit in 1988 to about $100 billion — half the amount now projected. The deficit for the current year is expected to be at least $200 billion.
Reagan acted on a sweeping set of options placed before him by budget director David Stockman, who earlier indicated to the GOP leadership that any successful drive to bring
the deficit under control will entail political pain.
"He said, 'Folks, let's face up to it. If we're going to get it down on spending, we're not talking about 5 percent off this or 6 percent of that,'" said Sen. Robert Packwood, R-Ore. "We're talking about eliminating programs."
Congressional leaders said Stockman had determined that the deficit by 1988 through spending cuts alone would require the abolition of 15 to 20 programs, many with powerful constituencies.
RATHER THAN AIMING at social welfare programs, as was done four years ago, the Reagan-Stockman plan zeros in on subsidies and middle-class benefit programs, including farm supports, mass transit assistance, the Small Business Administration and the Export-Import Bank, congressional leaders said.
san. The only area held sacrosanct is Social Security. While Reagan ruled out any actual reduction in defense, pressure has been
building for a military increase less than the 14 percent sought by Weinberger.
The GOP leaders made the case to Reagan that in order to sell any deficit-reduction plan, the elimination of popular programs would have to be balanced by restraint in government.
HOUSE GOP LEADER Robert Michel of Illinois said the meeting was marked by a "rather heated discussion" on defense, with he and others at odds with Weinberger over the need to scale back growth in the Pentagon budget.
Arguing for a stretch-out of Reagan's military buildup. Michel said a second term gives the president the luxury "to fulfill that commitment over an eight-year period, rather than making it absolutely mandatory to have it done within five years."
"That gives us a little bit of room." he added.
Assistant House GOP leader Trent Lott of Mississippi said, "We may have to do more with less in defense than we would like."
KOREM ETHIOPIA — Rep. Mickey Leland, D. Texas, holds a child during a visit to farm food and care distribution camp. Leland and seven other members of a special House committee yesterday spoke about a five-day tour of famine areas in Ethiopia.
U.S. officials urge aid after visiting Ethiopia
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Anguished House members who spent five days in drought-strenken Ethiopia said yesterday they watched children die of starvation before their eyes at a mountain relief camp in the African nation.
The bipartisan group urged quick U.S. action to ease the famine and suggested the political differences between Washington and Marxist Ethiopia were insignificant compared to the human tragedy.
"We came, we saw and we cried," said Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., of a visit to the camp at Korem, Ethiopia.
"WE SAW CHILDREN lying on stretches, covered with tattered sheets, and moments later their lives were snuffed out," he told a news conference.
"We saw women wailing and crying as they carried their children off to the mountains to be buried," Ackerman continued.
Yet, he said, starving children smiled and joined Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Texas, leader of the group, in song and dance — even though the American lawmakers had no food or "magic words." to give the 30,000 starving people at the camp.
"It was something that we'll never, never
orget." Ackerman said. "I will always
know."
Ackerman was one of eight members of the House Select Commission on Hunger who
went to Ethiopia and came back to urge immediate and long-term aid to that country and other African nations where millions face starvation.
LELAND TOLD OF seeing "emacated children, barely more than skeletons," and elderly people begging for food he did not have to give. "I'm not sure they're still alive," he said.
“Never, ever had it I see anything like this.” Leland said “It was so difficult to take that I could not help but wonder ‘why am I here?’”
Rep. Marge Roukema, R-N.J., the ranking Republican member of the group, noted Leland's descriptions of starving people and the fact that a large portion of an individual is we're talking of a nation.
while branding Ethiopia "a Communist Marxist government." Roukema joined in urging both government and private aid and expressed confidence food supplies would be fairly distributed.
BOTH DEMOCRATIC AND Republican members noted the lack of good U.S. Ethiopian relations but emphasized the humanitarian nature of the proposed aid.
At another conference on Capitol Hill, religious leaders urged that food be flown immediately to Ethiopia and the Chad, Nigeria and Mali, Mozambique, Mauritania and Sudan.
the people of Africa, as God's children, are cherished as deeply as any others," they said.