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University Daily Kansan, June 24, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Supreme Court abolishes congressional veto power
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, in a major blow to congressional power, yesterday threw out Congress' use of the legislative veto because it thwarts the president's authority to manage the government.
The court majority overturned Congress' shortcut for reviewing, and even canceling, certain Reagan administration actions. The court said Congress had to pass legislation to curtail the executive branch's actions.
The legislative veto is written into a wide range of laws, including foreign arms sales and the 1973 War Powers Act, which empowers Congress to force the president to withdraw armed forces he has sent into hostilities abroad without a formal declaration of war.
Using the legislative veto, Congress could have annulled federal agency rules without passing legislation that must be signed by the president before becoming law.
The veto provision is written into more than 200 laws, involving energy, consumer product safety and labor issues. It began as an effort by Congress in the 1830s to control what it saw as excessive agency actions.
Pope, Walesa hold private meeting
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II ended his eight-day Polish pilgrimage yesterday in a secretive meeting with Solidarity founder Lech Walesa and returned to Rome with a prayer "that good will triumph" in his native land.
"We have been instructed not to tell anything except what is in the communique," said Walesa's wife, Danuta.
On Wednesday, the pope held a surprise second meeting with military ruler Wojciech Jaruzelski that failed to reconcile differences between the military government and the outlawed labor movement.
U.S. secret base in Egypt revealed
WASHINGTON - The United States has developed a secret base in Egypt for contingency operations in the Persian Gulf, congressional testimony and high-level sources revealed yesterday.
The clandestine base, identified only as "Site Mike," was kept secret from Congress because Egypt warned the United States that its disclosure would mean the end of its operation, the sources said. The based is staffed by 100 men and supplied with $70.4 million worth of equipment
equipment The United States also plans to spend $90 million to upgrade a base in Morocco, which would be used as a refueling depot for transports headed for Egypt in the event of a Persian Gulf crisis, according to the testimony before the military construction subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
Arafat denounces Syria as betrayer
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who yesterday charged Syria with "surrounding and besieging" his forces in Lebanon's Beka Valley, went to Damascus, where he received a message from Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. The message's contents were not disclosed.
"While we were all on the alert to face Israeli threats, the Syrians betrayed us . . . they cut off supplies from my men," Arafat said. Arafat moved his guerrilla headquarters this week to northern Lebanon from Damascus.
Saint Antoine at the Bataille, Arafat's top aide, Salah Khaifa, also known as Abu Ilyad, went to Moscow Tuesday as Arafat sent messages to 14 heads of state appealing for intervention to halt the Syrian assistance to anti-Arafat rebels.
Jailed activists refuse to go home
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Accused of "gumming up" the justice system, jailed anti-nuclear activists demanded yesterday that the judge come to their prison tent to hear their pleas.
judge come to presen tion. Of the 1,023 people arrested Monday, 866 remain imprisoned, refusing to leave the Santa Rita jail. The activists hope to receive lighter punishment with stalling tactics.
The judge offered the protesters a choice between 11 days in jail or a $250 fine. The activists objected to a two-year probation period, which was included in both sentences, because it would restrict them from anti-nuclear protests.
and nuclear peace. About 2,500 demonstrators blocked the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the nation's largest nuclear research center, Monday.
Bush defends U.S. policy to allies
LONDON — Vice President George Bush arrived in London yesterday to start a two-week, eight-nation trip to defend U.S. policies in Central America and to continue talks on arms and economic matters begun during a January tour.
Bush, accompanied by his wife, Barbara, left Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington shortly before Secretary of State George Shultz flew westward for a 13-day swing through Asia.
In London, the vice-president was scheduled to address the European Democratic Union, talk with the International Democratic Union and confer with British leaders, his office said.
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Czech police, TV crews scuffle
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Police scuffed with Western television crews yesterday, detained a reporter and confiscated film of a meeting between dissidents and Western delegates at an international peace conference, networks reported.
About 60 police scuffled with at least three film crews and confiscated their film after they met in a Prague park with human rights activists and Western delegates to the World Assembly for Peace and Life and Against Nuclear War, according to the state-run Austrian television
conference, network or app? The disidents had been barred from the conference, attended by more than 2,500 delegates from 140 countries, and at least five of them had been warned personally by police to stay clear.
network, ORL One of the crews involved was from the West German network, ARD.
Panda cub born in Mexico City zoo
MEXICO CITY — The Mexico City zoo announced yesterday its panda Ying-Ying has given birth to her third cub, giving the zoo the world record for bringing naturally conceived pandas into the world.
Marielena Hoyo, the zoo's administrator, said it was still not known whether the nanda cub, born Wednesday, would survive.
Its weight and health were not known because veterinarians were not able to examine it. Also, it is difficult to determine the sex of a baby panda.
Sher was pregnant.
