a Page 2-Tuesday, September 21, 1982-The Michigan Daily Senate stalls school prayer bill WASHINGTON- The Senate refused yesterday to halt a three-day liberal filibuster that has been blocking action on pro-school prayer legislation. The vote was 50-39-10 short of the necessary 60. Senate Republican leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) said the Senate would vote again today on a petition to limit the debate. THE SENATE vote would have limited the prayer debate to 100 hours, but 60 votes are required to invoke the proceduralmove, known as cloture. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and his conservative allies, however, planned to try again today, and both sides con- ceded privately they would eventually win cloture. Still, time appeared to be on the side of the liberals, led by Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) despite the political popularity of the prayer measure. THE LEGISLATION urged by Helms would forbid the Supreme Court to in- terfere with voluntary prayer in public schools, including jurisdiction over any law approved by a state legislature or a ruling by lower court, a move which critics say is a direct attack on the in- dependence of the federal courts. Despite the likely outcome of the cloture vote, liberals have an arsenal of parliamentary weapons still remaining which they can use as Congress winds down toward adjourning for the November elections, probably by early next month. One of them is time. The prayer measure is attached to a federal debt limit extension, which must be ap- proved by Oct. 1 if the government is to be able to pay its bills routinely and function without disruption. AS THAT date draws near, the pressure will build against both conser- vatives and liberals to resolve the issue one way or the other. Weicker will likely be urged to give up and let the prayer proposal pass the Senate and go to a House-Senate con- ference committee where the outcome would be uncertain. But there could be even greater pressure on the conservatives to take a symbolic victory, and let the debt ceiling bill be approved but stripped of any prayer amendment. HELMS, gesturing with a sweeping motion, accused the liberals of incon- sistency, saying they supported the Voting Rights Act but now are "piously" arguing that the prayer measure improperly would limit the high court's jurisdiction. Helms contended the Voting Rights Act also limited the court, but he did not explain how. "That is basically, fundamentally wrong," said Sen. Edward Kennedy (D- Mass,), standing 15 feet from Helms. President Reagan said last week he wants Congress, before it quits for the year, to approve a constitutional amen- dment to allow voluntary school prayers. 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But the magazine EEARN$$$ " Representatives wanted to sell vitally needed computerized scholarship/ financial aid sources! " Work spare time. If you are aggressive, outgoing and reliabl e, contact: EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES 3651 Tilden Ave., Dept. XD, Los Angeles, CA 90034 used dated figures, failing to include players from the last two Wolverine teams and incorrectly classifying two professionals who have earned degrees. ONE OF those, Jim Smith of the Pit- tsburgh Steelers, returned to the University four years after he was draf- ted to finish his degree. Sports Illustrated questioned Schem- bechler's concern for the academic success of his players in a story about the new United States Football League. The coach, who prides himself on the scholastic achievement of his team, has been an outspoken critic of the league's intent to draft senior football players in December-before they have a chance to earn their diplomas. Yesterday, Schembechler tempered his criticism of the new league, saying that a rule granting the Detroit fran- chise territorial rights over Michigan players will give them a better chance to graduate. By keeping the players in the neighborhood, the rule will allow them to return to campus for com- pletion of their studies, he said. Schembechler has assigned his recruiting coordinator, Fritz Seyforth, to prepare a response to the sports magazine. Before being presented with the Daily's findings, Seyforth said he thought as many as 85 percent of the former Wolverines in the NFL had graduated. Commenting on the Sports Illustrated story, Seyforth said, "It's too bad. It really hurt (Schembechler). He spends a lot of time worrying about academics." Police notes 'U' Towers threatened The 19th floor of the University Towers apartment complex received a bomb threat early yesterday morning according to Ann Arbor police. The threat, received at approximately 1 a.m., told building administration that the bomb was scheduled to explode at-2 a.m. Apartment officials alerted residents, telephoning them at 1:30 a.m. to announce that the building was being evacuated until the threat was over. Ann Arbor police resj5nding to the call found nothing. No fdllow-up in- vestigation is planned. -Greg Brusstar and Rob Frank s pros did not graduate 4 IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Honduran hostages