Page 14/The Battalion/Wednesday, February 6, 1985
WORLD AND NATION
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by Jeff MacNelly
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February serve in our
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by Jeff MacNelly
WASHINGTON — Patrick J. Bu
chanan, a hardline conservative col
umnist and commentator known for
his pugnacious style and blistering
attacks on the press, was installed
Tuesday as White House commu
nications chief in charge of media
relations and speech writing.
Making his debut as White House
chief of staff, Donald T. Regan read
ily acknowledged Buchanan’s repu
tation as a tough-talking critic whose
targets have included administration
moderates such as Secretary of State
George P. Shultz and Treasury Sec
retary James A. Baker III.
“You may not like what he says
but you understand what he’s say
ing,” said Regan. “His philosophy in
many ways parallels that of Presi
dent Reagan.”
Regan said Buchanan specifically
agreed that while he could speak his
mind in administration councils as
policies are being debated, he would
support decisions once they are set
by tnc
by the president.
Regan, in his second day on the
job, announced two other key ap
pointments:
• Edward J. Rollins, 41, to be
come chief of political and govern
mental affairs. Rollins was Reagan’s
political director until moving out of
the White House to run the presi
dent’s re-election campaign.
• Max Friedersdorf, 55, to be leg
islative strategy coordinator. Frie
dersdorf, now a vice president of
Pepsico Inc., was Reagan’s first chief
White House lobbyist who helped
push the president’s 1981 economic
program, with its budget cuts and
tax reductions, through Congress.
All three appointees will hold the
rank of assistant to the president,
which pays $75,100 a year.
Regan also announced that James
S. Brady, who has not worked full
time since he was critically wounded
in the 1981 assassination attempt
against Reagan, will retain tkfj
of press secretary,
Speakes will continue as chie(|J
dential spokesman.
While saying Buchananwilltl
charge of coordinating all cd|
nications coming out of thenl^ySI IN
House,” Regan said Speakest! oult Justii
port directly to the presidents fjL S (ia\ he
chief of staf f and that Bud in a npointe
not Speakes’ boss. udges.
Buchanan, FriedersdorfandL,
ins all worked in the Nixonadifcoiualez
tration — Friedersdorf and R:\merican t<
as lobbyists and Buchananasfcin. told
House press aide, executive Ming him
tant, speech writer and special' w o systems
taut to the president. y ()U ld rathe
Buchanan, 46, stuck bv \ or election
through his resignation, andal
returned to his earliercareeto[®| e saKi
ing political and social comnii )°tl system
His thrice-weekly column ra ,)rstate “ lsl
tributed to 125 newspapers. Ht'ind was a Pl
has been a radio and televisioniw^PP^ s ;
viewer and commentator. nipreine c.<
Goodwill gesture toAnglicons
Libya releases 4 Britons
Associated Press
LONDON — As a goodwill ges
ture to the Church of England, Li
bya today freed four Britons held
prisoner in Libya since May 1984 in
the aftermath of the Libyan Embassy
siege in London, a Libyan govern
ment spokesman said in the Libyan
capital, Tripoli.
free either to stay in Libya or leave
for any other country.”
The prisoners, two of whom were
never charged, were turned over to
Terry Waite, special envoy of Arch
bishop of Canterbury Robert Run-
cie, head of the Church of England.
At a news conference televised
live in London, the spokesman said
the four Britons “henceforth ... are
The release, originally scheduled
for Monday, had been delayed for
24 hours, apparently because of Li
byan anger over a memorial service
held in London for the British po-
Pentagon budget
to build new chemical
money
weapons
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Penta
gon budget unveiled Monday in
cludes yet another request to build
new U.S. nerve gas bombs, the only
weapons system Congress has den
ied President Reaghn during his de
fense buildup.
Defense Secretary Caspar Wein
berger said in his annual report that
new U.S. chemical weapons are
needed to counter an expanding So
viet threat and give the Soviets an in
centive to agree to a new treaty ban
ning chemical weapons.
Pentagon officials, who spo.ke
only on condition they not be identi-
fiea, said they expect the Democrat-
controlled House to refuse to pro
duce new weapons again this year.
The issue is expected to be closer
in the Republican-controlled Senate,
but an dide to a senator opposing the
weapons, also speaking on condition
>nymity :
ibout tn
good about the vote this year.’
