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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1985
News Briefs
Polish cook defects seeks asylum in U.S.
CLEVELAND — A cook from a Polish freighter jumped ship in Cleveland and is seeking asylum in the United States, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said yesterday.
WARSAW — Three unidentified assailants yesterday bound and gagged a pro-Solidarity priest and beat him at gunpoint in a pre-dawn raid on his home in the city of Krakow, his mother and colleagues said.
The cook, Leszek Kapsa, 27, left the Ziemia Lubelska on Sunday and sought refuge with an unidentified Cleveland man who contacted Metzenbaum's office, Drew Von Bergen, a spokesman for Metzenbaum, said.
The ship arrived in Cleveland Saturday and left Tuesday, Von Bergen said. Metzenbaum was on his way yesterday afternoon from Washington to Cleveland, where he planned to accompany Kapsa to the local office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The priest, the Rev. Tadeusz Zalewski, was not seriously hurt, but his mother said it was the second time in eight months he had been assaulted.
Polish priest beaten
The attack resembled the fatal October 1984 assault on another pro-Solidarity priest, the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko.
British delay Rambo
LONDON — The Rambo movie "First Blood" won't be shown on British television until after the Christmas season because the Broadcasting Corp. found it too violent for children, a broadcasting source said yesterday.
The source said the BBC probably would show the film -- starring Sylvester Stallone as the violent Vietnam veteran Rambo -- at another time when children would be less likely to be watching.
The BBC confirmed the Christmas cancellation but gave few details.
From Kansan wires.
McFarlane quits; fights denied
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said a regretful goodbye yesterday to the last member of his first-term inner circle of advisers and fiercely denied reports that Robert McFarlane's resignation resulted from rampant White House infighting.
Reagan said his national security adviser was leaving to spend more time with his family after more than 30 years of dedicated service to his country — and not as the result of a losing fight for access and power with White House chief of staff Donald Reagan.
Reagan complained that the recurrent reports of friction among his advisers had disturbed him more than anything that had happened since he'd been in office.
He said frequent departures among his top-level staff were something he had anticipated from the
first because he had brought advisers into government who had no intention of making public service their careers.
"I said in the very beginning that . . . the kind of people I wanted were the kind of people who didn't necessarily want government jobs," Reagan said in a nationally televised appearance. "Every once in a while someone has to move on. That is the case here."
In response to suggestions that an unusual number of appointees have left his administration, he said, "I don't think it's been so many people when you stop to think that thousands of people are appointed."
Reagan has accepted the resignations of nine Cabinet members. Two others left their posts for others: Regan from the Treasury Department to the White House and Donald Hodel from the Energy Department to the Interior Department.
Before McFarlane, Reagan also had three other top-level aides leave government: Richard Allen, Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Michael Deaver.
McFarlane called his reported problems with fellow ex-Marine Regan nonsense.
But when Regan became chief gatekeeper to the Oval Office, only McFarlane and Vice President George Bush retained unrestricted access to the president.
Then when Reagan was in the hospital after cancer surgery in July, Regan and White House spokesman Larry Speakes were the only senior aides to visit in Reagan's first few days of convalescence. The daily national security briefing by McFarlane was provided in written form — and delivered by Regan.
The rivalry was compounded by what McFarlane regarded as clumsy interference by Regan in matters of foreign policy.
Tax-reform support sought
United Press International
WASHINGTON - House Democrats pressured President Reagan yesterday to take a public stand on the Ways and Means Committee's tax overhaul bill, contending the measure may die unless he strongly supports it.
But Reagan, whose tax-reform plan differs in several key respects from the committee proposal, refused a chance to solidly back the measure and said only that he hoped the process would go forward and lawmakers eventually could agree on a bill.
Recognizing that a defeat of the bill in the full House could permanently kill chances for tax revision, Reagan
has previously hinted he will not oppose the committee's measure. He declined to elaborate on that when pressed yesterday by reporters.
House Democratic leaders, however, are unsatisfied with Reagan's lukewarm response and yesterday stepped up their pressure for him to endorse the plan, arguing that numerous Republican votes will be needed to pass it on the House floor next week.
Many House Republicans oppose the bill and have presented their own alternative plan, although that proposal stands virtually no chance of passage on the House floor.
Mass, said of the Ways and Means measure. "This is a bipartisan bill."
"It's going to have to have the blessing of the president" to pass, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the panel's chairman, said on the NBC "Today" program, "I think the president is going to have to do more than just passively support what we fashioned in the Ways and Means Committee."
O'Neill said he expected most House Democrats would support the committee's bill, but added "it's only natural!" for some Democratic members from oil states to defect because of increased taxes placed on the oil and gas industry.
