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World Beat International Iran threatens U.S. MANAMA. Bahrain (AF) — Iran will strike back and "make the U.S. regret" the Navy shell ing that destroyed two oil plat forms in the Persian Gulf. Ira nian leaders said Tuesday. Hashemi Rafsanjani. speaker of the Iranian Parliament and one of Iran's most powerful leaders, said his vow of retaliation was "not a threat, but a reality." Prime Minister Hussein Musavi said "compromise is impossible" and "we will retaliate" for the U.S. attack. Iran's official news agency reported. Musavi was quoted as saying that “after we deal our reprisal blow, we will call it quits." The 12th U.S.-escorted convoy set out Tuesday, one day after the artillery' attack on the Iranian platforms, moving south from Kuwait on the 550-mile vuyage out of the gulf London stocks plunge LONDON (AP) - Share prices fell sharply today on the London Stock Exchange after staging a brict rally. The Finan cial Tlmes-Stock Exchange 100-share index was down 160.3 points at 1.881 9 in late trading, after being only 67.2 points off about an hour earlier — when shares rebounded amid signs that tension in the world financial markets could be easing. On the New York Stock Ex change, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial storks, up as much as 200 points in early trading, was up only 7.78 points at 1,746.52 around noon EDT. Earlier in the day in japan, the Tokyo Stock Exchange was swamped with sell orders, and the 225-share Nikkei stock average fell a record 3,836.48 points to 21.910 08 at the close The decline shaved nearly 15 percent off the index's value. Environment debated UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Environmental destruction is becoming a critical problem throughout the world, and is in creasingly harmful to develop ing nations, foreign leaders said at a U.N debate. “While economic and social development suffer from severe national and global imbalances, threats to the environment are becoming global in scope and devastating in scale and effect,” said Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. chair woman of the U.N -sponsored World Commission on Environ ment and Development En croachment of desert, loss of rain forests, a worldwide warm ing trend, acid rain, rising ocean levels, ozone depletion and overuse of agricultural land were among the numerous dif ficulties cited during the U.N' General Assembly debate. 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Police said 17 railway person nel have been detained for ques tioning A police spokesman said 154 people were hospitaliz ed in critical condition and 1 IB others suffered minor injuries in the crash in the district of Bin taro Jaya. 10 miles south of Jakarta. Nova Scotia combed MIDDLE MUSQUODOBOtT. Nova Scotia (AP) — Dozens of Nova Scotians have responded to Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer's search for distant relatives who can donate bone marrow to his two daughters suffering from a rare disease. Dr Max Gorelick. spokesman for the Red Cross Society, said Monday that the society had received calls from about BO people wondering if they were related to the Krohnmayer family. But a lot of checking must lie done before they can be asked to take a blood test to determine com patibility. he said. Krohnmayer and his family began looking Monday in the Musquodoboit Valley, northeast of Halifax, for relatives who may be compatible donors for his daughters Kirsten. 14. and Katie. 8. The girls were diagnosed about four years ago as having Kanconi's anemia, a disease that reduces the capaci ty of bone marrow to produce red and white blood ceils. Without bone marrow transplants, the girls probably will die. National Nuke panel created WASHINGTON lAP) — A House subcommittee Tuesday approved legislation creating an independent commission to review federal efforts to find a site for the nation's first high level radioactive waste dump. The action was praised by two Northwest congressmen who have been highly critical of the Department of Energy's waste disposal program, and a DOE spokeswoman said the bill could delay final selection of a site. The measure would give a three-member commission 12 months to review DOE's nuclear waste program and recommend any changes to Congress. Con gress would then have six mon ths to act on the recommenda tions or the Energy Department could continue with its present program towards building a permanent repository for highly radioactive wastes. Senate halts filibuster WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted today to halt a filibuster blocking a formal decision by the chamber on President Reagan's Persian Gulf policy, oven while Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger hinted that more retaliation may be taken again Iran if that nation continues its attacks on mer chant shipping The Senate voted 67-28 to in voke cloture, the parliamentary device needed to end a filibuster. It takes 60 votes to successfully invoke cloture. The filibuster by administration supporters had blocked floor ac tion on a binding resolution that could set up a vote early next year on Reagan's gulf policy. Sen John Warner. R Va., one of the co-sponsors of the resolution, said "it is a way for us to get this behind us once and for all." No recesssion WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi dent Reagan, buoyed by the par tial recovery of the stock market, declared Tuesday. "There is nothing that has hap pened here that should result in a recession." “Economic fun damentals in this country re main sound and our citizens should not panic." Reagan said after an extraordinary meeting with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and Treasury Secretary James A Baker 111 to discuss the chaos gripping the stock market after Monday's record 508-point collapse The Dow Jones industrial average regained some of its historic loss, rising 102 points on Tuesday, The president noted that he signed an order Tuesday implementing the automatic spending cuts under the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction law, but said he would prefer that the ad ministration and congressional leaders negotiate an agreement to reduce the red ink. Navy begins convoy WASHINGTON (AP) - The U S. Navy began a new convoy operation for reflagged Kuwaiti tankers Tuesday, just one day after American ships destroyed Iranian off-shore platforms in the central Persian Gulf. The Pentagon said the new convoy began sailing from Kuwaiti waters around 9:30 a.m. local time (2:30 a m EDT), steaming southward toward the Strait of Hormuz. The convoy consists of two reflagged Kuwaiti ships — the 80,000-ton product carrier Ocean City and the 46.000-ton liquified petroleum tanker Gas King — and the guided-missile frigate USS Ford, the Pentagon said “The convoy is now pro gressing uneventfully in the central gulf." the Pentagon add ed. The latest convoy is the 12th since President Reagan ordered U.S. military forces to begin protecting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers in mid-July. Compromise wanted WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Reagan, after ordering the start of $23 billion in automatic spending cuts under the Gramm-Rudman law. said Tuesday he would prefer cut ting the deficit through a budget compromise with Congress and indicated for the first time he might consider a tax increase Reagan's remarks came after a meeting with his top economic advisers and followed calls from the bipartisan congres sional leadership for action in the wake of Monday's stock market crash “l presented in my budget a program that pro vided for $22 billion in addi tional revenue, which was not necessarily taxes. And I’m will ing to look at whatever proposal they might have." Reagan said in response to a question about whether he'd compromise with the Democrats. EMU FOOD SERVICES CULTURAL FORUM presents BEER GARDENS featuring Calvin Walker from Portland Wednesday, October 21 4-7 pm I.D. 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