Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 9, 1983 Senate okays nerve gas funds WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate approved 47-46 yesterday the production of new nerve gas weapons, measure is $9 billion below the president's most Helms voted with nerve gas opponents, as Vice President George Bush cast the deciding vote recent spending request. chased by a number of Republicans as he But "There is no fiscal reason, no negotiating floor. Helms returned and changed his vote. for the second time in four months on the issue. -D' __---_ , __._c,.t .o ~.,llnnAf nT1Amati he was left the a af Naw The House earlier rejected the $124 million program, assailed by opponents as gruesome, im- moral, and a threatbto more civilians thansoldiers. But the Senate's decision followed arguments by President Reagan and others that the "binary" bom- bs and artilleryshells should be produced to prod the Soviet Union into a negotiated reduction of chemical stockpiles. THE SENATE went on to vote 86-6 for a record $253 billion military spending bill, which includes every major weapons program requested by President Reagan, including nerve gas, the MX nuclear missile and long-range B-1 bombers. As approved by the Senate, the appropriations reason and no military reason, there is no reason of any kind to produce this weapon," said Sen. Mark Hatfield. IN A RARE and dramatic repeat of his con- stitutional role as president of the Senate, Bush made the difference, just as he did July 13 in a 50-49 vote on a defense authorization bill. The Republican-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee had sided with the House and recommen- ded blocking nerve gas funding and continuing the 14- year freeze by the United States on the production of chemical weapons. Each vote was watched carefully by ad- ministration supporters and when conservative Jesse SIMILARLY, Republican Anfonse maco of iew York, had voted against nerve gas production on a procedural tally minutes earlier, but then switched on the proposal to restore funding. But John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, successfully moved to restore money for the nerve gas weapons to a $252.5 billion defense bill. The defense appropriations bill includes $766.9 million in other funds for defensive measures against chemical warfare, storage of older types of nerve gas and for continued research into binary weapons. See BUSH Page 7 Senators battle in off-year election From AP and UPI A Senate race in Washington where President Reagan's record was an issue, the probability of Kentucky elec- ting its first woman governor and a dir- ty battle for governor of Mississippi highlighted yesterday's off-year elections. There was a special election in Georgia to elect a successor to Rep. Larry McDonald, who died when Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down. MCDONALD'S widow, Kathryn, said she wanted to continue her slain husband's ultra-conservative causes "uninterrupted." Her opponent was Geurge "Buddy" Darden, a self- described "aggressive conservative" state lawmaker. Severl big cities held mayoral elections, including Philadelphia where Democrat Wilson Goode said he was confident of becoming the first black mayor of the nation's fourth largest city. Besides the election in Philadelphia, incumbents on the ballot included Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco; Maurice Ferre in Miami; Kathy Whit- mire in Houston; William Donald Schaefer in Baltimore and Richard hatcher in Gary, Ind. IN MISSISSIPPI, Democratic Attor- ney General Bill Allain hoped voters would elect him governor, despite allegations he had homosexual relations with black male prostitutes. Allain denied the allegation, saying, "I am no sexual deviate and Leon Bramlett knows it," and prepared campaign commercials in which his ex- wife also disputed the allegation. Allain also said he took a lie detector test that demonstrated he was innocent of the allegations. Allain, 35, was opposed by Republican Leon Bramlett, 60, a See PARTIES, Page 7 Blockade stops work in lab 14 &t~d $S" 4a 44 COLLEGE SENIOR ENGINEER PROGRAM You can devote your talents to being a full-time student your last twelve months of school. That's just the beginning: Guaranteed full-time employment as an engineer with a leader in space age technology. Begin accruing vacation time while you are still in schoo; Programmed pay increases. Programmed promotions. The prestige of being an officer in the kited States Air Force. If you . petrla1, aronautical or ;ioaalst you may be eligible. Contact your Air Force Officer Recruiter for additional information. Call TSgt. Larry R. Gardepy or SSgt. Partick T. Cannon, 973-7702. *ask about tour information. (Continued from Page 1) At about 6:30 last night, Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson came down to tour the lab and ask what the group hoped to accomplish and when theyplanned to leave. John- son is the first University executive to contact the demonstrators. When Johnson asked the group if it would be satisfied if the regents exten- ded guidelines restricting classified research to include non-classified research, LSA senior Julia gittleman said, "What's more important to us than just passing the guidelines is that the projects go away." THE GUIDELINES were the subject of a bitter debate last year and although they were supported by PSN, the faculty Senate Assembly and the University administration, the Regents turned them down 7-1 in June. With its sit-in, PSN revived an issue that many considered dead over the summer. "I think our point has been made here and will continue to be made in future actions," said LSA junior Erica Freedman. Although they were successful in shutting down Senior's lab, some mem- bers feel it will take more than just one sit-in to force action by the University. "THEY'RE NOT going to meet our UOf IS OUT F BE I I D. (-M demands, they're not going to say 'We better give them guidelines.' So we'll keep doing things like this," said Joey Lieber, an LSA sophomore. The day began early for the protesters who got up at 6:20 a.m. to prepare strategy for the change of University safety officers at 8a.m. "If security get in, they get in, but I think we want. to make sure that engineers don't get in and use the equipment," Freedman said. TWO University safety officers sat with the protesters all Monday night. To get into the lab yesterday morning their' replacements had to break through the students who were tightly sandwiched at the front entrance. In the most serious confrontation of the sit-in, University Fire Marshall Russ Downing crawled over the top of the blockade at about 8:10 a.m., telling the security officer behind him to follow "right over the top." Downing then briefly argued with the students, asking if they "sympathized with the communistic way of life." he added: "I'm a retired Marine, that's