University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 9. 1989
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Senate nears approval on minimum-wage bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Senate approached final passage yesterday of legislation increasing the minimum wage to $4.25 an hour by April 1991 despite Republicans last-ditch attempts to derail the compromise plan.
Those efforts included two attempts to amend the House-passed measure, the product of a deal struck last week between President Bush and Democratic congressional leaders.
The amendments were expected to be defeated, the measure given final passage and sent to the White House.
If those predictions stand, only Bush's signature will be required for the first minimum wage increase since 1981.
The compromise calls for the hourly minimum wage to increase from $3.35 to $3.80 next April 1 and to $4.25 the next year.
The measure, passed overwhelm-
ingly by the House last week, also
creates a new subminimum wage that could be paid to teen-agers during their first three months in the work force and up to three months more for those in certified training or education programs.
In the debate leading up to the votes, a handful of conservative Republican senators long opposed to any increase made a spirited rhetorical effort to derail the compromise by defeating or amending it.
But even the Senate's GOP leadership, citing Bush's deal with the Democrats, frowned on those attempts.
"The president made an agreement," Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said in urging his colleagues not to support the amendments.
In June, Bush vetoed a Democrat-backed bill increasing the hourly wage to $4.55.
But under pressure to avoid another veto battle, Bush agreed to reaching the $4.25 level nine months before he had proposed and accepted a far more restrictive training wage.
SECORD PLEAD QUILTY: Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secured pleaded guilty today to one count of lying to congressional investigators in the Iran-contra scandal.
Secord had been scheduled to go on trial Monday on 12 criminal charges, nine of them stemming from his testimony to Congress in 1987.
But at a pre-trial hearing, Iran-contra prosecutor Reid Winged仑ang announced that the government and Secord's lawyers had negotiated a plea agreement. The government will pay for other criminal charges against Secord, who also could have faced tax charges, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors were prepared to present evidence that Secord personally received in excess of $1.5 million in profits from the sale of weapons to the contras and Iran, the office of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh said in court papers.
Second agreed to cooperate fully with Iran-contra prosecutors by testing truthfully at any trial to which he may be called, according to the plea agreement.
World Briefs
ORTEGA PITCHES PLAN: Nicaragua proposed a contra demobilization plan yesterday and offered in exchange to suspend arms imports, which the Soviet Union said earlier this year it already halted.
President Daniel Ortega said at a news conference that his decision last week to end a cease-fire after 19 months had opened the way to peace.
Ortega said Nicaragua would forgo arms imports until April 25, 1990, if his 15-point plan was accepted. The gesture appeared empty because the Soviet Union, Nicaragua's main supplier, told the United States this year it had halted shipments.
The proposal urges that the United States
divert to demobilization what remains of $49 million in non-lethal aid to the contras authorized by Congress in March.
PANAMA CANAL DILEMMA: The Bush administration has come up with a plan it says would ensure U.S. compliance with the spirit of the Panama Canal treaties without violating its policy of avoiding contact with the Panamanian government, U.S. officials said yesterday.
The treaties specify that the Panamanian government nominate the administrator and that the U.S. president appoint him, subject to Senate confirmation. The administration is working against a Jan. 1 deadline.
But the United States has refused to consider the nominee of the Panamanian government, Carlos Duque. Duque, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's hand-picked choice, was sworn in as president Sept. 1.
Democrats triumph with election victories throughout U.S.
The Associated Press
Democrats savored off-year election success in "everything, all over the country" yesterday, while Blacks and abortion-rights groups celebrated L. Douglas Wilder's victory as governor of Virginia and David Dinkins' triumph as New York's new mayor.
"It is a very tough day for Republicans," conceded Rep. New Gingrich, the GOP whip in the House. Said President Bush; "Wait'll next year."
Republican J. Marshall Coleman said he would seek a recount in Virginia's close race. Coleman said Wilder, if victorious, would have his full support.
Dinkins went to City Hall in New York where he will soon take office as the first Black mayor of the nation's largest city.
Asked whether his color had mattered, he told a news conference, "I'm saying it is not and was not a factor in the results because I was elected."
Returns from 98 percent of the precincts in New York gave Dinkins 50 percent of the vote, to 48 percent for Republican Rudolph Giuliani.
In New Jersey, Democratic Rep. James Florio celebrated his personal victory as governor after two previous campaign defeats.
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