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University Daily Kansan, October 1. 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
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WASHINGTON—Members of a House-Senate conference committee sifted through numerous amendments yesterday, trying to reconcile their differences so they could pass an emergency spending bill needed to keep the government working past midnight.
Disputes block emergency finance bill
By noon, the members had resolved less than half of the 48 issues separating the House and Senate versions of the bill. The committee avoided the most controversial issues, which included funding for abortions and for the Comprehensive Training and Education Act, a public jobs program.
the complete Congress' failure to approve new spending bills for the fiscal 1981, which begins today, made the stop-gap legislation necessary to keep the government working until Congress can vote on permanent legislation after Nov. 4.
However, the conferences disagreed about how much money should be appropriated. The House sought more money for fiscal 1981, and the Senate approved $407 million.
Indicator may signal end of recession
Rep. William Natcher, D-KY., suggested the problem could be solved if the House would agree to set the emergency spending at fiscal 1800 levels and if the Senate would agree to drop some of its more controversial amendments, such as those for funding CEETA and abortions.
yearly. Yet, the 1.9 percent rise in the index, which is designed to predict economic trends, followed interest rates 3.7 percent in July and 1 percent in April. Department said.
I the committee indicated it would consider Natcher's proposal later in the day.
large increases or decreases in the index do not always mean similar movements in the economy but economists generally agree that three factors influence economic growth.
WASHINGTON—The Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose sharply in August for the third consecutive month, a sign that the nation has weathered the recession and is awaiting recovery, the government said yesterday.
The index has not had three straight monthly increases since the fall of 1978, and those gains were relatively small.
The last time there were three such substantial increases in the index was in spring of 1975, when the country was beginning to pull out of its worst recession since the Great Depression.
A death sentence would be contrary to earlier statements by Communist Party chairman Hua Guofeng that the group would not be executed.
Death likely for Gang of 4, paper says
PEKING-Editorialists in China's government-controlled paper indicated yesterday that the societal Yangsung was accounted for death in the 31st century. The Chinese 31st-century history
The press said the alleged crimes committed by the widow of the late Mao Tse-tung and the other three members of the Gang of Four would be distinguished from the 'mistakes' made by Mao himself, an indication that the trial would not be used to completely discredit the founder of Communist
The editorials seemed to leave little doubt that the gang, led by Mao's widow, Jiang Qiang, would be found guilty by a special court established
Also on trial will be the military chiefs who allegedly took part in an attack that killed Lieutenant Bin Lai in 1971. Lien died in a plane crash while fleeing the country.
One newspaper, the Guangming Ribao, said, "those who repeatedly commit injustices bring death to themselves."
The editorial reinforced the impression given by Zeng Tao, a senior editor in the medical field empowered to push death sentences, despite his later statement.
Zeng and an editorial in the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily both said, "the law is to be strictly followed in examining and trying the case of Mr. Xin."
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World Bank encourages aid for poor
WASHINGTON—World Bank president Robert McNamara said yesterday that 800 million people living in poverty throughout the world faced even further deprivation if the international community slowed development aid to poor countries.
President Carter echoed the theme in his address to the 35th annual joint meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Chinese law states that counterrevolutionaries will be put to death.
NemAmara called on industrial and oil-producing nations, international organizations and poor countries to increase their efforts against world
McNamara's address to the gathering of finance ministers and other officials from 41 countries won his last before the joint body. He will retire as a senator.
Efforts to ease world poverty are hampered because both industrialized and developing countries are feeling what McNamara called the sting of hard times. Rising oil prices, inflation and recession are tempting countries to some degree development measures until they can solve their economic problems.
McNamara said economic prospects for developing countries had worsened in the past 18 months. Their economic growth is expected to slow from an average annual 3.1 percent in the 1960s and 2.7 percent in the 1970s to about 1.8 percent during the next five years, he said.
The outlook is particularly grim for the 1.1 billion people living in the world's $98 peckest countries, those with per capita incomes of less than $22 a year.
Report criticizes Libya investigation
For 141 million people in the low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa, he said, economic growth is projected to be negative for the next five years.
WASHINGTON—A Senate subcommittee report to be released tomorrow criticizes President Carter and officials of the White House and Justice Department for their handling of Billy Carter's dealings with Libya and the Iraq War, according to a draft being circulated yesterday among committee members.
The report is expected to be revised several times before it is released. The draft said the president made the biggest mistake by making his brother a keynote speaker at the conference.
The draft said the president should have known this would enhance Billy Carter's usefulness to the Libyans in their efforts to influence U.S. policy.
Billy Carty's telephone contact with Libyan, in efforts to obtain both money and all, increased dramatically after the president's meeting with Libya.
A third draft has been circulated among the special subcommittee's nine members since last weekend.
Billy Carter, in Americus, Ga., called the disclosures "A rough draft of a rough draft of the staff report that was leaked."
