News Digest. By The Associated Press
Refuseniks and journalists roughed up in Soviet Union
MOSCOW — Hundreds of burly
men in civilian clothes roughed up
refuseniks and journalists Sunday and
knocked down and detained U.S. TV
newsman Peter Arnett during rival
demonstrations on theeve of the U.S.
Soviet summit.
At least 100 refuseniks — Soviets
denied permission to emigrate —
planned to take part in a protest
against Soviet restrictions on emigra
tion.
But at least 27 were detained en
route to the Moscow demonstration,
and the others were overwhelmed by
about 200 plainclothes KGB agents
and about 100 members of the offi
cially supported Soviet Peace Com
mittee.
The agents jammed Smolensky
Square and jostled refuseniks who
managed to get through police cor
dons blocking all entrances to the
protest site, a small triangle of grass
opposite the Foreign Ministry.
They shoved and occasionally
threw punches at refuseniks and
Western journalists trying to photo
graph the clash.
It was the clearest indication in the
weeks leading up to the Dec. 8-10
Washington summit that Soviet au
thorities will not tolerate public ex
pressions of dissent, even under
Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s policy of
“glasnost,” or openness on certain
topics.
It appeared that authorities went to
considerable lengths to quell the re
fuseniks’ protest.
Alexander Feldman, a refusenik
and would-be demonstrator, told The
Associated Press he spent Saturday
night at his sister’s apartment in an
attempt to avoid Soviet authorities.
But when he left his sister’s home
Sunday morning to go to the demon
stration, Feldman said three men put
him into a wailing sedan and drove
him to a police station 40 miles out
side Moscow. He said he was released
about 2:30 p.m., two hours after the
protest was over.
About 15 minutes into the re
fusenik protest, plainclothes agents
knocked down and struck Arnett, the
Moscow correspondent for Cable
Network News, and then hustled him
into a bus and drove him to a nearby
office.
In Brief
Study: Cohabitating couples divorce more often
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Couples who lived together before marry
ing have nearly an 80 percent higher divorce rate than those who didn’t,
according to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
“As a practical matter, it appears that careful screening before
marriage has displaced in part the willingness to make adjustments after
marriage as the supposed key to promoting successful unions,” said Neil
Bennett, one of the study’s three authors.
The results are based on a 1981 survey of 4,996 Swedish women.
Report: Welfare fraud may cost $1 billion a year
WASHINGTON—Fraud in the federal government’s major welfare
program for mothers and children could be costing $1 billion a year
according to a report by the Department of Health and Human Services’
inspector general.
The report estimates that federal and state governments could save
$800 million a year just by placing more emphasis on weeding out
unqualified applicants before they start receiving benefits after their
initial qualification.
Iranians hit 2 neutral-flagged tankers in gulf
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iran launched unusually devastating gun
boat attacks Sunday on two neutral-flag tankers in the Persian Gulf,
killing a Danish sailor aboard one and igniting the highly volatile
naphtha cargo of another.
I v The abandoned Singapore-flagged ship Norman Atlantic was still
1 burning more that eight hours after it was attacked in eariy afternoon in
I th5 Strait of Hormuz, the gulf’s only gateway.
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OMAHA—A woman whose body
was found near Omaha was strangled,
an autopsy showed.
The nude body of Kathryn Huoer,
17, was found down an embankment
along U.S. 75 north of Omaha Friday
by a jogger.
The autopsy did not reveal how
long Huber had been dead, Douglas
County Sheriffs Lt. Gary Hammer
said.
Investigators have interviewed a
number of people, and “so far there’s
nothing new, nothing good that will
get this thing solved right away,” he
said.
Autopsy results and evidence at the
scene indicate Huber was not killed
where she was found, Hammer said. It
appears her body was dumped along
the road after she was killed, he said.
Her father, Thomas Huber of
Bellevue, said his daughter tele
phoned less than an hour before she
disappeared and told her parents she
wanted to move back home. She was
living in an apartment with two room
mates.
Later that day, her friends called to
say they were worried because Huber
had not returned home after saying she
was going to a nearby store and would
be right back, her father said.
Senators weigh tax increase
to cut federal budget deficit
WASHINGTON — For the third
time in six years, the Senate is about to
decide whether taxes should be raised
to reduce the federal budget deficit.
Senate leaders hope to take a final
vole this week on a $23 billion lax
increase that is the ccnteipiccc of a
plan to slash the deficit by $76 billion
over the next 22 months.
The framework for the anti-deficit
measures was worked out by Presi
dent Reagan and congressional lead
ers in a much-publicized effort to
show that the partisan differences can
be put aside in the national interest.
Nevertheless, there is opposition to
the plan from those who arc against
any tax increase and from others who
say the spending cuts arc much too
timid.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas,
chairman of the Finance Committee,
which wrote the lax bill, predicted it
will pass because it is “as painless as
possible” — meaning the impact will
hardly be felt by typical taxpayers.
The burden will fallalmostcntirely on
corporations and upper-income indi
viduals.
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Asst. Arts &
Entertainment Editor Geoff McMurtry
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