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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
wednesday, Jan. 15, 1986
News Briefs
Libyan jets intercept U.S. surveillance jet
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Veteran actress Donna Reed, who played the all-American girl throughout most of her film and television career, died at 9:17 a.m. yesterday in her home after a short bout with cancer. She was 64.
WASHINGTON — Two Libyan jet fighters intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane flying over the Mediterranean Sea off Libya on Monday, prompting two American fighter planes to take off from the aircraft carrier Coral Sea, Reagan administration sources said yesterday.
Tax group files suit
Reed won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in 1953 for her performance in "From Here To Eternity." Her last acting role was as Miss Elie Ewing in the television series "Dallas." She was fired from the show last year after a single season.
WASHINGTON — One day before the first Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction axes fall, a taxpayers group said the law would fail and filed a lawsuit yesterday that it said was aimed at protecting America's children from being saddled with debt.
The Libyan fighters made no threatening moves toward the Navy plane, which was in international airspace and flew back to Libya before the American fighters arrived, said the sources, who declined to be identified. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger confirmed the incident.
Veteran actress Reed dies of cancer at 64
The class action suit was filed in U.S. District Court by the National Taxpayers Union on behalf of the country's 60 million children. The premise of the suit, the group said, was that the young people were being denied equal protection under the Constitution because the deficits posed a "discriminatory burden on today's children."
The suit seeks a court order to prevent the government from rolling up more debt on top of the current $2 trillion limit and to set a target for elimination of the current red ink.
Rebels storm Yemen capital
The Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain — Rebel troops and militiamen in Markist South Yemen advanced on the presidential palace behind tanks yesterday in the capital city of Aden, Persian Gulf sources reported. They said earlier that President Ali Nasser Mohammed was badly wounded.
Gulf-based shipping executives said that Mohammed was hospitalized after an assassination attempt Monday during a/would/b coup by leaders of a radical faction closely tied to the Soviet Union.
Reports reaching London from Aden told of unidentified planes bombing the Aden airport yesterday and of artillery and small arms fire in central Aden and in the city's port.
South Yemen, a key Soviet ally in the Mideast, lies near the mouth of the Red Sea on the southern end of the Arabian peninsula. The Soviet Union has important naval bases in
In Washington, State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said that the United States had no diplomatic representation in South Yemen and said that there were few, if any, Americans there.
Aden and on Socotra Island in the Indian Ocean.
"Fierce fighting has been raging in and around the port district," said one executive. "Army and militia rebels have been advancing behind tanks and armored personnel carriers toward the presidential palace and radio station."
Marine executives in Bahrain, Dubai and Kuwait said they been receiving wireless messages about street fighting from ships anchored at Aden.
The sources insisted on anonymity. They said that troops loyal to Mohammed contr- lied the airport district, where sporadic fighting was reported Monday night and early yesterday.
At least four merchant ships were reported on fire in Aden harbor, while opposing forces traded shellfire in four suburbs, the sources said. Some seaside buildings also were burning.
It identified them as former President Abdul Fattah Ismaili, Al Ahmed Nasser Antar, a close associate of Mohammed and No. 2 man in the presidium; Al Saliem al-Biadh, the minister of local administration; and Ali Shaye, a ranking member of the ruler Yemen Socialist Party.
Official Aden Radio said that four coup plotters were executed after a summary trial.
Diplomatic sources in London, insisting on anonymity, expressed doubts about the reported executions and said that there was speculation that Defense Minister Saleh Mushel led the coup attempt. They had little information about Musleh.
A gulf shipping executive, who spoke on the condition he be identified, told AP. "We have information received by wireless from the port of Aden about President Mohammed being hospitalized for serious injuries he suffered in the assassination attempt.
“Our men in Aden have been told by official and rebel sources that the president was critically injured.”
He said fierce fighting raged near the Soviet Embassy compound.
A Japanese trade company executive, who said he had received radio messages from a ship in Aden, said, "We don't know if the Soviets have been involved in the fighting. But what is certain is that the Soviets are there on the streets, blocking a few roads."
The Soviet Union maintains a sizable military presence in South Yemen, which has a population of 2.2 million and is one of the world's poorest nations.
Guatemala inducts civilian rule
The Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY — Vincio Cerezo became Guatemala's first civilian president in 16 years yesterday, facing ruinous inflation and the delicate task of dealing with human rights abuses without alienating the powerful military.
Gen. Oscar Humberto Meja Victoria, the retiring chief of state who seized power in a 1983 coup, administered the oath of office to the 43-year-old lawyer from the centrist Christian Democratic Party.
