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Thursday, September 24, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Senate renews Gramm-Rudman; multiple spending cuts possible
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted yesterday to restore the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law, renewing the threat of across-the-board spending cuts unless Congress and the president reach a compromise on reducing the deficit.
The bill was passed 64-34, with majority support in both parties, and sent to President Reagan. His
Brothers with AIDS greeted at new school
support for Gramm-Rudman has wavered. Officials said there was no decision on whether Reagan would veto the bill.
The revised plan would bring back the threat of automatic spending cuts, redrraining a provision the Supreme Court found unconstitutional. It also would push the timetable for a balanced budget from 1991 to 1993.
SARASOTA, Fla. — Three brothers whose exposure to AIDS made them parials in their rural hometown enrolled in a new school yesterday without incident and were able to come from schoolmates and parents.
Deputies patrolled the grounds at Gocio Elementary School, and officials reported that 120 of the 615
pupils stayed home. But the day
had encouraged moments for the Rays — 10-year-old Ricky, 9-year-
old Robert and 8-year-old Randy.
"One of the boys" said they had to assign seats in the lunchoom because everyone wanted to sit under a table and the boys' mother, Louise Ray.
Sickle cell carriers who exercise are at risk
BOSTON — According to a military study, healthy young men with the sickle cell trait face about 40 times the usual risk of dropping dead during extreme physical exercise.
have no unusual problems performing ordinary daily activities.
Still, the risk is small. Experts said people with the trait should
Doctors identified the risk in a study of the records of military recruits. About 8 percent of black people in the United States have the sickle cell trait.
Impersonation suspect is sent to jail
ORLAND, Calif. — A parole has been sent back to jail for allegedly impersonating a California Highway Patrol officer, stopping motorists and lecturing them about driving too fast.
wear a uniform and told motorists he was off duty or undercover. Five drivers he stopped called the CHP because the impersonator "just seemed unprofessional," a CHP spokesman said.
Anthony Robbins, 27, didn't
Gulf swept for Iranian mines
The Associated Press
From The Associated Press.
MANAMA, Bahrain — U.S. warships and helicopters swept a strip of the central Persian Gulf yesterday to recover mines thought planted by the Iranian ship that U.S. helicopters attacked this week.
Five Irianians were reported killed, and 26 were captured in the helicopter raid on the Iranian vessel Monday night. It was the first direct U.S. landing in Iran since the United States began protecting shipping in the gulf.
Commercial ships were warned away from the waters about 50 miles northeast of Bahrain, and there were vessels that some mines had been found.
Iran has vowed revenge for the U. attack, and Iranian President Ali Khamenei said in New York that two nations were moving toward war.
He said Iran was "in no way willing to start an all-out war with the United
Britain called yesterday for a world-wide arms embargo against Iran as pressure mounted in the United States to the seven-year-old Iran-Iraq war.
States. But if it happens, we are prepared to defend ourselves."
Britain also announced it would close the Iranian Military Procurement office in London.
The Soviet Union, meanwhile,
withheld its support of an embargo
and instead echoed Iran's call for the
to investigate the cause of the war.
Despite the increased tension and the possibility of more floating mines, gulf-based shipping sources said a reflagged Kuwaiti gas carrier had begun a southbound voyage under U.S. escort.
The reported departure of the 46,723-ton Gas Prince from Kuwait would be the 10th convoy since President Reagan's program of escorting Kuwaii tankers went into effect in
mid-July.
Reagan said yesterday it would be a "great mistake" for Congress to place new limits on the administration's security moves in the gulf, while lawmakers considered whether to do just that.
Moves on Capitol Hill would give Congress a say over whether Navy ships could continue to escort US aircraft in the skies. The 5 flag, as they have for two months.
But tension in the gulf prompted new demands for Reagan to invoke the War Powers Act of 1973, a step he has firmly resisted. The act provides that the president will make a Congress a written report within 48 hours after U.S. forces are sent into "imminent involvement in hostilities."
Reagan argued that such a move "would simply be an encouragement" for the States' advertisers to sell their books on oil supplies vital to the West.
House approves aid for contras
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday approved $3.5 million in new "humanitarian" aid to the Nicaraguan contrasts, and House Speaker Jim Wright said he expected it to be the last U.S. aid ever sent to the rebels.
The Associated Press
The money was part of a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30. The measure was approved 270-138 after little debate and sent to the Senate.
worked out in a bipartisan agreement between Wright, D-Texas, and House Republican leader Robert Michel of Illinois.
The $3.5 million represents the proportion of this year's $100 million in aid money that has been used for food, medical supplies and uniforms and would be needed to sustain the rebels into November.
The vote came a day after Costa Rican President Oscar Arias initiated an appeal to lawmakers to "take a risk for peace" and eschew further military aid to the contrast at least until Nov. 7, the target date for a regional cease-fire.
Arias told the U.N. General Assembly yesterday that halting foreign aid to combatants in Nicaragua would set the stage for negotiations under his Central American peace plan.
"We want a cease-fire as soon as possible," he said. "We want an immediate beginning to democratization. We appeal for free elections that reflect the true will of the people."
Ex-justice says Bork no radical
The contra-aid money had been
The Associated Press
Burger, in an extraordinary appearance for a sitting or former member of the high court, told the Senate Judiciary Committee, "If Judge Bork is not in the mainstream, then neither am I. It would astonish me to think he's an extremist any more than I'm an extremist."
WASHINGTON — Retired Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, stirred by what he called unprecedented disinformation, declared yesterday that Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork was not an extremist and that Bork deserved confirmation.
In particular, Burger criticized paid newspaper advertisements that have suggested dire consequences for Bork's nomination were confirmed.
Burger reiterated his endorsement of Bork as among the best-qualified court nominees from the past 50 years.
Acknowledging that his testimony was unusual, Burger said he was prompted to speak up because he didn't think 'there has ever been more hype, more disinformation' and my opponents of a high-court pomineer.
Burger assailed the nominees' critics for concentrating on Bork's provocative speeches and essays in academic journals.
"You start all over when you're sitting on the bench." Burger said.
Burger also said women and minorities had no reason to be apprehensive about Bork.
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