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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Oct. 24, 1985
Jordan weapons sale postponed by Reagan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, bowing to overwhelming pressure in the Republic-controlled Senate, agreed yesterday to delay his $1.9 billion Jordanian arms sale until March 1, unless Jordan and Israel begin peace talks, congressional sources said.
The sources said Reagan relayed his position to Senate GOP leaders, who had informed the administration they would move on their own to sidetrack the unpopular sale. The president's plan to sell sophisticated aircraft, air defense missiles and other arms to Jordan faces massive opposition from Republicans and Democrats alike in Congress.
Reagan, in New York to attend the opening of the United Nations session, declined comment to reporters.
Only last week, George Shultz, secretary of state, rebuffed Senate GOP leaders who asked the president to delay his formal notification of the sale.
Congress on Monday of his intention to sell the weapons to Jordan. More than 70 senators oppose the administration's proposal to make the sale unconditional.
The president formally notified
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters he expected the full Senate would approve the temporary ban on the sale today.
Lugar told reporters the legislation would preserve the president's option of selling arms to Jordan at a later date, as well as assure opponents that the sale would not go ahead unless Jordan's King Hussein agreed to bargain with the Israelis.
In addition, Lugar said it avoided a negative vote that could have been discouraged or embarrassed Hussein, who has said he was willing to negotiate with Israel.
Shimon Peres, prime minister of Israel, earlier this week proposed direct peace talks with Hussein. The Jordanian Embassy issued a statement yesterday saying Peres' proposal was being studied carefully by the Jordanian government.
WASHINGTON — For at least three years, taxpayers have been paying for thousands of dollars in luxury cruises for government workers, a congressional report said yesterday, two days after stricter rules were imposed.
United Press International
Report says taxes paid for cruises
"It it does seem a coincidence," said Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas, whose Government Operations subcommittee released a General Accounting Office documenting 102 cruises taken over three years, 48 of them on the Queen Elizabeth II and virtually all of those in first class cabins.
The State Department, at a hearing at which the report was unveiled, announced it had tightened its travel rules to ban ship travel except under very strict circumstances. The rule change was made two days before the hearing, and the House subcommittee chairman was notified a day before the session.
Brooks and the ranking Republican on the panel, Frank Horton of New York, warned State Department and U.S. Information Agency officials that if their crackdown on the problem was not successful, Congress would act for them.
"If you do not shape this up, we could probably get an amendment in (the Appropriations Committee) to make crystal clear what you can and cannot do," Brooks said.
The GAO report said that the previous State Department travel rules contained no flat ban on using cruises for transfers or home leave trips and that some employees used the ambiguity to take government-paid cruises.
The trips examined by the GAO cost about $660,000, and the air fare for the same trips was some $400,000 less. Additionally, during the slower cruises, the employees were drawing pay, which ran up the cost differential.
Devilish seas prolong Godspeed mission
United Press International
nudged to the dock by "push boats." The original voyage in 1607 was completed in a less than five months.
JAMESTOWN, Va. — The 68-foot Godspeed, a replica ship re-creating the voyage of the first permanent settlers to America, struggled into port yesterday after a troubled Atlantic crossing that took a month longer than the ancestral trip.
Plagued by angry winds and mishaps during its six-month journey from England, the Godspeed was
The wooden replica was towed tromuch of the final leg from Cape Hatteras on the North Carolina coast to Jamestown.
"We're delighted they're home and that everyone is safe," said state Senate Majority Leader Hunter Andrews, a member of the sponsoring Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
"I think it shows how hardy the original 17th-century sailors were," said Andrews. "I think it shows the stamina of the original settlers."
The ship left England April 30 with a volunteer crew of 14 on what was to have been a 10-week re-creation of the voyage first undertaken in December 1608, by the London Co.
there were reports of dissension among the crew, and Capt. George Salley resigned his position with the foundation midway through the voyage.
Robert Woollard, 35, a volunteer crewman who was navigator aboard the Godspeed, said the dissension reports were exaggerated.
Shortly after leaving England, the replica encountered rou' seas on the way to the Canary Islands. Then
"When I read the press, I was surprised," said Woolard. "I didn't think I was on the same trip."
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