Ying-Ying surprised the keepers when she entered her room Wednesday, carrying the cub in her mouth, Hoyo said. "It looked like a little rat," she said.
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The panda was born out of sight of zookeepers, who were not sure the mother was pregnant.
Industrial park pollution higher, agency reports
TOPEKA — A state environmental official said yesterday that levels of contamination in groundwater at the Strother Field Industrial Park near Bristol were increasing in water used by residents near the hazardous waste dump at Furley.
James Aiken, director of environment for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told the Special Committee on Furley and Strother Field that the contamination at Strother in southeast Kansas might have been caused by solvents used 40 years ago.
By United Press International
own drinking supplies, and officials there have been warned by KDHE not to use their water for drinking or the pollutants of the pollution by organic chemicals.
Aiken told lawmakers that some water wells the department tested showed acute levels of contamination at Strother, while others had only traces. By contrast, contaminated groundwater that has migrated to the surface poses a hazardous waste site in Sedgwick County showed levels of contamination that were below the levels in some wells tested at Strother, he said.
THE INDUSTRIAL PARK has its
The legislative interim committee is studying how the department has handled the Strother Field contamination and the leakage of cancer-causing chemicals from the Furley hazardous waste dump.
Aiken SAID THE DEPARTMENT would hire a consultant to help determine the source of the contamination at Strother.
Strother Field used to be an air base and Alken said the groundwater contamination could have been caused by solvents used at the base in the
But it also could have been caused by industrial solvents used today, he said.
One way to dissipate the pollutants was to pump the water out of the
ground and expose it to air, which should reduce the contamination substantially, said Lee Furst, environmental engineer with the regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Rep. Ben Foster, R-Wichita, chairman of the interim committee, asked Furst, Alken and KDHE Secretary Barbara Sabol whether the state needed improvement in monitoring to monitor groundwater supplies and ensure unpolluted water
All three said they thought current laws were adequate, but that some minor changes might be recommended by KDHE at a later date.
House approves limit on third leg of tax cut
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday approved a Democratic plan to limit President Reagan's July 1 income tax cut to a maximum of $720 per family and sent the measure to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain future.
The final vote was 229-191, with 29 Democrats defecting. The anti-climacism finale came several hours after the Democratic-controlled House indicated its support for the tax cap on a 255-165 procedural vote.
THE PROPOSAL, originated by House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, would limit the 10 percent tax cut scheduled in the Bill to $637 for individuals and $720 per family.
The House also approved an amendment that instructs Congress to match the $6 billion raised from the tax cap with $6 billion in federal spending cuts.
"Now that he has become the 'Babe Ruth' of deficits, (Reagan) wants to
Republicans called the amendment a "sham" and a "fig leaf" because it was non-binding. The amendment's sponsor, Dave McCurdy, D-Okla., conceded there were "no absolute assurances" the savings would be achieved, but he added, "Our assurances are a heck of a lot better than President Reagan's assurance that he would balance the budget by 1984."
The tax cut limit bill now goes to the Senate, where Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee has vowed to fight it. If it goes through the GOP-dominated Senate next week, Reagan says he will vet it. There does not appear to be enough votes to override such a veto.
THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON debate, House Democrats argued that the limit would improve the equity of Reagan's three-year, 25 percent tax cut program by placing the burden on the rich, who were the main beneficiaries of the program, while marginally offsetting the deficit.
forget about deficits and wants to veto a bill that would reduce the deficit by $6 billion," said Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas.
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan urged senators to reject the proposal when it reaches the Senate because it "hits hardest at working spouses and it's simply unfair."
it would save the government $6.2
billion next year and $38.8 billion
through 1988.
The non-partisan Joint Tax Committee estimates the limit would affect 8.1 million people in 1984 - about 10 percent of all American taxpayers. The remaining 90 percent would get their full tax cut.
About half of the people affected would, have incomes of less than $50,000, but they would lose very little money. The remaining 4.4 million taxpayers with incomes of more than $100,000 amount for 89 percent of the revenue raised.
The committee estimates that single taxpayers who itemize their tax returns would be affected if their adjusted income was $3,714, or $29,800 if they do not itemize.
THAT MEANS A SINGLE taxpayer with an adjusted gross income of $40,000 would owe the government $6,959 in taxes rather than $6,827 if he received the full tax cut. His tax cut savings would be limited to $637, instead of the $769 reduction he would get under existing law.
Married couples with no dependents would feel the effect if they earned about $43,896 adjusted gross income if they itemize, and $77,200 if they do not. The dependent status would be affected at $46,494 if they itemize and $39,200 if they do not.
A two-income couple with two children and an adjusted gross income of $50,000 would pay $8,811 in taxes rather than $76,753, result in a higher family with an adjusted gross income of $80,000 would pay an additional $962 in taxes.
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