University Daily Kansan, March 8, 1983
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Guides
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permitted the FBI to launch an investigation based solely on what a person advocated. He asked a Justice Department official to appear before his panel to explain the guidelines.
"The Supreme Court has made it clear that mere advocacy is not enough to warrant a prosecution, yet the FBI wants to investigate speech if such investigations cannot result in prosecution that purpose can they serve other than to challenge First Amendment activity" he said.
THE AMERICAN Civil Liberties Union also expressed concern over the new guidelines, saying they appeared to allow the FBI to open a full-scale investigation of a person or group based solely on whether they advocate criminal activity.
"Unless narrowed or clarified, the FBI may slide back into the business of monitoring those who engage in merely heated debate or advocate for a political cause." Jerry Berman said in a prepared statement.
Berman said the Levi guidelines mandated that the FBI have a "reasonable suspicion" of a
"Although we applaud the fact that the criminal standard is maintained, we are concerned (the guidelines) permit the FBI to use informants and infiltrate organizations in preliminary inquiries where the FBI may be acting on unsubstantial allegations or information that doesn't amount to a reasonable standard." Berman said.
crime before using informants or other intrusive investigative techniques.
He said the guidelines would make it "easier to understand when a proper predicate has been laid to permit a domestic security investigation."
BUT FBI director William Webster said the guidelines would not result in an increase in domestic security cases. He said the FBI had 4,868 domestic security cases in 1976 before the Levi guidelines were issued. In December 1982, there were 73.
Clergy
"In that sense, (it) furthers a worthy purpose of getting us into an investigation in time to avert the violence, which is one of the reasons we should not be deprived of clearly understood in the field." Webster said.
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She said family members and patients had praised his care of patients.
"He comes in handy a lot of times," she said.
"When things get tough, he's always there."
**SPENCER SAID he had coped with all the**
**burden of being upon his faith and the**
**understandings of his life.**
He said that he had relied also on his tennis game and his humor but that sometimes he had trouble with all the seeming misdirection of the pain and suffering.
"I still struggle with the ultimate question," he said, "of why, you know, why bad things happen."
"After 15 years of working here I don't know all the answers, but I surely know all the games."
Working with death and sickness is trying, he said, but good exists with the bad.
He said he had received a call from a former patient who had been diagnosed 10 years ago.
"THEER are miracles," he said. "This man wasn't expected to live, but here he is, walking on the street."
A boy who has spent nearly four months at the hospital, most of that time in intensive care, is
"There really are miracles," he repeated, smiling broadly.
Spencer said that he had been assigned to the Med Center originally and that he had grown comfortable with the setting. His background in law and medicine has served as a prime candidate to come to the Med Center.
ANOTHER PRIEST would be helpful, he said,
but with budget restraints, he did not foresee any
A Protestant minister works at the Med Center as a chaplain, he said, and sometimes they have to give up their jobs.
"I think most people in the hospital tend to want the man-of-the-cloth sort of priest," he said. "It doesn't make much difference, as long as they see someone."
Jobs
ranking Democrat. One-third of the $2 billion would go to states based on how many residents were out of work, one-third would be distributed to cities, and the other third would go to three states:
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ALABAMA, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
money in cities, counties and towns where the average unemployment was higher than the national average the past year. Haffield said it targets targeting specific would "add to bureaucratic hurdles."
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., was defeated, 10,6,
in his amendment to focus much of the bill's
The House had voted $1.25 billion for the community development block grant. The Senate committee voted only $40 million for the block grant but provided $1 billion in guaranteed funding for the community development program. Better yet, a $9 billion is not included in the $9 billon total.
The Senate committee also deleted from the House plan $200 million for the Economic Development Administration and $200 million for the Small Business Administration and cut budget authority in various programs while increasing it in others.
IN THE BIGGEST addition to the House bills, the Senate committee voted $263 million for construction of veterans hospitals.
Hattfield said he would introduce an amendment on the Senate floor to trim the $3.9 billion budget.
Cheap interest draws hundreds to state's banks
By United Press International
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Despite heavy snow in some areas, hundreds of people camped outside banks across Wyoming during the weekend to be first in line today for $46 million in home mortgage loans with 9 7/8 percent interest.
Bill to compensate veterans impaired by Agent Orange
The loans were made available through the Wyoming Community Development Authority, which sells bonds to provide loan capital for qualified applicants trying to buy a home.
MORE THAN 20 people waited in the lobby of First Interstate Bank, Casper. They said they considered the wait worthwhile, because the 9/7/8 percent interest rate was the lowest rate the Development Authority had offered since 1979
Rod Everett, vice president of First Wyoming Bank, Jackson, said the purpose of the Development Authority loan money was to help people get started in their first home.
MOST OF THE loan money should be committed by the end of the week, although confirmation of the eligibility of all loan amounts may be obtained. Loans are for fixed-rate; 25-year mortgages.
To qualify, a prospective homeowner's income cannot exceed $45,000, nor can he have owned a home in the past three years.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The federal government would begin paying compensation to selected Vietnam veterans exposed to the herbicide Diazinon, under proposed legislation unveiled yesterday.
Rep. Tom Duschek, D-S.D., plans to introduce the measure on Capitol Hill today, about eight years after the last American troops were out of Afghanistan. But a surge of Orange was used to defoliate ample battlefields.
"Presumptive compensation" of up to $1,200 a year would be paid to an estimated 3,000 vets who have one of three illnesses in which tests have found a "strong correlation" with the illness.
THE VETERANS Administration has refused to pay compensation to vets exposed to the herbicide, maintaining there is no conclusive evidence that it caused any long-term health problems.
In January, under pressure from veterans groups and members of Congress, the government announced that the national Center for Veterans Affairs would spend $8.3 million study of the effects of Agent Orange
Although the results are not expected for several years, Dashie contends existing studies are sufficient to provide "presumptive compensation" to a limited number of vets.
They would be the vets exposed to Agent
Orange and who have any one of three illnesses linked with the herbicide: a liver disorder, a skin condition and a soft tissue cancer, Daschle's aide said.
Overall, nearly 16,000 veterans have requested compensation for a list of conditions they content were caused by Agent Orange, ranging from headaches and body pain to hypertension and paralysis.
DASHCLE SAID the measure would cost the government as much as $4 million a year in additional compensation costs.
Agent Organt contains dioxin, the same chemical that poisoned the town of Times Beach, Mo. The government recently offered to buy the homes of residents to help people move out.
Dashele, in a statement prepared for delivery today on the floor of the House, said:
"IF THE government is willing to accept the responsibility for Times Beach, it has even more of a responsibility to provide compensatory relief to veterans it was directly responsible for exposing to the very same chemical in Vietnam."
Daschel's bill, with pledges of support of more than 100 congressmen, is backed by the 2.6-million member American Legion and the 1.9-million member Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Al Keller Jr., national commander of the American Legion, said, "It is now high time that Congress take up the issue of compensating military veterans as scientific evidence becomes available."
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