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University Dally Kansan, April 14, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan plan to cut GSLs rejected by Senate panel
WASHINGTON — The Senate Budget Committee yesterday approved a plan to spend $27 billion for education and training programs in 1984, $1.7 billion more than President Reagan had proposed but only $500 million more than this year.
The Senate committee rejected Reagan's plan to turn the money now spent on vocational education into a block grant at a reduced spending level and to reduce guaranteed student loans, bilingual education and the work incentive program.
The committee plan increases spending for all education and training programs by 2 percent over current law and adds additional money for scholarships.
The committee yesterday also added $2.5 billion to the budget resolution by freezing federal cost-of-living raises for only six months in 1984. Reagan had proposed a one-year freeze on cost-of-living allowances.
Habib given troop withdrawal plan
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Negotiators presented U.S. envoy Philip Habib a draft agreement yesterday for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, Lebanon's official agency said. Habib said he was optimistic a final settlement would be reached.
The Lebanese National News agency quoted Israeli spokesman Avi Pazner as saying a "tangible advance" was made in the latest meeting of U.S., Lebanese and Israeli negotiators.
"The delegates made an initial reading of the draft agreement between Lebanon and Israel in the presence of Ambassador Philip Habib," the agency quoted Lebanese spokesman Daoud As Sayegh as saying.
Officials in Beirut and Jordan said that an Israeli troop withdrawal was crucial to peace in the Middle East and that the United States held the key in the talks.
Police arrest suspect in Duffield case
OLATHE — Police have taken into custody a suspect in the brutal January killings of two Olathe girls, authorities said late yesterday. The name of the suspect was not released pending the filing of formal charges today in Johnson County.
Police said the suspect, a 21-year-old unemployed Olathe man, was booked into the Johnson County jail on unrelated charges, but was extensively questioned about the beating deaths of the Kelly and Janelle Duffield on Jan. 28.
Investigators scheduled a news conference for 10 a.m. today to discuss the arrest.
Critics compare Adelman to Watt
WASHINGTON — Critics yesterday assailed Kenneth Adelman as "the James Watt of arms negotiations" during Senate debate on his nomination as the administration's arms control chief.
Despite the harsh Democratic attack, Senate Republican leader Howard Baker predicted the Senate would approve President Reagan's controversial nominee in a vote scheduled for today.
On the second day of debate on the nomination, Democrats compared Adelman to Interior Secretary Watt.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said the Senate "would be doing the president a favor" by rejecting Adelman and clearing the way for Reagan to nominate another person, somebody "with a convincing background in arms control and national security."
Gulf war halts meeting on oil slick
KUWAIT — Health ministers from eight Persian Gulf states threatened by a giant oil slick failed to convene an emergency meeting yesterday, because of reports of a new Iraqi attack on Iran's leaking offshore oil installations.
The ministers hope to obtain a cease-fire in the 31-month-old war between Iraq and Iran to give experts time to cap Iranian oil wells damaged during the fighting. The wells have been spewing up to 10,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf.
The opening of the meeting was first delayed from the morning to the evening, and then postponed until today.
iran's official news agency IRNA reported that six Iraqi gunboats launched a missile attack against another Iranian oil well in the Persian Gulf.
19 states could lose welfare funds
WASHINGTON — Nineteen states could lose substantial federal welfare funds if they fail to adopt cost-cutting measures ordered by Congress, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesman said yesterday.
At issue are efforts to curb the $15 billion annual expense for Aid to Families with Dependent Children, a federal-state program providing monthly checks to 10.4 million people. In 1981, Congress called for several changes in calculation of AFDC benefits.
Regional HIHS offices sent letters last month to state welfare agencies warning them that they face "a substantial loss of federal matching funds" if they do not comply with the changes, said David Siegel, the spokesman. Kansas was not one of the 19 states.
Flotilla in Gilbraltar angers Spanish
GIBRALTAR — A 15-warship British flotilla sailed into Gibraltar yesterday, ignoring Spanish protests at a show of British strength in the disputed colony.
Three Spanish warships in Gibraltar Bay watched the British fleet sin through the Gibraltar straits from the Atlantic.
assurance the visit will run. The Gibraltar dispute erupted at a sensitive stage in Spanish-British negotiations to reopen talks on the future of the colony, which has a pro-British population.
spain has always maintained its claim to Gibraltar, which was taken by Britain in the 18th century.
