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Wednesday, July 26, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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SDI support deflected
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House voted yesterday to slash nearly $2 billion from President Bush's request for a tax break, because the money for conventional forces, nuclear cleanup and drug fighting.
"We serve notice on the administration to bring this futuristic program down into the world of budget reality," Rep John M. Sprague said just ahead of the House reduced funds for the anti-missile shield in its version of the $295 billion military budget for fiscal 1990.
The Senate, meanwhile, worked on its own version of the bill, debating how to improve immigration restrictions in order to boost B-2 stealth bomber program.
The House, in drafting its defense blueprint, cut $1.8 billion from the $4.9 billion President Bush had proposed for Star Wars, formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The vote was 248-175, with 214 Democrats and 34 Republicans voting for the reduction.
The House rejected an even deeper cut in the anti-missile shield as well as an amendment that would have restored all but $300 million to the administration's request.
Republican Rep. Jon Kyl of Arizona, a Star War supporter, argued that SDI provided an insurance policy against total war.
"It will make it much easier for us to agree to drastic limits (in arms-reduction talks) if we know that we have that strategic defense to protect us against cheating by the Soviets," Kyl said.
But SDI opponent Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said the "program has run its course. It lacks a great threat to control."
After cutting Bush's request, the House overwhelmingly approved
using $150 million of the Star Wars money for such items as helicopters, artillery rockets and Army ammunition, and $200 million for cleanup of nuclear defense facilities.
Members also approved spending $450 million in fiscal 1990 and $600 million in fiscal 1991 for military drug interdiction.
The ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. William Dickinson of Alabama will agreed that conventional law enforcement should say, "the problem is we're taking it from the wrong source."
"There comes a point when you keep dipping out of this particular program you're going to kill it," he said.
White House spokesman Marlin Finite, water asked, if Bush would veto any bill that cuts money for Star Wars, told reporters: "We're a long way away from vet." We're talking now about winning, not about vetoes.
republican Rep. John Rowland of Connecticut attributed the administration's defeat on Star Wars to the emphasis it has placed on lobbying for the B-2 stealth bomber.
"They focused hard on this issue," Rowland said, referring to the bomber. "They got creamed on SDI."
The House takes up the issue of the bomber on Wednesday with the administration lobbying intensely to build a炮 to evade Soviet air defenses.
Lawmakers have expressed sticker shock at the program's cost, estimates at the program cost. The sticker price was $70 million for 132 planes and $330 million per copy.
The House Armed Services Committee voted for deep cuts in the program, slashing $800 million from the Bush request to terminate the program or place strict limits on further spending.
Student doesn't have to dissect animals
TRENTON, N.J. — A high school biology student who refused to dissect worms, frogs or a pig tion won her legal battle Tuesday when school officials agreed to honor her religious and recalcuate her failing grades.
The Associated Press
The settlement came hours before an administrative law judge was to begin a trial on Maggie McCool's lawsuit.
"I learned that it is worth it, the end, to act on your convictions," said the soft-spoken teen-ager, surrounded by television cameras.
Mccool, 16, had charged that the Woodstown-Pilegrieve Board of Education violated her freedom of religion by giving her failing grades for refusing to participate in dissection on her birthday in his 10th grade biology class last year.
Board attorney Michael Jordan said the district decided to settle because McCool probably would have proved in a trial that her refusal
to cut up dead animals stemmed from sincere religious beliefs. The district also agree to pay $12,500 in damages to the American Civil Liberties Union.
A federal judge dismissed a similar lawsuit one year ago in California when high school officials agreed to let the student, a vegetarian, use photographs of a frog that was killed by natural causes.
Jordan said it was not clear early in the New Jersey case, when McCool first enrolled in biology and informed her adviser that she would not dissect animals, that her objections were grounded in religious convictions.
"When the matter was first addressed, the nature of McCool's beliefs was not told to us. We thought that he would be a curriculum dispute," said Jordan.
