NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 24, 1984
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Reagan pledges bipartisanship, exhorts GOP 'to take the offensive' in 1984 campaign
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, offering bipartisanship on the budget with one hand and wielding a political hatchet with the other, exhorted Congress in Congress yesterday to "take the offensive" in the 1984 campaign.
"For the good of the country, we must win. And I'm convinced that, working together, we will." Reagan declared during a luncheon pep rally with scores of cheering House and Senate Republicans at the Capitol.
Reagan unleashed a partisan blast that momentarily drowned out the bipartisan chord strick by the White House. He urged Democrats to mute their criticism of U.S. policy in Lebanon and to begin negotiating on how to reduce the $180 billion deficit in the day-old fiscal 1985 budget.
IF THE DEMOCRATS had won the 1980 election, Reagan said, "the mess the country was in — the soaring inflation, the high interest rates, the defenses and the loss of respect for our nation abroad"— still would exist.
United Press International
"If the Democrats had been running the show," he said, "American families would still be suffering from sky-high inflation and interest rates. The stock
market wouldn't have set new records, gross national product wouldn't have started growing again and the Ameri- ties' wages would have started climbing.
"With them in control, our defenses would still be growing weaker while the Soviet's grower blazed. Troops would have landed on Grenada. That's for sure. We've never been American troops and the Grenadians wouldn't have been applauding."
INSISTING "THERE has been a great deal accomplished here" since he took office, Reagan urged his fellow Republicans to "make certain we take the offensive" by painting Democrats as "very likely to raise taxes than cut spending.
Reagan, whose economic program was largely based on an 25 percent cut in tax rates, said of House Speaker Thomas O'Neill: "Tip O'Neill always complains about the way we cut taxes, but if the Democrats had been in charge, there wouldn't have been any tax cut — none at all."
He said voters must be reminded that "the tax cutting that's been done back through the years has been done by the Republican Party."
A solid GOP victory in November, he predicted, would produce "a new birth of freedom and prosperity, and all the world would benefit."
WASHINGTON — President Reagan blows out the candles on his birthday cake during a luncheon yesterday on Capitol Hill. Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., is on the left. Reagan will be 73 on Monday.
Senate passes bill to narrow insanity defense
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly approved a crime bill yesterday that would narrow the insanity defense, making acquittal difficult for defendants like presidential assailant W. H. Wincklev jr.
The first major bill of the year passed on a vote of 91-1. Only Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., dissented. He objected to a sentencing reform that would abolish parole for federal crimes and establish a commission to set standardized sentencing guidelines for judges to follow.
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., chairman of the Judiciary Committee, reminded colleagues of FBI statistics that said that in America, a murder committed every 25 minutes, rage every 10 minutes and a robbery every 89 seconds.
SWIFT ACTION ON the crime package was expected but the Senate was tangleled in a dispute over an amendment to ban federal workers from performing violations without permission. The Senate finally rejected that amendment 51-41.
The amendment was prompted by the revelation that U.S. Information Agency chief Charles Wick taped telephone calls without informing those
on the other end of the line. Among those recorded were White House Chief of Staff James Baker and former President Jimmy Carter.
Broad support for the crime bill was won after separating out controversial issues such as the death penalty and the审判权 rule for later consideration.
The crime legislation would narrow the insanity defense, in the wake of the furor that arose when Hinckley was acquitted by reason of insanity on charges of trying to assassinate Reagan and abolish parole for federal crimes.
The measure would require defendants who plead insanity as a
defense to prove with "clear and convincing evidence" that they did not know what they were doing at the time of the crime. The burden is now on the prosecution to prove the defendant sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
- Give the government greater power to seize the assets of those involved in organized crime or drug operations.
- Tighten bail laws to provide for pretrial detention in some cases.
- It also would:
- Substantially boost fines and penalties for drug trafficking.
- Increase penalties for labor racketeering
Cries for help go unanswered
By United Press International
LORIS, S.C. — With its pilot unconscious and a woman pleading for help over the radio, a small plane meandered through the darkness along the road to get her home in day night before it finally crashed into a field, killing all four people aboard.
Other pilots who intercepted the terror-striken messages from the doomed single-engine Beechcraft tried to pass on instructions, but they could not find any of those aboard the plane had only limited knowledge of how to operate the radio.
Federal Aviation Administration authorities — whose control towers did not hear the broadcasts — said that the radio's volume control might have been turned down and the woman did not know how to turn it up. Authorities also said that the panic-striken woman might not have realized she had to release the "talk" button on the microphone in order to receive.
FAA SPOKESMAN Vivian Elders said that first word of the tragedy came
from the crew of a Piedmont Airline
ship that carried the woman's
single jacket for her.
She said that the crew reported the woman had said "the pilot was unconscious and another passenger was attempting to fly the aircraft."
Billy H. Franklin, who reported the crash, said, "It just tore all to pieces."
The broadcasts ended at 9:40 p.m.
Elders said, when the plane crashed
into a cleared field near Loris about 20
miles inland from Mvrtle Beach.
Horry County Coroner Dargan Cartrette said the two men and two women occupants of the Beechcraft died on impact.
"It looked like the plane came straight down. It made a hole three or four feet wide in the ground," he said. "Parts of the engine were in the hole."
Cartrete identified the occupants of the plane, lying from Darlington, S.C., to Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., as Andrew Lyman, and David Mason, as plane: Franklin E. Kelly, 27; Wanda Lymn Grant, 27, and Artie Braddock, 0岁 age given. All were of South Carolina.
Actor Perkins pleads guilty to charges of drug possession
Bv United Press International
LONDON — A court yesterday fined Anthony Perkins, star of the movie "Psycho," $142 for possession of marijuana and LSD, which he imported to Britain to use for relaxation from a strenuous work schedule, his lawyer said.
"I've never claimed to be a perfect person." Perkins, wearing a three-piece brown suit, said after pleading guilty in the trial at Uxbridge magistrates court.
The American movie star was the second show business personality in two weeks to be caught at London's Heathrow Airport with drugs. Linda McCarthy, who had Paul McCartney, was also convicted of illegally importing marijuana.
PERKINS, WHO STARRED in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho," its recent sequel "Psycho II."
and many other Hollywood films, was arrested Sunday when he flew in from Los Angeles for the filming of a British television series, "The Glory Boys."
Prosecutors said the small quantities of drugs with a total street value of $21 were found when Perkins' luggage was searched by customs officers.
They said two small packets of marijuana were found in his trousers and the chemical hallucinogenic LSD made paper of paper found in a bottle of vitamins.
Perkins' lawyer told the court that Perkins had never advocated the use of drugs, had a dignified and conservative public image and planned to use the confiscated items to relax from a strenuous work schedule.
Perkins told reporters, "The imperfections of a man in the public eye will always be under closer scrutiny than the imperfections of a man on the street. I understand that, and I accept responsibility for my actions."
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