University Daily Kansan, October 4, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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U.S. foreign automakers see sales increase in 1984
DETROIT — U.S. and foreign automakers said yesterday their combined sales tipped 10 million cars in the 1984 period, up from 5 million five years and an increase of 17.2 percent.
Import sales hit a record number, but the companies took just 23.3 percent of the United States market. Their smallest company was the 1998 model year, the firms grabbed 26.5 percent
The six American firms — Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp, Chrysler Corp, American Motors Corp, Volkswagen of America and American Honda — reported sales of 7,914,738 autos in the 12 months ended Sept. 30.
Senate works into morning
WASHINGTON — The Senate, under pressure to pass a money bill to keep the government operating, worked into the early morning hours today, rejecting a move to halt U.S. aid to rebels fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government.
The 57-42 vote to continue aid to the rebels came as Senate Republican leader Howard Baker urged the Senate to keep the government open for a second post-midnight session in a row.
"It is my unhappy duty to report we have to finish this thing — we have to finish it tonight," Baker said. "Tomorrow the process of shutting down the government begins."
Tax evasion gets judge 2 years
RENO, Nev. — U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for income tax evasion, becoming the first federal judge ever ordered to jail for a crime committed while sitting on the bench.
Claiborne, 67, also was fined $10,000.
Claiborne, 67, also was fined $10,000.
Claiborne was convicted Aug. 10 on two counts of failing to report $106,000 in income he received from legal fees earned while a defense attorney but received after he became a judge. He blamed his tax preparers and said he had signed blank tax returns.
Students reinstated by priest
CHICAGO — A Roman Catholic priest who suspended 200 pupils from his South Side parish school because their parents failed to attend Sunday mass met with the parents yesterday and said most children were reinstated.
The Rev. George Clements, pastor of the city's largest black parish, said the parents signed contracts requiring them to attend Sunday mass when their children were admitted to Holy Angels elementary school.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Reagan drug policies attacked by Mondale
By United Press International
As President Reagan left the campaign trail yesterday to prepare for Sunday's debate, Walter Mondale continued to campaign, saying that Reagan had failed to stem a staggering illegal drug trade and a staggering own to his own to put smugglers "out of business."
Mondale's plan would draft the Navy and Air Force to go after smugglers and would cut off foreign and military aid to insurgents who refuse to cooperate in his crackdown.
Reagan returned to the White House and collected the endorsement of the nation's second largest veterans group.
REAGAN RECEIVED a formal show of support from the political arm of the Veterans of Foreign Wars during a meeting with leaders of the 2 million-member organization. The organization also endorsed Reagan in 1980.
Meanwhile, Mondale blasted Reagan for "tough talk" that failed to steal the flow of illegal drugs, which he said was the fastest industry, costing $100 billion a year.
"Tough talk on drug abuse is not enough. We need a president to match tough talk with tough action, and I will." Mondale said in outlining the plan he said would
"To win the war on narcotics, we need an all-out effort. This administration must be more aggressive."
cost $200 million the first year of operation.
ATTORNEY GENERAL William French Smith, asked about Mondale's charge, said that he would not get involved in politics but that anyone who said the administration was not doing something about drug trafficking was "clearly totally unaware of what's been going on in this situation and elsewhere in the government."
The plan would also beef up Coast Guard, Drug Enforcement Agency and Customs Service anti-smuggling and use military readiness to deter assault on military readiness would not be impaired.
Mondale's plan would include appointment of a "zarz" to coordinate the drug enforcement efforts of 13 agencies, and use easy-to-spot drug smugglers on birth seals.
Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro and the Rev. Jesse Jackson teamed up in Memphis yesterday to plead for support from "the unheard" to oust President Reagan from the White House
United Press International
THE PAIR, WHOSE candidacies symbolize constituencies long excluded from national politics, received a tumultuous
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale acknowledges applause from Rep. Peter Rodino, D-N.J., and other congressmen in the House Judiciary Committee hearing room during his news conference. Mondale said yesterday that the Reagan administration hadn't worked hard enough to "win the war on narcotics."
welcome in the gym of Memphis State University. Some 3,500 students shouted themselves hoarse and streamed down the aisles to register to vote at Jackson's command.
"Here's a chance for the unheard to express themselves," shouted Jackson,
Vice President George Bush relented to pressure yesterday and released his last three years of income tax returns showing he paid an average of 37.4 percent of his adjusted gross income in federal taxes.
his oratory fiery. "Give peace a chance.
Give Reagan the ranch."
FBI agent arrested, held on espionage charge
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — An FBI agent was arrested on charges of conspiring to pass American secrets to Soviet KGB agents in the first case of espionage in the ranks of the federal investigative bureau, the government announced yesterday.
A Russian couple, identified as Soviet spies, were also arrested, including a woman named Ivan Petrovich.
FBI Director William Webster called the
Government sources said the FBI agent, Richard W. Miller, allegedly appeared to be romantically linked with a 34-year-old woman who worked for the KGB — the Soviet secret police and intelligence agency — and who had emigrated to the United States in
AT A NEWS conference, Attorney General William French Smith said: "Every now and a then rotten apple is bound to show up."
case "an aberration on the proud record of patriotic and dedicated service of thousands
was it was a "very sad day" for the FBI. He said it was a "very sad day" for the FBI.
Officials said it was the first time in the bureau's 76-year history that an agent has been charged with sexually abusing a child.
Sources said Miller, a father of eight who had financial problems, was assigned by the FBI to interview Swiss emigrants. He met with the KGB's chief of affairs and worked for the KGB, as part of his work.
The case was reminiscent of that involving Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer and spy in the service of the Germans in World War I who betrayed important military secrets confided to her by Allied officers who were on intimate contact. In 1917, she was executed by the French.
MILLER, WHO WAS arrested at his home in San Diego County, was ordered held without bail by U.S. District Judge Robert
Curtis McKee. His arraignment was postponed to today.
During bail arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray Edwards Jr. revealed that a search of Miller's home uncovered classified FBI documents concerning foreign agents and wiretaps disclosing that Miller and a Soviet agent had planned a trip to Warsaw, Poland, in early October.
Lawarres also said, "In an interview with the FBI Miller confessed, ... but was cut off by a defense objection and never returned to him" nor explained what he allegedly confessed to.
The two Soviet emigres were taken into custody in Los Angeles and were scheduled for arraignment yesterday in Los Angeles federal court.
THE FBI SAID Miller, 47, a 20-year veteran, was fired Tuesday and then arrested. Authorities said he allegedly discussed providing classified material in exchange for $50,000 in gold.
The bureau said Miller was accused of conspiring with Nikolay Ogorodnikova, 51, a butcher also known as Nikolay Wolfson, and Ogorodnikova, a nurse, to pass FBI secrets to the Soviets.
"We became alarmed when we realized his relationship had gone beyond a professional one and became a personal one. That is what aroused our interest," an FBI official said
FBI agent P. Bryce Christensen said in an affidavit that Ogerodnikova approached Miller to work with the Soviets.
DURING A SERIES of meetings, the FBI said, Milter told Ogorodnikova about his "personal, professional and financial problems, to which she seemed sympathetic."
The FBI said Miller removed classified investigative documents from the bureau's office in Los Angeles and passed them to the couple. An official said the bureau was trying to assess whether the Soviets received any material.
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