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Date: 12 April 1984
AP
A starving giant panda ''staggered'' into a peasant's house and was rescued from the bamboo famine affecting its mountain habitat, the New China News Agency reported today. The report said the panda, a male 5 or 6 years old, entered the home of Qin Yiling in Pingwu county, Sichuan Province, on March 25.
Date: 12 April 1984
Reuters
The British frigate Plymouth, taking part in a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea, was damaged today in a collision with the West German frigate Braunschweig in fog off the Danish island of Bornholm, the West German Naval Command said.
Date: 12 April 1984
By Wayne Biddle
Wayne Biddle
The House Armed Services Committee voted today to cut the weapon budget for the next fiscal year by nearly $9 billion, providing the first indication of how the Reagan Administration's military buildup will fare in Congress this year. The committee, which met in closed session, is widely considered to be the House committee most sympathetic to military spending. It voted to shrink funds for such important programs as the MX, Pershing II and Patriot missiles. Its budget cuts totaled $8.806 billion.
Date: 12 April 1984
By Lydia Chavez, Special To the New York Times
Lydia Chavez
A United States military official said today that American advisers based in El Salvador had accompanied Salvadoran pilots on training missions in which they had occasionally engaged in combat and targeted or bombed guerrilla positions. Donald Hamilton, a spokesman for the United States Embassy, said that the embassy knew of no pilots engaged in such activity, which he described as being ''contrary to U.S. policy and contrary to orders.'' ''If we ever establish that it has happened, we will take the appropriate action,'' Mr. Hamilton said. However, a senior United States Embassy official said: ''I can't deny the fact that it has happened. It has happened to me a couple of times too, but not exactly like that.'' The embassy official has been close to combat while in the field observing troops.
Date: 12 April 1984
By James Feron, Special To the New York Times
James Feron
Officials of the three military academies say they are seeing a dramatic improvement in the quality of their applicants, thanks in part to a resurgence of patriotism. The result, according to admissions officers, will be entering classes that the officials believe will have the most qualified students ever. Besides patriotism, factors cited by officials range from increasing tuition costs at colleges to improved recruiting. Jeffrey Erickson, a 24-year-old former Army paratrooper who will graduate next month from the United States Military Academy here, said: ''When I first went into the Army, people looked at you strangely. That's gone now.''
Date: 12 April 1984
By Bernard Gwertzman , Special To the New York Times
Bernard Gwertzman
The House Foreign Affairs Committee today approved a resolution opposing the use of Government funds for the mining of Nicaraguan harbor. With the committee's action, after approval of an identical resolution by the Senate Tuesday, an impasse appeared to be developing between Congress and the Administration over continuation of covert activity in Nicaragua. Neither the resolution approved by the committee, in a vote of 32 to 3 with 2 abstentions, nor the Senate resolution binding on the President. But the Administration seemed stunned by the vehemence of the sentiment on Capitol Hill against the mining. Mining Said To Have Stopped Administration officials, suddenly faced with a revolt even by Republicans over their Central American policy, said the latest phase of the mining of Nicaraguan harbors stopped last weekend. That was before the outcry in Congress against the mining had raised questions about the ability of the Administration to obtain financing for its key Central American programs. There was no explanation why this was not made known earlier.
Date: 13 April 1984
No mines remain in Nicaraguan ports, according to the nation's Chief of Staff. Commander Joaquin Cuadra Lacayo also denied that the Sandinista Government was sending arms to rebels in El Salvador, as the U.S. has charged. (Page A1:Column 1.) Arab terrorists hijacked an Israeli bus near Tel Aviv and forced it to the occupied Gaza Strip, where it was being held with at least 10 passengers aboard. (A1:2.)
Date: 12 April 1984
When Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev rose in the Supreme Soviet today to nominate Konstantin U. Chernenko as President, the action seemed to confirm Mr. Gorbachev's emergence as the second-ranking Soviet party leader. His prominence at the age of 53 is due in large part to Yuri V. Andropov, who delegated ever larger responsibilities to the ''young boy'' of the ruling Politburo. When Mr. Andropov came to power in November 1982 with his program of economic reorganization, Mr. Gorbachev was a national party secretary responsible for the problem-ridden agriculture, a daunting responsibility that had torpedoed many a career. But Mr. Gorbachev had proven credentials as a provincial party secretary; he had made a spectacular rise through party ranks, he was better educated than most of his Politburo comrades, he was reasonable and well-mannered - and he was young.
Date: 12 April 1984
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House approved a resolution opposing the use of Government funds for the mining of Nicaraguan harbors. The resolution, approved by a vote of 32 to 3 with 2 abstentions, was identical to one passed by the Senate on Tuesday. At the same time, Administration officials, suddenly faced with a revolt even by Republicans toward their Central American policy, said that the latest phase of the mining of Nicaraguan harbors had ceased last weekend. (Page A1, Column 6.) U.S. advisers flew with Salvadoran pilots on training missions in which they occasionally engaged in combat and targeted or bombed guerrilla positions, a United States military official said. The statement, if correct, reflects a dramatic increase in the American military's role in El Salvador's four-year-old civil war. A spokesman for the United States Embassy said the embassy knew of no pilots engaged in such activity calling it ''contrary to orders.'' (A1:5.)
Date: 12 April 1984
In a short dispatch from Kabul, it said the embassy's third secretary, Richard S. Vandiver, had been declared ''persona non grata for espionage, collecting of information and actions against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.'' The expulsion was also reported by Afghanistan's official Kabul radio, which said Mr. Vandiver's activities were contrary to diplomatic norms.