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World and Nation
Textile bill gets Reagan veto
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan on Wednesday vetoed
legislation designed to toughen
curbs on textile, apparel and shoe
imports, arguing it would have disas
trous effects on the economy at a
time when exports are booming.
Only minutes after rejecting the
textile measure in private, Reagan
went before television cameras in the
Rose Garden to sign a bill paving the
way for a multibillion-dollar free-
trade zone with Canada.
In both cases, Reagan said he was
acting to lower prices for consumers
and to ensure jobs for workers.
The textile bill, intended to pro
tect American industries against for
eign competition, won final congres
sional approval last Friday.
But Reagan, in a veto message re
leased by the White House, said,
“This bill represents protectionism
at its worst.”
The measure won congressional
approval without the two-thirds
margin needed to override a veto,
and White House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater expressed confidence that
Reagan’s veto would be sustained.
The president lavished praise on
the Canadian free-trade agreement,
calling it a hallmark of free trade
and the antithesis of the textile mea
sure he’d just vetoed.
But the treaty has no force as yet
because it is bottled up in the Ca
nadian Senate and its fate depends
on the outcome of the Canadian
election.
“Protectionism does not save
jobs,” Reagan said in his veto mes
sage. He contended the textile bill
would have disastrous effects on the
U.S. economy.
“It would impose needless costs
on American consumers, threaten
jobs in our export industries, jeopar
dize our overseas farm sales and un
dermine our efforts to obtain a more
open trading system for U.S. ex
ports,” Reagan said.
“At a time when American ex
ports are booming, the United States
must not embark on a course that
would diminish our trade opportu
nities,” he added.
The president called the textile
and apparel industries the most pro
tected sector of our economy and
said they were undeserving of fur
ther aid.
Reagan charged that prices would
climb and break the clothing bud
gets of many American families if
the legislation took effect.
With every move that has arisen
on Capitol Hill to strengthen textile
imports, Reagan has pledged to veto
any resulting legislation.
The bill would do the following:
• Freeze textile and apparel im
ports at 1987 levels this year and
limit growth to 1 percent annually
starting in January.
• Freeze imports of non-rubber
footwear with no provision for in
creases.
• Impose import quotas on 180
categories of textile products and 30
types of footwear, a system that
would be reviewed after 10 years.
• Set up a one-year program un
der which the government would
auction off import licenses and set a
special quota for silk neckties.
The House approved the bill on a
vote of 248-150 on Friday. Earlier
this month, the Senate approved the
measure, 59-36.
Communists meet
amidst anticipation
of policy change
MOSCOW (AP) — The Commu
nist Party’s policy-making body will
meet Friday to overhaul the coun
try’s political structure and make
high-level leadership changes, Soviet
officials said.
The plenary session of the 300-
member Central Committee had
been expected by October to discuss
amendments to the Constitution and
expanding elections to include mul
tiple candidates.
The changes are key to Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s goal
of taking the 20 million-member
Communist Party out of the day-to-
day management of the economy
and having it focus on ideology and
policy goals.
The Central Committee session
had been planned for a long time,
but the specific date had not been
set.
When the announcement was
made, Soviet Foreign Minister Edu
ard A. Shevardnadze and other So
viet officials rushed back home from
trips abroad.
“There will be changes in the
working of our political structure,”
Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen
nady Gerasimov told reporters at the
United Nations in New York, where
Shevardnadze was attending the
General Assembly session.
“He has to cut it short, unfortu
nately,” Gerasimov said. “The ple
nary will be devoted to reorganiza
tion of the party apparatus,
including the Central Committee it
self.”
Soviet media did not carry any re
ports about scheduled high-level
Communist Party meetings or about
Shevardnadze’s travel plans.
In Moscow, two Soviet sources dis
missed speculation of an emergency
or that the meeting concerned the
Soviet withdrawal from Afghani
stan. They spoke to reporters at a re
ception at the U.S. Ambassador’s
residence.
“There is no crisis,” one highly
placed source in Moscow said. He
spoke on condition of anonymity.
As a member of the 13-man Polit
buro, Shevardnadze would attend
any meeting of the Central Commit
tee. All committee members who are
abroad, including a number of am
bassadors, were summoned, Gerasi
mov said.
“The plenary will be devoted to
reorganization of the party appara
tus, including the Central Commit
tee itself,” he said.
Valentin Falin, head of the gov
ernment press agency Novosti, told a
reporter at the ambassador’s recep
tion that Shevardnadze would at
tend the regular meeting of the
Communist Party’s ruling Politburo
on Thursday.
The second source, however, said
Shevardnadze would not arrive in
time for the Politburo session and
was returning to Moscow to attend
another meeting on Friday. He re
fused to say what body would meet
Friday.
