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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Sept 12, 198F
News Briefs
Team leader says deaths were needless
WASHINGTON — The leader of the team that discovered the Titanic said yesterday that the captain of the ship nearest the stricken liner missured his position at sea and actually was close enough to rescue the 1,513 passengers who perished.
"People need not have died," said Robert Ballard, expedition leader and a marine geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "There is no doubt about it in my mind."
Smuggler dies in fall
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A skydiving smuggler wearing combat fatigue and loaded with 79 pounds of cocaine plunged to his death yesterday in the backyard of a home when his parachute failed to open, police said.
Authorities identified the parachutist as Andrew Thornton, 40, a former narcotics officer for the Lexington, Ky., Police Department and suspected of being a member of an alleged drug smuggling gang known as The Company.
Investigators said the cocaine was worth $13 million and they had no idea what became of the aircraft that dropped Thornton. He landed a few blocks from Island Home Airport, a small field just south of downtown Knoxville.
POW turns self in
LOS ANGELES — For Georg
Gaertner, World War II ended
yesterday.
Claiming to be the last fugitive German prisoner of war in America, Gaertner turned himself in to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Gaertner said yesterday that he had been running and hiding since 1945, when he escaped from a POW camp in New Mexico.
From Kansan wire reports.
WASHINGTON — The White House said yesterday that President Reagan would seek powers to act quickly against unfair trade practices, and Vice President George Bush warned trading partners, "We're not kidding -- no more Mr. Nice Guy."
U.S. to get trade 'war chest'
United Press International
"It's a war out there." Bush told business executives in San Francisco, urging them to trade in their pinstripes for "a helmet and fatigues."
With tougher words on the trade crisis, the administration elevated the issue to the top of the legislative agenda. along with its call for tax reform.
Bush, in a trade speech before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, said the United States was ready to create a "war chest" — thought to be about $300 million — to subsidize American exports "if that is the only way to beat those who insist on competing unfairly."
The vice president, echoing the president's denunciation of protectionism, said, "Supporters of protectionist legislation are, some of them, going for narrow and immediate political gain — at a cost of untold economic pain for everyone in our country."
But some of those he criticized are Republican senators up for re-election next year and facing political problems from constituents who are losing jobs to imports.
During the leadership meeting, the Republican senators and congressmen outlined their trade goals that included easing restrictions on small businesses to obtain export licenses and set up export companies, improving "intellectual property rights" for American technology and patents, and boosting government export promotion efforts. It also called for job training assistance for workers displaced by foreign importance.
Committee approves farm bill
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House Agriculture Committee, ending months of hagging as the farm economic crisis worsened, yesterday sent to the House a farm bill that would cut crop supports to make U.S. exports more competitive with foreign products.
Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, said he hoped the House would pass the measure next week.
"I think there seems to be a feeling of understanding of the plight of rural America, or the plight of the farmer,
that will be supportive of this legislation," he said.
By offsetting lower supports with continued direct cash subsidies to farmers, price support and credit provisions of the measure would cost $42.8 billion over the first three years of a five-year farm bill.
The committee, before approving the bill by voice vote late Tuesday, cut $11.8 billion to comply with a congressional budget ceiling — while avoiding substantial cuts in benefits the panel tentatively had approved.
The $11.8 billion in cuts were quickly approved by the committee
after lawmakers from soybean states
balked at a 10- percent reduction in
the soybean price floor and forced a
compromise at 5 percent.
The Senate Agriculture Committee, meanwhile, resumed slow work on its farm bill but approved only minor farm credit provisions.
A sizable faction of the House committee attempted for a second time during the long deliberations to address the farm crisis by offering farmers a chance to vote to raise price supports sharply and to force mandatory restrictions on production of wheat and feed grains.
Salvadorans stymied in search for captors of Duarte's daughter
From Kansan wires
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Security forces recovered a stolen red van used to kidnap President Jose Napoleon Duarte's daughter and another woman, a top official in San Salvador said yesterday.
But, despite a massive search, there were no clues about the victims' whereabouts or fate.
