University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Savings and loans to reopen
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The first of Ohio's privately insured savings and loan associations that were closed to prevent the spread of a run by panicked depositors will reopen by the end of the week, a state banking official said yesterday.
Thomas Batties, superintendent of the Commerce Department's Division of Savings and Loan Associations, also said he believed all 68 institutions eventually would reopen without loss of money to customers and without further runs.
He said that regulations would be in place by Friday and that depositors of the thrifts could begin withdrawing up to $750 a month.
MANILA, Philippines — U.S. military officials flew to Hanoi and returned to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines yesterday with what Vietnam officials have identified as the remains of five missing in action since the Vietnam War.
MIA remains returned to U.S.
It was the first such turnover of American remains in eight months and came a month before Vietnam celebrates the end of the war, the defeat of Saigon and the final communist victory.
Reagan gets help in left ear
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, who has worn a hearing aid in his right ear for the last 18 months, has begun using a similar device in his left ear to achieve balance. White House physician T. Burton Smith said yesterday.
The second hearing aid first became evident at a White House state dinner Tuesday night for Argentine President Raul Allosin. It is similar in size and design to the sophisticated hearing aid prescribed for Reagan after an Aug. 22, 1983, examination.
Man caught sneaking into jail
HARTFORD, Conn. — Police have discovered that jail inmates here have been using sheets hanging down from a second-story window to come and go as they please, at least once bringing back a bottle of liquor.
Six inmates were arrested Tuesday after an investigation started Feb. 16, when a guard caught an inmate, William Tilley, outside the Litchfield Correctional Center. Officials said Tilley was trying to get back inside.
Officials learned that the security screen on a window in the second-floor day room had been forced open and two sheets had been tied together.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Argentine leader opposes U.S. policv
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Argentine President Raul Alafonis yesterday took a stand against U.S. policy in Central America and told Congress that any peace plan in the region should guarantee that countries "will not meddle" in each other's affairs.
Speaking in Spanish to a joint session of Congress, Alfonsin said the search for peace in the region should be based on territorial integrity and non-intervention by all parties
nureth in each of them.
Alfonso, on the final day of a two-day state visit, warned that "the problem of Central America affects the continent as a whole."
"There should be specific guarantees that the countries of the region will not meddle in one another's affairs," Afonsin said, adding there should be "no military installations or mechanisms that threaten the security of any of our countries."
DURING A PRIVATE meeting with President Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz Tuesday, Alfonsin disagreed with U.S. support of rebel forces trying to overthrow the Moldovan government of Neociragua and urged a reduced U.S. military presence in the region.
Alfonsin, whose own country last year moved to democracy after years of a repressive regime, regime, and form of social organization that allows him his dignity.
He warned that "any eventual failure of the new democracies of Latin America . . . will have grave consequences for the region, including the United States."
"That is why I request a special understanding" from Congress and the administration, he said. "That is why the principal purpose of my visit is to emphasize the convergence between our countries and our common interests."
ALFONSIN ALSO TOUCHED on the problem of the massive debts burdening his and other Latin American nations, saying the problem "constitutes a political fact that demands the collaboration of responsible governments."
Argentina has to pay the interest and principal on a foreign debt that U.S. officials estimate to be $48 billion. Alfonsin is trying to reduce the current 800 percent annual inflation rate to 150 percent by the end of the year to meet a commitment made to the International Monetary Fund.
The Argentine president later told an audience at the National Press Club that he was convinced his trip to Washington was a success. He said of vues" with the American government.
He said Argentina's economic problems are serious and cannot be solved quickly or
Western Europe could help by opening their markets to Argentina's agricultural exports and increasing investment in Argentina.
HE SUGGESTED THE United States and
He also sharply criticized the European Economic Community for subsidizing its agricultural exports, undercutting countries like Argentina. Argentina, he said, could produce a ton of beef for $1,200, while that same amount of meat would cost $2,500 to produce in Western Europe.
Alfonsin noted that Argentina recently settled a centuries-old territorial dispute with Chile and wants also to settle the dispute with England over the Falkland Islands, the cause of a brief but bitter war between the two nations in 1982.
"Our will to resolve the question of sovereignty . . . will not be altered, despite the reiterated British refusals to engage in negotiations on the substance of the issue," he said.
