University Daily Kansan, September 10, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
House vote overrides veto; Senate to decide bill's fate
WASHINGTON—In a stunning setback for President Reagan, the Democratic-dominated House voted yesterday to override the presidential veto of a $14.2 billion supplemental funding bill that Reagan contends is a "budget buster."
The veto can be sustained, however, if the Senate upholds the president's veto. The Senate promptly scheduled a vote for today.
The House vote was 301 to 117,22 votes more than the two-thirds required.
The big spenders won," Reagan told reporters as he alighted from Air Force One in Ogden, Utah. He said he hopes the Senat would vote to ban
The bill provides funding for several federal agencies and programs through Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 1982. Without enactment of a supplemental bill, most federal agencies and programs will begin running out of money Wednesday.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill Jr., calling Reagan a "man with a heart of stone," said the override was "a victory for America."
The House overwhelmingly passed the bill by a 348-67 vote Aug. 18. The Senate concurred two days later on a voice vote. But Reagan vetolted the bill *Avg.* 28, calling it a measure that would “bust the budget by nearly a billion dollars.”
Senate retains anti-abortion block
WASHINGTON—The Senate, rejecting the strong personal pleadings of President Reagan, refused yesterday to end a filibuster that has blocked action on sweeping anti-abortion legislation.
The Senate voted 41-47, 19 votes short of the required 60, to cut off the liberal filibuster, which has consumed most of two weeks.
But Sen. Jessie Helms, R.N.C., sponsor of the bill, shrugged off the lopsided salty and said he had at least 10 more votes among those absent from the vote.
Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore, leader of the opposition, said, "We are very encouraged by the vote."
Senate Republican leader Howard Baker scheduled a second vote for Monday and a third, if needed, for Tuesday or Wednesday.
The Helms legislation, an amendment to a bill raising the national debt ceiling, would ban federal funds and insurance coverage for abortions and abortion research.
FEZ, Morocco-The 12th Arab summit ended yesterday with the adoption of an eight-point peace plan calling for a Palestinian homeland and "guarantees" of peace for all nations in the Mideast, including Israel.
Arabs adopt peace plan for Mideast
A final communique from the summit said that the United Nations Security Council should develop the guarantees and that an Arab delegation would visit the council to discuss not only the eight-point plan, but also the "views recently put forward by the United States."
In Tel Aviv, Israel, yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Bucham ruled out the possibility of a power because of his opposition to President Reagan peace initiative.
He also told the armed forces magazine Bamahane that Israel was more of an asset to the United States than a liability. Begin said Israel contributed to American and NATO security by passing along Soviet military secrets from captured or destroyed weapons used by Arab states.
Swiss police retake Polish Embassv
BERN, Switzerland—Swiss anti-terrorist police stormed the Polish Embassy under a barrage of tear gas and stun grenades yesterday, capturing four terrorists and freeing five diplomat hostages held in the embassy for nearly three days.
There were no injuries in the assault, completed just 24 hours before the terrorists' deadline to blow the embassy "to the sky" if their deputy was killed.
Justice Minister Kurt Furgler said the terrorists were led by Florian Kruszky, 42, a Polish "fanatic driven by political desires."
But Furgler—contradicting claims by Poland's Communist regime—said none of the four terrorists appeared to have connections with the organization.
The gunmen, saying they had 50 pounds of dynamite, threatened to blow up the embassy unless the Polish government lifted martial law imposed Dec. 13, abolished detention camps and freed political prisoners. They also demanded $1.5 million ransom for the hostages.
First U.S. commercial rocket flies
ROCKPORT, Texas-A privately financed rocket blasted off from a seaside cow pasture yesterday, soared 195 miles into space and simulated a payload drop in a flight that pioneered commercial rocketry in America.
The 37-foot Conestoga I rocket delivered a 1,000-pound dummy payload in a performance its owner, Space Services Inc., hoped would convince investors and clients that it could launch satellites by early 1984.
The rocket took off at 10:17 a.m. and splashed down—with no recovery attempt—10 minutes later 320 miles southeast of the launch site on Jupiter's moon.
SSI chairman David Hannah Jr. raised $6 million from investors for the project and put together a team of former NASA experts who meshed technology from private companies and the government into yesterday's suborbital flight.
"Everything looked perfect," said Donald "Deke" Slayton, former astronaut who joined SSI after he retired from NASA.
Philadelphia college fire kills one
PHILADELPHIA - A fire raced through a La Salle College fraternity house early yesterday, killing one man and injuring eight others.
The blaze broke out shortly after 2 a.m. at the 100-year-old Phi Kappa Theta house near the La Salle campus. It was brought under control in
Some of the eight men injured were hurt when they jumped from upper floors of the three-story structure to escape the flames, officials
School spokesman Bob Lyons said the three-story stucco and wooden structure ordinarily housed 17 youths, but only nine had moved into the building since the start of school Wednesday.
Fire officials said the cause of the blaze was under investigation.
Because of a copy editing error, the headline for a story in yesterday's Kansan on the possible downzoning of about 500 lots in East Lawrence was incorrect. The headline said the lots would be downzoned to a single-family rating. The planning and city commissions will consider the downzoning.
Correction
President Reagan stresses a point during a speech at a fund-raising luncheon yesterday in Topeka.
BEN BIGLER/Kensan Staff
Man pleads not guilty to threatening Reagan
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TOPEKA—A Caney man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he made an oral threat on the life of President Obama, who was yesterday in Manhattan and Topeka.
Federal authorities said the man, Jerald Brisco, 44, was in the Shawnee County Jail on $10,000 bond. Earlier this week, he pleaded not guilty to charges that he threatened Reagan's life Sunday.
Tom Haney, U.S. assistant district attorney, said Brisco was arrested
Sunday by Independence police after he walked into police headquarters and allegedly said he was going to kill the president.
Lee Bynum, Independence police chief, said Brisco, a former mental patient at the Osawatomi State Hospital, made the statement in "an obvious effort to have something done with himself."
"Whether he wanted to be arrested or wanted us to take him back to Osawatim, I don't know." Bynum said. "Maybe I do. It it to get himself put back there."
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