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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 7, 1986
News Briefs
Nation/World
Senate opens debate on balanced budgets
WASHINGTON — The Senate opened debate yesterday on a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. Sponsors began rewriting the measure to win enough support for passage.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a main backer of the amendment, said he expected debate to last about a week before a final vote was made.
The amendment would require the United States to have a balanced budget each year after 1991 — the year the Gramm-Rudman law is supposed to have eliminated the deficit.
TWA workers strike
WASHINGTON — Pickets appeared at airports around the country as the Independent Federation of Flights Attendants struck Trans World Airlines early today over a contract dispute.
The strike against the country's fifth largest carrier was called after a marathon bargaining session.
Talks continue in Washington.
Talks continue in Washington. The walkout followed the end of a monthlong required cooling-off period.
About 50 picketers marched in front of the TWA terminal at Los Angeles International Airport.
SANTA FE, N.M. — Georgia O'Keeffe, regarded as a pioneer of modern American art, died yesterday at the age of 98.
Noted painter dies
O'Keeffe was taken to St. Vincent Hospital. A spokesman said she was pronounced dead at 1:20 p.m.
Among her best-known works are "Black Iris," "Cow's Skull," "Red, White and Blue" and "Sky Above Clouds IV." She often used natural desert subjects, and her style was based on bold, dramatic colors, sharply defined edges and strong patterns.
Mavor won't resign
PHILADELPHIA — A commission said yesterday that Mayor Wilson Goode abdicated his responsibilities in a police battle that killed 11 members of the cult MOVE, but Goode said he would not resign.
From Kansan wires.
Contra aid stumbles in committees
United Press International
WASHINGTON -- President Reagan's proposal of aid to Nicaragua rebels declared one victory and two defeats in House committee votes yesterday.
With a showdown House vote coming March 19, Reagan maintained that $100 million was needed to shore up the contra forces that are battling the leftist Sandinista government in Managua.
He disputed charges that he and top advisers had framed the issue as a choice between U.S. dollars now or U.S. troops later.
Reagan renewed assertions that those opposed to the aid did not recognize that the Sandistas endangered U.S. security. He said he would make a televised speech to build pressure on Congress.
Test votes on the package continued yesterday on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers cut off military aid to the guerrillas in 1984 after revelations of secret CIA support.
White House aides said the pro-contra address most likely would be given March 16.
In an expected decision, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 23-18 against recommending the resolution favorably to the House. The proposal calls for providing $70 million in so-called covert military aid and $30 million in other assistance to the contras over the next 18 months.
Chairman Dante Fascell, D-Fla., who voted for the contra aid, said he supported economic aid to the Sandinistas after the 1979 revolution because they promised to work for democracy.
But the hand of friendship was rejected and the revolution was subverted, Fassell said. He
Fascell and Reps. Dan Mica and Lawrence Smith, both D-Fla., were the only Democrats on the committee to support the aid. Mica said that all members opposed the Sandinista's policies but that military pressure alone would not work.
called for military pressure on the Nicaraguans and for negotiations.
Earlier in the day, the Armed Services Committee, under the quick gavel of Chairman Les Aspin, D-Wis., gave Reagan his only victory so far in the renewed conflict over the contras by approving his request on a voice vote.
Rep. Nick Mavroulas, D-Mass., called the 30-second meeting without a recorded vote a railroad job. Aspin said he saw only four members request a roll call when five members were needed.
Also yesterday, the House Appropriations
Committee, under Chairman Jamie Whitten. D-Miss., went on record against the plan on a voice vote. The House Intelligence Committee said no to the package Wednesday.
A $27 million allotment of non-lethal contra aid, approved as a compromise in July last year after Reagan was unable to overcome resistance to renewed military assistance, expires March 31.
Reagan, who raised the political stakes by accusing opponents of hiding their heads in the sand, denied that he had suggested sending U.S. troops to Nicaragua if the contras were denied military aid.
But Speaker of the House Thomas O'Neill told CBS News that Reagan's objective was clear — the president would not be happy until American troops were in Nicaragua.
Filipino rebels seek pardon
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — Communist rebel units in the northern Philippines have expressed interest in surrendering to the government of President Corazon Aquino in exchange for amnesty, the state-run news agency reported yesterday.
Officials on Bataan peninsula said rebels led by Crisostomo Ibarra of the New People's Army, the military wing of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines, had sent envoys to surrender, according to the Philippine News Agency.
Col. Lorenzo Mateo, commander of the Philippine Constabulary for the central Luzon island region was reported to have confirmed that several NPA groups, particularly the one headed by Ibarra, had sent representatives to lay down arms.
