Wednesday, November 19, 1986AThe Battalion/Page 7
World and Nation
orth Korean leader seen on TV;
eath, problems not mentioned
EOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea
shhwed its “great leader,” President Kim II Sung,
on television Tuesday while ignoring reports in
rival South Korea that Kim died or was em
broiled in a serious power struggle.
■A Defense Ministry spokesman in Seoul ac
knowledged North Korean news media reports
that Kim was alive and added: “We are closely
watching whether these developments in the
Ninth have resulted from a serious internal
pow er struggle or its (the North’s) high-level psy
chological warfare hiding a sinister plot for mili
tary provocation.”
HAn Asian diplomat in Pyongyang, reached by
oufhjjfhe Associated Press by telephone from Peking,
said he saw the 74-year-old Kim at Pyongyang
f Hr port on Tuesday “and he is in absolutely good
health.”
■The diplomat, who spoke on condition of ano
nymity, added: “Everything is all right in this
country; the situation is absolutely normal. . . .
There seems to be nothing correct about these
reports (of an assassination or power seizure). . . .
It is absolutely normal; there is nothing wrong.
He is absolutely normal; he is in good health.”
Questions about Kim were raised Monday
when the ministry said North Korean propa
ganda loudspeakers along the demilitarized zone
between North and South Korea announced that
Kim was killed in a shooting incident.
North Korean embassy officials at various
posts abroad denied Kim was dead, but official
North Korean media kept silent through Mon
day.
On Tuesday, Pyongyang’s official Korean
Central News Agency said Kim had gone to
Pyongyang Airport to welcome Mongolian Presi
dent Jambyn Batmunkh and that cheers for Kim
of “Long live the great leader!” burst forth from
the thousands of people on hand. The report was
monitored in Tokyo.
Japanese television stations showed rare seg
ments from North Korean television of Kim, in a
dark overcoat and cap, walking up a gold-bor
dered red carpet to meet Batmunkh, shaking
hands and embracing him.
The two walked together back down the car
pet. Crowds lining one side cheered as soldiers
stood at attention holding rifles with fixed bayo
nets.
Earlier Tuesday, the South Korean Defense
Ministry said North Korean loudspeakers were
blaring that O Jin U, North Korea’s defense min
ister, had seized power. There were no details.
The South’s defense minister, Lee Ki-baek,
said that as of 10:04 a.m. Tuesday, the loud
speakers were playing somber funeral music and
saying “The nation’s great star has fallen. Let us
glorify his great achievements.”
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Judge orders
AIDS victim
back to class
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I LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 5-
lear-old AIDS victim should be
Back in kindergarten within a
week, a school lawyer said after a
iederal judge ruled that the boy,
who bit a classmate, is not a health
ihreat.
I “We are very happy,” Robin
■Thomas said Monday as he held
his son Ryan and answered re
porters’ questions.
I U.S. District fudge Alicemarie
Iptotler, granting a preliminary in-
junction sought by the American
t’.ivil Liberties Union, said, “The
werwhelming evidence pre
sented to this court shows there is
■tothing to fear from this child.”
I Asked if he was anxious to re
turn to school, Ryan nodded.
| Attorney Frank Fekete, rep-
JH wesenting the school district, said
* jwie thought it was unlikely school
JH){fidals would appeal the order.
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Reagan’s '88 budget may include
record cuts, increased defense
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan’s proposed budget for
the next fiscal year may seek up to a
record $54 billion in spending cuts
and other savings, a 6 percent in
crease in defense spending and no
new taxes, administration officials
said Tuesday.
Those figures, confirmed in part
by budget director James C. Miller
III and in part by other administra
tion officals, would be included in a
budget document designed to pare
the federal deficit to $108 billion in
the fiscal year that begins next Oct.
1.
Miller said “judicious trimming of
bloated programs,” along with new
user fees, sales of federal assets and
loan portfolios and some program
eliminations would be proposed to
meet the $108 billion level, which is
the fiscal 1988 target of the Gramm-
Rudman budget-balancing law.
In a speech to the National Elec
trical Association, Miller said the
White House still intends to meet the
target, despite recent talk by Demo
cratic congressional leaders of easing
it.
One administration source, who
spoke on the condition of anonym
ity, said the Office of Management
and Budget headed by Miller is con
sidering resubmitting many of the
same proposals it proposed unsuc
cessfully this year, but with some ma
jor modifications and exceptions.
For instance, the administration
has abandoned its proposals to elimi-
minate the Small Business Adminis
tration and Amtrak subsidies, al
though will likely recommend large
cuts in both programs, the source
said.
But so far, Miller indicated the ad
ministration isn’t making much
headway toward coming up with the
size of budget savings that will be
needed.
Speaking with reporters after his
speech, Miller confirmed that all but
two federal agencies — the Educa
tion and Energy departments — had
submitted preliminary spending re
quests exceeding White House tar
gets.
He said this was not unusual so
early in the budget process, a view
echoed by White House spokesman
Larry Speakes.
The requests will be returned to
the agencies for reworking in early
December, Miller said.
The budget will be submitted to
Congress in late January or early
February.
The budget director also said in
his speech that he is likely to recom
mend to Reagan a “real” defense
spending increase of 3 percent
above the $289.7 billion appropri
ated by Congress for this year.
OMB spokesman Edwin Dale Jr.
said this would translate to an actual
increase of 6 percent once inflation
was calculated into the formula, sug
gesting a defense spending request
in the neighborhood of $308 billion.
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