University Daily Kansan. November 10. 1983
NATION AND WORLD
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Churches' council delays admittance of gay group
By United Press International
HARTFORD, Conn. — The National Council of Churches' governing board yesterday indefinitely postponed deciding whether to admit the monoxenic-oriented Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
After two hours of largely procedural debate, the governing board voted 116-94 not to act on a motion that would have declared the tiny 27,000-member institution eligible for membership in the coalition against its largest interfaith organization
But the vote left a number of issues unresolved, including whether the Metropolitan Community would have to reapply for membership or what processes and procedures would be put into place for continuing relations between the council and the Metropolitan Community.
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY officials attending the meeting as visitors expressed pleasure at the council's decision not to take a definitive stand on the membership application.
"It is important that no vote was taken on eligibility," said the Rev.
Nancy Wilson, Los Angeles, one of the churches' ecumenical officers. "We feel encouraged by the tremendous struggle the National Council went through. We feel that the issue is still alive and open."
Andrew Vance of the Greek Orthodox archdiocese of North and South America, the strongest opponent of the Metropolitan Community, said the Orthodox churches would not leave the council because of the vote.
The nine Orthodox church bodies in the council had threatened to leave if the homosexual-oriented church was declared eligible.
THE VOTE WAS an attempt at compromise on an issue council leaders on both sides of the question said would be needed to impart and perhaps lead to its dissolution.
Supporters of the Metropolitan Community, including top officials of the United Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ, had worked behind the scenes in an effort to indefinitely postpone the vote. The application has been pending since 1981.
The resolution to postpone acknowledges there is within the Protestant and Orthodox church bodies "unresolved debate . . . concerning homosexuality."
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Deputy assistant secretary of defense Nestor Sanchez, left, confers with Col. Joseph Stringham, commander of the military group of U.S. advisers in El Salvador, at Ihopango Military Airbase in San Salvador. The two met after a group of high-ranking U.S. officials had returned from an inspection tour of the eastern part of the country.
Nicaraguan bishops say disputes remain
By United Press International
Eight Nicaraguan bishops met yesterday with top government leaders for $2^{1/2}$ hours in what junta leader Daniel Ortega called very positive talks, but the bishops said their main differences with the state remained unresolved.
It was the first meeting between the Catholic hierarchy and the Marxist-led led
Ties between the Nicaraguaan government and the Catholic church deteriorated last week when pro-Sandinista crowds mobbed 20 churches
and harassed some priests, protesting the church's stand on the draft law.
The law requires all males aged 17 and older to register for the draft for a larger manpower pool in the growing war against U.S. backed rebels.
The three-man junta, headed by Ortega, met with the eight bishops — by Archbishop Miguel Ondo y Braña, a Spanish president, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega.
The Sandinista Front has accused some priests, including Obano y Bravo, of backing the rebel cause, but the group has also said they would not support a U.S. invasion of
Nicaragua.
"We are confident that they would be in an moment on the side of an infirmity."
Bishop Vega said he believed the meeting had resulted in "better understanding" of the position of both jumta and bolem as major differences had not been resolved.
However, Vega said the bishops told the junta the Sandistain Front should pursue new policies to help avoid confrontations.
He said the bishops had told the junta of the problem of people who had been displaced.
two foreign priests who were expelled from Nicaragua last week, charged with printing pamphlets urging draft evasion.
THE BISHOPS and the junta would exchange information on the charges made by each side. Ortega said there would be further meetings.
"In no way are we opposed to military service, but yes, we are opposed to the utilization of military service to establish an ideology that is compatible with our national bishops have said drafted youth would be indoctrinated in Marxist ideology.
Official admits meeting Aquino suspect
By United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — An Air Force colonel yesterday said that he had met several times with the alleged killer of opposition leader Benigno Aquino, the last time less than a month before the Aug. 21 assassination.
Testifying before a new inquiry into *Testifying* an alvy's slaying. Col. Arthur Custodio said that he had last met alleged Bando Galman in the last week of July.