The speaker estimated "a minimum of 75" of the 182 House Republicans would be needed for the bill to pass.
Panel OKs farm-credit reform
WASHINGTON — A House Agriculture subcommittee yesterday approved a measure to reform the ailing Farm Credit System with tighter regulation and possible provision of federal funds.
The Associated Press
Cancer cure being tested
United Press International
The Senate approved its version of the legislation Tuesday by a bipartisan 57-34 vote.
The subcommittee approved the measure by voice vote and sent it to the House Agriculture Committee which arranged to consider the bill later yesterday.
BOSTON — An experimental therapy turns ordinary white blood cells into roving cancer killers that can destroy or dramatically shrink tumors, even after they have spread throughout the body, researchers report.
the legislation would toughen federal regulation of the farmer-owned system, the nation's largest farm lender, which could lose $2.5 billion this year, its first losses since the Great Depression.
The scientists caution, however, that the treatment is still extremely expensive and carries potentially dangerous side effects.
It would also enable the centralized system to pool its
own financial resources to aid its financially weak units, tottering under the weight of the worsening farm economy. If the system's multibillion-dollar resources turn out to be insufficient, the treasury secretary would have discretion to provide federal financial backing.
The House subcommittee set up a conflict that must be resolved before final enactment. The House panel refused to accept Senate-passed language requiring any federal aid to be subject to congressional appropriations.
The therapy, being tried for the first time on humans, uses a hormone to marshal the body's own immunological weapons against cancer to attack renegade growths while sparing healthy tissue.
Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, of the House Agriculture Committee said requiring separate appropriations approval would weaken the measure, diluting its purpose to give investors of the system confidence that the government would back up system securities despite its losses and the poor farm economy.
"It's the most promising biological approach to cancer at the present time," said Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., director of the National Cancer Institute.
Other centers will soon begin testing it, but it is now available only at the cancer institute in Bethesda, Md., where it was developed. Researchers there say it is so complex and time-consuming that it can be given to only four patients at a time.
In the treatment, doctors remove cancer patients' own white blood cells and grow them in test tubes with a hormone called interleukin-2, which programs the cells to seek out cancer.
House OKs bill to keep U.S. going
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday narrowly approved a $480 billion catchall spending bill that President Reagan is threatening to veto if he finds it too costly.
The bill provides money for almost half of the government's operations, including defense and agriculture, that have not received regular appropriations for the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1.
The bill, called a "continuing resolution," was approved 212-208 in the House. It must pass the Senate and be signed by Reagan by midnight Dec. 12 to keep nine main areas of government in business and to allow Congress to go home for the holidays.
Congress has passed only five of the 13 regular appropriations bills. Reagan has vetoed one of those and the fifth still awaits his signature. $ ^ { \textcircled{2} }$
If any appropriations bill becomes law between now and the time the continuing resolution is signed, the regular bill will take precedence.
Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass., said the White House complained that the catchall bill was $2.6 billion over budget in "domestic areas" and under budget in the defense area. But, he said, according to Congressional Budget Office figures, the continuing resolution conformed to House budget targets and in total was $14.2 billion under House committee allocations.
However, Conte himself objected to a portion of the bill he said would cost $10 billion in agriculture payments in the next year. He narrowly failed, 200-221, in an attempt to send the bill back to the House Appropriations Committee to get rid of the agriculture money.
"With these (agriculture provisions) in the bill, I have no doubt there will be a veto." Conte said.
A ane to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jamie Whiten, D-Miss., who added the agriculture language, said it only enforced laws already on the books and would not cost money.
Reagan warned GOP congressional leaders Tuesday that he would veto the bill if there was excessive spending in any area.
The Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs
An ACE chapter has now been founded at the University of Kansas. This organization is one of over 250 nationally affiliated college chapters that consist of students who either currently own their own business or have interest in doing so in the future.
ACE provides a unique opportunity for all members to meet entrepreneurs from both the local and national levels through a series of "Guest Lectures" sponsored solely by ACE. Through this process, the organization provides a communication network between student members and the business world.
Students from every school on campus are encouraged to come to the "Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Introduction to KU" meeting Thursday, December 5, at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at the "Boots" Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Avenue. There will be an opportunity to apply for membership at that time. Guest speakers include: Dean John Tollefson, Dean of the KU School of Business; Chester B. Vanatta, Executive in Residence and Paul J. Adam Distinguished Lecturer; Mark McKee, President and CEO, Pyramid Pizza and Waddle's Inc.; and Phil Anderson, President and CEO, Kantronics, Inc.
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