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Thursday, September 17, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Philippine foreign secretary quits but will keep job as vice president
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Salvador Laurel resigned as foreign secretary yesterday, citing fundamental differences with President Corazon Aquino and complaining he wasn't given enough power.
Aquino said she sadly accepted the resignation of Laurel, who remains vice president and is widely thought to harbor presiden-
trial ambitions. Laurel said that he would not join the political opposition but also said that he would not accept a Cabinet portfolio.
Laurel's resignation appeared to be aimed at cultivating support among military and civilian critics of Aquino's administration and distancing the vice president from the president.
Shultz says arms control talks progressing
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George P. Shulz reported some progress yesterday toward an arms control accord with the Soviets and turned to the occupation of Afghanistan in his pre-summit talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnaze.
Two of Shultz's key goals are to narrow differences in the way of a treaty to scrap U.S. and Soviet medium-range missiles and to persuade the Soviets to adopt a short timetable for withdrawing 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
South Koreans plan for national elections
SEOUL, South Korea — The governing party and its main opposition agreed yesterday to hold legislative elections next spring, clearing a deadlock that had blocked approval of the country's new constitution.
The agreement between the Democratic Justice Party of President Chun Doo-hwan and the opposition Reunionism Democratic Party calls for National Assembly elections by the end of April 1988. The exact date has not been decided.
Both parties expressed satisfaction with the agreement.
Fawn Hall savs North fit to be president
NEW YORK — Oliver North is a saint and would make a great president, Waffn Hall said this week in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters. Hall also said she was content to remain a secretary for the Navy but signed
"Certainly, journalism would be a way to learn a lot about the world and a lot about the people who are in the world," she said.
with a talent agency to consider other possibilities.
Constitution's 200th year
Anniversary of document brings nationwide celebrations
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Schoolgirls on the deck of the USS Kitty Hawk recited the Pledge of Allegiance yesterday along with construction workers in Boston, President Reagan and millions of Americans celebrating the U.S. Constitution's 200th birthday a day early.
Reagan led a nationally televised Pledge of Allegiance for "Celebrate the Constitution Day," the preamble to today's bicentennial bash.
"It's still our blueprint for freedom," Reagan said from the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Retired Chief Justice Warren Burger said, "On the eve of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, we pay tribute to the single greatest work of government the world has ever seen." Burger heads the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.
trading was halted briefly during the afternoon, and workers cheered and waved American flags on the trading floor. In Boston, workers took off their hard hats, dropped their tools and joined Reagan in the pledge.
"We're a part of history," said Holly Maultz, 16, one of 108 pupils from the Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Bryn Mawr, who recited the pledge a half-hour before league games. A carrier USS Kite Hawk, which was in Pennsylvania for an overhaul,
In Lancaster, the pledge had special meaning for Peter Bellamy Jr., 18, whose great-grandfather, Francis Julus Bellamy, wrote the pledge 95 years ago as an assignment for Youth's Companion magazine.
At the New York Stock Exchange.
"It's been a family thing for generations, but nobody's ever made a big deal of it publicly for me before
now," Bellamy said in a telephone interview. "It's a sentiment, a feeling of what many people take for granted."
The day was marked by a variety of observances.
In New York state, courts recessed for a brief ceremony.
A teach-in was held in New York City explaining the Constitution. Long lines formed the National which is called Washington, C., to view the four-page parchment.
"If we Americans today enjoy freedom as well as security, it is due in great measure to the protections of liberty hammered over by the framers in Philadelphia 200 years ago," said Sol Wachtler, the state's chief judge.
One observance provoked picketing
At least a dozen elementary-school girls carried signs, one reading "Women Demand Equality."
Pope, bishops debate doctrine
There was no compromise in the pope's reply to the leadership of the U.S. church, as he affirmed the church's stand against women priests, contraception, divorce, abortion and homosexual acts.
LOS ANGELES — In a blunt exchange, U.S. bishops told Pope John Paul II yesterday that "an uncritical application" of old uncrites was no longer good enough for U.S. Catholicus. But the pope called dissent from church law "a grave error" and incompatible with being a good Catholic.
The Associated Press
"Dissent from church doctrine remains what it is, dissent," the pope said in remarks to 320 of the nation's 400 bishops. "As such it may not be proposed or received on an equal basis with the church's authentic teaching."
During the meeting, the pope was treated to an unusually frank discussion about what bothers U.S. Catholics and Christians alike. He扩大 many of the church's teachings.
Catholics may disagree with church policies and still be considered loyal followers. Sixty percent disagreed with the church's ban on women in the priesthood, and only 25 percent thought birth control was sinful. And most of those polled, including Catholics, thought the pope was out of step with American Catholics.
To accept faith, said the pope, is to abide by the church's teachings and "it would be altogether out of place to try to model this act of religion on attitudes drawn from secular culture."
The Associated Press
many of the church meetings
A Los Angeles Times poll of 957
Catholics last month found 9 of 10 say
Reagan defends rebel aid
WASHINGTON — The White House said yesterday it sees no contradiction between President Reagan's support for stopgap aid to the Nicaraguan contra rebels and his promise to back efforts for a Central American peace settlement.
"We see it first of all as a fairness
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Fitzwater denied that Reagan's stand was "a repulsion in any way" of his agreement with House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, to delay requests for new aid for the rebels until after Sept. 30 to give the peace talks a chance.
The spokesman was questioned repeatedly about the president's announced support for a proposal by House Republican leader Robert Michel of Illinois to offer an amendment to a 30-day spending bill to continue assistance to the contras.
The spending bill is expected to reach the House floor this week.
From The Associated Press.
Fitzwater also denied Wright's contention that the White House is failing to cooperate with peace efforts. He said the administration was continuing to work for peace, either under a plan announced by Reagan and Wright on Aug. 5 or one unveiled two days later by Central American leaders at a meeting in Guatemala.