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Pact may allow Irish to gain advisory role
Newborn gets heart
DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish Parliament yesterday ratified by only 13 votes the historic pact with Britain giving the country an advisory role in Northern Ireland just hours after gunmen opposed to the pact killed a businessman in front of his twin daughters.
LOMA LINDA, Calif. — The surgeon who last year transplanted a baboon heart into a baby girl has performed another daring operation by transplanting the heart of one newborn into another but declined to comment yesterday on the child's condition.
The operation on the unidentified infant was performed late Wednesday by Surgeon Leonard Bailey at the Loma Linda University Medical Center.
South attracts blacks
DURHAM, N.C. — More blacks are moving into the South than are leaving the region in one of the most historically and culturally significant migrations since Reconstruction, a new study shows.
Job opportunities, desegregation and other factors that contribute to a higher quality of life in the South play a role in bringing blacks back to the region that most of their ancestors left in the late 1800s for the "promised land of the North." Issac Robinson, sociology professor at North Carolina Central University, said.
Dancer complains
HOUSTON — A "moral and responsible" topless dancer has complained to the city that nightclubs hire dancers to mingle and smooch rather than bump and grind.
"The whole thing is immoral," Virginia Schrang, 47, said Wednesday to the city council.
"Once I come off the stage, I put my clothes back on and act like a lady," she said.
Summit yields no solid accord
From Kansan wires
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sounding a triumphant note, President Reagan told the American people last night that his "fireside summit" with Mikhail Gorbachev, while short on substantive agreements, gave them "a better understanding" of one another and declared, "That's key to peace.
"Yes, this summit was worthwhile for both sides," Reagan told Congress minutes after his return from Europe. "A new realism spawned the summit. The summit itself was a good start. And now our byword must be: steady as she goes."
Friday, Nov. 22, 1985
intensive personal diplomacy that marked the first superpower summit in six years, Reagan said his five hours of one-on-one talks with Gorbache reaffirmed fundamental differences but also yielded progress.
"I am, as you are, impatient for results," he said. "But goodwill and good hopes do not always yield lasting results. Quick fixes don't fix big problems."
He cautioned against expecting immediate results.
Back from more than two days of
Reagan, whose advisers had taken pains to keep expectations low before the summit, acknowledged Gorbache proved to be "an energetic defender of Soviet policy," but said he had been equally forceful in pressing the Soviet leader on "the great issues of our time" and "expressing our peaceful intentions."
The summit produced an agreement for future summits and brought a half-dozen secondary accords to fruition. But the two leaders failed to narrow their wide differences on arms control and reinforced their opposing views on Reagan's Star Wars missile-defense program.
"I made clear before the first meeting that no question would be swept aside — no issue buried — just because either side found it uncomfortable or inconvenient," he said. "I brought these questions to the summit and put them before Mr. Gorbachev."
The result, Reagan said, was a frank exchange of views that made progress in advancing dialogue on halting the spread of chemical and nuclear weapons, reducing East-West tensions and expanding personal contacts between the American and Soviet people.
On the touchy issue of his Strategic Defense Initiative, which has emerged as the major point of contention in the arms talks, Reagan said he welcomed the chance to make his case for why the superpower powers should move away from deterring war through the threat of massive retaliation.
House OK's harsher tax for wealthy
WASHINGTON—The House Ways and Means Committee approved a new, toughened minimum tax for corporations and the wealthy yesterday and confidently closed in on a complete tax reform bill.
United Press International
The minimum tax provisions are designed to raise about $36 billion in five years — $7 billion from wealthy individuals and $9 billion from corporations.
Committee aides said the plan would crack down on investments in tax shelters and was much tougher than a proposal submitted by President Reagan, which would have raised about $12.5 billion.
At least in theory, the alternative minimum tax will prevent wealthy taxpayers and businesses to have so many tax breaks that they avoid paying any taxes or receive refunds. Currently there is a minimum tax, but it allows so many breaks that it is considered ineffective.
The committee's plan, in addition to tightening loopholes, would increase the corporate minimum tax rate from 15 percent to 25 percent and the individual minimum tax rate from 20 percent to 25 percent.
Because of the complexity of the issue and corresponding political concerns, many tax experts believe it is nearly impossible to write an airtight minimum tax.
Kate assaults Florida coast
United Press International
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Hurricane Kate made a historic 100-mph assault on Florida's Panhandle yesterday, wrecking homes and businesses, triggering a tornado blitz and plunging cities into howling darkness."
