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University Daily Kansan, July 15, 1983
News Briefs
From United Press International
Volcker endorses Fed plan for raising interest rates
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker yesterday told a Senate confirmation hearing that possible Fed actions raising interest rates now could avert bigger increases later on.
Voleker told the Senate Banking Committee the Fed already has tightened its monetary policy somewhat and he also surprised some members by saying he is not committed to serving out his new four-year term.
President Reagan, following a long internal administration debate, announced June 18 he would nominate Volcker to serve another term as the 899.800-a-year head of the Federal Reserve Board.
The Fed's tight-money policies under Volcker's leadership have been credited with helping to cut down the inflation rate from double digits. Volcker will reveal the new Fed decisions next week when he makes a formal, annual report to committees of Congress.
formal, semi-annual report to committees of Congress.
Chairman Jake Garn, R-Ullah, said the banking committee would not vote on Volcker's confirmation until it received that report.
Nuclear arms talks recess until fall
GENEVA, Switzerland — The deadlocked U.S.-Soviet talks on medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe recessed for two months yesterday to give negotiators a chance to get fresh instructions from their governments.
ten governments.
The two sides agreed to resume negotiations on Sept. 8.
The two states agreed to resume negotiations. U.S. and other NATO officials say they think Moscow is stalling at the negotiations in the belief that anti-nuclear pressure on western European governments is increasing.
But NATO nations have been emphasizing their determination to proceed with plans to start deploying new U.S. missiles at year's end unless Moscow agrees to eliminate medium-range missiles in Europe or an interim low, ceiling.
In Moscow, the Soviet news agency Tass reported that the United States wants at any cost, to break what they feel is an arms parity in Europe.
NRC orders five plants shut down
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission yesterday ordered five nuclear power plants shut down because of growing evidence of nine cracks in crucial, reactor-cooling water lines.
The plants must undergo costly inspections and possible repairs of the massive piping systems that could take several months.
At least 11 other plants have also experienced potentially dangerous pipe cracks, but all are either closed for repairs or have already been removed.
A major part of the repair could cost a utility company $500,000 to $1 million a day.
the river plants ordered closed for inspection are: Quad Cities 2, Cordova, Ill.; Brown Ferry 3, Decatur, Ala.; Brunswick 2, Southport, N.C.; Dresden 3, Morris, Ill.; and Pilgrim 1, Plymouth, Mass.
Senate OKs weapon-testing agency
WASHINGTON — Over Pentagon objections, the Senate approved yesterday in a 91-5 vote an amendment to establish an independent testing office in the Defense Department to detect unsafe or ineffective "weather flowers."
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A recent General Accounting Office report said more than $32 billion worth of new weapon systems had not been properly tested under combat-like conditions and might not even work.
The amendment said the new agency would be headed by a civilian director, subject to Senate confirmation.
The test manager will vote on the Pentagon panel that recommends whether to purchase new weapon systems; provide independent reports to Congress; increase the testing staff; and make testing a separate budget item.
Lifting of martial law expected soon
WARSAW, Poland — Parliament yesterday passed a law giving police sweeping powers and began work on legislation that Polish political sources said would lead to the lifting of marital law next week.
The leaders of the Solidarity underground denounced the regime for what they decried as an attempt to retain marital law but in disguise that it was actually illegal.
Polish sources said Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski's government would order an amnesty for several hundred political prisoners and declare martial law over on July 22.
The new law gave police sweeping stop-and-search powers and guaranteed them the right to use tear gas, clubs, water cannons and dogs — tactics that became familiar during martial law.
Heckler seeks changes in child laws
WASHINGTON — Welfare secretary Margaret Heckler urged Congress yesterday to adopt tougher child support laws and attack a "national disgrace" that cheats young victims out of nearly $4 billion a year.
Heckler, head of the Health and Human Services Department, called for approval of a fund that would pay bonuses to states with good collection records.
The bill also would require states to deduct delinquent payments from parents' wages and to collect overdue payments from state tax refunds in welfare cases.
The Census Bureau reported last week 'that less than half the four million women awarded child support payments in 1981 are collecting the full amount. Unpaid child support amounts to nearly $4 billion a year, it estimated.
Dissident's wife opposes rights pact
Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of the sentencing of Shcharansky, a Jewish computer technician. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison for treason and "anti-Soviet agitation" — chargesprompted by his request for permission to emigrate to Israel.
WASHINGTON — The wife of Soviet dissident Anatoly Scharikany said yesterday the United States should not sign a new human rights accord with Moscow because of his imprisonment and the denial of emigration rights to thousands of Jews.
