4 Page 2 - The Michigan Doily - Friday, September 23, 198. House vote keeps Marines in Beirnit WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 30-6 yesterday to give President Reagan broad authority to keep 1,200 Marines in Beirut for the next 18 months, as House Speaker Thomas O'Neill Jr. moved to quell a mutiny within his own ranks. The committee vote was the first legislative test of the war powers riesolution reluctantly accepted by President Reagan, who has said he has constitutional objections to any congressional voice in the deployment of U.S. forces overseas. But growing criticism of the com- promise agreed to by O'Neill and other congressional leaders guaranteed there would be attempts to shorten its length from 18 months in a heated debate on the House floor, probably next Thur- sday. The resolution declares congressional approval of Reagan's policy of assigning the Marines as part of a multinational peacekeeping force in and around Beirut, but also sets some restrictions on how they can be used. At the White House, deputy press secetary Larry Speakes greeted the vote as a "significant step toward full approval" of the resolution. He said the committee action speaks well "for ultimate passage and indicates widespread support for this legislation." Opponents of the resolution said it gives Reagan too much of a "blank- check" to deepen the involvement of the Marines and other U.S. military forces in the intensifying civil war in Lebanon. Rep. Clement Zablocki, (D-Wis.), the committee chairman, said the com- promise resolution averts a con- stitutional confrontation with Reagan over invoking the Vietnam-era War Powers Act and should be approved to demonstrate a united front by Congress and the White House in the Middle East. Without the resolution, Zablocki said, "The president will lose, Congress will lose, and the foreign policy of the United States will suffer. House speaker O'Neill said the growing sentiment against the war powers compromise and the continued presence of Marines in Lebanon was the result of pressure from back home, especially for younger House members. "It's easy to run when you get a dozen telephone calls saying, 'Get the Marines out of there,' " O'Neill said. On Wednesday, the House Ap- propriations Committee voted 2-16 to cut off funds for U.S. forces in Lebanon unless Reagan goes beyond the com- promise reached with congressional leaders and publicly recognizes that the 1973 War Powers Act was invoked when two Marines were killed in Beirut on Aug.29. Zablocki said he was angered because the proposed cutoff threatens the compromise and was a "frontal at- tack" on the jurisdiction of the foreign affairs panel. Now OPEN Let Usel flnYou " COCKTAILS " COpNTI OUS GO O S INESSMA S LU CH (1100 AM to 4:30 PM) " CONVENTTL LOCATED 50778 EAST MICHIGAN AVE. FIVE MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN YPSILANTI WEST OF THE WILLOW RUN EXIT ON MICHIGANV. PHONE: 482-909 PRO TTIR EQUIRED Jet hijacked to Cuba Aviation Administration. NEW YORK (AP) - A man who said At 5 p.m., more than three hours after he had a bomb hijacked an American it landed in Havana, the plane left Cuba Airlines 727 jet yesterday and forced for San Juan, where it was scheduled to the plane, with112 people on board, to arrive at 7:25 p.m. There the fly to Cuba instead of the Virgin Islan- passengers and crew members would ds, officials said. be interviewed by FBI agents, officials It was the 11th successful hijacking to said. the Caribbean islands since May 1. The three-engine jet, carrying 105 The FBI said the only information they passengers and seven crew members, had about the hijacker was that he was left Kennedy at 10:34 a.m. bound for St. black. American Airlines identified Thomas in the Virgin Islands, where it him from the passenger list as "Knight was to arrive at 1:55 p.m. Stallion."At 10:57 a.m., a passenger came for- FLIGHT 625 landed safely and At 10:d a stardasseger a for- "without incident" in Havana at 1:43 ward, told a stewardess he had a bomb p.m., more than two-and-a-half hours and demanded that the plane fly to after it was hijacked following takeoff Cuba, said Leon Katz, a spokesman for from Kennedy Airport, said Robert the Port Authority of New York and Fulton, a spokesman for the Federal New Jersey which operates the airport. 