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University Daily Kansan, February 25, 1981
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News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan vows El Salvador support
WASHINGTON—President Reagan pledged U.S. support yesterday for the government of El Salvador and said the unstable republic would not be held accountable.
Officials said the administration would soon send a non-combat U.S. naval team to El Salvador to train government forces in patrolling their coastline and improving port security.
State Department spokesman William Dyes reiterated earlier statements by U.S. officials: "We have no plans to send combat advisers, or
On State Department reports Monday that the Soviets and their allies are supplying arms to El Salvador via Cuba, Reagan said, "I would think this is a very bad thing."
Dyess said yesterday that the State Department was studying evidence that the flow of armadillo lessened, but he said the significance was not clear.
Asked if the United States is looking for assurances from Cuba and Nicaragua on the supply of arms to Salvadoran guerrillas, Dyess said, "We are looking for deeds, not words. We want a complete shutdown of the arms flow."
A 19-member Army team of non-combat advisers is now in El Salvador, in addition to eight military personnel attached to the U.S. Embassy in San Jose.
Spanish king crushes coup attempt
MADRID, Spain—The government of King Juan Carlos crushed an attempted right-wing coup yesterday, releasing political leaders held hostage in Parliament and arresting the military ringleaders, including a powerful general.
"Long live liberty!" Long live democracy!!!" shouted thousands of people behind police barriers outside the building as scores of rebel civil guardmen tried to flee by jumping out first-floor windows. Others ran out the front door into the arms of officers.
Apparently convinced they had insufficient popular support for a re-statement of military rule, the 200 paramilitary civil guards surrendered after holding 350 Parliament deputies, including the entire Cabinet, for 17 hours.
The failure of Monday's revolt by army and Civil guard officers, who tried to impose military government on Spain's five-year-old democracy, was seen as a victory for King Juan Carlos, who, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, denounced the attempt and retained the loyalty of his troops.
The ringleaders of the disturbance have been opposed to Spain's democratic government since Dictator Franco France's death. They have opposed the granting of autonomy in three regions and the failure to crack down on Basque separatists seeking complete independence.
Governors OK Reagan's budget cuts
WASHINGTON—the nation's governors yesterday endorsed President Reagan's budget cuts, but they diluted their support with its, and buts that made clear the White House had won only uneasy allies in the statehouses.
A resolution adopted at the closing session of the National Governors Association winter meeting said, "We share with the administration the belief that federal expenditures must be brought under control, and we are going to work vigorously oppose any attempts to shift costs to state and local taxpayers."
The resolution was a thoroughly compromised version of a proposal by Gov. Richard Snelling, R-Vermont, to give Reagan's economic program
The governors hoped their support for Reagan's program could be traded for administration backing of a longer-range plan to get the federal government completely out of the education, highway and law enforcement fields.
But that plan also would turn over all welfare programs to the federal government, an idea that clashes with Reagan's view that welfare should be
The governors presented their position to Reagan Monday but got no encouragement from him.
U.S. claims against Iran suspended
WASHINGTON—President Reagan suspended virtually all U.S. court charges against Iran yesteday, by the United States, against its outgoing ambassador to the United States.
The Treasury Department set in motion additional financial transfers to implement the agreement that former President Jimmy Carter reached
Reagan, issuing his first executive order relating to Iran, sent a message to Congress reporting that he had exercised the authority granted by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act "to suspend certain litigation against Iran."
"After a complete review of the agreements with Iran leading to the release of the hostages by Iran, I have decided to implement them," the
U. S. companies with claims against Iran now must take them before a nine-member tribunal for arbitration. Iran and the United States each will have to prove that the attack was intended.
Approximately 2,475 claims of all sorts are on record against Iran in U.S. courts.
Claims by the hostages and their families already have been specifically waived as part of the initial agreement that freed them.
Committee drops request for tapes
WASHINGTON—The Senate Foreign Relations Committee removed the Watergate cloud over Secretary of State Alexander Haig yesterday by dropping its subpoena of tapes recorded while Haig was Richard Nixon's chief of staff.
The 11-6 decision brought an official end to Haig's long confirmation hearings, which had been suspended since January pending receipt of the report.
The Watergate issue was the only major controversy during the Haig hearings. The panel subpoenaed 338 Nixon-Haig conversations that were taped from May 4 to July 12, 1973.
