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Kassebaum to vote against veto
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Declaring it time for "concrete steps" against South Africa, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum said yesterday she will vote to override President Reagan's veto of economic sanctions on the minority-ruled government.
Kassebaum, chairman of the Senate African Affairs Subcommittee, said the sanctions legislation is necessary to send a "clear statement" to South Africa's white leaders that apartheid is unacceptable and must be dismantled.
"To do anything less at this time would be a breach of faith not only with the millions of blacks and whites in South Africa who want freedom and democracy, but the principles that each of us holds dear," Kassebabu said in a speech on the Senate floor.
The House voted Monday to override Reagan's veto and the Senate is expected to consider the question this week.
Dole supported the original bill, but a spokesman said the senator thought that it was important to "rally behind the president and show support" for the administration's foreign policy as Reagan prepares to meet with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
In addition, Reagan's offer to impose a new set of sanctions is a "credible alternative" to the Congress' package, the Dole spokesman said.
Reagan sent a letter to Dole on Monday outlining the sanctions, which included a ban on the import of South African iron and steel and provided $25 million in aid for scholarships and education for blacks. Reagan also offered to ban new investments in South Africa except to companies that are black-owned or adhere to the "Sullivan principles" which guard against discrimination.
The legislation would go further and prohibit the import of uranium, coal, textiles and agricultural products; end U.S. landing rights for South African Airways; provide $40 million to black communities; and ban all new U.S. loans and investments in South Africa.
Kassebau said in her speech that Reagan used a similar maneuver of offering limited actions last year to head off congressional sanctions.
"I . . . hoped that last year's executive order would be the start of an intensified diplomatic effort by the administration to address the deep injustices of apartheid in South Africa," she said. "Unfortunately, this has not happened."
United Press International
8 states may lose highway funds
WASHINGTON — The government will cut off millions of dollars in federal highway funds during the new fiscal year for states that have not raised their minimum drinking age to 21.
"The minimum drinking age law was enacted to reduce the number of alcohol-related highway deaths involving young people," the spokesman said.
A Transportation Department spokesman said yesterday that eight states did not meet the age 21 law that was enacted by Congress in 1984.
obey the law by Oct. 1, 1887. The funds, however, would be restored if the state raised its drinking ages.
Under the law, the states would lose 5 percent of their federal highway money during the 1987 fiscal year that begins today and another 10 percent if they didn't
Tennessee does have a 21 drinking age but it exempts military personnel.
Colorado is expected to lose $ 9 million, Idaho $ 4.5 million, Louisiana $ 16.6 million, Montana $ 5.5 million, Ohio $ 16 million, South Dakota $ 4 million, Tennessee $ 8.6 million and Womzing $ 4.4 million.
It appears that the District of Columbia, which raised the drinking age to 12 last week, will be in compliance with the federal law even though it left in a provision that permits those who are 18 before Oct. 1 to continue drinking beer and wine.
The minimum drinking age issue is on the November general
election ballot in Montana.
South Dakota's legislature refused to boost the state's drinking age during a 35-day session earlier this year, and lawmakers are not scheduled to meet again until January.
Because of the delay of the congressional appropriation process, it is not likely that any of the eight states actually will lose any federal highway funds in the immediate future despite their failure to live up to the law.
Last year, about 44,000 people were killed in auto accidents and about half of those were related to alcohol.
The law was enacted to prevent young people, unable to drink in their own states, from crossing into adjoining states, where they could legally drink.
Youth braves rising water rescues children from bus
United Press International
UDALL — Trevis Reuther had little concern for his own safety when he decided to try to rescue 15 children from a swamped school bus that slipped into a rising creek in rain-soaked southern Kansas.
The first thing he thought of was to remove his good shoes so they wouldn't get ruined, the 17-year-old high school senior said yesterday.
"It it didn't seem too big a thing to me then and it still doesn't, really."
Trevis said. "I was worried about my shoes more than anything. They're the best ones I got."
But school officials and parents yesterday called Trevis a hero for braving swift, chest-level currents as he carried each child about 100 yards from the waterlogged bus to the banks of the rain-swollen Antelope Creek
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