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Wednesday, October 1, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Congress OKs emergency bill so government won't shut down
WASHINGTON — The Senate swiftly passed and sent to President Reagan yesterday an emergency spending bill to prevent a government shutdown at midnight and keep federal operations going for another week. White House aides said the president would sign the bill in time.
The Senate passed the bill on a voice vote after just two minutes of debate. Earlier in the day, the House had approved the bill 315-101. The emergency bill provides enough money to last through Oct. 8.
"We will have to have a short-term (bill) to fund the government," said Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The emergency bill was necessary because numerous and varied obstacles stood in the way of final Senate action on a record $556 billion overall spending bill, which would finance nearly every aspect of the government for the next fiscal year.
The emergency bill calls for agencies to be financed at last year's level or at Senate or House committee passed levels, whichever is lower.
The government's fiscal year ended at midnight yesterday, and without extra money, federal agencies would have to have shut down.
would have to have said White House aides said Reagan would actually sign the bill Wednesday, but it would be in time to prevent a shutdown.
Some House members argued that the short-term bill should not be passed, so as to keep pressure on the Senate to act on the comprehensive legislation. But others argued it would be irresponsible to let the government close down as a result.
"I wouldn't want to take credit for the government
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South Africa's highest court yesterday upheld the government's emergency rule powers to detain people without warrant or trial, ending a seven-week stalemate on the validity of the law.
Court upholds S. African rule
coming to an end," said Chairman Jamie Whitten, D.Miss., of the House Appropriations Committee.
the five-member Appeal Court in bloomfontein ruled on contradictory judgments by Supreme Courts in the Natal province that upheld and struck down President Pieter Botha's sweeping detention measures.
dean Peter Bouncy,
Yesterday's ruling, which is binding on all the nation's courts, was a victory for the white-led government, which has detained an estimated 14,000 people under emergency rule imposed June 12 to quell racial unrest.
The judges upheld an appeal by Botha and Law and Order Minister Louis le Grange against an Aug. 11 decision in Durban's Supreme Court that released an anti-government political activist held under emergency laws.
The lower court ruled Botha overstepped his powers by issuing regulations allowing detention without warrant and arbitrary extension of the jailings.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit shrank dramatically to $13.3 billion in August after hitting a record high in July, the government said yesterday. Analysts said the 26.2 percent improvement may be signaling that the worst problems are over.
U.S. trade deficit diminishes
signaling that the worst problems But in less optimistic news, the government reported that its chief economic forecasting gauge fell for the third time in the past four months.
While the trade improvement was seen as encouraging, economists cautioned it was not signaling that exports and imports were headed back into a balance.
Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge said the bulge in the trade deficit in this year's first half came partly from higher import prices, reflecting the decline in the value of the dollar. As those prices deter sales in this country, the deficit will show improvement, he said.
Analysts predicted that this year's deficit would top $170 billion, far ahead of last year's $148.5 billion record.
But the Commerce Department also reported that its chief forecasting tool, the Index of Leading Indicators, fell 0.2 percent in August, following declines of 0.1 percent in May and 0.2 percent in June. In July, the index rose 1 percent.
The various cross-currents are pointing to an economy that remains mired in lackluster growth with few signs of vigor, analysts said.
Sagan arrested at nuclear test
PAHUTE MESA, Nev. — A thermonuclear warhead was detonated beneath the Nevada desert yesterday and security guards arrested 139 protesters, including astronomer-author Carl Sagan, for trespassing.
The test came only hours after an announcement that President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev would meet in Iceland in 11 days for a presummit conference.
Sagan, one of 139 arrested by security guards at the Nevada Test Site, was bound with plastic handeuffs and herded onto waiting government buses with the other non-violent demonstrators.
Sagan and 120 others signed trespass citations and were released until a court hearing this month. Eighteen others were taken to jail in nearby Beatty, Nev.
About 400 protesters congregated near the test site gates shortly before the detonation.
U.S. tests anti-satellite missile
WASHINGTON - The United States tested its anti-satellite weapon in space for the fifth time yesterday
but used a star as a target to comply with a congressional ban against launching the missile at a satellite, the Pentagon said.
An F-15 from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., launched the two-stage ASAT missile over the Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at 5:45 a.m. CDT, the Pentagon said.
Beyond pronouncing the test a success, the Pentagon did not go into any details about the distance the missile traveled into space or precisely what was accomplished.
"Today's test successfully provided data on the capability of the miniature vehicle's flight sensor to acquire and track an infrared source closer to the Earth's horizon than previously tested," a Pentagon statement said.
Congress banned Air Force testing of the ASAT against a target in space in 1985 after one of the missiles destroyed a dying satellite in orbit, blasting it into pieces. The satellite was 345 miles above the Earth.
FDA approves test of AIDS drug
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a large-scale test of the first drug that appears to prolong life and reduce symptoms in some patients with AIDS.
The FDA said it approved an application to classify AZT, or azidothymidine, as a treatment investigational new drug to make it more widely available to the thousands of people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Burroughs Wellcome Co., of Research Triangle Park, N.C., had asked the government for permission to broaden the use of its drug after ending controlled trial of AZT early because it seemed to provide surprising benefits to some patients.
Although AZT is not a cure, researchers said, the drug helped to relieve the symptoms of some AIDS patients and seemed to improve life expectancy.
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