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September 26, 1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily KANSAN
French and Libyan troops withdrawing from Chad
PARIS — French and Libyan troops yesterday began the first phase of a six-week withdrawal from Chad, a move aimed at ending 13 months of foreign intervention in Chad's civil war.
Reagan tax program criticized
No details were available on the departure of the estimated 5,000 Libyan troops in the country.
The French defense ministry said French troops had evacuated the northern Chadian towns of Salal and Arada on the defensive east-west red line set up by the 3,500 French troops in northern Chad after their August 1983 arrival.
WASHINGTON — The average American taxpayer is worse off today than four years ago despite President Reagan's "so-called across-the-board tax cut," a report yesterday by the AFL-CIO's Public Employee Department said.
The department, representing about 2 million federal, state and local workers, found that nearly half of the cut went to big business and the wealthiest 5 percent to 10 percent of the population.
Manson set afire during feud
VACAILLE, Calif. — Convicted murderer Charles Manson was set afire yesterday with paint thinner in a prison cell, officials said. A argument over religion, authorities said.
The attack took place at 8:45 a.m. yesterday in the California Medical facility where Manson, 49, is serving a life sentence Sharon Tate and eight others in 1988.
Manson was listed in good condition in the prison hospital. He suffered second and third-degree burns on his scalp.
Michener to reimburse college
SWARTHIMORE, Pa. — Pulitzer-prize winner author James Michener has promised to reimburse Swarthmore College for a $2,000 scholarship with nearly $2 million in interest, a school spokeswoman said yesterday.
In a recent letter, Michener pledged to donate $2 million to the small liberal arts college that granted him a degree in 1929, the earliest spouseswoman Lorna Shurkin.
Micheen, who is in Texas working on a book about the state, said yesterday, "I think anybody like me or my wife who has profited enormously from a college education owed a debt of gratitude to the school from which he graduated."
Compiled from United Press International reports.
STERLING HEIGHTS, MICH. — Democratic vice president. School football jersey. She made a campaign stop yesterday tial candidate Geraldine Ferraro puts on a Stevenson High at the Detroit-area school.
Mondale rips the 'new Reagan'
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Walter Mondale, escalating his attacks on President Reagan, said yesterday the "new Reagan" is making overtures to the Kremlin in a cynical political move that shows "condescension toward our people."
"We all welcome the soothing new tone." Mondale said of the president's conciliatory speech toward the Soviets Monday at the United Nations.
"Gone is the talk of nuclear warning shots. Gone is the winnable nuclear war. Gone is the evil empire." Mondale said. "After four years of sounding like Ronald Reagan, six weeks before the election he's trying to sound like Walter Mondale."
audience at George Washington University, the Democratic challenger said: "The new Reagan supports economic aid to the developing world. The old Reagan slashed it."
In prepared remarks for a student
Mondale repeated the theme, reminiscent of the Democratic "new Nixon" slogan against Richard Nixon, saying: "The new Reagan calls for peace in Central America. The old Reagan launched an illegal war in Nicaragua."
Reagan spent the day in Washington, giving a speech to international financial and trade officials and meeting at the White House with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
He told reporters he met with Richard Nixon in New York on Monday to discuss Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Reagan is to meet with Gromyko for the first
time friday, Nixon met with the Soviet leader many times during his presidency.
Vice President George Bush, campaigning in Chicago, said he does not believe the public is interested in seeing his income tax returns. He has not revealed them on grounds his assets are in a blind trust.
"I went further than any person in public life into a trust so blind that I am prohibited under the law from revealing" the returns, Bush said. An aide, however, said the information could be disclosed but that it would cost Bush $10,000 to $15,000.
Meanwhile, Mondale's running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, stumped for the Democratic ticket in the Detroit area, telling voters at the hub of the nation's auto industry that Reagan's handling of the economy "is sending our jobs overseas."
Soviet mood seems softer official says
By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — On the eve of the first high-level U.S. and Soviet meeting in nine months, allied foreign ministers told Secretary of State George Shultz yesterday they sensed a softening of tone and attitude from the Kremlin.
The impression was received by a senior State Department official who sat in on meetings yesterday between Shultz and foreign ministers of West Germany, France, Britain and Japan.
"In general there is feeling that, although there is no substantive change in the Soviet position, the mood and atmosphere is a little different to the part of the Russians," the official said.
In Moscow, the Soviet Union yesterday sharply criticized Reagan's speech to the United Nations as an election year play and President Konstantin Chernenko said the United States failed to grasp the need for normal relations with the Kremlin.
Reagan, at Monday's opening of the General Assembly, called for constructive negotiations with Moscow, a call dismissed by the official news agency Tass as "a vessel with nothing inside of it."
Shultz will meet today with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyky.
The U.S. official minimized the significance of the initial negative reactions from Soviet officials to President Reagan's speech Monday to the Assembly, in which he called for a new constructive dialogue between the superpowers.
The official said it was not clear that the Soviet statements, including Chernenko's speech, were in response to Reagan's remarks, but they may have been prepared long in advance.
Chernenko, who turned 73 on Monday, made his comments during a nationally-televised speech to the Soviet Writers' Union.
Eastern European sources said that they have been told by Soviet diplomats at the United Nations that while Reagan's milder rhetoric was noted, the speech was faulty because Reagan did not say Washington and Moscow face each other as equals, with equal security needs.
Gromyko is to address the U.N. General Assembly tomorrow and meet in Washington on Friday with Reagan and Shultz.
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