4 IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Senate vote cuts U.N. funding WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate, ignoring pleas by its own leaders that it would send the wrong signal to the world at a time of high international tension, voted 66-23 last night to drastically chop this nation's contribution to the United Nations. The cut would amount to nearly $500 million over the next four years. The proposal would cut the U.S. contribution to the United Nations by 21. percent in the fiscal year that begins Oct:1, then by another 1 percent in each of the next three years. Senators went along with an amendment by Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, (R- Kan.) that would return U.S. funding of the world organization to 1980 levels. "I know this is a difficult time to raise this. But it means that the U.N. will have to look to its budget just as we are struggling with our budget," she told colleagues. The move was opposed by Sen. Charles Percy (R-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who said: "This is a mistake. We are undercutting the very agency on which we depend to maintain peace and stability in the world." French planes assault Druse BEIRUT, Lebanon - French warplanes bombed Druse and Palestinian batteries yesterday after artillery fire wounded four Foreign Legionnaires, and the Lebanese army fought off another Druse attack on Souk el-Gharb. The bombing run, which a Lebanese military source said involved eight Super Standard jet fighters, was the first air attack by a member of the four- nation peacekeeping force in Beirut. U.S. warships have been firing all week at Druse and Palestinian positions, but American carrier jets have been con- fined to reconnaissance flights so far. Two other French soldiers were wounded by a grenade yesterday, and the shelling which triggered the air attack also blew up an Italian ammunition dump. But no Italian casualties were reported. U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats from the carrier Eisenhower made recon- naissance passes over Beirut and the nearby mountain battle area. But the guns of the U.S. Navy task force off the Beirut beaches were silent following barrages at midnight and 3 a.m. in retaliation.for the second night of shelling around the residences of U.S. Ambassador Robert Dillon and President Amin Gemayel in the eastern suburb of Baabda. Marcos threatens protesters MANILA, Philippines - President Ferdinand Marcos yesterday ordered soldiers to shoot protesters if necessary and threatened widespread arrests in a new military crackdown. But the opposition responded that it might launch a nationwide sit-down to drive him from office. Marcos spoke on nationwide television a day after four security men and seven civilians were killed and 200 other people injured in the worst anti- government rioting in his 18-year rule. He blamed the bloodshed on foes loyal to assassinated opposition leader Benigno Aquino. Marcos told CBS News he saw no reason to reimpose martial law "just now," but implied in his nationwide address that he might use some of his arrest powers retained from eight years of martial law between 1972 and 1981. The powers enable him to jail anyone he considers a danger to the nation. GM Toyota settle with UAW DETROIT - Workers laid off from a closed General Motors Corp. plant in California will get nearly all 2,500 jobs when the facility reopens in a joint venture with Toyota Motor Corp., but they won't be rehired strictly by seniority, union officials said yesterday. Officials of the United Auto Workers union said at a news conference that worker experience will count in rehiring, but they said the-venture i a i company that can hire whomever it wants. In addition, the UAW will be the plant's recognized bargaining agent at the facility in Fremont, union President Owen Bieber said. There may be some disagreement from some of the 6,000 autoworkers who lost their jobs early last year when GM closed the Fremont plant because of overcapacity and falling auto sales. Since the GM-Toyota venture was announced in February, they have demanded they get all the jobs at the plant when it begins producing Toyota- designed cars by early 1985. The laid-off workers also demanded hiring be done strictly by seniority. The provisions are in a letter of intent between the two sides, Bieber said. Negotiations on a formal contract, which will cover such issues as wages, benefits and work rules, will begin by April 1985 and should be completed byJune 1985, he said. Cockpit intruder charged with attempted murder SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A man who lunged into the cockpit of a commuter plane and allegedly cut off the fuel to one engine, pitching the aircraft into a 700-foot drop, was jailed yesterday on charges of attempted murder and or- dered to undergo a mental examination. "This was not a takeover thing, this was a crash-the-plane," said Boston University law professor James Henderson, who yanked Christopher Brad- shaw, an unemployed 27-year-old, away from the pilot during the flight yesterday and punched him in the face to subdue him. None of the 15 passengers or two crew members aboard the two-engine plane was injured. Clhbe Micbfigan Bt 1l9 Vol. XCIV - No.14 Friday, September 23, 1983 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the - University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Sub- scription rates: $15.50 September through April (2 semesters); $19.50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Satur- day mornings. Subscription rates: $8 in Ann Arbor; $10 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 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