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NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International House committee removes nerve gas weapon funding
WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to remove all funding for two controversial new nerve gas weapons, dealing President Reagan's military program a significant setback.
But the committee, during work on a $246.2 billion military appropriations bill for 1984, rejected efforts to scrap production funds for the MX and Pershing 2 nuclear missiles and to strike $400 million for multi-earth contracts to build the B-1 bomber.
Funds for production of a binary 155mm nerve gas artillery shell and the "Bigyee" binary bomb already had been deleted by the defense subcommittee of the appropriations committee. The full committee's 28-22 roll call vote on an amendment by Rep. John Porter, R-III., removed the remaining $61.6 million budgeted for the binary weapons program.
Old foes oppose new ERA proposal
WASHINGTON — A new proposal in Congress for an Equal Rights Amendment drew the ire yesterday of old foes, who said that it would send women into combat, mandate unisex public restrooms and legalize homosexual marriages.
In their first chance to assail the 24-word ERA proposal now pending before a House judiciary panel, a slate of opponents including Illinois conservative Phyllis Schlafly called for it at least to be changed, if approved at all.
Selftahl suggested the ERA be rewritten so it would not "constitutionalize taxpayer funding of abortions and homosexual marriages, allow our daughters to be drafted . . . abandon our right to have single-sex schools and greatly increase insurance premiums."
Reason given for arrest in spy case
SAN FRANCISCO — Accused spy James D. Harper was arrested because the government feared that he was ready to move up to 200 pounds of highly-sensitive documents relating to American's defense system, U.S. Attorney Joseph Russonello said yesterday. Harper allegedly had planned to turn the documents over to the Soviets.
Earlier yesterday, Harper's attorney said his client had given the FBI the location of the documents. "If he had been more cooperative from the start and done this, he wouldn't be in all this trouble," the attorney said.
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Harper is accused of selling vital U.S. military information to the Soviet KGB through an agent in Poland over an eight-year period. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.
Burger says need for retribution OK
WASHINGTON Chief Justice Warren Burger, in his first television interview in 12 years, said he did not think that the public's need for revenge against criminals was "totally wrong."
In an interview with Cable Network, to be shown tomorrow, Burger said, "Retribution has got to be a factor. When a terrible crime is committed in a community, there is a feeling of outrage on the part of decent people. If the person isn't apprehended, convicted and sent away, then there is a terrible neurosis. A community mass neurosis builds up."
Burger also renewed his push for prison factories, saying that busy and tired prisoners were much less likely to start prison riots.
Antibodies help find cancer
WASHINGTON—Special antibodies may be used to detect the spread of cancer into a patient's lymph system, providing better diagnosis and a way to eliminate needless surgical removal of lymph nodes, scientists said yesterday.
The researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., said the monoclonal antibodies, tailored specifically to seek out cancer cells, had been injected into guinea pigs afflicted with liver tumors that had spread to nearby lymph nodes.
The antibodies, tagged with a radioactive substance, filtered into the nodes, by passed normal cells, attached to the cancer cells and lit them up on a radiographic imaging screen.
Wilson guilty of gun smuggling
NEW YORK — Former CIA agent Edwin Wilson, already serving a 32-year sentence for gun smuggling, was convicted last night of plotting to kill key government witnesses who had testified against him.
Wilson was convicted of attempted murder, tampering with witnesses and retaliating against witnesses. He was acquitted of a conspiracy accusation and of charges of plotting to kill two federal prosecutors.
The jury delivered its verdict about four hours after the panelists began deliberations in the 2½-week trial in Manhattan federal court
Huge Navv order for softballs draws fire
WASHINGTON — A congressman suggested yesterday that sailors had to be playing games aboard carriers where “it’s difficult to retrieve home run balls,” in his response to the Navy's large order of softballs at the end of the spending year.
Rep. Norman Dicks, D-Wash., said a report issued by the defense subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee had contained details on many large purchases made during a Sept. 30 "spending spree" by various branches of the services.
spice by various universities. Included in the last of the fiscal year purchases — which ranged from paper products to furniture — were 57,600 softballs for the Navy, he said in a press release.
Dicks, a subcommittee member, said the Navy had enough balls to form teams comprising every officer and every enlisted man.
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House rejects aid to Nicaraguan rebels
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House, warned that the United States was "heading straight for war" in Central America, yesterday rejected Reagan administration appeals and voted to stop CIA aid to rebels battling Nicaragua's Marxist-led regime.
By a vote of 227-194, the House approved a Democratic amendment ordering a cutoff of funds for the anti-Sandinista forces.
The roll call went generally along party lines, with only 18 Republicans voting with the Democratic majority.
The amendment to the intelligence authorization bill is identical to a bill that was approved by the House, 228-196, in July but ignored by the Republican-controlled Senate. The latest vote ensures that the issue will be dealt with by a House-Senate conference committee.
THE VOTE CAME as Nicaraguan military announced that 300 U.S.-backed rebels attacked the town of Pantasma in northern Jineteo province, setting fire to private and
government buildings and killing 32 people, including 11 peasants.
White House spokesman Larry Speaks said, "The vote today was not unexpected. We knew it would be a difficult vote. We think we will do well in the Senate. We think our position will be upheld in the Senate and we hope our differences will be worked out in conference."
'The situation has never been worse. We are heading straight for war.'
—Rep. Michael Barnes D-Maryland
House passage of the amendment followed warnings by Democrats that the CIA-sponsored covert activity expanded the conflict in Central America.
"The situation has never been worse," said Rep. Michael Barnes, D-Md., "We are heading straight for war."
telligence Committee has backed Reagan's efforts to keep pressure on the Marxist Sandinistas to stop the flow of arms and left rebels in neighboring El Salvador.
THE GOP-DOMINATED Senate In-
Critics of the actions say the administration actually seeks the overthrow of the Cuban- and Soviet-backed Sandinista government.
House Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas, in an interview on NBC television before the debate began, said Gaebler was following a double standard.
"If we believe that it's wrong for Cuba and Nicaragua to try to export revolution and try to overthrow governments in neighboring countries, then I don't think we ought to be supporting and raising and recruiting paying for armies to overthrow a government that we don't like," he said.
Secretary of State George Shultz warned Wednesday that a cutoff of aid to the rebels would "virtually destroy" any chance the Sandinista government would agree to end its backing of leftist guerrillas.
Rep. Henry Hyde, R-III, said continued rebel pressure on the Sandinistas is necessary "to drive them to the negotiating table."
Disease official describes rabies as widespread
CHICAGO — Rabies is a public health problem rivaling gonorrhea in frequency, affecting an estimated 20,000 people each year, a Centers for Disease Control official said yesterday.
Charles G. Helmkim suggested curbing the incidence of rabies by not keeping wild animals as pets, exercising better control of stray animals and routinely vaccinating household pets.
By United Press International
"The estimated incidence of animal bites in the United States ranges from 215 to 909 per 100,000 a year, making this a public health problem that needs to be addressed," he said in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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