still held SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - The anti-terrorist Cobra Battalion yester- day ringed the building where guerrillas held an estimated 80 hostages, in- cluding two Cabinet ministers, and negotiators tried to end the four day siege. About 10 guerrillas, who shot their way into the Chamber of Commerce building Friday, have made repeated threats to kill the hostages unless the Honduran government frees 80 people the guerrillas say are being held as political prisoners. A top Honduran official, who requested anonymity, said it was hoped that the arrival Sunday of Andrea Cordero de Montezemolo, the papal nuncio for Honduras and Nicaragua, would help speed the negotiations between the government and the guerrillas. Col. Daniel Beli Castillo, head of the Honduran security forces, said yesteray he was unaware of any plans to take the building by force. Mem- bers of the anti-terrorist Cobra Battalion and scores of other army soldiers took positions around the one-story building in this industrial city 110 miles northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. House OKs ban on dumping nuclear wastes in oceans WASHINGTON - Legislation imposing a two-year moratorium on dump- ing low-level nuclear wastes in the oceans was approved yesterday by a voice vote in the House. The bill, which had been opposed by the Reagan administration, would require comprehensive environmental assessments at the end of the two- year period before a permit for ocean disposal of low-level radioactive wasts could be issued. Congress would be given 45 days to review and block issuance of each permit. The government halted disposal of low-level wastes in the ocean in 1970. Backers of the two-year dumping moratorium said it is designed to head off expected administration efforts to resume use of the oceans for disposal of low-level wastes such as outdated submarines. The Environmental Protection Administration would be required to designate specific ocean sites for dumping after performing detailed analyses on the sites. Floods sweep El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Relief workers dug through tons of mud and rushed supplies to survivors of floods and mudslides that officials fear may have killed as many as 500 people. "The damages are astronomical," said Interior Ministry spokesman Orrego Candray. He said it will take a "tremendous amount" of work to clean up after the floods and mudslides that swept through parts of the capital and a 150-mile coastal stretch over the weekend. The government has declared a national state of emergency. Heavy rains from the same weather system also flooded Pacific coastal areas in neigh- boring Guatemala, where authorities reported eight people killed and an un- specified number missing. The lastest official report on the flooding in El Salvador said 173 bodies had been found and at least 1,500 people were displaced. Officials said the flooding was the worst natural disaster to hit the Central American nation since an estimated 2,000 people died in an earthquake in 1975. West German to ride space shuttle in 1983 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A West German named to become the first foreigner to travel into orbit aboard America's space shuttle next year said yesterday he believes the European Space Agency is not getting its money's worth from NASA. Ulf Merbold told reporters he doesn't think the Europeans are getting enough for their $1 billion investment in the Spacelab part of the space shut- tle program. Merbold, 41, was born in Greiz, now part of East Germany, and raised in Stuttgart, West Germany, following the partitioning of Germany after World War II. Merbold and a second payload specialist, Byron Lichtenberg, 34, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will join four other Americans in the ninth shuttle flight, scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral Sept. 30, 1983. U.S. income rises .3 percent WASHINGTON - Americans' personal income rose just 0.3 percent in August, the least since March, the government reported yesterday. The gain probably was really a loss after subtracting the effect of inflation. Consumers' spending rose a bit more ? 0.7 percent. Economists and government officials said they still expected the July tax-rate cut and other recent income gains to encourage Americans to spend even more, thus helping pull the economy out of its 13-month recession. But they hardly sounded confident that any spending surge was imminent. And they said the current July-September quarter likely will show little or no growth for the overall economy. One private economist, Allen Gutheim of Wharton Econometrics, said "it could be several months" before big spending increases show up, perhaps not before the Christmas buying season. A lot depends on auto sales, he said. He sitll expects an increase, but "the question of when is still completely up in the air." Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said in a prepared statement, "Signs of an acceleration in consumer spending may begin to appear in September data." 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