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Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1985
University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Joe Kennedy to seek O'Neill's House seat
BOSTON — Joseph P. Kennedy II, the son of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, will run for the seat of retiring House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, said Massachusetts Democratic leaders yesterday.
PAC vote avoided
Kennedy, considered the favorite in a crowded field of candidates, was expected to make a formal announcement today, although key Democrats said he already had confirmed his intentions in private conversations with them.
WASHINGTON — The Senate carefully skirted a political landmine yesterday when it voted 84-7 to put off until next year any further action on legislation to curb massive election spending by political action committees.
The decision saved senators from having to vote to cut back PAC contributions on which many depend for re-election money.
Farm system aided
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday approved reform and relief for the ailing Farm Credit System to prevent further deterioration of the nation's largest farm lender.
The measure was approved by a 57-34 vote after Senate leaders beat amendments designed to increase farmer control of the system, offer relief to commercial banks and limit the power of the Farm Credit System Capital Corporation.
Toy may be harmful
WASHINGTON — The most potentially dangerous toy parents can buy this Christmas is a Cabbage Patch Kid "Koosa," a consumer group said yesterday, citing a collar on the doll that has been changed on the newest models.
The Consumer Affairs Committee of Americans for Democratic Action, warned parents against buying the original stuffed Koosa animal because of the dangers of the doll's collar.
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Botha lifts emergency state
United Press International
MAMELODI, South Africa — President Pieter Botha yesterday lifted a 4-month-old state of emergency in eight rural areas, and more than 45,000 blacks buried 12 riot victims in the first unrestricted mass funeral since July.
"The revolutionary climate is fast losing momentum," Botha said, announcing the lifting of the state of emergency in five rural areas in Cape province and in three remote areas south of Johannesburg.
"Elements that are ideologically opposed to orderly reform and that went out of their way to drive communities in South Africa toward violent confrontation with each other are being defeated," Botha said in the statement issued in Pretoria.
But the racial violence continued yesterday. Police said a black man
was shot to death and two were wounded when officers fired shotguns at a crowd stoning them in the coastal village of Knysna, between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town.
The state of emergency, first declared by Botha on July 21 to try to curb racial violence, gives police and soldiers unlimited powers of arrest and empowers them to seal off townships and to impose curfews.
The state of emergency remains in force in 28 administrative districts around Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. Emergency rule is also in effect in two other districts around Cape Town, where it was invoked Oct. 25.
The dissident Detainees Parents Support Committee said 908 people, most of them blacks, had been killed in the past 15 months or rioting while protesting the white-minority government's policy of racial
segregation known as apartheid.
The group said that of those, 772 were killed this year. It also said more than 6,500 people had been arrested under the state of emergency provisions and that more than 1,200 were still in jail yesterday.
In Marmelodi, a black township about 10 miles from Pretoria, diplomats from 11 countries, including the United States, joined black mourners who waved an outlawed African National Congress flag at a funeral for 12 of 13 black people killed by police during a protest against high rents on Nov. 21.
Led by a huge green, gold and black flag of the ANC, a black militant group, the crowd jogged in sweltering heat about one and a half miles from the sports stadium in Mamelodi, where services were held, to the township cemetery for the burial.
Aquino announces candidacy
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Presidential hopeful Corazon Aquino said yesterday that many considered her just a housewife with little political experience but that she was the unequivocal change the opponents of President Ferdinand Marcos wanted.
Aquino, 52, wife of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino, announced her candidacy during a news conference. She will oppose Marcos in an election set for Feb.7.
"The people clamor for a distinct and unequivocal change," Aquino told a packed auditorium. "We must offer that unequivocal change.
"Anything less will dull and dim the hope and inspiration they need if they are to link their arms as one in rebuilding our devastated nation."
She said many Filipinos were "considering me, a woman, just a housewife, with hardly any political experience at all except being the wife of Ninoy (Benigno) Aquino for 28 years."
She added, "People are just so fed up.
"In fact, they are almost in despair because for 20 years we have had one of the most brilliant Filipinos and look at what has happened to our country. It has been devastated."
Repeatedly interrupted by applause and chants of "Cory, Cory," Aquino said the main issue in the election will be credibility.
She said she had offered the vice presidency to former Sen. Salvador Laurel, an ambitious presidential aspirant. Laurel later said that he would meet Aquino to and that he was hopeful of a unification.
Aquino said the challenge facing the opposition was not merely to rally behind one candidate but to field one "who cannot, rightly or wrongly, be seen as a continuation of the Marcos regime."
"I am just one of the thousands and millions of victims of the Marcos dictatorship and I know very well that I am not the victim who has suffered the most but it just so happened perhaps that I am the best known."
Economy rose slightly in October
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The index of leading indicators, the government's sensitive barometer of economic trends, a rose a modest 0.3 percent in October, the sixth consecutive month of improvement, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
The department also revised upward the index for September, showing a 0.4 percent increase instead of the 0.1 percent initially reported. The increase for August was revised downward to 0.8 percent, from 0.9 percent.
In a separate report, the Census Bureau said housing sales fell 5.5 percent during October, the third monthly decline and the biggest drop since April. Analysts were surprised by the housing figures, given the
lower interest rates of the last several months.
The index, which economists use to predict economic activity about three months ahead, has improved in every month since May, but modestly. Only in January has the increase in the index risen above 1 percent.
Revised figures placed the increase in the index for the third quarter at 1.5 percent.
Aides' feud prompts resignation rumors
United Press International
WASHINGTON — White House aides said yesterday that Robert McFarlane might soon resign as President Reagan's national security adviser because of a protracted feud with Donald Regan, White House chief of staff.
But Reagan declined to comment on the situation, telling reporters, "I'm not taking any questions."
It was the second consecutive day that White House officials, including McFarlane, refused to discuss reports that McFarlane has decided to quit because of a dispute with Regan.
CBS News reported that McFarlane was expected to announce his resignation later this week and that he had informed Reagan of his decision last week in California. McFarlene's aides were urging him to announce his resignation today, the network said.
A senior administration official also told NBC Nightly News that McFarlane's resignation was expected shortly.
Deputy press secretary Larry
Speakes declined to comment on the reports but told reporters earlier, "I think the president would abide by the wishes of any member (of the staff) who wants to leave."
However, some aides indicated that McFarlane's resignation may be announced soon.
Since Regan moved to the White House in a swap of jobs with Treasury Secretary James Baker, there has been friction between McFarlane and Regan. Aides say that McFarlane has resented Regan's "take charge" style and his intrusion into foreign policy making.
McFarlane evaded the question on his return from California with Reagan on Monday, saying that he had no comment.
Regan, on the other hand, has taken exception when McFarlane bypasses him and calls Reagan directly in times of crisis.
Turf wars are not new to the Reagan White House.
Baker and former White House counselor Edwin Meese, now attorney general, were frequently at odds when they worked together as top aides to Reagan.
Tax reform bill approved by Ways and Means panel
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House Ways and Means Committee formally approved a massive tax reform bill yesterday and President Reagan indicated to Republican representatives that he would not oppose the plan when it moves to the full House.
The committee, led by Democrats and working in a closed-door session, passed the bill 28-8. Before the vote, the panel rejected, 24-12, an alternate plan pushed by dissatisfied Republican members.
House, where a vote is likely to come next week
The committee, which spent more than two months hammering out the complex revision of the tax code, completed writing the bill late last month. The formal vote yesterday was needed to send the measure to the Rules Committee and the full
However, it did not eliminate as many tax breaks as Reagan had wanted and the main unanswered question going into yesterday's session was whether the president would strongly oppose it, a position that could jeopardize its chances in the House.
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