Kissinger: Weapons buildup needed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -The United States must stay neutral in the fighting between Iran and Iraq and must build up military strength in the Persian Gulf, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said at a news conference yesterday.
"I think there has to be a significant Western presence in the Persian Gulf, or else the Soviet-backed forces will get the upper hand," Kissinger said. "Pre-Western forces in that area are relatively weak while the Soviet Union is strong."
Kissinger said the Soviet Union's dominance in the Persian Gulf area had been helped by what he called the United States' dereliction of its policies in
The United States' failure to maintain military strength in the Middle East fostered conditions for conflict between Iran and Iraq, he said.
Khomeini says Iran will fight 'until the end
By United Press International
Both Iran and Iraq warned the United States against attempting to protect oil traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran used the strongest terms and threatened to turn the Persian Gulf into a 'gulf' if any Western power intervenes.
BAGHDAD, Iraq—Iranian jets bombed a nuclear power plant and a fuel depot in Baghdad yesterday, and Ayatollah Rubulhah Khlomeini rejected all mediation efforts, saying Iran would wage war against Iraq "until the end."
Yesterday's attacks on Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, were among the most destructive in the nine-day-old conflict. Iraqi officials said an Iranian jet attack on a fuel depot killed two people and injured nine others.
As the fighting continued, the Iraqis advanced 65 miles into Iran. Khominiola and Khalid al-Hasan captured the city.
IRAQ CONSOLIDATED its advances on the ground by tightening its siege of the Iranian refinery at Abadan and by advancing down an embattled highway to within five miles of Ahvaz, capital of Iran's oil-ric khizhistan province.
Officials at Abadan, broadcast orders to civilians to make Molotov cocktails, dig trenches in the streets and brace themselves for hard-to-hand combat.
vowed Iran would continue fighting until Iraq had been destroyed.
law over the city and set ablaze the fuel on his car.
Iran retaliated with an air strike against Baghdad that took the city's air defenses by surprise.
France had been supplying Iraq with highly-enriched uranium for the reactor, prompting fears the Iraqis would be caught in a nuclear bomb within the next few years.
In Parks, French officials announced that the planes also damaged a French-built nuclear power plant, though not the reactor itself.
IN TEIRAN, the Iranian Parliament resumed its debate on the fate of the 52 American hostages, now in their 332nd day of captivity. It heard more than 100 speakers and he tried as spies before adjourning the debate until Sunday. Tehran Radio said.
Iran also said saudi Arabian planes were bringing military equipment for Iraq.
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow spoke out on the conflict for the first time, indirectly blamed it on the US, and blamed it to both Iran and Iraq to end the war.
In New York, Secretary of State Edmund Muskle unexpectedly met with the president in Washington.
U.S. sends radar craft to boost Saudi defense
Ross said that the United States was responding to a request from the Saudi government and that the planes would be dropped there to supplement Saudi air defenses.
Defense Department spokesman Thomas Ross said the aircraft, known as AWACS, would be used for defense. He said that the United States intended to remain neutral in the Iran-iraq conflict.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The United States sent four sophistication warning and control aircraft to Saudi Arabia yesterday as the air defenses of Persian Gulf state.
At the State Department, spokesman Jack Cannon said, "We are responding
to a legitimate Saudi defense request. There is always the threat that the Iraq-Iranian war could lead to a wider engagement."
spokesmen declined to say where the planes would be based.
Iran, in warning neighboring Persian Gulf states not to support Iraq, has triggered fears it might attack oil industries in Saudi Arabia and smaller gulf states.
A number of support planes carrying additional equipment and about 360 students in flight.
Pentagon spokesmen said the planes, which will remain under U.S. command, would be used to fill in gaps in the Saudi radar network and would be protected by Saudi American-made F-5 fighters and ground-based anti-aircraft missiles.
Ross said that one of the planes had already left Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma before noon and that the other three radar- and computer-packed aircraft would leave soon after on the 17-hour flight.
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Hammadi. Hammadi later said he told Muskie, "The best thing that the United States can do to ease the situation is not to interfere in any way."
Commenting on reports that the Pentagon is studying contingency plans to keep open the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the region's oil passes to the West, Tehran Radio said. "We are fully capable of turning the region into a vast hell and burning imperialism in it."
The Iranians said they had inflicted $4 billion in damages on Iraq since the war began, a figure that does not include damage to giant oil installations, which have been repeatedly bombed by Iranian jets.
Surplus of doctors
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The United States now has a shortage of doctors, but it will have a surplus of 70,000 by 1990 because of growing enrollments at eight-eight-trained physicians, a government-sponsored committee said yesterday.
The Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee said there would be too many doctors in 15 specialized fields, such as neurosurgery, cardiology, general surgery and obstetrics-synecology.
However, the panel predicted a shortage of specialists in child psychiatry, emergency medicine, preventive medicine and general psychiatry.
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