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U.S. rushes
Sudanese aid
WASHINGTON
The United States plans to
send Sudan about 20 tanks, a
dozen howitzers and two jet
fighters before the end of this
year to strengthen that
country's defenses against
threats from Libya, a senior
defense official said Thursday.
This official, who asked that
his name not be used, said "we
wish we could do a lot more
than that” in the short term, but
those weapons, plus some
lesser equipment, would just
about eat up the $100 million the
Reagan administration has
asked of Congress for military
aid to Sudan
' There is some symbolism" in
these hurry-up deliveries, even
in the relatively small numbers,
the official said He stressed
that Sudan's leaders believe
they must show that they are
acting to defend the country
from Libyan incursions
He said there is fighting along
the Sudanese border with Chad,
where he estimated Libya has
some 4,000 troops, and
"absolute evidence" of Libyan
air attacks on Sudanese
villages
Noting that there are some
13,000 Cubans and 1,400 Rus
sians in Ethiopia along Sudan's
eastern flank, as well as Libyans
in Chad on the western side of
the country, this official said
"the most clear and present
military danger at the moment
lies in Sudan "
Employment rate
drops again
SALEM
Employment in Oregon's
already depreseed woods
products industry dropped still
lower last month as the state's
jobless rate reached 10 1 per
cent, the Employment Division
announced Thursday
The announcement added
that 119,300 Oregon residents
were without jobs in September
as double-digit unemployment
continued The seasonally
adjusted jobless rate rose 1
percent over August He said
the nation's unemployment also
increased in September, from
7.2 percent to 7.5 percent
Reagan assails
Soviet intentions
PHILADELPHIA
Pres Reagan assailed the
Soviet Union on Thursday as
having nothing to offer the
global poor, while he rejected
the claims of "some shrill
voices" that he is tightfisted
with America's helping hand
Setting the stage for his jour
ney to Mexico next week for a
conference between 22 indus
i
trial and developing nations,
Reagan offered no promise of
boosted foreign aid in the years
to come — though he noted the
United States already gives
more than any other nation
Instead, he said a greater
contribution "is to follow
through with our own economic
recovery” coupled with greater
private investment in foreign
trade
"By getting our own econ
omic house in order, we win,
they win, we all win," the pre
sident said, referring to the in
dustrial democracies on one
hand and the poorest nations
on the other
The speech, before the World
Affairs Council, broke no new
ground But it affirmed
Reagan's thoughts on interna
tional economics one week
before he meets with 21 other
heads of government in
Cancun, Mexico, to review rela
tions between the world s rich
and poor.
Indonesia sacks
public officials
JAKARTA, Indonesia
Of 8,860 Indonesian govern
ment officials investigated for
corruption in the last four years,
7,513 were given "administra
tive sanction," sacked,
declared non-active or made to
retire, the government
announced Thursday
It said 847 other officials were
brought to court and 240 others
given "lighter punishment."
The nationwide campaign also
recovered $177 million in state
money that was illegally divert
ed from state coffers
Senate restores
Social Security
WASHINGTON
The Senate, reversing itself
on one of the year's most con
troversial budget cuts, voted
95-0 Thursday to restore the
minimum Social Security ben
efit of $122 a month for more
than 2.5 million recipients
The bill also is designed to
shore up the sagging fund that
pays for Social Security survivor
and retirement benefits, in part
by making sick pay subject to
payroll taxes, in many cases, for
the first six months a worker is
off the job
The measure cleared un
animously only after Repub
licans crushed a Democratic
led attempt to increase taxes on
the oil industry by more than $14
billion and use the money for the
giant federal pension system
Congress, acting on
Reagan's request, voted earlier
this year to abolish the minimum
Social Security benefit begin
ning next March Democrats
fought bitterly against the move
at the time, but Senate Repub
licans used their new majority
strength to force the change
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The House later voted to res
tore the benefit for all three mil
lion current recipients. And last
month, Reagan asked Congress
to restore the benefit for most
Committee rejects
AWACS sale
WASHINGTON
A Senate committee recom
mended Thursday that the
proposed sale of AWACS radar
planes to Saudi Arabia be ve
toed, but Senate Republican
Leader Howard Baker said he is
more confident than ever the
sale will go through
“We have a certain momen
tum," Baker told reporters "It's
now winnable Several weeks
ago it wasn't.”
Baker offered his assessment
prior to the Foreign Relations
Committee s 9-8 vote against
the sale, a lineup that the GOP
leader had anticipated
The committee vote came de
spite Baker's plea that "not a
single issue has more far
reaching consequences for the
ultimate security of this
country "
In Philadelphia, Pres Reagan
reacted by saying, "Frankly, I’m
gratified that it was that close
Of course, I wish they’d gone
the other way.”
The president said that with
the committee vote that close,
he's still confident the sale will
be approved on the Senate
floor
The Foreign Relations panel
action came a few hours after
the Armed Service Committee
endorsed the sale 10-5, con
cluding in a report that it "will
enhance the potential of U S
military forces to protect U S.
interests in the Persian Gulf
region."
Greenpeace pair
scale smokestack
TACOMA, Wash.
Carrying food, water and an
80-foot-long protest banner,
two Greenpeace volunteers
scaled the 563-foot Asarco
smelter smokestack Thursday
to protest the firm’s arsenic and
sulfur dioxide emissions.
Thick fog obscured both the
climbers and their banner for
most of the morning, but Asarco
officials eventually were able to
see the two, perched on a two
foot-wide ledge about 30 feet
from the top of the smokestack.
Richard Shaver, police chief
of Ruston, the south Tacoma
suburb in which the smelter is
located, talked with protesters
Jon Hinck and Jeff Petterson by
walkie-talkie, informed them
they were trespassing and
asked them to come down, said
Norma Doucette, a Ruston
deputy clerk.
Hinck, 27, and Petterson, 28,
declined to climb down. Hinck is
a board member of the environ
mental group’s Seattle office
and Petterson is a volunteer,
said Julie McCullough, a Seattle
Greenpeace spokeswoman.
Both men are from Seattle
"We’ve asked the Ruston
police to inform the people on
the stack that they’re trespass
ing, that it’s dangerous for them
to be up there if they’re unfa
miliar with high places, that they
ought to come down forthwith,”
Lindquist said.
"We don’t propose to have
anybody try to go up and
remove them. It’s too danger
ous," he said.
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