NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 7, 1983
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Congress' agenda jammed
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate must complete an agenda crammed with defense spending, the national debt and the civil rights commission if Congress is to adjourn on schedule Nov. 18.
That leaves two weeks to settle some long-simmering controversies and deal with the disputes certain to win, as lawmakers in their rush to adjournment
The Veterans Day holiday on Friday may have to be forsaken unless the House and Senate have on the continuing resolution needed. Then the government operating another four months past midnight Thursday.
ONLY SIX OF THE 13 key appropriations bills for the 1984 fiscal year have been passed by Congress, and four have been signed by President Reagan, although the new fiscal year began last week.
Jim Wright, D-Texas, the House Democratic leader, will try to add $1 billion for education to the continuing resolution. Another amendment requires a Republican Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N-Y, would help Israel and Egypt by $242 million each.
The Senate has been unable to reach agreement on legislation already passed by the House to raise the debt ceiling because members balked at raising the government's spending limit without doing anything to curb the $195.4 billion deficit.
The debt limit remains hostage to the efforts of a bipartisan group of Senate leaders who are trying to fashion a package of spending cuts and tax increases to slash the deficit by about $150 billion over the next three years. The White House hinted that President Reagan might support the package if tax increases are similar to his "contingency" tax proposal and are accompanied by spending cuts.
CONGRESS MUST TAKE action on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission or the panel becomes defunct Nov. 29. There is a movement to strip Reagan of power over the commission by making it an arm of Congress.
The proposal was introduced after Reagan fired three liberal members of the six-member commission two weeks ago. Reagan already has replaced two commissioners.
The Senate plans to spend today and tomorrow on a military bill that provides $22.5 billion for Pentagon weapon and other programs. Votes are tentatively scheduled today on whether to cut funds for the MX missile and tomorrow on whether to restore funds to resume nerve gas production for the first time since 1969.
BACK FOR CONSIDERATION when the military bill is finished is an administration-backed natural gas deregulation measure. Key sponsors may be reluctant to resume debate because of an amendment by an unrelenting opponent. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, a former adjudicant of cheap oil's privilge price wells drilled before 1977. It also would block changes in price ceilings set in 1978.
A 14-member House delegation returns today from a fact-finding trip to Grenada and will be making its report on the U.S. invasion of Grenada. House Speaker Thomas P. McCain he wants to hold hearings to testimony from American medical students rescued during the invasion.
The confirmation of William Clark as interior secretary is expected by the Republican-controlled Senate sometime before adjournment, depending on when the Energy Committee takes a vote. A committee vote Friday was put off for lack of a quorum.
Scientists say tremors could follow Idaho quake
By United Press International
BOISE, Idaho — Scientists warned yesterday that a violent earthquake that rocked central Idaho 10 days ago might have been a prelude to a series of strong tremors along faults in the northern Rocky Mountains.
Geologists generally agree that the forces leading to the Oct. 28 quake, which measured 6.9 on the Richter scale and topped a storefront wall on two small Challis children, will cause many small tremors and up to three intense quakes in the next half-century.
The high-risk Intermountain Seismic Belt encompasses about 500,000 square miles in central and southern Idaho. west-central Montana, western Wyoming and along the Wasatch Front
"WE CAN EXPECT earthquakes of magnitude 7 or better from that belt over the next 50 years," said Ed Williams, director of the Rexbury-based Ricks-Teton Seismic Network. "We get an idea that maybe we'll have two or three more large earthquakes in the Intermountain Seismic Belt."
of Utah, a mountain range just east of Salt Lake City.
In the past, Williams said, earthquakes appear to have occurred in the northern Rockies only once every 100 to 200 years. But three violent tremors in August and October added, and all signs indicate that the northern Rockies are ripe for more activity.
"We've seen some pretty good ones in the past, and as we project into the future, we're going to see some more," Williams said.
University of Idaho geologist Peter
Isaacson said the quakes were caused by "crustal extension," a phenomenon common to several intermountain areas in which some mountain ranges "are literally rising straight out of the crust."
TWO CHILDREN DIED in the tremor that rocked Idaho. It caused about $2.5 million in damage and destroyed buildings more than 50 miles apart in the isolated towns of Mackay and Challis. The quake, the largest in decades, took place in 24 years, was felt in seven states and part of British Columbia, Canada.
The quake carved a 15-mile-long, 10- to 24-foot-deep trench in the foothills around the epicenter at Mount Borah, which is about 12,662 feet high. The quake also radically altered the "underground plumbing" of the region,
said Boise State University seismologist Spencer Wood.
The boggy "Thousand Springs" area just west of Mount Borah was transformed into a slowly spreading lake when arid Chilite Butte began spewing mud. The springs in Clayton was flooded, and Mackay's city-owned wellspring tripped its flow.
Wood said the intermountain region, particularly central Idaho, had been virtually ignored in past earthquake studies because of its remote location and low population. As a result, much less is known about the zone than urban high-risk areas such as the San Andreas Fault in California, he said.
University of Utah seismologists, who quit counting aftershocks from Idaho's quake after recording more than 100 aftershocks, said the region was due for more tremors.
Rembrandt etchings recovered in New York
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Five works of art thought to be stolen Rembrandt etchings worth up to $500,000 were found stashed in a locker at Grand Central Station in Manhattan, the FBI said yesterday.
Police and FBI agents acting on an anonymous tip opened a public locker at the rail terminal at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and found the etchings.
Agent John Trahon said the etchings were thought to have been stolen last month from galleries in Ottawa, Canada, and Syracuse, N.Y., by a man who used a Rembrandt scholar. He said they were worth between $300,000 and $500,000.
TWO OF THE ETCHINGS — tentatively identified as the “Presentation in the Temple in the Dark Manner” and “Clement de Jonghe — Print Seller” — were thought stolen from the National Art Museum of Canada in Ottawa on Oct. 14.
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OTTWA POLICE SAID Cruz told authorities at the National Gallery that he was a Rembrandt scholar from Syracuse University.
Officials at Syracuse University said a man identifying himself as Cruz received the library five times in July and and again this year, himself as an art expert from Ottawa.
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Trabon said the FBI was confident that the pieces of art were the stolen works. A positive identification will be made and the artist will be called in to inspect the etchings, he said.
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