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Fridav. November 21, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Byrd to lead Senate Democrats while Dole leads Republicans
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats yesterday unanimously elected Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, as majority leader in the 100th Congress, and the Republicans picked Sen. Bob Dole as the minority leader.
Senate Democrats, who will have a 55-45 edge when the Congress convenes Jan. 6, also elected Sen. Alan Cranston of California as assistant Democratic leader and Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii as party secretary.
The Democrats picked Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss. at 83, their senior member, as Senate president pro tem.
After the elections, Byrd, in a surprise announcement, said that Sen. George Mitchell of Maine was named deputy president pro tem
Republicans voted two new year terms for Dole, who became GOP leader in 1985, and Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, assistant leader; Sen. William Armstrong of Colorado, chairman of the policy committee; Sen. John Chaffee of Rhode Island, chairman of the conference; Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, secretary of the conference and Sen. Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota, chairman of the campaign committee.
Secret deal legal, Speakes says
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's spokesman said yesterday that Congress was informed "in a timely fashion" about secret arms deals with Iran, but lawmakers said the law was bent, if not broken, by months of silence.
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Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes, who defended withholding information from Congress about the 18-month covert Iran operation while the contact
Congress, Speaks said, "was informed in a timely fashion." He also said Attorney General Edwin Meese had indicated that informing Congress would be risky until the operation was completed and the safety of U.S. hostages in Lebanon assured.
were under way, said two congressional committees would be briefed in detail today by top administration officials.
The president said Wednesday night that winning release of the hostages was one of four goals he had when he opened relations with Iran. He said that had the operation not been exposed, at least two more captives could have been freed.
The operation was revealed by an Iranian official who was hostile to better relations between Washington and Tehran, Reagan said during his Wednesday night news conference.
Contras begin training in U.S.
WASHINGTON — Nicaraguan rebels have begun military training inside the United States, marking the resumption of important U.S. support for the anti-Sandinista forces, administration sources said yesterday.
The CIA runs the operation as a covert program, the sources said.
Actual training of rebel forces, or contras, was being carried out by the U.S. military at an undisclosed location in the United States at the request of the CIA, the sources said, speaking on the condition they not be identified.
The administration began training the contras after Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama refused to have them trained on their land because of fears of Nicaraguan reprisals. All but Panama share a border with Nicaragua.
Money to pay for the costs of transporting, housing, feeding and clothing the rebel trainees will be taken from the $70 million in military aid requested by the administration and authorized by Congress at the end of the last congressional session.
It is part of a $100 million aid package, $27 million of which is for non-lethal assistance such as medicine and $3 million for monitoring human rights. President Reagan signed it into law Oct. 24.
MANILA, Philippines — About 100,000 mourners marched behind the coffin of slain leftist leader Rolan Odoalia in a 20-mile procession through Manila yesterday. It was the biggest demonstration since President Corazon Aquino came to power eight months ago.
Filipinos mourn slain unionist
The union chief's killing derailed cease-fire talks with communist New People's Army rebels.
The sympathy demonstration for Oliaa, a supporter of Aquino, was the largest display of leftist power since Aquino took over, and many of the marchers demanded resignation of Defense Minister Juan Ponce Ferele.
Enrile has been critical of Aquino's talks with the communists and favors a military defeat of the rebels
Before his murder, Oliaia, 50, head of the large May First Movement labor union and the leftist People's Party, warned he would oppose a reported attempt by military officers loyal to Enrile to take over the mercy
Negotiators for the communist rebels joined the funeral march and said they rejected Aquino's demand that a cease-fire agreement be signed within 10 days.
Although the funeral march was the largest showing in the streets by leftist groups, it fell far short of the 500,000 people organizers said would appear for the day of mourning.
Insider-trading scandal widens
NEW YORK — Fallout from the Ivan Boesky insider-trading scandal widened yesterday when a California brokerage confirmed it had received federal subpoenas and Gulf & Western Inc. pledged to aid the investigation.
The top executive of Jefferies & Co., which has its headquarters in Los Angeles, said the brokerage was subpenated by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney.
The company came under scrutiny because it was known to have played a key role in a number of corporate takeovers.
Chairman Boyd L. Jefferies said in a statement issued yesterday that the firm's outside counsel had been directed "to investigate this matter in order to verify that there has been no insider trading in connection with these matters."
Gulf & Western Inc. announced yesterday it was cooperating with an SEC investigation focusing on whether Boesky used illegal methods that would have made the company appear to be a potential takeover candidate.
Truck accident claims turkeys
CHEROKEE, Iowa — More than 200 turkeys destined for the dinner table Thanksgiving Day died unexpectedly yesterday when the truck carrying them slid off a snowy highway and into a ditch.
The truck, bound for a Storm Lake turkey company, slid off Iowa Highway 2 about four miles west of Cherokee in northwestern Iowa at about 1:30 a.m. six inches of snow fell in the area Wednesday night.
"There were only minor injuries to the driver, but there are a few turkeys that are not going to be seeing today," a Cherokee County sheriff's dispatcher said.
About 20 percent of the 1,325 turks on board were killed. Nearly a dozen members of the Cherokee Fire Department helped clear the wreckage and chase down escaped survivors, authorities said.
The escapees were corralled into boxes to keep them off the highway and to prevent further damage, firefighter Jim Smith said.
"A number of turkies did die in the accident, but we cut the bins open with bolt cutters to get some of the turkies out. We saved probably 80 percent of them."
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