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University Daily Kansan, April 29, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Senators praise, condemn tuition tax credit proposal
WASHINGTON - President Reagan's proposed tuition tax credit for parents of private school children ran into criticism yesterday from opponents.
The Senate Finance Committee, which approved the proposal last year, opened new hearings on the measure that supporters say will increase parental choice in their children's education, and opponents charge will deceive public schools.
The bill died in the last Congress when the House and Senate failed to act.
The administration's proposal would allow a taxpayer to deduct 50 percent of the tuition for private elementary and secondary education, with the maximum tax credit gradually increasing from $100 to $300 over a three-year period. It is aimed at lower- and middle-income taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of $40,000 or less.
Teen testifies for prayer in schools
WASHINGTON — A Texas teenager told a Senate school prayer hearing yesterday that she can curse, get an abortion and use contraceptives — but not meet at school before class time for religious inspiration.
Bonnie Ballie, 17, the 1982 YMCA governor of Texas, joined Education Secretary Terrel Bell and others in testifying that students should be able to meet at school during non-class hours for Bible study and prayer, just as they now may participate in extracurricular
They spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which began three days of hearings on school prayer. Sessions today and Monday will deal with President Reagan's proposed constitutional amendment to permit voluntary prayer in the classrooms.
Trudeau backs Reagan's arms plan
WASHINGTON — Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau told President Reagan yesterday he was encouraged by Reagan's latest proposal to limit U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Europe.
Reagan and Trudeau met for two hours in the Oval Office and then were joined by aides for a working lunch as they prepared for next month's allied Economic Summit at Williamsburg, Va.
A senior administration official said the two leaders avoided the touchy topics of acid rain and U.S. plans to test cruise missiles over Canada.
Top Soviet ordered out of Australia
SYDNEY, Australia — A top Soviet diplomat ordered out of Australia on spying charges flew home to Moscow yesterday, declining to speculate on his future but backed by a new Soviet denial of the espionage allegations.
european intelligence in Singapore, officials of the non-communist Association of Southeast Asian Nations said recent reports that many Soviet diplomats were actually intelligence agents had prompted the organization's five members to open a review of the status of Soviet envoys living in their countries.
The officials said the review of Soviet diplomats was to prevent the region from becoming a hotbed of Soviet espionage gatherings and to warn Moscow that member states are prepared to counter the threat.
Walesa's secretary told to stop work
WARSAW, Poland — Police detained Lech Walesa's secretary in Gdansk for questioning yesterday, searched her apartment and ordered her to stop working for the former Solidarity leader, witnesses said.
The secretary, Bozena Rybicka, 28, was released after two hours of questioning but was ordered to return for further interrogation today, two days before the national May Day holiday and the Solidarity underground's planned protest marches.
Spokesmen at Walesa's household said Rybicka was ordered to stop working for Walesa for unexplained reasons
writings by the late Rybicka had been Walesa's secretary since December 1981. She was taken into custody by police on a street outside the Solidarity leader's apartment late yesterday afternoon.
LSU students receive measles shots
BATON ROUGE, La. — Health officials fearing that Louisiana State University students might spread highly infectious red measles around the world on their summer vacations began administering 10,000 inoculations yesterday.
sixteen cases of measles have been diagnosed by the LSU health director, Dick Addis, since the first of the week. Sick students have been isolated in their dormitory rooms or apartments.
"We don't want to send people with the measles home." Addis said. "The danger is spreading it all over the country. We have 30,000 students from all over the world."
Although enrollment is nearly 30,000 at the Baton Rouge campus, officials said they would be satisfied if 10,000 were inoculated.
Ruckelhaus to sever ties, head EPA
WASHINGTON — President Reagan formally nominated William Ruckelshaus to head the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday after government ethics officers cleared Ruckelshaus$^a$ plan to cut ties with firms regulated by the EPA.
The White House had waited to send Ruckleshaus' name to the Senate until the Office of Government Ethics reviewed the plan he submitted this week for resigning his post as a senior vice president of the House of Representatives. "O' and severing his ties with several other firms regulated by the SEC," he said.
Ruckelshaus also promised to divest his stock holdings in those companies as soon as possible, including 2,399 shares of stock he was supposed to receive as deferred compensation from Weyerhauser over the next five years.
