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WASHINGTON — A member of the President's Commission on Organized Crime yesterday refused to take a drug test before testifying about making such tests mandatory for all federal workers.
Rodney Smith, deputy executive director of the commission, was asked to take the test by Chairman Gary Ackerman, D.N.Y.
Smith called the move "a cheap stunt!" but Ackerman said that under the presidential commission's proposal federal workers would have no warning before being required to submit to the tests
NEW YORK — Bernard Malamud, the novelist and short-story writer whose themes ranged from baseball to anti-Semitism, died at his New York apartment yesterday.
Pulitzer winner dies
Malamud, 71, died of natural causes, a police spokesman said.
His first novel, "The Natural," was a baseball fantasy written in 1952. It was followed by "The Assistant" and "The Fixer," which won him a Pulitzer Prize. Other novels were "The Tenants." "Dubin's Lives," and "God's Grace."
Union faults officials
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Union officials yesterday charged that mining company officials intent on breaking the union provoked tribal fighting that has left 14 blacks dead since Saturday at the world's largest gold mine.
At least 14 people have died and 74 others have been wounded in intertribal fighting at the Vaal Reefs mine. About 1,250 men resigned from the mine yesterday.
Swallows to return
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. — Bird watchers were expected to outnumber swallows by nearly 10-to-1 today as both flock to a Spanish mission for the birds' annual return from Argentina.
Historians say the swallows have been making the 6,000-mile migration to San Juan Capistrano on March 19 for centuries. More than 5,000 tourists are expected to watch.
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Philippines get Marcos papers
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United States turned over 2,300 pages of documents to Philippine officials yesterday. Manila's investigator said they confirmed a web of incredible greed and unbelievable plunder by Ferdinand Marcos and his cronies.
Another set of the same documents, copies of papers spirited out of the Philippines last month with Marcos as he fled, were handed over to a House subcommittee investigating billions of dollars in hidden wealth that Marcos accumulated in 20 years in power.
Jovito Salonga, head of the Philippines government commission seeking to recover Marcos' assets, came to the State Department to pick up a cardboard box full of copies of the documents, which were seized by U.S. Customs Service agents in Hawaii Feb. 26. Marcos fled to exile when the United States withdrew its
support from his autocratic rule and President Reagan guaranteed him safe haven.
"I have been waiting for this hour since the last 20 years," a beaming Salonga, a former senator and opposition figure during the Marcos regime, told reporters as he left the State Department.
Seven hours later, after sorting through the documents, Salonga held a news conference at which he estimated Marcos had between $5 billion and $10 billion salted away in various investments around the world.
"They confirm what we have suspected all along," Salonga said. "Namely, one, the raids on the public treasury, the use of military intelligence funds and their misappropriation for the private benefit and use of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos.
Salonga declined to make the documents public for the time being, under an agreement with the State Department to use the papers only for legitimate governmental purposes.
But he said the mass of material included accounting notes, bank account records, reports by Marcos
associates, receipts and summaries of commissions.
"Two, the accumulation of ill-gotten wealth in the Philippines and abroad through enormous commissions, bribes and kickbacks given to the cronies and business associates of Mr. Marcos by corporations and enterprises that have been awarded lucrative contracts by Mr. Marcos.
"Three, the illicit relationship between the Marcos, banks and financial institutions and many private corporations organized in the Philippines since Mr. Marcos was elected president 20 years ago."
Salonga said his government,
headed by new President Corazon
Aquino, who fought a bitter campaign against Marcos before a fraud-marred election in early February, had evidence of misuse of American foreign aid by the Marcos government, but from sources other than the documents he received yesterday.
Salonga said former associates of Marcos were coming forward "to tell the whole truth about this unprecedented devastation of the nation's wealth."
He said the government wanted to recover as much as it could to help pay off a $30 billion foreign debt run up by Marcos and to address the poverty of the people.
"The evidence keeps mounting every day," he said, and the Philippines government hopes to "ascertain the extent of this unbelievable plunder."
Salonga said his government had already taken legal action in New York and New Jersey
Paris mayor to be prime minister
PARIS — Socialist President Francois Mitterrand yesterday asked rightist Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac to serve as France's new prime minister. Upon acceptance, he would become France's first opposition prime minister in nearly 30 years.
Chirac, who served as prime minister from 1974-1976 under former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, was thought to have been the preferred choice of the center-right alliance that Sunday won a three-seat majority in the 577-seat National Assembly, France's parliament.
