0 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 14, 1984 Marines to leave by mid-March IN BRIEF WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration has set in motion plans to withdraw the U.S. Marines dam Lebanon before mid-March, officials said yesterday. "The White House has made a decision to get the Marines out of Beirut and on the amphibious ships of- fshore within 30 days from last Saturday," said an 'administration official who spoke only on condition lie remain anonymous. "THE CLOCK started then," added this official, "Ao said the decision was made after Defense $ecretary Caspar Weinberger delivered the Pen- tagon's proposal for withdrawing the Marines to the White House last Friday. Such a timetable would bring the 1,200 to 1,300 "Marines serving in the multinational force from their positions at the Beirut International Airpot to the ships by March 12. Officials said last week that a relatively small number of U.S. military personnel, perhaps 200 or so, would remain to guard the U.S. embassy, train the Lebanese army and handle communications and other tasks. EARLIER yesterday, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said President Reagan was moving toward a withdrawal of the Marines to the ships within 30 days and that "we will do so if it is con- sistent with the political and military situation." Meanwhile in Beirut, the Lebanese army and Moslem civilians exchanged sniper fire and the army for a second day allowed dozens of trucks to carry food and fuel to the trapped residents of the Lebanese capital. Brig. Gen. Dutfi Jaber, Shiite commander of the army's 6th Brigade, ordered his soldiers to report to duty in west Beirut within 48 hours and take over security of the beseiged Moslem sector of the capital. The spiritaul leader of Beirut's Shiites called for "ab- solute cooperation" with the brigade to restore law and order. THE MOVE will give the army its first presence in the predominantly Moslem sector since militiamen took control a week ago in heavy fighting. The 6th Brigade had refused to fight at the height of the bat- tle. The move came a day after President Amin Gemayel called for a national reconciliation con- ference within two weeks and put forth a plan to reunite the war-torn nation. The plan includes equal representation for Christians and Moslems in Parliament; which is now dominated by Christians. The Lebanese army had closed off all "green line" crossings between the capital's two sectors and sealed off west Beirut's entrances from southern Lebanon after leftist militia took control, leaving west Beirut cut off from major distribution centers in the east and west for more than a week Police said only scattered exchanges of sniper fire broke the lull infighting between government troops and Moslem militiamen. Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports C- ' rb Chernenko to lead Soviets I THE BEST JUST GOT BETTEI I 540 E. Liberty St. 761-4539 Corner of Maynard & Liberty needs CASINO and CARNIVAL WORKERS _ Mass Meeting Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 7:30 P.M. in the UNION BALLROOM Any questions- call UAC 763-1107 (Continued from Page 1) 30 years, Brezhnev. Tikhonov took note of the decades of party work in his nomination. "Konstantin Ustinovich ... knew the hard peasant labor, the service as a soldier, and everyday activities of a regional party committee in the coun- tryside." He called Chernenko a "talented organizer of the masses, an ardent propaganist of Marxist-Leninist ideas, an unshakeable fighter for putting into life the policy of our great party." IN HIS OWN speech, Chernenko made no specific proposals for resum- ption of U.S.-Soviet dialogue, and soun- ded the standard line in foreign policy, saying "we can very well see the threat created today to humankind by the reckless, adventurist actions of im- perialism's aggressive forces." Chernenko said the Soviet Union would strive to avert war by main- taining its nuclear strength. Chernenko said Andropov supported "the principle of peaceful coexistence of states with different social syst- ems." "WE DO NOT intend to dictate our will to others, but we will not permit the military equilibrium that has been achieved to be upset," he said. "And let nobody have even the slightest doubt about that: We will further see to it that our country's defense capacity be strengthened, that we should have enough means to cool the hot heads of militant adventurists." RSG loser wants re-vote (Continued from Page 1) working at the voting booth did not af- fect the election because only one student voted while he was there. He said he opposes any move to in- validate the election. "Since the (RSG) council decided to count the ballots, that proves that the election is legal," he said. RSG election coordinator Vicki Buerger said the council would con- WAShINqTON Juniors oi interested ir on Capitol F . UniqueI interests. W gress in the mittees. " Seminai experts, fo issues. - Washin the chairm Intern Advis - Discuss mation andc participants Filing dea April 2. For applica BOSTON to i,-W -.,.4,-.-.Ic INTERNS I-ip r Seniors with a 3.0 average: n Congress? Earn 16 credits Hill. Internships based on your /ork with members of Con- eir offices and on their com- rs with leading government cusing on current policy gton Faculty headed by an -of the Congressional sory Council. ion Groups to share infor- opinions with fellow student s from around the country. adline for Semester I: ations and information: UNIVERSITy egislative Internship Program f Liberal Arts-Room 302 ealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 617/353-2408 sider Gantner's complaints this Wed- nesday and said there could be an in- vestigation into the matter. "THERE ISN'T a an investigation yet," she said. "There will be more or less a discussion." She said the council does have the power to order an investigation if it. decides to at Wednesday's meeting. Buerger said, however, that a bylaw change is needed to address some of the problems in this year's election. "(There is)w nobylaw governing the things that went wrong," she said. "RSG would like to clean up the procedural problems in order to hold a more fair, equitable election." Questions arose about Abili's actions during the council's meeting last