NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1984
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Hussein and Reagan talk on Mideast U.S. plans sale of missiles to Jordan
WASHINGTON — President Reagan looks on as King Hussein of Jordan speaks during his departure ceremony. The two leaders met yesterday to discuss several issues, including the situation in Lebanon.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, warned by Jordan's King Hussein that the crisis in Lebanon is only part of the problem in the Middle East. insisted yesterday that "opportunity to peace are still present" in the region.
In addition, the Reagan administration informally has notified Congress that it plans to sell the first of 1,013 Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to strengthen its air defenses, administration officials said yesterday.
THE OFFICIALS, who requested anonymity, said Jordan needed the weapons to defend itself against attack by the superior, Soviet-supplied air force of neighboring Syria.
The president met for 90 minutes with Hussein, who called Palestinian issues the key to Middle East peace, and Reagan conceded afterward. "In these times of trial, disillusionment would be easy."
They said they did not think the proposed Stinger sale was part of the administration's plan to create a Jordanian strike force that could assist the United States in meeting a crisis in the Persian Gulf.
"We both believe that while the challenges remain formidable, the
THE ADMINISTRATION informally notified Congress that it planned to sell 315 missiles and launchers and 98 reserve missiles to Jordan as part of the proposed sale of 1,613 Slingers worth about $40 million.
opportunities for a broader peace are still present." Reagan said.
The Pentagon formally is to notify Congress of the intended sale later.
Israel, which fought Jordan in 1948 and 1967, has lodged strong protests with Washington about previous plans to send weapons to Hussein's armed forces.
THE MEETING KICKED off two days of Middle East talks in Washington. Today, Reagan will meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
makers will have 30 days in which to disapprove it.
sury Secretary Donald Regan, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldinger, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary Caspar Wien bercret.
A senior administration official said Hussein expressed concern to Reagan "that Lebanon, which he considers part of the problem and not the core of the war," said Mr. Bergerus, has directed attention, from the more basic problems of the area."
Mubarak met yesterday with Trea
Democratic hopefuls tune up for Iowa caucuses
By United Press International
John Glenn accused the AFL-CIO yesterday of trying to buy the Democratic presidential nomination for Walter Mondale, and Jesse Jackson charged that voter registrars are being used to public out of the electoral process.
Reubin Askew challenged Mondale to reconcile his support of domestic-content legislation that would add $1,000 to the price of new cars.
Jackson and Glenn campaigned in the South yesterday, while Mondale, Askew and Alan Cranton worked Iowa to drum up support for next Monday's precinct caucuses — the candidates' first real test of this election year.
GARY HART made an airport stop in Iowa on his way to the East Coast. Ernest Hollings courteed voters in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Mondale, the acknowledged front-runner, ignored critics and concentrated on world affairs and Ronald Reagan, calling for an immediate summit meeting between Reagan and newly chosen Soviet leader Konstanten Chernenko and urging that they concentrate on arms control.
"For three years there has been a disastrous policy of escalating rhetoric," Mondale said. "I think we may have a chance to change that movement ... a dramatic opportunity the president takes advantage of it."
allegal then, I don't know why it should be considered illegal now."
through three Southern states, charged the AFL-CIO is pouring $20 million — in money and manpower — into Mondale's campaign. He said his campaign headquarters in Washington would file a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission charging that Mondale, with the support of the AFL-CIO, is exceeding state spending limits in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Glenn branded as "nonsense" speculation that the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is over and that Mondale has won.
"We will not let big money dictate the office president. It is not for sale, it is a clamshell."
Glenn, opening a whirlwind swing
A SPOKESMAN IN Washington for the AFL-CIO had no comment. A source in the huge labor federation, however, noted that its political action committee was in support of Glenn's own senatorial campaigns in Ohio and "if it wasn't
JACKSON, ANGRY because he could not get voters registered at a Sunday night rally in Georgia, telephoned Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds, who heads the Justice Department's Civil Rights division, to urge action to expedite registration of new voters.