United Press International
Chirac is the $3-year-old leader of the neoGaulist Rally for the Republic Party and the mayor of Paris. He met with Mitterrand for more talks at the Elysee Palace and left without comment.
Arriving at City Hall later, the tall, bespectacled.
Wednesday, March 19, 1986
The center-right alliance that won a slim majority in parliament is comprised of Chirac's Rally for the Republic, Giscard d'Estaing's centrist Union for French Democracy and right-wing independents. If Chirac accepts the post, it will be the first time since Gen. Charles de Gaulle founded the Fifth Republic in 1958 that France has a president and prime minister from opposing political parties, a formula that essentially gives France two leaders.
French political commentators have speculated that the situation could cause a constitutional crisis because both offices have broad, overlapping powers.
Chiric spent the earlier part of yesterday in meetings with Rally for Republic deputies and other rightist leaders. He was thought to have been a minister he wanted in his government to the Elysian.
Under the constitution, Mitterrand must name a prime minister who has the support of the National Assembly and appoints the other members of the Cabinet at the recommendation of the prime minister.
The unexpected narrowness of the right's victory in the elections could make it difficult for the right to push through its programs or to challenge Mitterrand.
Prime Minister Laurent Fabius offered the resignations of his government Monday following the rightist victory. Mitterrand said Fabius would be replaced by a new maker government until a new one could be formed.
The Socialists made an unexpectedly strong showing in the elections, winning 216 seats to be the largest single party in parliament, and are expected to be a strong opposition in support of Mitterrand.
Stevenson gains Illinois nomination
The Associated Press
Early returns indicated Washington-backed candidates were pulling away from crowded fields in two wards, while opposition candidates forged ahead in two others. The races were close in the three remaining wards. Washington needed victories in four wards to gain control of the council.
a federal judge in seven of Chicago's 50 wards to increase minority representation in the council. Four of the redistricted wards are predominantly Hispanic and three are predominantly black.
Democratic Sen. Alan Dixon won renomination by fending off a minor challenge. Thompson, bidding for an unprecedented fourth term, was unopposed for the GOP nomination, and Stevenson, a former U.S. senator, overcame token Democratic opposition.
CHICAGO — Adlai E. Stevenson easily captured Illinois' Democratic nomination for governor yesterday, setting up a rematch of his 1982 battle with Gov. James R. Thompson, while Mayor Harold Washington sought a City Council majority in special ward elections.
mayor a 25-25 deadlock in the council, with him holding the tie-breaking vote.
Washington, the city's first black mayor, needed victories by his supporters in four of the seven wards to take control of the council from archcoe Edward Vrdolyak, a white alderman who has led a 29-member majority. The four seats would give the
Aldermanic races were ordered by
Tom Leach, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners, said a few hundred ballots were impounded in three of the wards and would not be counted last night.
About 557,000 of Chicago's 1.4 million registered voters, or 39 percent, cast ballots yesterday, said Leach.
Reagan solicits support
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, trying to win last-minute votes for sending aid to anti-government rebels in Nicaragua, made a personal appeal to undecided members of Congress yesterday as conflicting signals emerged on the administration's chances of winning.
The Associated Press
See related story p. 10.
While Reagan lobbed for tomorrow's vote in the House of Representatives, his top spokesman predicted victory.
"We believe we will win without change," said presidential spokesman Larry Speaks, referring to Reagan's $100 million proposal.
Vice President George Bush said he did not know how many votes the administration could count on, but he said he was optimistic, "just because we're right."
But Reagan's opponents predicted the president would lose. *
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the momentum of the battle was with Reagan. But he said, "It's a horse race to the finish line as to whether people cross over."
Expressing confidence that Reagan will lose, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, D-Mass., said, "Fortunately, the American people are resisting this rush to war."
The Democratic-controlled House opens debate today on whether to give $70 million in military aid and $30 million in non-lethal assistance to the contra counterrevolutionary forces trying to topple the leftist Sandinista regime.
Reagan met privately with about 20 members of Congress who were described by White House officials as undecided or inclined to vote no.
In another development, a group of Maryland residents announced they intended to file a lawsuit against Reagan and other administration officials. The group contends that U.S.support for Nicaraguan rebel violates a host of international laws. Sister Maureen Fiedler, a Roman Catholic nun from Mt. Rainier, Md., said the group would file the suit after a decision had been handed down by the World Court.