Wed- nesday. ABILI SAID he copied ballots and handed them out to students in the education school, where he is a gradute student. He said, however, that there was nothing improper about his actions. because he had an agreement with Buerger. He said he passed them out primarily to education school students because he would "rather get votes from people who know me than from those who don't." Abili also defended his collection of ballots for one hour in the fishbowl. He said that the time he spent there could not have swayed the election because only one person voted during thehour. Buerger said that under the current rules there was also nothing improper about Abili's entering the election last' as a write-in candidate. All of Abili's 104 votes were cast by mail, under a special policy allowing three days after the election for mail-in votes to arrive. Correction A lunch discussion on "Lebanon in the Contemporary Middle East" featuring Dr. Antony Sullivan will be presented today at noon in the Inter- national Center. An advertisement in Sunday's Daily incorrectly gave the wrong speaker, topic, and date. Activist group lists construction, problems at Midland power plant LANSING - Confidential statements said to contain charges of. widespread construction problems at the Midland nuclear plant were turned over to a state lawmaker yesterday by two activist groups. The Washington-based Government Accountability Project (GAP) and the Lone Tree Council, a Saginaw-area anti-nuclear group, said at a Capitol news conference the statements contain more than 65 allegations by former construction workers. Problems listed by GAP include improper construction, inadequate welding, uncertified inspectors, advance notice of government inspections, unqualified engineers and collusion between the Nuclear Regulatory Commis- sion and company management. The group also called on Gov. James Blanchard to appoint an independent commission to investigate cost and safety issues regarding the plant, last estimated by the utility to cost $4.43 billion. A Consumers Power statement charged the group with recruiting disgrun- tled former employees for the statements and criticized GAP for not revealing details of the allegations. Texaco-Getty merger approved WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission tentatively approved yesterday the biggest corporate merger in U.S. history - Texaco's planned $10.1 billion takeover of Getty Oil Co. By a 4-1 vote, the FTC cleared the way for Texaco to acquire Getty stock by conditionally accepting a consent agreement aimed at resolving potential antitrust problems. Under the proposed agreement, reached last Friday between the FTC staff and the oil giant, Texaco Inc. would divest Getty assets totaling several hundred million dollars, but representing just a small fraction of the total sale. Texaco would be permitted to retain what it most sought in the deal - Get- ty's domestic oil reserves. But it would be required to continue to provide certain Getty customers on the West Coast with crude oil through 1989. The FTC's tentative approval of the agreement will be subject to a 60-day period for public comment. In nearly all cases, the FTC gives tentatively approved consent agreements final approval. Airlines get 160 new inspectors WASHINGTON - Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole announced yesterday the government is hiring more than 160 new inspectors to "keep an eagle eye" on air safety at a time of intense competition and cost-cutting among the airlines. "In an industry changing so rapidly and dynamically, we must guard against any safety lapses," Dole said, referring to the grounding of three small airlines in recent months after maintenance and operational problems were discovered. FAA officials are concerned also about surveillance of the airlines in light of a rash of incidents that raised questions about the operational or main- tenance procedures of a half-dozen large and small carriers in the past year, including Republic Airlines, Eastern Airlines, Air Illinois, Air Vermont and Global International. Dole also announced that DonaldEngen, a retired Navy vice admiral, for- mer test pilot and member of the National Transportation Safety Board, is her choice to be the new FAA administrator. . Judge throws out DeLorean's controversial lie-detector test LOS ANGELES - A judge ruled yesterday that automaker John DeLorean's controversial lie-detector test can't be used for the defense at his cocaine trial because "substantial body movements" made the results questionable.. The government suggested during weeks of hearings on the polygraph test issue that DeLorean's twitching, fidgeting and jumpiness, seen on video tapes of the test, were intentional efforts to alter the results in his favor. The defense denied this. U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi, a trained polygrapher, said he could not accept defense attorneys attempts to explain the movements which were clearly visible on videotapes. He did not comment on whether he believed the movements were intentional. DeLorean, 59, was arrested Oct. 19, 1982, at a Los Angeles airport hotel in what FBI agents said was the final act of a conspiracy to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine. He was videotaped in a room with cocaine and was heard describing it as "better than gold." He says he was forced into participating in the FBI "sting," operation, fearing his family would be harmed if he did not go along. He says he com- mitted no crime. No lues to satellite failure found SPACE CENTER, Houston - Engineers checking launch platforms in the cargo bay of space shuttle Challenger said yesterday they found to clues to the failure of two communications satellites to reach their proper orbits during the last flight. The $75 million satellites were released from the shuttle during the eight- day mission that ended Saturday with a landing at its launch site in Florida. The shuttle, the first ever to make a Florida-to-Florida round trip, was opened for examination after it was rolled into a hangar at the Kennedy Space Center. NASA spokesman Rocky Robb said engineers examined the cradles that had held the satellites and served as deployment platforms. 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