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Thursday, October 9, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Senate vote continues funding for government operation costs
WASHINGTON — Congress passed an emergency funding bill yesterday and sent it to President Reagan, averting an embarrassing government shutdown as Reagan heads for his weekend summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Faced with a midnight deadline and the threat of an immediate veto, the Senate voted for the second time yesterday to keep the government running through tomorrow.
Congress decided on the instant replay manuever after Reagan said he would veto the earlier measure, which contained language permitting fired air traffic controllers to be rehired.
The House approved a similar measure deleting the controversial language 255-150.
Although the spending reprieve is good only until tomorrow, any effect of a government shutdown for lack of funds would not begin until after the weekend and the Monday federal holiday. As a result, lawmakers eager to return home to campaign for reelection will be stranded in Washington for another week as Congress completes its work for the year.
The measure gives Congress some breathing room to reach agreement on a larger catchall spending bill, called a "continuing resolution", needed to finance the entire government for the next 12 months. That long-term measure includes arms control provisions opposed by the president.
FAA doesn't know plane owner
WASHINGTON — Government records indicated yesterday that Southern Air Transport Co., accused of
The federal Aviation Administration said Southern Air, which runs an international charter cargo operation with 24 planes, did not have a C-123 aircraft registered with the government. The C-123 was the type of plane Nicaraguan troops shot down.
having CIA ties, did not own the plane that was shot down in Nicaragua on Sunday.
Two Americans and a Latin American were killed when the plane went down, and Eugene Hasenuf, Marinette, Wis., was captured by government soldiers in what Nicaragua said was a CIA mission to ferry supplies to U.S.-backed contra rebels.
A spokesman for Southern Air, which has headquarters in Miami, initially denied that Hasenfus had any affiliation with the charter firm, but he added later that, "We're not going to deny that he may have (worked for Southern Air), but he doesn't now."
Nicaraguan officials said Hasenfus identified the dead U.S. citizens as pilot William H. Cooper, who carried identification linking him to Southern Air, and copilot Wallace Blaine Wayser Jr.
Charles Carson III, president of Southern Air, said Sawyer left the firm in 1985. Carson said that he had no knowledge of Cooper, and that the plane was neither owned nor operated by Southern.
Rep. Henry Gonzalez, D-Texas, charged that the plane had CIA connections and was on a covert mission to supply explosives to rebels in Nicaragua.
Bernard Kalb resigns in protest
WASHINGTON — Bernard Kalb, the administration's chief foreign policy spokesman, resigned yesterday, two days before the Iceland summit, in protest over a U.S. disinformation campaign against Libya's Mosammar Gadhafi.
A reporter for several national news organizations before joining the State Department two years ago, Kalb told former colleagues in the department press corps, "I am concerned about the impact of the disinformation program on the credibility of the United States and its faith."
His unexpected resignation came, Kalb said, after what he called a week of grappling with the issue raised by last week's report that the State Department proposed, and President Reagan accepted, a plan for spreading disinformation using the American media to disorient and perhaps toplet Gadhafi.
The report was published Thursday in The Washington Post. Following the report, Secretary of State George Shultz defended disinformation as a form of psychological warfare against Gadhafi.
Some State Department officials were critical of Kalb's timing, saying U.S. credibility at the summit would be hurt and he should have waited.
Kalb, 64, a former correspondent for NBC, CBS and The New York Times, had been department spokesman for nearly two years, with the title of assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Shultz personally recruited him.
Researcher defects to U.S.S.R.
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union said yesterday that it had granted political asylum to a U.S. cancer researcher who said he was persecuted for his social activism in the United States.
"I am happy that this nightmare is behind me for good," Arnold Lokshin was quoted as saying in an interview with the official Tass news agency. "We are in for a free life now."
His arrival in Moscow came just before the U.S.-Soviet summit in Iceland, where President Reagan intends to press complaints about the Soviet human rights record.
He apparently was the U.S. citizen who Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze recently said was seeking political asylum because of persecution in the U.S. Officials said they did not know who he was.
Lokshin, 47, who said he was not a communist, said he and his family had suffered organized persecution because of his opposition to U.S. government policies.
He said his family had been subjected to underground psychological warfare that included obscene phone
calls, threatening letters and a threat by a man waving a gun.
Lokshin said he was born in San Francisco, had a Ph.D. and conducted research at both Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles before taking a job for the past six years as director of a cancer laboratory at St. Joseph Hospital in Houston.
House passes 'Superfund' bill
WASHINGTON — The House overwhelmingly passed the broadly supported $9 billion "Superfund" renewal bill yesterday, completing action on environmental legislation that the White House is threatening to veto.
The toxic waste cleanup bill headed toward President Reagan's desk after a 386-27 vote in the House, giving it nearly 100 votes more than would be needed to override any yetc.
During the debate, a parade of House members from both parties urged Reagan to sign the legislation. Rep. Norman Lent, R-N.Y., said "a veto would be a grave error."
Shortly before the House action, Sen. Robert Packwood, R-Ore., and 80 other senators — 35 of them Republicans — urged Reagan to sign the bill despite administration opposition to some of its tax provisions.
The bipartisan legislation, hammered out through nearly three years of tough negotiations, would pump $8.5 billion over the next five years into a toxic waste cleanup program. The program began stalling a year ago when Congress failed to renew its taxing authority.
The bill cleared the Republican-controlled Senate 88-8 on Friday. It would create a new $500 million attack against leaking underground fuel storage tanks, which pose an increasing threat to drinking water supplies.
From Kansan wires.
[An image of an ancient artifact with intricate designs and symbols, likely from a historical or cultural site. The artifact is surrounded by decorative elements that suggest its significance.]
Wait, the text says "Ancient Artifacts." and "History and Culture." but they are very blurry.
Let me re-read the first line carefully.
"An ancient artifact with intricate designs and symbols..."
Actually, it might be:
"An ancient artifact with intricate designs and symbols... history and culture."
Let's look at the image again.
The artifact has various shapes and patterns.
It's hard to tell if it's historical or cultural without more context.
One possibility is that it's a symbol or logo representing a specific cultural or historical entity.
Let's re-examine the text in the image.
"An ancient artifact with intricate designs and symbols... history and culture."
Yes, that's what I see.
Final check of the image:
The artifact has intricate designs and symbols.
It's hard to tell if it's historical or cultural without more context.
One possibility is that it's a symbol or logo representing a specific cultural or historical entity.
Wait, the word "history" is clearly visible.
Is there any other word in the image that could be mistaken for "history"? No, it's just "history".
Is there any other word in the image that could be mistaken for "history"? No, it's just "history".
Is there any other word in the image that could be mistaken for "history"? No, it's just "history".
Is there any other word in the image that could be mistaken for "history"? No, it's just "history".
Is there any other word in the image that could be mistaken for "history"? No, it's just "history".
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