Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 30, 1983 U.S. Marines to stay in Beirut WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate, averting a constitutional clash with President Reagan over the War Powers Act, joined the House yesterday in agreeing to let him keep Marines in Lebanon for another 18 months. The 54-46 vote followed the defeat of Democratic amendments that would have limited theMarines' deployment to two or six months. Some lawmakers also expressed fear that the United States might be getting involved in another Vietnam-type "quagmire." ?"I STILL have grave doubts about the wisdom of American troops in the Middle East, but they are there," said Senate Republican leader Howard Baker. "It would be a mistake of tragic proportions if the Congress were to withdraw them," he said. But Sen. Dale Bumpers (D.-Ark.), declared "The people in this country do not want another 55,000 dead sons ... for something they do not understand." CONGRESSIONAL leaders said the War Powers Resolution, enacted in 1973 in response to the Vietnam War, required Reagan to obtain congressional approval to keep troops in Lebanon for more than 60 days in hostilities. Opponents of the compromise argued the American peoplewant the U.S. troops out of Lebanon, where four Marines have been killed and more than 30 wounded during the last month. The House approved the plan Wed- nesday on a 270-161 vote. The resolution must go back to the House, however, for approval.of relatively minor Senate amendments before going to Reagan. APPROVAL OF the compromise averted a head-on collision between the executive and legislative branches of government over the authority to keep the 1,200 Marines. In Beirut yesterday, masked gunmen kidnapped two U.S. Army soldiers and held them for two hours when the Americans got lost in a Beirut suburb controlled by a rebel Moslem militia. The two American sodiers drove their jeep by mistake into a south Beirut neighborhood controlled by the Shiite Moslem militia and were abducted by masked men armed with submachine guns, Marine spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan said. A SPOKESMAN for the Shiite militia denied that its members kidnapped the two Americans, saying that militiamen freed the soldiers when they were stop- ped at a roadblock. Filipino troops raid tabloid for 'sedition' MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE SADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RECREATIONAL SPORTS Interviews Are Being Conducted on Monday, Oct. 3 in the MSA Offices on the Third Floor of the Union Please fill out applications and sign up for interviews in the lobby of the MSA offices. If there are any scheduling problems, please leave a note in Susan Povich's mailbox. MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Government troops yesterday raided the offices of aweeklyrnewspaper that reported key members of President Ferdinand Marcos' government plotted the assassination of Benigno Aquino, a political rival of Marcos. Two colonels and eight other soldiers in civilian clothes raided the editorial office of the Philippine Times, a weekly tabloid, and the printing shop that prin- ts it, seizing back issues and several copies of the current issue as well as equipment. EDITOR-publisher Rommer Corro was not in his office, but the owner of the printing press, Hilario Mendoza Jr., was taken in for questioning. The raiders charged that the paper was "inciting sedition" and padlocked both the editorial office and the printing shop. The paper's latest issue carried a front-page article based on an anonymousr ungrammatical mimeographed sheet that has been cir- culating for weeks in Manila. It claimed the assassination of Aquino was plan- ned by three Cabinet ministers and key military officers. MARCOS HAS denied his gover- nment was involved in the murder at the Manila airport Aug. 21. The gover- nment said Aquino was slain by a professional killer disguised as an air- port employee who was himself killed immediately by security guards. But the government has given no indication of who might have hired the assassin. It was the first time the government has interfered with a newspaper since the assassination. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports MSU rape case ordered to trial LANSING - Ingham County Circuit Judge James Giddings yesterday said seven men accused of gang raping a Michigan State University student at a dorm party must stand trial on the lesser charge of third-degree criminal. sexual conduct. Giddings said East Lansing District Judge Daniel Tschirhart, who: dismissed criminal charges against six MSU students and one from Ferris State College, placed too much emphasis on the alleged victim's apparent: failure to resist or escape. Giddings' order returns the case to district court. The alleged victim, who at the time was 17, testified that one of the men in vited her to a party on the evening of Nov. 21, 1982. She said she tried to leave when she saw there were no women at the party, but could not and was raped by the seven men, one at a time. Defense lawyers attacked her story, noting she had an opportunity to escape or cry for help when she was taken past a dorm security guard to a bathroom. Minister loses appeal to halt daughter's cancer treatments KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal yesterday from a fundamentalist minister who wants to halt the court-ordered cancer treatment which his 12-year-old daughter is receiving. The high court let stand a lower court ruling that declared Pamela Hamilton a neglected child and placed her in state custody for emergency medical treatment. Pamela, who is being treated at East Tennessee Children's Hospital, com- pleted her first round of chemotherapy Wednesday. Her father, Larry Hamilton, opposes the treatments on religious grounds, believing only God can heal his daughter. "I'm going all the way to the top, to the Supreme Court," Hamilton said after Pamela was placed in the custody of the state. "If they can come into my house and take my kid away, then they can come into your house and take your kid away too." But Diana Huffman, Hamilton's attorney, hedged yesterday on what the next move would be. She said she and counsel James Bell were "disappoin- ted" the Tennessee Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Continental pilots vote to strike HOUSTON - Continental Airlines' pilots union leaders voted yesterday to strike in protest of pay cuts and longer hours imposed in the carrier's bankruptcy reorganization, but officials expected most pilots to stay at work. Gary Thomas, spokesman for the 18-member Continental master executive committee of the Air Lines Pilots Asociation, said the group voted unanimously to strike the airline at 3 a.m. EDT tomorrow. "All pilots are directed to cease and desist from all flight operations at that time," Thomas said. "Pilots shall not return to work'until such time as a satisfactory back-to-work agreement is negotiated. We'll make it stick." In a related move, representatives of all 46 airline units of the association scheduled a meeting in Houston to consider an industry-wide protest strike against Continental. Thomas conceded the success of the strike against Continental depended on the participation of pilots who were called back to work between Satur- day, when the company filed its bankruptcy papers, and Tuesday, when the airline resumed domestic service. Tokyo typhoon leaves 21 dead TOKYO - Four days of rain spawned by Typhoon Forrest left at least 21 people dead and 17 missing in floods and landslides across Japan yesterday. The Meteorological Agency said Forrest dropped as much as 20 inches of rain in parts of southern and western Japan after slamming into the ar- 'chipelago Sunday.The storm weakened to a tropical depression Wednesday and entered the Pacific north of Tokyo. A National Police agency spokesman said 21 people were confirmed dead and 86 injured in seven districts. The churning flood waters and powerful landslides also left 17 people missing. Overflowing rivers and broken dikes flooded more than 46,000 homes, seriously damaging 141 of them, a National Police Agency spokesman said. Four schoolchildren, aged 6 to 14, were swept to their deaths as they tried to walk homeathrough rising waters in Nagoya, 150 miles west of Tokyo. Rains crumbled mountains and cliffs in 1,063 locations around the country, poice said. In addition, 67 bridges and 818 roads were damaged. House votes to extend benefits WASHINGTON - Despite the threat of a presidential veto, the House yest- erday overwhelmingly voted to expand and extend for 45 days the federal program that provides benefits for long-term unemployed people. Th.e program is due to expire today. The extension, approved 327-92, would allow Congress to consider the program again in November and use the politically popular measure as a vehicle for a less palatable tax bill. It would expand the benefits available under the current program and allow about 1 million people who have exhausted their benefits to collect up to eight additional weeks of compensation. But the Senate will consider a different version, and any conflicts between the House and Senate versions will have to be worked out in a conference before being sent to the White House. Despite the imminent deadline, a senior administration official said benefit checks are in no immediate jeopardy. This week's checks, already appropriated, will be mailed out next week as scheduled. 14 4 4 l4 4 4 14 4 14 4 Vol. XCIV - No. 20 Friday, September 30, 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. 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