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Reagan's nominee might cut programs
WASHINGTON — James Miller, President Reagan's nominee for budget director, said yesterday that programs such as Social Security and Medicare should not necessarily be exempt from budget cuts needed to lower the federal deficit.
Miller, nominated to replace David Stockman, also told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee he was willing to look at increased taxes and lower defense spending — two tacks Reagan opposed this year — as budget-cutting tools.
Iudge demands tape
LOS ANGELES — A free- lance writer was told yesterday that he would risk going to jail unless he turned over a taped interview in which Cathy Evelyn Smith allegedly admitted killing comedian John Belushi with a drug overdose.
Municipal Court Judge James Nelson ruled that Los Angeles writer Chris Van Ness could not invoke the California reporter's shield law to withhold the tape from Smith's preliminary hearing, which will determine whether she will stand trial for second-degree murder.
Statue may be sold
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — It may not have the sales potential of the Brooklyn Bridge, but city officials threatened yesterday to put the Statue of Liberty on the auction block unless the federal government pays a water bill of nearly $1 million.
The $940,000 tab has accumulated since 1982. Under state law, municipalities can place tax liens on properties that are three years in arrears on water bills.
Lawsuit to go to trial
LOS ANGELES — A judge yesterday reaffirmed his ruling that there must be a full trial to decide whether Liberace took property from a man who claims in a "palmium" suit that he was the flamboyant pianist's paid sex partner.
From staff and wire reports
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1985
Black activist dies after arrest
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A black political activist died in an East London hospital shortly after he was arrested and jailed by police, officials said yesterday. The cause of death was not disclosed.
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The activist, Mbuyiisole Mbota,
35, was arrested Friday night on an
unspecified criminal offense, a police
spokeswoman said. He was taken to
the police station in King Williamstown, about 40 miles west of East London, "where he became ill," she said.
black township near King Williamstown, was the third resident of the suburb to die in police custody in the past six weeks. Since the death of black leader Steve Biko in September 1977, at least 27 people have died in police custody.
Mbotya, who lived in Ginsberg, a
On Saturday, Mbotya was taken to Frere Hospital in East London where he died during the afternoon, medical superintendent Ben Hall said. He refused to disclose the cause of Mbotya's death.
Police were investigating the death, the police investigation said.
Mbotaya's sister, Nomtandaza, said her brother was a member of the
United Democratic Front, the largest legal black opposition group in the country with about 1.5 million members. Her brother was arrested by two policemen while walking in downtown township with his girlfriend.
Nomtandazo said that the next day she and her parents were called to the hospital in East London. When they saw her brother, he could not speak and had trouble breathing, she said.
Also in South Africa, police sealed black townships around Cape Town yesterday in a massive "crime prevention operation" coinciding
with new allegations that black officers beat and robbed residents.
At least 14 people lodged complaints with police about unprovoked police beatings in Cape Town's Guguletu township late Monday.
They charged that a squad of about 20 Zulu-speaking black policemen toured the township with about five white officers, bursting into homes, beating people on the streets and, in at least one case, looting a shop.
The new allegations came as white opposition lawyer Maker Hulley met police Col. Nic Akker to discuss charges of police brutality last week.
More survivors uncovered in Mexico
From Kansan wires
MEXICO CITY — The official death toll from Mexico's earthquakes rose to more than 4,000 yesterday, but rescue workers found survivors who had been buried alive for five days, including another newborn baby in a hospital incubator.
The government issued a new confirmed death figure of 4,160, but officials expect the tail to go higher. U.S. Ambassador John Gavin estimated last weekend that up to 10,000 people were killed.
fearing disease from polluted water and decaying bodies. Others watched rescuers pull survivors from earthquake debris that had imprisoned them for days, praying to see relatives.
Rescue workers continued to search for thousands of people thought to be trapped in the rubble of buildings that collapsed during the two major quakes, the first of which struck Thursday and the second on Friday night.
Workers dug and listened on ultra-sound equipment, specially trained dogs sniffed and paved in the
desperate effort to find the estimated 1,500 people still buried before it is too late.
