Referendum Halts Rhodesia's White Rule Tem, More Than $3 Billion Since 1971, Can No Longer Be Afforded
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Taiwan is the hottest for vice premier WASHINGTON (AP/UPI) -- The status Carter said the talks had been let Taiwan remain capitalist as of Taiwan was the hottest issue on very frank and honest, far-reaching, long as it rejoins the mainland. Capitol Hill yesterday as Chinese cordial and harmonious. The re- He did not say what might happen Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-Ping dis- sults, he said, would have extremely if Taiwan rejects unification and cussed foreign policy issues with beneficial results for both nations. he gave no time limit for such ac- members of Congress. Teng told reports through an in- tion. In private sessions with congres- terpreter that he agreed with every Teng won applause throughout the sional leaders, at House and Senate word Carter had said. day on Capitol Hill where he met Dateline. meetings and in a two-hour meeting The two leaders discussed trade separately with the House and Senate with President Carter, Teng said and cultural exchanges, but the fu- and with Democratic leaders. MEXICO CITY, Mexico (UPI) -- Pope Peking hopes for a peaceful settle- ture of Taiwan and relations with At his meeting with the House mem- John Paul II traveled to the city* ment with Taiwan but cannot promise the Soviet Union were the issues of bership Teng was welcomed in Man- of Guadalajara yesterday where never to use force of other methods deepest concern. darin Chinese -- the dialect of Pe- there was a repeat of the pontiff's fail. Even during his U.S. visit, Teng king -- by International Relations tumultuous welcome, on earlier stop On Teng's second full day in the has publicly followed the Peking Committee Chairman Clement Zablocki. in his Mexican tour. United States, the White House said line of anti-Soviet comment. Lablocki suggested Teng comment Greeted by hundreds of thousands visit had exceeded President White House aides said Teng has whether the autonomous status enjoy- of cheering, adoring people, he ter's expectations and that the warned Carter the Soviets might ed by Hong Kong or Macao might be said, "Because you are poor, you two leaders had established good cheat on any new SALT Treaty but used as a model for Taiwan's future ha3'e a right to my special devo- rapport and understanding in their has not objected to the United status. The meeting was closed to tion." six hours of private meetings and States signing such an accord. reporters before Teng answered. He called the wealthy to share related social occasions. House Speaker Thomas O'Neill later what they have to make life more The other major issue is the mat- told reporters that Teng talked bearable for poor people. News Secretary Jody Powell said ter of guarantees for Taiwan against openly and frankly about Taiwan, WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The U.S. trade Carter had awarded the Chinese lead- attack from Mainland China. Powell trade and other matters. deficit widened in December to er high marks for honesty and sin- said Teng had re-affirmed his pub- Teng's schedule last night was more than $2 billion, the largest cerity, "a decisive person who says lic statements about the peaceful reserved for receptions held by in history. what he means and means what he reunification of the island and the Sino-American friendship and cul- The Commerce Department said in says." mainland. tural groups. releasing the figures yesterday Carter and Teng held their third Teng expanded on the subject as Teng and Carter were scheduled to that the excess of imports over and final meeting in the oval office he had lunch with members of the meet briefly again today to sign exports last year topped the pre- yesterday morning. They discussed Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreements reached during their two vious high of $26.53 billion in world affairs and the air was filled on Capitol Hill. days of talks. 1977. December's $2.04 billion with pleasant adjectives as they He said China has no intention of Then Teng was to begin a tour of red ink total was slightly above emerged from their talks. attacking Taiwan and is willing to industrial complexes across the U.S, the $1.95 deficit registered dur- ing November, but was still con- siderably lower than the deficits recorded in the first half of last year. BANGKOK (UP4) -- There is still a war in pro ess in Cambodia along with a lot of confusion about who is shooting at whom. U.S. NAVAL BASE Khmer Rouge followers of fallen Cambodian leader Pol Pot claim GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA some success in their guerrilla war against Vietnamese-led invad- ers. ednesday, January 31, 1979 Vol. 34 No. 22 But intelligence sources in Bangkok say there is no indication