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University Daily Kansan, October 8, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Committee favors blockage of AWACS sale to Saudis
WASHINGTON—The House Foreign Affairs committee voted 28-8 yesterday to block the $8.5 billion AWACs sale to Saudi Arabia, the first congressional setback in President Reagan's uphill battle to win approval for the controversial deal.
The committee vote reinforced the likelihood that the full House will formally object to the plan to force five Airborne Warning and Control System (AWC) aircraft hard-hitting into Iraq.
However, both houses of Congress must veto the block it, and Reagan picked up some new public support yesterday after making a "hard
The action—with 10 Republicans opposing the Reagan package—was the first step in a process aimed at sinking the deal, which has taken on a new face. The Republican effort is focused on the
The House committee action came after debate that was interrupted several times by floor votes. Eighteen Democrats linked up with 10 GOP members—including ranking Republican William Broomfield of Michigan—to reject the sale.
Five Republicans and three Democrats backed the package and Rep. William Goulding, R-Pa., was the only one of the 37 members to vote
The lopsided committee vote is expected to be repeated in the full house when the resolution is considered. Action is now scheduled for Tuesday.
The sale has been opposed on grounds it would jeopardize Israel's security if the government could fall into the wrong hands if the Saudi government were to tapped.
Cuts may shut down Vovager 2
WASHINGTON—The space agency is facing budget cuts so severe it is considering ending its planetary exploration program and even shutting down the Voyager 2 probe en route to Uranus and Neptune, space agency sources said yesterday.
Such drastic action would leave the high-priority space telescope set to be orbited in 1985 as the only major project left in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
However, Andrew J. Stofan, head of NASA's Office of Space Sciences, said no decisions had been made, and he indicated that abandonment of Voyager
“It’s extremely difficult to imagine we would send a spacecraft like Voyager past Uranus and not listen to it,” Stofan said.
He said he could not comment on discussions between NASA and the White House.
Casino receives false bomb threat
STATELINE, Nev.-A written threat saying three bombs would be detonated at the Harrah's hotel-casino unless $1 million was paid touched off a massive search at the Lake Tahoe resort yesterday, but no explosives were found, officials said.
A spokesman for the Douglas County sheriff's office said "non-explosive durées" were found during the four-hour search of the 18-story hotel-casino, but no injuries had been reported.
Gambling continued uninterrupted during the search and no one was evacuated, authorities said.
"All indications are that it is a hoax," said Jerry Maple, Douglas County sheriff.
Authorities said they received a telephone call, and at 6 p.m. CDT they found a note in the casino saying there were three "Motoy-type gas bombs" hidden in the building. The note also said that the bombs would be detonated if the news media or law-enforcement officials were contacted.
Probable veto awaits House bill
WASHINGTON—President Reagan is likely to veto a House-passed bill providing $4 billion more than he proposed for social programs, the White House said.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill conceded he did not have the House's two-thirds vote needed to overture a presidential veto.
The House defied Reagan Tuesday when moderate Republicans joined Democrats to reject deeper social program cuts.
The bill, which would fund the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and Labor, still must be considered by the Senate, and then passed by both the House and the Senate. It would be would be
The funding bill passed by the House carries $8.7 billion for the Lawnd Department, $85.7 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services, $13.9 billion for the Education Department and $605 million for related agencies.
The House Appropriations Committee said it represented a $1.2 billion reduction from fiscal 1981 funding.
Congress approves military raises
WASHINGTON—A compromise plan to provide military pay raises ranging from 10 percent to 17 percent was given final approval by Congress.
The increases are retroactive to Oct. 1 and should appear in this month's paychecks if Reagan signs the bill promptly.
The pay and bonus package worked out by a House-Senate conference committee was approved first in the House on a 417-1 vote, then passed by a Senate at a later date.
The pay hike is expected to cost about $4 billion during the 1982 fiscal year. It allows an 11.7 percent pay increase granted members of the armed forces a
The new bill provides pay increases of 10.7 percent to 17 percent for enlisted personnel and a 14.3 percent pay raise for officers.
