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Nation/World
Monday, Dec. 9, 1985
University Daily Kansan
News Briefs Legislative session begins final week
WASHINGTON — Congress begins its final push toward year-end adjournment with Republican leaders in agreement that a balanced-budget plan expected to be enacted this week could lead to higher taxes next year.
Congressional leaders are aiming to wrap up legislative business for the year by the end of the week.
However, the GOP leaders are split on whether to go along with President Reagan's call for the House to pass tax-overhaul legislation drafted by the Democrat-led Wavs and Means Committee.
Marceau collapses
MOSCOW — French mime Marcel Marceau collapsed and underwent intestinal surgery at a Moscow hospital, where he was listed in serious condition in an intensive care unit, French and Soviet sources said yesterday.
Marceau, 62, on a concert tour of the Soviet Union, collapsed in pain Friday and was rushed to Botkin Hospital, where he had an intestinal operation Saturday, a French diplomat said.
WASHINGTON — New York state is investigating the alleged sale of faked medical credentials to more than a thousand students from Caribbean and Latin American medical schools, a top state official savs.
Med scandal alleged
Two business "brokers" and between five and 10 New York City doctors are under criminal investigation for allegedly selling clinical rotation certifications, said Joseph Fisch, executive director of the New York State Office of Professional Discipline.
Paris bombs hurt 35
PARIS — Police said yesterday that they think a maniac, not a terrorist, probably was responsible for bombings at two downtown department stores packed with Christmas shoppers. The attacks left 35 people injured, 12 of them seriously.
Officials said the explosions left most people with burns.
From Kansan wire reports.
U.S., Russia pledge action
United Press International
LONDON — The United States and the Soviet Union are expected to exchange letters pledging joint action against international terrorism, the Sunday Times reported.
"Secret talks have been going on between the two countries for the past month and an exchange of letters pledging action against kidnapping and hijacking is expected before Christmas," the newsman said.
Quoting sources close to the negotiations, the Sunday Times said a superpower agreement on cooperation against hacking and hostage crises would be followed by a U.N. resolution condemning international terrorism, which Moscow is most likely to support.
"The agreement will mark a significant advance in the fight against terrorism," the newspaper said. "In the past, the Soviet Union has refused to cooperate in combating terrorism, in part because the Eastern bloc suffered less from terrorism and in part because the Russians see such groups as legitimate 'revolutionaries.'"
Diplomats recalled that Soviet interest in such cooperation increased when four Soviet diplomats were kidnapped recently in Beirut. One of the envoys was killed and the three others were released after weeks of captivity.
"While the exchange of letters and a U.N. vote will not seriously undermine the ability of the terrorists to operate, it is hoped that the agreement will provide a basis on which to discuss more concrete matters such as sharing intelligence and depriving terrorists of arms supplies and training facilities," the newspaper said.
In Washington, a State Department spokeswoman said she was unaware of the reported agreement.
A spokesman for Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher said Britain would welcome such an initiative.
"The prime minister has gone on the record a number of times as saying better international cooperation is needed to combat international terrorism. This sort of thing falls well into that kind of thinking," the spokesman said.
The Sunday Times also reported that Britain was considering easing its extradition laws to prevent the country from becoming a haven for terrorists.
In a television interview, Home Secretary Douglas Hurd said Britain must be tougher on people entering the country after committing a serious crime elsewhere.
"There is a real problem here . . .
it's difficult for friendly foreign democratic governments to get back into their own jurisdiction people who have really committed quite serious crimes, including even crimes approaching terrorism," he said.
Guatemala ends military rule
The Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan voted yesterday to choose this Central American country's first civilian president in more than 30 years of virtually uninterrupted and often brutal military rule.
By dawn, lines of voters were forming in streets littered with the remains of bonfires and fireworks from a festival the night before to cast their ballots when the polls opened at 7 a.m.
The runoff election was between Vinicio Cerezo, 42, a lawyer who is the slightly left-of-center candidate from the Christian Democratic Party, and Jorge Carpio, 53, a newspaper publisher viewed as a somewhat right-of-center candidate from the Nation Center Union.
Pre-election polls gave Cerezо a 2-10-1 margin over Carpio, who founded his own political party two years ago. In the November election, Cerezо received 38.6 percent of the vote, and Carpio received 20.2 percent.
