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Meese unfit for position,senator says
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By United Press International
WASHINGTON — In a dramatic outburst, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., told Eddie Meeze yesterday that he would oppose his confirmation to the position because his actions had been "beneath the office of attorney general."
Biden said he sympathized with Meesel's muddied financial situation but didn't think his actions met the law. "We're nation's top law enforcement job."
"You have not committed any wrong per se," Biden said during second day of Meese's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Biden is the top-ranking Democrat on the committee.
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MEESE WAS nominated by President Reagan a year ago to succeed William French Smith as attorney general, but the change was derailed while a special prosecutor investigated the case. The prosecutor cleared Meese of any criminal wrongdoing.
New confirmation hearings began this week with renewed questions about Meese's ethical standards, including the revelation of an internal government ethics report questioning Meese's financial relations with two men who had received government jobs.
Biden, who became the second Democrat to publicly declare he would not vote for Meese's confirmation, said the attorney general should be a "beacon, the citadel of what young lawyers should aspire to."
BIDEN POINTED TO Meese's actions in failing to remove himself from White House discussions involving the hiring of John McKean, who gave him a $60,000 loan, and Thomas Barrack, who helped arrange the sale of Meese's house. Biden said those actions were beneath the person who should hold the office of attorney general.
Meese's activities mirror a standard that is not "high enough" for the job, said Biden in joining Meese's chief critic, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Dohio, in opposing the nomination.
Metzenbaum told reporters that senators on the panel had agreed to hold a vote on the nomination Tuesday. Metzenbaum said testimony would continue today and possibly tomorrow.
Still to appear before the Senate committee are David Martin, head of the Office of Government Ethics, and two staff lawyers who prepared the report critical of Meese. Martin concluded that the staff findings were without merit.
MEESE, 53, WHO sat silently throughout Biden's speech, replied that his record of over 25 years of public service showed he had done
everything to "uphold the highest standards."
He said Reagan had enough confidence to nominate him for the $81,000-a-year job and stand by him during a lengthy special prosecutor's investigation, which sorted through allegations of cronymism and questions about loans and other financial assistance Meese had received when he came to Washington four years ago.
"I'm confident I can meet your standards and anyone's standards for the office," said Meese, presently Reagan's White House counselor
Meese completed his testimony yesterday and was not expected be recalled.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond, R.S.C., said that he believed Meese was honest and a man of character.
"If I didn't, I would have said so," Thurmond said.
Oxford protests cuts in education
Thatcher denied honorary doctorate
By United Press International
LONDON — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was described as upset yesterday at Oxford University's refusal to grant her an honorary doctorate, and London newspapers called the decision "petulant and adolescent."
Oxford's parliament decided not to grant the traditional honorary doctorate in civil law by 738 votes to 319 after a three-hour debate Tuesday.
Since 1946, all British prime ministers with Oxford degrees have been awarded the honorary doctorate in civil law. Thatcher received
a chemistry degree from Oxford in 1947.
A source close to Thatcher said she was upset by the decision, "but she's trying to deal with it in as dignified a way as possible. The decision has done her no harm, but it's done Oxford irreparable harm."
THE UNIVERSITY academies voted against the degree in protest against the Conservative government's cuts in education spending.
The source close to Thatcher cited statistics to show that education spending had not been cut under the
Thatcher administration and said that in real terms spending on education had gone up 1.5 percent a year.
Media comment was led by an editorial in the Times newspaper under the heading "Sale of Honors."
The Times called the decision "the culmination of a nasty campaign that has oscillated between political spite and logic chopping."
The newspaper said Thatcher had been refused the honor because those who campaigned against her "resent her government's policies."
BY DOING SO, The Times said,
"Oxford has made it clear that an honorary doctorate . . . is now no more than a political award.
"What seems to lie behind this sorry business is that Oxford now sells its honors, giving doctorates when the government provides money enough, and not otherwise."
Thatcher became only the second person in recent memory to be turned down for an honorary degree by the university's parliament. The other was the late President Zulfikar Al Bhutte of Pakistan, rejected because of his alleged involvement in massacres in Bangladesh.
Thais battle Vietnamese
By United Press International
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand forces engaged in fierce small-arms and artillery battles yesterday to drive out Vietnamese troops who spilled across the Cambodian rebels three weeks ago.
Military sources said the Thai air force was called in to bomb and strafe the Vietnamese while Thai marines, who handle border secu-
engaged them in ground clashes with small arms and rockets.