The United States, the Soviet Union and other nations are at a Madrid conference preparing to sign an agreement reaffirming human rights
Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union has virtually ended.
Firefighers gain on tri-state blazes
LOS ANGELES — Firefighters disregarded near-record temperatures yesterday to gain ground on a rash of forest and brush fires in California, Nevada and Oregon that have blackened more than 19,000 acres.
An army of 4,500 firefighters was on the lines against more than a dozen brush and timber blazes. Authorities said at least one was the result of arson.
The fire caused 43 injuries and, so far, has cost $970,000. Injuries ranged from heat exhaustion to broken bones to contact with poison oak.
The conflagration began last weekend when a planned burning of standing brush flashed into the deep canyons. It was reported 60 percent controlled.
Congressmen face reprimand for misconduct
WASHINGTON - A House committee yesterday recommended that two congressmen be reprimanded for "improper sexual conduct" with teenage congressional pages, saying that Rep. Daniel Crane, R-II., had sex with a female page and that Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass., with a male page.
By United Press International
Studds acknowledged in a speech on the house floor he is a homosexual and said he made a "very serious error in judgment" 10 years ago.
Both congressmen admitted to participating in the affairs.
CRANE APOLOIZED for his "mistake" and said, "I'm human." 1
The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, meeting in closed session, voted 11-1 to adopt the recommendations and report of special counsel Joseph Califano, who conducted a year-long investigation of allegations of sexual misconduct between teenage pages and House members.
A reprimand, if agreed to by the full house, has no effect on a con-
ference.
But he also said, "in no way did I violate my path of office."
only hope my wife and children will forgive me."
House Republican leader Bob Michel of Illinois said, "It is now up to the full House to make its judgment and act accordingly." He expected the House to act next week.
Califano's report said both pages consented to sexual relations with the congressmen and no laws apparently were broken. The papers have left Congress and were not identified. Both pages committee; they bear no grudges.
THE REPORT SAID Studds, 46, who is single, had a sexual relationship in 1973 with a 17-year-old male page, who may have been 16 when the relationship ended. In 1974, House veteran, made sexual advances in 1973 to two other male pages.
The committee said Crane, 47, who is married and has six children, had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female page in 1880. He is in his third
STUDDS, IN HIS DRAMATIC speech
to his colleagues acknowledging his sexual orientation, said he is not fighting the charges only because the "right to privacy is more important that proving in public the validity of the points I have made.
"It is not a simple task for any of us to meet adequately the obligations of either public office or private life, let alone both. But these challenges are made substantially more complex and both an elected public official and gay."
CALIFOAN IS CONTINUING an investigation of drug use on Capitol
The panel recommended that Studus and Crane should be reprimanded by the full House and that disciplinary action be taken against Howarth.
Jackson wants conference for minority problems
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON—Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson asked the Justice Department yesterday to convene a hearing on the problems of blacks and minorities.
Jackson, head of Operation PUSH,
People United to Save Humanity, met with Attorney General William French Smith, Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds and other top department officials at a time when the administration is trying to repair its civil rights image.
SMITH TOLD REPORTERS the department would consider Jackson's idea, but made no immediate commitment to hold the conference.
still was actively considering running for president despite comments this week by Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and no chance of being elected in 1984.
"We must distinguish between opinion and scientific data," Jackson said, noting that some polls showed him running ahead of declared Democratic candidates.
He also criticized the government for selectively enforcing the Voting Rights
On another subject, Jackson said he
HOWEVER, SMITH TOLD reporters the Justice Department had been vigorously enforcing the Voting Rights Act since President Reagan took office.
President Reagan's controversial nomination of three men to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission as replacement for members who have opposed his policies.
The committee agreed, on a voice vote, to delay until September a recommendation to the Senate on confirmation of the secretary of public hearings tried.
In Washington, the Senate Judiciary Committee delayed a vote yesterday on
The committee votes originally were scheduled for yesterday, but several Democratic members asked for more time.
DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS and civil rights groups have sharply criticized the nominations, questioning the motives for ousting the incumbents
attack on the independence of the six-member commission and an effort to make sure it will endorse his views.
The nominees are John Bunzel, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, a conservative research organization in California; Morris Abram, a prominent New York lawyer with a long history of law; Michael Destroy, assistant professor of law at Catholic University in Washington and a leading opponent of abortion.
SEN. ORRIN HATCH, R-Utah, who presided over several hours of the day-long hearing on the matter Wednesday, questioned the need for another public hearing because several dozen civil rights groups, lawmakers and other witnesses already have testified.
They called the president's action an
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