University Daily Kansan, March 5, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 10
House members want Reagan to help Africa
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — About 100 House members asked President Reagan yesterday to send emergency grain shipments to Africa and to take other steps to ease the food crisis there.
The request was made in a letter from Rep. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., urging speedy action to help drought-streaked African nations. The letter was signed by 95 other members including 11 Republicans.
"We wish to commend you for your personal attention to the African food crisis and to urge that you take several emergency actions to forestall a human catastrophe in 24 African nations," Dorgan said.
Dorgan urged the speedy shipment of food approved for delivery to Africa and asked for the immediate use of 300,000 tons of grain now in the Emergency Wheat Reserve.
in releasing the letter, Dorgan said reports from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization indicated that 150 million people were threatened with disease and famine because of a long drought.
"We can't sit by and let millions of people die from hunger when our own food bins are overflowing."
The House members also asked the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to use its authority to borrow up to $50 million for food aid, pending action by Congress on a request for a supplemental appropriation of $90 million.
By United Press International
Backers argue for prayer in school
WASHINGTON — Backers of a constitutional amendment for public prayer in the nation's schools argued yesterday that God has suffered at the hands of U.S. courts, but foes of the measure countered with charges of "corrupt" theology.
"The country was founded on prayer," actor Demond Wilson said, arguing that Supreme Court rulings against state-sponsored prayer and Bible readings in public schools have eroded the country's Christian under-
corruption
The increasingly contentious debate on the school prayer, which moves to the School and House today, combines a pair of philosophical disputes — one over the Founding Fathers' intent in erecting a legal barrier between government and religion, the other on the nature and presence of God.
pinnings.
But Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., who is leading the fight in the Senate against a constitutional amendment allowing prayer in public schools, maintained that the separation of church and state was established so that the New World could avoid the repression of religious tyranny.
"IT IS BECAUSE we're religious, we say we will not repeat history. We will not have an Inquishment. We will not have English Protestants murdering Irish and English Catholics," Weicker said.
Weiker and Wilson appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" along with television evangelist the Rev. Pat Robertson and the Rev. Charles Bergstrom of the Lutheran Council.
THE SENATE BEGINS debate today on a constitutional amendment proposed by President Reagan to allow "voluntary, voice" prayer in public
schools. The amendment must pass both the House and Senate by a two-thirds vote and be ratified by 38 states to become part of the Constitution.
Proponents of the measure are waging an intense campaign, accompanied by cries of foul play from some congressional staff members who have been warned their bosses will "burn in hell" if they resist the amendment.
Supporters plan an all-night prayer vigil in the Capitol today, as well as a nightingling series of speeches in the House to dramatize their position.
"Literally we have now pushed God out of public schools to such a degree that we no longer have state authority." Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga, said.
He said a federal court has ruled that students at one school in his district may not wear "a T-shirt from their church or synagogue," but "they are
wear a gay rights T-shirt. They can wear a Marxist study club T-shirt. They can wear a beer T-shirt."
REAGAN HAS SAD that God has been "exspelled" from the nation's school but Bergstrom countered, the argument a theology is corrupt on this issue."
The Rev. Robert Maddox of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, appearing on Cable News Network, said, "It is not possible in any sense that we take God, keep God or prevent God."
But Wilson said, 'God is not going to come into a place unless he is invited'
Weiker's rejoinder was a quotation from Jesus's Sermon on the Mount. "When you pray, go into your room, door and door and pray to your Father in secret."
"Religion is a personal act, not an official one," Weicker, an Episcopalian, said at another point.
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