inter/national news
From Associated Prsss rsports
North-South summit
opens in Mexico
CANCUN, Mexico
Pres Reagan gave condi
tional approval Thursday to
negotiations aimed at
narrowing the gap between the
world s richest and poorest
nations but also defended the
U S "track record of success"
in international economics He
said it was achieved without
"flashy new gimmicks "
Reagan's remarks at the
opening of the North-South
summit conference of 22
nations in this Yucatan Penin
sula resort were the first indica
tion since he arrived here
Wednesday that his administra
tion would take part in "global
negotiations" favored by many
of the participants
based on 'four essential
understandings ”
The historic two-day
conference was opened by
Mexican President Jose Lopez
Portillo, the host, who criticized
the current world economic
order as "unjust and unfair"
Reagan, saying words are
cheap,"' and " cooperative
action is needed — and needed
now" urged low-income coun
tries to develop their markets
and exports not by weakening
"the very system that has
served us so well," but by im
proving it
The conference s first
session ran nearly five hours,
with speeches by the leader of
each delegation Asked the
reaction of other participants to
his remarks, Reagan said, A
number of people were very
kind and came up and said nice
things
Jean Pierre Cot, French min
ister for cooperation and
development, accompanying
President Francois Mitterrand,
said Reagan's address was a
move forward from previous
U S statements on the issue" of
global negotiations
Carlos Fuentes. a close advi
sor to Lopez Portillo, said it was
■ positive because it gives
leeway to the other world
leaders to pursue the issue of
global negotiations "
Reagan's highly-qualified
backing for global negotiations
ran counter to the virtually un
animous support for such talks
by other delegations
Former Eugene man
convicted of murder
SEATTLE
A King County Superior Court
jury Thursday decided on life in
prison without possibility of
parole for a man who raped and
strangled his 7-year-old niece at
the family home
The verdict came after the
girl’s parents pleaded with the
jury to spare Arnold Brown's
life Sentencing will be Friday
"His death would accomplish
no good All it would do would
be to cause more pain, more
sorrow and more grieving And
we've had all the pain, sorrow
and grieving we can handle,"
said Christina VanderPlaat,
mother of the victim and the
sister of Brown, 24, who
formerly lived in Eugene
The jury last week found
Brown guilty of aggravated
first-degree murder in the killing
of Lisa VanderPlaat at the family
home in Seattle's Magnolia
neighborhood
Then the jury began the trial's
"penalty phase," hearing new
testimony to determine if Brown
should spend the rest of his life
in prison or be put to death
Reagan budget cuts
for 1982 may sink
WASHINGTON
Pres Reagan will not get the
$16 billion budget austerity
' NOW
OPEN
THE
ABSOLUTE LATEST
IN VIDEO GAMES
Tempest Venture
Moon War Frogger
Donkey Kong
6 TOKENS FOR A $1.00
* across from University Bookstore’1'
V
Open til 2 am this weekend!
package he has requested for
1982, and may not get the
balanced budget he wants by
1984, congressional Repub
licans said Thursday
GOP leaders said they are
looking at raising federal excise
taxes on alcohol and tobacco
and will probably cut 1982
defense spending by more than
the $2 billion Pres Reagan is
recommending
‘The package to be
presented has not yet been
described to the president,''
Senate Republican Leader
Howard Baker of Tennessee
said in refusing to specify
further what steps the GOP
would propose
But Baker indicated that
Reagan will get less than the
$16 billion in spending cuts and
higher taxes he wanted for
1982, meaning the bulk of the
$115 billion savings Reagan has
requested over the next three
years will have to come in 1983
or 1984
"There's not that much you
can do in 1982," he said
Asked if the budget could be
balanced by 1984, he said, "I
don't rule out that possibility
Things are going to have to im
prove and we re working on it."
The administration is con
sidering asking Congress for an
increase of as much as four
cents per gallon in in the federal
gasoline tax as part of its search
for ways to narrow the budget
deficit, administration sources
said Thursday
The sources said the size of
the proposed increase has not
been worked out, but that it
probably would be no larger
than a 4-cent hike A doubling of
the tax would account for $7 2
billion in added revenue over
the next three years, a Treasury
Department official said
There was more bad news for
the administration in the latest
developments in its proposal to
sell $8 5 billion in arms to Saudi
Arabia
Senate Democratic Whip Alan
Cranston predicted that the
Senate will veto the proposal by
a large margin, and added that
even new Saudi concessions
may not save it
The Senate lineup against the
sale remained 53-37, according
to the latest Associated Press
count
New British party
wins election
LONDON
Britain's new centrist political
alliance won its first
parliamentary election early
Friday, defeating both the ruling
Conservatives and opposition
Labor in a special ballot in a
London suburb
William Pitt, running for the
alliance of the 7-month-old
Social Democratic Party and the
Liberal Party won by 3,254 votes
in the middle-class Croydon
Northwest district, held by the
Conservatives since 1955.
“We have split the old (two-)
party system wide open Our
momentum is unstoppable
now,” Pitt declared
The result represented a 24 2
percent swing against Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher's
government
It was a major boost for the
new alliance, which is pledged
to break the grip the the
Conservatives and Labor have
had on British politics since
World War II
Thursday's election was
called to fill a vacancy left by the
death of Conservative legislator
Robert Taylor. John Butterfill
was the Conservative candidate
and Stan Boden ran for Labor.
WPPSS nuke plants
won’t be scrapped
SEATTLE
A plan to rescue two partially
built nuclear power plants in
Washington state from the
scrap heap was forged late
Thursday by 88 utilities
participating in the project, of
ficials said.
The board of directors of the
Washington Public Power
Supply System will meet Friday
morning to take final action
Details of the $150 million plan
to mothball the two plants for
the next 20 months were ironed
out during a four-hour meeting
of the participants behind
locked doors
But there were no signatures
yet on the agreement, which
took a flurry of last-minute
negotiations to complete
HAPPY
HOUR I
Video
Games
FREE / ti 09
Fresh Popcorn * &l
Hors d’oeuvres
Free Tara Bar
Every Day 3:30-6:30pm.
TUESDAY Come
as-you-are
nite
Happy Hour
’til closing
THURSDAY
L.C.C. Nite
Happy Hour
’til closing for
all students and
faculty,
with valid student or faculty card"
SUNDAY,
Jogger’s Nhe
Happy Hour til closing on any
orange juice drink.
MONDAY
Night Fcfotball
Happy Hour 'til closing
for ail football jersey wearer’s?
WEDNESDAY
(Over the hump!)
UofONite
Happy Hour
’til closing for all
students and faculty
with valid student or faculty card.
Large
Screen T.V. Sports
General Hospital Daily 2-3:00
Wine and Dine
Lunch Special
$1.19 12 2 daily
Lyons Restaurant 1933 Franklin Blvd. 484-4333