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Thursdav. November 13. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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Senator demands White House disclose U.S.-Iran negotiations
WASHINGTON — As President Reagan briefed congressional leaders on U.S.-Iran dealings, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, demanded yesterday that the administration disclose its talks with Iran.
Leahy said the White House should follow the advice of former national security adviser Robert MacFarlane, who reportedly made a secret visit to Tehran to foster the U.S.-Iran tie.
Leahy said the Senate Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees were entitled to answers about reports that the United States may have supplied Iran with U.S.-made weapons in exchange for Tehran's efforts to free Americans held captive by pro-Iranian extremists.
As Leahy was making his demand, Reagan summoned key congressional leaders to the White House for a meeting apparently to provide details on the reported deals.
Leabay said members of the Senate committed wanted to know whether the administration used the National Security Council to avoid congressional supervision.
Bishops defer to Vatican ruling
WASHINGTON — The United States' Roman Catholic bishops, after debating the Vatican's punishment of a fellow U.S. bishop, stepped back from confrontation with Rome yesterday by declaring that the Vatican's verdict "deserves our respect and confidence."
Their decision, after five hours of intense secret
The bishops, all appointed by Pope John Paul II or his predecessors and all subject to church discipline themselves, did not add to the Vatican's criticism of Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthaus. But neither did they defend him, as some of his supporters had hoped they might.
talks over two days, said that while the bishops sympathize with the pain of an embattled colleague, the pope must still come first.
Hunthausen was ordered by the Vatican earlier this year to give up much of his authority to a Rome-appointed auxiliary bishop after Vatican officials judged him too liberal on such matters as ministry to homosexuals and divorced Catholics and dispensing general absolution from sin to large groups.
Weinberger sets negotiating rule
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger set out rules yesterday to observe in negotiating with the Soviets and said the worst thing the United States could do would be to rush into an arms control agreement.
"Patience and a settled determination to restore our military strength and security — this will convince the Soviets that they can gain nothing through belligerence or delay — and these are the keys to successful negotiations," he said.
Weinberger offered his pointers on negotiating with the Soviets in remarks prepared for delivery in New York City to the Women's National Republican Club, an audience sympathetic to administration policies. The Pentagon released the text of his five-page speech.
The defense secretary did not attend the two summits between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and does not participate in arms control negotiations. Diplomacy generally is the responsibility of the secretary of state.
Weinberger criticized Gorbachev for appearing before the media "just minutes" after the Iceland summit in an attempt "to influence American public opinion." He did not mention Reagan's post-summit televised speech to the nation as part of the media blitz
WASHINGTON - Promotion programs to advance the careers of blacks and women through quotas and preferential treatment discriminate against white men, attorneys told the Supreme Court yesterday.
Lawyers say plans unfair to men
The attorneys, representing the Reagan administration and a white man denied a promotion, commented during arguments on cases from Alabama and California that tested not only the constitutionality of the affirmative action plans but the court's commitment to such schemes.
to give the administration's side of the meeting.
The administration consistently has opposed such plans as discriminating against whites and says only those people who can prove that they are actual vicinity discrimination should get special help in hiring or promotion.
The court rejected that view in July, at the end of its 1985-86 term, approving a Cleveland plan giving minority firefighters a boost in promotions and another program of preferential hiring of minorities seeking entry into a New York local chapters of the Sheet Metal Workers Union.
The California case arose in 1979, when Paul Johnson sought a promotion to road dispatcher in the Santa Clara County Transportation Agency. He eventually was recommended for the position, but Diane Joyce, who scored below him on a test for the job, was given the promotion under the agency's affirmative action plan.
The plan provided for consideration of gender as part of the hiring process where women were underrepresented in certain job classifications. The plan established no quotas.
Farm crisis study absolves Carter
WASHINGTON — This decade's farm crisis was caused by global economic conditions rather than President Carter's controversial 1980 embargo of grain to the Soviet Union, a government study said yesterday.
The analysis said the United States could not have prevented the farm crisis by subsidizing grain exports. General export subsidies are not even cost effective. The lack of subsidies aimed at specific customers sometimes are.
An economist who worked on the study, Alex McCalla, said unilateral cuts in crop prices were ineffective in increasing exports if there was not economic growth in importing countries.
The study disputes a popular belief that Carter's embargo of 17 million tons of grain to retaliate for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a major cause of declining U.S. agricultural exports and low prices in the 1980s.
The value of exports has fallen by 40 percent since 1981.
Soviets find vodka alternatives
MOSCOW — The government's crackdown on drunkenness has driven drinkers to consume cheap perfumes, cockroach killers and floor polish, creating a shortage of such products, the weekly Literaturnaya Gazetta newspaper said yesterday.
The newspaper said drinkers who can no longer afford vodka after a series of government price increases or have no time to stand in the long lines at liquor stores have taken to using anything from cheap cologne to spray deodorants to get high.
Some drinkers have turned to medicines intended for kidney and heart patients, already in short supply, because they contain alcohol.
The newspaper said that in one town, policemen had to supervise lines at perfume shops to make sure customers bought only one bottle of toilet water.
A bottle of cheap perfume costs just less than $1.40 while a pint of vodka costs up to $14. The average Soviet monthly wage is up to $280.
Vodka is now in such short supply that drinkers are even buying expensive imported perfume like "Charlie" at $16.80 a bottle to get drunk, the newspaper said.
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