r White House fires general WASHINGTON (AP) - The top military officer on the National Security Council staff was relieved of his duties and ordered back to the Army yesterday after saying in a speech that the Soviets have nuclear superiority and "are going to strike." A senior White House official said Maj. Gen. Robert Schweitzer was fired because he disobeyed a rule that requires all members of the National Security Council staff to clear their public remarks with Richard Allen, the staff director and President Reagan's national security advisor.. "IT IS ALSO clear that the speech does not reflect the president's thinking with regard to the state of world af- fairs," said the official, who asked not to be named. The aide said Schweitzer concured in the action, taken by, Allen at 7:15 a.m. EDT yesterday following publication of an article about the speech in The Washington Post. "He thought it would be best to return to his normal duties in order to spare the administration any embarrassment because. of his unauthorized remarks," the official said. Schweitzer's dismissal followed published reports of an address to several hundred Army officers Monday in which he warned the Soviet Union has gained nuclear superiority and the United States is "in the greatest danger that the republic has ever faced since its founding days." QUESTIONED about Schweitzer's assertion of Soviet superiority, Reagan said the United States is not in , as perilous a position as the general described. But he said the nation "could have been" if it had continued "unilaterally disarming." Asked if he believed the country has now reversed that, Reagan said,"yes. Reagan said he did not agree with the general but regarded him as "a fine soldier" whose services in another post will continue to "be of great benefit to the country." ALTHOUGH the general caught White House officials by surprise, Sch- weitzer said in his speech to the Association of the United States Army that his remarks had not been cleared and might get him in trouble. "Well, I think we are going to have to get ourselves in trouble...in order to lay out the threat because the threat is believed not to exist," he said in the ap- parently extemporaneous talk. - Allen said Schweitzer told him when the general was called on the carpet yesterday morning tht "he went further than he meant to" and was "abjectly sorry for having undertaken to make the speech and was also sorry about the content." SCHWEITZER said in the speech there is mounting evidence the Soviets plan to invade Poland and continue to prepare for an attempt to take over the Persian Gulf oil fields. The Pentagon said no transcript of Schweitzer's speech was available, but no official contested the accuracy of an account in the Washington Post. The general spoke of "a drift toward war," it reported, and he declared: "The Soviet Union knows that for the first time they have superiority in every leg of the triad of land-based and submarine-based nuclear missiles and long-range bombers." 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The tickets were raffled off by Continental Airlines to help introduce their new flight down under. econd sc ool district will close next month TAYLOR (UPI) - A second Michigan school district will close next month for lack of money and, with the anti-tax fever spreading, a third may shut down by the first of the year. Voters in the blue-collar Detroit suburb of Taylor Monday rejected by a 53-47 percent margin a property tax proposal to wipe out a $16 million deficit and restore reduced programs. AS A RESULT, school officials said the state's 10th largest district will be forced to close Nov. 13, idling 16,000 students and 1,800 employees, including 711 teachers. Superintendent Simon Kachaterian said he ws somewhat encouraged that the vote against the tax was slightly less overwhelming than the margins by which requests were defeated last December, June and August, He said he hopes the board of education will schedule a new election in early December. The Pontiac school district north of Detroit could close in January if voters reject a tax increase in a special elec- tion Dec. 9. Voters have already said no to the proposal eight times. *Kalamazoo judge told to decide on abortion GRAND RAPIDS (AP) - A federal judge yesterday ordered a county judge to decide by Friday whether an 11-year- t1d girl who is 23 weeks pregnant should undergo an abortion. U. S. District Judge Benjamin Gibson said that Kalamazoq County Probate Judge Donald Halstead last week had "shied away from making a hard decision" in the case of the unidentified- girl, who was impregnated by her mother's live-in boyfriend. HALSTEAD HAD ruled that he lacked authority to order an abortion. Gibson's ruling came after he heard testimony privately in his chambers from the girl, who was described by at- torneys as uncertain whether or not she wanted an abortion. Michigan has no law abridging a woman's right to an abortion at any time during her pregnancy, but there also is no clear legal guide for who should decide about an abortion in the case of a minor who herself is undecided. NELSON PELLETIER, a Kalamazoo attorney who represented the girl in custody battles in state cour- ts, said she became pregnant 23 weeks ago after intercourse with her mother's boyfriend. The boyfriend, 29, has been charged with first-degree criminal sexual assault in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court. Pelletier and his attorney, Thomas Bleakley, turned to federal court for emergency action ;after failing to per- suade state judges to grant temporary custody to the father. Bleakley told Gibson it was essential that he rule within 24 hours, since the girl is about to enter the final three months of pregnancy. ...a timeless symbol of your achieveffients. $10 REBATE 11:00-4:00 P.m. Daily Monday 10/19-Friday 10/23 549 E. 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All four are World Bank economists. HELPING THE plight of sub- Saharan Africa is a major objective of current World Bank President A. W. Clausen. "There has been much pressure lately to increase aid to the poorest countries," Berg said, and "two-thirds of the poorest countries are in Africa." Berg said he hopes the report will open further worldwide debate on the nature of development. "The purpose of the document is to open discussion in the world communit about aid and aid relationships," Berg said. He said he hoped the debate would lead to world wide concern for Africa's problems. "Many people will disagree with the report, especially those from Africa," Berg said. Many of the African governments v . £iiita --..