But a lawyer for the girl said the teen-ager has said since the beginning that her spiritual doctrine barred harming animals or cutting them up.
"They should have known, absolutely. If they had asked Maggie the question, she would have answered it
— that it was a religious belief," said E. Elizabeth Sweetser, who represented McCool on behalf of the ACLU.
Jordan said that the board voted unanimously on Monday, the eve of the trial, to settle the legal fight.
McCool, who will enter 11th grade at Woodtown High School this year, said her convictions kept her from wearing leather or wool or drinking milk. She also shins makeup, which is often tested on animals.
inectool likers many of her beliefs to those followed in the doctrine of Jaimin, an ancient Hindu religion that emphasizes asceticism and austerity. She is also religiously although she does not consider herself a member of the religion.
Her household has been vegetarian since she was a small child and although the rest of the family does not adhere to as strict a system of
beliefs, her father, Joseph McCoal, said he and the other family members believed in a doctrine of "harmlessness."
Jordan said the settlement would have a minimal impact on the district
"All we have done is recognize this is a young lady who seems to be sincere, who raises religious objections to dissection," Jordan said.
He said that in future cases, the board will accommodate other students who refuse to dissect or observe dead animals based on religious beliefs. He said little deference will be given in cases when students refuse just because they're squeamish about touching dead animals.
"If a kid says he doesn't feel like touching dead worms and fetal pigs, they're going to have to learn to deal with dead worms and fetal pigs. There are very few people who have lived the kind of life McCool has lived, and we feel this is a sincere religious belief," Jordan said.
Soviets return to work after reforms promised
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Coal miners returned to work yesterday, with President Mikhail Gorbachev guaranteeing their demands, but Estonian shipyard workers began a strike cooled in September against Baltic republic's ethnic conflicts.
Strike leader Yuri Bolderev in Donstek, the Soviet Union's richest coal basin, gave Sorbachez and Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov signed a letter Monday pledging more pay, longer vacations and other benefits.
Members of the Supreme Soviet legislature issued a statement yesterday pledging to pass laws giving
A document completed by negotiators Saturday outlined the concessions. Most of the Donetsk strikers remained off the job to demand guarantees, and went back to the pits yesterday.
workers more control over management and profits and ensuring democratic elections of local officials, who are charged with insufficiency to miners' problems.
They also said they would make sure the government provided more food, health services, housing and good-paying jobs.
The statement appealed for unity in the face of ethnic conflicts and the coal strikes, which Gorbachev called the "biggest test" of his 4-year-old reforms. The Soviet Union "needs to stop using the same illusory argument for the further development of radical economic reform," the statement said.
Non-Estonian workers at shipyards and several other plants in Estonia walked out to protest recent attacks by Estonian authorities, the official news agency Tass
reported. It did not give the number of strikers.
Tass said a republic-wide strike committee of non-Estonian workers called the strike Monday, demanding cancellation of a language law and withholding measure that should allow only long-time residents to run for office.
A strike growing out of ethnic strife also shut down public transport and businesses in Sukhumu, capital of the Abkhazia region of Soviet Georgia.
Only 79 miles remained idle yesterday, Tass reported, quoting the Coal Ministry. Officials said most of the 300,000 strikers had returned to work at Donetsk, in the Ukraine, 550 miles south of Moscow.
Strikers stayed out at Vorsohilovgrad in the Donbas K斯基, Tass reported. The agency reported that 28,000 workers at 47 of the 93 mates at
Voroshlovgrad had not returned to work.
Premier Ryzhkov spoke with miners Monday and worked out a "concrete program of actions for the entire country's coal industry," Fawda said. The Communist Party newspaper did not give details of the plan.
Boldere said in a telephone interview that the miners still on strike were staying out for "purely psychotic" reasons, leaving from "an explosion of despair.
In a reference to that, the Supreme Soviet statement said local elections scheduled for spring should be moved up to foster a "cleansing of the government apparatus of unqualified and incapable workers," "reduction of the bureaucracy and "liquidation of undeserved privileges."
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