University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 31, 1988
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Meese called 'crown jewel' of sleaze by Senate leader
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd yesterday called Attorney General Edwin Meese III "the crown jewel of . . . seaze" and urged him to quit, but Meese said he saw no reason to resign. President Reagan reiterated his support for his old friend.
Meese, the focus of an 11-month criminal investigation that has sapped Justice Department morale, also predicted that Solicitor General Charles Fried would not follow the path of two other officials who shook the department Tuesday by turning in their resignations.
"Business is operating as usual at the Justice Department," Meese said.
On Tuesday, Fried, who argues the government's position in Supreme Court has been widely criticized.
had prompted him to reassess his own future.
Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns and Assistant Attorney General William Weld resigned because they were concerned that Meese's continuing legal difficulties were damaging the effectiveness and credibility of the Justice Department, department sources said.
Congressional reaction against Meese was strong the day after the resignations of Burns and Weld.
"Mr. Meese has become the crown jewel of the sleaze factor in Reagan administration history." Byrd told reporters. He said that if Reagan doesn't want to ask Meese to quit, he should find someone else to ask him.
But Reagan told reporters during a ceremony honoring young scientists. "He's been a friend for over 20 years. I have every confidence in him. I'm not going to comment any further."
ARAB MEDIA CURTALLED: The Israeli army yesterday padlocked the Arab-owned Palestine Press Service, cutting off a key source of information in a campaign to curtail media coverage of Arab unrest in the occupied territories. The news service, which reports on activities in the West Bank and Gaza Stip, was ordered closed for six months.
THEATY RATIFICATION PREDICTED: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended overwhelmingly yesterday that the Senate ratify a historic treaty to eliminate all U.S. and Soviet medium-range nuclear weapons. Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., said his head count showed no more than five senators would vote against the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty when the full Senate took up the treaty, probably late next month. Ratification requires a two-thirds Senate majority, 67 votes if all 100 senators are present and vote.
KUWAIT I BLANK ATTACKED: Three Iranian speedboats fired from several hundred yards yesterday at Bubyan, a Kuwait island off Iraq, and wounded two soldiers, the government and
News Roundup
shipping agents reported. Iran denied it. It said the boats speed away unscathed after the attack, which appeared to be for propaganda rather than to cause damage. The reports did not say what weapons were fired, but Iranian speedboats normally carry machine guns and grenade launchers. Bubiyan is about 20 miles from Iraq's Faw peninsula, part of which Iran seized early in 1986.
CONGRESSIONAL OZONE DEBATE: The Reagan administration was urged yesterday to begin a 'massive diplomatic mission' to curb global production of ozone-destroying chemicals. The call from sometime-divergent voices in the chemical industry, Congress and the environmental lobby came as scientists told two Senate Environment subcommittees about their recent conclusion that chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, are depleting the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer more quickly than previously thought.
FRENCH PLANE EXPLODES: A French jet fighter crashed and exploded yesterday near a nuclear power plant in West Germany, but
officials said the facility could have withstood the force of the impact if the plane had hit it. The plot of the Mirage jet fighter was killed when his plane went down at 9:20 a.m. about a mile from the Isar plant at the Bavarian village of Ohu.
FLOODS THREATEN WEST GERMANS: U.S. servicemen joined West German firefighters yesterday in piling sandbags to protect the city of Wiesbaden, West Germany, from the floodwaters of the swollen Rhin River. Thousands of volunteers have pitched in the past three days to protect people's lives and property from flooding. Six people are thought to have died in flood-related accidents.
PANAMA STRIKE FALLING APART: Supermarkets, pharmacies and small shops opened for the first time in 10 days yesterday as a nationwide strike aimed at toppling Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega began to fall apart. Despite the defections, Alberto Boyd, president of the National Council of Private Enterprise, said he and other strike leaders were not ending their effort to get rid of Noriega.
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