The Spanish ships emphasized Spain's anger despite British assurances the visit was routine.
Correction
Because of a reporting error, the Kansan incorrectly reported that Gerhard Zuther, chairman of the department of English, had not talked to the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences about receiving extra money to hire teaching assistants.
In the same story, it was incorrectly stated that Math 110 was a substitute courses for Math 113. The substitute course is Math 101.
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House postpones freeze debate
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By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Faced with delaying tactics by Republicans, the House yesterday postponed until next week the debate on a resolution calling for a mutual nuclear freeze by the United States and the Soviet Union.
The chief sponsor of the resolution, Rep. Clement Zablocki, D-Wis, and chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee, called for the postponement after more than six hours of debate that just ended with a surface of more than 38 amendments.
Zablacki, noting that many members had plane reservations for California to attend the funeral tomorrow of Rep. Phillip Burton, D-Calfif, said the issue would be taken up again next Wednesday.
Earlier yesterday, the House decisively defeated an amendment that would have weakened the resolution by 26 points in the coalition formation of U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals.
called for both the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate two nuclear warheads for each newly deployed warhead.
IT WAS THE SECOND FULL day the house allotted to debating the controversial resolution without coming to a vote. All three paid 13 hours on the freeze March 16.
At issue was an amendment by Rep. Elliott Levitas, D-Ga., that would have
The 229-190 vote came after almost four hours of debate on the first of at least 30 proposed amendments to the measure. Freeze advocates described the vote as a significant test of the resolution.
FREEZE PROPONENTS OPPOSED it because it would allow for continued deployment of new, more advanced weapon systems.
"This amendment is just a public relations cover for the nuclear arms buildup the Reagan administration wants," said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., a proponent. "Sure, the number of weapons would be less, but the ones left would be much more deadly."
On a narrower 219-195 vote, the House defeated another amendment that would have subordinated the goal of a freeze to the goal of arms reductions in negotiations. Freeze objects to the change in emphasis.
After the House recessed for the evening, two freeze opponents, Reps. James Martin, R.N.C., and Henry Hyde, R-III., rejected the notion that Republicans were using delaying tactics and said that they were merely attempting to clarify what the resolution meant.
"They've got the votes to pass it"
Martin said. "What they didn't have is"
the vote to pass it.
PRESIDENT REAGAN. IN A last-ditch effort to stop passage of the resolution, yesterday endorsed an amendment calling for a freeze at
The same amendment got Reagan's backing last August when the House defeated a nuclear freeze resolution, and he personal lobbying effort by the president.
The House began debate on another freeze resolution last month and March.
letter to amendment sponsor William Broomfield, R-Mich., as the House sponsor.
Reagan issued his endorsement in a
"The resolution calls for a "mutual and verifiable freeze on and reductions in nuclear weapons" of the United States and Soviet Union. Proponents say it is not binding on the administration, but opponents argue it provides an opportunity to prevent military reduction talks and therefore dies the hands of the administration.
REAGAN OPPOSES A freeze on the ground that it would lock the United States into a position of nuclear inferiority. The administration fears the passage would complicate arms control negotiations in Geneva.
Zablocki said the resolution would not compromise national security.
"Any terms negotiated under this resolution would be and must be mutual and verifiable," he said. "Nothing will be accepted." There is signed, approved and ratified.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill said nuclear free backers had plenty of time if Republicans tried to use delaying tactics on the resolution, as they did March 18 when the House spent two days before putting it off (for another day).
Group starts move to kill hunting bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — An environmental coalition involving former President Jimmy Carter and "Wild Kingdom" ologist Marlin Perkins opened a campaign yesterday to kill legislation that would relax national park protection in Alaska.
The group, the Alaska Coalition,
vowed to make an all-out lobbying
effort to defeat an administration-
backed bill that would allow hunting
on 12 million acres of national parks in
Alaska.
"I have come to Capitol Hill this week to tell our legislators that this short-sighted bill and its short-sighted proponents pose a grave and intolerable threat to the ecology of our national parks in Alaska," said Perkins, host of the "Wild Kingdom" television series for 22 years.
AMONG THOSE PEARING with Perkins were former Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus, Wilderness Society Chairman Gaylord Nelson and Sierra Club Executive Director Michael McCloskey.
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