In Washington, Justice Department spokesman John Wilson said that Reynolds spoke with Jackson and his team to explain their incidents about the candidate's complaints.
Pentagon picks up tab for congressional meals
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the seventh in a 10-part series of reports investigating waste in government spending.
By GREGORY GORDON United Press International
WASHINGTON — Pentagon legislative officers, operating from Capitol Hill quarters, spent at least $9,420 in taxpayers' money in fiscal 1983 treating members of Congress or their staffs to meals and then at trendy Washington restaurants.
Defense Department officials spent another $13,223 on receptions or other entertainment for the lawmakers and staff.
Most of the meals, primarily lunches, were bought for unnamed officials on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees that oversee defense spending, according to Pentagon records reviewed by United Press International and the Better Government Association.
THE MILITARY VOUCHERS state only, for example, that an Air Force officer picked up a $15 chius lunch with "one senator" at Chi Chi's, a Mexican restaurant. Nov. 30, 1982, or that two staffers had lunch courtesy of the Army for $4.37 at The Broker, an elegant Cantolil Hill restaurant, last April 7.
A 1948 law bars executive branch agencies from lobbying Congress with appropriated funds. When questioned, officials at two other agencies, the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, indicated they had no records of any meals bought for congressional officials in 1983.
Defense Department officials, who set aside more than $6.7 million of their budget for a 189-person legislative affairs apparatus, asserted that the meal purchases were permissible for information purposes.
RUT EDITH WILKIE, staff director of the House-Senate arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus, called it lobbing.
"I think the Pentagon works terribly hard on getting inside the legislative process."
The wining and dining reflects, Wilkie said, "the cozy relationship that the Pentagon develops with its key benefactors and that contractors and subcontractors develop with the Pentagon."
ONE MEMBER OF THE House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., said, "The Pentagon ought not to be taking anyone to lunch." This isn't a hunger program. Perhaps this is why Ed Meese found a wawan any hunger in America. The Pentagon is taking everyone to lunch."
Schroeder also questioned why military officers had to stretch "a five-minute briefing into a two-hour lunch
The noontime entertainment, uncovered in a four-month UPI-BJA investigation, is of one several perquisites the Pentagon provides Congress. Others include expenditures of more than $13.4 million in fiscal 1983 for congressional travel — most of it unreported.
Vouchers submitted by Pentagon legislative officers showed the military paid for 321 meals for 671 members of Congress or their aides, including 110 meals at Pentagon facilities with bargain prices.
THE REMAINING 211 meals with
413 congressional guests  costing
$7,000  were bought at restaurants,
and one popular Capitol Hill area
dining spots.
The Army was the biggest host, buying 230 meals for 401 congressional guests at a cost of $,667, including 146 meals for 272 congressional guests at a cost of $,592, on 65 meals. The Navy bought a total of 266 meals for 66 congressional guests.
Spending by the Air Force included purchases of a $26 bouquet of flowers for a hospitalized member of Congress last May and $194 for food alone during an "orientation" session for congressional spouses last April.
An Army spokesman, Lt. Col. Mike Clark, said it seemed "normal courtesy" for the service to buy meals for members of Congress visiting the capitol, but had no immediate comment about lunches bought at restaurants.
AN AR FORCE spokesman, Capt. Michael Perimi, said agency personnel held the meals "to discuss topics of interest at mutually convenient times."
Asserting that the entertainmentdoes not violate anti-liberty statute,he said that law expressly recognizedthe need for "communications withmembers of Congress for the purposeof requesting legislation or appropriations."
Wilkie noted that the Army, Navy and Air Force legislative affairs branches had for years run offices in the Davenhurst Office Building.
"That, to me, is the symbol of the power of the Pentagon on the Hill," she said. "I personally think the very presence of the military legislative liaison officers is a violation of all the basic rules under which lobbyists and other congressional relations people operate."
One congressional aide said the Pentagon told its officials not to wear uniforms on Capitol Hill. "The Pentagon," the aide said, "does not want its enormous military presence on the Hill noticed."
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