University Daily Kansan, January 31, 1984 NATION AND WORLD Page 9 Senate bill to change insanity plea By United Press International WASHINGTON — The Senate began work yesterday on sweeping anticrime legislation that included a major change in the insanity plea, but it rejected several amendments without coming to a vote on the package. The proposal would reverse the insanity defense. A defendant would have to prove that he was insane at the time rather than making prosecutors he proved he was not. The proposal is a direct outgrowth of the verdict in the trial of John W. Hinkleck Jr., who was charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan by using a device designed to reason of insanity and is now in a federal mental hospital in Washington. The administration-backed measure also would require a jail term for anyone convicted of using a firearm during a violent crime that falls under federal jurisdiction. It would impose a mandatory five-year term for using a firearm linked with arraignment piercing bullets — often called "cop killer" — bullets because they can penetrate bullet-proof vests — during a violent crime. Four controversial issues — the death penalty, habeas corpus, the federal tort claims act and the exclusionary rule — were kept out of the bill under an agreement that allowed each to be handled separately once work on the main bill is finished. Working through its first major bill of the year, amendments by Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., slowed progress, but a final vote was expected today. Mathias said that the bill set up "a sentencing machine" and said that he wanted to provide something that would be "a help to judges rather than a hindrance." Strict sentencing rules, he argued, would "invite further overcrowding . . . and invite the possibility of a prison disaster." Mathias, who failed to make the changes he wanted in the bill when it was in committee, tried again on the floor but had no luck. The only amendment he was able to bring near a vote was killed on a lopsided 71- vote. THE MARYLAND REPUBLICAN had three other amendments he wanted to propose when debate ended for the day, including one that would make sentencing guidelines of a proposed sentencing commission less binding on judges. Under the bill, the commission would replace the federal parole operation, and parole would be abolished. the Racketeering and Corrupt Organization Act. The Senate adopted by voice vote an amendment to Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., to include dealing in pornography among the crimes that fall under BEFORE THE CHAMBER turned to Mathias's amendments, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who helped get the bill on the floor, urged its prompt passage. "This would be good," he wail our judges and police with a greater capability to deal with crime." "We're not going to eradicate crime with the passage of this bill . . . It will in fact aid in diminishing the incidence of hate crimes and abused abuse" and other crimes, Biden said. The legislation also would: - Tighten bail laws to provide for pretrial detention in some cases. - Give the government greater power to seize the assets of those involved in organized crime or drug operations. - Substantially boost fines and penalties for drug trafficking. - The Senate tried last year to pass the package but in the final weeks of the session was unable to agree on what should be included. - Increase penalties for labor racketeering and for crimes involving the transport of large amounts of money in or out of the country. In the House, crime control measures have been handled in a more piecemeal fashion, with various parts of the comprehensive package taken up in different subcommittees. U.S. willing to listen arms negotiator says By United Press International WASHINGTON — A U.S. offer of trade-offs in the nuclear balance has set the stage for "a breakthrough" in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks — if the Soviets return to the bargaining table, negotiator Edward Rowny said yesterday. The talks have been in limbo since December. "If the Soviets say they want to talk and then begin bringing in other issues, we're going to listen to any reasonable proposal they have." Rowny said following a meeting with President Reagan. "It's in their interest to return." He added that; for the first time, Washington would listen if Moscow proposed that medium-range missiles now being distributed in Europe be brought into the framework of the START process. ROYNN EXPRESSED optimism that a signal from Moscow to resume the strategic arms negotiations could lead to much-sought progress toward an agreement. But he conceded that Washington has had no such indication from the Kremlin since Soviet negotiators refused to set a date for resumption of the talks last month. he said, echong a view Reagan has stressed over the last few weeks in his efforts to revive dialogue between the superpowers. Rowny said that he and Reagan shared the view that "the START negotiations have made more progress than is generally realized" and the United States remains "ready to resume the talks." Rowyn said the two sides came closer to bridging fundamental disagreements during the last round of talks. HIS COMMENTS marked the first time any top U.S. official has indicated the Reagan administration might be willing to merge the strategic arms talks with the president on Intermediate Nuclear Forces. But Rowny also said such a move "is not in our interest and would solve no problems." He said the Soviets have not advocated a merger of the talks and stressed, "You can't solve anything procedurally that you can't solve substantively." To calm fears in Europe that the United States might use the NATO missiles in Europe as a bargaining chip in the war, Rowy also added. "We're not going to enter into a START agreement that sells our allies down the river." Some smaller nuclear tests to be in secret By United Press International WASHINGTON - For security reasons, the government has decided not to give advance notification of underground tests involving detonation of low-yield nuclear weapons, administration officials said yesterday. Officials said, however, that tests involving explosions that can be felt or heard outside the test site are still being announced in advance. 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