University Dally Kansan / Wednesday, May 2, 1990
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Senate passes $3.4 billion spending bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — After a few delays, the Senate yesterday approved a $3.4 billion "emergency" spending bill that includes $720 million in aid that President Bush wants to use to help the new democracies in Panama and Nicaragua.
The action, on a voice vote, sent the spending package to a conference to work out differences with a $2.4 billion House-nassed version.
Bush has threatened to veto the measure if negotiators leave intact a Senate provision that would allow the District of Columbia to use local funds to pay for abortions for poor women.
most of the new foreign aid would be offset by cuts in this year's Pentagon budget, representing
the first principal application of a peace dividend from reduced East-West tensions.
Bush complained again yesterday about Congress' failure to enact his aid package, saying both the House and Senate had padded the bill with irrelevant pet spending projects and controversial matters.
Panamanian President Guillermo Endara, in a speech at the National Press Club, was more understanding. "This is the price we pay for democracy," he said of the delays. "It's the best system . . . and we want a democracy, (even) with all the delays."
Endara said his country would use the $420 million in aid to rebuild its battered economy and
repair damage from December's U.S. invasion, which put him in power. But he said Panama would not ask for more U.S. economic aid next year.
By using part of the money to pay off past-due loans to international banks, Panama would again become eligible to meet future financial needs through new development loans, he said.
Endara strongly defended the U.S. invasion, saying that human rights abuses by former dictator Manuel Noriega justified the intervention. And he harshly criticized members of the Organization of American States, saying Panamanians were let down when they did not stand up to Noriega.
German laborers demand unemployment protection
The Associated Press
WEST BERLIN — Thousands of Germans demanded protection against unemployment yesterday, and labor leaders warned that Western businesses were eager to exploit Germany's low-paid workforce.
Nation/World briefs
In the West German capital, Bonn, negotiators from both Germans met in an effort to complete by Friday a plan for merging the economies and social institutions of the two nations.
An estimated 600,000 workers staged 700 rallies in both nations during May Day gatherings yesterday.
In West Berlin, bands of mostly leftist radicals hurled firebombs and rocks last night, and police
responded with tear gas and night-sticks. More than 50 people were arrested after darkness fell in the tense Kreuzberg district of the city, West Berlin police reported. They had no immediate reports of injuries.
In the East German city of Leipzig, a group of leftist youths brawled with a band of neo-Nazi youths in the market square, the government news agency ADN reported.
report.
Three suffered minor injuries, and 21 were arrested, the agency stated.
Authorities have feared that the newly-opened borders between East and West Germany would result in clashes that would spread into East Berlin.
Republicans introduce campaign finance bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans unveiled their version of a campaign reform bill yesterday, calling for an abolition of all political action and not but imposing no new tax on how much candidates can raise and spend.
"The real problem in campaign finance is the source of political money, not how much spending is necessary," McConnell said.
"Republicans are tired of being accused of obstructing reform," Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the primary author of the package, said as he told reporters that private to put the finishing touches on their campaign financing bill.
Leading Democrats responded with a willingness to consider the abolition of PACs, whose contributions in recent years have tended to benefit incumbent Democratic candidates against GOP challengers, but only as a tradeoff to establishing fixed ceilings on spending.
McConnell accused Democrats of trying to railroad through Congress a bill with fixed spending limits that served the partisan interests of the Democratic Party by curtailing Republican fundraising advantages.
"The most important factor in any reform proposal must be limits on spending," said Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine.
Republicans, in their package,
were willing to cut the $1,000 limit
an individual could give to a campaign
to $500 out-of-state donors.
FORMER HOSTAGE CELIBRATES:
Frank Reed, malinourished but energetic with his 3%-year ordeal as a hostage in Lebanon, celebrated his victory in beer, a large steak and a long-awaited companion with his wife and son.
A special State Department team began questioning Reed, a 57-year-old educator, at the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, hoping for clues about the 16 remaining Western hostages in Lebanon. Six U.S. hostages are still being held.
Reed, who said he spent much of his captivity blindfolded, is the second U.S. hostage freed since April 22.
After performing some preliminary medical examinations, including. X-rays and blood tests, Reed's doctors said the former captive showed no initial signs of serious medical problems.
KEF REFLECTS EXPECTATIONS:
The way U.S. citizens and their historians regard the 32rd president, Dwight E. Dienhower, reflects what they expect of their government, said Alan Brinkley, a historian.
Anne Branley, in his book,
Elsenhower is a popular figure
when people are suspicious of
government, have been disappointed
in it and expect little from it, said
Brinklev.
But when people look to government for bold leadership, Eisenhower, with his reputation for standing pat, falls in esteem, he says.
Eisenhower's place in history may be pertinent because George Bush is often viewed as a latter-day Eisenhower-style president.
This year is the centennial
Eisenhower's birth.
PLESTIHIAN KILLING: Armed setters
left a compound in the Christian
Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City before a court deadline yesterday, and a judge sentenced the settlement move to five months after it for killing a Palestinian.
Jerusalem District Court Judge Shalom Bromner also handed the founder, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a seven-month suspended sentence for fatally shooting the Palestinian, in January. Kavod Hassan Salah, on Sept. 30, 1988.
Levinger initially was charged with manslaughter, which carries a maximum term of 20 years in prison. As part of a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of causing death by negligence.
Salah, 42, was standing at the entrance to his shop when he was shot during a stone-throwing incident in the West Bank town of Hebron.
Israeli human rights advocates say settlers have killed at least 29 Palestinians since the start of the uprising nearly 29 months ago.
SPACE WRECKAGE ENTOMBED:
The Apollo capsule in which three astronauts died 23 years ago will be entombed with the debris of the space shuttle Challenger in an abandoned missile silo.
The remnants of the capsule will be transferred from the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., to the Cape Canaler Air Force Station. A team led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Tuesday.
Astronauta Virgil "Gus" Grissom,
Roger B. Chaffee and Edward H.
White II died when fire flared
through the capsule.
NASA said the Apollo debris, including investigation data, take up about 3,300 feet of storage.
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