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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.
Rescuers free bodies
JAKARTA, Indonesia IAP) —
Rescue workers today freed
mom bodies from the wreckage
of two passenger trains that
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152 people, many of them
children, police said. Com
munications Minister Rusmin
Nuryadin said officials of two
railway stations were being
questioned about why the
Jakarta-bound train did not wait
for an outbound train to pass on
the single track before the colli
sion Monday.
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.
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