Solidarity approves economic plan
GDANSK, Poland—Solidarity Union delegates approved a two-year national program yesterday to solve Poland's economic issues, issued a call for participation.
The landmark document defied Poland's Communist authorities by going beyond labor union activity and touching on social, economic and political issues.
The delegates unanimously adopted a resolution threatening a nationwide warning strike within two weeks over the government's consumer price policy. It demanded immediate talks with authorities on the issue, including the doubling of cigarette prices.
Authorities had warned the future course of relations between Solidarity and the government would depend on the shape of the program adopted. Moscow radio yesterday called the congress a "political gathering" designed to wreck socialism.
The new program flatly rejected the government's version of economic reform, urging adoption of a Solidarity package aimed at stabilizing the economy by gradually enacting a new retail price system, cutting defense funding, freezing savings and revamping the Polish currency to halt inflation.
Students arrested in Manila riot
MANILA, Philippines—Riot police firing guns and swinging clubs yesterday battled rock-throwing students denouncing the "U.S.-Marcos
seven policemen, including Col. Alfredo Yonan, Manila police superintendent, were injured in the 30-minute mets at a public square in downtown Manila.
The riding came at the end of a three-hour demonstration by 1,500 students after officials of President Frederdian E. Marcos' government appear for a discussion at the National Press Club. The youths had scheduled the meeting to discuss campus freedom and the reduction of tuition fees.
Police arrested eight student leaders on charges of "tumultuous disturbance," a conviction which could mean a maximum of six years in jail.
Foreign students squeezed by housing law
By CATHERINE BEHAN
Hussein Yahgi and his family live in public housing, and even though the seven of them are cramped in a four-bedroom apartment, the price is right.
Staff Reporter
But a federal law passed in 1980 might force them to move.
AS MANY AS seven foreign students and their families will have to move within 60 days from Edgewood Homes, 1600 Haskell Ave., if their status with immigration and Naturalization Service is as a non-immigrating student alien.
"It's important to realize that the law is not talking about foreign people in general, just foreign students, foreigners who are in this country for the express purpose of getting an education here."
"A student visa is nothing," Dave Murrell, executive director of the Lawrence Housing Authority, said yesterday.
The law requires any person who is not a U.S. citizen and who is receiving federal housing assistance to sign a certificate stating that he has a status other than a non-immigrating student alien, Murrell said.
However, Murrell said, "They can lie and sign the certificate, but they can get five years or $10,000 fine if they are investigated.
The only way a student can stay in
school is to sign the certificate
by Oct 10, he said.
He said, "some just don't have the money to eat well, and they just have to do it."
BUT BITING the bullet might be harder than ever, because the average rent at Edgewood is under $80, and the cost far more than that, Murrell said.
"We are looking for an apartment, but this is a very short time to find one. Basma Yahgi, Amman, Jordan, sophomore, said yesterday.
The Yahgi's pay about $75 for their apartment, but most apartment landlords will not allow seven people to live in one apartment, she said.
"I don't know what we'll do. Apart-
ment won, I could so many people," she said.
Murrell said the law came as a complete surprise to him, and though he did not know why the law was passed now, he was not happy about it.
"That's the terrible thing; these people are beneficial to us. They are giving us a lot by being here," he said.
"A lot of Americans think they are parasites, but they are good for our economy and some stay—doctors, nurses, or performers a service—a great deal."
ANOTHER FOREIGN student who lives in Edgewood, who asked not to be identified, said he did not know what to do about the problem.
"I don't know what to do. I'll have to find another apartment," he said. "It will cut expenses like food to make up the increase in housing costs," he said.
Murrell said the housing authority had no plans to help the students.
"We're at a loss as to what to do," he said.
The housing authority has contacts with landlords in the area, he said, but they will not be able to help the students.
The only thing they can do is live with a friend to save on the rent, he said.
CLARK COAN, director of foreign student services, said yesterday that the students should start looking for another apartment.
"It's a good thing that this is the first time in many autumns that there isn't a shortage of housing," he said.
Murrell said the only exception to the law would be if a non-immigrating student alien were married to an American citizen.
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