The colonel said Galman, who looked 'despondent' and 'worried', came to his home in suburban Quezon City one month later and told for a social call and a few beers.
The 41-year-old fighter pilot told the five-member investigative commission that he first met Galman at a village fiesta in April 1979 in their home province of Nueva Ecija and about four or five times after that.
Custodio quoted Galman as telling him "I have something important to do. My group gave me instructions." Custodio said Galman, whom he described as an "acquaintance" but also a friend, "refused to elaborate further."
CUSTODIO SAID the subsequent meetings began in early 1982 when he helped a lawyer friend visit Galman at a military camp where Galman was detained on unspecified subversion charges.
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Galman_33, 33 was gunned down by security men seconds after Aquino was hit once in the back of the head by a .357 magnum bullet.
Government investigators say Galman was a notorious criminal hired by communists to kill Aquino and embarrass the Marcos regime. But critics say the military was involved in the murder.
Aquino, political archvail of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was shot as he was being escorted by military guards from a jetliner bringing him home from a three-year self-exile in the United States.
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He also denied reports he was attached to the office of Armored Forces (ARF).
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Hitachi-IBM settlement of $300 million reported
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By United Press International
NEW YORK - Hitachi Ltd. agreed to pay International Business Machines Corp. about $300 million under a secret pact that led to the recent settlement of Japan's lawsuit charging the Japanese firm Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
Sources close to the negotiations told the newspaper that IBM had agreed to allow Hitachi to continue to use software that IBM had claimed was "stolen or derived from stolen IBM technology."
The sources said IBM agreed to drop its lawsuit, which would have entailed showing the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it "painfully embarrassing" to Hailey.
The Journal said the exact terms and timetable for Hitachi's $300 million payment are below.
A SPOKESMAN FOR IBM said, "The story and particularly the amount are highly speculative, and we have no further comment."
The settlement of IBM's civil suit against Hitachi was announced Oct. 6, but no mention was made of the secret payment.
William Jentes, a partner at the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis and head of the Hitachi defense, confirmed that a secret agreement between IBM and the government have use of IBM software "formed an arm of the settlement." The journal said
But sources in the Chicago law firm said Jentes was "furious" at the terms of the secret pact and believed the settlement was so unfavorable to him that he refused refusing to sign it on his client's behalf, according to the newspaper.
"The Japanese were so obsessed with secrecy that they were willing to pay $300 million to save face," one source told the Journal.
JENTES SAID that IBM would have had a difficult time proving its claims if the case had gone to trial and that IBM would not have was a trade secret," the naran said.
But Jentes said Hitaen was unable to settle the IBM suit because of a natural Japanese aversion to litigation, the company's role as a major IBM client or the Japanese government to dispose of the before the IBM board's November visit to Japan and President Reagan's state visit this week.
By United Press International
Group suggests changes to save feds $24 billion
WASHINGTON — A presidential committee says the government can save nearly $24 billion in three years by repealing three key labor laws and improving its management of research projects.
The three laws are the 1935 Davis-Bacon Act, which requires the secretary of labor to determine the prevailing wage on federally financed or assisted construction projects; the Walsh-Healey Act, which now applies mainly to overtime pay under large government procurement contracts; and the Service Contract Act, which deals with prevailing wages under government service contracts.
The President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, started in early 1982, made the proposals Tuesday in four new reports, bringing the total to 41 reports that it has issued so far.
ONE OF THE new reports proposed major changes in the way the
government organized its budget figures. Another report proposed better government management to give no overall savings estimates.
The group's chairman, J. Pete,
Grace, chief executive of W. R.
Grace & Co., said that the 2.287
recommendations contained in the
41 reports added up to a three-year
government savings of $365 billion
plus cash accelerators of $68
billion. However, he also said that
there could be some duplications
among them.
He said that the $849 billion in government liabilities, listed in the 1984 budget, would total $11 trillion under correct accounting if off-budget loan guarantees and loans of unconsured enterprises were included
Grace said the nearly $200 billion federal deficit would be more than $300 billion under correct accounting.
THE GROUP PLANS to present further reports later this month and a final report to the president.
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