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Thursday, September 25, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Bishop meets guerrilla leader, asks that Paris bombings cease
PARIS — A Greek Orthodox bishop met yesterday with a jailed Lebanese guerrilla leader, asking him to call off a wave of bombings that have killed nine people and wounded more than 160. French radio said.
The meeting in Sante prison came as police announced the arrest of eight people in an investigation of recent terrorist attacks.
But police refused to say whether the arrests were directly related to the blasts claimed by two Arab groups seeking the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah - facing charges in the 1982 assassinations in Paris of U.S. military attache Charles Robert Ray and an Israeli diplomat.
In New York, French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, addressing the U.N. General Assembly, cited among the causes for rising terrorism the "complicity of states that are willing to close their eyes to terrorist" groups.
The French government has denied negotiating with the terrorists and said it will not yield to blackmail. But the newspaper Le Canard Enchaine reported yesterday that government emissaries had conducted direct negotiations with members of Abdallah's group in Madrid starting in May. The newspaper said a deal to release Abdallah later collapsed.
The Foreign Ministry said French envoy Michel Aurillac returned yesterday from Syria — identified in many news reports as the suspected sponsor of the bombings — after discussing with Syrian officials "bilateral Franco-Syrian questions in the region."
UNITED NATIONS — Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, amid signs that negotiations had reached a critical stage, said yesterday his government had made "good proposals" to the United States to resolve the case of Nicholas Daniiloff.
U.S.-Soviet talks continue
A senior American official described the negotiations as active, following two unannounced meetings between Secretary of State George Shultz and Shevardnadze on Tuesday. But no further meetings between the two men had been confirmed.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes, traveling with President Reagan to Detroit, told reporters the standoff over Damliof, a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, was not yet resolved.
Shultz met Shevardnadze on Tuesday morning for 40 minutes at U.N. headquarters but the State Department said the session failed to resolve the case. He later went to the Soviet U.N. mission for a 90-minute meeting the department declined to characterize, leaving open the question of whether progress had been made.
Shultz and Shevardnadze went into rounds of meetings at the U.N. General Assembly amid expectations they would meet again to discuss the case that threats to hold up another superpower summit.
Tax reform gains House support
WASHINGTON — On the eve of a House showdown, supporters of the tax reform bill hastened to find enough votes yesterday, but with the help of President Reagan won a fight among Republicans that should make passage easier.
backers of the sweeping legislation, which would make the biggest changes in the nation's tax code since World War II, said they were still about 40 votes shy of guaranteeing it would be approved and sent to the Senate.
supporters of the bill scored a victory in a closed-door Republican caucus when GOP leaders apparently short-circuited a procedural move that some feared could kill the entire tax reform measure.
But they were confident that by the time the measure goes to the House floor tomorrow they will have the needed support.
Some Republicans who were unhappy with the bill had hoped that when it came to the floor they could offer a motion to send it back to the House-Senate conference committee that drafted it. That motion would include specific instructions to change several parts of the bill, including new restrictions on individual retirement accounts.
Because the motion would have addressed several popular items, such as IRAs, supporters feared it would pass and scuttle the entire tax overhaul effort.
The bill would curtail numerous tax breaks in exchange for lower rates. But despite the push for the measure by Reagan, many lawmakers say they have found little support for the plan from their constituents.
Reagan endorses black, woman
OMAHA, Neb. — President Reagan, trumpeting the GOP as "the true party of opportunity," campaigned yesterday to put a woman in the Nebraska statehouse and a black in Michigan's.
He flew to Nebraska to stump for state Treasurer Kay Orr after raising money for Wayne County (Detroit) Executive William Lucas, who is trying to become the first black elected governor.
His speeches in Detroit and Omaha allowed him to focus on groups the Republican Party is seeking to woo in the November election.
As Reagan spoke to about 7,500 supporters in the Omaha Arena, a small group of protesters began chanting anti-Reagan and peace slogans.
Earlier in Michigan, Reagan said, "Today, we are the party of new ideas and open doors, we are the party of opportunity and freedom, we are the party of
strength and ideals."
Reagan spoke at a fund-raising lunch in Detroit's Cobo Hall, adjacent to the Joe Louis Arena where he was nominated for his first term in 1980.
If elected, Lucas could be the country's first black governor. Democratic Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, a black, is running for governor of California.
U.S. ranks first in basic literacy
WASHINGTON — A new study indicates that the United States has the world's highest rate of basic literacy, but that many young adults stumble when asked to glean information from a bus schedule or decipher a road map, testing experts said yesterday.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress said tests it gave Americans in their early 20s last year found 6 percent could not read as well as the average fourth-grader, 20 percent could not read as well as an eighth-grader, and 38.5 percent were unable to read at the eleventh-grade level.
In addition, 2 percent of the 3,600 adults approached by the testing agency were deemed incapable of taking the literacy test because it would "unduly frustrate or embarrass them." The report said. Half of that group could not speak English.
Blacks lagged far behind whites on the reading tests, with Hispanics scoring in between.
The report, "Literacy: Profiles of America's Young Adults," said more than 99 percent of those tested could sign their names to a Social Security form or write a few simple sentences describing a job they would like.
But 43 percent had trouble following directions on a map, and 20 percent were stumped by a question that required them to read the fine print on a bus schedule.
From Kansan wires
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