the 100,000-man army of invaders is suffering any major setbacks. WASHINGTON (UPI) -- As the second Ayatullah returns to troubled homeland tractorcade filled with protesting farmers rolls closer to the capi- tal, the Agriculture Department (COMPILED FROM AP/UPI) -- The gov- day ordered the immediate evacuation Huyser, who arrived in Tehran in says the doors that were physical- ernment of Iran has invited the Aya- of all American government wives and early January, was assigned the role ly locked to the American agricul- tullah Khomeini to return to Iran children and strongly urged that of vice regent and established effec- ture movement last year are now after a 15-year exile. other Americans leave as well. tive relations with the Iranian open. The religious leader is expected There are about 10,000 American command to assure it took orders The department said it will make to fly to Tehran tomorrow to press citizens now in Iran -- one fourth from Washington, Pravda claimed. available to the farmers a recep- his campaign to bring down the gov- the number there just a few weeks "This really means that Gen. Huyser tion room with a telephone so they ernment of Prime Minister Bakhtiar ago. bears the responsibility together can make appointments with offi- and establish an Islamic republic. The embassy evacuation announce- with the government, with the top cials. Aides of the conservative Moslem ment came shortly after protesters military leadership, for the daily An estimated 2,000 vehicles, in- leader in Paris yesterday began qui- beat up the U.S. consul in Isfaham bloodshed in the streets of Tehran cluding tractors and campers, are et preparations for his return to in southern Iran. and other towns," the newspaper said. expected to reach Washington by Iran. Counsul David McGaffy was reported Huyser ostensibly went to Iran to Saturday night. Air France in Paris said his de- sore but safe after a pounding that oversee the.operation of the U.S. NEW YORK (AP) -- For the first parture time would be around mid- required seven stitches in his scalp. military group in the nation, which time in two years a major bank is night tonight (6 p.m. EST). McGaffy was trying to intervene in comes under the jurisdiction of the lowering its prime lending rate. Khomeini had originally set last a dispute between another American European command. The Dhase Manhattan Bank an- Friday for a triumphant return to and a cab driver when the demonstra- He also met with Iranian military nounced yesterday that it's cut- his homeland, but that departure tors apparently turned their anti leaders and is said to have urged the ting the rate by .25 point from was postponed after Iranian military American sentiments on him. generals to support the new civilian 11.75 to 11.5 percent. authorities closed the airports, And in Moscow Pravda said U.S. government. But the bank cautioned that the apparently to prevent his return. General Robert Huyser must share re- Pravda said the close ties between reduction does not necessarily Tehran Airport was reopened yes- sponsibility with Iran's government the government and the top military mean interest rates have peaked. *rday. and military command for the daily leaders proved that a kind of "creep- The prime rate is that which Department, meanwhile, bloodshed in Tehran and other cities. ing coup d'etat is being staged as The State banks charge their best corporate urging all Americans in Iran -- The Communist Party paper claims a result of the flagrant and open is customers. with direct orders to some cf them Huyser, deputy commander of American U.S. intervention in the internal -- to leave the country before the forces in Europe, functioned as vice affairs of Iran." WASHINGTON (AP) -- Transportation possible eruption of more violence regent guiding a coup by military The newspaper said such interven- Secretary Brock Adams will propose and possible civil war. leaders receiving orders from the tion is prolonging the bloodshed in today a new Amtrak plan which, re- The U.S. Embassy in Tehran yester- shah. the country. liable sources say, would elimi- nate more than one third of its routes in 90 days. The administration claims that federal subsidies to the rail sys- Referendum halts Rhodesia's white rule tem, more than $3 billion since 1971, can no longer be afforded. SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP/UPI) -- White April with universal suffrage elec- He said he hopes the vote will NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) -- Thou- people who have ruled Rhodesia for tions held for the first time in persuade other nations, notably the sands of steelworkers went on nearly a century believe it's time Rhodesia, a land of 250,000 whites U.S. and Briatin, to not only recog- strike last night in Newport News to surrender power to the black ma- and nearly seven million blacks.