why I don't care for this stuff." But by late afternoon, the protesters. allowed safety officers clear access into and out of the lab. Defense research issue dead, say faculty members (Continued from Page l) the Pentagon funds projects for reasons other than their possible military ap- plications. "(The defense depar- tment's) charter says it has to be at the head of technology," he said. "They can fund projects just to gain the knowledge and understanding." A few faculty members have, however, come out in strong support of the protesters. John Reiff, a lecturer in LSA, said last night that the sit-in "is having a definite impact in a couple of ways - the first is that they are stop- ping a piece of defense research on campus, the second is that they are calling the attention of the faculty and the students to the issue." Reiff and three LSA professors sent a letter of support for the protesters to the Daily Monday night after the demonstration began. In the letter, the faculty members stated: "The blockade requires that the faculty call for renewal of the Senate Assembly initiative. It also requires the faculty to ask a more satisfying response to the issue of military research from President Shapiro and other respon- sible officials." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Reagan visits Japan, Korea ANCHORAGE, Alaska - President Reagan embarked yesterday on a whirlwind visit to Japan and South Korea that he said would "underline the significance we place on our ties with Northeast Asia and the countries of the Pacific." The trip will focus attention on differences with Tokyo over trade, U.S. hopes for higher defense spending in Japan, and the Soviet military threat to Asia. Another goal is to underscore the United States' close ties with the two nations and a commitment to stand by them if they are threatened. Reagan spoke to several thousand airmen and their families who crowded into a hanger at snow-shrouded. Elmendorf Air Force Base, where the president made a brief refueling stop en route to Tokyo. The next century, Reagan said, could see "vastly expanding economic, political, and cultural bonds with these countries" of northeastern Asia and the Pacific. "I will reaffirm America's commitment to remain a reliable partner for peace and stability in the region and the world," Reagan said. "And in both Tokyo and Seoul, we will look for ways to make the region even more stable and secure." Last Cuban prisoners sent home ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - The last 101 Cuban prisoners held on Grenada headed back to Havana yesterday despite a delay in returning the bodies of 42 Cubans killed during the American-led invasion of the island, U.S. of- ficials said. A U.S. spokesman said negotiations between Cuba and the United States over return of the bodies were stalemated. The bodies were being held at a morgue in Grenada "because the Cubans won't take them back," said John Walsh of the U.S. Information Agency. Meanwhile in Calivigny U.S. soldiers found a burned and badly decom- posed body in a shallow pit and it was reported to be the body of slain Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, an Army officer said. The officer said the report that it was Bishop's body came from a Grenadian who said he recognized the body. Bishop was reported killed in a coup several days before U.S. troops in- vaded the Carribean island on Oct. 25. Arafat tries to avert bloodbath , TRIPOLI, Lebanon - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat said yesterday that "to avert a bloodbath" he will stop fighting Syrian-supported mutineers if the rebels halt their push into Tripoli, his last Middle East stronghold. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir visited Israeli troops in southern Lebanon yesterday and vowed the soldiers would stay until the Jewish state was safe from terrorist attack. Shamir did not wear a helmet or a flak jacket on the six-hour tour by helicopter of the Israeli-occupied area, and he berated an Israeli soldier who said he felt like a German soldier or a Soviet in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Moslems shut down southern Lebanon's three major cities in a general strike against Israel's sealing of the Avali River bridges, the main route to the north. Scattered violence also erupted in the West Bank. Marines withdrew yesterday from an outpost on the edge of a Shiite Moslem neighborhood that has been used repeatedly as a base of attack on the U.S. peace-keeping contingent, officials said. Hustler publisher angers judge WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, in hearings punctuated by the ob- scene outburst and arrest of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, con- sidered changes in libel laws yesterday that would make national publications. - and the people who work for them - more tempting targets for lawsuits. The justices had just finished hearing arguments in the first of three libel disputes when Flynt screamed at them from the audience section of the majestic courtroom. "- - - - this court! You denied me the counsel of my choice!" Flynt shouted as police surrounded him and rolled his gold-plated wheelchair away. He was still hurling invectives at the bench when a red-faced Chief Justice Warren Burger rose from his chair and told an assistant rharshal, "Inform the marshal to take that man into custody." Flynt was arrested and charged with impeding the administration of justice, a federal offense carrying the maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $5,000 fine. He was released by a U.S. magistrate on his own recognizance. Hillside Strangler convicted bringing total slayings to five LOS ANGELES - Angelo Buono was convicted yesterday of killing a prostitute and two schoolgirls in the Hillside Strangler case, bringing to five the number of slayings in which he has been found guilty. Buono also has been acquitted of one slaying. As with the second conviction, the jury in the latest three cases also retur- ned findings of special circumstances of multiple murder, allowing prosecutors to seek the gas chamber for Buono. Superior Court Judge Ronald George ordered jurors to continue deliberating on the remaining four counts against Buono, 50, a Glendale auto upholsterer. Buono was found guilty yesterday morning of killing Dolores Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson, 14, whose bodies were found five years ago near Dodger Stadium. In the afternoon, he was convicted of killing Kimberly Diane Mar- tin, 18, a prostitute who worked for a Hollywood out-call service. The trial, which began Nov. 16,.1981, is considered the longest criminal trial in California history and perhaps the nation. Buono was charged with 10 counts of murder in the grisly sex slayings that terrorized Los Angeles. 4 1 4 III Yj -x"'91 YO)URS. 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