Vice President George Bush, President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, President Belisario Betancur of Colombia, the presidents of Panama and El Salvador and the
president-elect of Honduras were among foreign leaders attending the inaugural ceremony at the National Theater.
The 100 members of Congress, 51 of them from Cerezo's party, were sworn in earlier yesterday.
Cerezo was elected to serve a five-year term. His inauguration ends nearly four years of rule by decree began by a coup March 23, 1982, that brought Gen. Efrain Rios Mont to power. Meja Victores replaced him in a coup Oct. 8, 1983.
The new president faces tough challenges even with a congressional majority and the initial cooperation of those anxious to solve economic problems and glad to see an end to military rule.
Cerezo must balance the interests of workers impoverished by high inflation, which officially is at 50 percent and estimated by some economists to be twice that, against those of a powerful private sector who guard their own interests and resist higher taxes.
Added to inflation is other economic bad news — industry is working at 30-40 percent capacity, and the foreign debt has grown to $2.4 billion
Public school teachers said they would give Cerezo's new government 10 days to respond to their demands for higher pay before considering a strike.
import duties that Mejia Victores announced last week.
Most unions are expected to give him breathing room in hope of more freedom to organize and operate. Equal patience is expected from business.
Juan Bendfeldt, a conservative businessman and economist, said,
"Expectations for something better to come are high, so business will participate in this honeymoon."
The military has been blamed for economic decay and corruption, and accused of human rights abuses in the 20-year fight against leftist insurgents. Its leaders generally are thought to be returning to the barracks and to be trying to restore the army's image.
Shuttle will end flight one day early
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space agency yesterday ordered the shuttle astronauts to land in Florida tomorrow, a day early, to give technicians more time to ready Columbia for an important launch March 6 on a Halley's comet observation mission.
The decision to shorten the flight from five to four days was made after the crew was unable to repair an electronic device designed to intensify photographic images of the distant comet as it neared the sun.
Flight director Milton Heflin said landing weather was a key factor in the decision to return early. Weather conditions look good for tomorrow and Friday at the cape, but a frontal system is expected to move into the area Saturday.
Heflin said there were many reasons for Columbia's early return, including the weather and problems with some experiments being conducted on the ship.
If the mission had continued as normal and Columbia h not been able to land Friday, and weather prevented a landing Saturday, the ship's chances of achieving its March 6 takeoff date seriously would have been jeopardized. The ship could not be diverted to a California landing because that would set back the schedule by at least four days.
The decision does not influence the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's preparations to launch the shuttle Challenger on Jan. 24 with
New Hampshire school teacher Sharon Christa McAuillef aboard. Jim Wetherbee radioed the disappointing news to the astronauts.
The plan is for Gibson, co-pilot Charles Bolden, George Nelson, Steven Hawley, Franklin Chang-Diaz, RCA engineer Robert Cenker and Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., to complete their experiments today and then pack up for the glide back to earth tomorrow morning. Landing is scheduled for 8:28 a.m. EST.
Tax hike predicted by analyst
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As federal officials surveyed the consequences of an approaching government-wide spending cut of nearly 5 percent, one business analyst predicted yesterday that the law forcing the cuts also would trigger a big tax increase by the year's end, possibly including a consumer tax on gasoline.
Paul R. Huard, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, said a tax hike this year was inevitable under the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law.
He told a business seminar that the Reagan administration and Congress would resist any form of tax increase at first but that Congress would be gripped by paralysis by summer, as it struggled unsuccessfully to make additional spending cuts required under the act.
With congressional elections fast approaching, lawmakers will opt for a quick and dirty tax hike to avoid triggering sweeping spending cuts in popular programs, Huard said.
"The conventional wisdom that you can't pass a tax increase during an election year is no longer valid," he said.
His comments came as federal agency heads sought to make sense of a White House announcement that spending cuts of 4.3 percent in all domestic programs and 4.9 percent for the military would be required March 1 under the Gramm-Rudman law
Department officials said that calculations on what the cutbacks would mean for Americans who benefit from various federal programs would not be known specifically until later in the week.
Congress, however, exempted roughly $23.6 billion in specific benefit programs administered by the Labor Department, according to department officials.
Among them are the $22.4 billion Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, $834 million in black lung disability payments and the $211 million federal program that guarantees payments of private pension benefits.
In addition, workman's compensation benefits totaling $75 million and $57 million of the $250 million program to compensate federal employees disabled on the job were exempted. Labor Department sources said.
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