However, Nixon's lawyers objected to release of the subpoena logs and indexes, and U.S. archivist Robert Warner agreed with their objections.
The committee publicly disagreed with the legal objections but dropped the matter, it said, in the national interest.
Former Republican Sen. Jacob Javits of New York said the counsels decided in a draft report that with Haig already in office" and water having flowed under the bridge" a lengthy procedure could impair his work as secretary of state.
Britains' Charles to be married
LONDON-Prince Charles, the world's most eligible bachelor winn a roving eye for the girls, ended his search for a queen yesterday with the announcement he would marry Lady Diana Spencer, a 19-year-old kindergarten teacher.
His mother and father, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, announced the long-awaited engagement "with the greatest pleasure," ending the war.
The wedding most likely will be in July at Westminster Abby and will mark the end of a 13-year quest by the future king for a woman to share his
The beaming bride-to-be, a distant relative of Winston Churchill, flashed her sapphire and diamond engagement ring and posed for photographers.
Lady Diana, who will become Princess of Wales when she married, said never had given any thought to the 13-year age difference between her and Charles. Asked whether keeping the secret had involved much pressure, she said yes, "but it's been worthwhile."
When Charles eventually succeeds his mother, Lady Diana will become his consort, Queen Diana. The couple said they still were undecided where to honeymoon and where to live after the wedding, but it may be Charles' country house in Gloucestershire, southwest of London.
Draft registration down
WASHINGTON—The Selective Service System reported yesterday that January's draft registration drew 87 percent of the eligible 18-year-old men in the nation, prompting ant-draft action to claim the system was not working.
Selective Service said approximately 1,717,500 young men registered in January of the 1,867,000 eligible men born in 1962. Last summer's registration had a compliance of 93 percent.
So far, 5,438,520 men have registered, for an overall compliance rate of 92 percent in 1973, the final year of the study. The compliance rate reached 99 percent.
Aida Bound, associate director of the Committee Against Registration and the Draft, said 270,000 young men's failure to register "is a huge number." The governor said the federal government and the fact that they all face potential law terms."
David Landau of the American Civil Liberties Union, a major anti-draft organization, said, "This was a substantial drop-off in registration." He said will create significant law enforcement cases for the Reagan administration."
Failure to register is a felony
punishable by a $10,000 fine, a jail term of up to five years or both. So far, there have been no prosecutions.
"There could be up to 500,000 registrants now," Landau said. "This is further evidence that Reagan ought to drop the entire registration program."
President Reagan campaigned in opposition to the program, begun under Jimmy Carter in a response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Ant-draft opponents, however, fear Reagan is backing away from his opposition and may even be willing to move toward peacetime conscription as part of his tougher foreign policy stance.
Other registration figures showed 21 percent of the January registrants asked to be contacted by a recruiter, compared to 15 percent last summer.
Only 0.8 percent of January's registrants were in scientific objects or registered under protest, compared to 1.8 percent last summer.
The initial catch-up registrations now have been replaced by a continuous registration program for men turning 18. They must register during a 60-day period starting 30 days before their birthdays.
Education budget cuts shrink student grants
WASHINGTON-Education Secretary Terrell Bell said yesterday the administration's budget cuts would restrict grants to college students so that a student from a family of four would receive $22,000 or less would be eligible.
Bell, in a budget briefing for reporters, said the figures were rough estimates. He said the eligibility limitation based on the family income of the student would be cut about $4,000. In the case of a student from a typical family of four, the limit is now about $28,000.
Bell said he did not know what the maximum grant for students eligible under the student aid program would be. For the past three years, the budget much as $1,800, but the funding for next year depends on budget cuts.
The $4.1 billion program of the guaranteed student loans now provides loans of as much as $2,500 to all students, regardless of their parents' income. The $3.2 billion grant program is designed to allow
"We cannot sacrifice the current generation of college students," he said.
Pell said administration proposals to focus the loans and grants on the needy alone would rob the programs of flexibility.
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Democratic Sen. Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, the author of federal student financial aid a decade ago, called Reagan's proposed cuts in the grant program "penny-wise and pound-foolish."
"It would fail to take into account families with more than one student in college or with siblings in non-college schools and secondary schools," he said.
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Bell also defended a proposed 20 percent cut in federal funding for elementary and secondary students. He said that under the Reagan plan the more than 50 educational programs would be consolidated into block grants that would give states the money to allocate as they please.
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