Show TTTh e World The Utah Statesman Friday December 4 lwi p Waldheim drops from secretary general ballot UNITED NATIONS (AP)— Incumbent Kurt Waldheim dropped out of the deadlocked balloting for UN secretary general Thursday but remained under consideration for an unprecedented third term in office Ugandan Ambassador Olara Otunnu Security Council president for December was asked by a reporter whether Waldheim’s candidacy had been withdrawn following 16 inconclusive rounds of council balloting He said “absolutely not Otunnu said he had asked both Waldheim and the Third World challenger Tanzanian Foreign Minister Salim Ahm- ed Salim “to step aside so we can consider other candidates and Waldheim complied” Otunnu said Salim’s reply was expected after a meeting of the group of African UN member states China is committed to electing a Third W’orld candidate and has consistently vetoed Waldheim and the United States has repeatedly vetoed Salim Otunnu said it was possible council that if the could not agree on a compromise candidate it might agree as a last resort to split the next term between Waldheim and Salim “I want the matter to be settled before Dec 15” when the UN General Assembly’s current session is due to adjourn Otunnu said The Security Council nominates a candidate for election by the assembly Otunnu said he expected the coun er begin consultations with view to opening the race a Since the balloting began on Oct 27 Chinese and American vetoes have stymied both Waldheim and Salim Balloting has been suspended since Nov 17 cil to ff The five permanent council members — the United States China the Soviet Union Britain and France — have veto power The most prominent of the possible compromise can- Jorgen Castaneda of Mew and Jorge Enrique Quearf Panama veteran Penjviia diplomat Javier Peiei de Cullar Fortner Guyana Foreign Minister Shridath Ramp ha now of the Common Carlos Ortiz de Rozai Arp tina’s ambassador to Loaka and Prince Sadruddin Ap Khan a former UN high commissioner for refugto Sadruddin scion of a noble Islamic family is French-bosecretary-gener- Harvard-educate- didates are Foreign Ministers holds Iranian d an) citizenship I President and Congress agree on spending cuts WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican congressional leaders and Reagan administration officials are in tentative agreement on an additional $4 billion in domestic spending cuts to meet “the major challenges of the president” and avert another budget crisis “I am very optimistic that we can fly this thing” said House Republican leader Robert H Michel of Illinois President Reagan’s “final signofF’ on the plan to be included in a new emergency money bill to replace one that expires Dec 15 was expected today said a congressional source who asked to remain anonymous The source quoted White House budget director David A Stockman as telling participants in a private Capitol Hill meeting Thursday night that the proposal “meets the major challenges of the president” On Sept 24 Reagan asked Congress for an additional $84 billion in domestic spending cuts — 12 percent across the board He later indicated he was willing to accept half that amount and White House spokesman David Gergen repeated Thursday that “what the president has asked for is something that meets him approximately halfway” d Sources said the new proposal generally calls for cuts of 4 percent in most domestic programs including those singled out in Reagan’s September request Government benefit programs such as food stamps and Medicare would be exempt as would defense the judiciary law enforcement operations and veterans’ medical benefits There was optimism that the plan would be adopted by the full House and Senate The president’s acceptance would avert a confrontation like the one that occurred last month when Reagan vetoed a compromise spending measure across-the-boar- Briefly Valley job rate up LOGAN Utah (AP) — Cache County’s unemployment rate dropped last month from 79 percent in October to 59 percent Utah Job Service says The October figure was the highest area Job Service employees could remember in the past decade Logan Job Service Manager Hyrum Olsen said the new figures could be misleading because “we haven’t had a lot of new jobs open up In fact right now the job board looks preny empty” Olsen said some of the 500 people left unemployed by the Wurlitzer plant closure in September found jobs when Richmond’s Pepperidge Farms plant expanded its facility added a new product line and hired more than 200 new workers Allen keeps quiet about clients WASHINGTON (AP)— Richard V Allen failed to disclose the identity of his consulting firm’s clients despite a legal requirement that any of them “directly involved” with him be listed if they paid at least $5000 during the two years before he joined the White House White House spokesman David Gergen said Thursday he wasn’t sure whether the national security adviser should have listed his clients and other White House officials refused to discuss the issue Allen has argued that the White House council’s office told him he did not have to list his clients because technically he was an employee of the company Potomac Interna- - tional Corp and fees were paid to the fins Federal law requires an incoming government official to identify sources of “compensation in excess of $5000” in the pa two years and to give “a brief description of the nature of the duties performed or setvim rendered” The main exception to the requirement it I the official was an employee of the firm and not “direedy involved” in work for that cfieaL Allen has said he did have “several diem" who paid more than $5000 a year Alien a Potomac International’s founder owner prescient and chief consultant Five men trapped in coal mine cave-i- n BERGOO WVa (AP) — Five miners were trapped inside an underground coal mine after rock collapsed from the mine’s ceiling late Thursday night Webster County Sheriff Gary A Payne said Payne said some of the miners were injured but that no fatalities had been reported He would not elaborate on the extent of the injuries and did not say how he knew there were injuries but no fatalities He said emergency rescue teams were trying to reach the trapped miners who apparently were in two groups “We have two miners on the outside that we know are all right” Payne said “We have two Other former Wurlitzer workers are commuting to Box Elide r County to work for Nucor Steel Olsen said Although the unemployment rate usually goes up this time of year as construction activity slows Olsen said “Construction in Cache County never really got off the ground this year so many people in building-relate- d fields are no longer drawing unemployment insurance” People ask for peace GENEVA Switzerland (AP) — Messages of hope have been pouring in from around the world to American and Soviet negotiators discussing the reduction of nuclear arsenals in Europe spokesmen for the delegations said Thursday The bargaining teams have received dozens of telegrams and other messages “expressing the hope for positive results of the Geneva talks” on the inside we don’t know about and we have three inside we don’t know about” The mine is owned by the Elk River Sewd Coal Co a operation said Payne who answered a telephone at the company's non-unio- n Bcrgoo office Officials of the state Mines Department had been notified of the accident Payne said ahad dding that state police troopers also assistance for call a to responded Ambulance crews had been sent to the scent Elkins according to a spokeswoman for the state police detachment the roof nl Payne said he had been told that took place between 9 pm and 9:45 pm said Valadimcr Evdokuchin a Soviet spokesman Evdokuchin said chief Soviet delegate Yuli A Kvitsinsky has “received so many messages” from individuals and organizations “that it would be difficult for him to respond to all of them” He said he did not know specifically from whom the appeals came The US side has received similar messages spokesman David M Wilson said He also confirmed that Maynard Glitman the second ranking US negotiator at Geneva met privately Monday with members of a Belgian n peace group and a European parliamentarians half-doze- Wood death checked LOS ANGELES (AP) — New questions were raised Thursday about the drowning of Natalie Wood as a woman who was near the actress I fetnalt yacht reported she heard a then voice screaming for help and heard someone say “We’re coming® get you” was aboatl Marilyn Wayne who Santa off the yacht Capricorn Catalina Island Saturday night she told authorities earlier this at that she heard a woman’s cries 11:45 pm Saturday She said the cries which from 12:10 am Sunday came yacht Wood’s direction of wss P®' Splendor where the actress Room actor with ding the weekend and Wagner her husband Christopher Walken her was unfinished movie Her body found after dawn Sunday la-t- 60-fo- ot co-st- ar list® Wayne 38 a commodities for Shearson American 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