Falin said the meeting Shevard
nadze would attend was being called
to discuss political reforms mapped
out at the 19th party conference in
Moscow June 28-July 2. He declined
to specify the topic.
On July 29, the Central Commit
tee adopted a timetable for over
hauling the Soviet political system.
The first deadline set was October,
by which time the Central Commit
tee said a draft law on amendments
to the Soviet Constitution and on
multi-candidate elections of legis
lators was to be completed.
In a speech last Friday, Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said the
Politburo would soon convene to re
view the draft law.
A meeting of the parliament, the
Supreme Soviet, will then be con
vened to discuss the measure, Gor
bachev told media executives, ideo
logical workers and heads of cultural
and artistic unions. By year’s end,
the party is to have reorganized.
The Central Committee is em
powered to make personnel changes
in the Politburo. At the 19th party
conference, one delegate suggested
that holdovers from the 18-year ten
ure of Soviet president Leonid I.
Brezhnev be eased out of the lead
ership. The delegate specifically
named President Andrei A. Gro
myko, 79, and fellow Politburo
member Mikhail S. Solomentsev, 76,
as leaders who should retire.
The Brezhnev era is now widely
condemned as allowing rampant
corruption and decay of the Soviet
economy and making mistakes in
foreign policy.
As part of the political reforms
adopted at the party conference, the
office of president would be
strengthened from its now largely
figurehead status.
World briefs
Congress wants cuts in physician fees
BOSTON (AP) — A top-to-
bottom reorganization of physi
cian fees, requested by Congress,
could raise the pay of general
practitioners by 70 percent while
cutting some surgeons’ income in
half, its author said.
If adopted by private and gov
ernment insurance programs, the
long-awaited plan would sharply
increase the pay for office visits
while reducing fees for surgery
and other procedures, such as in
stalling pacemakers.
The plan’s architect, economist
William C. Hsiao of the Harvard
School of Public Health, contends
the current system is unworkable
and unfair, short-changing doc
tors for day-to-day management
of their patients while paying
them far too much for exotic tests
and other highly technical work.
He said his proposed fee struc
ture will change doctors’ financial
incentives, and this will alter the
way they practice medicine and
ultimately improve patient care.
“You can predict that under
the new system, doctors will be
willing to spend a lot more time
with patients to examine and
counsel them,” Hsiao said. “Right
now, physicians are being penal
ized financially for spending time
with patients.”
Guilty verdict given to drug trafficker
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A
Mexican drug trafficker was
found guilty Wednesday of aid
ing and abetting the 1985 con
victed torture murderer of a U.S.
drug agent and his pilot. He was
the third person convicted in the
case, which strained U.S.-Mexi
can relations.
Jesus Felix Gutierrez, 38, was
found guilty by a federal jury of
helping Mexican drug baron Ra
fael Caro Quintero escape to
Costa Rica after the brutal 1985
murder of Drug Enforcement
Administration agent Enrique
Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo
Zavala Avelar.
Felix’s attorney had contended
there was insufficent evidence to
convict the former Los Angeles
seafood store owner and sug
gested the government altered
evidence.
The key evidence against Felix
was the testimony of a govern
ment informant who said he
heard the defendant discuss his
role in arranging Quintero’s es
cape. Prosecutors also showed ju
rors entries on Felix’s passport in
dicating he had preceded
Quintero to Costa Rica and left
after Quintero arrived.
Earlier, jurors convicted Renee
Verdugo Uruidez and Raul Lo
pez Alvarez of conspiring and
participating in the kidnap-mur-
ders of Camarena and Zavala.
Iran jolted by 300th quake in five weeks
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An
earthquake registering 4.6 on the
Richter scale shook southwestern
Iran, and Iran’s Islamic Republic
News Agency said Wednesday
that it was about the 300th quake
to jolt the nation in five weeks.
The agency, monitored in Nic
osia, made no mention of casual
ties or damage in Tuesday night’s
quake in the town of Mamassani
in southwestern Far province.
But it said seven people have
been killed or injured and 2,000
houses destroyed in a series of
quakes that began Aug. 23.
Another tremor, registering
2.8 on the Richter scale, shook
the city of Garmssar, 60 miles
southeast of Tehran, early
Wednesday, IRNA said. No cas
ualties were reported.
Officials confiscate radioactive milk
MANILA, Philippines (AP) —
Officials raided a suburban ware
house Wednesday and confis
cated 4,600 cans of powdered
milk suspected to have been con
taminated by radioactive fallout
from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear
accident in the Soviet Union.
Health Secretary Alfredo
Bengzon, who led the raiders to a
warehouse in the Manila suburb
of Paranaque, said the imported
milk was part of a shipment of da
iry products returned to Western*
Europe in 1986 after the acci
dent.
He said he ordered an investi
gation into how part of the ship
ment was sent back to the Phil
ippines.