September 14, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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The University Daily KANSAN
Nine killed, 53 injured in Indonesian violence
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Police fired into angry mobs who rampaged through a northern Jakarta slum early yesterday, setting fires to shops, buildings and vehicles in the worst rioting in a decade. At least nine people were killed and 53 others injured.
The violence erupted late Wednesday when about 1,500 youths, many armed with long knives, crowbars and cans of gasoline, gathered at a local mosque in the sprawling shantytown of Priok to protest the arrest of a Muslim leader.
Pageant takes stand on photos
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Even if Penthouse magazine publishes nude pictures of the winner of this year's Miss America Pageant, she may be allowed to serve her reign, pageant chairman Albert Marks Jr., said yesterday.
But Marks challenged Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione to prove he has nude photographs of one of this year's contestants, which the magazine plans to print it.
Even if the photographs exist, however Marks said he would "not necessarily" be able to prove them.
Indian attack idea reported
WASHINGTON — The CIA told senators yesterday Indian President Indra Gandhi is being urged by her military advisers to launch an attack against a nuclear enrichment plant in neighboring Pakistan, ABC News reported.
India's military leaders fear the plant at Kihata, 35 miles from India's border, could be used to produce nuclear weapons. The Indian government U.S. intelligence authority as its source.
College suspends fraternities
SPRINGFIELD. Mass — American International College, where a freshman died of acute alcohol poisoning following a "spaghetti ritual" pledge dinner, yesterday suspended all campus fraternities and sororites.
The action was taken after the death of a 19-year old student on Feb. 23 in Zeta Chi traternity. At a spaghetti dinner, he ordered a bowl of spaghetti and drink wine, vomit and then continue吃
The 1,450 student private college with drew recognition of all 11 fraternities and sororities pending a study of their nature by campus trustees and administrators.
Compiled from United Press Interc
tional reports.
Candidates take campaign trail to the South
By United Press International
The South took center stage in the presidential election race yesterday.
prior to President Reagan campaigned in Tennessee, praising the U.S. spirit and country music; Walter Mondale in Mississippi accused Reagan of planning "mean-spirited" and "shameful" cuts in medical aid for the elderly.
The president and his Democratic challenger had the campaign trail to themselves as both Vice President George Bush and Rep. Geraldine Ferraro took the day off.
Speaking in Nashville, Reagan parlayed the promise of high-technology industry and the values represented by Grand Old Opry legend Roy Acupt to picture his opponents as frightened and uninspired people unable to grasp the nation's inherent go-getter spirit.
AND IN A CROSS-CENTURY linking of unlikely heroes, he ranked Acuff, "the King of Country Music," who is celebrating his 81st birthday tomorrow, with 19th century
On stage at the Opry House, Reagan called the music of Nashville "the first of all American art forms."
soldier and statemen Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson.
"America has no mission of mediciarity. 'Reagan told an audience of businessmen seeking to promote high-technology industrial growth. 'We haven't come all this way just to wind up a second-best nation. Leave that tired vision for the faint-hearted souls."
Of his opponents, Reagan said. "They see America wringing her hands, we see America raising her hands. They see America divided by envy, each of us challenging our neighbors' success.
"WE SEE AMERICA inspired by opportunity, each of us challenging the best in ourselves. We believe in knowing when opportunity knocks. They seem determined to knock opportunity."
Mondale had a long day on the road,
stumping from Mississippi to Jackson,
Tenn., then to St. Louis for the night.
He told a forum at Tupelo, Miss., High School. "Reagan's program on Medicare is
nothing short of official cruelty.''
Mondale was heckled by a number of Reagan supporters, including several who carried anti abortion signs.
Noting that Reagan said this week he would ask Congress to approve budget cuts that it has rejected before. Mondale said, "Let's see what cuts he has in mind for you."
'He wanted to cut $30 billion more from Medicare. He was out to almost destroy the market.'
"OF ALL THE mean-spirited ways, of all the shatterful ways to cut money out that budget, is to go to a senior citizen who is retired now, sick and in the hospital, and say. We've figured out a way to save money, we're going to raise your hospital and your medical bills while you're on that hospital but sick ..."
"I'm not going to do it." Monday said, almost shouting as the audience cheered.
"He tried to cut $20 billion from Social
Security," Mondale said. "We stopped him the first time. Let's make sure he doesn't have a second chance."
Before he left Washington, Reagan told reporters that his record showed he had tried to stay out of the business.
"We've submitted four budgets, or three and one to go, and they contain all the things that we're trying to do to reduce government spending and to increase the growth of the economy which will increase revenues." Reagan said.
REAGAN SAID THAT Democrats have controlled the House for many years and "have been approving deficit spending with just a few exceptions."
"They can't remove themselves from the blame."
Supporters hope amendment for balanced budget survives
The president also responded to charges that he will cut Social Security benefits. "Social Security is secure as far as we can see into the next century," he said, and "we're not going to cut the benefits of people on Social Security."
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate supporters of a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget scored a victory yesterday, but House backers missed their deadline for forcing action on the issue this year.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-4 early in the day for the bill that would require Congress to adopt a balanced budget resolution every year, except in time of war or if three-fifths of both the House and Senate voted to approve a deficit.
But by the close of business yesterday, only 190 House members had signed a discharge petition, 28 short of the number required to release the bill from the House Judiciary Committee, where it has been buried, and put to the House floor for immediate action.
YESTERDAY WAS THE last day for filing a discharge petition that could be acted on before Congress adjourns Oct. 5.
However, House backers of the balanced budget initiative did not give up hope.
they collected all 218 signatures before adjournment.
Greg Casey, aide to Rep. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, who headed the petition drive, said backers would continue to collect signatures and ask House Speaker Thomas O'Neill to waive the rules and bring the measure up if
However, O'Neill is an ardent foe of a balanced budget amendment.
Casey said they also hoped that President Reagan, an ardent supporter of the plan, would exercise his influence.
Supporters say it is the only way to get federal spending under control. Opponents argue the measure is a political ploy that would do nothing to reduce the huge federal deficits for the next several years and later would force mammoth spending cuts in crucial federal programs
Following the Senate committee's overwhelming endorsement, Sen. Orrin Hatch R-Uttah, the measure's sponsor, said Congress "has an ethical and moral obligation to meet this (issue) head on" by voting on it before the end of the session.
He told United Press International, how ever, there is "not a very good chance" of the outcome.
Hatch predicted that chances for Senate approval would improve if he could get the panel's senior Democrat, Sen Joseph Biden of Delaware, to endorse the measure.
BIDEN, WHO STRONGLY supports the concept of a balanced budget amendment, voted against it after his proposal to "put some teeth" in the resolution failed 14-2.
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