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Wednesdav November 11, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
President of Niger dies in Paris; army chief of staff takes control
NIAMIEY, Niger — President Seyni Kounthe, who seized power 13 years ago in a bloody coup and then earned a reputation as a tough but honest ruler, died in Paris yesterday.
His cousin, Army Chief of Staff Col. Ali Seibou, was named acting president.
Seibou said in a communique read on state-controlled Niger Radio yesterday afternoon that his
cousin Kounthe计死 in the afternoon in Paris but gave no cause of death. It was believed Kounthe suffered from a brain tumor.
The radio said yesterday morning that Seibou, 47, had taken control because of Kountche's poor health. The broadcast said the Supreme Military Council's decision would be in effect until further notice.
Institute warns against U.S.-Soviet accord
LONDON — Soviet military forces have narrowed the technological gap with the West in the last year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies reported today in its annual survey.
lead to Soviet superiority in conventional weapons.
The institute said there were grounds for a "measure of disquiet" about a U.S.-Soviet accord to eliminate medium and shorter-range nuclear missiles from Europe, if such an agreement would
Francois Heisburg, director of the institute, also criticized NATO-member Spain, which is moving to shut down a key U.S. air base. He said Spain was aggravating what he termed "the rise of anti-Europeanism in the United States . . . with a very strange signal."
Bomb victims buried as mourners fault IRA
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — Hundreds of Roman Catholics joined Protestant mourners yesterday as the grief-striken town of Enniskillen buried three of the 11 people killed in an Irish Republican Army bombing.
Ministers urged forgiveness but also condemned the "barbarianism" of the terrorists who planted the bomb that exploded Sunday during
a Remembrance Day service honoring the war dead. Sixty-three people were injured.
A wave of denunciations of the outlawed IRA and its legal political wing, Sinn Fein, followed.
But the politics and tensions of Northern Ireland seemed distant from the ecumenical outpouring that surrounded the first burials in his town of 13,000.
Democrats suggest tax hike
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Democratic negotiators offered a plan yesterday to cut the federal budget deficit by up to $33.8 billion this year, but Republicans said it relied too heavily on tax increases and did little to rein in domestic spending.
Lawmakers and White House representatives tried to move toward a compromise this week and sounded alarm over the fact that they were after yesterday's 12th day of talks.
"I think we're making substantial progress," said House Majority Leader Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., chairman of the talks, after the negotiations ended for the day. He said he was "encouraged by the tone and earnestness" of them.
"Calculators (are) smoking," said James C. Miller III, the White House budget director.
The Democratic proposal would reduce the estimated deficit by $33.8 billion in fiscal 1988, which began Oct. 1, and $4.9 billion in fiscal 1989.
Creators of the plan envision $12 billion in unspecified new taxes this year and $21 billion in fiscal 1989. On top of that, there would be new user fees for government services and tighter enforcement of the current tax law.
Spending growth in domestic and military programs would be restrained, reducing the fiscal 1988 deficit about $12 billion. But the domestic side would be cut less than Republicans proposed, and military spending would be cut more.
The tax and spending changes would cut the deficit by $28.5 billion, including $1 billion trimmed from the deficit by an accounting change in Veterans Administration home loan
guarantees that would not affect beneficiaries of the program.
"I don't think it's substantial movement in the direction where (Republicans) were, but ... it's constructive," said Sen. Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. "Too much taxes, not enough reductions."
The Democrats said they could add to that a plan to allow rural electric cooperatives to refinance their government loans, bringing a one-time $5.3 billion cash inflow.
Rep. Delbert L. Latta of Ohio, senior Republican on the House Budget Committee, said that outside of the benefit programs, the domestic budget cuts of about $2.4 billion were too small and the Democrats were making little effort to lower their demand for new taxes.
Court nominee will be named soon
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Judge Anthony M. Kennedy's all but certain selection to the Supreme Court could come as early as today, the White House said yesterday.
With Kennedy's selection apparently imminent, president Reagan's chief advisers met at the White House along with a team of FBI investigators to review the status of the FBI's work in checking Kennedy's background, said presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater.
"If we're ready, we'll do it."
From The Associated Press.
ment today. "It just boils down to whether he's (Reagan) ready," Fitzwater said.
Originally, Reagan had no activities on his schedule because it is Veterans Day, a federal holiday, and the White House staff was to have the day off. Fitzwater said the press office would be open for business.
Fitzwater said a preliminary investigation could be completed by today but that a full check of Kennedy's background, including interviews with associates and colleagues, would not be finished for some time.
White House officials went to unusual lengths to guard against the failures that brought down President Reagan's previous two choices.
White House chief of staff Howard Baker, counsel A.B. Culvahouse and FBI Director William Sessions met at the White House along with a team of FBI investigators. And administration officials arranged courtesy calls with leading senators for Kennedy amid Republican bickering over the defeat of Robert H. Bork and the withdrawal of Douglas H. Ginsburg.
Reagan met for a half-hour Monday evening at the presidential residence with Kennedy, a federal appellate judge from Sacramento, Calif., Fitzwater said. The nomination announcement would be forthcoming before the week was out, he said.
Attorney General Edwin Meese.
Reagan's remarks stimulate markets
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, seeking to shore up the embattled U.S. dollar, declared yesterday that the currency had fallen enough and that his administration is "not doing anything to bring it down."
The Associated Press
Reagan's remarks, seeming to contradict recent suggestions by other officials that the administration would let the dollar fall, helped fuel a rebound in foreign exchange markets, where the dollar had plunged to new 40-year lows.
"I don't look for a further decline, don't want a further decline from where it is right now," Reagan told reporters in off-the-cuff remarks at the start of a meeting with visiting Israeli President Chaim Herzog.
A weaker dollar makes U.S. goods more competitive abroad but reduces Americans' purchasing power and standard of living. Too sharp a plunge can rekindle inflation and drive away foreign investments needed to finance the federal budget deficit.
Although Reagan's comments buoyed markets, at least temporarily, analysts suggested the remarks did not necessarily signal a shift in U.S. policy. They said the administration may have little choice but to accept further declines in the dollar, despite criticism from Europe and Japan.
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