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Officials say Reagan lacks votes for S. Africa sanction bill veto
WASHINGTON — President Reagan does not have the votes in the Republican-controlled Senate to support his veto of a bill calling for new sanctions against South Africa, GOP and Democratic sources said yesterday.
Reagan, who has pledged to veto the bill today, has no more than 20 votes in the Senate to uphold the veto, the sources said. He needs 34 votes to deny a two-thirds majority in favor of overriding a veto.
Reagan bargained for votes by offering to order some new sanctions against South Africa in an effort to show Republicans that he is exerting stronger pressures on Pretoria to end its racial separation policy.
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Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he had the votes to kill Reagan's veto. An override vote in the Senate is expected next week, before Congress' scheduled adjournment Oct. 4.
The veto fight sets up a foreign policy fight with Congress and pits Lugar against Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
Dole has been sounding out Senate Republicans on supporting Reagan in a veto override showdown. But Democratic and Republican sources said that Reagan already had lost and that the White House knew it.
Reagan is considering establishing a $500 million economic aid program for the black nations of southern Africa and nominating a black career diplomat as ambassador to Pretoria to revive his policy. Lugar said this appeared more as actions under fire and not as a solid policy.
Daniloff release effort continues
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday that there was a genuine effort on both sides to resolve the Daniloff case and that he expected to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze again.
A Soviet spokesman said that Tuesday, when Shevardnadze leaves for Canada, was a deadline for resolving the dispute about American reporter Nicholas Daniloff. And Shultz said it was possible the dispute would not be resolved by then.
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Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said previously that disputes over a Soviet accused of spying, Daniloff, and Soviet U.N. diplomats should be cleared one by one to allow a superpower summit.
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Administration officials said U.S. and Soviet officials were discussing a possible arrangement by which Daniloff would be allowed to come home, several Soviet dissidents would be permitted to emigrate and the United States would permit the departure of Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet U.N. employee arrested Aug. 23 and charged with spying in New York.
State Department officials in Washington said the administration rejected a Soviet offer involving Dallouf's release in exchange for a modification of a U.S. order demanding that 25 Soviet U.N. mission diplomats leave the country by Wednesday for alleged espionage.
Europe unites against terrorism
LONDON — Twelve western European nations agreed yesterday to pool their detection and communications expertise to zero in on dangerous suspects in an all-out war on terrorists spreading death and destruction across the continent.
They also will consider requiring non-Europeans to acquire visas from European countries they want to visit, as France did this month.
Interior and justice ministers from the 12 European Community countries also hinted at more thorough checks into the baggage of diplomats suspected of any connection with terrorists.
British Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, chairman of the emergency meeting, said the participants' immediate aim was to streamline anti-terrorist efforts and go after "that much smaller number who come in that really dangerous category."
Hurd did not identify any specific terrorists or their organizations and declined to disclose details of tactics available to police and security forces.
The European nations agreed on plans to start "a new system of speedy and secure communications between European police forces" — an area where Hurd had said there was a problem.
He hinted at the possibility of stricter travel document requirements for non-Europeans similar to those imposed by France, whose new visa demands already have angered Americans and non-Community Europeans accustomed to unimpeded travel on the continent.
Contamination found in 5 states
WASHINGTON — Radiation and chemical contamination hundreds of times higher than health standards allow have been found in soil and groundwater near Energy Department nuclear centers, a report to Congress said yesterday.
Radioactive materials in the groundwater at the department's nuclear weapons centers in South Carolina and Washington state were more than 400 times the proposed drinking water standard, said the report by the General Accounting Office.
Chemical contamination was as much as 1,000 times the standard in South Carolina, Colorado and Tennessee, it said.
The department told the accounting office that since contamination was generally confined within the boundaries of the centers, it did not consider the matter a threat to public health.
The Energy Department issued a statement late yesterday saying it recognized the nine centers studied in the report had environmental problems and noting that it designated them several months ago as priority sites for environmental reviews. Work already has begun at several of the sites.
Some of the substances that have seeped into the groundwater are suspected of being carcinogens and others are poisonous, the accounting office said. A health threat would exist if the materials moved into drinking water supplies, it said.
Foresters ask for police powers
WASHINGTON — The Forest Service is asking Congress for sweeping police powers against marijuana growers who have made 1 million acres of national forests too dangerous for the public to visit, officials said yesterday.
F. Dale Robertson, associate chief of the Agriculture Department agency, estimated 400 Forest Service employees out of a permanent workforce of 30,000 would be trained to deal with trip wires, shotguns, booby traps, land mines and attack dogs increasingly used to protect marijuana plants.
Under the proposed legislation, included in the drug enforcement bill pending before the Senate, special teams could carry firearms as well as conduct searches and seizures and make arrests without warrants.
Because of increasing marijuana production, the Forest Service has closed off 946,000 acres of national forests as too dangerous for the public and agency employees to enter.
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Last year, the government destroyed more than 2,000 marijuana plantations out of an estimated 6,000 in the national forests. Robertson said.
The Forest Service has used air surveillance to detect marijuana and sprayed the plants with the toxic herbicide paracaft, but it encountered citizen opposition and had to file environmental impact statements.
From Kansan wires.
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