NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 1. 1983
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Senators avoid MX financing issue Committee deletes nerve gas funds
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate Appropriations Committee dealt the Reagan administration a setback yesterday by voting 14-12 to delete all production funds for two controversial new nerve gas weapons.
The amendment, offered by committee Chairman Mark Haffield, R-Ore., cost $124 million from the $252 billion military spending bill for 1984.
The committee declined to vote on another major issue, that being whether to appropriate funds for producing the first 21 MX missiles.
Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Akr., who sponsored an amendment to cut $2.1 billion in production funds, withdrew his amendment on the advice of Hattfield, another MXoe (he, who suggested it did not have sufficient committee support and could be more substantially debated on the House floor.
THE NERVE GAS vote was a significant defeat for program backers, who were depending on the Senate committee to act, and could mean that the program is dead in Congress this year.
The House Appropriations committee cut all nerve gas production funds Oct. 20 and backers had decided not to bring the issue to the full House, which had soundly rejected the program earlier this year.
In every budget he has presented to Congress since his inauguration, President Reagan has been seeking to resume chemical weapons production for the first time since 1969. The Pentagon wants the money to produce 155mm binary artillery shells and the "Bieney" binary bomb.
In binary weapons, two non-lethal chemicals are kept separate until they are mixed in the shell or bomb, producing a lethal gas. They are considered safer than older, single-chambered weapons which may leak.
CONGRESS REFUSED TO break the unilateral U.S. production ban in 1981 and 1982, and last summer the House refused to authorize the program. However, the Senate approved the program when Vice President George Bush broke a 49-49 tie vote and House negotiators deferred to their Senate counterparts when the two bills were reconciled in a conference committee.
Asked after the vote if it had been in doubt, Hatfield said, "No. We had our heads counted."
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, chairman of the appropriations defense subcommittee, said he was not sure whether an effort would be made to restore the nerve gas funds when the military bill was taken up by the full Senate. If so, it will probably be offered by Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Stevens said.
THE COMMITTEE COMPLETED work on virtually all of the bill in its third day of meetings. However, it did not complete a full work on a classified section of the bill.
In its work yesterday, it restored $138 million in cuts made by the defense subcommittee, including $168 million to provide for annual production of 840 M-1 tanks instead of 720; $23.5 million to purchase new fire control systems; and $77.6 million for equipment to be warehoused in Europe for ready access in case of war.
Overall, the committee added $550 million to the subcommittee version,
Candidates welcome Jackson to race
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democratic candidates yesterday lauded Jesse Jackson's entry into the presidential race as a way to increase the number of votes that his candidate who vote, and some said that his candidate who vote, from front-runner Walter Mondale.
Jackson, a civil rights activist, said Sunday that he would formally announce his candidacy at Washington's new Convention Center Thursday. The prospect of his candidacy has split the race among Democrats and Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young are both committed to Mondale.
"ANYONE WHO WANTS to run for president can and should." Mondale said of the president's decision, former president is a civil justice maker, civil rights maker and social justice a
critical part of his campaign platform and would compete with all the candidates for black and minority votes.
Monday's press secretary, Maxine
Mondale, would be hurt by lacks.
Mondale would be hurt by lacks.
Some polls have indicated that Jackson would cut heavily into the number of black people voting for Mondale, she said, but a Harris poll two weeks ago showed Mondale leading by 20 points among black people.
Sen. John Glenn's campaign manager Bill White said, "We welcome Reverend Jackson in the race and he will be a tough competitor."
FORMER SEN, GEORGE McGovern said, "I think he will reach some voters who are now immobile, watching the whole thing from the sidelines. I don't see Reverend Jackson taking votes away from other Democratic candidates — I see him mobilize people now on the sidelines."
John Rousellaen, press secretary for Sen. Alan Cranston of California, said, "Jackson will energize and mobilize the black voters. In terms of black voting it probably hurts Mondale more than anyone else. It hurt us a little bit."
DON FOWLER, ONE of the three people in charge of the campaign of Sen. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, predicted that Jackson's entrance would have no immediate effect on Hollings' chances.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate, in a surprise move late last night, overwhelming defeated a bill to raise the national debt ceiling, squelching the government's immediate authority to borrow money or pay its bills.
Senate defeats raising of debt limit
The Republican-controlled Senate, minutes before its midnight deadline, voted 53-19 against the motion to raise the national debt ceiling from its current trillion to $4.45 trillion that would carry the government into February.
By United Press International
Earlier yesterday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robole Dole, R-Kan., warned that unless the debt ceiling was raised by midnight, the Treasury Department would be forced to cancel its quarterly refinancing auction of about $16 billion worth of notes and bonds scheduled
DOLE, MANAGING the bill, said canceling the auctions would disrupt market conditions, raise the Treasury interest rates by about 0.125 percent, costing the government about $250 million over the life of the debt," and could affect other interest rates as well."
Failure to raise the debt limit on time also would prevent the Treasury from transferring $13 billion to the Social Security trust fund, but Dole said Social Security checks will go out on time in any case.
"I think Halloween is certainly a good night to pass the debt limit," he quipped. "We're certainly going to scare a lot of people."
However, Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee indicated that he would move to reconsider the vote today.
Last night's defeat climaxed four
days of debate that were often bogged down in unrelated amendments.
One of those amendments called for a mutually verifiable nuclear freeze, which the Senate, in a historic veto by President Reagan, to vote to kill 58-40
EARLIER IN THE DAY, the Treasury Department had canceled its auction of three-year bonds scheduled for today. The delay was expected to raise interest rates slightly on Treasury securities and ultimately cost the government an estimated billion in higher interest payments paid to investors over the life of the debt.
The House had approved a $1.6 trillion ceiling earlier this year. If the Senate had approved its own $1.45 trillion figure, then either the House would have had to agree to the lower figure or a joint conference committee would have had to work out a compromise.
Tufts prof arraigned in slaying of prostitute
By United Press International
DEDHAM, Mass. — A fired Tufts University professor was arraigned yesterday on murder charges for the slaving of his hooker-lover.
Anatomy expert William Douglas, 42, with his wife in the courthouse, pleaded innocent in the slaying of raven-haired Robin Benedict, 21, a prostitute in Boston's Combat Zone, who disappeared in March.
Prosecutors said that Douglas, the father of three teens, had squandered family savings and $50,000 in Tufs research funds on Benedict, whom he reportedly put on his payroll as an anatomy sketcher.
Her body has never been found, but her car was found in New York City.
they could get a conviction "without a body."
PROSECUTORS, CITING AN 1850 case in which a Harvard professor was convicted of burning victims even though no corpses were found, said that
They said that they had assembled evidence, including a bloody hammer and pieces of tissue "from the deepest part of the brain" in a pocket of a jacket found hanging in a closet of Douglas's travel home in surburban Sharon, Mass.
Assistant District Attorney John Kivian said that Benedict had wanted to break off the relationship with a friend, the slaying had followed a quarrel.
"FBI tests will show beyond a doubt this defendant did murder Miss Benedict," he said of Douglas, fired from his Tufts job in May and two weeks ago
NORFOLK SUPERIOR COURT
Judge Thomas E. Dwyer refused to set bail for Douglas, a burly man who spent the arraignment staring at the floor.
charged by a Suffolk County grand jury with with stealing university funds,
A Nov. 22 date was set for a preliminary hearing in the case.
Douglas's attorney, Daniel O'Connell III, called the decision not to set bail ridiculous and said that his client had been badgered for months.
Mrs. Douglas, who has described her marriage as "volatile," has been mentioned in court papers as a possible victim in the case, but has not been charged.
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