Issue of MX missile system clears final Senate hurdle
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — The MX missile easily cleared its second and final Senate hurdle yesterday and the struggle over the multi-warhead weapon shifted to the House, where opponents conceded President Reagan's powers of persuasion are as "awesome as the power of the weapon itself."
The Senate, which Tuesday voted 55-45 to authorize $1.5 billion for 21 of the 10-ward head missiles in fiscal 1985, voted by an identical margin yesterday afternoon to appropriate the money to the Pentagon, which can actually get the money if the House also approves the missile next week in two similar votes.
Senate debate lasted less than three hours yesterday, and most of the talking was done in the evening.
Sens. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., and John Glenn, D-Dohio, argued strongly against plans to place the MX in existing, vulnerable Minuteman silos.
"IT CAN DO nothing but sit in one spot and do nothing but be a more attractive target than the one it is replaced." Glenn said.
"It does not strengthen America," Bumpers said. "It weaks America because it takes so many of our resources away from what we really need."
The House Armed Services Committee endorsed the missile on a 37-8 vote. The chairman is Les Aspin, D-Wis., who recently decided to again back the issue. His support last year was considered pivotal in keeping the missile issue alive.
The focus now shifts to the House, where President Reagan already has begun his lobbying effort in anticipation of floor votes to authorize the money on next Tuesday and a vote to appropriate the money the next Thursday.
Opponents of the missile took some solace yesterday at the 28-26 vote against the missile in the House Appropriations Committee. The vote, however, was largely symbolic because the MX resolution in both that and the Armed Services Committee must go to the floor, regardless of the outcome in committee.
Aspin said the split between his panel and the appropriations panel "tells you the outcome is going to be close."
AT THE WHITE House, spokesman Larry Speaks said in response to questions, "We do not think it will affect the floor action. . . We don't really feel it was a major outcry."
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass., an ardent MX opponent, told reporters that opponents hoped to corral 190 to 200 firm "no" votes in the House, which would leave the outcome in the hands of about 20 undecided members next week.
O'Neill made no prediction of victory and said that Reagan's lobbying and the argument of a "bargaining chip" for the Geneva accord was incorrect. The outcome, he said, was very close.
The Massachusetts Democrat said the "power and popularity of the president is awesome. Make no mistake about it, it's as awesome as the power of the weapon itself."
Court sets no time limit as to length of detention
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled yesterday there is no rigid time limit on how long police officers may stop and hold a criminal suspect before arresting him.
The 7-2 ruling expands police powers to detain and question a suspect, but in two other criminal cases the justice seemed unjust. The Supreme Court's privacy rights of citizens and police needs.
The court ruled unanimously that a criminal suspect cannot be required to undergo surgical removal of a bullet that might be used as evidence against him since such a bodily intrusion would violate an individual's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
IN A SEPARATE RULE, the court ruled that the government may refuse to study the safety of drugs used for lethal injections of condemned criminals and held that police must have probable cause — a reasonable suspicion a crime has been committed — before taking a suspect to the station house for fingerprints.
The decisions reflect the court's attempt to steer a middle course in criminal law, said Burt Neuborne, nationall legal defendant of the American Civil Liberties Union.
In the detention case, dissenting Justice William Brennan observed that the court
edged a step or two closer to a notion pushed by conservative jurists that the Fourth Amendment only requires searches to be reasonable.
"The judicial thumb apparently will be planted firmly on the law enforcement side of the scales," he said.
WRITING FOR THE COURT majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger threw out a federal appeals court ruling that the marijuana smuggled convictions of two individuals would invalid because they were held in custody for 20 minutes without being arrested.
Burger said the officers acted diligently and reasonably during the stop, and so long as that was true there was "no rigid time limitation on Terry stops."
Terry refers to the court's 1968 "stop and frisk" decision, called Terry vs. Ohio, that allows police to briefly detain a suspect for questioning without arresting him. That action is not unconstitutional as long as it is reasonable and brief, the court held.
But the high court has been struggling to determine how long that time period should be without requiring police to come up with probable cause, which is necessary for a full-fledged arrest.
The Justice Department appealed the case to the high court after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond reversed the convictions of William Sharpe and Donald Savage for smuggling 43 bales of marijuana — a total of 2,600 pounds.
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