The United States has not built
any chemical weapons since 1969
when President Nixon ordered an
end to the U.S. program. The U.S.
stockpile is composed of gas weap
ons built before 1969, but the Penta-
E on says about 90 percent of the
f.S. weapons are so old they are
dangerous to use or store.
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Pope's stop in Trinodod ends,
Latin American pilgrimage
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licewoman killed during the Libyan
Embassy siege in April 1984.
The four Britons — engineers
Malcolm Anderson and Robin Plum
mer and teachers Michael Berdinner
and Alan Russell — appeared at the
news conference after the decision
was announced.
Waite, a towering soft-spoken
man, had made four trips to Libya
since Christmas to secure release of
the men.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad —
Representatives of this Caribbean
nation’s varied religions and races
greeted Pope John Paul II Tuesday
on the final stop of his 12-day, four-
nation Ldtin American pilgrimage.
After a day of tropical showers,
bright sunshine broke through over
cast skies just before the Peruvian
jetliner carrying the pontiff landed
at 4:38 p.m.
Leaders of this former British col
ony’s elected government met the
pope on a reef carpet as a military
band played. The heads of the Ro
man Catnolic Church here, which
claims about one-third of the 1.2
million people of Trinidad and To
bago, stood with leaders of the
Hindu, Moslem, Anglican and Prot
estant faiths.
The Vatican’s special Alitalia DC-
10 had arrived in Port of Spain on
Monday to be readied for the pope’s
return flight to Rome late Tuesday.
Some 4,500 army, police and coast
guard personnel, virtually all the na
tion’s security forces, were on duty
for the pontiffs brief visit.
Authorities said they were con
cerned about possible foreign ter
rorists, but stressed the papal visit
was welcomed by most people in this
diverse nation.
More than 40 percent of the pop
ulation is of African descent and 40
percent East Indian, and there also
are sizable Chinese, Arab and Anglo
communities.
Earlier, a sunburned and hoarse
pontiff spoke to crowds of Peruvian
slum dwellers and later to Amazon
Jungle natives in Iquitos, Peru, be
fore departing for Port of Spain. He
urged them to defend themselves
and their heritage, but to reject the
path of violence.
Those have been his recurring
themes in the journey that began
Jan. 26 and is his sixth to Latin
America and 25th abroad. He visited
Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru be
fore stopping here.
Leftist guerrillas known as the
Shining Path responded to the pon
tiffs call to lay down their arms by
knocking out power Monday night
in Lima, the capital of Peru. Vatican
officials said Tuesday that the pope
will donate $50,000 to widows and
orphans of the guerrilla war cen
tered in the Andes around Ayacu-
cho, where more than 4,000 people
have been killed.
President Fernando Belaunde
Terry’s press secretary, Frank Val-
carcel, said in a telephone interview
with The Associated Press that Be
launde did not mention the blackout
in conversation with him Tuesday at
the palace. He said the power failure
did not appear to be “very serious,”
and the president was not concerned
about it.
Speaking to tens of thousands of
faithful in the swelteringjungkl fie expre
of Iquitos, the 64-year-old: jointed sys
born pope urged the peoplei:*OTn the pe
fend their rights without vk It Texas
This theme was repeated soHited sy
times during his stay in thistriyopld not
plagued nation of 19.5 millic ies,' Gonza
pie.
John Paul traveled to AraBlowever
on Sunday and pleaded wiitgMlnng up ,
Maoist guerrillas to lay dowitphic had
arms. The group replied wiiWewide r;
blackouts, which occurred i'no| get tha
Pope arrived in Lima MondauMpcular i
and by burning a hammerand Jatf wide.”
on a Lima mountainside.
Shining Path says its goaliiiuM )01l/a * ej
the democratically elected ad:Gou
tration and install a Marxist$iatt , lia ' S 00(a
The pontill also spoketothtlBeP 1 out
azon crowd about defendinglW ie P 0 P l
their own interests and peace. ■ tlc ket-
“Defend, yes — your forests,iM
land, your culture and sometiM/ 1 '* saK '
that is legitimately yours, butdoB^ at a c
forget the common condition of®'' ia:> . n<
dren of the same God, whotg® ro P I ' )ltl
violence, revenge and hate. • K,1! °U UC 9
pipe said, standing on a pla
ben
eneath a thatched roof.
The church wants “strong!
forms,” he said, adding: “Even!
justice has to be denounced andi
reeled, but the road isnotone|
ends with deprivation of
spriritual oppression, violence d
totalitarianism.”
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