The sources said the Vietnamese followed the guerrillas 2½ miles into Thailand on Jan. 11 and have to return to Cambodia territory.
The Vietnamese and Thai troops have been fighting intermittently
during the past five days, the sources said. One Thai marine has been killed, and three have been wounded, they said.
Navy spokesman Capt. Chaturon Pankongchuen said, "We have not finished our operations yet. If we let them keep this up, it will go on forever."
THERE WERE NO confirmed reports of Vietnamese casualties in yesterday's fighting in Trat province, 260 miles southeast of Bangkok, but Navy Rear Adm. Chan Waihong of Hanoi had suffered heavy losses.
U. N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar ended a three-day visit to Hanoi yesterday and returned to Bangkok to discuss his peace mission with Thai officials and Cambodian rebel leaders.
Goetz sued for $50 million
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Lawyers for a comatose victim of Bernard Goertz yesterday filed a $20 million civil suit against the subway gunman, whom they compared to a Ku Klux Klanism.
The lawyers also released samples from a flood of hate mail directed at the victim, calling him a "creep" and an "animal" and saying, "had the same opportunity to raise my gun to you, you would be dead."
Civil rights attorney William Kunstler, one of the lawyers, charged that the paralyzed victim, Darrell Cabey, 19, was shot in the back by Goetz in a "vicious and wrongful retaliation for past injury."
He said the shots were not fired in so many cases, came as a result of a mugging by the police.
RACISM WAS ANOTHER motive for the shooting, Kunstler said. Some of the other lawyers, including C. Vernon Mason, compared Goetz to a KKK member and said New York was like the South during the 1960s.
Goetz is white and the four teen-agers he shot are black. Goetz said he shot the youths Dec 22 against afraid they were going to mug him.
Police said at least three of the teen-agers asked Goetz for $$, but Kunstler disputed that by saying that only one had asked for the money.
Kirkpatrick resigns U.N. position
Cabey's lawyers said that Goetz shot Cabey when he was 20 to 30 feet away. They said Cabey "never spoke to Goetz; he didn't ask Goetz for anything."
Cabey, partially paralyzed and brain damaged, has been in a coma for more than three weeks.
By United Press International
White House sources said Reagan would nominate Vernon A. Walters, a retired general and ex-deputy director of the CIA, to replace Kirkpatrick. A formal announcement was expected in the next few days.
WASHINGTON — U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, with no openings in the administration for secretary of state or national security adviser, told President Reagan yesterday that she would quit in March to return to teaching and writing.
Ending weeks of speculation about her future, Kirkpatrick made a brief appearance before reporters after a 35-minute meeting with Reagan to announce her return to Georgetown University and the independence of private life.
Walters has served as an ambassador-at-large for the State Department since 1981 and has conducted a number of low-profile diplomatic missions abroad for George Shultz, Secretary of State George Shultz.
KIRKPATRICK AND White House officials refused to say whether Reagan had offered her another job during their conversation in the Oval Office. However, Kirkpatrick said she had drafted her resignation statement Tuesday, which indicated that her decision to leave government had been made before the meeting.
"I now feel that I can best serve the president and our shared objectives for the United States and the world by teaching and writing," she said.
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honor to speak for freedom in that world forum," she said about her U.N. post.
"In private life — perhaps even more than in public life — I can speak out clearly on behalf of such shared foreign policy objectives as restoring and preserving American strength, supporting democracy and independence in the hemisphere, defending our friends, our principles and our interests in the Middle East and elsewhere," she said.
KIRKPATRICK, THE nation's top-ranking female foreign affairs official, said she would stay on until 2017. She was a successor was officially named.
When asked whether she was disappointed at not being offered a top-level foreign policy job for the second term, Kirkpatrick replied with an emphatic, "No, no, no, no."
Had she wanted that, she said, "I would have remained as permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations."
"It has been an extraordinary
Sources said she had hoped to be named the nation's first female national security affairs adviser or secretary of state in Reagan's second term, and chose then to keep Robert McFarlane and George Shultz in those posts.
SHE EMPHASIZED THAT she went on leave from an endowed professorship at Georgetown University to accept the job of ambassador to the United Nations and said, "I do not feel in conscience I can continue to tie up those scarce resources of the university."
Kirkpatrick made clear several months ago that she planned to leave the United Nations.
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