Kate's 20-mile-wide eye crossed Florida's coast at 5:45 p.m. EST near the papermill town of Port St. Joe, becoming the first November hurricane since 1935 to strike the U.S. mainland.
At least 100,000 have fled the late-season storm, which killed 10 people in a Tuesday raking of Cuba.
Kate spawned at least nine tornadoes in Bay, Calhoun and Washington counties.
The late-season storm's shrieking winds and pounding tides crumbled beachfront homes and businesses, uprooted trees, undermined highways and tore boats from their moorings like toys. Apalachicola's 100-foot water tower fell within minutes of the storm's landfall.
State Emergency Management spokesman Jon Peck said Kate's primary damage was along 80 miles of coast between Panama City and Carrabelle.
core winds began pounding Panhandle resorts and fishing villages about an hour before the eye crossed the coast.
"What you worry about is what happens before the eye. It's the inner 50-mile core where all the action is." said National Hurricane Center director Neil Frank.
"It's like the world is coming to an end right before your eyes," said Annie Laurie Rivers, the wife of Apalachicola's civil defense director. "Phone booths are flying around like balsa wood. We have already lost the water tower."
the storm's deadly 50-mile inner
2 sentenced in Greenpeace attack
United Press International
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Two French secret service agents were sentenced today to 10 years in prison for manslaughter in the bombing of the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior.
Major Alain Mafart, 34, and Captain Dominique Prierur, 36, who faced possible life sentences, pleaded for leniency in the New Zealand High Court, and received the lesser sentences.
The French agents pleaded guilty three weeks ago to charges of manslaughter and willful damage in the July 10 mine attack on the Rainbow Warrior as it was moored in Auckland Harbor.
tached to the hull of the 419-ton former Scottish fishing trawler killed Greenpeace photographer, Fernando Pereira, 33.
Tight security was mounted around the courthouse and in the courtroom of New Zealand Chief Justice Sir Ronald Davison before the sentencing.
The explosion of the two mines at
The Rainbow Warrior was sunk as it prepared to lead a fistilla to protest French nuclear testing about 3,000 miles northeast of Auckland.
Under New Zealand's law, a manslaughter conviction carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
agents would receive a light sentence.
Prime Minister David Lange has denied persistent speculation that New Zealand and France secretly worked out a deal under which the
The speculation heightened last week when New Zealand's minister of overseas trade, Mike Moore, refused to tell Parliament whether he had discussed the agents' future with French ministers during a recent trade visit to Paris.
French lawyer Daniel LaRiveire returned to New Zealand earlier this week for the sentencing of his clients, who will be represented in court by New Zealand defense attorney Gerard Curry.
Curry was expected to plea for leniency for his clients, pointing out that the agents had already spent five months in New Zealand prisons awaiting the outcome of the case, court sources said.
Farm aid House bill approved
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration yesterday renewed its opposition to an immediate federal bailout of the ailing Farm Credit System, but welcomed parts of a House bill to reorganize the nation's largest farm lender.
The Associated Press
Officials of the Treasury and Agriculture departments reaffirmed the administration's position that reforms of the FCS are needed before federal rescue money can be considered.
"The system does not now need the government's financial support in any fashion," Charles Sethness, an assistant treasury secretary, said.
Donald Wilkinson, governor of the Farm Credit Administration, which oversees the farmer-owned lending system, embraced the legislation even though financial aid provisions do not guarantee the up to $6 billion that is needed to keep it afloat over the next three years.
Their remarks came during hearings on legislation introduced Wednesday by a bipartisan group of farm-state lawmakers to boost the faltering FCS, a network of 37 cooperatively owned banks that holds about a third of the nation's $214 billion agricultural debt.
Drawing objections from Sethness and Frank Naylor, an under secretary of agriculture, was a provision in the legislation for a backup line of federal credit for the FCS. Any amount of money could be provided at the discretion of the Treasury secretary if it was found necessary to protect the financial stability of the farm lending system.
When the bill was first unveiled, it provided for up to $3 billion in federal aid. That was changed before it was introduced to provide the administration with complete discretion to determine the amounts of aid.
Although Naylor recommended the committee approve the legislation without the financial assistance provision, he made it clear that the administration's opposition to an immediate FCS bailout does not eliminate the possibility of such aid later if it is needed to avert a collapse of the lending system.
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