They were the top vote-getters in the first election on Nov. 3 in which eight candidates ran but in which no candidate received a cler majority as required by law.
The new president will succeed Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia Vieientes, the last of five successive military rulers. He came to power in a coup in 1983, deposing Gen. Efrain Jose Rios Montt, who, in turn, gained power in a 1982 coup.
Guatemala is in the midst of its worst depression in 50 years, with inflation running at more than 50 percent a year and about 45 percent of the workforce either out of work or underemployed.
As the country's economic problems deepened over the past five years, the military became more enthusiastic about turning the government over to civilians and escaping blame for calamity.
U.S. curbs travel of 4 Soviet allies
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United States is requiring diplomats of four Soviet bloc nations — Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and East Germany — to make arrangements for travel within the United States through the State Department, it was reported yesterday.
for the F91 to keep track of the four nations' citizens and to cut down on possible spying for the Soviet Union.
The new policy, according to The New York Times, will make it easier
A State Department spokeswoman could neither confirm nor deny the report.
According to the Times, the government has warned all of the Eastern European allies of the Soviet Union that their diplomats' right to travel freely will be curbed if nationals are caught spying.
Last week, in congressional testimony, Rozanne Ridgeway, assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian Affairs, said, "Clearly, Moscow's East Europe allies do involve themselves as surrogates for the Soviet Union in the illegal acquisition of intelligence.
"In taking steps to reduce the espionage threat in the United States, we are mindful of the East European dimension."
Aquino's hopes dim as talks break down
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — A unity bid between Corazon Aquino and Salvador Laurel fell apart yesterday, dimming opposition prospects of defeating President Ferdinand E. Marcos in a Feb. 7 special election.
While Laurel's supporters cheered and fireworks exploded at his family compound, the former senator blamed Aquino for the collapse of talks that would have put her at the top of the opposition ticket against Marcos.
Instead of accepting Aquino's offer to run as her vice presidential candidate on a single ticket, Laurel said he would run on his own for president.
Aquino she hoped that the opposition still would unite behind her and Laurel, and invited him to join in a "grand coalition" ticket.
But fragmenting of the opposition gives Marcos, at least for now, two rivals, each with distinct followings, and strengthens his chances of keeping the presidency
he has held since 1965
"I was pleading. I was telling them, let us not destroy ourselves now." Francisco Rodrigo, the chief mediator in the opposition unity talks, said in recounting his discussions early yesterday with Laurel and the widow of assassinated opposition leader Benigno Aquino, who was shot in 1983 on his return from a three-year exile.
Marcos' foes still have time to patch the rift and produce a unified ticket. The deadline for filing is Wednesday.
Laurel said he had agreed to run as vice president under Aquino but insisted that they use the party banner of his United Nationalist Democratic Organization. He said Aquino first agreed, then changed her mind yesterday.
Aquino said that Laurel agreed to run with her under the joint banners of both the United Nationalist group and the People's Fight Party and that it was Laurel who changed his mind.
Auburn University labeled as most segregated campus
The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge has labeled Auburn University the most segregated campus in Alabama and has given Gov. George C. Wallace until Valentine's Day to devise a plan to remove remnants of segregation from Alabama universities.
man 2 percent last year and a black faculty of 0.6 percent.
Clemon's ruling was issued Saturday, the same day a black Auburn football player, Be Jackson, won the Heisman Trophy.
U. S. District Judge U.W. Clemon said in his 100-page ruling, "The evidence tends to support the widespread perception of blacks in Alabama that, except for the presence of black athletes and the changes mandated by federal laws and regulations, Auburn's racial attitudes have changed little since the '60s."
Clemon's ruling also targeted Auburn's predominantly white Montgomery campus, which he said needlessly duplicated programs at mostly black Alabama State University in the same city.
The school in Auburn had a black student enrollment of slightly more
Clemon also focused on Auburn's agricultural extension program, which he said benefited from racial discrimination against a similar program at the state's other land grant college, predominantly black Alabama A&M University.
The ruling resulted from a lawsuit filed more than two years ago by the U.S. Justice Department.
The judge gave Wallace, the Alabama Commission on Higher Education and the Alabama Public School and College Authority until Feb. 14 to submit a plan based on U.S. Office of Education criteria for desegregating the state's system of higher education.
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