Enterprise to Scotty: send high tide
The 90,000-ton, nuclear-powered carrier missed the edge of a 400-yard wide, 40-foot deep ship channel while maneuvering into port about 11:30 a.m.
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise ran ground in mud yesterday one-half mile from home port and was stuck for about six hours, leaving 4,500 frustrated crewmen aboard and thousands of wives, children and sweethearts waiting on the dock.
Nine military and civilian tug boats rocked the huge ship as high tide swept through the bay about six hours later, freeing the Enterprise for its hour-long journey into port.
The incident in the ship's home port left families of crewmen — who had been at sea eight months — waiting restlessly at the air station pier gazing out into the bay at the beached ship.
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PACs gave record sum for '82 elections
WASHINGTON — Special interest committees, led by far right groups, poured a record $383 million in the 1982 congressional elections, a jump of 51 percent in two years, the Federal Commission reported yesterday.
In addition to the contributions, political action committees spent $3.3 million independently advocating the defeat or election of candidates.
By United Press International
THE FEC SAID that during 1881-82,
PACs raised $199.3 million and spent
The big spenders were extreme right-wing groups. The National Congressional Club, founded by Sen. Jesse Helms, K-N.C., and the National Committee of the National Committee each spent $10 million — far out-distancing all the others.
In third place for spending was the Realists Political Action Committee, with just over $3 million, followed by Justice Majority, with just under $3 million, with last under $3 million.
$190.4 million. There were more than
3,700 PACs in the FEC study.
The National Committee for an
Effective Congress, a liberal group,
was fifth with $2.5 million.
PAC spending was once almost entirely done by unions. But in 1982, the biggest-spending union — the United Workers — ranked 10th, with $2.2 million.
PACS NOT affiliated with other groups — such as the conservative committees — spent $64.5 million. Corporate PACs spent $43.2 million, trade and health groups spent $41.7 million, labor organizations spent $25 million.
Special interest money has been the growing source of federal election
campaign funds in recent years. The proliferation of PAC spending has triggered demands from public interest groups for tighter regulation of such
Senate candidates received **823.3**
million and House candidate **606.7**
GROUPS LIKE Common Cause have charged that PAC money influences the voting habits of members of Congress. The FEC report said that incumbents received $3\frac{1}{2}$ times as much money as did challengers. Incumbents got 66 percent of the PAC money while challengers got 19 percent.
Schultz travels to Beirut, vows to bring peace
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Secretary of State George Shultz, standing in the dusty mounds of rubble piled before the gaping facade of the bombed U.S. Embassy, vowed yesterday to achieve peace in Lebanon and the Middle East.
Shultz telt to Beirut from Jerusalem on what he described as a trip to "gather information" at a meeting with Lebanese President Amin Gemalv.
"We HAD A very full review of all of the issues here, just as we did in Israel," Shultz said at the presidential palace before flying back to Israel.
"I can see that there are quite a number of difficult issues. I think we can now have some sense of definition of them," he said.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem said that although Lebanon wanted to reach an agreement with Israel on troop withdrawals, it could not sign a peace treaty with the Jewish state.
Salem, talking to foreign correspondents accompanying Shultz, said there were five main points of difference in the negotiations with Israel.
"LEBANON CANNOT accept a clause calling for the recognition of local laws."
which does not wish to sign a peace treaty with Israel now, "he said.
Shuizt said he would not begin the negotiating phase of his diplomatic shuttle to achieve an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, when he again talks to Israel leaders.
In Damascus, the state-run Syrian radio denounced the Shultz mission as an attempt to distract world attention from a obvious future Israel attack on Syria.
Prior to his meeting with Gemayel, Shuitz飞驰 by helicopter from Beirut International Airport to Jordan and then said he and President Reagan were determined "to
do _everything _possible_" to _achieve
peace.
Hours before Shultz' arrival, U.S. Marines fired on a car speeding through a checkpoint near the embassy, wounding one of the two men in the vehicle, officials said. The two men apparently were drunk, the Marines said.
HUNDREDS OF heavily armed U.S. Marines, wearing American flags on their shoulders to signify membership in the multinational peace-keeping force, were camped on the waterfront near the building.
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