University Daily Kansan, November 12, 1980
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Algerians to relav secret U.S. letter
ALGIERS, Algeria—Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher yesterday talked with Algerian mediators about terms for releasing the $2 American hostages in Iran. He returned to Washington, however, before the secret letter he had brought was relayed to Iran.
Christopher and a negotiating team met twice during the day with Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammad Benyahia.
The official said the American letter had not been delivered to Aligiers before Christopher's strip. Christopher delivered the letter Monday.
Algerian foreign minister Mohammed A. Bello said
In Washington, a U.S. official who declined to be identified said
Christopher had left Aligiers for Washington because Iran would probably
take several days to respond.
Earlier, the Iranian Embassy in Algeria had ruled out the possibility of any direct talks with Christopher or other U.S. officials, saying all合意. The Iranian embassy said it would not rule out
Algerian diplomatic sources said they were speeding up their contacts with Iran. A flurry of activity surrounding the talks in Algiers indicated that messages already were being relayed between Washington and Tehran, despite denials.
Anniversary of Polish state feted
WARSAW, Poland.-Thousands of Poles, flushed with victory after the independent trade unions' recent courtroom victory over the government, commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the Polish state yesterday at the tomb of Poland's unknown soldier.
The occasion was married by the arrest of one of the rally organizers, Wojciech Ziembinski. He was charged with disturbing traffic, dissident
Ziembski was jailed for 45 days after a similar rally last year. He is the first dissident to be detained in more than two months, sources said.
As many as 15,000 people converged on the tomb after marching in a solemn procession from a mass at the cathedral in Warsaw's Old Town.
Old and young waved the red and white Polish flags, sang the national anthem and other patriotic songs and carried banners. Some banners were decorated with images of warriors.
The anniversary marks Poland's emergence as a unified state after World War I. It previously had been partitioned between Austria, Russia and
Puerto Rican election results reversed
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The Puerto Rican Election Commission reversed itself on the basis of absentee votes yesterday and declared an advocate of Puerto Rican statehood winner of the island's Nov. 4 gubernatorial election.
However, a final determination of the winner will not be made until a lengthy manual recount of more than 1.6 million balls is made. The recount
Hours before the recount began, the election commission announced that Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo had won a narrow victory of 2,566 votes over his opponent, former Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon. Barcelo got 750,343 votes toColon's 747,787.
Hernandez Colon favors continued commonwealth status for Puerto Rico.
Soon after the recount began, Hernandez Colon's Popular Democratic Party warned, in a press conference, of a plot to assassinate him and burn the ballots from last Tuesday's election. The president of the party, Miguel Hernandez Agosto, said Hernandez Colon had received extra police
After initial delays, the recount began. Last week, the initial victory was given to Hernandez Colon, who was declared the winner by 725 votes.
It took the commission six days to count just over 12,000 absentee ballots cast by policemen, military personnel and students, as well as convicts and mental patients—two groups that voted for the first time in the history of U.S. elections.
Arab merger faltering, sources sav
BEIIRUT, Lebanon—The proposed merger of Libya and Syria into a single Arab state is faltering and may never be a reality, Arab diplomatic
A combination of intrigue among Arabs and conflicting ambitions and ideologies has stalled the plan to unite the two countries.
Another problem is the realization that Libya's freestyle government by the masses and Syria's regimented party rule are incompatible, the sources
The unity proposal was first made by Libyan ruler Col. Maammar mourning the death of a friend, Muhammad, who unjustly accepted the proposal and flow to a heroes' welcome in the Libyan canton.
"The whole thing was a Khadady adventure," the source said. "He told the Syrians he was going to call for a merger and there was little the could do, but I had to stay with them."
The appeal apparently began to fade when the two sides sat down to work out the details of the merger, such as who would be the head of state, what type of political parties there would be and whether the state would be Islamic or secular.
Libya and Syria are the most politically isolated and pro-Soviet countries. They are separated from each other by about 800 miles
House committee OKs 1981 budget cut
WASHINGTON—The House Budget Committee approved a 2 percent increase in the federal minimum wage, would virtually force one of Ronald Reagan's campaign promises upon him.
After heated exchanges between Democrats and Republicans, the House committee accepted by voice vote a proposal by Rep. Robert Giannino, D-MA. The committee approved a resolution.
The proposal would let the Reagan administration figure out what to cut, and would force it to come to Congress to request more money if it couldn't.
The committee then voted to send a $63.17 billion budget to the House floor for the next fiscal session. The proposed budget would leave the government $22 billion in liability.
The 2 percent cut, called "the 2 percent solution" and "voodoo economics" by two Democrats on the committee, would cut $13 billion from the committee's most recent estimate of the budget passed by Congress in June. It would exempt the $158 2 billion defense budget
"Mr. Reagan has said that a 2 percent cut can be made in 1981 solely through the elimination of—and I quote—waste, extravagance, abuse and outright fraud," Giaimo said. Giaimo is the retiring chairman of the Budget Committee.
Gialmo said it was a challenge Reagan brought on himself.
Hurricane stalls off Louisiana coast
Oil companies evacuated more than 3,000 offshore workers near the Lakeside oil drilling site in northern Venezuela; a nine-month weather hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in 58 years stalled off the Gulf Coast.
The National Weather Service said Hurricane Jeanne was stalled about 50 miles south-southeast of the Louisiana coast. The service blamed the hurricane on a warm front.
The hurricane carried top winds of 75 mph with gales extended 150 miles to the east. The storm predicts the hurricane might drift a little westward during the next 24 hours.
Dozens of oilfield helicopters and crewboats joined in the offshore evacuation landing most recently as painters, as firemen, as members from risen in the central island.
Some companies began shutting down oil and gas production from the giant platforms used to pump petroleum products from offshore production
Other companies took a wait-and-see attitude.
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The report was an indication that Iran may soften its flat refusal to negotiate an end to the fighting until Iraq troops withdraw from Iran.
BAGHAD, Iraq—Tehran Radio said yesterday that Iran's Supreme Defense Council was trying to get clarification on the border between the two Persian Gulf nations.
At the United Nations, Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim appointed former Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme as his personal representative in seeking a way to begin negotiations between Iran and Iraq.
Palme will meet with Waldheim in New York during the weekend. He will visit Baghdad and Tehran next week, where he can convey the clarification sought by Iran.
The Iranian war council's further study of Iraq peace overtures contrasted with Iraq President Saddam Hussein's recent threat to annex captured Iranian oil fields, raising the stakes in the conflict.
Iraq invaded Iran 52 days ago, and so after the make appreciable progress after its little success.
Tehran Radio said the Iranian council agreed to let a U.N. representative go to Iran to discuss the Iraqi peace proposals, conveyed by
Cuban Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmiera
Sadr, however, was quoted in a Tehran newspaper as saying after the council meeting that negotiations were meaningless until Iraqi troops left Iranian soil. Bani-Sadr heads the defense council.
"The Cuban proposals, of course, consist of five points, and none of these are completely clear to us," said Seyyed Ali Khameni, Ayatollah Ruholah Khomeini's representative on the defense council.
Khameni said there were ambiguities in the proposals that would have to be clarified before the Iranian government replied. Tehran Radio said.
Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-
Hussein, in a rare news conference, told 200 foreign journalists that Iraq welcomed any international initiative that would result in peace in the region and recognize the rights of both Iraq and Iran.
However, Hussein said Iraq might keep some of the occupied Iranian territory.
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