Health officials said there was no severe threat of epidemic from contaminated water and decaying bodies that either are caught in the rubble or awaiting burial. They advised residents of the city to boil drinking water.
Health workers fumigated badly damaged buildings and devastated areas to stop any spread of disease from the corseus underneath.
Insurance companies making a preliminary assessment of the losses
caused by the quakes said 7,000 buildings were destroyed or damaged in Mexico City, according to the respected El Universal newspaper.
The newspaper also said an estimated 1 million people were left unemployed and an estimated 350,000 were temporarily or permanently without housing.
Volunteer rescue workers searching the ruins of the 12-story Hospital Juarez found a newborn baby alive in an incubator.
Two infants and a doctor were pulled alive from the same hospital Monday.
Banks try to deflate the dollar
The dollar was steady to higher yesterday despite sizable central bank intervention, when multinational corporate buying emerged and bank dealers stopped to reassess its sharp decline. Gold was higher in Europe.
"Calmer trading conditions saw a modest rally in the dollar from its fall on New York and Far Eastern markets overnight," said a dealer for Chase Manhattan in London.
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"There was lots of corporate interest in dollars overnight in Tokyo, to the point where the central bank of Japan had to slam it with about $1 billion in dollar sales," said Carmine Rotondo, chief trader at Manufacturers Hanover Trust. "The Bundesbank intervened modestly in Europe."
The hectic activity in Japan, which saw the dollar drop almost 12 yen for the largest single-day decline since floating rates were introduced, reflected the fact that Tokyo markets were closed for a holiday Monday when the dollar was hit on other markets.
Death penalty for spies discussed
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WASHINGTON — Amnesty International yesterday condemned legislation calling for the death penalty for espionage and other federal offenses, but the administration said it was long overdue punishment for certain offenses.
"We at Amnesty International believe that society is not protected by a government putting its own citizens to death," said James David Barber of Amnesty International U.S.A.
But Justice Department official Stephen Trott said that the death penalty for homicide, espionage, treason, attempts to kill the president and felony murder was an important deterrent in a crime-ridden society.
Trott said, "We firmly believe that civilized society has a right, if not a
duty, to rid itself permanently of those individuals who have been found to have committed certain carefully described, but especially harmful offenses in an especially aggravated manner."
Trott pointed to the rash of recent espionage cases, including the Walker family spy case involving a number of military personnel accused of passing national security secrets to the Soviet Union.
"These offences should underscore the necessity of having, an enforceable death penalty available for particularly serious cases of treason and espionage as well as for first-degree murder," Trett said.
The two witnesses appeared at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the legislation, which was passed by the Senate in the last Congress. The committee will debate the bill later this week.
Jerry Berman of the American Civil Liberties Union said that he expected the bill to be sent to the full Sepate for consideration.
Although 38 states have since passed new capital punishment laws, Congress has not approved legislation establishing constitutional procedures for imposing the death penalty for certain offenses.
"The question is, is it going to get out of Congress, and the answer is, not if we can help it," Berman said.
In 1972, the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty on grounds that most state death penalty laws violated the Constitution.
The death penalty received new impetus earlier this year with the Walker spy case. In the wake of the arrests of members of the Walker family, there were new calls for swift passage of death penalty legislation for espionage.
State universities in N.Y. drop S.African holdings
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ALBANY, N.Y. — The trustees of the State University of New York voted 9-4 yesterday to sell all its stock during the next year in companies that do business in racially segregated South Africa
Students attending the meeting cheered and hugged each other following the trustees' vote to divest its $11.5 million worth of holdings in 13 companies, including IBM Corp., Ford Motor Co., and Eastman Kodak Co.
"I feel very strongly that my country and my state university should not be a part of that moral crisis," she said in Africa, "said trustee John Hol-
loman of New York City. "We must divest and the time is now."
About 100 students, many of whom marched from the SUNY Albany campus, demonstrated outside the SUNY administration building as the trustees approved divestiture of the nation's largest public university system - comprising 370,000 students and 64 campuses.
The demonstrators cheered when told of the trustees' decision. Student leaders then led the group to the Capitol, where they staged a brief demonstration calling on the Legislature to divest the state's $4 billion invested in companies operating in South Africa.
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