The administration also offered assistance to the Salvadoran authorities in returning insues Guadalupe 35, and prosecuting the kidnappers.
The Reagan administration, which denounced the kidnapping as an outrage, is proposing legislation to establish a $33 million counterterrorism program in Central America, State Department officials said yesterday.
Julio Adolfo Rey Prednes, the president's closest adviser, said yesterday that a second woman was kidnapped along with Duarte Duran. He identified her as Ana Cecilia Velleda, 23, a university student and a secretary at the radio station run by the president's daughter.
It was the first report that a second woman was kidnapped Tuesday afternoon at the same time as the president's daughter.
Officials said only that Duarte Duran, 35, was kidnapped when she drove up to the New San Salvador University, where she attended classes. Six armed men in civilian clothes surrounded her car, shot and killed the driver and wounded one of her bodyguards.
Witnesses, who asked not to be identified for reasons of safety, said the men dragged Duarte Duran out of the Toyota and took her away at gimpin up in the waiting van. The man must have supported alive but, in critical condition.
After meeting with his Cabinet much of the morning, a worried-looking Duarte appeared briefly at a news conference in the presidential residence in the early afternoon but refused to disclose any information of importance concerning the raid.
Rey Prendes said police recovered the red van in which the kidnappers had fled from the university. He said the van was found by police late Tuesday at La Rabida, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the southeastern part of the capital.
A presidential source, who requested anonymity for security reasons, said the van was one of four vehicles that gunmen, said they were guerrillas, stole at gunpoint a few hours before the kidnapping.
Two women in motorboat survive after 21 days at sea
United Press International
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Two California women who survived a 21-day ordeal on a disabled motorboat in the Indian Ocean said yesterday that they owed their survival to faith, ingenuity, a favorable breeze — and a daily "happy hour" eating a dab of toothpaste.
The two 26-year-olds — Judy Gale Schwartz of Palo Alto, Calif., and Ricky Ellen Berkowitz of Redondo Beach, Calif., — emerged in good health despite the brush with starvation which they endured with two Indonesian crewmen 'drifting between Java and Sumatra.
They instituted their toothpaste "happy hour" when their food ran out. For 11 days a late-afternoon squeeze of Colgate toothpaste and water were the only sustenance. Schwartz and Berkowitz had.
Satellite arms test disputed
The ordeal began Aug. 17 when the pair hired two Indonesian crew members and chartered a motorboat at Carita Beach, a resort 84 miles southwest of Jakarta, to visit the Ujung Kulon wildlife preserve on the southernwest coast of Java.
Shortly after they embarked the engine broke down. They had brought enough fresh fruit, rice, cookies and bread for four days, and made them stretch to 10.
Official defends weapon test
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Arms Control agency chief Kenneth Adelman yesterday defended U.S. plans to test an anti-satellite weapon by knocking down an old satellite, telling a House panel that congressional testing rules had been met.
Adelman, testifying before the international security panel of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, termed development of a U.S. anti-satellite or ASAT weapon "a necessary, integral part of the steps needed to avert" instability created by the fact the Soviet Union had a
system that quickly could be made operational.
Although Adelman would not confirm it, the test is expected tomorrow. A court hearing is scheduled for today on a suit by a group of scientists and four House Democrats trying to block the test on the grounds Reagan's certification that the test was necessary did not meet congressional requirements.
Adelman, who has called the rules passed by Congress last year "bull," told the panel, "We are seriously exploring, with the U.S.S.R., arms control arrangements intended to prevent an army race in space."
was Rep. George Brown, D-Calif., a plaintiff in the suit.
Countering Adelman's testimony
Brown said Reagan's "less-than-candid certification report ... circumvented the intent and will of the Congress."
Lawyers for the House members and Union of Concerned Scientists today will argue before a U.S. District Court judge that "the United States is not engaged in negotiations, is not endeavoring, in good faith, to negotiate, and is, in fact, unwilling to begin negotiation regarding limitations on anti-satellite weapons."
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