The report came as government officials said an unofficial cease-fire, which began shortly after Aquino replaced Ferdinand Marcos on Feb. 25, was holding.
Arroyo said a suspected NPA attack Monday in the village of Polangui, 195 miles southeast of Manila, was an isolated incident. At least 17 people, including 12 policemen, were killed in the attack.
The government Wednesday freed from jail the alleges
sounders of the NPA, the Communist Party and two other
guerrilla leaders — the last of 517 political prisoners
rested under Marcos to be unconditionally released.
"There is no fighting going on," Aquino's executive secretary, Joker Arroyo, told reporters. "If that holds, fine, and we think it might hold."
U. S. Rep. Stephen Solarz, D.N.Y., leading a three-member congressional delegation, said the release was symbolic of Aquino's efforts to promote genuine reconciliation after 29 years of authoritarian rule by Marcos.
Solarz, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, met with Aquino for 20 minutes yesterday and delivered a rare invitation from House Speaker Thomas O'Neill to address a joint session of Congress later this year.
Solarz, a tough Marcos critic, said an Aquino speech to Congress could lead to increased U.S. aid for the Philippines. He also pledged to support Aquino's bid to recover Marcos' wealth in the United States. Philippine newspapers have estimated the wealth of Marcos at up to $10 billion.
10 questioned in Palme slaying
United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Police in Denmark and Sweden questioned at least 10 people yesterday after a drawing of a man thought to be the assassin of Prime Minister Olf Palme was broadcast countrywide and transmitted to law enforcement agencies throughout Europe.
Two of those questioned were Yugoslavian men detained in Denmark after getting off a ferry from Sweden. Swedish police said later the two men had been ruled out as suspects and were released after seven hours.
The two, said to be residents of Los Angeles and Hamburg, West Germany, were arrested because a Swedish passport officer thought one of them resembled the composite picture and alerted Danish authorities.
vestigators would hold and question anyone who resembled the drawing depicting a man in his 30s with dark hair and a narrow face and apparently of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern origin.
"These things happen and will continue to happen," he said.
Stockholm Police Chief Hans Holmer said in-
Swedish television said at least 10 people were questioned after the release of the picture, which was broadcast across the country and transmitted to law enforcement agencies throughout Europe.
Probe gets close look at comet's mysteries
The composite picture of the suspect was put together by a West German police team based on a description provided by a portrait artist who saw a man thought to be the killer getting into a car minutes after the killing.
Palme and his wife had just left a movie theater and were walking down a street in central Stockholm late Feb. 28 when the killer struck.
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Vega 1 space probe penetrated the gases of Halley's comet for the first time yesterday and hurtled in 5,000 miles of its frozen nucleus, sending back pictures and data that may force scientists to rewrite the books on comets.
American space experts who joined their Soviet colleagues and viewed the historic moment at the Space Research Institute called the encounter a landmark in scientific history and international cooperation.
The scientists burst into applause when they viewed the comet's nucleus, which showed up in computer-enhanced, false-color images as a yellow ellipsoid in a blue and purple haze. They estimated the diameter of the nucleus at 2·21½ miles.
Initial findings radioed 100 million miles back from the comet probe revealed that Halley's comet is surrounded by a low-density dust field, but gives off what appeared to be a jet stream of dust.
"The dust was not as heavy as it might have been," said astronomer Fred Whipple, the American who originated the theory that comets are dirty snowballs of ice, dust and rock.
He said he was surprised by the dust stream that showed up 25 minutes after the robot spacecraft passed Halley's core. It led to
speculation that the comet has two nuclei.
"A major question now is whether the nucleus may be double or whether what we saw was a dustlet." Whip said.
Scientist John Simpson, who designed the only American instrument aboard, a device for measuring dust, said, "Quite clearly the initial results do not agree with most of the current models on comets."
Whippe, of the Smithsonian, Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., said Vega 1's initial reports showed the existence of water ice in the core, but only further analyses would show what other ices are present.
Comets are of intense scientific interest because they are thought to be relics left over from the matter that formed the sun, planets and moons $4\frac{1}{2}$ billion years ago.
"Our instruments have touched for the first time on matter from the beginning of the solar system." said Simpson, from the University of Chicago. "This will tell us how long comets survive in the solar system.
After six years of planning, Vega 1 was launched Dec. 15, 1984. It sped through space at a speed of 48 miles per second toward the core of the comet. The last 30-minute dash was filled with danger as the spacecraft hurtled toward the comet's core and the dust field that could have destroyed it.
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